I am starting a list of books I read and movies I see this year. I've already seen a few movies, but I've been pretty bad in the book-reading department as of late.
Any recommendations?
Books Read in 2009:
1. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
3. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Movies Seen in 2009:
1. 1/3 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher, 2008) 4 stars.
2. 1/5 For the Bible Tells Me So (Daniel G. Karslake, 2007) 4 stars.
3. 1/6 Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller, 2008) 2 stars.
4. 1/14 The Jerk (Carl Reiner, 1979) 3 stars.
5. 1/15 Alice (Woody Allen, 1990) 2 stars.
6. 1/18 Burn After Reading (The Coen Brothers, 2008) 3.5 stars.
7. 1/25 The Reader (Stephen Daldry, 2008) 5 stars. Beautiful.
8. 1/28 Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes, 2008) 4 stars.
9. 2/1 Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle, 2008) 3 stars.
10. 2/7 Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990) 2 stars.
11. 2/19 Milk (Gus Van Sant, 2008) 5 stars!
12. 2/20 The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, 2001) 2 stars.
13. 2/26 Saturday Night Fever (John Badham, 1977) 3 stars.
14. 3/3 Volver (Pedro Almodovar, 2006) 4 stars.
15. 3/11 All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar, 1999) 3 stars.
16. 3/18 - Kinsey (Bill Condon, 2004) - 3 stars.
17. 3/21 - The Secret Life of Bees (Gina Prince-Bythewood, 2008) - 4 stars.
18. 3/23 - Role Models (David Wain, 2008) - 2 stars.
19. 3/26 - Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003) - 5 stars.
20. 3/29 - Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927) - 4 stars.
21. 4/4 - The Kite Runner (Marc Forster, 2007) - 2 stars.
22. 4/5 - Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen, 2008) - 5 stars.
23. 4/6 - Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud, 2007) - 2 stars.
24. 4/8 - Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008) - 4 stars.
25. 4/16 - The Savages (Tamara Jenkins, 2007) - 3 stars.
26. 4/18 - Dear Frankie (Shona Auerbach, 2004) - 2 stars.
27. 4/19 - Sprited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001) - 4 stars.
28. 4/19 - Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972) - 5 stars.
29. 4/21 - Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki, 2004) - 4 stars.
30. 4/23 - He's Just Not That Into You (Ken Kwapis, 2009) - 2 stars.
31. 4/24 - Il Postino (Michael Radford, 1994) - 4 stars.
32. 4/26 - Canadian Bacon (Michael Moore, 1995) - 1 star.
33. 4/26 - The Soloist (Joe Wright, 2009) - 3 stars.
34. 5/13 - The Nanny Diaries (Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, 2007) - 4 stars.
35. 5/14 - A Chorus Line (Richard Atthenborough, 1985) - 1 star.
36. 5/15 - Novocaine (David Atkins, 2001) - 4 stars.
37. 5/18 - The Fall (Tarsem Singh, 2006) - 5 stars.
38. 5/20 - Hollywood Ending (Woody Allen, 2002) - 2 stars.
Rating System:
0 : There was nothing at all salvageable from this movie and I wish I had never seen it.
1 : This movie was terrible but I enjoyed it at least a little bit, probably masochistically.
2 : This movie was not a complete failure but I wouldn't watch it again.
3 : This movie was pretty solid, and I would consider watching it again though it isn't high on my list.
4 : This was a pretty good film. I would recommend it to others and I probably would watch it again.
5 : This movie was great and I definitely will watch it again.
