DINNER AND A MOVIE

10 July 1998: Jesus of Montreal (inception of gathering on Friday nights AND inception

of NO CRUCIFIXIONS rule for future movie choices)

17 July 1998: The Rock
24 July 1998: Bad Boy Bubby (inception of the mailing list)
31 July 1998: ??

7 August 1998: no DAAM
14 August 1998: U.S. Marshals
21 August 1998: ??
26 August 1998: Lone Star (John Sayles flick)


4 September 1998: The Italian Job (maybe?)
11 September 1998: Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control (maybe?)
18 September 1998: Devil in a Blue Dress
25 September 1998: Men With Guns (John Sayles flick)

2 October 1998: The Secret of Roan Inish (another John Sayles flick)
9 October 1998: no DAAM - moved to Sunday for debut performance of Lingua Fauna
16 October 1998: ??
23 October 1998: The Hidden
30 October 1998: no DAAM - Glen's Hallowe'en party


6 November 1998: Withnail and I
13 November 1998: Q (I think they also watched Wittgenstein later)
20 November 1998: no DAAM - Lexington household house-warming
27 November 1998: no DAAM - Turkey Day-after


4 December 1998: Nights on Earth (Jim Jarmusch)
11 December 1998: 2 Days in the Valley
18 December 1998: The Sweet Hereafter(?)
25 December 1998: no DAAM - damned christians

1 January 1999: no DAAM - damned Gregorian-Calendarists
8 January 1999: Mrs. Brown
15 January 1999: Suicide Kings
22 January 1999: Blue (also the night of the "a fancy dessert you want to trade for oral sex"


comment that started the thread...)

29 January 1999: The Negotiator (and a bunch of people went to see PREACHING TO THE

PERVERTED at the Coolidge Corner Theatre)


5 February 1999: White
12 February 1999: no movie - we had a Mad Tea Party instead
19 February 1999: Red
26 February 1999: ??

RIBBIT

4 March 1999: Grosse Point Blank
12 March 1999: Pecker
19 March 1999: Enter The Fat Dragon
26 March 1999: Johnny Stecchino (aka Johnny Toothpick)


2 April 1999: Out of Sight
9 April 1999: Shawshank Redemption
16 April 1999: Clay Pigeons, I think
23 April 1999: Gilda
30 April 1999: The Advocate aka The Hour of the Pig


7 May 1999: Legend of Fong Sai Yuk
14 May 1999: no movie
21 May 1999: The Hidden Fortress (by Kurosawa)
28 May 1999: Buffy The Vampire Slayer (The Movie)

4 June 1999: Velvet Goldmine
11 June 1999: High Art
*** 18 June 1999: I CAN'T REMEMBER!! And no records due to power outage. ANYONE?
25 June 1999: Indiscreet

2 July 1999: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING
9 July 1999: The Big Hit
16 July 1999: Robin and Marian (1976)
23 July 1999: Rushmore
30 July 1999: Bottle Rocket (Katy's pick)

6 August 1999: Smoke Signals
13 August 1999: The French comedy/mystery "Le Grand blond avec une chaussure noire"


aka The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972)

20 August 1999: The Great Escape
27 August 1999: 12 Monkeys

3 September 1999: Simply Irresistable
10 September 1999: Cry Baby (John Waters flick)
17 September 1999: The Conversation (1974)
24 September 1999: Rented Baron Von Munchausen but didn't watch it

1 October 1999: L.A. Story
8 October 1999: The Importance of Being Earnest
15 October 1999: Three Days of the Condor
22 October 1999: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
29 October 1999: Blood Simple (the first Coen Brothers movie)


5 November 1999: Blue Hawaii (New Rule: NO MORE ELVIS MOVIES!!)
12 November 1999: The Celebration of Eric's 33rd birthday

(Christ motif plus video-by-Seth of people wasting things in Eric's honor)
PLUS a bunch of old Saturday Morning Cartoons from the 1970's

19 November 1999: The Big Sleep
(pre-modified, unreleased version with the added scenes at the end;
plus we had a home-made pizza making event, and then a SLEEPY HOLLOW
outing for a late-night show)

26 November 1999: ?? Dunno what they watched, I wasn't there...
Also, Charles & Maggie left to go back home to Australia, so they
hosted a cook-up, which is apparently Australian for "make a lot of food"


3 December 1999: WHO AM I? (Jackie Chan), then KILLER CONDOM!
10 December 1999: ...can't remember... (we also rented CLUE but didn't watch it)

Plus, Danbri's flight to go back home to someplace in the British Isles was set
for 11 Dec 1999, so this was also a going-away party.
We boiled a pizza in his honor.
17 December 1999: Jet Li's THE BLACK MASK

I looked for SAMURAI COP or SGT. KABUKIMAN NYPD but our local movie
place, while quite wonderful, carries neither. Alicia Bell came visiting and
cooked us up a mess o'wondrous foods.

24 December 1999: Pushing Tin
31 December 1999: (no movie)

7 January 1999: Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
14 January 1999: Earth Girls Are Easy
21 January 1999: Whoopie Goldberg on Broadway and GO! (the teen-age Pulp Fiction)
28 January 1999: The Iron Giant and SOUTH PARK, THE MOVIE: BIGGER, LONGER


AND UNCUT


4 February 2000: THE CRIMSON PIRATE
11 February 2000: Illuminata (and Romkey's b-day celebration)
18 February 2000: Looney Toons (was going to be a Sidney Poitier marathon, but too much


snow & not enough brains, *sigh*)

25 February 2000: Animal Crackers (Marx Brothers)


3 March 2000: Lilies of the Field (yay Sidney Poitier!)
10 March 2000: The New Legend of Shaolin (yay Jet Li!) - and Eric's room was hacked,


turned into a construction site

17 March 2000: CARWASH! (Workin' at the carwash, YEAH!)
24 March 2000: probably episodes of BUFFY and THE A-TEAM
31 March 2000: I dunno - something random someone rented...


7 April 2000: Chasing Amy (I think... I went to see THE BOBS; later they watched


GAS, FOOD, LODING and FREAKS (1932) and the next night we watched
ORGAZMO which kicks ass)

14 April 2000: Three Kings (I think... I went to see the BIG APPLE CIRCUS)
21 April 2000: I dunno - something random someone rented...
28 April 2000: Fight Club


5 May 2000: Drop Dead Gorgeous
12 May 2000: Taxi Driver
19 May 2000: probably episodes of BUFFY and THE A-TEAM
26 May 2000: (1) The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (1999)

(2) I MARRIED A STRANGE PERSON by Bill Plympton (not a Jules Feiffer cartoon,
I was confused)
(3) Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad (1967)


2 June 2000: Old episodes of BUFFY and the A-TEAM
9 June 2000: I dunno, I had a fever of 102.5'F
16 June 2000: SHAFT! (Followed by a small group run to the theater for the new release)
23 June 2000: Who's That Knocking at My Door? (1968) (Scorsese's first full-length feature flick)
30 June 2000: Reservoir Dogs AND a sneak preview of the new Live-Action Tick... SPOON!


7 July 2000: Sneak preview of THE LONE GUNMEN spin-off
14 July 2000: ORGASMO!
21 July 2000: Earth Girls Are Easy (yes, again)
28 July 2000: NO DAAM


4 August 2000: NO DAAM
11 August 2000: DAAM was attempted, but failed
18 August 2000: too much sushi, no movie
25 August 2000: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead


1 September 2000: Ghost Dog
8 September 2000: SGT. KABUKI-MAN N.Y.P.D. (it was a present from kjc to eric)
15 September 2000: nuthin' (I was in California; everyone else sat around & talked)
22 September 2000: The Italian Job (it's got MINIS!!)
29 September 2000: Replay of the season premiere of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER


("Got it. No more butt monkey."), then much tasty food in the Jewish Tradition, and
finally - THE THING (1950's version) "KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES!"


6 October 2000: This week's BUFFY and the premiere of James Cameron's tv series DARK ANGEL
13 October 2000: Mostly didn't happen in favor of Steve & Tom's housewarming!
20 October 2000: U-571
27 October 2000: Jet Li's THE LEGEND OF FONG SAI YUK


3 November 2000: TOY STORY 2 (I bought the Toy Story Box Set! Woo!)
10 November 2000: DIE HARD! (yeah yeah, old, I know, but it was a blow-off-steam kinda


night and we needed some mindless explosions)

17 November 2000: ??
24 November 2000: ??


1 December 2000: ??
8 December 2000: Buckaroo Bonzai
15 December 2000: ??
22 December 2000: Fishing With Ghandi
29 December 2000: ??

5 January 2001: ??
12 January 2001: ??
19 January 2001: Bill Plympton's THE TUNE
26 January 2001: Strictly Ballroom


2 February 2001: Weird Science
9 February 2001: X-MEN
16 February 2001: Metropolis & 1984
23 February 2001: BRING IT ON! (and we had fondue!)


2 March 2001: DICK! (Nixon, non-anatomical)
9 March 2001: nuthin' (we just talked)
16 March 2001: Love's Labor's Lost (2000) - I AM SO SORRY!
23 March 2001: Eating Raoul
30 March 2001: The Hudsucker Proxy (you know! for kids!)


6 April 2001: Hmm... something random I found at Hollywood Express
13 April 2001: nuthin' (conversations ruled the evening)
20 April 2001: Gone in 60 Seconds (and a Make Yer Own Sunday night!)
27 April 2001: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure


4 May 2001: Nightwatch (actually, after most folks had left - Cecilia
& I have been meaning to get around to seeing it for years)
11 May 2001: Psycho Beach Party (and a surprise b-day partee for meee!)
18 May 2001: The Emporer's New Groove
25 May 2001: NO DAAM

1 June 2001: The Million Dollar Hotel AND Girl Fight


THIS MARKS THE END OF DAAMS AT THE RANCH.

MOVIES WE'RE THINKING OF SEEING:

House of Yes
Romeo Must Die (2000) - Jet Li in yet another American remake of Romeo & Juliet
GEN-X Cops (1999) - Hong Kong action flick with new young brats
The Stunt Man (1980) - Peter O'Toole thriller
The French Connection (1971) - Gene Hackman thriller
Uptown Saturday Night (1974) - Sidney Poitier & Bill Cosby extreme silliness
Murder in the First (Kevin Bacon flick about an Alcatraz prisoner in the 1930's)
Color of Night (Possible tanker from Bruce Willis)
Final Judgement (Possible tanker from Brad Dourif)
Naturally Native
Gray's Anatomy
Yojimbo
Silverado
The Mighty Quinn
The Avengers (old TV version)
The Governess (it's got Minnie Driver)
Touch of Evil (restored ver.) (Orson Welles)
Next Stop Wonderland (supposed to be cute and good)
THE BUTCHER BOY (wicked depressing and good)
THE CELEBRATION (Danish, supposedly good)
Coffee and Cigarettes
Fallen Angels
Fishing With John (Vols. 1-3)

Tom Waits with a fish in his pants, etc.

Fargo
The Saint (TV series)
StormRiders (Computer-enhanced kung fu flick everybody's raving about)
Jim Jarmusch flick (MYSTERY TRAIN, STRANGER THAN PARADISE)
FALLEN ANGELS (per Janet's recommendation)
GORKY PARK
LENINGRAD COWBOYS GO AMERICA
The Producers
Bullets over Broadway
Mighty Aphrodite
HONALULU - George Burns & Gracie Allen
YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (1938)
A classic comedy that's been remade many times; I forget why I wanted to see the 1938 version - probably for Jimmy Stewart & Lionel Barrymore

A bunch of Michael Caine spy flix:

As Harry Palmer:
THE IPCRESS FILE (1965)
FUNERAL IN BERLIN (1966)
Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
Midnight in St. Petersburg (1995)
Bullet to Beijing (1995)

Others...
THE JIGSAW MAN
THE WIND AND THE LION

THE THIRD MAN - weird, famous Orson Welles flick
AS GOOD AS IT GETS - the Jack Nicholson comedy from last year
ED WOOD - Johnny Depp as the infamous director
IL POSTINO
A poet helps a postman in Italy (the highest rated foreign film before LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL came along)

Holcroft Covenant
Educating Rita
Queen Margot
Dogs in Space
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Trainspotting
Crash
The Muppet Movie
The Unbelievable Truth
My Life as a Dog
Circle of Iron
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Total Balalaika Show
Harold and Maude
Bound
Lethal Weapon 4
The Day The Earth Stood Still (aka Klaatu Barada Nictu, 1951)
Peter Sellers' penultimate Being There
Family Plot (1976), Hitchcock's last movie
Dirty Work
(1998 Norm Macdonald vehicle about people who get revenge for you)

Flight of the Raven
(robin sez: for next time we want an odd foreign film. its in icelandic with english subtitles, set in 1100's or so, and very, very cool. its got the best head-lopping-off scene i can recall seeing. reportedly very historically accurate as well.)

Pret-a-Porter aka Ready To Wear
Malcolm
Once We Were Warriors
Shallow Grave
Star Trek: First Contact
The Spanish Prisoner
Halloween
Mouse Hunt
The Avengers (the movie)
Jacob's Ladder

GHOST DOG (1999)
stars Forest Whitaker as a mysterious New York hit man who lives simply on a tenement rooftop and follows a code of behavior outlined in Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai; perfect DAAM movie

Buck & The Preacher (1972)
Sidney Poitier & Harry Belafonte period western; great movie but too slow for DAAM

Nightwatch (1998)
(Ewan MacGregor flick about a college kid as a nightwatchman in a
morgue; murder/horror, based on a 1994 Danish movie called
Nattevagten, same screenwriter)

Dragon Gate (1999 martial arts flick)

MOVIES WHOSE EXISTENCE FASCINATE US BUT THAT WE (or some portion of "we") DON'T WANT TO SEE (at least right now):

I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle

MOVIES MOST OF US SAW IN THE THEATERS (and so don't want to see it again so soon, or it was overwhelming or roundly vetoed - y'know, the kind of movie many respect but don't want to see again for a few years):

The Pillow Book
Farewell, My Concubine

MOVIES WE LOVE LOVE *L*O*V*E* (and have been known to watch over and over and over):

Alien (and Aliens et cetera with decreasing affection)
Blade Runner
Buckaroo Banzai
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Lone Star
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Sneakers
War Games
Weird Genius
Wing Chun
Young Frankenstein

(These lists are by NO MEANS complete - I started with the movies I know & like & will fill in more as I get time.)

Jackie Chan flix:

36 Crazy Fists (HAVEN'T SEEN IT)
The Accidental Spy (Te wu mi cheng, 2001) - HAVEN'T SEEN IT
All In The Family (1975)
Armour of God (1986)
Armour of God II: Operation Condor (1990)
The Big Brawl (aka Battle Creek Brawl, 1980)
Cannonball Run (1981)
City Hunter (1992)
Dragon Fist (aka In Eagle Dragon Fist, 1979) Dragons Forever (1987)
Drunken Master (1979)
Drunken Master II (1994)
Fearless Hyena (1979)
Gorgeous (1999) (really sweet romantic comedy)
Half a Loaf of Kung Fu (1980)
The Killer Meteors (1976)
Kung Fu Girl (1983) HAVEN'T SEEN IT
Magnificent Bodyguards (1978)
Miracles: The Canton Godfather (aka Mr. Canton and Lady Rose, 1989)
Mr. Nice Guy (aka No More Mr. Nice Guy, 1998)
My Lucky Stars (1985)
New Fist of Fury (1976)
Police Story (all 4 - sorta 5 - of them)
The Prisoner (1990)
Project A (1983)
Project A Part II (1987)
The Protector (1985)
Rumble in the Bronx (1995)
Rush Hour (1998)
Shanghai Noon (2000) (funny, American-made)
Shaolin Wooden Men (1976)
Snake & Crane Arts of Shaolin (HAVEN'T SEEN IT)
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (HAVEN'T SEEN IT)
Spiritual Kung Fu (1978)
To Kill With Intrigue (1977)
Thunderbolt (1995)
Twin Dragons (1992)
Who Am I? (1998)
Young Master (1980)

Jet Li flix:

The Bodyguard from Beijing (HAVEN'T SEEN IT)
Dragon Fight
Fist of Legend (HAVEN'T SEEN IT)
Fong Sai Yuk
Fong Sai Yuk Part II
High Risk
Hitman (aka King of Assassins)
The Kung Fu Cult Master
Last Hero in China (aka Iron Rooster Vs. the Centipede)
Lethal Weapon 4
The Master (aka Wong fei hung) (HAVEN'T SEEN IT)
My Father Is a Hero (HAVEN'T SEEN IT)
Once Upon a Time in China (all 6 of them) (Have only seen #2)
Romeo Must Die (HAVEN'T SEEN IT)
Swordsman II (HAVEN'T SEEN IT)
The Tai Chi Master
AND a whole lotta SHAOLIN movies I haven't seen

John Woo flix:

A Better Tomorrow (HAVEN'T SEEN IT)
A Better Tomorrow II (HAVEN'T SEEN IT)
Broken Arrow
Face-Off
The Killers

Michelle Yeoh flix:

Heroic Trio
Heroic Trio 2: The Executioners
The Holy Weapon (aka The Seven Princesses)
Police Story 3
Police Story 4: Project S
The Tai Chi Master
Tomorrow Never Dies
Wing Chun