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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

FlixList

All-Time Favorite Films

  • Windwalker
  • High Fidelity
  • Garden State
  • What's Cooking?
  • Pieces of April 

Animated Faves

  • Adventures of Prince Achmed [orig. title: Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed] (1926) Lotte Reiniger, b/w, silent
  • Fantastic Planet [orig title: La Planète Sauvage] (1973)
           ref. "les hommes" avec les caracteres, "Oms"
     
  • Waking Life
  • Fantasia
  • Allegro Non Troppo
  • Ice Age 1, 2 & 3
  • Night at the Museum
  • Peter & the Wolf (Suzie Templeton, 2006)
  • James & the Giant Peach
  • Up (2009)
  • Igor, 9, Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline, CorpseBride, Vincent,
    The Golden Compass
    , Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton)
  • Triplets of Belleville (2003)
  • Wizard's Apprentice (1930) b/w mono, 10mins.
  • Arabian Nights (2000)
  • Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007) imdb
  • Mirrormask (2005) imdb
Misc

  • James Bond
  • Godzilla
  • Fierce Creatures
  • Fish Called Wanda
  • Monty Python, Holy Grail, Meaning of Life, Life of Brian
  • True Stories
  • Irina Palm, Marianne Faithfull
  • John Cusack: High Fidelity, Chasing Amy, Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil, The Grifters, Cusack imdb
Best Sean Connery Flick Ever

  • Zardoz
Indie / Foreign Gems
  • 11:14 (2003) wiki imdb
  • Run Lola Run - Lola Rennt, German 1998 imdb (see also, for fun, And Then Came Lola, (2009) imdb an LA Lesbian interpretation of the German flick)
  • Coffee & Cigarettes, (2003) wiki imdb
  • Chasing Amy (1997) wiki
  • Being John Malkovich
  • Orphic Trilogy (Blood of a Poet, Orphee, Testament of Orpheus) Jean Cocteau wiki imdb
  • 13 Conversations About 1 Thing (2001) wiki imdb
  • Time Code (2000) wiki imdb
  • Park wiki imdb
  • Baghdad Cafe wiki imdb
  • Km 0 wiki imdb
  • Mostly Martha wiki imdb
  • Chocolat wiki imdb
  • The Butterfly wiki imdb
  • Grosse Pointe Blank wiki imdb
  • Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil wiki imdb
  • Cashback wiki imdb
  • Lies & Alibis wiki imdb
  • Bread & Tulips (pane e tulipi) wiki imdb
  • Better Off Dead wiki imdb
  • I've Heard the Mermaids Singing wiki imdbThe title is a reference to T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock":

    I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
    I do not think that they will sing to me.        125
    I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
    Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
    When the wind blows the water white and black.
    We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
    By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown        130
    Till human voices wake us, and we drown.

  • Full Body Massage (1995) wiki imdb
  • Walk On Water (2004) [original Hebrew title: ללכת על המים; English transliteration: Lalekhet Al HaMayim] wiki imdb
  • Assassin In Love
  • Last Words  (2008) imdb
  • Cold Souls (2008) 
Native American Theme

  • Dead Man
  • Dark Wind
  • Windwalker
  • Smoke Signals
  • Business of Fancydancing
  • Skinwalkers
  • Dark Wind
  • Thief of Time
  • Coyote Waits
Movies with Sandra Oh
  • Sideways
  • Double Happiness
  • Long Life Happiness & Prosperity
  • Saving Face (Joan Chen)
  • Wilby Wonderful
Visually Stunning Documentaries
  • Microcosmos
  • Genesis
  • The Rotten World Around Us
  • Rivers & Tides
  • Winged Migration
  • The Gleaners & I
Swimming Flicks

  • Watermarks
  • Swimming Upstream
  • Dangerous When Wet (1953) Esther Williams, Animated cat/mouse team Tom & Jerry
  • Swimming Pool (2003) 
  • Big River Man
Dramas

  • Mystic Pizza
  • Real Women Have Curves
  • Spitfire Grill
  • Smilla's Sense of Snow

TV Series & Guilty Pleasures

  • House MD
  • CSI Las Vegas
  • Weeds
  • L Word
  • Crossing Jordan
  • Wonderfalls
  • Northern Exposure
  • Perry Mason
  • Mythbusters