Saturday, November 5, 2011

Too Much To Watch - Movie Edition

Writing up a list of all the TV I was falling behind on was pretty helpful in getting me caught up, so I figured it would help if I went into the last two months of the year with a list for movies. I'm about at the same point I was at last year, having seen around forty movies from 2011. The following is about sixty more titles I'd like to see, and the list will almost certainly get longer before it gets much shorter. Foreign films, for instance, are always harder to get a good bead on.

For ease of reading, I've broken the list down into a couple of categories:

The Titles I'm Actually Pretty Excited About

Tucker & Dale vs Evil
We Have to Talk About Kevin
Take Shelter
The Sleeping Beauty (Catherine Breillat)
Martha Marcy May Marlene
The Artist
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
A Dangerous Method
Shame
The Turin Horse

Currently in Theaters But, Will Be Available in a Redbox in Six Months

Contagion
Moneyball
50/50
Real Steel
The Ides of March
In Time
Puss in Boots
The Rum Diary
Tower Heist

I Like the Director, But I'm Not Sure About This

The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodovar)
J. Edgar (Clint Eastwood)
The Descendants (Alexander Payne)
War Horse (Steven Spielberg)
Carnage (Roman Polanski)
Young Adult (Jason Reitman)
Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (David Fincher)
We Bought a Zoo (Cameron Crowe)

Movies Being Plugged For Their Potential Best Actress/Supporting Actress Oscar Contenders

The Help (Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer)
My Week With Marilyn (Michelle Williams)
Albert Nobbs (Glenn Close)
The Lady (Michelle Yeoh)
Oranges and Sunshine (Emily Watson)
The Iron Lady (Meryl Streep)
The Whistleblower (Rachel Weisz)

Drove By Theaters Where They Were Playing Earlier This Year, Thinking "I Should Go See That," So They're Probably Already on DVD

Jane Eyre
Win Win
Certified Copy
Submarine
Beginners
The Guard
The Devil's Double
Another Earth
The Future

Blatantly Commercial Hollywood Movies Can Be Good Too, You Know, and Why Haven't You Seen "Bridesmaids" Yet?

Bridesmaids
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Winnie the Pooh
Crazy Stupid Love
Immortals
The Muppets
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

I Should Watch More Documentaries, and I Only Know About Most of These Because of Filmspotting

Project Nim
Senna
Tabloid
The Interrupters
Being Elmo
These Amazing Shadows
Into the Abyss
Pina

In the Conversation, But I Honestly Don't Know Much About Them

Margaret
Coriolanus
Higher Ground
Like Crazy
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Le Havre
Tyrannosaurus

Movies With No Apparent US Distribution That I'm Hoping Will Pop Up Somewhere Eventually, Pretty Please?

Perfect Sense
The Sound of Noise
Black Venus
A Boy and His Samurai
Tatsumi
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