murmur & shout

I like to go on benders with movies, getting stuck on a particular director, writer, genre, what have you. It adds a bit of structure to what might otherwise be indiscriminate consumption. But mostly it’s soothing (and often rewarding) to follow a thread.

Total: 35

New to me: 21 (pretty good!)

Christopher Nolan series:

Batman Begins

The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight Rises

The Prestige (twice)

Memento

Lynne Ramsay series:

Small Deaths, Kill the Day, Gasman (short films)

Ratcatcher

Morvern Callar

We Need to Talk About Kevin

American indie series:

The Puffy Chair

Jeff, Who Lives At Home

Box Elder

The Nines

Apart

Italian movies for the 4th of July:

Cinema Paradiso

8 1/2 (*)

(And of course sometimes I just watch things because I want to watch them and not like I’m on some kind of mission.)

Rewatched because I love them:

Bullhead

There Will Be Blood

A Prophet

Good Will Hunting

Thelma and Louise

Billy Elliot

Other, recommended:

Miller’s Crossing

Duck Soup

Metropolis

A Summer in Genoa

The Wind that Shakes the Barley

Other, eh it was okay:

War Horse

Rango

The Weather Man

21 Jump Street

The Debt

The Iron Lady

Harry Brown

Other, do NOT watch immediately after The Prestige because that is simply not fair:

The Illusionist