Frankenweenie

 

How the fuck did I end up watching four musicals in one week?

 

Here’s The Week at Hand…

 

Screenings
LEVIATHAN – Interesting, but not my bag.
SPRING BREAKERS – I’m still trying to wrap my brain around it. Check in tomorrow for a review.

Blu-Rays/DVD’s I’ve Never Seen
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS – Certainly one of the weaker Best Pictures
THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE – Gosh that Julie Andrews is awful cute.
GYPSY – They say you gotta have a gimmick.
NINOTCHKA – Easily one of my favorite first-timers for 2013 so far.

Blu-Rays/DVD’s I’ve Watched Before
GIRL WALK // ALL DAY – This might become my “I need cheering up” movie.
LEAVING LAS VEGAS – For Matineecast purposes
THE TERMINATOR – This has held up gloriously – might even watch pt. 2 by next week!
THE PRESTIGE – “Are you watching closely?”
CABARET – The blu-ray of this is glorious. Go get it.
JURASSIC PARK – I still can’t believe this is 20 years old.

 

Boxscore for The Year
53 First-Timers, 54 Re-Watched
16 Screenings
107 Movies in Total

How’s about you – seen anything good?

14 Replies to “Days of The Week (Films Watched Mar 16 – Mar 22)”

  1. It is crazy that Jurassic Park is 20 years old! I still remember the frenzy it caused upon release in my “kid world.” I was in 6th grade and my best friend saw it on opening night, and a whole bunch of kids gathered around him as he told tales of the sights he saw. I love that movie.

    First time:
    Ooga Booga
    The Anonymous Heroes
    Badlands
    Invisible: The Chronicles of Benjamin Knight

    1. I was in the ninth grade, but can clearly remember the ticket line at my local theatre stretching down the block. I sorta miss that sight…used to always be a sign something good was in town!

      How’d you like Badlands?

      1. Badlands is gorgeously shot, but slow and detached like all the Malick films I’ve seen. I’m not a fan, but I liked Badlands more than his others.

        The car chase made me think about an alternate world where Malick only made gorgeously shot genre films, and then others started copying it and it changed film history.

  2. Glad to hear that you’re getting into the 1930s comedies…For Lubitsch, I think you would also really like “To Be Or Not To Be” (Carole Lombard was a natural comedienne, but died tragically in a plane crash before To Be Or Not To Be was released – way too young at 33) and “Trouble In Paradise” (from 1932 and very obviously pre-code – lots of double entendres, etc.).

    And I think you know my feelings with regards to Girl Walk // All Day.

    I’m dying to see Cabaret, but it’s one of my blind spot picks and I’ve already got my April ones decided, so it’ll have to wait till May. We just watched The Prestige a couple of weeks ago as well – first time for my wife and son and they dug it immensely.

    I’ve had a light week, but did finally catch up with Undefeated (good), Side By Side (very good and illuminating), This Is Not A Film (freaking great), The Awakening (lost me several times but always pulled me back in – strong ghost story) and Sinister (falls back on a few of the standard tropes, but I quite enjoyed it as it allowed the tension to build). Couple of other things of lesser note too…

    1. So what were your takeaways from Side by Side? (I have a review up if you want to tell me I’m wrong).
      I realize I could have asked you this face-to-face last week…

    1. It’s got some flaws, but it’s still such a joy. The moment that Garbo laughs might well be the most heartwarming thing I’ve seen this year – it’s easy to see why “Garbo Laughs” was the tagline for the film.

  4. First-Timers: Drunken Angel, Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, Curse of the Golden Flower, Withnail and Us, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, and just now, The Life of Oharu.

    Re-Watches: Sense & Sensibility, Kurosawa: The Last Emperor, and See the Sea.

  5. That’s an impressive collection of re-watches. Some great stuff in that list. I still want to see Girl Walk/All Day; I’ve heard a lot of positive reactions. My viewings were pretty limited this week.

    Lady and the Tramp: Watched this with my daughter, and it was okay. If you think about it too much, it isn’t showing the most evolved views on women and male/female relationships. I’d seen this before as a kid, but I remembered little about it.

    The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Loved this movie. It really struck a chord from the start, and I was engaged right until the end.

    Magical Mystery Tour: This is possibly an even goofier Beatles movie than Help, and that’s saying a lot. There are some well-done videos for I Am The Wallrus and a few others, but it’s largely just the band screwing around.

    1. I’m kinda proud of my PERKS review, so if you haven’t already, do give it a skim.

      As for Girl Walk, look up their website. You can watch it there for free, the only hitch is that the film is divided into tracks. It’s not *quite* as good as getting to watch it end-to-end, but the scenes are still self-contained enough to work this way.

      1. Thanks for the tip on Girl Walk. I’ll have to check it out. I’ll have to check out your PERKS review. Mine goes up tomorrow if you get the chance.

  6. First Time:

    Les Diabolique – This month’s Blind Spot film.

    Lola Versus – Gerwig is solid, but the film feels like a lesser Frances Ha.

    Stoker – I now understand why the film is only in a few theatres. As great as it is, the film will not appeal the masses. Cinephiles will eat it up though.

    Re-watch:

    Tabloid – This one still brings a smile to my face. A very entertaining doc.

    1. I’m of the opposite opinion on STOKER. I think that if it was in a few more theatres, that fans would eat up the twisted melodrama and gorgeous imagery. At least one screen in a 10-cinema multiplex could work.

      Woulda dug deeper into your post on LES DIABOLIQUES, but that’s a blind spot for me later this year.

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