A Cinematic Semester

Movies I Watched This Semester for Class:
-Lost Book Found
-Manhatta
-Rien que les heures
-Run Lola Run
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-Die Mörder sind unter uns
-Heisser sommar
-Und Diene Liebe Auch
-Cléo de 5 à 7
-Diva
-La Haine
-Gratte Papier
-Schwarzfahrer
-Metropolis
-Der Himmel Über Berlin
-Paris Qui Dort
-Pépé le Moko
-La Jetée
-Playtime

Movies I watched this Semester at International Cinema:
-Truth and Conviction
-Lourdes
-Alice
-Children of Nature
-12:08 East of Bucharest
-The Secret of Kells
-Troubled Water
-Football Under Cover
-Mutum
-A Town Called Panic

Movies I Watched This Semester for Fun, Extracurricularly:
-Easy A
-Memento
-Scott Pilgrim Vs the World
-17 Again
-Bright Star
-Just Wright
-King's Speech
-Inglorious Basterds
-Unknown
-Lord of the Rings (Bashti version)
-A Dog of Flanders
-Driving Miss Daisy
-Pride and Prejudice
-Persuasion
-Some Lifetime movies on Hulu
-Amadeus

Cinescopic

Movies I watched in February:
-Cléo from 5-7
-Die Mörder sind unter uns
-Lord of the Rings (1978)
-12:08 to Bucharest
-Persuasion
-17 Again
-A Dog of Flanders
-Amadeus (kind of... missed a huge chunk in the middle)
-Driving Miss Daisy
-Children of Nature
-Alice
-Man with a Movie Camera
-Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World (I skipped out on the end, partially because I've seen three times in like three months now...)
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-Pépé le Moko
-La jetée
-The Secret of Kells

Movies

Movies I watched in January:
-Tron (I am counting it since it was during Christmas break, and therefore after winter semester, because my life works in the academic calendar better than the real one)
-Voyage of the Dawn Treader
-The Streets of Laredo
-Metropolis (with the new extra footage)
-Lost Book Found
-Bright Star
-Paris Qui Dort
-Deep Blue Sea
-Inglorious Basterds
-Easy A
-Lourdes
-Memento
-A bunch of awesome animated shorts at Sundance
-Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World
-The King's Speech
-Manhatta
-Rien que les heures
-Pride and Prejudice (the long version, but only a couple hours' worth-- at the most)

Three Day Weekends

Things I Have Done Recently that Were Not a Waste of Time:

-Go to California and stay an extra week

-Study for Comp exams

-Go to the gym

-Sleep in most days

-Hike to Squaw Peak

-Watch Prince of Persia

-Start Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo... for the fifth time

-Visit with old friends

-Make new friends

-Bake things, especially tortillas and peanut butter bars with chocolate ganache frosting

-Catch up on the latest Eurovision results (Turkey got #2! That makes me happy)

-Pass my comp exams (making the past year good instead of a huge waste of time)

-Laundry and cleaning

-LOST season finale (I liked it overall, but then I have no problem with questions going unanswered. Quite the reverse, actually)

-Bathing (apparently this is also the secret to Jake Gyllenhaal's work out for Prince of Persia)

-Sharing jokes with an old friend

-Chatting

Film

Some of My Favorite Movies, in no order:
-The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, circa 1979
-Cinderella (Disney)
-Wives and Daughters
-The Never-Ending Story
-28 Days Later
-Le Samourai
-Bob le Flambeur
-Le Boucher
-Corky Romano
-Baby Mama
-Spirited Away
-School of Rock
-Band of Brothers
-Pride and Prejudice
-North and South
-Balto
-Elf
-The Count of Monte Christo
-Singing in the Rain
-Bolt
-Red Eye (with my own interpretation, of course)
-Most anything I've seen at International Cinema over the past few years

Movies I've seen at International Cinema this Semester:
-Ikiru (Japanese)
-In the Mood for Love (Chinese)
-The Gleaners and I (French)
-Eyes Without a Face (French)
-Dark Water (Japanese)
-Let the Right One In (Swedish)
-Megane (Japanese)
-The Kautokeino Rebellion (Saami... Norwegian)
-Les Hyenes (Wolof... Senegalese)
-Millions (British)

Movies I Wanted to See But Didn't:
-Decalogue i-x (Polish)
-Pan's Labyrinth (Spanish)
-Crossing (Korean)
-Psycho (Hitchcock...)
-Ringu (Japanese)
-Favela Rising (Brazilian)
-Vampyr (German)
-Nosferatu (German)
-Ploning (Tagolog)
-Army of Shadows (French)
-Water (Hindi)
-Sweet Nothings in My Ear (ASL)
-The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (Brazilian)
-Straight From the Heart (Hindi)
-Howl's Moving Castle (Japanese)
-He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (French)
-The Pope's Toilet (Spanish)

Meditation

Things I Like in Other People:
-Good sense of humour
-Intelligence
-Patience
-Curiosity
-Passion for something unexpected
-Tolerance
-Quiet confidence

My Tragic Flaws:
-Inability to express myself correctly
-Not following through on things
-Forgetting the details because of obsession with other details
-Overanalysing minute details
-Timidity
-Sarcasm
-Weakness for sugar in almost every form
-Red hair (just kidding...)
-Too quick to laughter

Christmas Break

Things That Are Awesome:
-Drifting
-Dogs
-Cats (to a lesser degree than dogs)
-Academia
-Europe
-Asia
-Books (excluding Twilight, obviously)
-Good Music
-Silence
-Good meals
-Dark chocolate
-Good friends
-Being content
-Good teas (I really like Twining's Orange Tea right now)

Things That Suck:
-Dirt/litter/trash
-Bad meals
-Bad friends (frenemies)
-Bad internet connections
-That overly full feeling after a large meal
-Soda (seriously, it tastes kind of good and that's where the good in soda ends)
-Realizing something you thought is/would be meaningful is actually empty
-Bad grades
-Not being content