Back In Malaysia Movie Marathon

Phew-wee! It's been close to a year now since I've graduated from Penn State & from June 2011 right up until now, I've watched 50 movies now. If you'd notice, I also watched a number of local films with the latest being Dain Said's "Bunohan" which is an art house flick filled with family values. I guess the next time I blog, it'll be another list of movies I've watched (I hope not). Enjoy!

1. Paul
2. Exam
3. 50/50
4. Drive
5. Bunohan
6. Insidious
7. Win Win
8. The Thing
9. Moneyball
10. Contagion
11. Parit Jawa
12. Hard Candy
13. KL Gangster
14. Fright Night
15. Falling Down  
16. Source Code
17. Garden State
18. Cedar Rapids
19. Ombak Rindu
20. Wag The Dog
21. Hunger Games
22. The Salton Sea
23. Sini Ada Hantu!
24. Horrible Bosses
25. This Means War
26. Anu Dalam Botol
27. Midnight In Paris  
28. Attack The Block  
29. X-Men: First Class
30. Cowboys & Aliens
31. The Ides Of March 
32. High Plains Drifter
33. Final Destination 5
34. Rabbit-Proof Fence
35. Everything Must Go
36. Crazy, Stupid, Love  
37. The Kids Are Alright
38. A Dangerous Method 
    
39. Paranormal Activity 3
40. The Adjustment Bureau
41. She's Out Of My League
42. Underworld: Awakening
43. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
44. Martha Marcy May Marlene 
45. The Manchurian Candidate
46. Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
47. Captain America: The First Avenger
48. Taqwacore - The Birth Of Punk Islam
49. The Myth of The American Sleepover
50. POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold 

Spring '11 Movie List Part Deux

The final stretch. Here are the movies that I've watched before ending my almost three-year stint in the United States & heading back to home. It's a genre mish-mash of very old, quite old and new movies; looks like IMDB's Top 250 can't cut it for me already. Need to venture to pastures new. Time to dive into indie/experimental/surrealist movies, then?

1. Thor
2. Super
3. Carrie
4. Scream
5. Gasland
6. Mad Max
7. Sunshine
8. Insidious
9. Scream 2
10. True Grit
11. The Killers
12. Videodrome
13. Funny People
14. Man Push Cart
15. Raising Arizona
16. Blue Moon Rising
17. Good Will Hunting
18. Hobo With A Shotgun
19. The Manchurian Candidate
20. Exit Through The Gift Shop
21. The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2)
22. Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari
23. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome(Mad Max 3)

Spring '11 Movie List

Did six movies better than during Winter Break (since I went back to Malaysia for two weeks). Slowly running out of ideas on what movies to watch now & am scouring for cult classics and B-movies. Any suggestions for old or new movies or even any directors I missed?

1. Devil
2. Se7en
3. Buried
4. Primer
5. Sleeper
6. Red Hill
7. Thirteen
8. Scanners
9. Amreeka
10. 127 Hours
11. The Game
12. Creepshow
13. Death Wish
14. The Fighter
15. Foxy Brown
16. Cabin Fever
17. Unstoppable
18. Philadelphia
19. Pleasantville
20. Swamp Thing
21. The Mechanic
22. State Of Grace
23. Black Christmas
24. One Hour Photo
25. Død Snø (Dead Snow) 
26. Paranormal Activity 2
27. Synecdoche, New York 
28. Waiting For "Superman"
29. CSA: The Confederate States of America
30. Casino Jack & The United State of Money

Winter '10 Movie

Another break, another round of movies to be watched but this time it's a bit of everything: movies I've watched in the fall, classics that I've watched before & movies that I watched in my flights to-and-from Malaysia; not to mention the controversial Amir Muhammad film, Lelaki Komunis Terakhir! Now, to get my hands on Apa Khabar Orang Kampung...

1. Shaft
2. Slither
3. Code 46
4. eXistenZ
5. The Town
6. Piranha 3D
7. Taxi Driver
8. Black Swan
9. The Square
10. Outsourced 
11. The Tourist
12. The Descent
13. Battle Royale
14. House Of Usher
15. Shadows & Fog 
16. The Expendables
17. Eastern Promises
18. The Last Exorcism
19. Drugstore Cowboy 
20. A Clockwork Orange
21. Dinner For Schmucks
22. The House of The Devil
23. Lelaki Komunis Terakhir (The Last Communist)

Summer 10' Movie Marathon

Hello people! I've been pretty busy this summer with a lot of travels (as a matter of fact, I'm heading to Chicago, IL for Lollapalooza this weekend!) but I do still have time to watch a whole bunch of movies. Voila!

1. Pi
2. Heat
3. Moon
4. Brick
5. Kafka
6. Brazil
7. Jogho
   
8. Lenjan
9. Amelie
10. The Fly
11. Invictus
12. Insomnia
13. Robocop
14. Selubung
15. Inception
16. Predators   
17. The Road
18. The Birds
19. Following
20. Alphaville
21. Mat Gelap 
22. Kaki Bakar 
23. Iron Man 2
24. Poltergeist
25. Raging Bull
26. The Losers
27. Blue Velvet
28. The Crazies
29. An Education
30. Rear Window
31. Bujang Lapok 
32. A Serious Man
33. Soylent Green
34. Boogie Nights 
35. The Informant!
36. Gangster No. 1  
37. Fahrenheit 451
38. The Other Guys
39. Ringgit Kasorrga
40. The Proposition
41. Mulholland Drive
42. This Is Spinal Tap
43. Gangs Of New York 
44. Back To The Future I
45. Assault On Precint 13 
46. Back To The Future II
47. (500) Days Of Summer
48. Back To The Future III
49. Remember The Titans
50. The Long Good Friday
51. Village Of The Damned
52. Beyond The Motor City
53. Thunderbolt & Lightfoot
    
54. It Came From Outer Space
55. Perempuan, Isteri & Jalang  
56. John Carpenter's Halloween
57. Close Encounters With The Third Kind
58. Phillip Kaufman's Invasion Of The Body Snatchers  
    

Spring '10 Movies

Not bad for spring semester, eh? Managed to chip-in a good amount of film noirs, especially the German expressionist "M"; also watched "Shutter Island" & "Casablanca" on the big screen. I definitely won't be seeing any movies until the end of my final exams so I'm currently compiling a list of movies to watch for summer!

1. Casablanca 
2. Zombieland
3. The Big Heat 
4. Fritz Lang's M
5. Shutter Island 
   
6. Touch Of Evil
7. The Big Combo
8. The Hurt Locker
9. A Scanner Darkly
10. Night & The City
11. Strangers On A Train
12. Capitalism: A Love Story 
    
13. A Nightmare On Elm Street
14. The Men Who Stare At Goats
15. Creature From The Black Lagoon
16. Midnight In The Garden Of Good & Evil
17. Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans

Winter '09 Movie Marathon

Hi there people! 'Tis a long time since I've updated my blog as I was pretty much committed to my academia this autumn & it's been going well. I have a couple of interesting posts coming up celebrating the end of the noughties but I'll leave you first with the list of movies I'll be watching before & after my trip to Miami, Florida (because I'm not that rich to stay there for three whole weeks); not as sophisticated as my summer list but I need to catch up on some of 'em.

1. Otis
2. Jaws
3. Gadoh
   
4. Choke
5. The Eye
   
6. Memento
   
7. Dark City
8. District 9
9. Waking Life
10. High Fidelity
    
11. The Hangover
12. Public Enemies
13. Batman Returns
14. Minority Report
15. Sherlock Holmes  
    
16. Dial 'M' For Murder
17. Crank: High Voltage 
    
18. North By Northwest
19. Paranormal Activity
20. Tim Burton's Batman
21. Terminator: Salvation
    
22. The Blair Witch Project
23. Blade Runner (Director's Cut)

Movies I've Seen This Summer

In between those days I went traveling or hanging out along the Eastern Seaboard, I spend my time in State College by receiving a movie education; if you'd notice I had periods where I was digging into noir films (no. 3 - 9) & Spaghetti Westerns (no. 23 - 26). Hopefully next summer I'll find other stuff to do other than going on a movie binge.

1. Serpico
2. The Big Lebowski
3. Double Indemnity
4. Sunset Boulevard
5. The Big Sleep
6. Once Upon A Time In America
7. LA Confidential
8. Citizen Kane
9. The Postman Always Rings Twice
10. Vertigo
11. Once Upon A Time In The West
12. A Fistful Of Dynamite
13. Barton Fink
14. Metropolis
15. A Streetcar Named Desire
16. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
17. 12 Angry Men
18. Requiem For A Dream
19. Forrest Gump
20. Paths Of Glory
21. The Wild One
22. Wall Street
23. A Fistful of Dollars
24. For A Few Dollars More
25. Django
26. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
27. Supersize Me
28. The Truman Show
29. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
30. El Orfanato
31. American Psycho
32. Training Day