Monday, December 30, 2013

New Years Resolution 2013 - The Movie List

For 2013 my new years resolution was to watch 1 movie a week.  I accomplished it - here's a list of all the movies I watched with links to trailers (or with some of them the full movies) in case your curious what any of these are:

Music Documentaries
Marley – A really awesome documentary about Bob Marley
Scratch (full movie) – great documentary about DJ turntabling
Style Wars (Full Movie) – Documentary from 1983 about the emergence of Hip Hop culture
Throw Down Your Heart

Other Documentaries:
Samsara (definitely one of my favorite from 2012)
Cosmos – This show is pretty life changing…can’t wait for the 2014 sequel
Fractals: Hunting the Hidden Dimension (full documentary)
Baraka (full movie)

Wes Anderson Movies
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissu 
The Darjeeling Limited
Bottle Rocket - Wes Anderson's debut is not as good as all his others, but cool to see where he started
Fantastic Mr. Fox

Movies Charlie Kaufman Wrote:
Human Nature (not nearly as good as other stuff Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman have done - it's actually Gondry's debut...which might explain some things.  But still worth checking out if you dig everything else they've done)
Synecdoche, New York

Quentin Dupieux:
Rubber
Wrong

Terrence Malick:
Badlands
Days of Heaven
Thin Red Line
The New World
The Tree of Life
To the Wonder

Andrei Tarkovsky:
Stalker (1979)– saw this for the first time this year…easily in my top 5 of all time now
Solaris (1972)
The Mirror (1975)

Krzysztof Kieslowski's Color Trilogy:
Blue
White
Red

PT Anderson:
The Master
Magnolia

Horror Movies (most of which I watched leading up to Halloween):
Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) 
Brain Dead
The Evil Dead (1983) 
Ghostbusters  
House
Tetsu the Iron Man
Psycho
Re-Animator – if you like over the top horror/sci-fi movies…this one’s for you
From Beyond
Cabin in the Woods

Sci-Fi
Looper
12 Monkeys
Cloud Atlas
Inception
Blade Runner
Primer (Probably the most realistic feeling movies about time travel)

Christmas Movies
National Vampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Home Alone

Other Foreign Movies:
Persona
Holy Motors - If you're looking for a trippy, absurd, mindfuck of a movie then this might be your cup of tea.  Plus it's got this tight accordion scene.
Fitzgarraldo 
Songs from the Second Floor (full movie)
Certified Copy

Other Weird Movies I watched that Were Pretty Tight:
A Zed and Two Naughts
Crash (1996)
Upstream Color

Blue Velvet
The Big Labowski
Movies I Was Not a Fan Of:
Warm Bodies
I Am
Friday the 13th
Cosmopolis
Hell Raiser

My new years resolution for 2014 is to release more music and play more shows...so stay posted.

2 comments:

  1. Glad to say I was present for one of these, even if it's a movie you were not a fan of!

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    1. Although I was not a fan of the movie, definitely a fan of that night and all the folks who were present for it!

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