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DECEMBER 2011 IN FILM
Year's over! I now blog at filmghoul.tumblr.com (which you should follow if you're haven't already!) but I think I'll keep my 2012 list on this defunct blog.
Films
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (Milton Katselas, 1979)(T)
Cropsey(Barbara Brancaccio & Joshua Zeman, 2009)
The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson, 1943)
A Christmas Story (Bob Clark, 1983)(T)
Flunky, Work Hard (short; Mikio Naruse, 1931)
High (Larry Kent, 1967)
Séance (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2000)
Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997)
Cars 2 (John Lasseter & Brad Lewis, 2011)
Insidious (James Wan, 2010)
The Muppets (James Bobin, 2011)(T)
The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, 2011)(T)
Rango (Gore Verbinski, 2011)
The Body Snatcher (Robert Wise, 1945)
Submarine (Richard Ayoade, 2011)
The Oregonian (Calvin Lee Reeder, 2011)
War Horse (Steven Spielberg, 2011)(T)
The Ides of March (George Clooney, 2011)(T)
Drive Angry (Patrick Lussier, 2011)
Season of the Witch (Dominic Sena, 2011)
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (Jon M. Chu, 2011)
The Scarlet Worm (Michael Fredianelli, 2011)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher, 2011)(T)
Young Adult (Jason Reitman, 2011)(T)
Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976)
Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma, 1980)
Critters (Stephen Herek, 1986)
Critters 2: The Main Course (Mick Garris, 1988)
Critters 3 (Kristine Peterson, 1991)
Critters 4 (Rupert Harvey, 1992)
Pleasures of the Flesh (Nagisa Oshima, 1965)
Violence at Noon aka Violence at High Noon (Nagisa Oshima, 1966)
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent aka Viking Women and the Sea Serpent (Roger Corman, 1957)
Creature from the Haunted Sea (Roger Corman, 1961)
Attack of the Giant Leeches (Bernard L. Kowalski, 1959)
The Sitter (David Gordon Green, 2011)(T)
Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy (Tomas Alfredson, 2011)(T)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Niels Arden Oplev, 2009)
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (Brad Bird, 2011)(T)
Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki, 2004)
Rewatched
Black Christmas (Bob Clark, 1974)(T)
Bellflower (Evan Glodell, 2011)
The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
Television
Adventure Time, 1x02-1x17, 3x19-3x20, 1x18-1x26 (completed)
Blue Sunshine's 2nd Annual Christmas TV Trash Party
Degrassi Junior High, 1x01-1x13 (completed), 2x01-2x03
Fringe, 2x06-2x23 (completed)
The Big Bang Theory, 4x01-4x08
Grey's Anatomy, 7x01-7x04
Rocko's Modern Life, 1x01
In case you haven't joined the party...
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It's cozy over there ;)
November 2011 in films
Films
Paranormal Activity 3 (Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman, 2011)(T)
Main Attraction (short; Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, 2011)
Romper Stomper (Geoffrey Wright, 1992)
Village of the Damned (Wolf Rilla, 1960)
Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (Uli Edel, 1981)(T)
Sleepaway Camp (Robert Hiltzik, 1983)
Darwin's Nightmare (Hubert Sauper, 2004)
The Children (Max Kalmanowicz, 1980)
Dark Water (Hideo Nakata, 2002)
Ringu 2 (Hideo Nakata, 1999)
Strange Circus (Sion Sono, 2005)
Eden Lake (James Watkins, 2008)
Series 7: The Contenders (Daniel Minahan, 2001)
Tales of West Street (Part One) - The Vanishing Spring Light (Xun Yu, 2011)
Soylent Green (Richard Fleischer, 1973)
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Jon Foy, 2011)
Inside Lara Roxx (Mia Donovan, 2011)(T)
Mondo Cane (Gualtiero Jacopetti, Paolo Cavara & Franco Prosperi, 1962)(T)
Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984)
The War Game (Peter Watkins, 1965)(T)
Mindfield (Jean-Claude Lord, 1989)
Rasen (Jōji Iida, 1998)
The Ring (Gore Verbinski, 2002)
The Ring Two (Hideo Nakata, 2005)
Hugo (Martin Scorsese, 2011)(T)
Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson, 1994)
Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)
Kairo (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
Trees Lounge (Steve Buscemi, 1996)
Diary of the Dead (George A. Romero, 2007)
Deadly Eyes (Robert Clouse, 1982)(T)
Dragonslayer (Tristan Patterson, 2011)
Putty Hill (Matthew Porterfield, 2010)
I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
Rewatched
Home Movie (Christopher Denham, 2008)
Lake Mungo (Joel Anderson, 2008)
Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998)
Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron, 2006)
Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)
Television
Downer Express Suicide Weekend Quadruple Bill, 04/11 @ Blue Sunshine: The Day I Died (Robert Floethe, 1977) + ABC's Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! (Tom Blank, 1979) + All My Tomorrows (Ronald Floethe, 1979) + ABC's Stoned (John Herzfeld, 1980)
Hey Arnold!, 1x03-1x13a
Regular Show, 3x10, 1x00-1x01
Adventure Time, 2x21, 1x00-1x01, 3x17-3x18
REMINDER
swampandreviews/filmghoul has moved to filmghoul.tumblr.com!!
THE END? NOT REALLY, ANNOUNCEMENT TIME!
I'm putting this blog to sleep. It's been a good 3 years, but I've had enough of this free-for-all format and I need a blog that - this is going to sound pretentious - suits my plans and vision for 2012 and onward. The layout is much more visual, finally allowing myself to blog in a purely screencap-driven way, when needed, yet make my writing pleasing to the eye the rest of the time. I will not write less, but my writing will be increasingly careful and concise - as you can already see with the few posts on there. This is a secondary blog so I can't follow back and can't activate replies - and I think I like it that way. If you want to talk, let's talk by all means - you'll know where to find me, I'm sure.
The pages at the top will be my attempt at historicizing my film consumption. Give it time, they will fill up quite quickly.
I was going to wait until January 2012 to make the switch but I got impatient, started posting, got to a satisfying level of HTML experimenting - only me riffing on an available theme, nothing major - and some people already know about it so I felt like announcing this now. Suggested are more than welcome as well! Let me know!
I have to say both bloggers nosex and branduponthebrain were quite inspirational, as far as film blogging format & looks are concerned.
Thank you angelica for the design & HTML tips. Oh, the adress! Not awfully complicated: filmghoul.tumblr.com. I will most probably get my own domain name in the future -and install comments - so I'll let you know then as well. See you on the other side! I'm actually quite curious to see who follows me there!
-Ariel
PS. I will also complete my "2011 in film" list on this blog so expect 2 final posts!
Also, something slightly different: reviews & thoughts might be added below the screencaps retroactively so I'd recommend checking back once in a while through the main page rather than the dashboard...I realise this is unpractical but it will happen!
FILM GHOUL is moving soon.
Streamlined revision of my blogging ethos. I'll let you know.
Looks like I'm accredited for RIDM...now I gotta figure how I'll cover at least a fraction of the festival amidst the film I'm making and the gazillion (photo) essays I have due for school + a weekend horror class next weekend. Holy shit...! Some films I'm interested in seeing:
American Passages
Paradise Lost 3
Mondo Cane, 35mm print! 'Nuff said.
Putty Hill
Resurrected Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
The Vanishing Spring Light
Dragonslayer
Better this World
Inside Lara Roxx
Les Trois Disparitions de Soad Hosni
What I'll be missing, for sure:
The Jorgen Leth retrospective
The Frederic Wiseman retrospective (and Crazy Horse)
See you on the other side...
The Children (Max Kalmanowicz, 1980)
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FNC 2011 via Spectacular Optical
Saya Zamurai (Hitoshi Matsumoto, 2011)
Affirming himself as a truly unique filmmaker with the kaiju mockumentary Dai Nipponjin (2007) and a master of high concept comedy with Symbol, easily one the best films of 2009, comedian/director Hitoshi Matsumoto elevates his peculiar craft to an entirely different level with this jidaigekicomedy that had me crying and gasping of laughter. Like his two previous films, Saya Zamurai (aka Scabbard Samurai) is a high-concept comedy relying on repetition of a very simple and clever idea. When an aging swordless ronin (Takaaki Nori, hilarious) and his young daughter (Sea Kumada) are captured by a feodal lord, they are given 30 days to make his son laugh, who has lost his smile with the passing of his mother. 30 days, one attempt per day – that’s it. And because Matsumoto’s mastery of comedic timing and imagination knows no bounds, hilarity ensues. But in the process, Saya Zamurai manages to become much more than a relentless series of genius gags: a film about the intricacies of creative process behind filmmaking and comedy; a film about the absurdity of bushido, mortality and life itself; a film experience unlike any you’re going to have this year. Matsumoto elevates comedy to such degrees it becomes humanistic. Saya Zamurai will illuminate your day, have you marvel at the sheer ingenuity of its cinematic devices and, most importantly, take you through a spectrum of emotions that will have you wiping tears off your face.
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Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011)
Acclaimed British visual artist Steve McQueen (not to be confused with that Steve McQueen) did not make his first steps into the film world unnoticed. Indeed, Hunger, a stunning account of the Irish Hunger Strike of 1981, in which Michael Fassbender’s star-making performance confronted us with the mental and bodily repercussions of corrupt politics, was rightfully hailed as one of the greatest debut films of all time and best films of 2008. It came as no surprise that McQueen was going to team up with Fassbender again (with whom he is evidently building a Scorsese-De Niro relationship) for Shame, his exploration of urban alienation through the lens of an excruciating sex addiction. Incredibly precise in its composition, performances and script, Hunger is the gut-wrenching portrait of Brandon, through which McQueen exhibits his rare talent as a director and Fassbender confirms, yet again, he is one of the great actors of our time. Careful framing and impeccable sound design sustain tension out of thin air as McQueen takes us through a man’s self-destructive sexuality and his single relationship with his sister (interpreted brilliantly by Carey Mulligan) – a dynamic which escalates into a grandiose and spellbinding tragedy one can simply not look away from. Furthermore, McQueen’s unshakable aesthetic– rivalled this year perhaps only by Refn’s stellar Drive – makes it one of the most pleasing visual experiences of the year, in which the architecture and colours of the city have a voice of their own, yet merely amplify the human story McQueen and Fassbender decorticate with impeccable minutiae. Fascinating, beautiful and devastating, Shame is simply one of the best films of the year.
Time Walker (Tom Kennedy, 1982)
When sci-fi meets mummies meets teenage slasher narrative, you know you have a stunner on your hands. The most fun I've ever had with a mummy film - and probably my favorite if it wasn't sacrilegious to prefer this to Karl Freund's Karloff-starring masterwork - Time Walker is a schlocky genre hybrid that will blow you away if you give it the chance. Supposed to be the first part of a mind-blowing saga of cosmic time-hopping proportions, the sequel was (of course) never made...
Hey Arnold!, Season 1 (1996-1997)
My close friends know because I haven't shut up about it but this is the best DVD acquisition I've made all year. Okay, maybe not but it's way up there. Every single episode is a gem, the Christmas episode had me crying and I'm currently pacing myself carefully to watch the remaining half of the season - that's how good it is. I used to watch this show quite often as a kid but never actually realized how brilliant it was until now. The fine folks at Shout! Factory better announce the 2nd season DVD soon! I need more football-head!
Rocko's Modern Life, Season 2 (1994). On DVD February 18th!
