February was another movie-filled month, though I didn’t watch quite as many movies as I did in January. Probably my biggest enjoyment this past month was watching more of Pedro Almodóvar’s films after TCM played several of them the previous month. So now I’m just one movie away from completing his filmography! Before this year,…
September was a big movie-filled month, primarily because I ended it with another trip to New York City for the opening weekend of the New York Film Festival! As you may remember, I attended the last weekend of NYFF back in 2017, and I’ve wanted to go again since then, so I’m glad I was…
As is the norm for the month of August, I watched a bunch of movies thanks to TCM’s annual Summer Under the Stars program. I watched at least one new-to-me movie for each featured star, though I simply re-watched a movie for the days dedicated to James Stewart, Audrey Hepburn, and Fred Astaire since I…
We’re officially a month into 2017, and it’s already been quite a year… but as I do on my blog, we’ll just focus on the movies I watched, and I kicked off the first month of the year with a great selection of movies. For starters, I had the immense pleasure of seeing Singin’ in the…
After her longtime lover leaves her without explanation, Pepa (Carmen Maura) resolves to kill herself with a batch of gazpacho laced with sleeping pills. Before she can go through with her plan, she’s interrupted by a chaotic series of events; from her friend Candela (María Barranco) trying to evade police because of her ex-boyfriend’s criminal activities, and…
I don’t have a lot to say for the introduction of this post, just that it’s been another fun year in movie-watching. I also managed to watch at least one new-to-me film a day, which was sometimes tough to do in between my coursework but I was up to the challenge and did it! Anyway,…