New Year's Resolutions: Movies (Take 2)

A: Not well at all.
Q: What's a good phrase to describe how well Goatdog followed his movie-watching resolutions last year?

But this is the United States of America, the land of second chances, so I'm going to give my 2006 resolutions another go. I really want to see these movies. I have many of them in my possession. I could walk to the DVD player right. now. and put one of them in. In 2007, I hope to do that a little more often. (But how could I not?)

Three Ingmar Bergman films
1. Autumn Sonata (1978)
2. The Hour of the Wolf (1968)
3. Persona (1966)

Three Federico Fellini films
1. La Dolce Vita (1960)
2. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
3. Juliet of the Spirits (1965)

Three Rainer Werner Fassbinder films
1. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
2. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
3. Fox and His Friends (1975)

Three older Japanese films that aren't directed by Akira Kurosawa
1. Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story (1953)
2. Masahiro Shinoda's Double Suicide (1969)
3. Kihachi Okamoto's Sword of Doom (1966). Brief review here.

Three Iranian films
1. Abbas Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry (1997)
2. Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Gabbeh (1996)
3. Samira Makhmalbaf's Blackboards (2000). Full review here.

Three Russian films
1. Mikheil Kalatozishvili's The Cranes Are Flying (1957). I saw this one but didn't write anything about it. 4 goats.
2. Andrei Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev (1969)
3. Aleksandr Sokurov's Russian Ark (2002)

Three films from the Balkans
1. Emir Kusturica's Underground (1995)
2. Milcho Manchevski's Before the Rain (1994)
3. Goran Paskaljevic's Cabaret Balkan (1998)

Three African films
1. Ousmane Sembene's Xala (1975)
2. Abderrahmane Sissako's Life on Earth (1998)
3. Issa Serge Coelo's Daresalam (2000). Full review here.

Three "important" documentaries (you know, the ones that end up on best-of lists)
1. Barbara Kopple's Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976). I saw this one, but didn't write anything about it. 5 goats.
2. The Maysles brothers' Grey Gardens (1975). Same with this one: the viewing, the not writing, and the rating.
3. Robert J. Flaherty Nanook of the North (1922)