Oh it's been too long
Hi. My last post was September 2019. A lot has happened since then, but I've also been keeping a list of all the films I've watched and books I've read, so decided to finally post that, with minimal comments. See below!
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Out of Africa (1985)
Get Carter (1971)
Teen Titans: The Judas Contract (2017)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Jackie Brown (1997)
Ben Hur (1907) - short silent film, unauthorized adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, filmed without permission and led to Supreme Court ruling that film companies must secure film rights
Children of a Lesser God (1986)
Batman and Harley Quinn (2017)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
Atlantic City (1980)
Varina by Charles Frazier
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Mystic River (2003)
Calypso by David Sedaris
Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay (2018)
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
Black Swan (2010)
Shazam! (2019)
Holiday Inn (1942)
Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker (2019)
The Irishman (2019)
Green Book (2018)
The Grandmaster (2013)
Downton Abbey (2019)
X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)
The Lion King (1994) - Rewatch
Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
The Broadway Melody (1929)
Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)
The Death and Return of Superman (2018/2019)
Night And Fog / Nuit Et Brouillard (1955)
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
Toy Story 4 (2019)
To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
The Great Race (1965)
The Player (1992)
Eyes Without A Face/Les Yeux Sans Visage (1959)
The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams
Sergeant York (1941)
The Black Cauldron (1985) - Rewatch?
Dolemite (1975) - why did I watch this?
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Red Dust (1932)
The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem
Born On The Fourth Of July (1989)
Scarface (1983)
Doctor Dolittle (1967)
Throne Of Blood/Kumonosu Jo (1957)
Onward (2020)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Nanook of the North (1922)
Zero For Conduct/Zero De Conduite (1933)
Meshes Of The Afternoon (1943)
Sounder (1972)
The Battle Of San Pietro (1945)
Joker (2019)
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Cléo From 5 To 7/Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962)
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg/Les Parapluies De Cherbourg (1964)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Return to Oz (1985) - Rewatch
Jules And Jim/Jules Et Jim (1962)
The Yearling (1946)
The Virgin Spring/Jungfrukällan (1960)
The Black Hole (1979) - Rewatch
Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (1973)- Saw the 2005 special edition, which is supposed to be a combination of the theatrical release and the "preview" version. Muddled story.
The Front Page (1931)
Last Year At Marienbad/L’Annee Derniere A Marienbad (1961)
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Old Yeller (1957)
To Live/Ikiru (1952)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Black Narcissus (1947)
Tom Jones (1963)
Hamilton (2020)
Z (1969)
Psych 2: Lassie Come Home (2020)
Solaris (1972)
On Golden Pond (1981)
High Sierra (1941)
Permanent Vacation (1980)
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1956)
Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016)
The Man With The Movie Camera/Chelovek S Kinoapparatom (1929)
The Karate Kid (1984) - Rewatch
A Place In The Sun (1951)
Yi Yi/A One and a Two (2000) - Rewatch
The English Patient (1996)
The Karate Kid Part II (1986) - Rewatch
Imitation of Life (1934)
The Little Foxes (1941)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
The Karate Kid Part III (1989) - Rewatch?
The Nutty Professor (1963)
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) - Rewatch
Ashes of Time/ Dung che sai duk (1994)/Ashes of Time Redux (2008)
The Stone of Farewell by Tad Williams
My Neighbor Totoro/Tonari No Totoro (1988/2005 Disney dub) - Rewatch
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
Da 5 Bloods (2020)
Going My Way (1944)
Batman Vs. Two-Face (2017)
The Color Purple (1985)
Within Our Gates (1920)
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)
The Seventh Seal/Det sjunde inseglet (1957) - Rewatch
The View from the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood by Nicholas Meyer
The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
Vampyr (1932)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) - Rewatch
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Point Break (1991)
Citizen Kane (1941) - Rewatch
The Hidden Fortress/Kakushi-toride no san-akunin (1958)
He Got Game (1998)
White Christmas (1954)
Mank (2020)
Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction by Alec Nevala-Lee
Mulan (2020)
Down By Law (1986)
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Soul (2020)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2007)
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)
Princess Mononoke (1997) - Rewatch
Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
In the Mood for Love (2000) - Rewatch
Singin' in the Rain (1952) - Rewatch
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) - Rewatch
The Wild Bunch (1969) - Rewatch
Badlands (1973)
Justice League vs. the Fatal Five (2019)
The Way We Were (1973)
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Diner (1982)
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Marty (1953 teleplay)
Constantine: City of Demons (2018)
Stagecoach (1939) - Rewatch
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
The Red Shoes (1948)
The New Mutants (2020)
Batman: Hush (2018)
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) - Rewatch?
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
Tenet (2020)
Moana (2016) - Rewatch, with kids (their first full length film)
Star Trek Movie Memories by William Shatner with Chris Kreski
Little Big Man (1970)
Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans (2019)
Paris, Texas (1984) - Rewatch
Monsters, Inc. (2001) - Rewatch, with kids
Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
Wonder Woman: Bloodlines (2019)
Happy Together (1997)
In The Heights (2021)
Parasite/Gisaengchung (2019)
The Limey (1999)
Batman Ninja (2018)
Pepe Le Moko (1937)
Luca (2021)
King Lear (1953 teleplay)
Knives Out (2019)
To Green Angel Tower, Part 1 by Tad Williams
Superman: Red Son (2020)
L'Amore (1948)
Pafko at the Wall by Don DeLillo
The Lighthouse (2019)
Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)
Midnight Run (1988)
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020)
Black Widow (2021)
Dune (2021)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
Psych 3: This Is Gus (2021)
Deathstroke: Knights and Dragons (2020)
Twelve Angry Men (1954 teleplay)
Superman: Man of Tomorrow (2020)
A Christmas Story (1983)
Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) - Rewatch, with kids
It's A Wonderful Life (1946) - Rewatch
Predator 2 (1990)
Ratatouille (2007) - Rewatch, with one kid
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Lilies of the Field (1963)
The Night of the Hunter (1955) - Rewatch
Eternals (2021)
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
The World's End (2013)
Almost Famous (2000)
CODA (2021)
Batman: Soul of the Dragon (2021)
12 Years a Slave (2013)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - Rewatch
Justice Society: World War II (2021)
Nomadland (2020)
The French Connection (1971) - Rewatch
West Side Story (2021)
Turning Red (2022)
Drive My Car/Doraibu mai kâ (2021)
The French Dispatch (2021)
Cimarron (1931)
To Green Angel Tower, Part 2 by Tad Williams
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One (2021)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) - Rewatch
Nightmare Alley (1947)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) - Rewatch
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)
My Blueberry Nights (2007)
The Batman (2022)
Cavalcade (1933)
The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem
Gladiator (2000) - Rewatch
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two (2021)
The Many Saints of Newark (2021)
Madame Bovary (1991)
Breaking Away (1979)
The Grand Illusion/La Grand Illusion (1937)
From Here To Eternity (1953) - Rewatch
No Time To Die (2021)
Injustice (2021)
Nightmare Alley (2021)
Catwoman: Hunted (2022)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - Rewatch
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) - Rewatch
Parallel Mothers/Madres Paralelas (2021)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Strangers on a Train (1951) - Rewatch
Top Gun (1986) - Rewatch
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Lightyear (2022)
The African Queen (1951) - Rewatch
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
High Noon (1952) - Rewatch
Better Off Dead (1985)
Green Lantern: Beware My Power (2022)
Willow (1988) - Rewatch
The Northman (2022)
Raging Bull (1980) - Rewatch
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdich
Risky Business (1983)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) - Rewatch
Elf (2003)
Tevya (1939)
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
The Sound of Music (1965) - Rewatch, with kids
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
Sunset Boulevard (1950) - Rewatch