With the stay-at-home order in effect through April, I took that time to watch a ton of movies and even ended up watching the exact same amount of movies that were either new-to-me or ones I’ve seen before. The high re-watch count was mostly because of the TCMFF: Special Home Edition, which ran from April…
With FilmStruck shutting down at the end of November, I spent most of the month watching as many of the movies on my watchlist as possible. I couldn’t get to every movie, but I did manage to watch a good chunk! I posted some of my thoughts on the streaming service shutting down a couple…
August was a hectic month for me, so I didn’t get to watch as many movies as I usually do, but I still managed to reach the double digits. Unfortunately, I didn’t watch as many movies for TCM’s Summer Under the Stars program this year; in the past two years I had watched around 50(!)…
Kanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura) is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for thirty years. When he learns he has terminal cancer and has only months to live, he decides to try to find meaning in his life.
This month was much more evenly spread across the decades compared to previous months, as I happened to watch at least one film per decade (starting from the 1920s). My Billy Wilder class wrapped up at the beginning of the month; in May I watched a number of his films outside of class for the…
March was a great month for me, as it usually is because it’s my birthday month. I watched a lot of movies that I found quite enjoyable, even ones that aren’t considered “great” (such as The Towering Inferno, I really liked it, though a lot of that might be due to the all-star cast). Then…