February recap. An absolute banner month at the pictures for me. Two new all-time favourites in one month, and a screening of an old favourite.
Movie moments of the month:
The Zone of Interest - The cut to present day Auschwitz.
The Iron Claw - I used to be a brother
I know 7/10 feels a little low for Anatomy of a Fall. It was very good, and Sandra Huller and the kid were astonishing, but I simply don’t enjoy courtroom drama.
My Movie Moment of the Month was seeing all that stuff going backwards and forwards at the same time in 70mm IMAX!
yet
I started but didn’t finish about 20 films in February. Need to finish all those cause I hardly watched anything. Or maybe I forgot to log things. Not sure
slow start (didn’t watch a film til the 9th) but then went quite full on
February
Watched: 12 new
Rewatched: Casablanca, The Whole Nine Yards
Best: Reality, The Iron Claw
Worst: Lizzie
MMOTM
That song kicking in at the end of The Iron Claw
MMOTM was when Madame Web went to find her past in Peru in the depths of the jungle and managed to get directly there via bus
Watched: 14, 2 of which were shorts.
Rewatched: A Serious Man
Best: Zone of Interest, Fallen Angels, Sick of Myself, Synecdoche New York
Worst: American Fiction (not even a bad film, just full of bits that didn’t need to be there)
MMOTM: Fight scenes in The Iron Claw.
been very lazy with my reviews here generally too, bad form!c
No One Will Save You - great central performance, pulls off a tricky central concept pretty well. Enjoy how genre Brian Duffield goes, looking forward to his next project already
Lizzie - had fun seeing the two leads act off each other, everything else about it was boring and tbh quite confusing. Not sure i got the motivation for why anything happened
American Fiction - better as a family drama than a satire imho, but very enjoyable and J Wright is just a fun screen presence
All of Us Strangers - did a lot with what it had, but was much smaller scale than I was expecting for some reason. Found scenes and aspects very moving, but didn’t quite add up as I was hoping it would. Mescal was great though, most I’ve enjoyed a performance from him. Found the end a little cheesy tbh
Dinner in America - flatmate was really charmed by it, but the first third was so annoying that it couldn’t recover. Juno for anarcho-punks. Good scene when they wrote the song though.
The Whole Nine Yards - still charming, still a very fun watch. 90s crime capers might be one of my fav comfort sub-genres
My mmotm is that when I used to record videos from channel 4 overnight cause I had school in the morning I recorded Sitcom the Ozon film and it’s really strange and then the other week I wanted to watch Frantz but I’ve not seen an Ozon film since Sitcom and I was thinking Frantz would be strange too but it’s not at all. Could have been made in the late 40s
Downloaded Letterboxd recently so might join in a bit more.
Best: Past Lives, Aftersun
Worst: Dumbo (2019)
MMotM: the bit in American Fiction where his agent/publisher guy does the action of blowing his brains out on the phone and instantly apologising. Made me cackle
The films that I watched in Feb (keep saying I’ll get letterboxd)
Can you get Letterboxd please?
Feb Films
Humdingers
The Holdovers, Society of the Snow, Anatomy of a Fall, The Iron Claw
Sumdingers
Poor Things, Wish, Wonka
Bumdingers
Alive, Saltburn, Next Goal Wins
Movie Moment of the Month:
Watching Society of the Snow and becoming so obsessed with the tragedy that I watched another film off the back of it, as well as a documentary, about 12 YouTube videos, decided upon a favourite survivor, read that survivor’s book, emailed him afterwards to say how cool he is, got a response, and have ordered another book. That’s what I call movie magic!
okie doke
The February Good Ones
Howl’s Moving Castle (rewatch) - 
The Zone of Interest —————- 
The Insider —————————-
The Holdovers ————————
Die Hard (rewatch) ——————
The Kid Detective ————-——
Anatomy of a Fall ———————
Perfect Days —————————
Which one?
this better not be in ranked order …
