More on Blogging Project

Hi all --

I saw the movie, "Julie and Julia" this summer and enjoyed it.  I've had a journal here on Live Journal for a few years, but I've never posted daily, and it's never been really focused.  And I intend to keep this journal that way -- a relax-a-journal, as it were.

But, inspired by the movie, I've decided on a "Blogging Project" for next year (2011).  I'm going to watch (or, more accurately re-watch) all the movies in my collection AND review them on my blog.  That's 167 movies.  And, I'm might actually start in December -- so that's 13 months, not 12.  But it's still going to be about 3 movies a week.  But, I love watching movies, and even more, I love writing about movies.  And I miss writing and discussing movies -- haven't really had a chance to do that since my film studies class in college.  Note - some of these movies have been reviewed on this blog in the past.

The Rules

1.  Movies come from my personal collection, so for the most part, it can be assumed that I like the film or bought it for some reason.
2.  Movies will be watched in Alphabetical Order, with one exception.  (A, An, The, not included in alphabetizing).
3.  Exception to Rule #2 -- movies in a definite trilogy (or similar grouping) will be watched in sequence, not alphabetically.  Thus - it will be Fellowship of the Ring/Two Towers/Return of the King and HP / Sorcerer's Stone / Chamber of Secrets/Prisoner of Azkaban / Goblet of Fire - not Fellowship/return/towers or Chamber of secrets/goblet/prisoner/sorcerer's stone.
4.  Extra feature MOVIES on a DVD set will be watched, but not all extra features will be watched or re-watched.  I will try to list extra features in my reviews, however.  Examples of extra feature movies are Van Helsing - which came with Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Wolfman.  However, all four will be watched alphabetically.
5.  Although listed on my list (for my own convenience) documentary films will probably not be watched unless I have extra time at the end.
6.  I will also attempt to review movies that I catch at the theater - depending on time.

And finally, an FYI - I work 8am-5pm M-F, so expect more watching and writing on the weekends, but I will still try to stick to a three-a-week schedule.  Also, I'm going to look to set-up this project on a blogging site, but I will cross post to LJs.  So watch this space for an official start date to The Project.

And now, the moment you've been waiting for -- the List!

	Director	Title	Date
1	Sidney Lumet	12 Angry Men	1957
2	Peter Hyams	2010:  The Year We Make Contact	1984
3	Lloyd Bacon	42nd Street	1933
4	Colin Higgins	9 to 5	1980
5	W Richter	Advs. of Buckaroo Banzai, The	1984
6	Michael Curtiz	Advs. of Robin Hood, The	1938
7	Jerry Zucker	Airplane!	1980
8	Graham Baker	Alien  Nation	1988
9	Bob Fosse	All That Jazz	1979
10	Billy Wilder	Apartment, The	1960
11	Jay Roach	Austin Powers: Intl Man of Mystery	1997
12	Jay Roach	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	1999
13	Jay Roach	Austin Powers in Goldmember	2002
14	Robert Zemeckis	Back to the Future	1985
15	Robert Zemeckis	Back to the Future Part II	1989
16	Vincente Minnelli	Band Wagon, The	1953
17	Charles Walters	Barkleys of Broadway, The	1949
18	Andrea Romano	Batman Mask of the Phantasm	1993
19	Boyd Kirkland	Batman Subzero	1998
20	Curt Geda	Batman Mystery of the Batwoman	2003
21	Brandon Vietti	Batman Under the Red Hood	2010
22	Curt Geda	Batman Beyond  Return of the Joker	2000
23	Andrea Romano	Batman Gotham Knight	2005
24	Christopher Nolan	Batman Begins	2005
25	Christopher Nolan	Batman The Dark Knight	2008
26	Martin Brest	Beverly Hills Cop	1984
27	Nora Ephron	Bewitched	2005
28	Stephen Daldry	Billy Elliot	2000
29	Mel Brooks	Blazing Saddles	1974
30	John Landis	Blues Brothers, The	1980
31	Blake Edwards	Breakfast At Tiffany's	1961
32	John Hughes	The Breakfast Club	1985
33	Howard Hawks	Bringing Up Baby	1938
34	James Brooks	Broadcast News	1987
35	Norman Taurog	Broadway Melody of 1940	1940
36	Mark Sandrich	Carefree	1938
37	Michael Curtiz	Casablanca	1942
38	Stanley Donen	Charade	1963
39	Ken  Hughes	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang	1968
40	Richard Attenborough	Chorus Line, A	1985
41	Orson Welles	Citizen Kane	1941
42	Alan Parker	Commitments, The	1991
43	Roger Donaldson	Dante's Peak	1997
44	Mark Johnson	DareDevil	2002
45	Shawn Levy	Date Night	2010
46	Peter Weir	Dead Poets Society	1989
47	Lee Tamahori	Die Another Day	2002
48	Gordon Flemyng	Dr. Who and the Daleks
49	Gordon Flemyng	Daleks Invasion Earth 2150AD
50	Kevin Davies	Dalekmania
51	Billy Wilder	Double Indemnity	1944
52	Joss Whedon	Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog	2008
53	Terence Young	Dr. No	1962
54	Tod Browning	Dracula	1931
55	Charles Walters	Easter Parade	1948
56	Michael Moore	Fahrenheit 9/11	2004
57	Charles Crichton	Fish Called Wanda, A	1988
58	Thornton Freeland	Flying Down to Rio	1933
59	Mark Sandrich	Follow the Fleet	1936
60	Herbert Ross	Footloose	1984
61	James Whale	Frankenstein	1931
62	Peter Cattaneo	Full Monty, The	1997
63	Dean Parisot	Galaxy Quest	1999
64	George Cukor	Gaslight	1944
65	Thorond Dickenson	Gaslight (UK)	1940
66	Mark Sandrich	Gay Divorcee, The	1934
67	Peter Segal	Get Smart	2008
68	Ivan Reitman	Ghostbusters	1984
69	Martin Campbell	Goldeneye	1995
70	Lauren Montgomery	Green Lantern First Flight	2009
71	Chris Columbus	Harry Potter / Sorcerer's Stone	2001
72	Chris Columbus	Harry Potter / Chamber of Secrets	2002
73	Alfonso Cuaron	Harry Potter / Prisoner of Azkaban	2004
74	Mike Newell	Harry Potter / Goblet of Fire	2005
75	Kenneth Branagh	Henry V	1989
76	Russell Mulcahy	Highlander	1986
77	Howard Hawks	His Girl Friday	1940
78	Steven Spielburg	Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981
79	Steven Spielburg	Indiana Jones / Temple of Doom	1984
80	Steven Spielburg	Indiana Jones / Last Crusade	1989
81	Stanley Donen	Indiscreet	1958
82	Frank Capra	It Happened One Night	1934
83	Steven Spielburg	Jaws	1975
84	Lauren Montgomery	Justice League Crisis on Two Earths	2010
85	Curtis Hanson	L.A. Confidential	1997
86	Stephen Norrington	League of Extraordinary Gentlemen	2003
87	Billy Wilder	Lost Weekend, The	1945
88	Peter Jackson	LotR: Fellowship of the Ring	2001	2-disc
89	Peter Jackson	LotR: The Two Towers	2002	2-disc
90	Peter Jackson	LotR: Return of the King	2003	2-disc
91	Peter Jackson	Fellowship of the Ring, The	2001	4-disc
92	Peter Jackson	Two Towers, The	2002	4-disc
93	Peter Jackson	Return of the King, The	2003	4-disc
94	Frank Darabont	Majestic, The	2001
95	John Huston	Maltese Falcon, The	1941
96		Maltese Falcon, The (1931)	1931	x-tra feature on "Maltese Falcon"
97	Robert Stevenson	Mary Poppins	1964
98	Peter Weir	Master and Commander	2003
99	Terry Jones	Monty Python and the Holy Grail	1975
100	Baz Luhrmann	Moulin Rouge	2001
101	Sidney Lumet	Network	1976
102	Alfred Hitchcock	North by Northwest	1959
103	Alfred Hitchcock	Notorious	1946
104	George Cukor	Philadelphia Story, The	1940
105	Rob Reiner	Princess Bride, The	1987
106	Mel Brooks	Producers, The	1968
107	Woody Allen	Purple Rose of Cairo, The	1985
108	Ted Demme	Ref, The	1994
109	Otto Harbach	Roberta	1935
110	Mel Brooks	Robin Hood:  Men in Tights	1993
111	William Wyler	Roman Holiday	1953
112	Stanley Donen	Royal Wedding	1951
113	Peter Hyams	Running Scared	1986
114	Billy Wilder	Sabrina	1954
115	Robert Mulligan	Same Time, Next Year	1978
116		Satan Met a Lady	1936	x-tra feature on "Maltese Falcon"
117	Joss Whedon	Serenity	2005
118	Mark Sandrich	Shall We Dance	1937
119	Peter Chelsom	Shall We Dance? (2004)	2004
120	Guy Ritchie	Sherlock Holmes	2009
121	Stanley Donen	Singin' in the Rain	1952
122	Maureen Muldaur	Smothered:  The Censorship Struggles / Smothers Bros. Comedy Hour	2002
123	Robert Wise	Sound of Music, The	1965
124	Mel Brooks	Spaceballs	1987
125	Sam Raimi	Spider-Man	2001
126	Sam Raimi	Spider-Man 2	2004
127	J. Abrams	Star Trek (2009)	2009
128	Nicholas Meyer	Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan	1982
129	Leonard Nimoy	Star Trek III The Search for Spock	1984
130	Leonard Nimoy	Star Trek IV The Voyage Home	1986
131	George Lucas	Star Wars (1977)	1977
132	Richard Marquand	Star Wars:  Return of the Jedi (1983)	1983
133	Irvin Kershner	Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back (1980)	1980
134	Matthew Vaughn	Stardust	2007
135	George Hill	Sting, The	1973
136	George Haight	Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, The	1939
137	Ivan Reitman	Stripes	1981
138	Billy Wilder	Sunset Boulevard	1950
139	Sam Liu	Superman Batman Public Enemies	2009
140	Lauren Montgomery	Superman Batman  Apocalypse	2010
141	Alfred Hitchcock	Suspicion	1941
142	George Stevens	Swing Time	1936
143	W Van Dyke	Thin Man, The	1934
144	Carol Reed	Third Man, The	1949
145	John McTiernan	The Thomas Crown Affair	1999
146	Stephen Herek	Three Musketeers, The	1993
147	David Lane	Thunderbirds Are Go	1966
148	David Lane	Thunderbird 6	1968
149	Jonathan Frakes	Thunderbirds	2004
150	Alfred Hitchcock	To Catch a Thief	1955
151	Roger Spottiswoode	Tomorrow Never Dies	1997
152	Mark Sandrich	Top Hat	1935
153	Peter Weir	Truman Show, The	1998
154	Jay Levey	UHF	1989
155	Stephen Sommers	Van Helsing	2004
156	Penelope Spheeris	Wayne's World	1992
157	Rob Reiner	When Harry Met Sally…	1989
158	Robert Zemeckis	Who Framed Roger Rabbit?	1988
159	Peter Weir	Witness	1985
160	Victor Fleming	Wizard of Oz, The	1939
161	George Waggner	Wolf Man, The	1931
162	Lauren Montgomery	Wonder Woman	2009
163	Michael Apted	World is not Enough, The	1999
164	Bryan Singer	X-Men	2000
165	Bryan Singer	X-men United	2003
166	William Seiter	You Were Never Lovelier	1942
167	Mel Brooks	Young Frankenstein	1974

--Olivia Sutton

Happy Thankssgiving!

Finally had a nice Thanksgiving dinner around 6pm Just me and my parents this year, so a quiet day. I do have to work tomorrow. Have a nice Thanksgiving everyone! And if you don't celebrate, hope you had a nice day today. --Olivia