An Array of Flicks Seen

I set out to chronicle the films I watched. That would be where the title for this blog came from. And I was also going to talk about upcoming movies and other movie news, etc. Being a college kid, this blog took a severe hit and I just forgot to post after each film. I also keep a political blog (Patriotic Intellect). This has been more important than keeping a blog about film as I was more interested. I am taking up the challenge of keeping two blogs. While these are basic Blogger blogs, I am looking to read up on Wordpress and design a better site. I have always prided myself in my knowledge of technology but lately have fallen behind.

Before I can press on, I must list out the films that were saved as drafts but never posted. This list is only a few of the films I watched from September '06-November '06. From the best to the worst, here it goes.

A+ to A- Films

Aquirre: Wrath of God
Cache (Hidden)
Carnal Knowledge
Carnival of Souls
Conversation, The
I Am Curious (Yellow)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Last Tango in Paris
Night Moves
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Requiem for a Dream
Schindler's List
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Taxi Driver
Tsotsi

B+ to B- Films

Ai No Corrida
Bicycle Thief
Deer Hunter
Eraserhead
Frenzy
Harder They Fall
Havoc
Natural Born Killers
Talk Radio
Wild Bunch

C+ to C- Films

Contempt
Freaks
Long Goodbye
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Raising Arizona
Yellowbeard

F Film

Easy

I watched all of those and more. And I left out the fact that I gave special attention to David Lynch and Errol Morris while during that time too.

Mulholland Drive was breathtakingly amazing to me and I give it an A. I watched Eraserhead (as seen above) and found it to be very interesting for a debut film. I have Straight Story, Wild at Heart, and Dune on my list of films to see as well as his TV seris Twin Peaks and his latest film Inland Empire.

Errol Morris is a man I went to hear speak in Chicago and he talked about his upcoming documentary on Abu Ghraib and the iconography of the photos. I did a detailed post on this on my political blog. For pure entertainment purposes, this led me to see his three classics before Fog of War, which are Gates of Heaven, Thin Blue Line, and Mr. Death. All three flicks are B+/A- flicks and for documentaries, are amazingly superb.

And now that's done move on down to the first post of this resurrected blog.