2006

2004        ~        2005        ~        2007

January ~ February ~ March ~ April ~ May ~ June ~ July ~ August ~ Toronto ~ September-December

Features: 128 (including 57 in theaters)
Shorts: 53 (including 17 in theaters)

red = theater
* = first viewing

September through December:
*Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby (2006): 7.5/10
*Camille (1926): 4.5/10
*The Polar Express (2004): 7.5/10
Spaceballs (1987, Mel Brooks): 6.5/10
*In the Good Old Summertime (1949): 6.5/10
*The Night Before Christmas (1941, Hanna-Barbera): 8/10
*Monanieba (Repentance) (1984): 8/10
*Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954): 7/10
*Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965, Russ Meyer): 6/10
*Rampo (Mystery of Rampo) (1994): 5.5/10
*A Dog's Life (1918): 7/10
*The Honeymoon Killers (1970): 7.5/10
*Hush My Mouse (1946): 6/10
*Little Caesar (1931): 7/10
*The Narrow Margin (1952): 7/10
*Terror By Night (1946): 7/10
*Julio comienza en julio (1977): 8/10
Nashville (1975, Robert Altman): 8.5/10
*Grand Prix: Challenge of Champions (1966): 5.5/10
*The Set-Up (1949): 7.5/10
For Your Consideration (2006): 7/10
*Akeelah and the Bee (2006): 8/10
Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese): 8/10
*Animusic (2001): 7/10
*Funny Face (1957): 7/10
*I Love My Wife But! (1947): 4/10
*Doctor X (1932, Michael Curtiz): 6/10
*Warner Bros. Jubilee Dinner (1930): 4.5/10
*La sortie des usines Lumiere (1895): 7/10
*Thanksgiving Prayer (1991): 8/10
*The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943, The Archers): 7.5/10
*La cabina (1972): 6.5/10
*Death of a President (2006): 7.5/10
*Salinui chueok (Memories of Murder) (2003): 6.5/10
*The Prestige (2006, Christopher Nolan): 8/10
*Burt Munro: Offerings to the God of Speed (1971): 6/10
*Firewall (2006): 5/10
*The World's Fastest Indian (2005): 7.5/10

Toronto International Film Festival (in alphabetical order)
*The Abandoned (2006): 6.5/10 (8/10 for the soundscape)
Begone Dull Care (1949, Norman McLaren): 9/10
*Black Sheep (2006): 7/10
*Blinkity Blank (1955, Norman McLaren): 7/10
*The Book of Revelation (2006): 7.5/10
*Den brysomme mannen (The Bothersome Man) (2006): 7.5/10
*O Ceu de Suely (2006): 7.5/10
A Chairy Tale (1957, Norman McLaren): 9/10
*The Fall (2006, Tarsem): 8/10
*For Your Consideration (2006, Christopher Guest): 7.5/10
*Hak se wui (Election) (2005, Johnny To): 7/10
*Hak se wui yi wo wai kwai (Election 2) (2006, Johnny To): 7/10
*Hen Hop (1942, Norman McLaren): 6/10
*L'homme de sa vie (2006): 8/10
*L'Intouchable (2006): 5.5/10
*L'Iran: une revolution cinematographique (2006): 7/10
*Jadesoturi (Jade Warrior) (2006): 6/10
*The Killer Within (2006): 8/10
*Kinshasa Palace (2006): 6/10
*Kunsten at graede i kor (The Art of Crying) (2006, Peter Schonau Fog): 7.5/10
*El laberinto del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) (2006, Guillermo del Toro): 8/10
*The Last Winter (2006): 7/10
*Lines: Horizontal (1962, Norman McLaren): 7/10
*Macbeth (2006): 7/10
*Le merle (1958, Norman McLaren): 6/10
*Neighbours (1952, Norman McLaren): 8/10
*Niwe mung (Half Moon) (2006, Bahman Ghobadi): 7/10
*Ober (Waiter) (2006): 6/10
*Opening Speech (1960, Norman McLaren): 6/10
*Out of the Blue (2006): 7/10
*Palimpsest (2006): 6.5/10
Pas de deux (1968, Norman McLaren): 10/10
*The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair (2006): 7/10
*Renaissance (2006): 6/10 (8/10 for the visuals)
*Rescue Dawn (2006, Werner Herzog): 7/10
*S&Man (2006): 7/10
*Sang sattawat (Syndromes and a Century) (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul): 6/10
*Sari's Mother (2006): 7/10
*Severance (2006): 8/10
*Sheitan (2006): 6/10
*Stars and Stripes (1939, Norman McLaren): 6/10
*A Stone's Throw (2006): 7/10
*Synchromy (1971, Norman McLaren): 7/10
*Tai yang yue (Rain Dogs) (2006, Ho Yuhang): 6/10
*Taxidermia (2006): 7/10 (6/10 for the first two segment, 8.5/10 for the last)
*De Terrorist Hans-Joachim Klein (2005): 8/10
*Trapped Ashes (2006): 4.5/10
*Yokohama Mary (2006): 6.5/10

August
*The Dot and the Line (1965): 7/10
*Elmer's Candid Camera (1940): 7/10
*Haredevil Hare (1948): 7/10
*March On, America! (1942): 5/10
*The Music Box (1932): 6/10
*The Night Watchman (1938, Chuck Jones): 7/10
*Prest-O Change-O (1939, Chuck Jones): 7/10
*Scent-imental Over You (1947): 6/10
*Sniffles and the Bookworm (1939): 7/10
*Sullivan's Travels (1941): 7.5/10
*Little Miss Sunshine (2006): 7.5/10
*The Night Listener (2006): 6/10
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003): 7/10
*Brother Orchid (1940): 6/10)
Hellboy (2004, Guillermo del Toro): 7.5/10
*Rabbit Seasoning (1952): 6/10
*How the West Was Won (1962): 7/10
*The Ron Clark Story (2006) (TV): 6/10
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005, Tim Burton): 7/10
*I'm Not Scared / Io non ho paura (2003, Gabriele Salvatores): 7/10
*Whole Ten Yards, The (2004, Howard Deutch): 4/10
*Edvard Munch (1974, Peter Watkins): 7.5/10
*Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002, George Clooney): 7/10
Whole Nine Yards, The (2000, Jonathan Lynn): 7/10
*Duck Amuck (1953, Chuck Jones): 8/10
*Northwest Hounded Police (1946, Tex Avery): 6.5/10
*Rock-a-Bye Bear (1952, Tex Avery): 6.5/10
Whole New Thing (2005, Amnon Buchbinder): 7.5/10

July
*Very Long Engagement, A / Un long dimanche de fiancailles (2004, Jean-Pierre Jeunet): 7/10
*World of Tomorrow, The (1998/2005, Kerry Conran): 6.5/10
*Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004, Kerry Conran): 7/10
*Brick (2005, Rian Johnson): 7.5/10
*Foreign Correspondent (1940, Alfred Hitchcock): 7/10
*Football Stories / Historias de futbol (1997, Andres Wood): 7/10
*Cat's Bah, The (1954, Chuck Jones): 5.5/10
*Kiss Me Kate (1953, George Sidney): 6/10
One Froggy Evening (1955, Chuck Jones): 8/10
*Walk Don't Run (1966, Charles Walters): 6/10
*Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970, Russ Meyer): 7.6/10
*Sands of Iwo Jima (1949, Edward Dwan): 6/10
*Duck! Rabbit! Duck! (1953, Chuck Jones): 6/10
Miller's Crossing (1990, Joel Coen): 8.5/10
*Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006, Gore Verbinski): 6/10
*2046 (2004, Wong Kar Wai): 7/10
*De noche vienes, Esmeralda / Esmeralda Comes By Night (1997, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo): 7.5/10
*Bunny (1998, Chris Wedge): 7/10

June
*Junebug (2005, Phil Morrison): 8/10
*Inconvenient Truth, An (2006, Davis Guggenheim): 8/10
*Marple: By the Pricking of My Thumbs (2006, Peter Medak): 6/10
*Marple: Sleeping Murder (2005, Ed Hall) (TV): 5/10
*Surprise! (1995, Veit Helmer): 7/10
*Tuvalu (1999, Veit Helmer): 6/10
*C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005, Jean-Marc Vallee): 8/10
*Strictly Unreliable (1932, George Marshall): 5/10
*Prairie Home Companion, A (2006, Robert Altman): 8/10
Ocean's Eleven (2001, Steven Soderbergh): 7.5/10, liked it much more this time around than on its first release, watched on TV

May
Three Kings (1999, David O. Russell): 8/10
*The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005, Tommy Lee Jones): 7/10
Xenogenesis (1978, James Cameron): 4/10
*The Da Vinci Code (2006, Ron Howard): 7/10

April
*Le fleuve aux grandes eaux (aka The Mighty River) (1993, Frederic Back): 8/10
Crac (1980, Frederic Back): 9/10
*Rozhdestvo obitatelei lesa (aka The Insect's Christmas) (1913, Wladyslaw Starewicz): 7/10
*Le retour a la raison (aka Return to Reason) (1923, Man Ray): 7/10
*Felix in Hollywood (1923, Otto Messmer): 6.5/10
Dirty Dancing (1987, Emile Ardolino): 6.5/10
*Coma (1978, Michael Crichton): 6/10
*The Red Lily (1924, Fred Niblo): 6/10
*Cast a Dark Shadow (1957, Lewis Gilbert): 6/10
*White Heat (1949, Raoul Walsh): 7/10

March
*Why Worry? (1923, Fred Newmeyer / Sam Taylor): 7.5/10
*The Rage in Placid Lake (2003, Tony McNamara): 7/10
*Over Time (2005, Oury Atlan / Thibaut Berland / Damien Ferrie): 7.5/10
*Sin City (2005, Robert Rodriguez / Frank Miller): 8.5/10
*Walk the Line (2005, James Mangold): 7/10
*Safety Last! (1923, Fred Newmeyer / Sam Taylor): 8/10
*Vendetta (1999, Nicholas Meyer) (TV): 6/10
*Transamerica (2005, Duncan Taylor): 7/10
*Broken Flowers (2005, Jim Jarmusch): 7/10
*A Page of Madness (1926, Teinosuke Kinugasa): 8/10
*Edward II (1991, Derek Jarman): 8/10

February
*Mysterious Skin (2004, Gregg Araki): 8.5/10
Dastaar: Defending Sikh Identity (2004, Kevin Lee): 8/10
*Crazy Love (1987, Dominique Deruddere): 7/10
Sports Night (season 1 & 2): 9/10
*Brokeback Mountain (2005, Ang Lee): 8/10

January
*Flightplan (2005, Robert Schwentke): 7/10
*Munich (2005, Steven Spielberg): 7.5/10
*Grey Gardens (1975, Albert Maysles / David Maysles / Ellen Hovde / Muffie Meyer): 6.5/10
*When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960, Mikio Naruse): 8/10
*Late Chrysanthemums (1954, Mikio Naruse): 7/10
*24 (season 4): 7/10
*35 Up (1991, Michael Apted): 8/10
*Capturing the Friedmans (2003, Andrew Jarecki): 8/10
8 Ball Bunny (1950, Chuck Jones): 6/10
*Of Penguins and Men (2005, Luc Jacquet / Jerome Maison): 6.5/10
*March of the Penguins (2005, Luc Jacquet): 7.5/10

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