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250 films - #001 

The Shining, 1980 (dir. Stanley Kubrick)

A Compilation of Quick Reviews

Here, in a handy-dandy list, is a compilation of all of my ratings for the 1001… movies I have seen thus far:

  1. 12 Angry Men: ***/****
  2. 2001: A Space Odyssey: ****/****
  3. 400 Blows, The: **.5/****
  4. Adventures of Robin Hood, The: ***/****
  5. Airplane!: ***.5/****
  6. Alien: **.5/****
  7. Aliens: ***/****
  8. All About Eve: ***/****
  9. All Quiet on the Western Front: ***/****
  10. Amadeus: **.5/****
  11. American Beauty: ***/****
  12. American Werewolf in London, An: **.5/****
  13. Annie Hall: **.5/****
  14. Apocalypse Now: ****/****
  15. Audition: ***/****
  16. Back to the Future: ***/****
  17. Badlands: **.5/****
  18. Bank Dick, The: ***/****
  19. Barry Lyndon: ***/****
  20. Batman: ***/****
  21. Battleship Potemkin, The: ***/****
  22. Beauty and the Beast: ***/****
  23. Belle de Jour: **/****
  24. Big Sleep, The: ***/****
  25. Birds, The: ***/****
  26. Birth of a Nation
  27. Black Sunday: **/****
  28. Blade Runner: **.5/****
  29. Blair Witch Project, The: *.5/****
  30. Blazing Saddles: ***/****
  31. Blowup: */****
  32. Blue Velvet: 0/****
  33. Bonnie and Clyde: ***.5/****
  34. Boogie Nights: ***/****
  35. Borat: ***/****
  36. Breakfast Club, The: ***/****
  37. Bride of Frankenstein: ***/****
  38. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: ***/****
  39. Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: ****/****
  40. Captain Blood: ***/****
  41. Carrie: ***/****
  42. Casablanca: ***/****
  43. Chinatown: ***.5/****
  44. Christmas Story, A: **.5/****
  45. Cinema Paradiso: ****/****
  46. Citizen Kane: ****/****
  47. Clerks: **/****
  48. Clockwork Orange, A: ***.5/****
  49. Close Encounters of the Third Kind: **.5/****
  50. Clueless: ***/****
  51. Conversation, The: ***/****
  52. Cool Hand Luke: **/****
  53. Dancer in the Dark: **/****
  54. Dawn of the Dead: ***/****
  55. Day the Earth Stood Still, The: ***/****
  56. Days of Heaven: **.5/****
  57. Deer Hunter, The: */****
  58. Deliverance: **.5/****
  59. Departed, The: ***/****
  60. Die Hard: ***/****
  61. Diner: **.5/****
  62. Double Indemnity: ****/****
  63. Dr. Strangelove: ****/****
  64. Dracula: ***/****
  65. Duck Soup: ****/****
  66. E.T.: ***/****
  67. Easy Rider: ***/****
  68. Edward Scissorhands: **.5/****
  69. Empire Strikes Back, The: ***.5/****
  70. Enter the Dragon: **.5/****
  71. Evil Dead, The: ***/****
  72. Exorcist, The: ***/****
  73. Fast Times at Ridgemont High: ***/****
  74. Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!: ***/****
  75. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: **/****
  76. Fight Club: ***.5/****
  77. Forbidden Planet: ***/****
  78. Forrest Gump: ***/****
  79. Frankenstein: ***/****
  80. Freaks: ***/****
  81. French Connection, The: ***/****
  82. Full Metal Jacket: ***/****
  83. Funny Games: *.5/****
  84. General, The: ***/****
  85. GhostBusters: **.5/****
  86. Gladiator: **.5/****
  87. Glory: **.5/****
  88. Godfather, The: ***.5/****
  89. Godfather Part II, The: ***/****
  90. Goldfinger: **.5/****
  91. Gone with the Wind: ****/****
  92. Good Bye Lenin!: ***/****
  93. Good Morning Vietnam: **.5/****
  94. Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The: ***/****
  95. Goodfellas: ***.5/****
  96. Graduate, The: ****/****
  97. Grease: ***/****
  98. Greed: ****/****
  99. Halloween: **.5/****
  100. Heavenly Creatures: ***/****
  101. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer: **.5/****
  102. Hills Have Eyes, The: **.5/****
  103. Incredible Shrinking Man, The: **.5/****
  104. Into the Wild: ***.5/****
  105. Invasion of the Body Snatchers: ***/****
  106. Irreversible: **.5/****
  107. It Happened One Night: ****/****
  108. It’s a Wonderful Life: ***/****
  109. Jaws: **.5/****
  110. Jungle Book, The: **.5/****
  111. Jurassic Park: **.5/****
  112. Kill Bill Vol. 1: ***/****
  113. King Kong: ****/****
  114. Lion King, The: ***.5/****
  115. Little Miss Sunshine: ***/****
  116. M: ***/****
  117. Maltese Falcon, The: ***/****
  118. Man Who Fell to Earth, The: **.5/****
  119. Manhunter: **.5/****
  120. Masque of the Red Death: **/****
  121. Matrix, The: ***/****
  122. Metropolis: ****/****
  123. Mildred Pierce: ***/****
  124. Modern Times: ***/****
  125. Monty Python and the Holy Grail: ***/****
  126. Network: ***/****
  127. Night at the Opera, A: ****/****
  128. Night of the Hunter: ***/****
  129. Night of the Living Dead: **.5/****
  130. Nightmare on Elm Street, A: ***/****
  131. North By Northwest: ***.5/****
  132. Nosferatu: ***.5/****
  133. Once: ***/****
  134. Ordinary People: **/****
  135. Out of Africa: **.5/****
  136. Ox-Bow Incident, The: **.5/****
  137. Pan’s Labyrinth: ****/****
  138. Passion of the Christ, The: ***/****
  139. Paths of Glory: ****/****
  140. Phantom of the Opera, The: ***.5/****
  141. Pi: ***.5/****
  142. Pinocchio: **/****
  143. Poltergeist: **.5/****
  144. Princess Bride, The: ***/****
  145. Princess Mononoke: ****/****
  146. Producers, The: ***.5/****
  147. Psycho: ***.5/****
  148. Pulp Fiction: ***.5/****
  149. Raiders of the Lost Ark: **.5/****
  150. Requiem for a Dream: ****/****
  151. Reservoir Dogs: ***/****
  152. Return of the Jedi: ***.5/****
  153. Ringu: ***/****
  154. Rocky: **.5/****
  155. Rocky Horror Picture Show, The: ***/****
  156. Rosemary’s Baby: ***/****
  157. Run Lola Run: ***/****
  158. Saving Private Ryan: **.5/****
  159. Schindler’s List: **.5/****
  160. Scream: ***/****
  161. Se7en: ***/****
  162. Serpico: **.5/****
  163. Shadow of a Doubt: ***/****
  164. Shawshank Redemption, The: ***/****
  165. Shining, The: ***.5/****
  166. Silence of the Lambs, The: ***/****
  167. Sixth Sense, The: */****
  168. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: **.5/****
  169. Some Like It Hot: ***/****
  170. Sound of Music, The: ***/****
  171. Spellbound: ***/****
  172. Spirited Away: ***.5/****
  173. Star Wars: ***.5/****
  174. Streetcar Named Desire, A: ****/****
  175. Sunset Blvd: ****/****
  176. Suspiria: ***/****
  177. Sweet Smell of Success: ***.5/****
  178. Taxi Driver: **.5/****
  179. Terminator, The: **.5/****
  180. Terminator 2: Judgment Day: ***/****
  181. Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The: ***/****
  182. There Will Be Blood: ***.5/****
  183. There’s Something About Mary: */****
  184. Thing, The: ***/****
  185. Third Man, The: ****/****
  186. Titanic: **.5/****
  187. To Kill A Mockingbird: ***/****
  188. Touch of Evil, A: ***/****
  189. Toy Story: ***/****
  190. Triumph of the Will: ***/****
  191. Un Chien Andalou: **/****
  192. Untouchables, The: **.5/****
  193. West Side Story: ****/****
  194. Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?: ***.5/****
  195. Who Framed Roger Rabbit: ***.5/****
  196. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf: ***.5/****
  197. Wild Bunch, The: ***/****
  198. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: ***/****
  199. Wizard of Oz, The: ***/****
  200. Wolf Man, The: ***/****
  201. Young Frankenstein: ***.5/****
  202. Sunrise: ***/****
  203. Lord of the Rings: ****/****
  204. This Is Spinal Tap: ***/****
  205. Natural Born Killers: 0/****
  206. All the President’s Men: ***/****
  207. Akira: ***/****
  208. Oldboy: ****/****
  209. Rebecca: ***.5/****
  210. Swing Time: ***/****
  211. Strangers on a Train: ****/****
  212. Suspicion: ***/****
  213. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: ***.5/****
  214. Rear Window: ***.5/****
  215. The Fly: ***/****
  216. Repulsion: **/****
  217. Rome, Open City: ***/****
  218. The Bicycle Thieves: ***/****
  219. Senso: **.5/****
  220. Salo: **/****
  221. Gilda: **.5/****
  222. Mad Max: **/****
  223. The Philadelphia Story: ***/****
  224. Singin’ In The Rain: ***.5/****
  225. Videodrome: ***/****
  226. Umberto D: ****/****
  227. The Apartment: ***.5/****
  228. The African Queen: ***/****
  229. La Strada: ***/****
  230. Eraserhead: ***/****
  231. Delicatessen: ***/****
  232. Body Heat: ***/****
  233. Braveheart: ***/****
  234. Haxan: **/****
  235. The 39 Steps: **.5/****
  236. Seconds: ***/****
  237. The Lady From Shanghai: **.5/****
  238. Ace in The Hole: ***.5/****
  239. Festen: ***/****
  240. Memento: ***/****
  241. Brazil: ***/****
  242. Fargo: ***.5/****
  243. Total Recall: ***.5/****
  244. Fatal Attraction: ***/****
  245. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover: ***/****
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The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989)

Director: Peter Greenaway
Starring:
Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Richard Bohringer, Alan Howard, Tim Roth, Ciarán Hinds
Writer:
Peter Greenaway
Producers: Pascale Dauman, Daniel Toscan du Plantier, Kees Kasander, Denis Wigman
Cinematography: Sacha Vierny
Editing:
John Wilson
Music:
Michael Nyman

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The next movie is…

psychrophile:

Glenn Close, Fatal Attraction (1987).

Fatal Attraction

  • Dan: You’re so sad. You know that, Alex? Lonely and very sad.
  • Alex: Don’t you ever pity me, you smug bastard.
  • Dan: I’ll pity you… I’ll pity you. I’ll pity you because you’re sick.
  • Alex: Why? Because I won’t allow you treat me like some slut you can just bang a couple of times and throw in the garbage?

BY THE NUMBERS: Women in TV ›

cognitivedissonance:

think-progress:

— Women of color directed 1% of TV episodes

— And make $23,325 less than male writers

— Women make up 15 percent of writers

— Women comprise 11 percent of directors

ThinkProgress’ Alyssa has some other fascinating stats

We have quite a bit of work to do…