Movie Club Movie of the Year Poll

Sarah lounges in a mahogany coloured chesterfield basking in the glow of an open fire. She is wearing a black and gold tartan satin robe with a cravat and open heeled slippers. She is nonchalantly puffing on a Cuban cigar and occasionally nips her cognac from an oversized balloon glass; mulling over the taste with poise and reflection.

SARAH

2006. The year that was. And what a year it was. From humble beginnings Movie Club sprung and blossomed through international political turmoil, racial angst, coupled attendances, frosted conditions, misjudged Bolognese, lonely hearts of gold, heroine addictions, teen incest, poisoned leis, trout fishing, and people turning into whales. Quite a year.

Throughout the year we have bared witness to the befuddled delineation of a burgeoning cinematic genre, the expose of a husband’s true identity, the expose of Melquiades Estrada’s true identity, badly delegated nick names, ballerina’s who probably should be dead and unconvincing elections regarding the vice presidency.

Despite the hardships, the good times ran like a river of joyous over consumption as the booze flowed freely after the block party, love’s heart ache made for bittersweet melancholics to well up most Monday nights, brothers were released from institutions and found an endearing and charmingly hilarious sense of belonging amongst movie club as the numbers of swelled and bloated like Bukowski’s grog-rouged face.

And, as always, fantasy and reality have intertwined themselves so completely within my memory that it is nearly impossible to untangle the messy chaos that is the pieces of my mind.

And so I welcome one and all to the Movie Club Movie of the Year Poll for 2006.

Below is a complete list of every film we, (the collective and wide spread ‘we’ of the Movie Clubbery caliber) attended in 2006. If you wish to refresh your memory of said films please take your delicately clicking little mousey wowsey and lightly rap a tap tap the title below and it will spin you across a webbed and cybered universe, gently coming into land at the appropriate review which will also contain a link to the film’s website.

But now please enjoy, what has taken quite a number of leisure hours to compile, the movie club movie of the year poll list…

Sarah nips her cognac thoughtfully as we fade to black.

1. Syrianna
2. Crash
3. March of the Penguins
4. A History of Violence
5. The Squid and The Whale
6. The Manual of Love
7. Tsotsi
8. Dave Chappelle’s Block Party
9. Drawing Restraint #9
10. Neil Young: Heart of Gold
11. Candy
12. Three burials of Melquiades Estrada
13. Ballet Russes
14. The Chumbscrubber
15. So I Married an Axe Murderer and The Labrynith
16. Factotum
17. Ten Canoes
18. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (check out this website its pretty cool)
19. Jindabyne
20. Beyond the Sea
21. Funny Ha Ha
    
22. Tideland
23. Sticky Carpet
24. Meredith Music Festival
25. Seven Swords
26. Miami Vice
27. 2:37
28. Snakes on a Plane
29. Thank You For Not Smoking
30. Kenny
31. C.R.A.Z.Y
32. Marie Antoinette
33. Offside
34. little miss sunshine
35. Children of men
36. Wordplay
37. A guide to recognising your saints
38. Borat

With an uncomfortable style and genre jump, we cut back to Sarah who is standing in front of a local skate park. She is wearing a tight boob tube and is wearing sunglasses. Her hair keeps getting blown into her mouth by the wind. She has an annoying forced enthusiasm for the blather she is sprouting.

SARAH

Wasn't that cool? These guys behind me at the local skate park are pretty cool too. Cause skating's cool, its so 1979.

So guys, all you have to do to vote in the Movie Club Movie of the Year Poll is click on the link that says ‘post a comment’, down below, then like type your top five, High Fidelity style, movies of the year in no particular order into the comment box. You can post your Top Five anonymously or hit the circle that says ‘other’, then type your name in then hit ‘publish comment’. Easy as pie, ey?

You can see my illuminating Top Five by hitting the comments link! Knock yourselves out! Or click here!

Ok guys that’s all for this week. When Movie Club returns good and

proper well into the new year, we’re going to be expanding, with more guest reviewers lined up and, well, a movie once a week as usual. Catch ya then! Bi-eye.

Sarah waves annoyingly and frantically at the camera.

Credits roll with soft nu punk emo esque music playing, cause we're hip and trendy at Movie Club!

Post Script…
One quality of my writing which I have noted whilst compiling this comprehensive list is that of frank and occasionally brutal shitness. The log line to the blog reads ‘rambling movie reviews from an ex-arts student with nothing better to do with her time’...I view this statement, no longer as witty self deprecation and sardonic yet sophisticated humour as originally intended. Instead, it proclaims the upfront cruelty that only the cold slap with the wet fish across the face of reality provides. The reviews themselves are misguided, rambling and often confusing. I have an annoying habit of starting one sentence structure then ending with an entirely different one which is an annoying habit I have (get it?).

Thus, dear readership, my New Years Resolution is to provide you with well informed, grammatically correct (to the best of my ability) and just plain non-crap reviews.

fin.