Loquacious Music

This is a post chronicling the movies I’ve watched, on DVD, in the theatres, and on television, for the period running from November 23rd to December 23rd. My goal is to watch 50 movies in one month. Here are the rules:

• I cannot have seen the movie in the last year;
• The movie must contain at least one exceptional character actor (the name(s) in parenthesis after the movie’s title);
• Any genre or time period is allowed;
• I must watch the movie the whole way through before turning on the commentary or watching special features.

Here we go! (All movies that I am watching for a second, third, etc. time are marked with an *asterisk.) If you have any suggestions, just send me an e-mail by clicking here.

UPDATE: Well, it looks like I won’t reach my goal. It’s December 22nd, and I’ve only watched 20 movies. I blame the lightheadedness from my new prescription that lasted until last week. However, I’ll keep posting movies as I watch ‘em right here. Enjoy!

No Country For Old Men (Stephen Root)
The Pelican Brief (Anthony Heald)*
Single White Female (Stephen Tobolowsky)*
Presumed Innocent (Brian Dennehy, Bonnie Bedelia)*
Mississippi Burning (Stephen Tobolowsky, R. Lee Ermey)*
Vacancy (Frank Whaley, Ned Beatty)
Shooter (Elias Koteas)
Reversal of Fortune (Annabella Sciorra, Felicity Huffman)
All the President’s Men (Hal Holbrook, Jason Robards, F. Murray Abraham, Dominic Chianese)
The Best Years of Our Lives (Frederic March)
Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of SMiLE (documentary)
Se7en (R. Lee Ermey)*
Shadow of a Doubt (the always-perfect Hume Cronyn—and I can’t believe I’d never seen this one!)
August Rush (Terence Howard)
Bob Roberts (Giancarlo Esposito, Alan Rickman)*
The Bonfire of the Vanities (F. Murray Abraham)
The Savages (Laura Linney, Philip Bosco, Gbenga Akinnagbe)
Juno (Michael Sera, Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner, Allison Janney)
Disturbia (Carrie-Ann Moss)
Hairspray (2007) (Allison Janney, Christopher Walken, Jerry Stiller)
Marjoe (documentary)