My Week in Movies: September 22 - 28

I'm not on a huge movie kick of late. Even though I was largely meh on it, I'm replaying Borderlands 3. I don't think it compares favorably to the previous game, but the general Borderlands experience is still a good one.

Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019)
The Crystal Calls - The Making of Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019)
Bob le Flambeur (1956)
Le Samouraï (1967)
Les Enfants Terribles (1950)
A Simple Favor (2018) w/sol_se 

Technically, Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance isn't a film and I didn't watch it all over the course of this week, but I just wanted to note that I had completed it. I'll probably keep doing that for limited run shows, but not television seasons. Also, I specifically watched the documentary for footage of Simon Pegg voicing the Chamberlain and I was not disappointed.

Criterion Channel has the complete works of Jean-Pierre Melville up right now. I enjoyed Army of Shadows earlier this year, so I thought I'd give it a shot. This is a director who inspired Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, and John Woo, among others. Overall, I liked both Bob le Flambeur and Le Samouraï. I do enjoy a good crime film, after all. Les Enfants Terribles was touted as a twisted psychological drama, but was really just about a pair of siblings being unrelenting awful to each other and their mutual friends. Somehow I watched the whole thing, so it had some pull (I'm not shy about pulling the plug on a film that's not working for me).

Sol_se and I tried an actual good film for our movie date. A Simple Favor was very twisty and a lot of fun.