The 100 Movie Challenge (2012)

[Not Plain Jane]

You watched this awhile ago, but what did you think of it?

I need to get into more silent films, but I just can never bring myself to for some reason. I've pretty much seen all the "important" silent comedies, but the dramas are another story for me.

I liked it! It's slightly longish, but my 11 year old son watched it with me, and it held his attention (he loves Chaplin though). The film techniques are pretty cool and the story is engaging, while very sad, but the "fantasy" ending lightens things up to a degree, if you don't take it for harsh sarcasm. Anyhow, definitely worth watching. If you're looking for silent dramas, "Man with a Movie Camera", "Metropolis", "The Passion of Joan of Arc", "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and "Nosferatu" are all good as well.

 

[Not Plain Jane]

1. Cassandra's Dream
2. Moneyball
3. An Education
4. Drive
5. Real Steel
6. Gone Baby Gone
7. Morning Glory
8. Reality Bites
9. Sixteen Candles
10. Annie Hall
11. Mr. Brooks
12. Pride and Prejudice
13. The Help
14. Sylvia
15. Martha Marcy May Marlene
16. Hard Candy
17. Thinner
18. The Last Laugh (German, 1924)
19. SherryBaby
20. Hugo
21. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
22. Trafic (French, 1971)
23. She's the One
24. The Third Man (1949)
25. Young Adult
26. Persepolis
27. District 9
28. Carnage
29. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (American)
30. Midnight in Paris
31. Lost in Translation
32. Case 39
33. The Ides of March
34. A Dangerous Method
35. Manhattan Murder Mystery
36. Along Came Polly
37. Kiss the Girls
38. We Need to Talk about Kevin
39. Manhattan
40. Fracture
41. Cracks
42. The Iron Lady
43. Primal Fear
44. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
45. The Raven
46. The Descendants
47. This is England
48. Something's Gotta Give
49. Broadway Danny Rose
50.Crimes and Misdemeanors
51. The Forgotten
52. Identity
53. Die Welle (The Wave)
54. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
55. No Strings Attached
56. Deconstructing Harry
57. The Jane Austen Book Club
58. The Dreamers
59. The Reader
60. Melancholia
61. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
62. Friends with Money
63. Husbands and Wives
64. Milk
65. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
66. The Avengers
67. Little Fockers
68. True Grit
69. Closer
70. The Woman in Black
71. It's Complicated
72. Chloe
73. The Mothman Prophecies
74. Monster
75. Imagine: John Lennon
76. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
77. Death at a Funeral (British)
78. Bullets Over Broadway
79. Moonrise Kingdom
80. The Interpreter
81. L'Avventura
82. Small Time Crooks
83. Pretty in Pink
84. Rachel Getting Married
85. La Piel Que Habito (The Skin I Live In)
86. The Tree of Life
87. Newlyweds
88. Nice Guy Johnny
89. Juno
90.The Conformist (1970, Italy, Bertolucci - beautiful to look at, quite dark)
91. Hannah and her Sisters
92. Stand By Me
93. The Artist
94. Pulp Fiction
95. The Great Outdoors
96. The Talented Mr. Ripley
97. The Out-of-Towners

 

[GinAndTonic]

How was Stand By Me Not Plain Jane?

 

[ChrissyM]

1: The Help (2011)
2: Shutter Island (2010)
3: Bill Cunningham New York (2010)
4: The Artist (2011)
5: Moneyball (2011)
6: We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
7: Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)
8: The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
9: Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire (2009)
10: Super 8 (2011)
11: Midnight in Paris (2011)
12: Bad Teacher (2011)
13: Sleeping With the Enemy (1991)
14: Hud (1963)
15: Lemon Tree (2008)
16: Friends With Benefits (2011)
17: 50/50 (2011)
18: Step Brothers (2008)
19: Hideous Kinky (1999)
20: The Hunger Games (2012)
21: Unzipped (1995)
22: Dial M for Murder (1954)
23: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
24: The Seven Year Itch (1955)
25: Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (2010)
26: Young Adult (2011)
27: Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
28: Horrible Bosses (2011)
29: True Grit (2010)
30: Malena (2000)
31: Caramel (2007)
32: Diner (1982)
33: The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
34: The Edge of Heaven (2007)
35: Irreversible (2002)
36: The Son (2002)
37: The Queen (2006)
38: Marie Antoinette (2006)
39: Wanderlust (2012)
40: Sense and Sensibility (1995)
41: Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
42: The Descendants (2011)
43: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
44: Birth (2004)
45: The Dark Knight (2008)
46: Mission: Impossible III (2006)
*changing colors denote movies watched per month

 

[Tinetush]

28. In the Name of the Father (Ireland, UK, 1993)
29. Hunger Games (2012). Positively surprised by this one. It was good entertainment.
30. No man's land (Bosnia, 2001)
31. Trois couleurs: Bleu (France, Poland, 1993)
32. Trzy kolory: Bialy (France, Poland, 1994)
33. Trois couleurs: Rouge (France, Poland 1994). I absolutely loved this trilogy. So much that I actually bought a Kieslowski 5 dvd collection box today. And I haven't bought a film in what seems like ages.

I haven't updated this list for a while and I know I've seen more films than mentioned here - but I really can't remember which.

34. Die Welle (Germany, 2008)
35. Delicatessen (France, 1991)
36. Belle de jour (France, 1967)
37. The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
38. Men in Black 3 (2012)
39. My Week with Marilyn (2011)
40. Mørke (Denmark, 2005)
41. The Song of Lunch (UK, 2010)

 

[ckgirlbr]

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1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
2. Into the Wild
3. Trainspotting
4. Scarface
5. Un Cuento Chino
6. Donnie Darko
7. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
8. Annie Hall
9. Control
10. A Clockwork Orange
11. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
12. The Shawshank Redemption
13. Sleeper
14. The Virgin Suicides
15. Manhattam
16. Midnight in Paris
17. Mississippi Burning
18. La Belle Personne
19. Memories
20. Submarine
21. Les Amours Imaginaires
22. Who Killed Nancy?
23. Vera Drake | A very interesting movie about the subject, if it doesn't change your mind, it will at least help to understand a bit of the other side of the coin.
24. To Rome With Love | I was expecting so much of the movie, but it disappointed me. The stories sounded forced. Some of the actors are great, but others just don't deliver. Woody Allen's story is clearly the best, but I wouldn't recommend this one.
25. Anna | Fun, quite modern for the time it was made, Anna and Brialy are such a good match! Not to mention the amazing apparitions of Serge & Marianne Faithfull.

On a side note, so ashamed some of you have already finished the Challenge and I've only accomplished 1/4 of it.

 

[Not Plain Jane]

How was Stand By Me Not Plain Jane?

Hi, I thought it was very good; it's a little dated, but it holds up well since it's set in the past. We watched it with our son who is about the age of the main characters in the film, so that added something to the experience. The kids in the film all give remarkable performances imo (it was sad to see River Phoenix again - even then he showed massive potential). Plus, I love that the film is funny yet it manages to make viewers think about personality, mortality and humanity. The 50s music is great. It's worth watching; it is probably one of the better film adaptations of any Stephen King story/book.

 

[Not Plain Jane]

Tinetush - what did you think of Die Welle (Germany, 2008)? I watched it and thought the acting was very powerful and the storyline shocking. Good film imo.

 

[Karen0193]

90. X-Men: First Class(2011)
91. 21 Jump Street(2012)
92. Bringing Up Baby(1938)
93. Arsenic and Old Lace(1944)
94. The Philadelphia Story(1940)
95. 21 Jump Street(2012)
96. The Amazing Spider-Man(2012)
97. Captain America: The First Avenger(2011)
98. Lemony Snicket: A Series of Unfortunate Events(2004)
99. Ever After: A Cinderella Story(1998)
100. Guzaarish(2010)
101. Kung Fu Panda(2011)
102. The Bang Bang Club(2011)
103. Memento(2000)
104. Any Given Sunday(1999)
105. Bridesmaids(2011)
106. Paris, Texas(1984)
107. Beetlejuice(1988)
108. Iron Man 2(2010)
109. Mr and Mrs Smith(2005)

 

[Festat]

I'm totally joining!

 

[GinAndTonic]

001. A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg) l 2011
002. Submarine (Richard Ayoade) l 2010
003. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski) l 1968
004. Lolita (Adrian Lyne) l 1997
005. Stay (Marc Forster) l 2005
006. Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols) l 2011
007. J.Edgar (Clint Eastwood) l 2011
008. The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo (David Fincher) l 2011
009. Crazy, Stupid, Love (John Requa / Glenn Ficarra) l 2011
010. Brighton Rock (Rowan Joffe) l 2010
011. Another Happy Day (Sam Levinson) l 2011
012. The Iron Lady (Phyllida Lloyd) l 2011
013. Albert Nobbs (Rodrigo Garcia) l 2011
014. Oslo, 31st August (Joaquim Trier) l 2011
015. Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin) l 2011
016. Bye Bye Blondie (Virginie Despentes) l 2012
017. My Week with Marilyn (Simon Curtis) l 2011
018. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater) l 1995
019. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater) l 2004
020. Twixt (Francis Ford Coppola) l 2011
021. Super (James Gunn) l 2010
022. Pardonnez-moi (Maïwenn) l 2006
023. Dark Shadows (Tim Burton) l 2012
024. Tyrannosaur (Paddy Considine) l 2012
025. De rouille et d'os (Jaques Audiard) l 2012
026. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson) l 2012
027. On The Road (Walter Salles) l 2012
028. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg) l 2012
029. Sur mes lèvres (Jaques Audiard) l 2002
030. Time Out (Andrew Niccol) l 2011
031. The Game (David Fincher) l 1997
032. The Chronicles of Narnia I (Andrew Adamson) l 2005
033. Boy A (John Crowley) l 2007
034. Footloose (Herbert Ross) l 1984
035. The Pianist (Roman Polanski) l 2002

 

[modelista]

162. Vincere (2009 - foreign | italian)
163. Happy Feet 2 (2011) - those penguins are sooo cute
164. Centurion (2010) - omg, michael fassbender can get the business
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165. Super (2010)
166. The Killer Inside Me (2010)
167. Mirror Mirror (2012)
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[MulletProof]

41. Brothers (US, 2009)
42. This is Nollywood (US/Nigeria, 2007)
43. The Edukators (Germany, 2004)
44. Patti Smith: Dream of Life (US, 2008)

45. Cairo Time (Canada, 2009)
46. Secretary (US, 2002)
47. Sweetgrass (US, 2009)

DESIGN TRILOGY:
48. Urbanized (US, 2011)
49. Helvetica (US 2007)
50. Objectified (US 2009)

Really recommend Cairo Time.. .. reminded me a little of Before Sunrise/Before Sunset but more mature I guess.

After Sweetgrass and The Turin Horse, you think you can put up with all kinds of ultra steady, nothingness-of-life films but then you get to the Design Trilogy (which is actually about something) and just want to kill someone .. I'm excluding Urbanized as it's so well-made and really makes you think about the challenges of urbanization but Helvetica and Objectified, unless you're a total stranger to industrial design and typography, they're painful.. and it's 100% Hustwit's approach, he just wants to bring the enthusiasm/ego of creators to light and make it contagious and the result is talented guy #1 telling you what he does, and telling you what he does again, and then guy #2 telling you what he does and how identical it is to what guy #1 does.

Thankfully, the third and last installment of the series is more promising when it comes to Hustwit's future projects.

 

[GinAndTonic]

001. A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg) l 2011
002. Submarine (Richard Ayoade) l 2010
003. Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski) l 1968
004. Lolita (Adrian Lyne) l 1997
005. Stay (Marc Forster) l 2005
006. Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols) l 2011
007. J.Edgar (Clint Eastwood) l 2011
008. The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo (David Fincher) l 2011
009. Crazy, Stupid, Love (John Requa / Glenn Ficarra) l 2011
010. Brighton Rock (Rowan Joffe) l 2010
011. Another Happy Day (Sam Levinson) l 2011
012. The Iron Lady (Phyllida Lloyd) l 2011
013. Albert Nobbs (Rodrigo Garcia) l 2011
014. Oslo, 31st August (Joaquim Trier) l 2011
015. Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin) l 2011
016. Bye Bye Blondie (Virginie Despentes) l 2012
017. My Week with Marilyn (Simon Curtis) l 2011
018. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater) l 1995
019. Before Sunset (Richard Linklater) l 2004
020. Twixt (Francis Ford Coppola) l 2011
021. Super (James Gunn) l 2010
022. Pardonnez-moi (Maïwenn) l 2006
023. Dark Shadows (Tim Burton) l 2012
024. Tyrannosaur (Paddy Considine) l 2012
025. De rouille et d'os (Jacques Audiard) l 2012
026. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson) l 2012
027. On The Road (Walter Salles) l 2012
028. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg) l 2012
029. Sur mes lèvres (Jacques Audiard) l 2002
030. Time Out (Andrew Niccol) l 2011
031. The Game (David Fincher) l 1997
032. The Chronicles of Narnia I (Andrew Adamson) l 2005
033. Boy A (John Crowley) l 2007
034. Footloose (Herbert Ross) l 1984
035. The Pianist (Roman Polanski) l 2002
036. The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard) l 2005
037. Chronicle (Josh Trank) l 2012

 

[Festat]

I'm beginning just now.


001. Murder, My Sweet, 1944, by Edward Dmytryk
002. The Suspect, 1944, by Robert Siodmak
003. Flamingo Road, 1949, by Michael Curtiz

 

[Belowen]

01: Back To The Future II
02: The Hangover Part II
03: Poltergeist
04: Sex And The City
05: Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows
06: The Muppets
07: Prom Night
08: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
09: The Beach
10: Gothika
11: Trading Places
12: Enchanted
13: My Week With Marilyn
14: I Am Number Four
15: The Boondock Saints
16: The Blue Lagoon
17: Dawn Of The Dead
18: The Hunger Games
19: Fright Night
20: A Dangerous Method
21: Final Destination
22: Silent Hill
23: True Lies
24: Silence of the Lambs
25: The Darkest Hour
26: Monsters
27: Chronicle
28: Aliens
29: Alien 3
30: Prometheus
31: The Secret Garden
32: The Amazing Spiderman
33: The Invasion
34: Source Code
35: Cowboys and Aliens
36: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
37: X Men: First Class
38: The Dark Knight Rises
39: The Bourne Identity
40: The Bourne Supremacy

 

[vogue28]

55. The Grey (2011)
56. Speed (1994)
57. Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
58. Home Alone (1990)
59. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
60. The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

61. The Specialist (1994)
62. Batman Begins (2005)
63. The Dark Knight (2008)
64. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
65. The Italian Job (2003)
66. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
67. The Mummy (1999)
68. The Mummy Returns (2001)

 

[Not Plain Jane]

1. Cassandra's Dream
2. Moneyball
3. An Education
4. Drive
5. Real Steel
6. Gone Baby Gone
7. Morning Glory
8. Reality Bites
9. Sixteen Candles
10. Annie Hall
11. Mr. Brooks
12. Pride and Prejudice
13. The Help
14. Sylvia
15. Martha Marcy May Marlene
16. Hard Candy
17. Thinner
18. The Last Laugh (German, 1924)
19. SherryBaby
20. Hugo
21. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
22. Trafic (French, 1971)
23. She's the One
24. The Third Man (1949)
25. Young Adult
26. Persepolis
27. District 9
28. Carnage
29. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (American)
30. Midnight in Paris
31. Lost in Translation
32. Case 39
33. The Ides of March
34. A Dangerous Method
35. Manhattan Murder Mystery
36. Along Came Polly
37. Kiss the Girls
38. We Need to Talk about Kevin
39. Manhattan
40. Fracture
41. Cracks
42. The Iron Lady
43. Primal Fear
44. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
45. The Raven
46. The Descendants
47. This is England
48. Something's Gotta Give
49. Broadway Danny Rose
50.Crimes and Misdemeanors
51. The Forgotten
52. Identity
53. Die Welle (The Wave)
54. The Exorcism of Emily Rose
55. No Strings Attached
56. Deconstructing Harry
57. The Jane Austen Book Club
58. The Dreamers
59. The Reader
60. Melancholia
61. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
62. Friends with Money
63. Husbands and Wives
64. Milk
65. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
66. The Avengers
67. Little Fockers
68. True Grit
69. Closer
70. The Woman in Black
71. It's Complicated
72. Chloe
73. The Mothman Prophecies
74. Monster
75. Imagine: John Lennon
76. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
77. Death at a Funeral (British)
78. Bullets Over Broadway
79. Moonrise Kingdom
80. The Interpreter
81. L'Avventura
82. Small Time Crooks
83. Pretty in Pink
84. Rachel Getting Married
85. La Piel Que Habito (The Skin I Live In)
86. The Tree of Life
87. Newlyweds
88. Nice Guy Johnny
89. Juno
90.The Conformist (1970, Italy, Bertolucci)
91. Hannah and her Sisters
92. Stand By Me
93. The Artist
94. Pulp Fiction
95. The Great Outdoors
96. The Talented Mr. Ripley
97. The Out-of-Towners
98. Interiors = visually v. good
99. Lars and the Real Girl
100. Shadows and Fog
101. Author! Author!
102. Looking for Mr. Goodbar

 

[Festat]

I need to get into more silent films, but I just can never bring myself to for some reason. I've pretty much seen all the "important" silent comedies, but the dramas are another story for me.

When you think you're ready for the 3-hour Griffith melodramas, you should definitely try Way Down East. I watched it twice in a row because... I was just too impressed.

 

[emilylin]

1. The Girl with Dragon Tattoo (2011)
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
3. The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009)
4. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009)
5. My Name is Khan
6. Nightfall
7. A Simple Life
8. Dark Flight
9. The Intouchables
10. We Bought a Zoo
11. New Year's Eve
12. Horrible Bosses
13. Midnight in Paris
14. 50/50
15. The Hangover
16. The Hangover Part II
17. What's Your Number?
18. Love and Other Drugs
19. Zookeeper
20. Life as We Know It
21. The Decoy Bride
22. Ironman
23. Ironman 2
24. Thor
25. Hulk
26. The Incredible Hulk
27. Captain America
28. The Adjustment Bureau
29. The Bourne Identity
30. The Bourne Supremacy
31. The Bourne Ultimatum
32. Gone
33. The Avengers
34. Love in a Puff
35. Love in the Buff
36. The Vow
37. Like Crazy (reminds me of Blue Valentine, not really a sad movie, but it's the ruthless truth)
38. 21 Jump Street (the best part was Johnny Depp showed up!)
39. This Means War
40. Man on a Ledge
41. Somewhere
42. The Three Musketeers

43. Perfect Sense (that would be the best movie I watched this year!)
44. Eat Pray Love
45. Man in Black I
46. Man in Black II
47. Man in Black III
48. Cop Out
49. The Expendables
50. Step up Revolution

50 more to go!