Watched in 2021 2/2

Apr 23, 202111 min read

Growing Up with Movies: The Revisionist West Through the Eyes of a Nine-Year-Old

(This examination of Frank Perry's Doc (1971) contains SPOILERS.) My local theater’s poster for Doc (1971) promised something familiar,...

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Apr 22, 20214 min read

The ABC Movie Challenge: A-B-C

My friend Nathan Jones recently came up with a terrific idea, the ABC Movie Challenge: Watch any unwatched Blu-rays and DVDs in your...

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Apr 18, 20215 min read

What I Watched in April 2021, Part I

Compared to many of my Film Twitter friends, I don’t watch all that many movies, but things got a little wild during a good part of...

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Apr 9, 20211 min read

Bad Lieutenant (1992), Ordet (1955), and Flannery O'Connor

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Mar 31, 20219 min read

What I Watched in March 2021

My movie watching in March covers seven decades of film with just a handful of rewatches. I also continued my Alfred Hitchcock project,...

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Feb 28, 20219 min read

What I Watched in February 2021

February provided three terrific films celebrating Black History Month, two TV series, three Inner Sanctum movies, a revisit of the first...

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Feb 7, 20214 min read

A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984) Krzysztof Zanussi

A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984) Written and directed by Krzysztof Zanussi Produced by Film Polski Cinematography by Sławomir Idziak Edited...

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Feb 1, 202110 min read

What I Watched in January 2021

My 2021 is off to a good start with some stellar films and some not-so-great “cellar” films. Any film with a + designation was chosen at...

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