My Week in Movies: January 26 - February 1
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jetpack_monkeyHey, we made it through January! Huzzah!
I watched a few more films this week (and one non-film that we're counting because it's my journal dammit).
Films in italics I've seen before.
John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch (2019)
The Breaking Point (1950)
I Married a Witch (1942)
Escape from New York (1981)
Matango (1963) w/sol_se
Auto Focus (2002)
I really enjoyed Mulaney's new pseudo-kids special. He gathered a lot of very talented children for a great variety show that is extremely weird.
The Breaking Point is an adaptation of Hemingway's To Have and Have Not which is apparently more faithful to the book than the actual movie titled To Have and Have Not. However, from what I understand of the book, this film takes pains to make the protagonist more sympathetic, even as he gets in over his head in criminal dealings.
I Married a Witch is a light, frothy delight starring Fredric March and Veronica Lake. Boy accuses girl. Girl curses boy's descendants. Boy's descendant meets girl. Girl falls for boy. Boy oh boy.
I'm 50/50 on whether Escape from New York should be italics. I seem to recall that I watched it at one point, but I had no memory of anything that actually happens in the movie. So we're going to assume that I was wrong about having watched it. It's a good solid dystopian action thriller with a great antihero protagonist.
Amazon Prime had Matango (under its alternate title Attack of the Mushroom People) and I felt like Solvi had to see it. It was one of my fonder recollections from my days on Classic-Horror.com. Does it hold up? Sort of. It's still quite good, but I think my original praise may have been high.
No idea why I landed on Auto Focus, except that Criterion Channel is running a series of Paul Schrader films. It's the lurid story of actor Bob Crane (Hogan's Heroes) and his descent into sex addiction, all leading to his murder. I liked it! However, in a couple of places it blurred or pixelated video footage of sex acts, which seemed like a weird move. I suspect they were on the verge of NC-17 and didn't have a good way of putting in alternate footage, so they just did something incredibly silly instead.
I watched a few more films this week (and one non-film that we're counting because it's my journal dammit).
Films in italics I've seen before.
John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch (2019)
The Breaking Point (1950)
I Married a Witch (1942)
Escape from New York (1981)
Matango (1963) w/
sol_se Auto Focus (2002)
I really enjoyed Mulaney's new pseudo-kids special. He gathered a lot of very talented children for a great variety show that is extremely weird.
The Breaking Point is an adaptation of Hemingway's To Have and Have Not which is apparently more faithful to the book than the actual movie titled To Have and Have Not. However, from what I understand of the book, this film takes pains to make the protagonist more sympathetic, even as he gets in over his head in criminal dealings.
I Married a Witch is a light, frothy delight starring Fredric March and Veronica Lake. Boy accuses girl. Girl curses boy's descendants. Boy's descendant meets girl. Girl falls for boy. Boy oh boy.
I'm 50/50 on whether Escape from New York should be italics. I seem to recall that I watched it at one point, but I had no memory of anything that actually happens in the movie. So we're going to assume that I was wrong about having watched it. It's a good solid dystopian action thriller with a great antihero protagonist.
Amazon Prime had Matango (under its alternate title Attack of the Mushroom People) and I felt like Solvi had to see it. It was one of my fonder recollections from my days on Classic-Horror.com. Does it hold up? Sort of. It's still quite good, but I think my original praise may have been high.
No idea why I landed on Auto Focus, except that Criterion Channel is running a series of Paul Schrader films. It's the lurid story of actor Bob Crane (Hogan's Heroes) and his descent into sex addiction, all leading to his murder. I liked it! However, in a couple of places it blurred or pixelated video footage of sex acts, which seemed like a weird move. I suspect they were on the verge of NC-17 and didn't have a good way of putting in alternate footage, so they just did something incredibly silly instead.
