More Create Blog Sign In MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2007 The Movies, Books, Theater, Concerts, CDs I Saw In 2007 Okay, since my www.michaelgiltz.com website is down till I can manage to build a new one that's compatible w Mac, I've had nowhereto list the movies, books, theater and live music I've seen so far thisyear.</p><p> Here it is, every movie on TV, in the theater, at screenings, on DVD; every book; every theater and live performance in 2007.</p><p> I don't include CDs because I don't think it's fair to listen to something Ilistened to once and dismissed and I'm always re-listening to them.The CD list comes once a year and includes only the best.</p><p> Here we go: MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES 2007 (all stars out of 4) Maisie ** (1939) It’s A Wonderful World * ½ (1939)Naughty But Nice * (1939) Hobson’s Choice *** ½ Tanks A Million *Hay Foot *Fall In *Here Comes Trouble * (last four all 1939)Last King Of Scotland ** ½ Letters From Iwo Jima *** Children Of Men ** ½Charlie’s Big-Hearted Aunt ½ * (1939)The Gay Falcon *** The Hidden Blade ** ½ (current Japanese film) The Good Shepherd ***B13 ***The Wire Season Four ************ (highest score)MICHAEL GILTZ AT WORK Michael Giltz is a freelance writer based in NYC and can be reached atmgiltz@pipeline.com FAVORITE LINKS Americablog Five O'Clock Lightning baseball blogDeep Pop -- Lori Lakin's Blog The Back Page -- Jason Page on ESPN Radio Cine-Blog -- George Robinson's Blog Documents On Art & Cinema - Daryl Chin's Blog Brucie G's Wondrous Blog Of Adventure and Mystery -- Bruce Greenspan's Blog BLOG ARCHIVE ► 2019 (7) ► 2018 (34)Evil ** (current foreign film) Idiocracy *Duck Season *** (current foreign film) Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story *** V For Vendetta **Penelope *Ace In The Hole (classic) **** Hannibal Rising zero stars Nancy Drew, Reporter, * ½ (1939)Infamous * ½Little Miss Sunshine ***Bombshell (1933) *** ½ Inside Man ** ½ Old Joy (current movie) **CSA: Confederate States Of America ***Music and Lyrics *Crossfire (1947) ** ½ Meet Boston Blackie ** ½ Way Down South (1939) *Venus ** ½ The Namesake ** Captain Fury (1939) ** ½ Sylvia Scarlett ** The Oklahoma Kid (1939) *** Year Of The Dog *Zodiac *** ½ Love Affair (1939) *** ½ Lonely Hearts w Travolta * ½ 300 ** Zodiac *** ½ (second time)The US Against John Lennon **The Beauty Queen Of Kabul * Fracture ** Disturbia **Hot Fuzz * ½ The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939) ** ½ Into Great Silence (monk movie at FF) *** Grindhouse: Terror Planet and Death Proof *** Once ***Rocket Science **Perfume ***Sadie Thompson (1928 w live accompaniment) *** ½ Come Early Morning *** La Dolce Vita ****Freddie Mercury: The Untold Story zero starsMan Of Flowers ** ½ Stroyzek *** ½ Searching For the Wrong-Eyed Jesus *** Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls ** ½ Spider Man 3 ** ½ ► 2017 (6) ► 2016 (2) ► 2015 (14) ► 2014 (2) ► 2013 (5) ► 2012 (18) ► 2011 (15) ► 2010 (10) ► 2009 (43) ► 2008 (86) ▼ 2007 (781) ▼ December (10) The Movies, Books, Theater, Concerts, CDs I Saw In...</p><p> Azucaa! Thank You, "Golden Compass" But Where Will "The Hobbit" Part I Stop? My Latest Stories -- Pettitte and the Beautiful De...</p><p> America Loves CheatersOh, FuckChirstmas Music, Singing Chipmunks and An Aging Ti...</p><p> Somewhere in the darkness, the Gambler he broke ev...</p><p> Javier-ing A Good Time ► November (17) ► October (11) ► September (6) ► August (10) ► July (16) ► June (4) ► May (9) ► April (22) ► March (147) ► February (214) ► January (315) ► 2006 (2412) ► 2005 (5)At Cannes: My Blueberry Nights * Four Months, Three Weeks and Two Days *** Bee Movie footage ** Water Lillies ***The Banishment *** ½ (most hated it though)Les Chanson D’Amour ** ½ Savage Grace * Sicko ***Chacun Son Cinema ***XXY *** ½ Import Export ** The Golden Compass footage/trailer *** Ocean’s 13 ** ½ Paranoid Park **You The Living ***We Own The Night * ½ The Diving Bell and the Butterfly *** 1/2 Days Of Darkness ** ½ L’age Des Tenebres ** ½ Larry Charles/Bill Maher religion docu footage ****Une Veille Miatresse **The Mourning Forest ** ½ Promise Me This ** 12 Angry Men *** ½ Knocked Up ** ½ Seraphim Falls *** Sunshine ***Joshua *Goya’s Ghost * ½ Charlie Bartlett ** Let’s Get Lost (revival) ***Tootsie ****Pierrot Le Fou (Godard revival at BAM) ** ½ Babes In Arms (1939) ** The Hottest State * Bridge To Terabithia ** ½ The Searchers (revival at MoMA) ****Ratatouille ***Transformers *Live Free Or Die Hard ** ½ World of Sound ** Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ***Fierce People *Sleuth (2007 remake) * The Simpsons Movie *** The Bourne Ultimatum ***In The Shadow Of The Moon ***Shoot Em Up * Gone Baby Gone *** 3:10 To Yuma ** ½ Superbad ***The Bubble ** ½ Jackass Two ** ½ Room With A View (at MoMA) ****The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford *** ½ Blade Runner (final cut) *** ½ Into The Wild ** ½ The Darjeeling Limited ***Margot at the Wedding **Elizabeth: The Golden Age **I’m Not There ** ½ Persepolis *** The Cranes Are Flying (at BAM) (1957) ****Starting Out In The Evening **The Petrified Forest (1936) ** ½ Holly (asian prostitution) ** Music Within (ADA Act guy) ** All Through The Night (1942) ** ½ Lust, Caution ** ½ Michael Clayton *** ½ Lions For Lambs ** Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead * The Whistler (1944) * ½ This Christmas * ½ Love In The Time Of Cholera *The Great Debaters * ½ Youth Without Youth no stars In Between Days *** They Won’t Forget (1937) **Hairspray **This Is England *** ½ Helvetica *** They Made Me A Fugitive (1947) *** ½ Contaband (1940) ***Alvin and the Chipmunks *Juno *** Control *** Sweeney Todd * ½ The Other Side Of The Mirror: Dylan at Newport *** ½ Boys Life 6 ** (Bugcrush short ***)Calling Dr.</p><p> Kildare (1939) ** ½ The Secret of Dr.</p><p> Kildare (1939) ** 1/2 Cassandra's Dream no starsFast and Loose (1939) * 1/2 Wild Boys of the World (1933) ***The Kennel Murder Case (1933) * 1/2 The Golden Compass ** Iraq in Fragments ** 1/2 First Sunday * La Vie En Rose *** Man Push Cart ** On Her Majesty's Secret Service * 1/2 147 movies BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS 2007 Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry ** ½ The Dark Tower I by Stephen King **The Dark Tower II: The Drawing Of The Three by Stephen King ***Red Dragon by Thomas Harris ***The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris *** ½The Road by Cormac McCarthy *** ½ Include Me Out by Farley Granger *** The Hottest State by Ethan Hawke ** ½ The Wind On The Moon by Eric Linklater ***Grief by Andrew Holleran ** ½ The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri *** Nicholas Again by Goscinny and Sempe *** I Served The King Of England by Bohumil Hrabal *** ½ The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid **The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by LaurenceSterne **** Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi *** eachThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby *** ½ The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano **** No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy *** ½ Kipling’s Choice by Geert Spillebeen **A Mighty Heart by Mariane Pearl ***War Horse by Michael Morpurgo ** ½ The Spirit Archives Vol. 1 by Will Eisner ** ½ Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre ** Chronicles Vol. 1 by Bob Dylan *** ½ Jack Plank Tells Tales by Natalie Babbitt ***The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris ****Girl by Blake Nelson ** Supreme Conflict by Jan Crawford Greenburg ** The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum **The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum – stopped, couldn’t keepreadingMiracle At Philadelphia by Catherine Drinker Bowen *** ½ Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris *** ½ On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan *** Achilles by Elizabeth Cook ***The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault ***Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling ***The Sea Witch by Alexander Laing *** ½ Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane *** A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan **** Gossip Girl by Cecily Von Ziegesar ** Journey Into Fear by Eric Ambler ***Deadwood by Pete Dexter *** ½ By Night In Chile by Roberto Bolano *** To Ruhleban and Back by Geoffrey Pyke *** The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas; translated by RichardPevear ****Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik ***Starting Out In The Evening by Brian Morton *** Dark Victory by Ed Sikov *** ½ Peanuts 1965-1966 by Charles Schulz *** ½ War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, trans by Richard Pevear and LarissaVolokhnosky ****The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini * ½ The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz by L.</p><p> Frank Baum ** ½ Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon *** Grace After Midnight by Felicia Snoop Pearson ** 1/2 The Graduate by Charles Webb *** 1/2 Home School by Charles Webb ** 1/2 New Cardiff by Charles Webb *** Love, Roger by Charles Webb ** Jumper by Steven Gould *** 60 books THEATER/LIVE PERFORMANCE THEATER/LIVE PERFORMANCE THEATER/LIVE PERFORMANCE 2007 Theater/Live Performances 2007 Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well And Living in Paris *** ½ M Ward at Town Hall ***The Fever (one-man Wallace Shawn show) *** Richie Havens at Metropolitan Museum of Art *** King Lear w Kevin Kline at Public **Adrift in Macao **The Coast of Utopia in NYC *** ½ Journey’s End in NYC *** Prelude to a Kiss revival w John Mahoney ** Curtains w David Hyde Pierce * ½ Talk Radio w Live Schrieber ** ½ Cool Jerks at Don Hills ***The 39 Steps in London *** Equus ** Madama Butterfly ** ½ Prometheus Bound *Darren Hayes at Joe’s Pub ***Exits and Entrances * ½ King Hedley II revival at Signature *** ½ Moon for the Misbegotten w Kevin Spacey and Eve Best ** ½ Frost/Nixon in NYC *** Seven Brides For Seven Brothers at Paper Mill *** (flooding) Jim White in Champaign/Urbana after screening of Wrong Eyed Jesus***Strawberry Alarm Clock in Champaign/Urbana after screening of Valley of Dolls *** Back Door Slam *** ½ A Matter of Life and Death at National in London *The Reporter at the National **Vernon God Little at Young Vic ** Elling at Bush Theatre in London *** ½ The Rose Tattoo at Olivier **In A Dark Place (new LaBute) **Radio Golf (new August Wilson) *** ½ Albert Hammond Jr *** (saw all of ten minutes) Spring Awakening on Bway *** ½ Company revival w Raul Esparza ***Old Springs Pike at Joe’s Pub (raggedy but fun) ***Xanadu *Philip Glass at Rose Theater w Cohen show ***James Hunter at Madison Square Park *** Maria McKee at Joe’s Pub *** Back Door Slam at Mercury Lounge *** ½ Ann Hampton Callaway at Blue Note ***Opus ** ½ James Hand at Hill Country BBQ *** Waverly 7 at Blue Note ** Nellie McKay at Joe’s Pub ***Grease (2007 Bway revival) *Jesse Harris at Housing Works * Chuck Prophet at Housing Works *** Ipheginia 2.0 at Signature ***Faust at Bohemian Hall **Pieta Brown at Bowery ** ½ Christina Courtin at Bowery *** Teddy Thompson at Bowery *** ½ King Lear at BAM w Ian McKellen **Patty Griffin, Allen Toussaint and CMA songwriters at Joe’s Pub in thePark *** ½ The Brain From Planet X * ½ Love Sucks ** ½ Bruce Springsteen at MSG ***Young Frankenstein **Over The Rhine at Highline ** ½ Back Door Slam at Mercury *** ½ Yank *** Sufjan Stevens at BAM w BQE *** ½ Black Watch at St.</p><p> Ann’s w discussion *** Richard III ** (but Michael Cumpsty ***) Newfound Road at Baggot Inn (bluegrass) ** ½ Cassandra Wilson at Blue Note *** ½ Speech & Debate ***Queens Blvd (musical by Charles Mee) *** The Seafarer by Conor McPherson *** Empire City Men's Chorus (w Andy McLain) ***Kiki & Herb at Carnegie Hall ***Celia *** 1/2 (music) ** (show) Aimee Mann Christmas Show w Josh Ritter, Nellie McKay, etc *** 1/2 Darlene Love at Lincoln Center (arrived late) **Teddy Thompson Christmas Show w mom, sis, bro, Rufus, etc ** 1/2(terrible sound)Rock 'N' Roll by Tom Stoppard *** 76 events.</p><p> POSTED BY MICHAEL IN NEW YORK AT 11:59 PM NO COMMENTS: Post a Comment Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)Newer Post Older Post Home
