The Fall (2006) - colorful

2046 (2004) - disjoint

A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

Pan's Labyrinth (2006) - not bad

Pulp Fiction (1994) - "say 'bitch, be cool'"

Memento (2000) - memorable

City of Ember (2008) - "don't push"

Alive in Joburg (2005)^s - "it's like a normal life to them"

District 9 (2009)

Wings of Desire (1987) - there's a lot in there

Outlander (2008) - not much there... pretty formulaic

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) - "it was emotional"

No Country For Old Men (2007) - "he doesn't have a sense of humor"

Brick (2005) - still good

Godspeed You! Black Emperor (1976) - "call me pants"

The Fifth Element (1997)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Anchorman (2004)

The Fifth Element (1997)

Star Trek (2009)

The Informant! (2009) - "high fructose corn syrup... there it is again"

Where the Wild Things Are (2009) - "that was my favorite arm..."

Primer (2004)

Objectified (2009)^d

There Will Be Blood (2007)

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)^s

Dune (1984)

Primer (2004)

The Fugitive (1993)

Blade Runner (1982)

Donnie Darko (2001)

The Men Who Stare At Goats (2009)

Sunshine (2007)

Cube (1997)

A Serious Man (2009) - I don't think I get it...

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

Trainspotting (1996)

Star Trek VIII: First Contact (1996)

Star Trek (2009)

The Station Agent (2003)

Los Cronocrímenes (2007) - wishes it were Primer

アキラ (1988) - possibly the influence for everything I have ever liked

The Hangover (2009) - I wish I could remember anything that happened in this movie...

Coraline (2009) - better as a movie I think... if only for the cat's voice

Role Models (2008) - a few funny one-liners and not much else

アキラ (1988)

Over the Edge (1979)

Outside Providence (1999)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Falling Down (1993)

Moon (2009)

(500) Days of Summer (2009)

L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961) - lugubrious

Elizabethtown (2005) - uncanny

District 9 (2009) - gripping

Alien (1979) - majestic

American History X (1998) - powerful

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

For class:

Blackmail (1929)

Rebecca (1940)

The Lady Vanishes (1938)*

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

The 39 Steps (1935)*

Spellbound (1945)*

Notorious (1946)

Strangers on a Train (1951)

Rear Window (1954)

North by Northwest (1959)

Vertigo (1958)

Dial M For Murder (1954)*

Psycho (1960)

To Catch a Thief (1955)*

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1955)*

The Birds (1963) - zombie movie, but with birds

The 39 Steps (1935)*

Marnie (1964)

Rope (1948)*

Torn Curtain (1966)

Frenzy (1972)

*for a paper/project

 

Not for class:

Bottle Rocket (1996)

Fast Film (2003)^s

Brick (2005)

Cashback (2004)^s

La Jetée (1962)^s

Peur(s) du Noir (2007) - some of these shorts were really good, but some weren't

W. (2008) - worth it if only for the ending, which perfectly sums up his presidency

Watchmen (2009)

Watchmen (2009) - better the second time

Choke (2008) - not Fight Club (despite wishing desperately that it were), but okay

eXistenZ (1999) - vaguely interesting to think about

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

The 39 Steps (2008)†

Kabluey (2007) - you've seen this movie a few times by now... but it's an interesting iteration

Unknown (2006) - tries to be a bunch of things, and mostly succeeds

Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle (2006)^d - like watching soccer but you can't tell what's going on... so like watching soccer... with good music

Cashback (2006) - should have stuck with the short

The Fountain (2006) - lots of yellow

Tron (1982) - I am amazed by how little actually happens in this movie

Little Miss Sunshine (2006) - good music... and Steve Carell manages to not make you want to punch him in the face... but he runs weird

Pi (1998) - wants to be a short film... a little too simple for a whole movie... kind of interesting though

Brick (2005)

Wall-E (2008)

Son of Rambow (2007)

V For Vendetta (2006)

Serenity (2005)

Doubt (2008)

Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

Synecdoche, New York (2008)

Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

The Spirit (2008)

The Island (2005)

The Machinist (2004)

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

Redbelt (2008)

Hero (2002)

Blindness (2008)

The Matrix (1999)

Disco Pigs (2001)

The Tracey Fragments (2007)

Requiem for a Dream (2001)

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

Burn After Reading (2008)

Iron Man (2008)

All You Need Is Cash (The Rutles) (1978)†

Wordplay (2006)^d

Cube (1997)

The Incredible Hulk (2008)

Snatch (2000)

Twelve Monkeys (1995)

Layer Cake (2004)

Dark Star (1974)

Quantum of Solace (2008)

Tropic Thunder (2008)

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)

Dante 01 (2008)

Apocalypse Now (Redux) (1979)

There Will Be Blood (2007)

Cloverfield (2008)

The Lookout (2007)

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

The Andromeda Strain (2008)†

United 93 (2006)

The Departed (2006)

Serenity (2005)

Be Kind Rewind (2008)

The Onion Movie (2008)

The Dark Knight (2008)

Tropic Thunder (2008)

For class:

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)^s

Me and You and Everyone We Know (2004)

Early Summer (1951)

The Double Life of Veronique (1991)

The Third Man (1949)*

Point Blank (1967)

The Big Sleep (1946)

Capote (2005)*

Citizen Kane (1941)

Gosford Park (2001)*

High School (1968)^d

King Kong (1933)

Killer of Sheep (1977)

Blue Velvet (1986)

*for a paper

 

Not for class:

Sunshine (2007)

I Huckabees (2004)

American Gangster (2007)

Michael Clayton (2007)

The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

Persepolis (2007)

No Country for Old Men (2007)

Children of Men (2006)

Out of Sight (1998)

Crash (2004)

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

3:10 to Yuma (2007)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Helvetica (2007)^d

The Brother From Another Planet (1984)

Croupier (1998)

Layer Cake (2004)

Automatons (2006)

There Will Be Blood (2007)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Tommy (1975)

Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

Chicago 10 (2007)

Infamous (2006)

Winged Migration (2001)^d

Iron Man (2008)