On May 15, 2008, I decided I was going to keep a complete account of all motion pictures I watched. It was something I had talked of doing for years, and finally decided to lay my qualms to rest about all those movies that would never make it on the list that I'd seen in the past (oh such a purist am I). And so, on 5/15/08, after walking out of a screening of Wong Kar Wai's English speaking debut, My Blueberry Nights, I began my list. And just this past weekend, on February 28, 2010, I have watched a thousand (that's 1,000) films. Eerily, the 1,000th title happened to be The Brothers Bloom (2008)---meaning Rachel Weisz happened to star in the first and 1,000th title on my log.
There was never a number of films in mind or a timeframe with which to watch a 1,000 titles in. But considering I've devoted hours of my life to experiencing what I believe to be one of the most enduring and complicated art forms known to man kind (and that's not to discount literature, etc) I thought it would be interesting to write a little about the demographics of the last 1,000 movies I've watched, focusing mainly on the director (I follow that auteur school more closely than I like to admit). There happens to be a 3-way tie between 8 titles watched a piece from Woody Allen, Alfred Hitchcock and Nagisa Oshima.
The information collected on my spreadsheet of movies includes the following: Title, Year (generally of production), Director, Date, Venue/Format (Theater, DVD, VHS), Personal Rating, Purchase Status (whether I own the film), and Country of Origin. Films that have been previously watched are added to the list but highlighted to signal that this isn't my first rendezvous with the material. Needless to say, the most that can be said from the data collected measures certain directors I may be drawn to and/or the cinema of certain countries.
Not suprisingly, 609 of these titles were solely or partially US productions, while 109 were from France, and 85 from the UK. Germany, Japan, and Spain all hovered between 19 and 21 titles.
So, just for shits and giggles, I have decided to include any directors that I've watched 3 or more titles from, and while we're at it, why not which titles! After all, what could be more exciting than coming back to this when I've watched another 1,000 titles? Well, a lot, but I suppose I find it more intriguing than anyone else. (And bless my darling husband for sitting through a majority of these with me. It means a lot).
3 Title Directors:
Robert Aldrich
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) 10/10
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte (1964) 10/10
The Big Knife (1955) 8/10
Pedro Almodovar
Bad Education (2004) 10/10
Law of Desire (1987) 8/10
Broken Embraces (2009) 7/10
Ramin Bahrani
Chop Shop (2007) 9/10
Man Push Cart (2005) 8/10
Goodbye Solo (2008) 7/10
Susanne Bier
After the Wedding (2006) 10/10
Brothers (2004) 10/10
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) 8/10
Ole Bornedal
Just Another Love Story (2007) 10/10
The Substitute (2007) 9/10
Deliver Us From Evil (2009) 9/10
Tod Browning
Freaks (1932) 10/10
Dracula (1931) 8/10
Outside the Law (1920) 5/10
William Castle
Strait Jacket (1964) 10/10
The Night Walker (1964) 6/10
Let's Kill Uncle (1966) 0/10
Nacho Cerda
Genesis (1998) 5/10
Aftermath (1994) 5/10
Awakening (1990) 4/10
Claude Chabrol
Les Biches (1968) 10/10
A Girl Cut In Two (2007) 8/10
The Cry of the Owl (1987) 6/10
Don Coscarelli
Incident On and Off a Mountain Road (2005) 8/10
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) 7/10
Phantasm (1978) 6/10
Coen Bros.
A Serious Man (2009) 9/10
Burn After Reading (2008) 8/10
Barton Fink (1991) 8/10
Wes Craven
The Last House on the Left (1972) 6/10
Deadly Friend (1986) 4/10
Shocker (1989) 0/10
Guillermo Del Toro
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) 10/10
Hellboy (2004) 8/10
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) 8/10
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (1972) 10/10
Martha (1974) 9/10
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) 8/10
Stephen Frears
Cheri (2009) 9/10
Dangerous Liaisons (1988) 8/10
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 8/10
Stuart Gordon
Stuck (2008) 10/10
From Beyond (1986) 8/10
Castle Freak (1995) 7/10
Michael Haneke
The Piano Teacher (2001) 10/10
The White Ribbon (2009) 10/10
The Seventh Continent (1989) 9/10
Curtis Harrington
What's the Matter with Helen? (1971) 10/10
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971) 7/10
How Awful About Allan (1970) 7/10
Stanley Kubrick
The Killing (1956) 10/10
Lolita (1962) 10/10
Killer's Kiss (1955) 7/10
Mike Leigh
Happy Go Lucky (2008) 10/10
Secrets & Lies (1996) 10/10
Life Is Sweet (1991) 10/10
Christian Petzold
Yella (2007) 10/10
Ghosts (2005) 9/10
Jerichow (2008) 9/10
Roman Polanski
Death and the Maiden (1995) 10/10
Rosemary's Baby (1969) 10/10
Bitter Moon (1992) 10/10
Otto Preminger
Carmen Jones (1954) 10/10
Angel Face (1952) 9/10
Advise & Consent (1962) 8/10
Jacques Tourneur
Night of the Demon (1957) 10/10
Out of the Past (1947) 10/10
The Leopard Man (1943) 6/10
Paul Verhoeven
The 4th Man (1983) 10/10
Total Recall (1990) 10/10
Black Book (2006) 8/10
John Waters
Serial Mom (1994) 10/10
Pink Flamingos (1972) 10/10
Polyester (1981) 8/10
Orson Welles
The Stranger (1946) 10/10
The Trial (1962) 10/10
Touch of Evil (1957) 9/10
William Wyler
The Little Foxes (1941) 10/10
Dodsworth (1936) 9/10
The Collector (1965) 8/10
4 Title Directors:
Catherine Breillat
Fat Girl (2001) 10/10
The Last Mistress (2008) 10/10
Brief Crossing (2001) 10/10
Romance (1999) 7/10
Jean-Luc Godard
Breathless (1960) 10/10
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967) 10/10
Weekend (1967) 9/10
Made In USA (1966) 9/10
Bong Joon-Ho
The Host (2006) 10/10
Mother (2009) 9/10
Memories of Murder (2003) 9/10
Tokyo! (segment "Shaking Tokyo" 2008) 7/10
Wong Kar Wai
Chungking Express (1994) 10/10
Happy Together (1997) 9/10
My Blueberry Nights (2007) 6/10
Eros (segment "The Hand" 2004) 5/10
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Suddenly Last Summer (1959) 10/10
All About Eve (1950) 10/10
Dragonwyck (1946) 8/10
Cleopatra (1963) 5/10
Paul Schrader
The Walker (2007) 9/10
The Comfort of Strangers (1991) 8/10
Hardcore (1979) 8/10
Cat People (1982) 6/10
Robert Siodmak
The File on Thelma Jordan (1950) 8/10
Criss Cross (1949) 8/10
The Killers (1946) 7/10
Son of Dracula (1943) 6/10
Josef Von Sternberg
The Blue Angel (1930) 10/10
The Shanghai Gesture (1941) 10/10
The Devil is a Woman (1935) 7/10
Macao (1952) 7/10
Robert Wise
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) 10/10
Born to Kill (1947) 10/10
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 8/10
Audrey Rose (1977) 5/10
5 Title Directors:
Claire Denis
Trouble Every Day (2001) 10/10
Chocolat (1988) 10/10
35 Rhums (2008) 10/10
White Material (2009) 10/10
Beau Travail (1999) 8/10
Werner Herzog
My Son My Son What Have Ye Done (2009) 10/10
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) 10/10
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) 10/10
Fitzcarraldo (1982) 8/10
Nosferatu: The Vampyre (1979) 8/10
Spike Lee
Do the Right Thing (1989) 10/10
Inside Man (2006) 10/10
Bamboozled (2000) 9/10
She Hate Me (2004) 8/10
School Daze (1988) 6/10
Tyler Perry
Why Did I Get Married? (2007) 8/10
The Family That Preys (2008) 7/10
Meet the Browns (2008) 4/10
Madea Goes to Jail (2009) 4/10
I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009) 1/10
Steven Spielberg
Indiana Jones & the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 10/10
Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom (1984) 10/10
Jurassic Park (1993) 10/10
Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade (1989) 8/10
Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) 4/10
6 Title Directors:
Dario Argento
Suspiria (1977) 7/10
Jenifer (2005) 7/10
The Mother of Tears (2007) 6/10
Deep Red (1975) 4/10
Inferno (1980) 3/10
Trauma (1993) 2/10
John Carpenter
The Thing (1981) 10/10
They Live (1988) 10/10
Someone's Watching Me (1978) 10/10
Christine (1983) 10/10
Village of the Damned (1995) 8/10
The Fog (1980) 3/10
8 Title Directors:
Woody Allen
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) 10/10
September (1987) 10/10
Manhattan (1978) 10/10
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) 10/10
Crimes & Misdemeanors (1989) 10/10
Whatever Works (2009) 10/10
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) 9/10
Shadows & Fog (1992) 8/10
Alfred Hitchcock
Psycho (1960) 10/10
Rope (1948) 10/10
To Catch a Thief (1955) 10/10
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 10/10
The Skin Game (1931) 9/10
Frenzy (1972) 8/10
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1955) 8/10
The Lodger (1927) 8/10
Nagisa Oshima
Taboo (1999) 9/10
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983) 8/10
A Town of Love and Hope (1959) 7/10
Pleasures of the Flesh (1965) 6/10
The Sun's Burial (1960) 6/10
Cruel Story of Youth (1960) 6/10
Violence at Noon (1966) 5/10
Night and Fog in Japan (1960) 4/10
There was never a number of films in mind or a timeframe with which to watch a 1,000 titles in. But considering I've devoted hours of my life to experiencing what I believe to be one of the most enduring and complicated art forms known to man kind (and that's not to discount literature, etc) I thought it would be interesting to write a little about the demographics of the last 1,000 movies I've watched, focusing mainly on the director (I follow that auteur school more closely than I like to admit). There happens to be a 3-way tie between 8 titles watched a piece from Woody Allen, Alfred Hitchcock and Nagisa Oshima.
The information collected on my spreadsheet of movies includes the following: Title, Year (generally of production), Director, Date, Venue/Format (Theater, DVD, VHS), Personal Rating, Purchase Status (whether I own the film), and Country of Origin. Films that have been previously watched are added to the list but highlighted to signal that this isn't my first rendezvous with the material. Needless to say, the most that can be said from the data collected measures certain directors I may be drawn to and/or the cinema of certain countries.
Not suprisingly, 609 of these titles were solely or partially US productions, while 109 were from France, and 85 from the UK. Germany, Japan, and Spain all hovered between 19 and 21 titles.
So, just for shits and giggles, I have decided to include any directors that I've watched 3 or more titles from, and while we're at it, why not which titles! After all, what could be more exciting than coming back to this when I've watched another 1,000 titles? Well, a lot, but I suppose I find it more intriguing than anyone else. (And bless my darling husband for sitting through a majority of these with me. It means a lot).
3 Title Directors:
Robert Aldrich
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) 10/10
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte (1964) 10/10
The Big Knife (1955) 8/10
Pedro Almodovar
Bad Education (2004) 10/10
Law of Desire (1987) 8/10
Broken Embraces (2009) 7/10
Ramin Bahrani
Chop Shop (2007) 9/10
Man Push Cart (2005) 8/10
Goodbye Solo (2008) 7/10
Susanne Bier
After the Wedding (2006) 10/10
Brothers (2004) 10/10
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) 8/10
Ole Bornedal
Just Another Love Story (2007) 10/10
The Substitute (2007) 9/10
Deliver Us From Evil (2009) 9/10
Tod Browning
Freaks (1932) 10/10
Dracula (1931) 8/10
Outside the Law (1920) 5/10
William Castle
Strait Jacket (1964) 10/10
The Night Walker (1964) 6/10
Let's Kill Uncle (1966) 0/10
Nacho Cerda
Genesis (1998) 5/10
Aftermath (1994) 5/10
Awakening (1990) 4/10
Claude Chabrol
Les Biches (1968) 10/10
A Girl Cut In Two (2007) 8/10
The Cry of the Owl (1987) 6/10
Don Coscarelli
Incident On and Off a Mountain Road (2005) 8/10
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) 7/10
Phantasm (1978) 6/10
Coen Bros.
A Serious Man (2009) 9/10
Burn After Reading (2008) 8/10
Barton Fink (1991) 8/10
Wes Craven
The Last House on the Left (1972) 6/10
Deadly Friend (1986) 4/10
Shocker (1989) 0/10
Guillermo Del Toro
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) 10/10
Hellboy (2004) 8/10
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) 8/10
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (1972) 10/10
Martha (1974) 9/10
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) 8/10
Stephen Frears
Cheri (2009) 9/10
Dangerous Liaisons (1988) 8/10
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) 8/10
Stuart Gordon
Stuck (2008) 10/10
From Beyond (1986) 8/10
Castle Freak (1995) 7/10
Michael Haneke
The Piano Teacher (2001) 10/10
The White Ribbon (2009) 10/10
The Seventh Continent (1989) 9/10
Curtis Harrington
What's the Matter with Helen? (1971) 10/10
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971) 7/10
How Awful About Allan (1970) 7/10
Stanley Kubrick
The Killing (1956) 10/10
Lolita (1962) 10/10
Killer's Kiss (1955) 7/10
Mike Leigh
Happy Go Lucky (2008) 10/10
Secrets & Lies (1996) 10/10
Life Is Sweet (1991) 10/10
Christian Petzold
Yella (2007) 10/10
Ghosts (2005) 9/10
Jerichow (2008) 9/10
Roman Polanski
Death and the Maiden (1995) 10/10
Rosemary's Baby (1969) 10/10
Bitter Moon (1992) 10/10
Otto Preminger
Carmen Jones (1954) 10/10
Angel Face (1952) 9/10
Advise & Consent (1962) 8/10
Jacques Tourneur
Night of the Demon (1957) 10/10
Out of the Past (1947) 10/10
The Leopard Man (1943) 6/10
Paul Verhoeven
The 4th Man (1983) 10/10
Total Recall (1990) 10/10
Black Book (2006) 8/10
John Waters
Serial Mom (1994) 10/10
Pink Flamingos (1972) 10/10
Polyester (1981) 8/10
Orson Welles
The Stranger (1946) 10/10
The Trial (1962) 10/10
Touch of Evil (1957) 9/10
William Wyler
The Little Foxes (1941) 10/10
Dodsworth (1936) 9/10
The Collector (1965) 8/10
4 Title Directors:
Catherine Breillat
Fat Girl (2001) 10/10
The Last Mistress (2008) 10/10
Brief Crossing (2001) 10/10
Romance (1999) 7/10
Jean-Luc Godard
Breathless (1960) 10/10
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967) 10/10
Weekend (1967) 9/10
Made In USA (1966) 9/10
Bong Joon-Ho
The Host (2006) 10/10
Mother (2009) 9/10
Memories of Murder (2003) 9/10
Tokyo! (segment "Shaking Tokyo" 2008) 7/10
Wong Kar Wai
Chungking Express (1994) 10/10
Happy Together (1997) 9/10
My Blueberry Nights (2007) 6/10
Eros (segment "The Hand" 2004) 5/10
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Suddenly Last Summer (1959) 10/10
All About Eve (1950) 10/10
Dragonwyck (1946) 8/10
Cleopatra (1963) 5/10
Paul Schrader
The Walker (2007) 9/10
The Comfort of Strangers (1991) 8/10
Hardcore (1979) 8/10
Cat People (1982) 6/10
Robert Siodmak
The File on Thelma Jordan (1950) 8/10
Criss Cross (1949) 8/10
The Killers (1946) 7/10
Son of Dracula (1943) 6/10
Josef Von Sternberg
The Blue Angel (1930) 10/10
The Shanghai Gesture (1941) 10/10
The Devil is a Woman (1935) 7/10
Macao (1952) 7/10
Robert Wise
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) 10/10
Born to Kill (1947) 10/10
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) 8/10
Audrey Rose (1977) 5/10
5 Title Directors:
Claire Denis
Trouble Every Day (2001) 10/10
Chocolat (1988) 10/10
35 Rhums (2008) 10/10
White Material (2009) 10/10
Beau Travail (1999) 8/10
Werner Herzog
My Son My Son What Have Ye Done (2009) 10/10
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) 10/10
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) 10/10
Fitzcarraldo (1982) 8/10
Nosferatu: The Vampyre (1979) 8/10
Spike Lee
Do the Right Thing (1989) 10/10
Inside Man (2006) 10/10
Bamboozled (2000) 9/10
She Hate Me (2004) 8/10
School Daze (1988) 6/10
Tyler Perry
Why Did I Get Married? (2007) 8/10
The Family That Preys (2008) 7/10
Meet the Browns (2008) 4/10
Madea Goes to Jail (2009) 4/10
I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009) 1/10
Steven Spielberg
Indiana Jones & the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 10/10
Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom (1984) 10/10
Jurassic Park (1993) 10/10
Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade (1989) 8/10
Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) 4/10
6 Title Directors:
Dario Argento
Suspiria (1977) 7/10
Jenifer (2005) 7/10
The Mother of Tears (2007) 6/10
Deep Red (1975) 4/10
Inferno (1980) 3/10
Trauma (1993) 2/10
John Carpenter
The Thing (1981) 10/10
They Live (1988) 10/10
Someone's Watching Me (1978) 10/10
Christine (1983) 10/10
Village of the Damned (1995) 8/10
The Fog (1980) 3/10
8 Title Directors:
Woody Allen
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) 10/10
September (1987) 10/10
Manhattan (1978) 10/10
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) 10/10
Crimes & Misdemeanors (1989) 10/10
Whatever Works (2009) 10/10
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) 9/10
Shadows & Fog (1992) 8/10
Alfred Hitchcock
Psycho (1960) 10/10
Rope (1948) 10/10
To Catch a Thief (1955) 10/10
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 10/10
The Skin Game (1931) 9/10
Frenzy (1972) 8/10
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1955) 8/10
The Lodger (1927) 8/10
Nagisa Oshima
Taboo (1999) 9/10
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983) 8/10
A Town of Love and Hope (1959) 7/10
Pleasures of the Flesh (1965) 6/10
The Sun's Burial (1960) 6/10
Cruel Story of Youth (1960) 6/10
Violence at Noon (1966) 5/10
Night and Fog in Japan (1960) 4/10
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