Obligatory End of Year Movie Post

Managed to get through a few of our Holiday favorites:

(some were just in the background when we were wrapping presents or making candy, but I'm counting them anyway)

A Christmas Story (1983) dir. by Bob Clark

Christmas Vacation (1989) dir. by Jeremiah S. Chechik

Miracle on 34th Street (1947) dir. by George Seaton

The Polar Express (2004) dir. by Robert Zemeckis

And...since I missed the year-end round-up at the end of 2008, the following is a list of films watched during the years 2008 & 2009:

A Christmas Story (1983)
Christmas Vacation (1989)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
The Polar Express (2004)
Gaslight (1944)
Léon (1994)
Man on Wire (2008)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Revolutionary Road (2008)
Rushmore (1998)
Same Time, Next Year (1978)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
The Big Chill (1983)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
The Iron Giant (1999)
Public Enemies (2009)
Up (2009)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Atonement (2007)
Babel (2006)
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (2004)
Cars (2006)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Cloverfield (2008)
The Dark Knight (2008)
The Five Obstructions (2003)
Death Proof (2007)
The Story of the Weeping Camel (2003)
Evan Almighty (2007)
Even Pigeons Go to Heaven (2007)
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)
Gran Torino (2008)
Heroes (2006)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Iron Man (2008)
Juno (2007)
King Kong (2005)
The Lake House (2006)
Amélie (2001)
The Little Mermaid (1989)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Miami Vice (2006)
Most (2003)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
At Night (2007)
Rambo (2008)
Ratatouille (2007)
Star Wars (1977)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Transformers (2007)
Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993)
Tropic Thunder (2008)
WALL·E (2008)
Wings of Desire (1987)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Le Samouraï (1967)
Babette's Feast (1987)
Apocalypto (2006)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Casino Royale (2006)
Blood Diamond (2006)
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
Happy Feet (2006)
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
The Queen (2006)

2007 Movie Archive

Total Films Watched in 2007: (67)

New (43) [noted with *]
vs.
Rewatched (24)

[Navigation Note: Each title here will take you to my blog post where the film was mentioned. Within the blog post, the film's title is linked to the imdb entry for that particular film.]

[FYI: this list goes from the end of the year 2007 (at the top) to the beginning of the year (at the bottom)]

United 93 (2006) *
Match Point (2005) *
The Jungle Book (1967)
The Good Shepherd (2006) *
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Dreamgirls (2006) *
300 (2006) *
3 Godfathers (1948) *
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) *
Brief Encounter (1945)
The Departed (2006) *
Double Indemnity (1944)
The Fog (1980) *
For Your Consideration (2006) *
Heat (1995)
A History of Violence (2005) *
Hollywoodland (2006) *
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) *
Little Miss Sunshine (2006) *
The Miracle Worker (1962) *
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Pleasantville (1998)
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
The Red Violin (1998)
Mrs. Miniver (1942) *
The Pride of the Yankees (1942) *
So Dear to My Heart (1948) *
Flightplan (2005) *
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Children of Men (2006) *
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) *
Open Range (2003)
Collateral (2004)
Deja Vu (2006) *
Life in the Undergrowth (2005) *
The Life of Mammals (2002) *
Marnie (1964) *
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) *
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) *
Cellular (2004) *
Star Wars (1977)
Cape Fear (1962) *
In The Heat of the Night (1967) *
Inside Man (2006) *
An Inconvenient Truth (2006) *
Sliding Doors (1998) *
Before Sunrise (1995) *
Before Sunset (2004) *
Curious George (2006) *
Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) *
Infernal Affairs (2002) *
The Notebook (2004)
Over The Hedge (2006) *
Peter Pan (1953)
The Seven Year Itch (1955) *
Shark Tale (2004) *
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Capote (2005) *
Copycat (1995) *
Léon (1994)
Charlotte's Web (2006)
Aladdin (1992)
Superman Returns (2006)

2006 Movie Archive

Total Films Watched in 2006: (161)

New (106) [noted with *]
vs.
Re-watched (55)

[Navigation Note: Each title here will take you to my blog post where the film was mentioned. Within the blog post, the film's title is linked to the imdb entry for that particular film.]

[FYI: this list goes from the end of the year 2006 (at the top) to the beginning of the year (at the bottom)]


The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) *
The Nativity Story (2006) *
Band of Brothers (2001)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Cars (2006)
End of the Spear (2005) *
V for Vendetta (2005) *
The Interpreter (2005) *
The Island (2005) *
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) *
Snatch (2000) *
Fame (1980) *
Panic Room (2002)
Hulk (2003)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
A Fish Called Wanda (1989) *
Raging Bull (1980) *
Sergeant York (1941) *
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2004)
Crash (2004)
Adaptation (2002) *
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Back to the Future (1985)
Cast Away (2000)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Contact (1997)
Zardoz (1974) *
Cimarron (1931) *
Frances (1982) *
The Great Escape (1963) *
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
The Jerk (1979) *
The Hidden Fortress (1958) *
American Beauty (1999)
Moulin Rouge (2001)
My Friend Flicka (1943) *
Garden State (2004)
Beyond the Gates of Spendor (2002) *
Mogambo (1953) *
The Dirty Dozen (1967) *
Snakes on a Plane (2006) *
The Family Stone (2005)
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) *
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) *
The Family Stone (2005) *
Underworld (2003) *
Mighty Joe Young (1949) *
The Squid and the Whale (2005) *
Toy Story (1995)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) *
Zatôichi (2003) *
Fever Pitch (2005) *
Midnight Cowboy (1969) *
Cars (2006)
Downfall (2004) *
Superman Returns (2006) *
Minority Report (2002)
Stalag 17 (1953) *
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) *
Lady and the Tramp (1955)
The Princess Bride (1987)
Sin City (2005)
Cars (2006) *
A Prairie Home Companion (2006) *
Karate Kid III (1989)
Karate Kid II (1986)
Man on Fire (2004) *
Saboteur (1942) *
The Trouble With Harry (1955) *
The Birds (1963) *
Vertigo (1958) *
Blade Runner (1982)
Bill Cosby: Himself (1984)
Pride & Prejudice (2005) *
Eraserhead (1977) *
Brokeback Mountain (2005) *
Serenity (2005) *
Bruce Almighty (2003) *
Howl's Moving Castle (2004) *
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) *
LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
LOTR: The Two Towers (2002)
LOTR: The Return of the King (2003)
Chicken Little (2005) *
Bringing Up Baby (1938) *
A Lot Like Love (2005) *
The Unsaid (2001) *
Hoodwinked (2006)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Billy Graham: God's Ambassador (2006) *
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Kingdom of Heaven (2005) *
The Fox and the Hound (1981)
Veronica Guerin (2003) *
The Poseidon Adventure (1972) *
Wild Strawberries (1957) *
Mississippi Burning (1988) *
Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) *
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) *
The Wild Bunch (1969) *
Sabrina (1954) *
Enchanted April (1992) *
Batman Forever (1995)
Batman Returns (1992)
Phone Booth (2002) *
Beau Geste (1939) *
Elizabethtown (2005) *
Seven Years in Tibet (1997) *
A Man Called Peter (1955) *
Mona Lisa Smile (2003) *
Lost Horizon (1937) *
Ice Princess (2005) *
Heaven Can Wait (1943) *
Envy (2004) *
Traffic (2000)
West Side Story (1961)
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Batman (1989)
Murderball (2005) *
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
Walk the Line (2005) *
12 Angry Men (1957)
Giant (1956) *
East of Eden (1955) *
Rebel Without a Cause (1955) *
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) *
The Seventh Seal (1957) *
Sense and Sensibility (1995) *
Top Hat (1935) *
The Fly (1986) *
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Batman Begins (2005)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) *
The Polar Express (2004)
The Philadelphia Story (1940) *
Toy Story 2 (1999)
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Cold Mountain (2004) *
First Blood (1982)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) *
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) *
Ed Wood (1994) *
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Chinatown (1974) *
On the Waterfront (1954) *
The Prince of Egypt (1998)
King Kong (2005)
Hoodwinked (2005) *
Rashômon (1950) *
Daredevil (2003) *
Elektra (2005) *
Goodfellas (1990) *
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) *
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
A Clockwork Orange (1971) *
A Place in the Sun (1951) *
Double Indemnity (1944) *
The Spiral Staircase (1946) *
King Kong (1933) *

2005 Movie Archive

Total Films Watched in 2005: (193)

New (139)
vs.
Re-watched (54)

[Navigation Note: Each title here will take you to my blog post where the film was mentioned. Within the blog post, the film's title is linked to the imdb entry for that particular film.]

[FYI: this list goes from the end of the year 2005 (at the top) to the beginning of the year (at the bottom)]

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Cinderella Man (2005)
Titanic (1997)
Pirates of the Caribbean (2003)
Super Size Me (2004)
King Kong (2005)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Scooby Doo 2: Monster's Unleashed (2004)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Polar Express (2004)
A Christmas Story (1983)
Christmas Vacation (1989)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
House of Flying Daggers (2004)
The Polar Express (2004)
Millions (2004)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Robots (2005)
Crash (2004)
The Girl Next Door (2004)
Sin City (2005)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
The Thin Man (1934)
Finding Neverland (2004)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Office Space (1999)
Racing Stripes (2005)
Camille (1936)
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
Nikita (1990)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Dracula (1931)
Léon: The Professional (1994)
Yojimbo (1961)
The Blob (1958)
Heat (1995)
Grand Hotel (1932)
An American in Paris (1951)
GiGi (1958)
The Corpse Bride (2005)
I [Heart] Huckabees (2004)
Deliverance (1972)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
The Great Race (1965)
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
Spanglish (2004)
Unforgiven (1992)
Cinderella (1950)
Rebecca (1940)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Rope (1948)
The Color Purple (1985)
Deathtrap (1982)
Whale Rider (2002)
Spellbound (1945)
Wimbledon (2004)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Shattered Glass (2003)
National Treasure (2004)
The Village (2004)
Sahara (1943)
Winged Migration (2001)
Dr. Zhivago (1965)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Saved! (2004)
In America (2002)
A Bug's Life (1998)
Toy Story (1995)
March of the Penguins (2005)
Great Expectations (1946)
Open Water (2003)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
Friday Night Lights (2004)
Brief Encounter (1945)
Escanaba in da Moonlight (2001)
Fantasia (1940)
The Sullivans (1944)
Predator (1987)
1941 (1979)
Born Yesterday (1950)
Bambi (1942)
The French Connection (1971)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
The Final Countdown (1980)
I, Robot (2004)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
The Next Karate Kid (1994)
The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
All About Eve (1950)
The Terminal (2004)
Garden State (2004)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Jaws (1975)
Father of the Bride (1991)
Father of the Bride (1950)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Batman Begins (2005)
THX 1138 (1971)
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
Hero (2002)
The Aviator (2004)
The Outlaw (1943)
Metropolis (1927)
The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Collateral (2004)
North by Northwest (1959)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Star Wars: Episode II - The Attack of the Clones (2002)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
That Funny Feeling (1965)
Jerry Seinfeld: I'm Telling You for the Last Time (1998)
The Third Man (1949)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
The Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
Ice Age (2002)
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)
The Two Towers (2002)
Léon: The Professional (1994)
The Last Samurai (2003)
The Karate Kid (1984)
The Return of the King (2003)
Minority Report (2002)
Beyond The Sea (2004)
Lost In Translation (2003)
Artificial Intelligence: AI (2000)
Matchstick Men (2003)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Love Actually (2003)
De-Lovely (2004)
Secret Window (2004)
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
The Pink Panther (1963)
The Iron Giant (1999)
M (1931)
The Incredibles (2004)
The Passion Of The Christ (2004)
Friendly Persuasion (1956)
The Incredibles (2004)
Finding Neverland (2004)
Tombstone (1993)
Bambi (1942)
Adam's Rib (1949)
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949)
The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
The Whole Wide World (1996)
Bubba Ho-tep (2002)
Night and Day (1946)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
Cheaper By The Dozen (1950)
Cheaper By The Dozen (2003)
The Notebook (2004)
Excalibur (1981)
Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (1985)
The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
X2 (2003)
Just Married (2003)
Gone With The Wind (1939)
Rocky (1976)
Rocky II (1979)
Rocky III (1982)
Rocky IV (1985)
Rocky V (1990)
The Court Jester (1956)
The Phantom Of The Opera (2004)

2004 Movie Archive

Films Watched in 2004 (beginning September 16th):

Each title will take to to my blog post where the film was mentioned. Within the blog post, the film's title is linked to the imdb entry for that particular film.

Shrek 2 (2004)
Meet The Fockers (2004)
High Noon (1952)
Duel (1971)
A Christmas Story (1983)
Christmas Vacation (1989)
City Lights (1931)
Top Gun (1986)
Christmas Vacation (1989)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Elf (2003)
It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown (1992)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
A Muppet Family Christmas (1987)
Empire Of Dreams (2004)
A Christmas Story (1983)
Mystic River (2003)
Lady And The Tramp (1955)
Say Anything... (1989)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
The Cooler (2003)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Miracle (2004)
Alice In Wonderland (1951)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Superman II (1980)
The Incredibles (2004)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Frankenstein (1931)
Charade (1963)
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936)
School of Rock (2003)
Fallen (1998)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Somewhere in Time (1980)
Superman (1978)
Duel (1971)
The English Patient (1996)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Aladdin (1992)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
The Lady Eve (1941)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Stagecoach (1939)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Paycheck (2003)
Schindler's List (1993)
Star Wars (1977)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Notorious (1946)
Jackass: The Movie (2002)
Brazil (1985)