Movie Challenges
I watch a lot of movies, the problem is, I don't watch a lot of different genres. I've seen Musicals and Bio Pics, but I've decided, in order to really learn to appreicate different genres, I need to immerse myself for one month in a genre. This doesn't mean that I only watch that genre for the month. However, I have given my self the goal of one movie per week(end). February has 4 weekends, so I should be able to watch at least 4 Classics.
January had 5 weekends, but I managed to exceed my goal.
January was Foreign movie month. I managed to watch six foreign movies that month. Last year in January, I watched 0.
February is Classics month. I do watch a lot of classics throughout the year. I think maybe for this one, I'll concentrate on a decade. Looking through one of my many spreadsheets, I see that the 40's lead the pack with approx 103 movies (lifetime). Followed by the 50s with about 93 movies and then the 30s with 90 movies. The next is the 60s with a measly 62 movies, and at the back of the pack is from the advent of film to 1929, which only has 10 movies. I only like certain silent films.
For February I will work on watching more Classic films from the 1960s.
January
Genre: Foreign
Watched: 6
February
Genre: Classics
Era: 1960s
March
Genre: Religious
For Easter
April
Genre: Period Pieces
May
Genre: Musical
June
Genre: Bio Pics
July
Genre: Classics
Era: TBA
August
Genre: Doumentary
September
Genre: Foreign
October
For Halloween
Genre: Horror
November
For Thanksgiving/Christmas
Genre: Holiday
December
For Christmas
Genre: Holiday
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January Movies = 35
Ratings out of 5 stars
Sherlock Holmes ****
Food Matters ***
Unconquered ***
La Strada (Italian) ****
Night at the Museum 2 ***
Black Girl (French) ****
42nd Street ***
Poirot: Cards on the Table ****
District 9 ***
Fear and Trembling (French/Japanese) ****
From the Terrace ***
The Final Destination ***
Confessions of a Shopaholic ***
The International ***
The Chorus (French) ****
The Book of Eli ****
Catch 22 ***
The Lovely Bones ***
Juliet of the Spirits (Italian) ***
Angels & Demons ***
I Can Do Bad All By Myself ***
The Backwoods ***
Sweet Misery ***
Feast of All Saints ****
Legion ****
Fame (2009) ***
Return to Cranford ****
Vatel ***
Surrogates ***
The Spy Next Door ***
The Bad Sleep Well (Japanese) ***
The Europeans ***
The Magic of Ordinary Days ****
Saw VI ***
Julie & Julia ***
2 comments:
You watched 35 movies in Jan.??? Holy crap! 3 of them are on my to watch list!
Book of Eli
Lovely Bones
Julie and Julia
I wish you would put a star rating after them so i know what you thought.
I love foreign films. I'm not sure it's exactly foreign, perhaps from the BBC?, but I loved An Education. See it if you haven't yet, it was one of the best films I watched all year.
Today I just came back from Up In The Air with George Clooney, and I thought it had lots of messages to ponder over long after the film was finished.
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