Best films of 1988 (Objective and Subjective)

1. Land before Time
2. Dangerous Liasons
3. Beetlejuice
4. Die Hard
5. A Fish Called Wanda
6. Grave of the Fireflies
7. Who Killed Roger Rabbit

Venice Film Festival

I was perusing the photos from the Venice Film Festival on people.com and a couple of the dresses actually made me :O :) :D.  It's beginning to seem like good acting/filmmaking correlates with good style.  Natalie Portman, Elle Fanning, Sophia Coppola, good job.  Jessica Alba, Jessica Alba, Jessica Alba, not so much


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this was from almost a year ago. when black swan was just a vague and campy ballerina movie and now it's just a campy ballerina movie.

Tomorrow (today) I will do something productive

I watched Vicky Christina Barcelona. Underwhelming, like Matchpoint and Scoop. but I consider it a task accomplished. Tomorrow I will take pictures and read a book.

Other movies I've watched this past month (and the couple days of January) : Lars and the Real Girl, Vitus, Ghost World, Up in the Air, Napoleon Dynamite, Young Victoria. Will be watching Real Girl (already watched it 3x) and Ghost World (3x too) and Napoleon D (revisted recently) over and over again. Can't tell if I really relate to the outsider status while trying to convince self I'm in it for the costume design.

What's the real reason for my liking of Tim Burton's movies?

Hmm, I think I'm in it for both.

wahh

I have so many movies I need to watch and rewatch it makes me want to cry. Part of me wants to go with the flow and watch each one as it organically comes into my presence. But I like my (exponentially elongating) list, too.

Just some of them (or I guess most of them)

1. All Tim Burton Movies (especially Scissorhands, Big Fish, and Nightmare and excluding the Batman ones--those are for another session)

2. Batman to Batman & Robin

3. Alfred Hitchcock

4. Miyazaki

Misc.

1. the conformist

2. synechdoche ny

3. reconstruction

4. being john malkovich

5. dogville

6. No country for old men

7. whip it cute. girl power. very drew barrymore

8. invention of lying

9. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

10. coco before chanel

11. across the universe

12. science of sleep (rewatch)

13. ghost world

14. napoleon dynamite

15. harold and maude

16. the lovely bones

17. invictus

18. up in the air

19. coraline

20. Princess Frog

21. Persepolis

22. House of Sand and Fog

23. Fantastic Mr. Fox so. awesome. like a carnivore version of chicken run.  definitely in the top 10 favorites.

24. Darjeeling Limited
25. In the Mood for Love

now what I don't have is a list of books. I'd still like to keep that rather spontaneous--or at least not jinx it by putting it on paper.

I read the plot summary of Hard Candy (bad of me). I will not be watching that anytime soon.

now this need to watch list makes me want to make a already did watch list of movies-- just to cross them off. Time for bed.