Catching up

I apologize to any readers for my utter lack of attention to this blog. I have been working on some more involved, research based writing for a while. Before that I went quite a while without posting though. I have decided (with Acacia's help) to list the films I have watched, but will not be blogging about, here in this post. Hopefully without the intimidating thought of being 15+ films behind I can get back on track. So, without further ado, the films I have viewed since (and before) my last post, with a "*" on films I think are interesting enough to recommend to you:

1) The Matrix (Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, 1999)*
2) Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore, 2002)*
3) Le Confessionnal (Robert Lepage, 1995)**
4) Match Point (Woody Allen, 2005)*
5) The Hours (Stephen Daldry, 2002)
6) Kurutta kajitsu (Kô Nakahira, 1956)
7) To Have and Have Not (Howard Hawks, 1944)*just because it's Hawks, Bogart, Bacall, and Hemingway
8) Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen - The Forest for the Trees (Maren Ade, 2003)
9) A Brief History of Time (Errol Morris, 1991)**
10) The Big One (Michael Moore, 1997)
11) Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (Alanis Obomsawin, 1993)
12) Alexandra's Project (Rolf de Heer, 2003)
13) The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson, 2007)*
14) 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)**
15) Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Steve Box, Nick Park,, 2005)*
16) Mourir à tue-tête - Scream From Silence (Anne Claire Poirier, 1979)
17) Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (Errol Morris, 1997)*

I also watched a number of films specifically for a few papers I have recently finished which I will be posting on this blog in the up-coming days:

"Documenting Documentary: Cinematic Response to Fahrenheit 9/11"
- Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore, 2004)*
- Manufacturing Dissent (Rick Caine and Debbie Melnyk, 2007)*
- Fahrenhype 9/11 (Alan Peterson, 2004) -interesting for intensely flawed right-wing rhetoric and the interviews with the always ridiculous Ann Coulter
- Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain Begins to Die (Kevin Knoblock, 2004) - so ridiculous I don't even think it's worth watching

"David Croneneberg Gone Hollywood?: Defining a Canadian National Cinema in a Global Culture"
The following are all directed by David Cronenberg:
- Shivers (1975)
- Rabid (1977)
- Scanners (1981)
- Videodrome (1983)*
- Naked Lunch (1991)**
- Crash (1996)
- eXistenZ (1999)*really interesting for its almost simultaneous release with The Matrix
- Eastern Promises (2007)

I know there have been more, but i can't remember what they were, so... If I remember them, and they were worth sharing, I'll post them in a future entry.