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Monday, June 27, 2022

Monday Night OT Is All About Movies

Good evening BT. Somehow I've (re)watched enough movies this year to come up with 25* I would've paid money to watch in the theater. Let's blame garbage weather and COVID-19 as opposed to general idleness on this writer's part. I'll break them down by category cuz that's what I do.





Comedy

  • Blast from the Past - Wilson, 1999
  • The Square -  Östlund ,2017
  • Force Majeure  - Östlund, 2014
  • Drunken Master - Yuen, 1978

Drama

  • Cool Hand Luke - Rosenberg, 1967
  • Drive My Car - Hamaguchi, 2021
  • Asako I & II - Hamaguchi, 2018
  • Pig - Samoski, 2021

Jidaigeki

  • Harakiri - Kobayashi, 1962
  • The Seven Samurai - Kurosawa, 1954
  • Sword of Doom - Okamoto, 1966
  • Yojimbo - Kurosawa, 1961

Noir

  • The Sweet Smell of Success - Mackendrick, 1957 
  • Scarlet Street - Lang, 1945
  • Gilda - Vidor, 1946
  • The Big Heat - Lang, 1953
  • The Killing - Kubrick, 1956
  • Pickup on South Street - Fuller, 1953
  • In a Lonely Place - Ray, 1950
  • Kiss Me Deadly - Aldrich, 1955

Neo(n) Noir

  • The Naked Kiss - Fuller, 1964
  • Branded to Kill - Suzuki, 1967
  • Ghost Dog - Jarmusch, 1999
  • Le Samouraï - Melville, 1967
  • Badlands - Malick, 1973 

No horror or sci-fi on my list, hmmm.


Some of the category placement might cause dissent (except for jidaigeki - that's clearly defined). I'm not going to argue. You build your shelves your way, I'll keep doing it mine.


I haven't been to a movie theater since Parasite and miss those little plague boxes with the gigantic pretty big magic lantern show.



So what's new with you, BackTalk crew?


* Out of the 86 movies I've seen this year. Seems like a lot but that's fewer than 4 a week.

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