2008
Film-watching Journal
Theatrical
viewings unless in Italics
* -
Repeat viewing
December
12/2
- Step
Brothers
12/4
- Australia
12/6
- Purple Rain
12/7
- Kung Fu
Panda
12/7
- Wanted
12/8
- Role Models
12/13
- 7 Up
12/14
- 7 Plus 7
12/15
- The Day the
Earth Stood Still (1951)
12/15
- Slumdog Millionaire
12/23
- Logan's Run
12/24
- * It's a
Wonderful Life
12/25
- * A
Christmas Story
12/25
- Hondo
12/25
- Shenandoah
12/25
- The Art of
Travel
12/26
- Harvest of
Fire
12/26
- The Trip to
Bountiful
12/26
- Frost/Nixon
12/27
- * Iron Man
12/27
- Doubt
November
11/1
- Cinematic Titanic presents "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians"
11/7
- Get Smart
11/8
- Last Stand
at Saber River
11/8
- Monte Walsh
11/8
- The
Happening
11/15
- The Towering
Inferno
11/16
- The Grocer's Son
11/17
- All For Free
11/17
- Outsourced
11/18
- Let the Wind Blow
11/18
- Opera Jawa
11/21
- Ben X
11/21
- Timecrimes
11/23
- The Wrestler
11/26
- Synedoche, New York
11/27
- Music Within
11/28
- City of Ember
11/28
- Quantum of Solace
October
10/2
- Dating Games
People Play
10/5
- Old Joy
10/9
- Old Yeller
10/10
- Brand Upon
the Brain
10/10
- Run Fat Boy
Run
10/13
- District B13
10/20
- W.
10/25
- Diary of a
Country Priest
10/27
- Rachel Getting Married
10/30
- Expelled: No
Intelligence Allowed
10/31
- What Just Happened?
10/31
- Happy Go-Lucky
September
9/4 -
The End of
Evangelion
9/5 -
Transsiberian
9/6 -
Resurrecting
the Champ
9/7 -
* United 93
9/11
- Ostrov (The
Island)
9/12
- Recount
9/12
- No Direction
Home: Bob Dylan
9/14
- Disturbia
9/18
- Burn After Reading
9/19
- Snow Angels
9/19
- * Delicatessen
9/20
- * Wall-E
9/20
- Hancock
9/28
- Choke
9/28
- Balls of
Fury
August
8/1-2
- Spaced:
Season 2
8/2 -
Up the Yangtze
8/4 -
My Blueberry
Nights
8/7 -
Pineapple Express
8/11
- Man on Wire
8/14
- American Teen
8/15
- Tropic Thunder
8/22
- Bottle Shock
8/24
- Can't Stop
the Music
8/28
- Henry Poole is Here
8/31
- Cowards Bend
the Knee
8/31
- * Shaun of
the Dead
July
7/2 -
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
7/2 -
* 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
7/3 -
* Once
7/4 -
Checkpoint
7/5 -
Guelwaar
7/5 -
The Power of Forgiveness
7/5 -
Dracula (Spanish version)
7/6 -
Underground
7/8 -
The Decalogue:
Eight
7/11
- Reprise
7/12
- * Hellboy
7/12
- Ghost Rider
7/12
- * Mirrormask
7/14
- The
Decalogue: Nine
7/16
- The
Decalogue: Ten
7/18
- My Winnipeg
7/18
- Tell No One
7/19
- Easy Rider
7/20
- The Dark Knight
7/24
- Encounters at the End of the World
7/26
- Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
7/27-28
- Spaced:
Season 1
7/29
- The Milagro
Beanfield War
7/31
- Long Way Down
June
6/1 -
The Flight of the Red Balloon
6/2 -
Fast, Cheap,
and Out of Control
6/8 -
The Fall
6/9 -
Lagaan
6/18
- The Other
Boleyn Girl
6/19
- The Decalogue:
Four
6/20
- The
Decalogue: Five
6/21
- * Serenity
6/22
- The Forbidden Kingdom
6/22
- The
Decalogue: Six
6/23
- The
Decalogue: Seven
6/26
- Roman De Gare
6/27
- Wall-E
6/29
- Shooter
May
5/2 -
* Raiders of
the Lost Ark
5/3 -
Dan in Real
Life
5/4 -
The Golden
Compass
5/5 -
Planet B-Boy
5/8 -
Clerks 2
5/9 -
Redbelt
5/10
- Iron Man
5/11
- Judgement at
Nuremberg
5/12
- Frisbee:
Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher
5/13
- Speed Racer
5/15
- Mr. Warmth -
The Don Rickles Project
5/18
- The Decalogue:
One
5/19
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
5/20
- The
Decalogue: Two
5/21
- The
Decalogue: Three
5/22
- Son of Rambow
5/24
- Leatherheads
5/24
- Air Guitar
Nation
5/26
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
5/27
- The Great
Raid
5/31
- Forgetting Sarah Marshall
April
4/3 -
Battlestar
Galactica, Season 3, Disc 6
4/6 -
Gorillas in
the Mist
4/8 -
The Counterfeiters
4/8 -
The Grand
4/9 -
On Her
Majesty's Secret Service
4/11
- The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
4/14
- CJ7 -
4/18
- The Reckoning: Remembering the Dutch Resistance
4/20
- Smart People
4/25
- The Visitor
4/26
- Guess Who's
Coming to Dinner
4/27
- Shine a Light
4/28
- Battlestar
Galactica: Razor
March
3/1 -
U2 3D
3/2 -
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
3/3 -
Marnie
3/3 -
Jamaica Inn
(1939)
3/4 -
Rashomon
3/7 -
* Speed
3/7 -
Youth Without Youth
3/8 -
Billy the Kid
3/9 -
The Bank Job
3/10
- National Treasure: Book of Secrets
3/13
- My Kid Could
Paint That
3/14
- Rendition
3/15
- * Oh Heavenly
Dog
3/16
- You Only
Live Twice
3/17
- The Band's Visit
3/22
- Battlestar
Galactica, Season 3, Disc 1
3/22
- Paranoid Park
3/23
- Battlestar
Galactica, Season 3, Disc 2
3/26
- Battlestar
Galactica, Season 3, Disc 3
3/27-28
- Battlestar
Galactica, Season 3, Disc 4
3/29
- Sigur Ros -
Heima
3/31
- Battlestar
Galactica, Season 3, Disc 5
February
2/1 -
Persepolis
2/2 -
Exodus
2/5 -
Across the
Universe
2/7 -
Dr. No
2/11
- El Topo
2/12
- * On Golden
Pond
2/14
- In the
Shadow of the Moon
2/15 -
In Bruges
2/16
- The Right
Stuff
2/17
- Adam's
Apples
2/20
- From Russia
With Love
2/21
- Great World
of Sound
2/23
- Vantage Point
2/24
- Perriot Le
Fou
2/26
- Be Kind Rewind
2/28
- 12:08 East
of Bucharest
2/29
- Starting Out in the Evening
January
1/1 -
Atonement
1/2 -
Charlie Wilson's War
1/3 -
The Kite Runner
1/4 -
The Great Debaters
1/6 -
Offside
1/10
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
1/11
- Manufactured
Landscapes
1/11
- Golden Door
1/12
- 1408
1/15
- Akira
1/17
- Scoop
1/17 -
I am Trying to
Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco
1/18
- There Will Be Blood
1/19
- Cassandra's Dream
1/21
- Cloverfield
1/25
- Time Bandits
1/26
- Thunderball
1/29
- Two Days in
Paris