1/3/07

So Many Films, So Little Time Left To Eat, Sleep, Work, Shower, Feed the Dog, Go No. 2 or Do Much Else ...

The Scout's Best Films of 2006 list is still in gestation (rest easy as "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" and "United 93" will make the cut, as will "Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story" and "The Devil and Daniel Johnston"), but, for the present, I present a list of films I saw in 2006, per my diary, with final grades in red. It's a long list, so don't forget to gorge the meter. Now, time for that shower.

"2046" (C-) (Director: Wong Kar-Wai, 2005)
"Four Brothers" (D) (Director John Singleton, 2005)
"Grizzly Man" (A) (Director: Werner Herzog, 2005)
"The Brothers Grimm" (F) (Director: Terry Gilliam, 2005)
"The Skeleton Key" (C) (Director: Iain Softley, 2005)
"Red Eye" (D) (Director: Wes Craven, 2005)
"Junebug" (B) (Director: Phil Morrison, 2005)
"The Color of Money" (C+) (Director: Martin Scorsese, 1986)
"Gorillas in the Mist" (D) (Director: Michael Apted, 1988)
"Dead Man" (D) (Director: Jim Jarmusch, 1996)
"March of the Penguins" (B) (Director: Luc Jacquet, 2005)
"Melinda and Melinda" (D+) (Director: Woody Allen, 2005)
"Doom" (F) (Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak, 2005)
"Firewall" (D+) (Director: Richard Loncraine, 2006)
"M" (A) (Director: Fritz Lang, 1931)
"Grand Illusion" (A) (Director: Jean Renoir, 1937)
"Just Like Heaven" (D) (Director: Mark Waters, 2005)
"Freaks" (A) (Director: Tod Browning, 1932)
"Grey Gardens" (A) (Director: Albert and David Maysles, 1975)
"Real Life" (D) (Director: Albert Brooks, 1979)
"Grand Hotel" (A) (Director: Edmund Goulding, 1932)
"Basic Instinct" (B-) (Director: Paul Verhoeven, 1992)
"My Man Godfrey" (B) (Director: Gregory La Cava, 1936)
"The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill" (C) (Director: Judy Irving, 2005)
"Night of the Hunter" (C-) (Director: Charles Laughton, 1955)
"Domino" (D+) (Director: Tony Scott, 2005)
"Proof" (C) (Director: John Madden, 2005)
"Gray's Anatomy" (C+) (Director: Steven Soderbergh, 1997)
"16 Blocks" (D) (Director: Richard Donner, 2006)
"The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till" (D)
(Director: Keith Beauchamp, 2005)
"The Ice Harvest" (B-) (Director: Harold Ramis, 2005)
"Howl's Moving Castle" (B) (Director: Hayao Miyazaki, 2005)
"Bubble" (B) (Director: Steven Soderbergh, 2006)
"The Pink Panther" (B) (Director: Blake Edwards, 1964)
"Pride & Prejudice" (B) (Director: Joe Wright, 2005)
"V For Vendetta" (B-) (Director: James McTeigue, 2006)
"The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio" (D+) (Director: Jane Anderson, 2005)
"Paths of Glory" (A) (Director: Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
"Cocoon" (D) (Director: Ron Howard, 1985)
"Keane" (B+) (Director: Lodge Kerrigan, 2005)
"Where The Truth Lies" (D+) (Director: Atom Egoyan, 2005)
"Inside Man" (B) (Director: Spike Lee, 2006)
"Thank You For Smoking" (C+) (Director: Jason Reitman, 2006)
"Everything Is Illuminated" (C) (Director: Liev Schreiber, 2005)
"Derailed" (D+) (Director: Mikael Hafstrom, 2005)
"Bee Season" (C-) (Director: Scott McGehee and David Siegel, 2005)
"Fun With Dick and Jane" (D+) (Director: Dean Parisot, 2005)
"Lucky Number Slevin" (F) (Director: Paul McGuigan, 2006)
"An Unfinished Life" (C) (Director: Lasse Hallstrom, 2005)
"Mr. Mom" (D) (Director: Stan Dragoti, 1983)
"Friends With Money" (B) (Director: Nicole Holofcener, 2006)
"Memoirs of a Geisha" (C+) (Director: Rob Marshall, 2005)
"United 93" (A) (Director: Paul Greengrass, 2006)
"Mrs. Henderson Presents" (D+) (Director: Stephen Frears, 2005)
"Mission: Impossible III" (C+) (Director: J.J. Abrams, 2006)
"Breakfast on Pluto" (F) (Director: Neil Jordan, 2005)
"The New World" (B) (Director: Terrence Malick, 2005)
"Poseidon" (D) (Director: Wolfgang Petersen, 2006)
"The Da Vinci Code" (F) (Director: Ron Howard, 2006)
"Shopgirl" (C) (Director: Anand Tucker, 2005)
"Over The Hedge" (C+) (Director: Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick, 2006)
"X-Men: The Last Stand" (B-) (Director: Brett Ratner, 2006)
"The Break-Up" (B-) (Director: Payton Reed, 2006)
"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" (C-)
(Director: Andrew Adamson, 2005)
"Cars" (B) (Director: John Lasseter, 2006)
"Nacho Libre" (C) (Director: Jared Hess, 2006)
"Click" (D) (Director: Frank Coraci, 2006)
"What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?" (C-) (Director: Robert Aldrich, 1962)
"Match Point" (B) (Director: Woody Allen, 2005)
"Superman Returns" (B+) (Director: Bryan Singer, 2006)
"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" (C)
(Director: Gore Verbinski, 2006)
"Cache" (C+) (Director: Michael Haneke, 2005)
"Paradise Now" (B) (Director: Hany Abu-Assad, 2005)
"A Scanner Darkly" (B+) (Director: Richard Linklater, 2006)
"The Matador" (A-) (Director: Richard Shepard, 2005)
"You, Me and Dupree" (C-) (Director: Joe and Anthony Russo, 2006)
"Clerks II" (C-) (Director: Kevin Smith, 2006)
"Miami Vice" (B-) (Director: Michael Mann, 2006)
"The Notorious Bettie Page" (C-) (Director: Mary Harron, 2006)
"Dave Chappelle's Block Party" (C) (Director Michel Gondry, 2006)
"Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" (C)
(Director: Adam McKay, 2006)
"Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story" (A-)
(Director: Michael Winterbottom, 2006)
"Lady In The Water" (D+) (Director: M. Night Shyamalan, 2006)
"World Trade Center" (C) (Director: Oliver Stone, 2006)
"Little Miss Sunshine" (B) (Director: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, 2006)
"Manderlay" (B) (Director: Lars Von Trier, 2006)
"Snakes on a Plane" (F) (Director: David Ellis, 2006)
"Modern Romance" (C-) (Director: Albert Brooks, 1981)
"The Illusionist" (B) (Director: Neil Burger, 2006)
"Body Double" (C-) (Director: Brian De Palma, 1984)
"Gone With The Wind" (C) (Director: Victor Fleming, 1939)
"Looking For Comedy In The Muslim World" (B-)
(Director: Albert Brooks, 2006)
"Lonesome Jim" (C) (Director: Steve Bushemi, 2006)
"Sleepless In Seattle" (C) (Director: Nora Ephron, 1993)
"The Passenger" (C) (Director: Michaelangelo Antonioni, 1975)
"Interiors" (A) (Director: Woody Allen, 1978)
"Airplane II: The Sequel" (D) (Director: Ken Finkleman, 1982)
"Tender Mercies" (A) (Director: Bruce Beresford, 1983)
"All The Right Moves" (C) (Director: Michael Chapman, 1983)
"Paris, Texas" (C+) (Director: Wim Wenders, 1984)
"Out of Africa" (C) (Director: Sydney Pollack, 1985)
"Jewel of the Nile" (F) (Director: Lewis Teague, 1985)
"Legal Eagles" (D) (Director: Ivan Reitman, 1986)
"RV" (F) (Director: Barry Sonnenfeld, 2006)
"The Science of Sleep" (C+) (Director: Michel Gondry, 2006)
"Hoot" (D) (Director: Wil Shriner, 2006)
"The Departed" (B+) (Director: Martin Scorsese, 2006)
"Darkon" (B+) (Director: Luke Meyer and Andrew Neel)
"The Orange Thief" (B-) (Director: Boogie Dean, Vinnie Angel and Arthur Wilinski)
"Dance Party USA" (F) (Director: Aaron Katz)
"The Lady From Shanghai" (D) (Director: Orson Welles, 1948)
"American Dreamz" (F) (Director Paul Weitz, 2006)
"Marie Antoinette" (B-) (Director: Sofia Coppola, 2006)
"The Devil and Daniel Johnston" (A-) (Director: Jeff Feuerzeig, 2006)
"The Queen" (B) (Director: Stephen Frears, 2006)
"Art School Confidential" (C) (Director: Terry Zwigoff, 2006)
"Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" (A) (Director: Larry Charles, 2006)
"The Proposition" (B) (Director: John Hillcoat, 2006)
"A Prairie Home Companion" (B-) (Director: Robert Altman, 2006)
"A Good Year" (C) (Director: Ridley Scott, 2006)
"Stranger Than Fiction" (B) (Director: Marc Forster, 2006)
"Happy Feet" (B) (Director: George Miller, 2006)
"The Fountain" (B+) (Director: Darren Aronofsky, 2006)
"The Pink Panther" (D) (Director: Shawn Levy, 2006)
"Mr. Smith Goes To Washington" (B+) (Director: Frank Capra, 1939)
"Sullivan's Travels" (D+) (Director: Preston Sturges, 1941)
"Now, Voyager" (D+) (Director: Irving Rapper, 1942)
"Mildred Pierce" (A-) (Director: Michael Curtiz, 1945)
"Brief Encounter" (A) (Director: David Lean, 1946)
"Out of the Past" (A-) (Director: Jacques Tourneur, 1947)
"Mr. Hulot's Holiday" (B-) (Director Jacques Tati, 1954)
"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (D+) (Director: Don Siegel, 1956)
"12 Angry Men" (A) (Director: Sidney Lumet, 1957)
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (B) (Director: Richard Brooks, 1958)
"Plan 9 From Outer Space" (F) (Director: Edward D. Wood Jr., 1959)
"Yojimbo" (A) (Director: Akira Kurosawa, 1961)
"Knife in the Water" (A-) (Director: Roman Polanski, 1963)
"Grand Prix" (B) (Director: John Frankenheimer, 1966)
"Fahrenheit 451" (F) (Director: Francois Truffaut, 1966)
"Night of the Living Dead" (C-) (Director: George Romero, 1968)
"Winning" (F) (Director: James Goldstone, 1969)
"McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (A) (Director: Robert Altman, 1971)
"Sisters" (C-) (Director: Brian De Palma, 1972)
"Three Days of the Condor" (B) (Director: Sydney Pollack, 1975)
"The Fury" (D) (Director: Brian De Palma, 1978)
"The Prince of Tides" (B) (Director: Barbra Streisand, 1991)
"The Addams Family" (C) (Director: Barry Sonnenfeld, 1991)
"Thunderheart" (B) (Director: Michael Apted, 1992)
"The Remains of the Day" (A-) (Director: James Ivory, 1993)
"Addams Family Values" (C+) (Director: Barry Sonnenfeld, 1993)
"In The Name of the Father" (B) (Director: Jim Sheridan, 1993)
"I'll Do Anything" (B-) (Director: James L. Brooks, 1994)
"Bullets Over Broadway" (A-) (Director: Woody Allen, 1994)
"Shallow Grave" (C) (Director: Danny Boyle, 1995)
"Before and After" (C-) (Director: Barbet Schroeder, 1996)
"Following" (B) (Director: Christopher Nolan, 1999)
"Dig!" (B) (Director: Ondi Timoner, 2004)
"Flight of the Phoenix" (C-) (Director: John Moore, 2004)
"Dark Water" (F) (Director: Walter Salles, 2005)
"She Hate Me" (F) (Director: Spike Lee, 2004)
"Must Love Dogs" (D) (Director: Gary David Goldberg, 2005)
"Rumor Has It ..." (D) (Director: Rob Reiner, 2005)
"Serenity" (F) (Director: Joss Whedon, 2005)
"Two For The Money" (C) (Director: D.J. Caruso, 2005)
"The Chumscrubber" (F) (Director: Arie Posin, 2005)
"Last Days" (D) (Director: Gus Van Sant, 2005)
"The Fearless Freaks" (B) (Director: Bradley Beesley, 2005)
"My Super Ex-Girlfriend" (F) (Director: Ivan Reitman, 2006)
"Casino Royale" (B) (Director: Martin Campbell, 2006)
"For Your Consideration" (C) (Director: Christopher Guest, 2006)
"Hard Candy" (C+) (Director: David Slade, 2006)
"Strangers With Candy" (D) (Director: Paul Dinello, 2006)
"Wordplay" (C) (Director: Patrick Creadon, 2006)
"The Holiday" (C) (Director: Nancy Meyers, 2006)
"Crocodile Dundee" (D) (Director: Peter Faiman, 1986)
"Some Kind of Wonderful" (B-) (Director: Howard Deutch, 1987)
"Moonstruck" (B-) (Director: Norman Jewison, 1987)
"Hairspray" (D) (Director: John Waters, 1988)
"Dangerous Liaisons" (C+) (Director: Stephen Frears, 1988)
"Sea of Love" (C) (Director: Harold Becker, 1989)
"The War of the Roses" (D) (Director: Danny DeVito, 1989)
"Dying Young" (D) (Director: Joel Schumacher, 1991)
"Regarding Henry" (D) (Director: Mike Nichols, 1991)
"The Devil Wears Prada" (C+) (Director: David Frankel, 2006)
"Apocalypto" (B) (Director: Mel Gibson, 2006)
"Volver" (A-) (Director: Pedro Almodovar, 2006)
"Rocky" (B+) (Director: John Avildsen, 1976)
"The Pursuit of Happyness" (C+) (Director: Gabriele Muccino, 2006)
"Rocky Balboa" (C-) (Director: Sylvester Stallone, 2006)
"All The King's Men" (F) (Director: Steven Zaillian, 2006)
"Dreamgirls" (C+) (Director: Bill Condon, 2006)
"Neil Young: Heart of Gold" (C) (Director: Jonathan Demme, 2006)

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