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Jan 12, 2008 12:00:38 PM Archived Entry: "Movies watched, 2008"
Between going to Egypt and being sick all of January, I got a very late start on my movie watching this year. Who'd think I'd be so sick I couldn't manage to get out of bed to see a movie! But so it goes .... not that last year's list was all that impressive.
February
1. Pavement Butterfly - 2 1/2 (1929 - starring Anna May Wong)
2. The Killers - 3 (1946 - fantastic cross between Memento and Pulp Fiction)
March
3. Stage Door - 3 1/2 (1937 with Katherine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, and Lucille Ball - a knockout!)
4. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - 3 (great fun!)
5. Show People - 3(1928, with Marion Davies and a cast of silent movie greats) & Mabel's Dramatic Career - 2 (1913, with Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett, and Roscoe Arbuckle)
April
6. Song of the Fishermen - 3 (1934 Chinese silent, with Chi2 (Liz and Sarah Liew), Jiang Li and Kimho Ip doing the score)
May
7. Forbidden Kingdom - 2 (good action sequences but ridiculously cheap makeup and bad dialogue make this a rental at best)
8. Iron Man - 2 (too long, too violent for my now softened sensibilities, not enough story - watch it on a plane)
June
9. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - 2 (good special effects sequence, would give it an extra half star except that I got bored about 20 minutes in and never recovered)
July
10. My Winnipeg - 3
11. Sita Sings the Blues - 3
12. My Dad is 100 Years Old + The Saddest Music in the World (2003) - 2 1/2
13. Brand Upon the Brain + A Trip to the Orphanage (2004, 4min) and Odin's Shield Maiden (2006, 4min) - 2 1/2
14. The Heart of the World (2000, 5min) and Archangel (1990) - 2 1/2
15. Wall-E - 3
16. Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997) and "Odilon Redon, or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Towards Infinity" (1995, 5min) - 2
September
17. Mamma Mia - 2
18. The Romance of Astrea and Celadon - 1 (this movie was actively painful)
"Only weak men fear able women" - Marion Boyars