1.11.2010

The Coelacanth Watched Some More Movies

As I did last year, in 2009 I kept my usual film diary.  No notes on the films or anything, simply a list of the films I watched.  Again, probably not hugely interesting to many, but if you want a little peek inside the cobwebbed brain of the Coelacanth, here it is.  Like last time, some at times obvious and at times intriguing patterns emerged.

If you care to scroll through the list, a couple of explanatory remarks: the film titles with (C) beside them are ones I saw in the cinema.  In some cases (i.e. TV series/some films), I didn't watch the entire thing on that specific day, but the day listed is simply when I completed the series/film (i.e. I didn't watch all of season five of Buffy in a single day).  In all cases, I watched the entire film.  If I watched half, it didn't count - for example, I didn't include Michael Mann's Thief, and I watched 95 of its 124 minute run-time.  Some of the films were re-watches, most were not.  Here goes:

January
4 - Pineapple Express
11 - Here Is What Is
     - Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
     - Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 5
17 - Saw V
18 - Repo! The Genetic Opera
19 - Tokyo Gore Police
20 - Blood Tea and Red String
22 - Jour de fete
23 - Tapeheads
24 - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
25 - Eyes of Laura Mars
26 - Beaver Family
28 - 9 to 5: Days in Porn
     - Ugetsu
31 - My Bloody Valentine 3-D (C)

February
1 - Step Brothers
2 - El Norte
3 - The Quare Fellow
4 - 60 Cycles
   - Buffy s.6
5 - Permanent Midnight
7 - Step Brothers (not a mistake - I watched it twice in a week, long story)
10 - Patti Smith: Dream of Life
13 - Cold Prey
17 - Midnight Meat Train
18 - Ex Drummer
20 - Children of the Stones
23 - The Discipline of D.E.
24 - Buffy s.7
27 - Batman: Gotham Knight
28 - Hated

March
1 - Frisky Dingo s.1
   - Quicksilver
5 - Habit
   - Rendezvous
7 - Rachel Getting Married
   - Happy-Go-Lucky
8 - Let the Right One In
   - Watchmen (C)
9 - Synechdoche, New York
10 - Milk
     - Role Models
12 - Elevator Movie
14 - Batman vs Dracula
15 - Twilight
19 - Little Criminals
25 - Quiet City
26 - Punisher: War Zone
     - Dance Party, USA

April
2 - Sex Drive
   - The Mindscape of Alan Moore
3 - Hunger
6 - Batman
12 - For Love of the Game
20 - Something Wild
21 - [Rec]

May
2 - Tales of the Rat Fink
6 - Wendy and Lucy
7 - The Punisher
9 - Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
10 - A No Hit, No Run Summer
26 - The Friends of Eddie Coyle
28 - All Night Long
     - Drag Me to Hell (C)
30 - The Hit

June
17 - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
25 - Timecrimes
     - Moon (C)
28 - Eastbound & Down

July
2 - The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
17 - The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
23 - Midnight Movie
25 - My Dinner With Andre
29 - Pontypool

August
2 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
9 - Dazed and Confused
10 - GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra (C)
20 - Trick 'r Treat (C)
22 - Halloween
     - 2 Seconds
23 - Inglourious Basterds (C)
27 - Inglourious Basterds (C)
28 - The Chaser
30 - Sugar
     - Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

September
8 - The Taste of Tea
10 - The Flesh Eaters
     - Jennifer's Body (C)
11 - Daybreakers (C)
13 - The Loved Ones (C)
14 - Bitch Slap (C)
15 - [Rec] 2 (C)
16 - Solomon Kane (C)
17 - Symbol (C)
18 - A Town Called Panic (C)
19 - Ong Bak 2: The Beginning (C)
20 - Vincent
28 - Dorothy Mills
30 - Kurt & Courtney

October
1 - The Masque of the Red Death
   - Shutter
4 - The Wolf Man
   - In the Mouth of Madness
6 - Harper's Island
10 - The American Brew
15 - Drag Me to Hell
17 - Kill, Baby...Kill!
     - Murder Party
     - From Beyond
     - Basket Case
     - New Nightmare
18 - Let's Scare Jessica To Death
     - Halloween
20 - Student Bodies
21 - The Children
23 - The Boxer's Omen
     - The Gravedancers
24 - Phantasm
29 - Suspiria
     - Inferno

November
1 - Paranormal Activity (C)
3 - Night of the Creeps
5 - I Can See You
6 - Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
11 - Adventureland
13 - Splinter
15 - Franklyn
17 - The Limits of Control
     - Klunkerz
19 - The Stars and The Water Carriers
     - Let's Scare Jessica To Death (C)
20 - Hardware
22 - Medicine For Melancholy
25 - Thirst
     - Ballast
26 - I Sell the Dead
29 - Combat Shock

December
3 - Messiah Of Evil
6 - Black Christmas
7 - Macabre
8 - The Cove
17 - Skin and Bones
19 - Superstition
     - It Might Get Loud
23 - Wisconsin Death Trip
30 - Run! Bitch Run!

Roundup
Films watched: 147 (7 more than last year)
In cinema: 19 (2 fewer than last year)

So, anyone else do their own diary for '09?  Post it up!

2 comments:

La Sporgenza said...

Wow.... a ton of work putting this together with links again. Interesting, terrifying and informative. Nice work Joe. I'm gonna do one for the coming year.

the coelacanth said...

thanks. yeah, it was a bit tedious doing the linking, but i was bored yesterday morning...

you should totally do one - i've already started my 2010 list...