2013 Movie Watching Goals

@lines

I agree with the problem of over-saturation. I'm quite uninterested in the generic, stereotypical Bollywood sing-and-dance movies because there's soo many of them to choose from. Classic cinema or parallel cinema is what intrigues me. Sadly I've not seen anything other than Ray's Apu Trilogy and that Ghatak film.

@Skepsis

I can give you recommendations for Tarkovsky, Bergman and Kurosawa because I've seen quite a few from those directors.

@NuWell

Speaking of female directors and Iran cinema, there's this monumental Iranian film called The House Is Black. Forugh Farrokhzad's the iconoclastic poet of Iran, and this is her only film.

I think I'm set for the well known stuff, the likes of Andrei Reblev, Fanny and Alexander, Rashomon. But if you have any that maybe are mentioned less often, hit me. Thanks.

Yeah! I got it from Ubuweb, and have yet to watch it. There's a bad habit I have of buying/finding more movies than I watch, like a neverending waterfall of films that just sit around in my living room and cyberspace equivalent. Part of the resolution is to stop that behavior so I can enjoy what I find, instead of catching up.

Bergman

The silence of God trilogy: Winter Light, Through a Glass Darkly, and Cries and Whispers (it may be The Silence instead of Cries and Whispers)

Tarkovsky

I would look The Sacrifice while your at it. One of my favorites, though it is straight confusing.

Kurosawa

Hidden Fortress
Ikiru

Thanks NuWell.

Forgot some British and American directors whose work I want to explore in more depth this year, too:

Robert Altman (seen only MASH so far)
Peter Bogdanovich
David Lean
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (really enjoyed A Matter of Life and Death for the most part)

Hmm....

For Bergman I'd recommend Persona (of course), Wild Strawberries and Winter Light. These are his three most accessible (and best imo) films. The Seventh Seal is also splendid.

For Tarkovsky, I would suggest you stay away from Nostalghia. It's very slow and not as rewarding as his two masterpieces Stalker and The Mirror.

I also recommend The Hidden Fortress. Yojimbo and High and Low are also immensely entertaining.

Robert Altman - McCabe & Mrs. Miller and The Long Goodbye

French films, specially Godard and I also plan to finish watching Kurosawa and Ozu's films.

Yeah, hopefully the two threads do get merged! I noticed that your goals are really similar to mine. At times it feels overwhelming, when there are so many great classic films that you want to see, and then there are so many new ones in 2013 that look interesting, and then the ones in 2012 that I missed out on the first time around...Persona is a movie I hear a lot about, so I think that'll be one I try to watch soon.

And yes, I haven't seen either Taxi Driver or Raging Bull. I'm not exactly sure how that happens, because I generally like the newer Scorsese films that I've seen (The Departed, Hugo, Gangs of New York) but his stuff from 30+ years ago is still what he's best known for. I've just never gotten around to it. So I think I'm going to go for those two first, and hopefully get the Meet the Fockers Robert de Niro out of my head forever!

Any and all new films starring Joaquin Phoenix, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio or Johnny Depp.

Also:
Gangster Squad
Argo
Monsters University
Frankenweenie
Despicable Me 2

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Thanks for the recommendations! I definitely want to check those two out by Scorsese. Also, I'm liking your goals. For a somewhat lesser-known noir, I would try Pickup on South Street, if you haven't seen it already. It has a really dysfunctional relationship at the heart of it, and is a lot of fun.

Also, I noticed right after I posted this thread that there was already one in the Movie Reviews section called "Films you plan to see in 2013" that covers pretty much the same ground, but has a more active discussion. So if a moderator wants to merge the two threads, that'd be fine with me!

Something like 350 movies to watch. Busy year it shall be.

I can't watch 350 movies in a year. As they become boring and I can't pay attention anymore. Once I watched 90 films in a month. By the time I began watching the 91th film my brain stopped paying attention and I wasn't able to force myself to watch it!

I guess I will make an effort to see more old school bar raisers such as Bergman, Traffaunt, and perhaps some of Hitchcock´s earlier stuff. I´ll also make an effort to see more South American films, as I have seen very few.

As far as new releases are concerned, I am getting very giddy for the Nicholas Winding Refn/Ryan Gosling reteam with Only God Forgives, as well as Gosling´s second collaboration with Darek Cianfrance (his Blue Valentine director), The Place Beyond The Pines.

Skepsis, I'm also looking to get into Tarkovsky and Kurosawa as well. Planning on starting with Stalker and I've already seen a few Kurosawa films. As for Bergman, I'd recommend starting with Wild Strawberries and Cries and Whispers- the former is probably his warmest and most accessible movie, whereas the latter was what hooked me on him. For Altman I second starting with The Long Goodbye. Two of my favorite directors, along with Lynch they were probably my biggest focuses in 2012

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"Puns are the highest form of literature." -Alfred Hitchcock

Thanks HitchFan.

I've also recently taken an interest in very early cinema, not "movies" per se but the history of the moving image. I'll be building on that in 2013, hopefully seeing as much Le Prince, Lumiere, Melies, Dickson, Clark, Jefferson, Heise and Porter (among lots of others) as possible.

I have some catching up from last year to do. I can't wait to see "The Master" (2012).

I'd say I have quite a lot of gasps in my own resume. I intend to watch as many films as possible this year, and hopefully, it shall be my best year so far in terms of number of good movies watched.

In no order, my main goals for this year are: all of the critically acclaimed films released last year, the Best Picture nominees in particular, and all of the old critically acclaimed films - I haven't seen many old films.

Also The Godfather trilogy, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, 12 Angry Men, Rebel without a Cause, Apocalypse Now, Lawrence of Arabia, some of Al Pacino's critically acclaimed films that I haven't seen (such as Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon etc.), as many Woody Allen films as possible, other than half of "Anything Else" I haven't seen any of his other films. As many Hitchock, Kubrick, Lynch, Coen brothers, Scorsese, Kurosawa and Spielberg films as possible. I'm yet to see a Lynch, Kurosawa or Kubrick film. Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights, Magnolia and There Will Be Blood. The dollar trilogy of Sergio Leone (so far I've only seen A Fistful of Dollars), and many, many more films that are considered to be great from many other notable directors.

I have a watchlist in IMDB,so this is what's in it:

TV shows - Nip/Tuck,Band Of Brothers,Dexter,Burn Notice(only 6th season) and Boardwalk Empire(only 3rd season),Prison Break,Game Of Thrones,Twin Peaks,The Wire

Movies - Hobbit,Django Unchained,The Master, Gangster Squad,Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows,Superman (1978) , L'ennemi public n°1 , Only God Forgives,Lincoln, Nothing is Private, Ikiru , La battaglia di Algeri , The Fourth Protocol , Stander, Skyfall, Top Secret! , Funeral In Berlin, Casino Royale (1967) , Never Say Never Again , Argo , The Place Beyond The Pines , The Funeral , In The Loop , The Hitcher , The Wicker Man , Fail-Safe , The Elephant Man , Get The Gringo , Killing Them Softly , Seven Psychopaths, The Man With The Iron Fists,Network, The White Ribbon , Children Of Men , Essex Boys , Dead Man's Shoes , Frozen River , Doctor Zhivago , Badlands , Papillon , Cries and Whispers , JFK , Born On The 4th of July , Tsotsi , The Proposition (2005) , Scott Pilgrim vs. the World , Boiler Room , Zero Dark Thirty , Nostalghia , Up , Shock Corridor , The Maltese Falcon , Cloud Atlas

Documentaries - The World At War , The Other Dream Team , Stanley Kubrick:A Life in Pictures

oh and I think it's time to see Star Wars

I've personally not seen a great deal of Bergman and Godard. Nicholas Ray on the other hand I've watched a fair share of his oeuvre. He really is remarkable in his diversity and visual storytelling, and was a master at depicting outsiders making their way in the world.

Here's what I'd recommend to you:

1. In A Lonely Place (1950)
2. Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
3. On Dangerous Ground (1952)
4. The Lusty Men (1952)
5. They Live By Night (1949)
6. Bitter Victory (1958)
7. Party Girl (1958)

More Ozu (my goal for life), more Herzog, Murnau, and Fellini. I still have yet to see Tarkovsky, so I wanna start watching him and Kurosawa.

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