November seemed to go by in a flash, with a lot of exciting screenings around town filling up another month of movie-watching. I got to see several of my very favorite movies for the first time on the big screen, including The Lady Eve, Dodsworth, and The Clock on 35mm, as well as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and The More the Merrier, the latter of which featured a wonderful introduction by George Stevens Jr. and Annette Bening. I also finally got around to watching Greed for a special 100th anniversary screening at the Egyptian on 35mm with a live score. And I got to see Sophia Loren in person ahead of a screening of her Oscar-winning performance in Two Women as a part of a retrospective series celebrating the actress’s 90th birthday at the Academy Museum. Other screenings with special guests I attended this month were for new releases, including A Real Pain with Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, and Jennifer Grey, Inside Out 2 with Kelsey Mann, Amy Poehler, Tony Hale, and June Squibb, Queer with Daniel Craig, and Spellbound with Alan Menken. Between all the great theater experiences, I also spent much of the month watching noir films at home for the annual Noirvember. Before going through everything I watched in November, I should also mention that I made my yearly appearance on The Matinee podcast, where host Ryan McNeil and I talked about Sean Baker’s new film Anora, along with other movie-related topics as usual. So be sure to take a listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts.

New-to-Me Films by Decade:

• 1910s – 0
• 1920s – 1
• 1930s – 1
• 1940s – 5
• 1950s – 15
• 1960s – 3
• 1970s – 0
• 1980s – 2
• 1990s – 1
• 2000s – 0
• 2010s – 0
• 2020s – 7

List of New-to-Me Films:

1. Strange Fascination (1952)
2. Strange Illusion (1945)
3. Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
4. World for Ransom (1954)
5. Persons in Hiding (1939)
6. Small Things Like These (2024)
7. Cry Vengeance (1954)
8. Time Table (1956)
9. Outrage (1950)
10. A Real Pain (2024)
11. Le trou (1960)
12. The Face Behind the Mask (1941)
13. Cry of the Hunted (1953)
14. The Lost Moment (1947)
15. All My Sons (1948)
16. Inside Out 2 (2024)
17. The Tattered Dress (1957)
18. Mirage (1965)
19. Queer (2024)
20. Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
21. Jigsaw (1949)
22. Greed (1924)
23. 8 Million Ways to Die (1986)
24. Black Tuesday (1954)
25. Two of a Kind (1951)
26. Wicked (2024)
27. Gladiator II (2024)
28. Fear City (1984)
29. Shack Out on 101 (1955)
30. Borderline (1950)
31. The Bride Wore Black (1968)
32. 23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)
33. Spellbound (2024)
34. The Whip Hand (1951)
35. The Unholy Wife (1957)

List of Re-Watched Films:

1. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
2. Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
3. Key Largo (1948)
4. Two Women (1960)
5. The Lady Eve (1941)
6. Le deuxième souffle (1966)
7. Dodsworth (1936)
8. Strangers on a Train (1951)
9. The Clock (1945)
10. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
11. The Big Combo (1955)
12. Gladiator (2000)
13. The More the Merrier (1943)
14. Trapped (1949)
15. Woman on the Run (1950)
16. Pocahontas (1995)
17. Wicked (2024)
18. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
19. Laura (1944)
20. Nosferatu (1922)
21. Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
22. Naked Alibi (1954)

List of Films I Saw in Theaters (re-watches marked in italics):

1. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
2. Persons in Hiding (1939)
3. Small Things Like These (2024)
4. Two Women (1960)
5. A Real Pain (2024)
6. The Lady Eve (1941)
7. Dodsworth (1936)
8. Strangers on a Train (1951)
9. The Clock (1945)
10. Inside Out 2 (2024)
11. Queer (2024)
12. Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)
13. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
14. Greed (1924)
15. Wicked (2024)
16. Gladiator II (2024)
17. The More the Merrier (1943)
18. Spellbound (2024)
19. Wicked (2024)