tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65108462011-04-21T16:55:23.148-07:00Note the high number of exquisitely shot reveries about romantic yearning near the <em>bottom</em> of this list.Ryannoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510846.post-1077319241911023292004-02-20T15:20:00.000-08:002005-05-10T10:55:31.566-07:00<strong>A+ Pantheon</strong><br /><br /><em>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind</em> (Gondry)<br /><br /><strong>A Masterpieces</strong><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"></span><br /><br /><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2004/10/i-huckabees-russell.html"><em>I <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">♥</span> Huckabees</em></a> (Russell)<br /><br /><strong></strong><strong>A- Great</strong><br /><br /><em>Tropical Malady</em> (Weerasethakul)<em><br /><br /><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2005/02/drive-by-reviews-of-2004-releases-part.html">Million Dollar Baby</a></em> (Eastwood)<br /><br /><em>Dogville</em> (von Trier) <strong style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">[See also below]</strong><br /><br /><strong>A-/B+ Near Great</strong><br /><br /><em></em><em><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2004/04/kill-bill-vol-2-tarantino.html">Kill Bill Vol. 2</a></em> (Tarantino)<br /><br /><em>2046</em> (Wong)<em></em><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"></span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2004/07/spider-man-2-raimi-b.html">Spider-Man 2</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>(Raimi)<br /><br /><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2005/01/drive-by-reviews-of-2004-releases-seen.html"><em>Crimson Gold </em></a>(Panahi)<br /><br /><em></em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span><em><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2003/09/tiff-wrap-up-revised.html">The Five Obstructions</a></em> (von Trier & Leth)<br /><br /><em><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2004/05/parallel-universe-guy-maddin-superstar.html">The Saddest Music in the World</a></em> (Maddin)<br /><br /><strong>B+ Must See</strong><em><br /><br /><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2005/01/drive-by-reviews-of-2004-releases-seen.html">Vera Drake</a></em> (Leigh)<em></em><br /><br /><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2004/09/movies-from-la-korean-film-fest.html"><em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A Tale of Two Sisters</em></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (Kim)</span><br /><br /><em>Before Sunset</em> (Linklater)<em><br /><br /><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2005/01/drive-by-reviews-of-2004-releases-seen.html">Bad Education</a></em> (Almodovar)<br /><br /><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2004/08/collateral-mann-b.html"><em>Collateral</em> </a>(Mann)<br /><br /><em><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2003/09/tiff-wrap-up-revised.html">Dallas 362</a></em> (Caan)<em></em><br /><br /><em><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2003/09/tiff-wrap-up-revised.html">Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring</a></em> (Kim)<br /><br /><em>Control Room</em> (Noujaim)<br /><br /><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2005/02/drive-by-reviews-of-2004-releases-part.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Aviator</span></a> (Scorsese)<br /><br /><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2004/08/metallica-some-kind-of-monster.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Metallica: Some Kind of Monster</span></a> (Berlinger & Sinofsky)<br /><br /><em><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2003/09/tiff-wrap-up-revised.html">The Brown Bunny</a></em> (Gallo)<br /><br /><em>Raja</em> (Doillon)<br /><br /><strong>B+/B Strongly Recommended</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2005/02/drive-by-reviews-of-2004-releases-part.html"><em>The Incredibles</em></a> (Bird)<br /><br /><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2004/11/random-bits-of-business-done-sideways.html"><em>Sideways</em></a> (Payne)<br /><br /><em><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2004/06/pistons-choke-on-jarmuschs-smoke.html">Coffee and Cigarettes</a></em> (Jarmusch)<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">Blissfully Yours</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (Weerasethakul)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Harold and Kumar Go to White Castl</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">e (Leiner) [Added]</span><br /></span></span><br /><em>Bright Leaves</em> (McElwee)<br /><br /><em>Primer</em> (Carruth)<br /><br /><em>Cowards Bend the Knee</em> (Maddin)<br /><br /><em>Zatoichi</em> (Kitano)<br /><br /><em><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2004/04/not-on-lips-resnais-bb-or-content-free.html">Not on the Lips</a></em> (Resnais)<br /><br /><em>Last Life in the Universe</em> (Pen-ek)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><em>La Trilogie: An Amazing Couple</em> (Belvaux)<br /><br /><em>Infernal Affairs</em> (Lau)<br /><br /><em>Secret Things</em> (Brisseau)<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span><br /><em><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2003/09/tiff-wrap-up-revised.html">The Story of Marie and Julien</a></em> (Rivette)<br /><br /><em><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2003/09/tiff-wrap-up-revised.html">Distant</a></em> (Ceylan)<br /><br /><strong>B Recommended</strong><br /><br /><em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Birth</em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (Glazer)</span><br /><br /><em>Clean</em> (Assayas)<br /><br /><em><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2004/08/corporation-achbar-abbott-b.html">The Corporation</a></em> (Achbar & Abbott)<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(Cuaron)<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"><br /><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2005/01/drive-by-reviews-of-2004-releases-seen.html">House of Flying Daggers</a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (Zhang) </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">Intimate Strangers</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (Leconte) </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><br /><br /><en><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2004/11/life-aquatic-with-steve-zissou-63-dir.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou</span></a> (Anderson) <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">[will be moved up or down pending 2nd viewing]</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Los Angeles Plays Itself </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">(Anderson) </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Maria Full of Grace</span> (Marston)<br /><br /><em>Oasis</em> (Lee)<br /><br /><em>La Trilogie: On the Run</em> (Belvaux)<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Proteus</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (Lebrun)<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Red Lights </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">(Kahn) </span><br /><br /><em>The Return</em> (Zvyagintsev)<br /><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2004/09/movies-from-la-korean-film-fest.html"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">Samaritan Girl</span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (Kim)</span><br /><br /><em>Time of the Wolf</em> (Haneke) [<span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0); font-style: italic;">second viewing required</span>]<br /></en><br /><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2005/01/drive-by-reviews-of-2004-releases-seen.html"><em>Troy</em></a> (Petersen)<br /><br /><em><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2005/01/la-ronde.html">We Don't Live Here Anymore</a></em> (Curran)<br /><em><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2004/09/movies-from-la-korean-film-fest.html"><br />Woman is the Future of Man</a></em> (Hong)<br /><br /><strong>B/B- Recommended with minor reservations</strong><br /><br /><em>DiG! </em>(Timoner)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br /><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2005/01/drive-by-reviews-of-2004-releases-seen.html"><em>Notre Musique</em></a> (Godard)<br /><br /><em><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2004/09/movies-from-la-korean-film-fest.html">Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance</a> </em>(Park)<br /><br /><em>Team America: World Police</em> (Parker)<br /><br /><em>A Thousand Months</em> (Bensaidi)<br /><br /><em></em><em>Untold Scandal</em> (E)<br /><br /><strong>B- Recommended with major reservations</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2005/01/la-ronde.html"><em>Closer</em></a> (Nichols)<br /><br /><em><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2003/09/tiff-wrap-up-revised.html">Goodbye, Dragon Gate Inn</a></em> (Tsai)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Gozu</span> (Miike)<em><br /><br /><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2004/09/hero-zhang-b.html">Hero</a></em> (Zhang)<br /><br /><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2005/01/drive-by-reviews-of-2004-releases-seen.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">Ocean's Twelve</span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (Soderbergh)</span><br /><br /><em>Sex is Comedy </em>(Breillat)<br /><br /><em><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2004/03/spartan-mamet-b.html">Spartan</a></em> (Mamet)<br /><br /><em>Springtime in a Small Town</em> (Tian)<br /><br /><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2004/06/pistons-choke-on-jarmuschs-smoke.html"><em>Strayed</em> </a>(Techine)<br /><br /><strong>C+ Not Recommended but with redeeming values</strong><br /><br /><em>Cafe Lumiere</em> (Hou)<br /><br /><em><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2004/07/fahrenheit-911-moore-c.html">Fahrenheit 9/11</a></em> (Moore)<br /><br /><em>A Taste for Murder</em> (Ruiz)<br /><br /><em><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2003/09/tiff-wrap-up-revised.html">Twentynine Palms</a></em> (Dumont)<br /><br /><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2005/02/drive-by-reviews-of-2004-releases-part.html"><em>A Very Long Engagement </em></a>(Jeunet)<br /><br /><strong>C Poor</strong><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">50 First Dates</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (Segal)</span><br /><br /><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2005/02/drive-by-reviews-of-2004-releases-part.html"><em>Finding Neverland</em></a> (Forster)<br /><br /><em><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2004/03/notes-on-movies-seen-in-taiwan-in.html">Purple Butterfly</a></em> (Lou)<br /><br /><strong>C- Crap</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://pigsandbattleships.blogspot.com/2005/02/drive-by-reviews-of-2004-releases-part.html"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Tarnation</span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (Caouette)</span><br /><br /><strong>D+ Utter crap</strong><br /><br /><em>Dogville</em> (von Trier) <strong style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">[See also above]</strong><br /><br /><strong>D Foul, disgusting crap</strong><br /><br /><strong>F Burn the negative</strong><br /><br />*Movies with Grades B+/B or above ranked. All others alphabetical within the grade.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Movies to see (gone):</span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br /><br />Moolaade<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><br /></span><en><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">The Dreamers</span></span></en><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br />Code 46</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);"><br />Door in the Floor</span></span><br /><en><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Bourne Supremacy</span><br /></span></en><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Undertow</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Shaun of the Dead</span></span><en><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></en><en><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Cellular</span></span></en><en><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Super-Size Me</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Twilight Samurai</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">P.S.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">After the Life</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Mean Creek</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Blind Shaft</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Hellboy</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Baadasss!</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">Father and Son</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Movies to see (still playing):</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The Manchurian Candidate<br /></span></span></en><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Hotel Rwanda</span></span><en><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br />The Polar Express<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">Kinsey</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">The Motorcycle Diaries<br />The Sea Inside<br />Napolean Dynamite</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"></span></span></en><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6510846-107731924191102329?l=pigsandbattleships4.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ryannoreply@blogger.com