the last thing that we've seen that i've gotten around to posting here:
ridicule is a very entertaining and witty movie, hell it's even got a lot of heart. i had missed this movie until recently, don't miss it, it's a great film.

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joe's favorite movies in chronological order
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fl ick year director runtime(s)
in minutes		 on

DVD?

aspect ratio

 color?
ruggles of red gap 1935 leo mccarey 90 no 1.37:1 b&w
the 39 steps 1935 alfred hitchcock 81/88 yes 1.37:1 b&w
you can't take it with you 1938 frank capra 127 yes 1.37:1 b&w
rebecca 1940 alfred hitchcock 130 yes 1.37:1 b&w
the letter 1940 william wyler 95 yes 1.37:1 b&w
the devil and miss jones 1941 sam wood 92 no 1.37:1 b&w
they died with their boots on 1941 raoul walsh 140 yes 1.37:1 b&w
casablanca 1942 michael curtiz 102 yes 1.37:1 b&w
palm beach story 1942 preston sturges 88 yes 1.37:1 b&w
jane eyre 1944 robert stevenson 97/98 yes 1.37:1 b&w
brief encounter 1945 david lean 80/85 yes 1.37:1 b&w
it's a wonderful life 1946 frank capra 129 yes 1.37:1 b&w
the big sleep 1946 howard hawks 114/118 yes 1.37:1 b&w
the snake pit 1948 anatole litvak 108 yes 1.37:1 b&w
last holiday 1950 henry cass 89 no 1.37:1 b&w
all about eve 1950 joe mankiewicz 132/138 yes 1.37:1 b&w
la strada 1954 federico fellini 94/109/115 yes ? b&w
hobson's choice 1954 david lean 107 no ? b&w
rebel without a cause 1955 nicholas ray 110/111 yes 2.55:1 color
lust for life 1956 vincent minnelli 122 yes 2.35:1 color
a time to love & a time to die 1958 douglas sirk 132 no 2.35:1 color
look back in anger 1958 tony richardson 115 yes ? b&w
vertigo 1958 alfred hitchcock 128 yes 1.85:1 color
the fugitive kind 1959 sidney lumet 119 yes ? b&w
elmer gantry 1960 richard brooks 146 yes ? color
the apartment 1960 billy wilder 125 yes 2.35:1 b&w
spartacus 1960 stanley kubrick 161-198 yes 2.20/2.35:1 color
la dolce vita 1960 federico fellini 167 yes 2.35:1 b&w
the misfits 1961 john huston 124 yes 1.85:1 b&w
sundays and cybele 1962 ser bourguignon 110 no 2.35:1 b&w
la jetee 1962 chris marker 28 yes ? b&w
through a glass darkly 1962 ingmar bergman 85/89 yes ? b&w
birdman of alcatraz 1962 john frankenheimer 147 yes ? b&w
david and lisa 1963 frank perry 95 yes ? b&w
night of the iguana 1964 john huston 113/125 yes ? b&w
life upside down 1965 alain jessua 93 no ? b&w
the graduate 1967 mike nichols 105 yes 2.35:1 color
the good, the bad, & the ugly 1967 sergio leone 154/159/161 yes 2.35:1 color
the swimmer 1968 frank perry 94 yes ? color
salesman 1969 david & a. maysles 85/90 yes ? b&w
cactus in the snow 1970 martin zweiback 90 no ? color
harold and maude 1971 hal ashby 90 yes 1.37ofm/1.85:1 color
solaris 1972 andrei tarkovsky 165/167 yes 2.35:1 color
scenes from a marriage 1973 ingmar bergman 155/275 yes ? color
last tango in paris 1973 bernardo bertolucci 124/125 yes 1.66:1 color
the tenant 1976 roman polanski 126 yes ? color
network 1976 sidney lumet 120 yes 1.66:1 color
equus 1977 sidney lumet 137 yes ? color
interiors 1978 woody allen 91/93 yes ? color
stalker 1979 andrei tarkovsky 162 yes 1.37:1 color
apocalypse now 1979 francis ford coppola 144/155/197 yes 2.35:1 color
the shining 1980 stanley kubrick 119/146 yes 1.37ofm/1.66:1 color
my dinner with andre 1981 louis malle 110 yes 1.37:1 color
blade runner 1982 ridley scott 112/117 yes 2.35:1 color
vernon, florida 1982 errol morris 72 yes ? color
the love tapes vol. 1 (doc.) 1982 wendy clark 30? no ? b&w
the big chill 1983 lawrence kasdan 105 yes 1.85:1 color
1984 1984 michael radford 106/110/113 yes ? color
bliss 1985 ray lawrence 112 no ? color
brazil 1985 terry gilliam 131 yes 1.85:1 color
my life as a dog 1985 lasse hallstrom 101 yes 1.66:1 color
betty blue 1986 jean-jacques beineix 120/185 yes 1.66:1 color
parting glances 1986 bill sherwood 90 yes ? color
man facing southeast 1986 eliseo subiela 105/108 no ? color
maurice 1987 james ivory 140 yes 1.66:1 color
alice 1988 jan svankmajer 86 yes ? color
36 fillette 1988 cather breillat 88 yes ? color
letters from a dead man 1989 konstantin lopushansky 88 no ? color
some girls 1989 michael hoffman 94 no ? color
dead poets society 1989 peter weir 128 yes 1.85:1 color
lounge bar 1989 mcglashan/sinclair 12 no ? color
toto le heros 1991 jaco vandormael 94 no 1.66:1 color
truly, madly, deeply 1991 anthony minghella 90 yes ? color
short films of the bros. quay 1991 the brothers quay 35 & 47 yes ? color
35 up (42up,28up,21up,14up,7up) 1991 michael apted 123(28up-136) yes ? color
surviving desire 1991 hal hartley 60 yes ? color
howards end 1992 james ivory 142 yes 2.20/2.35:1 color
fearless 1993 peter weir 122 yes 1.37ofm/1.85:1 color
heavenly creatures 1994 peter jackson 98/99 yes 2.35:1 color
amateur 1994 hal hartley 105 yes 1.66:1 color
priest 1994 antonia bird 98/105 yes 1.66:1 color
nadja 1995 michael almereyda 100 yes 1.66:1 b&w
fallen angels 1995 wong kar-wai 90-96 yes ? color
secrets & lies 1996 mike leigh 142 yes ? color
jude 1996 michael winterbottom 122/123 yes 2.35:1 color
love & other catastrophes 1996 emma-kate croghan 79 no ? color
sweethearts 1996 aleks horvat 83 no ? color
deconstructing harry 1997 woody allen 95 yes 1.85:1 color
gattaca 1997 andrew niccol 101/106 yes 2.35:1 color
primary colors 1998 mike nichols 139-144 yes 2.35:1 color
rushmore 1998 wes anderson 93-100 yes 2.35:1 color
the matrix 1999 the wachowski bros. 136-144 yes 2.35:1 color
fight club 1999 david fincher 139 yes 2.35:1 color
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind 2004 michel gondry 108 yes ? color



movies seen fairly recently, most recent to least recent


  • high art, if not a great movie, is worth watching, and inspirational nonetheless.
  • if it's not too late, avoid in the company of men at all costs. a shit like the main character isn't worth wasting 2 hours of your life. this is another director that if i saw them on the street i would punch them in the face. keep your garbage too yourself. at least my bile attacks things i think are bad, not abusing something good. the world doesn't need a character study of this kind of scumbag. eat shit and die labutttte you piece of shit. the end
  • at gar's suggestion we saw muriel's wedding which was very nice. it is one of those awkward people making their way in the real world movies. toni collette may not be as fun to watch as parker posey, but very nice
  • starship troopers was very fun. and diz was a nice heroine. people who find this movie hard to take don't know what fascistic is, your boss is more fascistic than this movie. this movie is a fun comic book story.
  • l.a. confidential was another film that i liked more than i thought i would. russell crowe was wonderful as bud white. kevin spacey was fun as always. all in all i enjoyed this film much more than chinatown which is always mentioned in the same breath with this film
  • clockwatchers was a wonderful parker posey fest, with toni collette somehow in the main role. parker posey is an inspiration to working people everywhere. toni collette's role was mere plot movement. parker posey is pure performance art.
  • we saw ken burns' lewis & clark: the journal of the corps of discovery on pbs. there are few better ways to pass time than absorbing the documentaries of ken burns. i am currently watching his civil war series on videotape. praise be to ken burns and PBS!
  • i finally got around to watching the entire twin peaks series and movie, and it was very fine indeed, although i found the end of the series and movie disappointing. this was a very worthwhile and imaginative approach to television, or movies for that matter
  • ignore the fucking hype, breaking the waves is a sick fucking piece of shit. lars von trier, the director, is an asshole. i'm usually pretty open-minded and believe everyone should be able to have their own opinion, but if you liked this, go fuck yourself and die.
  • deep valley is a good, sad movie. it stars ida lupino and dane clark as star-crossed lovers (aren't we all). they were wonderful in these sensitive roles. very good, another winner from turner classic movies. co-written (uncredited) by william faulkner.
  • heavy is too fucking devastatingly sad. pruitt taylor vince is just too painful to watch. he has almost no lines. you just ache with him throughout the whole movie. you want to commit hari kari at the end of the movie. it's real good, but really really just too fucking painful, he endures his pain so silently, doesn't share his desires with anyone, can't talk to anyone, and there isn't anyone in his world.
  • flirt by hal hartley was a disappointment, a not altogether successful experiment, first part was ok, but not enough to it for me. sort of like samuel beckett's latter stuff, experiments on the same themes, covering successively less and less ground, but much less good than samuel beckett's later work
  • mallrats was not a waste of time at all, a fun distraction
    you can't trust hollywood and you certainly can't trust tom cruise. i mean mission impossible was about the biggest piece of crap i saw last year, but jerry maguire is good, really
  • chasing amy rules, a great movie
  • swingers didn't have enough emotions to choke a fish, glad i didn't see it in the theater
  • trees lounge is just sort of dull, you don't really care about the characters very much
  • the search for one-eye jimmy is a complete waste of time, garbage
  • the fifth element is a big disappointment. while not quite as dumb as independence day, this movie manages to be pretty stupid, though the dj is fun and milla is fetching
  • long kiss goodnight--geena davis kicks butt
  • the mask with jim carrey, yay, jim carrey
  • liar liar--love jim carrey
  • i actually saw the movie Mask and it broke my heart to pieces

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