The Movies I Watched in January

Bakjwi 2009  6/10

The Big Sick 2017  6/10

Broadway by Light 1958  7/10

 

La chica de nieve 2023  6/10

Corsage 2022  6/10

The Courier 2020  6/10

Denial 2016  7/10

 

Glass Onion 2022  6/10

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio 2022  6/10

Ichiban utsukushiku 1944 5/10

Im Westen nichts Neues 2022  6/10

Jung_E 2023  6/10

Lightyear 2022  7/10

 

Maiko-san: Chino makanai-san 2023  8/10

 

Manderlay 2005  7/10

 

Maximilian 2012  6/10

Memoria 2021  7/10 

 

Minari 2020  7/10

 

Monstrous 2022  5/10

Nora inu 1949  7/10

  

The Pale Blue Eye 2022 6/10

Rak ti Khon Kaen 2015  7/10

 

Soul 2020  7/10

 

Spider-Man. Into the Spider-Verse 2018  7/10

 

St. Vincent 2014  6/10

The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry 1945  7/10

 

Subarashiki nichiyobi 1947  7/10

 

Sugata Sanshiro 1943  7/10

 

Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi 1945  5/10

Touki bouki 1973  7/10

 

Toy Story 1995 7/10

 

Toy Story 2 1999  7/10

 

Toy Story 3 2010  7/10

 

Toy Story 4 2019  7/10

 

Waga seishun ni kuinashi 1946  7/10

 

WALL.E 2008  10/10

 

Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru 1960  7/10

 

Wells Fargo 1937  6/10

Ying 2018  7/10

 

Yoidore tenshi 1948  7/10

 

Zoku Sugata Sanshiro 1945  6/10

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ph: Agata Pospieszynska

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ph: David Slijper

The Light Between Oceans (2016)

A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from a drifting rowing boat.

Unabashedly old-fashioned tearjerker with good performances and beautiful scenic cinematography; watchable, but keep a handkerchief at hand. 

Rachel Weisz

ph: David Bellemere

The Lobster (2015)

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.

Ambitious, absurdist satire has a great cast and some good surreal moments, but lacks any discernible humor, and it's unclear what it tries to convey; one despairs at the thought, what Buñuel would have made with its premise.

Rachel Weisz

The Favourite (2018)

In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne occupies the throne and her close friend, Lady Sarah, governs the country in her stead. When a new servant, Abigail, arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah.

A sumptuously staged historical drama presented as a biting satire with excellent performances by all  three lead actresses.

The Movies I Watched in January

And So It Goes (2014)  6
Apostle (2018)  6
La Baie des anges (1963)  6
Bone Tomahawk (2015)  7

Bron/Broen (2011) (TV)  6
The Caveman's Valentine (2001)  5
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes (2019) (TV)  7

Dead of Night (1945)  7

Eloise (2017)  5
The Favourite (2018)  7

For All Mankind (1989)  7

Fyre (2019) (TV)  6
A Ghost Story (2017)  8

Gotti (2018)  5
Hereditary (2018)  6
Hush (1998)  5
Io (2019)  6
Kedi (2016) 8

Mandy (2018)  7

October Sky (1999)  6
L'Odyssée (2016)  6
Paddington 2 (2017)  7

A Quiet Place (2018)  7

The Remaining (2014)  4
ReMastered: Tricky Dick and the Man in Black (2018) (TV)  7

Shadowheart (2009)  5
Zombieland (2009)  6

Rachel Weisz

Youth (2015)

A retired orchestra conductor is on holiday with his daughter and his film director best friend in the Alps when he receives an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to perform for Prince Philip's birthday.

Carefully crafted and highly artificial comedy-drama merely touches its existential topics without much depth, but assembles a fine cast for the journey.