{"id":152,"date":"2011-12-20T20:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=152"},"modified":"2011-12-20T20:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T20:50:00","slug":"700-films-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2011\/12\/20\/700-films-reviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"700 Films Reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over on my Zaak Watches Movies by himself<\/a> blog, I’ve reached the 700 movies milestone. I started the blog about four and a half years ago when I was living in Guatemala as a way to practice writing but also to write about the values I drew from film. The reviews were longer and far more reflective than they are now. Now, I’m too busy to get into long discourses. The reviews are typically only 5-7 sentences long now.<\/p>\n

Based on my current milestone, I know that I watch three movies per week. I watch very little television (a couple shows a week) and I think this is far more edifying.<\/p>\n

The 147 best films of the 700 can be referenced here, and I’ve listed them below:<\/p>\n

Documentaries<\/u><\/p>\n

\n\u2026 And the
\nPursuit of Happiness
Darwin\u2019s
\nNightmare
Deliver Us From
\nEvil
Encounters at
\nthe End of the World
Fahrenheit 9\/11
Grizzly Man
Hoop Dreams
No Direction
\nHome: Bob Dylan
Sicko
Taxi to the Dark
\nSide
To Be and To Have<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Foreign Language Films<\/u><\/p>\n

\n4 Months, 3
\nWeeks, and 2 Days
8 \u00bd
As it is in
\nHeaven
Cach\u00e9
Che: Part One
Che: Part Two
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Departures
I\u2019ve Loved You
\nSo Long
It\u2019s Not Me, I
\nSwear!
Joyeux No\u00ebl
Lady Chatterley
Letters from Iwo
\nJima
Tell No One
The Child
The Class
The
\nCounterfeiters
The Diving Bell
\nand the Butterfly
The Girl With
\nthe Dragon Tattoo
The Human
\nCondition
The Lives of
\nOthers
The Motorcycle
\nDiaries
The Necessities
\nof Life
The Post
The Postman
The Reader
The Son\u2019s Room
The Time of the
\nWolf
Wings of Desire
Yi yi<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Animated Films<\/u><\/p>\n

\nFantastic Mr.
\nFox
Grave of the Fireflies
Persepolis
Ratatouille
Spirited Away
The Man Who Planted Trees
The Secret of
\nthe Kells
WALL-E
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Everything Else<\/u><\/p>\n

\n127 Hours
500 Days of
\nSummer
A Passage to
\nIndia
A Serious Man
Alice in
\nWonderland
All the
\nPresident\u2019s Men
American
\nGangster
An Education
Atonement
Badlands
Barry Lyndon
Barton Fink
Black Swan
Blue Valentine
Borat: Cultural
\nLearnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Cast Away
Chinatown
Choke
Control
Crazy Heart
Dancer in the
\nDark
District 9
Do the Right
\nThing
Dog Day
\nAfternoon
Doubt
Flags of our
\nFathers
Forrest Gump
Frost\/Nixon
Get Low
Gran Torino
Green Zone
Half Nelson
Hunger
I\u2019m Not There
Inception
Inglorious
\nBasterds
Judgment at
\nNurenberg
Junebug
Juno
Kick-Ass
Kill Bill: Vol.
\n2
Kramer vs. Kramer
\nLars and the Real Girl
Little Children
Little Miss Sunshine
Manderlay
Michael Clayton
Milk
Moon
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Mysterious Skin
No Country for Old Men
Once
Punch-Drunk Love
Rachel Getting Married
Revolutionary Road
Shaun of the Dead
Shopgirl
Shutter Island
Sling Blade
Slumdog Millionaire
Sunshine Cleaning
Synecdoche, New York
Syriana
The Apostle
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call \u2013 New
\nOrleans
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Fall
The Fighter
The Godfather
The Godfather Part III
The Hurt Locker
The King\u2019s Speech
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of
\nthe Ring
\nThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the
\nKing
\nThe Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
\nThe Machinist
\nThe Prestige
\nThe Road
\nThe Royal Tenenbaums
\nThe Social Network
\nThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold
\nThe Taste of Others
\nThe Tree of Life
\nThe Visitor
\nThe Wind that Shakes the Barley
\nThe Wrestler
\nThe Young Victoria
\nThere Will Be Blood
\nThings We Lost in the Fire
\nTrue Grit
\nUp in the Air
Vatel
\nWhere the Wild Things Are
\nYou Can Count on Me<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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