Busy month, so I didn’t get to watching as many films as I would have hoped. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is as beautiful as it is poetic, quite possibly Julian Schnabel’s best piece. Lars and the Real Girl only reinforces my love for Ryan Gosling’s acting, putting two of his films (Half Nelson and this) in my top favorites. I also watched Annie Hall again, it’s been years, and can’t believe how similar Larry David’s comedic prose are to Woody’s. To think the two will be in a film side-by-side next year really gets me excited.

• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly ★★★★
• Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead ★★★
• Lars and the Real Girl ★★★★★
• Atonement ★★★
• American Gangster ★★★
• Reservation Road ★★
• Annie Hall ★★★★★

Totally forgot to post these. No time to go in depth. Definitely check out Lust, Caution and Into the Wild.

• Mulholland Drive ★★★
• Into the Wild ★★★★
• Oldboy ★★★
• 30 Days of Night ★
• The Hoax ★★
• Lust, Caution ★★★★
• Arrested Development Season 3, Disc 2 ★★★★
• Blade Runner: The Final Cut ★★★

I’m going to start posting a list of the movies I rented each month from Netflix. January was a busy month with the start of the semester so I didn’t rent as much as usual. I also am going to post the star ratings I gave each film. King of California has no rating because it sucked so hard I stopped it 20 minutes in and same goes for Puddle Cruiser which I didn’t even watch and returned the next day.

• King of California, 2007
• Ratatouille, 2007 ★★★
• Halloween, 2007 ★
• Puddle Cruiser, 1996
• Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance, 1983 ★★
• Powaqqatsi, 1988 ★★
• Chronos, 2004 ★
• Bizarre Foods: Disc 1 ★★
• 3:10 to Yuma, 2007 ★★★★
• The Kingdom, 2007 ★★★

You can also check out an RSS feed of my rental queue.