The Movies I Watched in March

À bout de souffle 1960  8/10

 

Be Your Age 1926  5/10 

Beau Hunks  1931  6/10

The Big Noise 1944 6/10 

Black Rabbit 2025  7/10

 

The Bohemian Girl 1936  6/10

Bromo and Juliet 1926  6/10 

Busy Bodies 1933 7/10

 

Le chien mélomane 1973  7/10

 

Dark Winds. Season 3 2025  7/10

 

Le diamant 1970  7/10

 

The Dinosaurs 2026  6/10 

Dirty Work 1933  7/10

 

Dressed to Kill 1980  8/10

 

Dressed to Kill: An Appreciation by Keith Gordon 2001  5/10 

Eojjeolsuga eobsda 2025  7/10

 

L'épouvantail 1946  7/10

 

Eyes of the Navy 1940  5/10 

The Finishing Touch 1928  6/10 

The Fishing Bear 1940  6/10 

La flûte magique 1946  6/10 

The Fury 1978  7/10

 

Going Bye-Bye! 1934 6/10

Grand Hotel 1932  5/10 

The Hatching of Spider Baby 2007  5/10 

Hurlevent 1985  6/10 

La ilusión viaja en tranvía 1954  8/10

 

Jane Eyre 1996  6/10 

Just Neighbors 1919  6/10

Maciste all'inferno 1962  5/10 

Making Frankensense of 'Young Frankenstein' 1996  5/10

The Making of 'Dressed to Kill' 2001  5/10 

Me and My Pal 1933  6/10 

M3Gan 2.0 2025  6/10 

The Merrye House Revisited 2007  5/10 

La morte viene dal pianeta Aytin 1967  5/10 

Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie 2023  5/10 

The Neon Demon 2016  8/10

 

Nicholas Nickleby 2002 6/10 

1925 Studio Tour 1925  5/10 

Nouvelle Vague 2025  7/10

 

Only God Forgives 2013  6/10

L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock 1962  6/10 

Les passagers de la Grande Ourse 1943  7/0

 

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man 2026  7/10 

 

Pride and Prejudice 1940  9/10

 

Putting Pants on Philip 1927  6/10 

Le roi et l'oiseau 1980  7/10

 

La séance de spiritisme est terminée 1931 6/10

Seinfeld: How it Began  2004  6/10 

Seinfeld, Season 2 1991  7/10

 

Slashing 'Dressed to Kill' 2001  5/10 

Slipping Wives 1927  6/10 

Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told 1967  7/10

 

Spider Stravinsky: The Cinema Sounds of Ronald Stein 2007  5/10 

Stan and Olly 1932  5/10 

La table tournante 1988 7/10

 

Them Thar Hills 1934 6/10

They Go Boom! 1929  6/10 

Tit For Tat 1935  6/10 

Twice Two 1933 6/10 

Le voleur de paratonnerres 1946  7/10

 

Way Out West 1937  7/10

Wuthering Heights 1939  9/10  

 

Wuthering Heights 1970  7/10

 

Young Frankenstein 1974  7/10

 

Zodiac 2007  8/10 

 

Emma. (2020)

 

 

In 1800s England, a well meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends. 

This is a solid, lively and entertaining adaptation of the Jane Austen classic, maybe not the best, but it has great performances and excellent period detail. 

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The Movies I Watched in July

20,000 Days on Earth 2014  7

Les amants de Montparnasse 1958  7

Beware of Mr. Baker 2012  6
The Book of Eli 2010  6
Cause For Alarm! 1951  6
Crawl 2019  5
Dear Murderer 1947  6
Duran Duran: Unstaged 2014  6
Emma. 2020  6
The Fall 2019  7

Family Romance, LLC 2019  7

First Man 2018  6
Guilty Bystander 1950  6
Halloween 2018  6
Heart of Darkness 1993  6
I am Not a Serial Killer 2016  6
I Called Him Morgan 2016  7

Ida B. Wells: A Passion For Justice 1989  6
L'inconnu du lac 2013  6
Lock Up 1989  6
Malchik russkiy 2019  7

 
The Maidens of Fetish Street 1966  5
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom 2013  6
My Cousin Rachel 1952  7

Numéro deux 1975  6
Primer 2004  6
Shanty Tramp 1967  5
Sicilia! 1999  7

Spring Night Summer Night 1967  7

La tendre ennemie 1936  6
Victor Frankenstein 2015  6

Emma (1996)

While matchmaking for friends and neighbors, a young 19th-century Englishwoman nearly misses her own chance at love.

Very competent made-for-TV adaptation of Jane Austen's novel needn't hide behind the cinema production from the same year.

First Lines: Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine.

First Lines: Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

Becoming Jane (2007)

A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.

Mildly competent period bio-pic with a good central performance, the movie does manage to avoid sentimentality.

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Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Adaptation of the classic Jane Austen novel.

Although the script takes a lot of liberties compared to the novel, it does wonderfully capture the spirit of the book, and the casting is perfect. By the way, Aldous Huxley was co-author of the script. A true Hollywood classic.