Favorite Viewing of The Month?

So this thread is here for discussing what your favorite movie you saw this month was. This could work for any month of the year really, but today is the end of January.

Here is everything I saw this month:

Three Women
High Hopes
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
The Mikado
The Fabulous Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Jules and Jim
A Woman Is A Woman
Sullivan's Travels
It Happened One Night.
Deep End

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It Happened One Night(1934)



I know I only saw this 3 days ago, but it was such a fun trip that it is hard to deny it. Now I want a mustache like Clark Gable's. I think I even learned a thing about how to dip a donut as well.

Good idea. Hope it lasts.

January '23:

Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets - A not quite drama, not quite documentary from 2020 about the last day of a Las Vegas bar. Finding a great movie from 2020 is like digging up a valuable artifact since it's sort of a lost year.

Death Duel - A beautiful Shaw Brothers movie that's sort of like a wuxia version of The Gunslinger.

Heart of Glass - A great folk tale-like dirge about the collapse of society done in the most Herzog of ways: watching the death of a tiny Bavarian town when something bad happens at its glass factory.

I really need to rewatch Heart of Glass one of these days. I watched it very early into branching out into more esoteric fare, and I found it interesting, but didn't really know how to respond to it (which I now realize isn't such a bad thing)

You may have watched it during good times. Pardon the pessimism, but you may get into it more now that it seems like the end is nigh.

Mine would be between:


Coherence
What Happened Was
The Velvet Underground


Because I watched the Velvet documentary twice, I guess by default that wins. But this also isn't a fare competition. Even if that doc wasnt the best, the subject matter would bias me to such a point it would still win


Between those two fictional films though.....Ugh, they are both so stellar I have no idea.


Coin flip says Coherence, but they are as interchangeably great as they are completely different kinds of films

The good old days of never leaving my bed and watching six movies a day and understanding none of them.


*sigh*


Resumes work on failed time machine

Like @Torgo, I don't think I can pick just one...

La La Land - Fantastic musical with several memorable sequences, wonderful use of color, and a stellar soundtrack.

Good Time - A Safdie Bros. film. Sort of a neo-noir combo of a heist flick and a pseudo prison break with tense atmosphere, a slick synth score and a top notch performance from Robert Pattinson.

Aftersun - A moving account of a long-ago father/daughter vacation to Turkey, told through various memories shown via old camcorder footage as well as film. A fantastic first effort from a new director on the scene.

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Aftersun just popped up on my level of awareness. I should check that out. Sounds 100 percent my kind of thing

January 2023:

The Unbelievable Truth (1989) -

Being my second Hartley film, he's definitely someone I'll pay close attention to down the road as I really enjoy the vibes of his films. The characters in his films act somewhat strange and don't always behave like real people, but since I don't view them as real people and accept the off-kilter behavior they show, this works really well for me. Yet, in spite of this, there are clear emotional stakes in his films and I form connections to the characters anyways. Topped with this being the opposite of a laugh out loud-style comedy (which I'm usually not a fan of), this is currently my favorite first-time viewing of this year.

Un Chant D'Amour (1950) -

I can only imagine how shocking this short was when it was released. I already knew the sexual content in it would be explicit, but...damn. It's much more than just sexual content though as, given the photography and the mood of the film, it's rather hypnotic. Whether you're referring to the grounded scenes of the prisoners interacting with each other, the recurring shot of the prisoners attempting to swing a small bouquet of flowers between cells (which is a microcosm for their situation), or the fantasy-based love scenes between them which occur outside the prison cells, this is a rather beautiful film since the two leads are so close, yet so far away from each other.

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So far, I feel like I've been giving out more 7/10's and 6/10's than I usually do. Hopefully, February will fare better for me.

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Also, good thread idea

I watched 68 feature films plus 11 short films in January. My top 3 first time watches:

1. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
2. TÁR
3. Lilya 4-ever

Lilya 4-ever is great

I mostly caught up on 2022 this month, so my favorite was:




Also, bummed High Hopes wasn’t your favorite. Absolutely love that movie.

Hopefully this thread does well. Cool idea.

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Love that scene where Clark shows Claudette how to dunk a donut.

Correct!


I've watched a lot this month. I don't think I could pick just one favorite.

My favorite films viewed this month were The Menu, Notorious, and Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio

Watched about 28 films I think?
Crammed a bunch over the weekend on Criterion before certain films went away.
Top 3

The Bitter Tears of Petra Van Kant
Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl
Damnation

Yes, excellent!

1. To Leslie
2. Certified Copy
3. Banshees of Inisherin

I just started getting into Fassbinder (finally!) now that I have Criterion (also….finally!). I’ll be binging more of his films in the Coming months.