Happy Furry Puppy Story Time with Norbizness

One Last Go-Round for the Bigass DVD Database?

Guy Pearce and Danny Huston in The Proposition, the last movie I watched.

A few changes have been made to the DVD capsule "review" database since the last time it was updated. As usual, the names link to the original entry where the movie was discussed, and the names in the original entry take you to a place where you can get even more info or buy the flick itself. I've removed all of the out-of-10 ratings from this list, but some of the original entries still have them.

With about 200 movies in the database, I thought I'd pick out my top twenty or so in a quixotic attempt to stimulate some sort of conversation. I'll even trying ranking them 1-20 to really cheese people off:

20. To Live (Zimou, 1994)
19. Ashes and Diamonds (Wadja, 1958)
18. The Spirit of the Beehive (Erice, 1974)
17. Hoop Dreams (documentary, 1994)
16. Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
15. The Cranes are Flying (Kalatozov, 1957)
14. All The President's Men (Pakula, 1974)
13. Harakiri (Kobayashia, 1962)
12. M (Lang, 1931)
11. L'Avventura (Antonioni, 1960)
10. Z (Costa-Gavras, 1969)
9. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Bunuel, 1972)
8. The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1965)
7. 8½ (Fellini, 1963)
6. The Godfather, parts I and II (Coppola, 1972/1974)
5. The Wages of Fear (Clouzot, 1958)
4. The Conformist (Bertolucci, 1970)
3. Ran (Kurosawa, 1985)
2. Le Cercle Rouge (Melville, 1970)
1. The Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1955)

I may discontinue the whole movie-reviewing and listing function, because 1-2 people giving a shit is not really worth the effort, and that fact may be cutting into my own enjoyment of the movies themselves. If so, then the mammoth list in the extended entry will be the memorial...

-- 1900 (d. Bernando Bertolucci, 1976)
-- 2046 (d. Wong Kar-Wai, 2004)
-- 3 Women (Criterion 230, d. Robert Altman, 1977)
-- The 400 Blows (Criterion 5, d. François Truffaut, 1959)
-- 8½ (Criterion 140, d. Federico Fellini, 1963)

-- Alexander Nevsky (Criterion 87, d. Sergei Eisenstein, 1937)
-- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Criterion 198, d. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
-- All the President's Men (2-disc Special Edition, d. Alan J. Pakula, 1976)
-- Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (d. Lee Hirsch, 2002)
-- Amarcord (Criterion 4, d. Federico Fellini, 1972)
-- Amen (d. Costa-Gavras, 2002)
-- Amores Perros (d. Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2000)
-- Andrei Rublev (Criterion 34, d: Andrei Tarvosky, 1966)
-- Aparajito (d. Satyajit Ray, 1956)
-- Ashes and Diamonds (Criterion 285, d. Andrzej Wajda, 1958)
-- Au Hasard Balthazar (Criterion 297, d. Robert Bresson, 1966)
-- L'Avventura (Criterion 98, d: Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)

-- Bad Education (d. Pedro Almodóvar, 2004)
-- The Bad Sleep Well (Criterion 319, d. Akira Kurosawa, 1960)
-- Bad Timing (Criterion 303, d. Nicolas Roeg, 1980)
-- The Ballad of Cable Hogue (d. Sam Peckinpah, 1970)
-- Band of Outsiders (Criterion 174, d. Jean-Luc Godard, 1964)
-- The Battle of Algiers (Criterion 249, d. Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
-- Beauty and the Beast (Criterion #6, d. Jean Cocteau, 1946)
-- Belle du Jour (d. Luis Bunuel, 1967)
-- La Bête Humaine (Criterion 324, d. Jean Renoir, 1938)
-- Big Deal on Madonna Street (Criterion 113, d. Mario Monicelli, 1958)
-- Billy Liar (Criterion 121, d: John Schlesinger, 1963)
-- Black Narcissus (Criterion 93, d. Powell/Pressburger, 1947)
-- Blow-Up (d. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
-- Bob le Flambeur (Criterion 150, d. Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956)
-- Les Bonnes Femmes (d. Claude Chabrol, 1960)
-- Brazil (Criterion 51, d. Terry Gilliam, 1985)
-- Bread and Chocolate (d. Franco Brusati, 1973)
-- The Bride Wore Black (d. Francois Truffaut, 1968)
-- Broken Wings (d. Nir Bergman, 2003)
-- Burden of Dreams (Criterion 287, d. Les Blank, 1982)
-- Burn! (d. Gillo Pontecorvo, 1969)
-- Burnt by the Sun (d. Nikita Mikhalkov, 1994)

-- Cache [Hidden] (d. Michael Haneke, 2005)
-- A Canterbury Tale (Criterion 341, d. Powell and Pressburger, 1943)
-- Casque d'Or (Criterion 270, d. Jacques Becker, 1952)
-- Catch-22 (d. Mike Nichols, 1970)
-- The Center of the World (d. Wayne Wang, 2001)
-- Le Cercle Rouge (Criterion 218, d. Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970)
-- The Chess Players (d. Satyajit Ray, 1977)
-- Chunking Express (d. Wong Kar-wai, 1996)
-- Chushingura (d: Hiroshi Inagaki, 1962)
-- Cleo From 5 to 7 (Criterion 73, d. Agnes Varda, 1961)
-- Closely Watched Trains (Criterion 131, d. Jiri Menzel, 1966)
-- The Color of Pomegranates (d. Sergei Paradjanov, 1969)
-- La Commare Secca (Criterion 277, d. Bernando Bertolucci, 1961)
-- The Conformist (d. Bernando Bertlolucci, 1970)
-- A Constant Forge (Criterion 256, d. Charles Kiselyak, 2000)
-- Contempt (Criterion 171, d: Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
-- Le Corbeau (Criterion 227, d: Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1943)
-- Corridors of Blood (Criterion 368, d. Robert Day, 1959)
-- Coup de Grâce (Criterion #192, d. Volker Schlöndorff, 1976)
-- The Cranes are Flying (Criterion 146, d. Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957)
-- Crazed Fruit (Criterion 295, d. Ko Nakahiri, 1956)
-- Cries and Whispers (Criterion 101, d. Ingmar Bergman, 1972)
-- Cronos (d. Guillermo del Toro, 1994)
-- Croupier (d. Mike Hodges, 1998)
-- Crumb (Special Edition, d. Terry Zwigoff, 1995)

-- The Damned (d. Luschino Visconti, 1969)
-- Dazed and Confused (Criterion 336, d. Richard Linklater, 1993)
-- Dead Ringers (Criterion 21, d. David Cronenberg, 1988)
-- The Deer Hunter (Legacy Edition, d. Michael Cimino, 1978)
-- The Devil's Backbone (d. Guillermo del Toro, 2001)
-- Diabolique (Criterion 35, d. Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1954)
-- Diary of a Chambermaid (Criterion 117, d. Luis Buñuel, 1964)
-- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Criterion 102, d. Luis Buñuel, 1972)
-- Divorce, Italian Style (Criterion 286, d. Pietro Germi, 1961)
-- Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler (d. Fritz Lang, 1922)
-- Dog Day Afternoon (Special 30th Anniversary Edition, d. Sidney Lumet, 1975)
-- The Double Life of Véronique (Criterion 359, d. Kryzsztof Kieslowski, 1991)
-- Double Suicide (Criterion 104, d. Masahiro Shinoda, 1969)
-- The Dreamers (d. Bernardo Bertolucci, 2003)
-- Drugstore Cowboy (d. Gus van Sant, 1989)

-- L'eclisse (Criterion 278, d. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1963)
-- The Eel (d. Shohei Imamura, 1998)
-- Elevator to the Gallows (Criterion 335, d. Louis Malle, 1957)
-- The Emperor Jones (Criterion 370, d. Dudley Murphy, 1933)
-- Equinox / The Equinox (Criterion 338, d. Dennis Muren/Jack Woods, 1967/1970)
-- Eyes Without a Face (Criterion 260, d: Georges Franju, 1960)

-- Factotum (d. Bent Hamer, 2005)
-- The Fallen Idol (Criterion 357, d. Carol Reed, 1948)
-- Fando y Lis (d. Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1968)
-- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Criterion 175, d. Terry Gilliam, 1998)
-- The Fifth Horseman is Fear (d. Zynek Brynych, 1964)
-- Fists in the Pocket (Criterion 333, d. Marco Bellocchio, 1965)
-- The Flowers of St. Francis (Criterion 293, d. Roberto Rossellini, 1950)
-- For All Mankind (Criterion 49, d: Al Reinert, 1989)
-- Forbidden Games (Criterion 318, d. René Clément , 1952)

-- Gate of Flesh (Criterion 298, d. Seijun Suzuki, 1964)
-- George Washington (Criterion 152, d. David Gordon Green, 2000)
-- Get Carter (d. Mike Hodges, 1971)
-- The Godfather, Pts. I and II (d. Francis Ford Coppola, 1972/1974)
-- Grey Gardens (Criterion 123, d. Albert Maysles et al, 1976)
-- La Guerre est Finie (d. Alain Resnais, 1966)

-- Hamlet (d. Grigory Kozintsev, 1964)
-- Hands Over The City (Criterion 355, d. Francesco Rosi, 1963)
-- Harakiri (Criterion 302, d. Masaki Kobayashi, 1962)
-- Harlan County, U.S.A. (Criterion 334, d. Barbara Kopple, 1976)
-- Harper (d. Jack Smight, 1966)
-- The Haunted Strangler (Criterion #367, d. Robert Day, 1958)
-- Hearts and Minds (Criterion 156, d. Peter Davis, 1974)
-- Henry V (Criterion 41, d. Laurence Olivier, 1944)
-- High and Low (Criterion 24, d: Akira Kurosawa, 1963)
-- Hiroshima Mon Amour (Criterion 196, d. Alain Resnais, 1959)
-- A History of Violence (d. David Cronenberg, 2005)
-- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (d. Garth Jennings, 2005)
-- Hoop Dreams (Criterion 289, three directors, 1994)
-- The Horse's Mouth (Criterion 154, d. Ronald Neame, 1958)
-- Hotel Rwanda ( d. Terry Lloyd, 2003)

-- I Am Curious [Yellow] (Criterion 180, d. Vilgot Sjöman, 1967)
-- I Vitelloni (Criterion 246, d. Federico Fellini, 1953)
-- I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (d. Mike Hodges, 2003)
-- Images (d. Robert Altman, 1972)
-- The Importance of Being Earnest (Criterion 158, d. Anthony Asquith, 1952)
-- In the Mood for Love (Criterion 147, d. Wong Kar-Wai, 2000)
-- Insomnia (Criterion 47, d: Eric Skjoldbaerg, 1997)
-- Ivan the Terrible, Parts 1 and 2 (Criterion 88, d. Sergei Eisenstein, 1944-1945)

-- Jigoku (Criterion 352, d. Nobuo Nakagawa, 1960)
-- Jules and Jim (Criterion 281, d. François Truffaut, 1962)
-- Juliet of the Spirits (Criterion 149, d. Federico Fellini, 1965)

-- Kagemusha (Criterion 267, 2-discs, d: Akira Kurosawa, 1980)
-- The Killer (d. John Woo, 1989)
-- The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Criterion 254, d. John Cassavetes, 1977)
-- Kind Hearts and Coronets (Criterion 325, d. Robert Hamer, 1949)
-- King Lear (d. Grigory Kozintsev, 1970)
-- Knife in the Water (Criterion 215, d. Roman Polanski, 1962)
-- Kung Fu Hustle (d. Stephen Chow, 2004)
-- Kwaidan (Criterion 90, d. Masaki Kobayashi, 1965)

-- The Lady Eve (Criterion 103, d: Preston Sturgis, 1941)
-- Lady Vengeance (d. Chan-wook Park, 2005)
-- The Last Temptation of Christ (Criterion 70, d: Martin Scorsese, 1988)
-- Late Spring (Criterion 331, d. Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)
-- The Leopard (Criterion 236, Lucino Visconti, 1963)
-- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Criterion 173, d: Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1943)
-- Lilya 4-Ever (d. Lukas Moodyson, 2003)
-- The Long Good Friday (Criterion #26, d. John Mackenzie, 1980)
-- The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Criterion 177, d. Margeratha von Trotte and Volker Schlöndorff, 1975)
-- The Loved One (d. Tony Richardson, 1965)
-- The Lower Depths (Criterion 239, d. Akira Kurosawa, 1957)

-- M (Criterion 30, d: Fritz Lang, 1931)
-- Mamma Roma (Criterion 236, d. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1962)
-- The Man Who Fell To Earth (Criterion 304, d. Nicolas Roeg, 1976)
-- March of the Penguins (d. Luc Jacquet, 2005)
-- Midnight Cowboy (35th Anniversary Edition, d. John Schlesinger, 1969)
-- -- Le Million (Criterion 72, d. René Clair, 1931)
-- Mr. Arkadin (Criterion 312, d. Orson Welles, 1955)
-- The Mirror (d. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974)
-- Mishima, A Life in Four Chapters (d. Paul Schrader, 1985)
-- Mona Lisa (Criterion 107, d. Neil Jordan, 1986)
-- Murderball (d. Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro, 2005)
-- My Own Private Idaho (Criterion 277, d. Gus van Sant, 1991)

-- Naked (Criterion 307, d. Mike Leigh, 1993)
-- Naked Lunch (Criterion 220, d. David Cronenberg, 1991)
-- Network (2-disc Special Edition, d. Sidney Lumet, 1976)
-- Night and the City (Criterion 274, d. Jules Dassin, 1950)
-- The Notorious Bettie Page (d. Mary Harron, 2005)

-- Oldboy (d. Chan-wook Park, 2004)
-- Ong-Bak, The Thai Warrior (d. Prachya Pinkaew, 2003)
-- Ordet (Criterion 126, d. Carl Dreyer, 1955)

-- Pandora's Box (Criterion 358, d. G.W. Pabst, 1929)
-- The Parallax View (d. Alan J. Pakula, 1974)
-- Paris, Texas (d. Wim Wenders, 1984)
-- The Passenger (d. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975)
-- Pather Panchali (d. Satyajit Ray, 1958)
-- The Phantom of Liberty (Criterion 290, d. Luis Bunuel, 1974)
-- Pickpocket (Criterion 314, d. Robert Bresson, 1959)
-- Pickup on South Street (Criterion 223, d. Samuel Fuller, 1953)
-- Picnic at Hanging Rock (Criterion 29, d. Peter Weir, 1975)
-- Playtime (Criterion 112, d. Jacques Tati, 1967)
-- Point Blank (d. John Boorman, 1967)
-- The Pornographers (Criterion 207, d. Shohei Imamura, 1966)
-- The President's Last Bang (d. Sang-soo Im, 2005)
-- The Prestige (d. Christopher Nolan, 2006)
-- Primer (d. Shane Carruth, 2003)

-- Quai des Orfèvres (Criterion 193, d. Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1947)
-- The Quiet Earth (d. Geoff Murphy, 1985)
-- The Quiller Memorandum (d. Michael Anderson, 1966)

-- Ran (Criterion 316, d. Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
-- Rashômon (Criterion 138, d. Akira Kurosawa, 1951)
-- Red Beard (Criterion 159, d: Akira Kurosawa, 1965)
-- The Red Shoes (Criterion 44, d. Michael Powell, 1948)
-- Reds (d. Warren Beatty, 1981)
-- Repo Man (20th Anniversary Edition, d. Alex Cox, 1984)
-- Repulsion (d. Roman Polanski, 1965)
-- Richard III (Criterion 213, d: Laurence Olivier, 1955)
-- Rififi (Criterion 115, d. Jules Dassin, 1955)
-- The River (Criterion 276, d. Jean Renoir, 1951)
-- Ronin (d. John Frankenheimer, 1997)
-- Rules of the Game (Criterion 216, d. Jean Renoir 1939)
-- The Ruling Class (Criterion 132, d. Peter Medak, 1972)

-- Salvatore Giuliano (Criterion 228, d: Francesco Rosi, 1961)
-- Le Samourai (Criterion 306, d. Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
-- Samurai Fiction (d. Hiroyuki Nakano, 1998)
-- Samurai Rebellion (Criterion 310, d. Masaki Kobayashi, 1967)
-- Sanjuro (Criterion 53, d. Akira Kurosawa, 1962)
-- Seduced and Abandoned (Criterion 350, d. Pietro Germi, 1964)
-- The Seven Samurai (Criterion #2 [three-disc set], d. Akira Kurosawa, 1955)
-- Shoot the Piano Player (Criterion 315, d. François Truffaut, 1960)
-- The Shop on Main Street (Criterion 130, d. Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos, 1965)
-- Short Cuts (Criterion 265, d. Robert Altman, 1993)
-- Sin City (d. Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez, 2005)
-- Slacker (Criterion 247, d. Richard Linklater, 1991)
-- Smiles of a Summer Night (Criterion 237, d. Ingmar Bergman, 195)
-- Solo con tu pareja (Criterion 353, d. Alfonso Cuarón, 1991)
-- Solaris (Criterion 164, d. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
-- Spartacus (Criterion 105, d. Stanley Kubrick 1961)
-- The Spirit of the Beehive (Criterion 351, d. Victor Erice, 1973)
-- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (d. Ki-duk Kim, 2003)
-- The Squid and The Whale (d. Noam Baumbach, 2005)
-- The Story of Qui Ju (d. Zhang Yimou, 1992)
-- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (d. F.W. Murnau, 1927)
-- The Sword of Doom (Criterion 280, d. Kihachi Okamoto, 1966)
-- Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (d. Chan-wook Park, 2002)
-- Syriana (d. Steven Gaghan, 2005)

-- Take Care of My Cat (d. Jae-eun Jeong, 2001)
-- Tanner '88 (Criterion 258, d. Robert Altman, 1988)
-- Taste of Cherry (Criterion 45, d. Abbas Kiarostami, 1997)
-- The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Criterion 231, d. Fritz Lang, 1933)
-- Testament of Orpheus (Criterion 69, d. Jean Cocteau, 1959)
-- That Obscure Object of Desire (Criterion 143, d. Luis Buñuel, 1977)
-- Thieves' Highway (Criterion 273, d: Jules Dassin, 1949)
-- Throne of Blood (Criterion 190, d. Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
-- Trouble in Paradise (Criterion 170, d. Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
-- Time Bandits (Criterion 37, d. Terry Gilliam, 1981)
-- The Tin Drum (Criterion 234, d. Volker Schlöndorff, 1979)
-- To Live (d. Yimou Zhang, 1994)
-- Tokyo-Ga (d. Wim Wenders, 1985)
-- Tokyo Story (Criterion 217, d. Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)
-- Touchez pas la Grisbi (Criterion #271, d. Jacques Becker, 1954)
-- Le Trou (Criterion 129, d. Jacques Becker, 1960)

-- Ugetsu (Criterion 309, d. Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)
-- The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Criterion 55, d. Philip Kaufman, 1988)
-- Unfaithfully Yours (Criterion 292, d. Preston Sturges, 1948)

-- V for Vendetta (d. James McTeigue, 2006)
-- Videodrome (d. David Cronenberg, 1982)
-- The Virgin Spring (Criterion 321, d. Ingmar Bergman, 1960)
-- Viridiana (Criterion 332, d. Luis Buñuel, 1961)

-- The Wages of Fear (Criterion 36, d. Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953)
-- Walkabout (Criterion 10, d. Nicolas Roeg, 1971)
-- The Wicker Man (d. Robin Hardy, 1973)
-- Wild Strawberries (Criterion 139, d. Ingmar Bergman, 1957)
-- Wings of Desire (d. Wim Wenders, 1988)
-- Withnail and I (Criterion 119, d. Bruce Robinson, 1987)
-- A Woman is a Woman (Criterion 238, d. Jean-Luc Godard, 1961)
-- A Woman Under the Influence (Criterion 253, d. John Cassavetes, 1974)
-- Women in Love (d. Ken Russell, 1969)
-- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (d. Pedro Almodóvar, 1988)

-- Yi Yi (Criterion 339, d. Edward Yang, 2001)
-- Yojimbo (Criterion 52, d. Akira Kurosawa, 1961)
-- Youth of the Beast (Criterion 268, d. Seijun Suzuki, 1963)

-- Z (d. Costa-Gavras, 1969)

Posted by Norbizness at March 1, 2007 12:43 AM