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Added by natha3l on 21 Jun 2012 05:30
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1 Day, 1 Movie

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Day 01 - A film everybody told you to watch


What an amazing performance by Maria Falconetti. I am still under shock. Plus Antonin Artaud in the role of Jean Massieu. A classic I should've seen much earlier.
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People who added this item 5545 Average listal rating (3890 ratings) 7.1 IMDB Rating 7.9
Avatar (2009)
Day 02 - A big blockbuster you haven't seen yet



In three words : humans are monsters. Actually, it was better than I expected. Animations are fluid, and though it's not, in my sense, a cinematic revolution, it is surely an intersting piece of cinema. A well done but classic epic movie.
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Day 03 - A documentary

An ethnographic documentary about the little community of l'Isle-aux-Coudres, wishing to bring back the beluga (marsouins) fishing. Poetic and truly instructive film about past times and the transmission of old generations to the next ones.
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People who added this item 997 Average listal rating (651 ratings) 7.1 IMDB Rating 7.1
Carnage (2011)
Day 04 - A theatre or book adaptation


The casting is amazing and the dialogues are perfect. I laughed a lot but, already knowing the play, I felt that the audience was missing. Plus, the ending kind of left me on my hunger. Though, still a good film to watch.
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People who added this item 221 Average listal rating (113 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 7.7
Day 05 - A musical

Wonderful movie, full of colors, lighness and great music from Michel Legrand. Gene Kelly also makes an apparition. A masterpiece of the genre.
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People who added this item 2017 Average listal rating (1069 ratings) 8.3 IMDB Rating 8.3
Metropolis (1927)
Day 06 - A science-fiction film

Watching this I can understand why the censors have been so rough on this masterpiece. One good piece of subversive cinema, using the science-fiction motives to denounce massive manipulation or power abuse. And the images are wonderfully constructed.
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People who added this item 275 Average listal rating (153 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 6.7
Day 07 - A film from a director you really love

I've been little disappointed by this one. Not the best Woody Allen I've seen, but I still appreciate. And the film noir pastiche is good in itself. I was happy to see Kathy Bates in a light role.
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People who added this item 877 Average listal rating (554 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 7.8
Day 08 - A film from a director you want to discover

I heard a lot about Herzog. Maybe I'll need more to appreciate. I feel something good was in this movie, that I maybe ignored.
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People who added this item 4 Average listal rating (3 ratings) 7 IMDB Rating 6.2
Day 09 - A camp or kitsch movie

A masterpiece of kitsch cinema. The film is really strange, but quite interesting.
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People who added this item 10 Average listal rating (7 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 7.6
Day 10 - A film from a part of the world you want to learn about

I don't know a lot about the mexican culture, and cinema is a good way to learn. The images go strangely beautiful with the music. A good piece of experimental cinema. I will have to watch more.
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People who added this item 1147 Average listal rating (794 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 7.7
Day 11 - A slapstick comedy

Though the film seems a little bit old, I've had some good laughs watching this classic comedy. Gene Wilder and Cleaton Little make a good duo, and the presence of Madeline Kahn is always appreciated.
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People who added this item 523 Average listal rating (304 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 7.3
House (1977)
Day 12 - A trashy horror film

God this was a strange movie. The effects are amazingly poor, the scenario really simple, but I liked it a lot. A classic. It was not as trashy as I tought, but it's quite worth it.
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Day 13 - A romantic film or kind of

This is a real cute film. The wonderful scenario allows Gondry to go as he wishes in surrealism, playing with parallel realities and repetitions. A touching and moving film.
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People who added this item 5502 Average listal rating (3854 ratings) 8.1 IMDB Rating 8.4
WALL·E (2008)
Day 14 - A film everyone else in your friends have seen

Audacious for a "children" animation movie to have almost no dialogue. I really loved it. We recognize quickly the Pixar style.
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Day 15 - A film everyone else in your friends have not seen

A complex and theatrical movie from Raul Ruiz, which integrates the immobility of peinture in the "mobile" medium of cinema. By some ways, the scenario remembers me of Samuel Beckett or Marguerite Duras.
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People who added this item 258 Average listal rating (150 ratings) 4.9 IMDB Rating 4.6
Day 16 - A real bad movie

The theme song sticked in my head. God this is a bad movie. But with good punch lines, some great comic moments and songs that I didn't expect.
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Day 17 - A mute movie

I heard a lot about Häxan, and even if it was quite interesting, I didn't find this as fascinating as I expected. But, from an historical point of view, it was an interesting summary of the evolution of the "witch" perception. Plus, the effects are particularly well done for a 1922 movie.
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People who added this item 769 Average listal rating (413 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 6.6
Gummo (1997)
Day 18 - A film randomly chosen from you "want to watch" list

I loved this so much. That reminds me, in a certain way, the cinema of John Waters, with his emphasis on marginality, but in a approach closer to the documentary. Every character is wonderful, and the scenes and dialogues are particularly strong and funny. To watch and rewatch.
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People who added this item 28 Average listal rating (15 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7.2
Day 19 - A movie you know you will really love

The Lepage cinema is always surprising, so as his theatre. I love the way he use the effects and transitions to create a semi-surrealist universe.
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People who added this item 7 Average listal rating (3 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.5
Day 20 - A movie you wouldn't generally run to see

I've had this Quebecois movie on my list for five years, I think, but never had the feeling that I really wanted to see it. Finally, I kind of liked it. The images are magnificent and the theme of Faith, if not really new, is well explorated. Elise Guilbeault is beautiful in this role of a doctor habited by guilt after a terrible event.
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People who added this item 4 Average listal rating (4 ratings) 5.8 IMDB Rating 6.7
Camion (2012)
Day 21 - A movie from your country/province

In the vein of the new Quebec cinema (En terrains connus, Le vendeur, Curling), this film from Rafaël Ouellet explores guilt, compassion, family ties and masculinity in an interesting way. On the menu : hunting, woodcutting and mechanics. Even if it's not a revelation, it was a good movie.
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People who added this item 49 Average listal rating (24 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 6.9
Day 22 - A surrealist movie, or something you're not sure you'll understand

My first Arrabal, certainly not the last. The characters are touching, the synopsis, simple. Though, some images were hard to watch.
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People who added this item 864 Average listal rating (509 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 7.2
Fantasia 2000 (1999)
Day 23 - An animation film

What a wonderful idea to mix classical music with Disney animations. I particularly liked the flamingos sequence and the hommage to Gerschwin.
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People who added this item 1672 Average listal rating (1052 ratings) 7.9 IMDB Rating 8.2
Downfall (2004)
Day 24 - A historical movie

What an amazing performance by Bruno Ganz. The film focuses on the end of the nazi regime instead of showing its rise, as many other films have done. The most disturbing thing here is that the movie reminds us that these quasi-mythological characters are, in fact, just human beings.
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Day 25 - A short film

The animation films of the NFB are always gems. This one is no exception. Wonderful, tragic and strange.
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People who added this item 263 Average listal rating (83 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.3
Day 26 - A looooong film(more than 120 min)

One day I'll watch this 'til the end. One day.
People who added this item 4900 Average listal rating (3218 ratings) 8.2 IMDB Rating 8.2
Taxi Driver (1976)
Day 27 - A typical american movie

Interesting film. Not my type, but Scorcese does a great job here.
natha3l's rating:
People who added this item 254 Average listal rating (144 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 7.7
Pina (2011)
Day 28 - A foreign film

A wonderful homage from Wim Wenders to the choregrapher Pina Bausch, which I didn't know before. The choregraphies are stunning and the images are pure beauty.
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People who added this item 14 Average listal rating (3 ratings) 7.7 IMDB Rating 6.8
Day 29 - A film they talk about in cinema books

Hypnotic. Absolutely hypnotic. The extreme artificiality of the dialogues and the actors create a strange environment where silence is the key.
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People who added this item 3920 Average listal rating (2615 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.6
The Others (2001)
Day 30 - A movie you've already watched and loved

I could rewatch this film for days. Something in the ambiance, the colors, time, music... And Nicole Kidman.
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For the next 30 days, I took the decision to watch one new movie by day. This is a report of each film I watched for this challenge.

For helping choosing films, I'll make me a list of categories.
1. A film everybody told you to watch
2. A big blockbuster that you haven't seen yet
3. A documentary
4. A book adaptation or theatre adaptation
5. A musical
6. A science-fiction movie
7. A movie from a director you really love
8. A movie from a director you want to discover
9. A real bad movie
10. A film from a part of the world you want to learn about
11. A slapstick comedy
12. A trashy horror film
13. A romantic film or kind of
14. A movie everyone else in your friends have seen
15. A movie everyone else in your friends have not seen
16. A camp or kitsch movie
17. A mute movie
18. A movie randomly chosen from your list of "want to watch" films
19. A movie you know you will really love
20. A movie you wouldn't generally run to see
21. A movie from your country (or province)
22. A surrealist movie, or something you're not sure you'll understand
23. An animation film
24. An historic film
25. A short film
26. A LOOONG film (more than 120 minutes)
27. A typical american movie
28. A foreign film
29. A movie they talk about in cinema books
30. A movie you've had already watched and loved

You can take the list for yourself if you wish, but it would be nice if you refer to this one.

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