Saturday, February 1, 2014

Films I Saw in January

Johnny Guitar

The Best:

1. Johnny Guitar - ****
2. Paris, Texas - ****
3. Les Misérables (1934) - ****
4. Seance on a Wet Afternoon - ****
5. Inside Llewyn Davis - ****
6. Mother of George - ****
7. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - ****
8. Twentieth Century - ****
9. Her - ****
10. Our Children - ****

The Rest:

The Act of Killing - ***1/2
The Americanization of Emily - ***1/2
August: Osage County - ***
The Bridges at Toko-Ri - ***
Byzantium - ***
Carmen Jones - **
Cleopatra (1934) - ***
Computer Chess - **
The Conjuring - **1/2
The East - ***
The Gay Divorcee - ***
The Goddess (1934) - ***1/2
Hail the Conquering Hero - ***1/2
The High and the Mighty - ***
Howl's Moving Castle - ***
I'm So Excited! - ***
Imitation of Life (1934) - ***
Jack Ryan: Shadow Circuit - ***
Jane Eyre (1944) - **1/2
The Keys of the Kingdom - ***
The Killing Fields - ***1/2
Lone Survivor - ***
The Lost Patrol - ***
Love Is All You Need - **1/2
Magnificent Obsession - ***
The Matador - ***1/2
Ministry of Fear - ***
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek - ****
Moscow on the Hudson - ***
Mr. Skeffington - ***
Museum Hours - ***1/2
Mysterious Skin - **1/2
One Night of Love - **1/2
A Passage to India - ***1/2
The Sapphires - ***
The Scarlet Empress - ***
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) - ***
Something in the Air - ***
La Strada - ***1/2
Thanks for Sharing - ***
Three Coins in the Fountain - **1/2
The Uninvited - ***1/2
The Westerner - ***
Wilson - ***
The Woman in the Window - ***
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet - ***1/2
Zorba the Greek - ***1/2

Rewatched:

Arsenic and Old Lace - ****
The Bling Ring - ***1/2
Murder, My Sweet - ****
The New World - ****
School of Rock - ***
The Wolf of Wall Street - ****

63 Films Watched - 57 New, 6 Rewatched

8 comments:

  1. Wow, great list here, I wish I had the time to get through as many films as you :)

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  2. I've added Seance on a Wet Afternoon to my horror watchlist, although I'm not even sure if it is horror /:
    Another low score in blogosphere for Computer Chess, I think I can safely skip that one (:
    What did you think of Museum Hours? I thought the middle act was the weakest part, but it started and ended quite well.

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    1. Seance is more of a psychological thriller than a horror. ;)

      I wanted to like Computer Chess, but I just couldn't get into it.

      I agree on Museum Hours. Also, I loved the chemistry between the leads, and the cinematography was fantastic.

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  3. As always, I'm flabbergasted by how many films you saw Josh. That's like 2 movies per day! What's Johnny Guitar about? Hope you'd review that one Josh, I'm always looking for classic recommendations :)

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    1. Don't know if I'll review Johnny Guitar or not. It's a western about a saloon owner (Joan Crawford) who's wrongfully accused of murder and gets mixed up with a band of suspected outlaws. That's a very general synopsis, though.

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  4. Lots of goodies on this list! I've never seen all of Johnny Guitar. I need to fix that.

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    1. Oh, that's a nice problem to fix. Hope you like it!

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