This post is basically a statistical overview of my movie year. Since 2012 I’ve managed to watch more than the equivalent of one new-to-me movie per day (in 2014 I watched 402), but this year I fell a little short. Though it was great watching more than 365 movies per year for the past 3 years,…
Happy New Year! I can’t believe it’s already 2016, for me the year went by rather quickly, especially this last month. As it was the holiday season, I didn’t watch as many new-to-me films as I would have liked, but I still watched a great amount with nearly 50 films watched in total. About half…
Set in the Parisian theatre scene during the 19th century, the film follows the beautiful courtesan Garance (Arletty) and the four men who love her: actor Frédérick Lemaître (Pierre Brasseur), criminal Pierre François Lacenaire (Marcel Herrand), aristocrat Édouard de Montray (Louis Salou), and mime Baptiste Debureau (Jean-Louis Barrault).
Noirvember was the name of the game this past month, and I watched nearly 50 noir films total! That includes re-watches of course, but the majority of the films I watched were new-to-me (you can see everything I watched for Noirvember here). Between that and TCM’s Noir Summer in June and July, I think it’s…
A nurse named Alma (Bibi Andersson) is assigned to take care of actress Elisabet Vogler (Liv Ullmann), who has suddenly become mute. Under the advice of the hospital administrator, the two women seclude themselves at a seaside cottage. During their time together, Alma continuously talks to Elisabet, often detailing personal experiences. Though she doesn’t receive any…
I watched a lot of movies in October with the grand total being 63! But nearly half of those were re-watches, mostly thanks to my Disney retrospective that I continued, where I revisited 15 films (from 1951’s Alice in Wonderland to 1988’s Oliver & Company). In celebration of finally being in the future, I also watched the…
On the night of his daughter’s third birthday, a man named Dae-su (Choi Min-sik) is mysteriously kidnapped. After 15 years of imprisonment, he’s released without explanation. Still trapped in a web of conspiracy, Dae-su begins a quest for vengeance as he tries to unravel the mystery behind his captor’s identity and his motives.
So in August, I watched I total of 65 films total…in September I watched 60. But a good chunk of that was re-watches, mostly due to starting an impromptu retrospective on Disney’s animated films. I watched the PBS documentary on Walt Disney and just wanted to revisit the movies I grew up on soon after…
An aging couple travels from their rural village to visit their two married children in Tokyo. Upon their arrival though, they are met with a disappointing reception, as their children and their families give them little attention. Their behavior contrasts that of their widowed daughter-in-law, who tries her best to entertain and accommodate them. Following the trip,…
August is easily my biggest movie-watching month this year as I watched 65 films total! I can’t imagine I’ll top the number in the following months…but I guess we’ll have to wait and see. That big number was really thanks to TCM (as usual), as I caught up with the rest of their films from…