Off to a rockin’ start with the plague and a stack from Netflix. Lady Vengeance, which I have actually had for some time, but had to wait until I was in the mood for subtitles. Beautiful, but I still think Oldboy is my favorite of the trilogy. I am a crazy person, though.

Next was Blazing Saddles, which I had somehow managed to never see before. Nuts. Someone posted a story in it to , which I haven’t read, but the mere existance of it delights me.

Then Meet Me In St Louis, which I haven’t seen since I was little. Love!

And finally, That Thing You Do! Aw. Yay. Hey! Two disc special edition director’s cut etc coming out in March. For the win!

That’s all, folks!

And this brings us to the end of 2006, so I am moving my seen-in-theaters links to this entry. Hopefully I’ll go to -something- this weekend so that my profile doesn’t sit all pathetic and empty for long. There’s no best-of for 2006 yet, as I still want to see Pan’s Labyrinth and The Lives of Others at the very least.

Seventeen were at the film festival, three were collections of shorts, four were revival (outside of SIFF), and fifteen were free preview screenings

1. The Family Stone
2. Breakfast on Pluto
3. Casanova (free)
4. Harold and Maude
5. Transamerica
6. The New World
7. Science Fiction Short Films (Two 2-hour sessions)
8. Firewall (free)
9. Match Point
10. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

11. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
12. Syriana
13. Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story
14. 2005 Academy Award Nominees for Best Animated Short Film
15. 2005 Academy Award Nominees for Best Live Action Short Film
16. V for Vendetta
17. Tsotsi
18. Thank You For Smoking (free)
19. Brick
20. Take The Lead (free)
21. On a Clear Day (free)
22. Stick It (free)
23. Kinky Boots
24. One Last Thing (free)
25. The Da Vinci Code (free)
26. The Death of Mister Lazarescu (SIFF)
27. Twelve and Holding (SIFF)
28. Requiem (SIFF)
29. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (SIFF)
30. Snow Cake (SIFF)
31. 3 Needles (SIFF)
32. Wristcutters: A Love Story (SIFF)
33. Whole New Thing (SIFF)
34. Black Orpheus (SIFF)
35. The Iceberg (SIFF)
36. Three Times (SIFF)
37. Perhaps Love (SIFF)
38. The Window (SIFF)
39. Eve and the Fire Horse (SIFF)
40. Go West (SIFF)
41. C.R.A.Z.Y. (SIFF)
42. Starfish Hotel (SIFF)
43. Monster House (free)
44. Pirates of the Caribbean 2
45. Cars
46. Little Miss Sunshine (free)
47. Snakes on a Plane
48. Trust the Man (free)
49. The Illusionist
50. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
51. Confetti (free)
52. Bad Education
53. The Science of Sleep
54. The Prestige
55. The Fountain (free)
56. Copying Beethoven (free)
57. A Good Year
58. Babel
59. Volver
60. Casino Royale
61. The Pursuit of Happyness (free)
62. The Departed
63. The History Boys
64. Children of Men
65. The Good German
66. Serenity (no entry)

* Stick It. Shut up. It is awesome.
* Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. MST3Ked, though. I don’t see how one could stand to watch it otherwise.
* Bad Girls from Valley High -or- A Fate Totally Worse Than Death. This was bad, and not in an entertaining way. Oh no. It was bad in that it destroyed my will to live.
* Black Books Series 1. (Because we needed something to repair the damage from the last three movies.)
* Joyeux Noël. Interesting interview with the director about his research for the film. Apparently some stories he toned down, even though they were true, because he didn’t think the audience would believe them.
* A Streetcar Named Desire. Classic! See, sometimes I have taste!
* In Her Shoes. I love this movie. Damnit.
* Hook. Robin Williams chews scenery! There are improbably cameos! We followed it up with the most recent Peter Pan, but I was dead of plague and slept through most of it.

In the interest of clearing out the file, straight on list with links:

* My Man Godfrey. William Powell fantastic as usual, but I hate the ending. She’s so -dumb-! Perhaps this is because I was raised on The Thin Man.
* Alfie. (The original, obviously.)
* Peter’s Friends. Seriously, why is this not on DVD?
* Arrested Development Seasons 2&3. Yay!
* The Ref. Definitely my favorite Christmas movie.
* The Nightmare Before Christmas. So lucky to have this on DVD.