The HopeLiesList (August and September 2009)
2009 September 3
Herein lies the latest edition of the HopeLiesList. This update sees two months worth of films incorporated into the list, so its almost a summary of the summers events.
1. pierrot le fou (jean-luc godard) 2. the 400 blows (francois truffaut) * 3. the passenger (michelangelo antonioni) 4. au hasard balthazar (robert bresson) 5. sunrise (f.w. murnau) 6. stolen kisses (francois truffaut) 7. goodfellas (martin scorsese) 8. ascenseur pour l’echafaud (louis malle) 9. mouchette (robert bresson) 10. charlie bubbles (albert finney)11. the outlaw josey wales (clint eastwood) 12. the last metro (francois truffaut) 13. 35 shots of rum (clair denis) * 14. hiroshima mon amour (alain resnais) 15. wise blood (jhon huston) 16. the class (laurent cantet) 17. citizen kane (orson welles) 18. a man escaped (robert bresson) 19. ugetsu monogatari (kenji mizoguchi) 20. the night of the hunter (charles laughton)
21. i’ve loved you so long (philippe claudel) 22. UP (pete doctor) * 23. gran torino (clint eastwood) * 24. the king of comedy (martin scorsese) 25. the wrestler (darren aronofsky) * 26. two lovers (james gray) 27. se7en (david fincher) 28. vampyr (carl th. dreyer) 29. changeling (clint eastwood) 30. tokyo sonata (kiyoshi kurosawa)
31. une femme mariee (jean-luc godard) 32. hunger (steve mcqueen) 33. rudo y cursi (carlos cuaron) * 34. pickpocket (robert bresson) 35. the wages of fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot) 36. tout va bien (jean-luc godard) 37. chinatown (roman polanski) 38. love on the run (franois truffaut) 39. bottle rocket (wes anderson) 40. the dirty dozen (robert aldrich)
41. bed and board (francois truffaut) 42. a time to love and a time to die (douglas sirk) 43. bronco billy (clint eastwood) 44. milk (gus van sant) * 45. twelve monkeys (terry gilliam) 46. red desert (michelangelo antonioni) 47. mon oncle antoine (claude jutra) 48. bronco billy (clint eastwood) 49. antichrist (lars von trier) * 50. doubt (john patrick shanley) *
51. faust (f.w. murnau) 52. l’argent (robert bresson) 53. unforgiven (clint eastwood) 54. synecdoche new york (charlie kaufman) 55. blue collar (paul schrader) 56. shadow of a doubt (alfred hitchcock) 57. antoine and colette (francois truffaut) 58. che – part one (steven soderbergh) * 59. five easy pieces (bob rafelson) 60. alone across the pacific (kon ichikawa)
61. the visitor (tom mccarthy) 62. the firemen’s ball (milos forman) 63. f for fake (orson welles) 64. inglourious basterds (quentin tarantino) * 65. gomorrah (matteo garrone) 66. traffic (steven soderbergh) 67. western union (fritz lang) 68. mon oncle (jacques tati) 69. lancelot du lac (robert bresson) 70. days of heaven (terence malick)
71. the brothers bloom (rian johnson) 72. the station agent (tom mccarthy) 73. fury (fritz lang) 74. the element of crime (lars von trier) 75. le gueule ouverte (maurice pialat) 76. casablanca (michael curtiz) 77. moon (duncan jones) * 78. au revoir les enfants (louis malle) 79. the bicycle thieves (vittorio di sica) 80. les vacances de. m.hulot (jacques tati)
81. the shining (stanley kubrick) 82. the yards (james gray) 83. thunderbolt and lightfoot (michael cimino) 84. revolutionary road (sam mendes) * 85. rear window (alfred hitchcock) 86. OSS 117 : cairo nest of spies (michel hazanavicius) 87. the dark knight (christopher nolan) 88. wall-e (andrew stanton) 89. the silence of the lambs (jonathan demme) 90. advise and consent (otto preminger)
91. the shop on main street (ján kadár and elmar klos) 92. the electric horseman (sydney pollack) * 93. rosemary’s baby (roman polanski) 94. reservoir dogs (quentin tarantino) 95. thief (michael mann) 96. we own the night (james gray) 97. drag me to hell (sam raimi) * 98. the limey (steven soderbergh) 99. spellbound (alfred hitchcock) 100. the curious case of benjamin button (david fincher) *
101. let the right one in (tomas alfredson) * 102. man on wire (james marsh) 103. rome, open city (rossellini) 104. blow up (michelangelo antonioni) 105. high plains drifter (clint eastwood) 106. dark city (alex proyas) 107. the hurt locker (Kathryn bigelow) * 108. mesrine – killer instinct (jean-françois richet) * 109. frost/nixon (ron howard) * 110. che – part two (steven soderbergh) * 111. before the devil knows you’re dead (sidney lumet) 112. north by northwest (alfred hitchcock) 113. the adventures of baron munchausen (terry gilliam) 114. vertigo (alfred hitchcock) 115. europa (lars von trier) 116. the thing (john carpenter) 117. the usual suspects (bryan singer) 118. lars and the real girl (craig gillespie) 119. how the west was won (john ford, henry hathaway & george marshall) 120. detective (jean-luc godard) 121. la ricotta (pier paolo pasolini) 122. blindness (fernando meirelles) 123. killer’s kiss (stanley kubrick) 124. letters from iwo jima (clint eastwood) 125. public enemies (michael mann) * 126. slumdog millionaire (danny boyle) * 127. star trek (j.j abrams) * 128. out of sight (steven soderbergh) 129. jcvd (mabrouk el mechri) * 130. dirty harry (don siegal) 131. mad detective (johnnie to & wai ka fa) 132. the idiot (akira kurosawa) 133. in bruges (martin mcdonough) 134. tideland (terry gilliam) 135. play misty for me (clint eastwood) 136. hellboy – the golden army (guillermo del toro) 137. one from the heart (francis ford coppola) 138. bolt 3D (disney) * 139. pale rider (clint eastwood) 140. breezy (clint eastwood) 141. the inheritors (eugenio polgovsky) * 142. the pianist (roman polanski) 143. they live! (john carpenter) 144. time bandits (terry gilliam) 145. a. effect (mike ott) * 146. withnail & i (bruce robinson) 147. darkman (sam raimi) 148. the terminator (james cameron) 149. muriel, ou le temps d’un retour (alain resnais) 150. the ladies man (jerry lewis) 151. the wizard of oz (victor fleming) 152. big trouble in little china (john carpenter) 153. monty python’s life of brian (terry jones) 154. gone baby, gone (ben affleck) 155. terminator 2 : judgment day (james cameron) 156. firefox (clint eastwood) 157. the chorus (christophe barratier) 158. iron man (jon favreau) 159. saboteur (alfred hitchcock) 160. star wars episode 1 – the phantom menace (george lucas) 161. sleeping beauty (disney) 162. capturing the friedmans (andrew jarecki) 163. the gauntlet (clint eastwood) 164. blood work (clint eastwood) 165. the day the earth stood still (robert wise) 166. rope (alfred hitchcock) 167. total recall (paul verhoeven) 168. tartuffe (f.w murnau) 169. wanted (timur bekmambetov) 170. the international (tom twyker) * 171. mallrats (kevin smith) 172. caddyshack (harold ramis) 173. die hard (john mctiernan) 174. public enemies (michael mann) 175. the taking of pelham 1 2 3 (1974) 176. the dreamers (bernardo bertolucci) 177. bruno (larry charles) 178. magnum force (ted post) 179. casino royale (martin campbell) 180. the rainmaker (francis ford coppola) 181. miami vice (michael mann) 182. X-men origins – Wolverine (gavin hood) * 183. monsters vs. aliens (rob letterman) * 184. carny (sheldon wilson) * 185. g.i. joe – the rise of cobra (stephen sommers) * 186. valkyrie (bryan singer) * 187. personal services (terry jones) * 188. the reader (steven daldry) * 189. space cowboys (clint eastwood) 190. the blob (irvin s. yeaworth jr.) 191. the gambler (karel reisz) 192. darkman 2 (bradford may) 193. the young victoria (jean-marc vallée) * 194. crank (mark neveldine and brian taylor) 195. watchmen * 196. body of lies (ridley scott) 197. solaris (steven soderbergh) 198. hancock (peter berg) 199. the trouble with harry (alfred hitchcock) 200. indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull (steven spielberg) 201. the hunt for red october (john mctiernan) 202. red cliff (john woo) * 203. the puffy chair (duplass brothers) 204. bram stoker’s dracula (francis ford coppola) 205. “the birds” (alfred hitchcock) 206. frenzy (alfred hitchcock) 207. rollerball (norman jewison) 208. the magnificent ambersons (orson welles) 209. speed (jan de bont) 210. futureworld (richard t. heffron) 211. goldeneye (martin campbell) 212. johnny guitar (nicholas ray) 213. two mules for sister sara (don siegel) 214. australia (baz luhrmann) 215. star trek – the motion picture (robert wise) 216. happy-go-lucky (mike leigh) 217. coogans bluff (don siegal) 218. the enforcer (james fargo) 219. joe kidd (john sturges) 220. spider-man 3 (sam raimi) 221. dear wendy (thomas vinterberg) 222. night watch (timur bekmambetov) 223. judge dredd (danny cannon) 224. the taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) – (tony scott) 225. terminator – salvation (mcg) * 226. darkman 3 (bradford may) 227. i am legend (francis lawrence) 228. the rock (michael bay) 229. quantum of solace (marc forster) 230. superbad (greg motola) 231. the beguiled (don siegel) 232. robocop 3 (fred dekker) 233. terminator 3 : rise of the machines (jonathan mostow) 234. the running man (paul michael glaser) 235. armageddon (michael bay) 236. soylent green (richard fleischer) 237. strangers on a train (alfred hitchcock) 238. jamaica inn (alfred hitchcock) 239. robocop 2 (irvin kershner) 240. transformers – revenge of the fallen (michael bay) * 241. crank 2 : high voltage (mark neveldine and brian taylor) * 242. transformers (michael bay) 243. my bloody valentine (patrick lussier) * 244. OMG/HAHAHA (morgan jon fox) * 245. the nightmare on elm street series (wes craven) 246. awaydays (pat holden) * 247. zack and miri make a porno (kevin smith) 248. goldfinger (guy hamilton) 249. you only live twice (lewis gilbert) 250. mad max – beyond thunderdome (george miller & george ogilvie) 251. die another day (lee tamahori) 252. observe and report (jody hill) * 253. W. (oliver stone) Theatrical total = 44
