Favorite Viewing of The Month?

Sound and Fury (1988)

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Another good month:
Assassin (Shinoda is a master)
Joint Security Area
Blackkklansman
The Station Agent
The Mirror (1997)
*this is better then A Moment of Innocence
Italian For Beginners
3:10 to Yuma (original)
The Killer (2023)

I didn't do as much movie watching in May as I usually do (or have been doing), but I did see some blindingly great cinematic triumphs that wowed me. Amongst them were The Devils, There Will Be Blood, Love Exposure, Aftersun, Seconds and November (2017).


There were many other films with distinction which must be mentioned and taken note of : The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, A Visitor to a Museum, The Phantom Carriage, A Night to Remember, Petite Maman, Notorious, Beau Travail, Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché and HyperNormalisation. I sometimes feel the urge to tell everyone I can about these great movies, but they'll likely say "Oh, that sounds good. I must see that," and then proceed to never, ever, watch them.

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That looks great - it's gone straight into my watchlist.

June '24:

Pearl - A big improvement over X and my new favorite movie about pandemic life.

A Very Long Engagement - Finally saw this. Audrey Tautou is one of the best and most charming actresses of all time. I miss seeing her regularly.

American Pop - Ralph Bakshi's journey through American popular music of the 20th century and the many shades of fatherhood. Probably my new favorite movie of his.

I watched 110 movies last month, most of them musicals.

My favourite first time viewings:
Inside Out 2
Ed and His Dead Mother
Wonka
How to Carry Water
Wish

Favourite rewatches:
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Sleepaway Camp
Curly Top

1) Gasoline Rainbow
2) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
3) In Fabric
4) L'etrangleur
5) Zone of Interest
6) First Reformed
7) Damnation
8) Melvin Goes to Dinner
9) Tchoupitoulas
10) Exorcist: Believer

Have you ever "done" RHPS at your local theater?

No, I haven't. I have only ever watched it at home by myself.

That is definitely a very safe way to enjoy it. I have "done" the RHPS at a few places, including Manhattan, and it is fun, but you get a lot of rice all over you!

Shouting out my two 5 stars this month. On top of being engaging, both just happen to look excetional.

I Am Cuba


Trenque Lauquen

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“Except for markf, you’re all a disgrace to cinema.”

25th Hour
City Girl
Jean de Florette

Another good month of films! In no particular order:

Still Walking
In A Violent Nature (T)
Yakuza Graveyard
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
No Bears
The Cat
Them!
Comrades: Almost A Love Story
Sorcerer
Night and the City
The Quiet Earth
Air Doll
The Addiction

That is a good month. Big fan of the bolded.

The other horror lovers here need to check out In a Violent Nature, which I saw last weekend. It disturbed me greatly. Will share my thoughts later this week.

Death Whisperer: A horror film from Thailand. It pays tribute to Evil Dead but isn't trying to copy the movie. The special effects are surprisingly good, too. At least here in Finland, it's on Netflix. 3.5/5

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July - Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973).

I finished July with 116 films watched. I watched films from every decade from the 1920s to the 2020s.

My favourite first time viewings:

Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023)
A Week Away (2021)
It Happened at the World’s Fair (1963)
Follow That Bird (1985)
Next Level (2019)
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
Pumpkin Spiced Musical (2022)
MaXXXine (2024)
Back to the Beach (1987)

July '24:

Goin' Down the Road - Canadian classic about two Maritimers having a hard time making it in the big city.

The Right Stuff - American classic about Project Mercury.

High Noon - A perfect if not discouraging Western about how little people are willing to fight for law and order if there's nothing in it for themselves.

I recently rewatched Bunuel's "Viridiana" and wow, it's so good.

Our Century (1983)