Monday, April 19, 2010

2007 Foreign Film Submissions

Awhile back, I decided it might be interesting to try catching all of the foreign films that were submitted in a given year, if for no other reason that to have an education opinion on the matter. I chose 2007 since that was a year they just got colossally wrong based on what little I had seen.

So, I went and caught everything I could, and as it turns out, there's just not a whole lot of the films that are available. I did manage to catch 32 of the 63 films, so just over half, and I think I've finally exhausted every avenue and just have to resign myself to the fact that I caught everything I could get my hands on.

So, if I were to have been on the nomination committee, here is how I would have ranked at least those 32 films:

1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days - Romania
2. Persepolis - France
3. XXY - Argentina
4. Secret Sunshine - South Korea
5. Takva: A Man's Fear of God - Turkey
6. Katyn - Poland
7. Eklavya: The Royal Guard - India
8. The Edge of Heaven - Germany
9. Shadows - Macedonia
10. Satanas - Colombia
11. The Unknown Woman - Italy
12. 12 - Russia
13. The Counterfeiters - Austria
14. The Trap - Serbia
15. Exiled - Hong Kong
16. Island Etude - Taiwan
17. Beaufort - Israel
18. Jar City - Iceland
19. Ben X - Belgium
20. Taxidermia - Hungary
21. Silent Light - Mexico
22. The Pope's Toilet - Uruguay
23. I Served The King of England - Czech Republic
24. The Year My Parents Went On Vacation - Brazil
25. The Silly Age - Cuba
26. Caramel - Lebanon
27. Love Sickness (aka Maldeamores) - Puerto Rico
28. You, The Living - Sweden
29. The Orphanage - Spain
30. Belle Toujours - Portugal
31. Kings - Ireland
32. Mongol - Kazakhstan

Monday, April 12, 2010

Films Watched in 2010

I'm just going to keep a running count of every film I watch during the 2010 calendar year, just out of my own personal curiosity...

Get Him To The Greek (2010) - Nicholas Stoller
True Grit (2010) - Joel and Ethan Coen
Map Of The Sounds Of Tokyo (2010) - Isabel Coixet
I Love You Phillip Morris (2010) - John Requa & Glenn Ficarra
The Art of The Steal (2010) - Don Argott
Prodigal Sons (2010) - Kimberly Reed
Mother And Child (2010) - Rodrigo Garcia
Mugabe and The White African (2010) - Lucy Baily and Andrew Thompson
Micmacs (2010) - Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Joan Rivers: A Piece of work (2010) - Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg
Exit Through The Gift Shop (2010) - Banksy
2:37 (2006) - Murali K. Tharulli
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (2010) - Edgar Wright
Restrepo (2010) - Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington
Head-On (2005) - Fatih Akin
Cairo Time (2010) - Ruba Nadda
Fox And His Friends (1975) - Rainer Werner Fassbender
The Expendables (2010) - Sylvester Stallone
Everyone Else (2010) - Maren Ade
Branded To Kill (1967) - Seijun Suzuki
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966) - Mike Nichols
Pierrot le Fou (1965) - Jean-Luc Godard
Best Worst Movie (2010) - Michael Stephenson
Kick-Ass (2010) - Matthew Vaughn
Black Swan (2010) - Darren Aronofsky
Sons of Perdition (2010) - Tyler Meason and Jennilyn Merten
Toy Story 3 (2010) - Lee Unkrich
Waste Land (2010) - Lucy Walker
Over The Hill Band (2011) - Geoffrey Enthoven
Samson and Delilah (2010) - Warwick Thorton
127 Hours (2010) - Danny Boyle
Rabbit Hole - (2010) - John Cameron Mitchell
Marwencol (2010) - Jeff Malmberg
Monogamy (2011) - Dana Adam Shapiro
Double Take (2010) - Double Take
Due Date (2010) - Todd Phillips
Toy Story 2 (1999) - John Lasseter
Winter's Bone (2010) - Debra Granik
Splice (2010) - Vincenzo Natali
Agora (2010) - Alejandro Amenabar
Holy Rollers (2010) - Kevin Asch
Please Give (2010) - Nicole Holofcener
The Dinner Game (1998) - Francis Veber
Dark Days (2000) - Marc Singer
The Last House On The Left (1972) - Wes Craven
Doghouse (2009) - Jake West
Passing Strange (2009) - Spike Lee
Easy A (2010) - Will Gluck
The Night of the Hunter (1955) - Charles Laughton
The Secret of Kells (2010) - Tomm Moore
The Human Centipede (2010) - Tom Six
Never Let Me Go (2010) - Mark Romanek
Ajami (2010) - Scandar Copti & Yaron Shani
The Social Network (2010) - David Fincher
The Greatest (2010) - Shana Feste
The Killer Inside Me (2010) - Michael Winterbottom
Chungking Express (1994) - Wong Kar Wai
Days of Being Wild (1990) - Wong Kar Wai
Ashes of Time Redux (2008) - Wong Kar Wai
Ondine (2010) - Neil Jordan
Strangers On A Train (1951) - Alfred Hitchcock
The Town (2010) - Ben Affleck
Notorious (1946) - Alfred Hitchcock
North By Northwest (1959) - Alfred Hitchcock
The Iron Giant (1999) - Brad Bird
Vertigo (1958) - Alfred Hitchcock
Friday Night (2002) - Claire Denis
Solitary Man (2010) - Brian Koppelman
Chocolat (1988) - Claire Denis
Red Riding Trilogy: 1983 (2010) - Anand Tucker
Red Riding Trilogy: 1980 (2010) - James Marsh
Red Riding Trilogy: 1974 (2010) - Julian Jerrold
Survival of the Dead (2010) - George Romero
The Square (2010) - Nash Edgerton
Mosieur Verdoux (1947) - Charlie Chaplin
Le Corbeau (1943) - Henri-Georges Clouzot
Diabolique (1954) - Henri-Georges Clouzot
The Wages of Fear (1953) - Henri-Georges Clouzot
8: The Mormon Proposition (2010) - Reed Cowan
I Am Love (2010) - Luca Guadagnino
The Ghost Writer (2010) - Roman Polanski
Sunrise (1927) - F.W. Murnau
The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsburg and the Pentagon Papers (2010) - Judith Ehrlich & Rick Goldsmith
Nosferatu (1922) - F.W. Murnau
The Girl Who Played With Fire (2010) - Daniel Alfredson
The Kids Are All Right (2010) - Lisa Cholodenko
Man With A Movie Camera (1929) - Dziga Vertov
Green Zone (2010) - Paul Greengrass
The Runaways (2010) - Floria Sigismondi
Ballad of a Soldier (1959) - Grigori Chukhrai
Inception (2010) - Christopher Nolan
The River (1951) - Jean Renoir
Chloe (2010) - Atom Egoyan
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2010) - Niels Arden Oplev
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) - Alain Resnais
Querelle (1982) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Bad Timing (1980) - Nicholas Roeg
Europa (1992) - Lars Von Trier)
Barton Fink (1991) - Joel & Ethan Coen
Mrs. Parker And The Vicious Circle (1994) Alan Rudolph
Mala Noche (1985) - Gus Van Sant
Swoon (1992) - Tom Kalin
The Maid (2009) - Sebastian Silva
Close-Up (1990) - Abbas Kiarostami
Babette's Feast (1987) - Gabriel Axel
Burma VJ (2009) - Anders Ostergaard
The Celebration (1998) - Thomas Vinterberg
Shutter Island (2010) - Martin Scorsese
Crimson Gold (2004) - Jafar Panahi
Hukkle (2003) - Gyorgy Palfi
Damnation (1988) Bela Tarr
Kontroll (2005) - Nimrod Antal
Primo Amore (2005) - Matteo Garrone
Howard's End (1992) - James Ivory (REVISIT)
In The Name Of The Father (1993) - Jim Sheridan (REVISIT)
California Dreamin' (Endless) (2009) - Cristian Nemescu
Orlando (1992) - Sally Potter (REVISIT)
Tetro (2009) - Francis Ford Coppola
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) - Terry Gilliam
The Horse Boy (2009) - Rupert & Kristin Isaacson
35 Shots of Rum (2009) - Claire Denis
Uncertainty (2009) - Scott McGehee
Shadows (2009) - Milcho Manchevski
Date Night (2010) - Shawn Levy
The Piano (1993) - Jane Campion (REVISIT)
Brothers (2005) - Susanna Bier
Brothers(2009) - Jim Sheridan
The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (2006) - Auraeus Solito
A Single Man (2009) - Tom Ford
Summer Hours (2009) - Oliver Assayas
The Secret of The Grain (2008) - Abdel Kechiche
Antibodies (2007) - Christian Alvart
Hunger (2008) - Steve McQueen
The Portrait of a Lady (1996) - Jane Campion
The Messenger (2009) - Oren Moverman
Crazy Heart (2009) - Scott Cooper
A Serious Man (2009) - Joel and Ethan Coen
Where The Wild Things Are (2009) - Spike Jonze
Noi The Albino (2003) - Dagur Kari
Cop Out (2010) - Kevin Smith
The Crazies (2010) - Breck Eisner
The Milk of Sorrow (2010) - Claudia Llosa
The Secret In Their Eyes (2010) - Juan Jose Campanella
Mother (2010) - Joon-ho Bong
Police, Adjective (2009) - Corneliu Porumboiu
Seraphine (2009) - Martin Provost
Broken Embraces (2009) - Pedro Almodovar
A Prophet (2010) - Jacques Audillard
The Book of Eli (2010) - Albert & Allen Hughes
Edge of Darkness (2010) - Jochen Richter
Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) - Steve Pink
Of Time And City (2009) - Terence Davies
Revanche (2009) - Gotz Spielmann
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (2009) - John Krasinski
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) - William A. Wellman
The White Ribbon (2009) - Michael Haneke
Secret Sunshine (2007) - Chang-dong Lee
Yojimbo (1961) - Akira Kurasowa
Taxidermia (2009) - Gyorgy Palfi
The Men Who Stare At Goats (2009) - Grant Heslov
Kwaidan (1964) - Masaki Kobayashi
Last Year At Marienbad (1961) - Alain Resnais
The Beaches of Agnes (2009) - Agnes Varda
The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009) - Cyrus Nowrasteh
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) - Michael Moore
La Pointe Courte (1954) - Agnes Varda
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009) - Rebecca Miller
Vagabond (1985) - Agnes Varda
Ponyo (2009) - Hayao Miyazaki
The Gleaners and I (2000) - Agnes Varda
The House of Mirth (2000) - Terence Davies
Bronson (2009) - Nicholas Refn
The September Issue (2009) - R.J. Cutler
The Invention of Lying (2009) - Ricky Gervais
Coco Before Chanel (2009) - Anne Fontaine
Good Hair (2009) - Jeff Stilson
The Best of Youth (2003) - Marco Tullio Giordana
The New World (2005) - Terrence Malick
An Angel At My Table (1990) - Jane Campion
Sweetie (1989) - Jane Campion
Bright Star (2009) - Jane Campion
Whip It! (2009) - Drew Barrymore
My Winnipeg (2008) - Guy Maddin
The Weight of Water (2002) - Kathryn Bigelow
Everlasting Moments (2009) - Jan Troell
The Juniper Tree (1990) - Nietzchka Keene
Top Hat (1935) - Marck Sandrich
101 Reykjavik (2000) - Baltasar Kormakur
The Headless Woman (2009) - Lucretia Martel
Outrage (2009) - Kirby Dick
Moon (2009) - Duncan Jones
Departures (2009) - Yojiro Takita
You, The Living (2009) - Roy Andersson
Funny People (2009) - Judd Apatow
Lorna's Silence (2009) - Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Paranormal Activity (2009) - Oren Peli
Anvil: The Story of Anvil (2009) - Sacha Gervasi