Sunday, June 1, 2014

Films I Saw in May

The Quiet Man

The Best:

1. The Quiet Man - ****
2. Ivan's Childhood - ****
3. Love Me Tonight - ****
4. Wooden Crosses - ****
5. One Hour with You - ****
6. Umberto D. - ****
7. Ride the High Country - ****
8. One of Our Aircraft is Missing - ****
9. Ikiru - ****
10. Vivre Sa Vie - ****

The Rest:

Across 110th Street - ***
Advise and Consent - ***1/2
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - ***
Birdman of Alcatraz - ***
The Black Swan - ***1/2
Boudu Saved from Drowning - ***
The Candidate (1972) - ****
Cape Fear (1962) - ***1/2
Carnival of Souls - **1/2
Casque d'Or - ****
Come Back, Little Sheba - ***
L'Eclisse - ***1/2
A Farewell to Arms (1932) - ***
Five Fingers - ***1/2
Forbidden Games - ***1/2
49th Parallel - ***1/2
Freaks - ****
Godzilla (2014) - ***
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang - ***1/2
I Was Born, But… - ***
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) - ***
Ivanhoe (1952) - **1/2
Johnny Eager - **1/2
Kings Row - ***1/2
Limelight - ***1/2
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - ***1/2
Long Day's Journey Into Night - ***
Maleficent - **
The Man Who Came to Dinner - ***
The Most Dangerous Game - ***1/2
Moulin Rouge (1952) - ***
Murmur of the Heart - ***1/2
The Music Man (1962) - ****
Now, Voyager - ***1/2
One Way Passage - ****
The Palm Beach Story - ****
The Pied Piper (1942) - ***
Random Harvest - ***
Red Dust - ***1/2
Roxie Hart - **1/2
The Sign of the Cross - ***1/2
Sudden Fear - ****
This Gun for Hire - ***
Trouble in Paradise - ****
Vampyr - ***1/2
Veronica Guerin - ***
Woman of the Year - ***
X-Men: Days of Future Past - ***1/2

Rewatched:

None

58 Films Watched - 58 New, 0 Rewatched

10 comments:

  1. That's a lot of films. Off the top of my head I mostly saw a lot of b-movies, plus the recent Godzilla, When Worlds Collide, the surprisingly good film noir Act of Violence and the less interesting Mystery Street (basically imagine the show Bones if it were made in the 1940's and didn't have any strong female characters and you basically have that movie).

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    1. Yeah, I usually see at least 50 films a month. Oh, I really want to see Act of Violence. I love film noir, and I hear Robert Ryan is great in it.

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  2. As always...impressive and envy inducing list.

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  3. Once again, impressive number of films you saw in a month!

    Very curious about The Quiet Man, been hearing great things about that one.

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    1. Ha, I was more surprised that I didn't rewatch one single film last month.

      Oh, I just loved The Quiet Man. It's a delightful romance set in Ireland. You should check it out.

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  4. Again, a lot of movies you watched! Vivre Sa Vie impressed me too, it's really different to films made today.
    I'll have to bump "Ride the High Country" up my queue of westerns :)

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    1. Vivre Sa Vie was great. I loved Karina's performance.

      Oh, Ride the High Country was a pleasant surprise. I only nominate it for Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Score, but it was so close to getting a slew of nominations. :)

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  5. That's an impressive list! Would you recommend The Black Swan? It's been on my radar for a while.
    Oh and we've added The Cinematic Spectacle to our blog roll!
    - Allie

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    1. Thanks, Allie! It's the Black Swan film from the 1940's about pirates. If that sounds interesting, I'd recommend it. If you mean the Natalie Portman one, I'd recommend it more, as it's my favorite film of 2010.

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