From February 2022 to January 2023
In bold: films/ plays that I think are good
1/ The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
2/ Louis Theroux's Forbidden America: Extreme and Online (2022)
3/ The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
4/ Louis Theroux's Forbidden America: Rap's New Frontline (2022)
5/ Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
6/ Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
7/ Meet the Parents (2000)
8/ Meet the Fockers (2004)
9/ Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Cinema Paradiso - Italy, France- 1988)
10/ Louis Theroux's Forbidden America: Porn's MeToo (2022)
11/ The Lost Daughter (2021)
12/ Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre, The Wrath of God- West Germany, Mexico, Peru - 1972)
13/ Dispatches: Britain's New Build Scandal (2019)
14/ Forensics: Catching the Killer: Murder at the Wedding (2021)
15/ Forensics: Catching the Killer: A Killer in the Family (2021)
16/ Forensics: Catching the Killer: The Murder of Little Miss Nobody (2021)
17/ Forensics: Catching the Killer: Murder by the Lake (2021)
18/ Theatre of Blood (1973)
19/ Boobs (2022)
20/ Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
21/ Cymbeline (1982 BBC)
22/ Forensics: Catching the Killer: The Freezer Murders (2021)
23/ Beyond Reasonable Doubt: Britain's Rape Crisis (2022)
24/ The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) - again
25/ 죽여주는 여자 (The Bacchus Lady - South Korea- 2016)
26/ Jeremy Kyle Show: Death on Daytime (2022)- 2 episodes
27/ Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story (2022) - 2 episodes
28/ Dispatches: Cadbury Exposed (2022)
29/ Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
30/ Back to the Future (1985)
31/ 青蛇 (Green Snake- Hong Kong- 1993)
32/ 倩女幽魂 (A Chinese Ghost Story - Hong Kong- 1987)
33/ 倩女幽魂 II：人間道 (A Chinese Ghost Story II - Hong Kong - 1990)
34/ 倩女幽魂 III：道道道 (A Chinese Ghost Story III - Hong Kong - 1991)
35/ Anna Karenina (Italy, France, Spain, Lithuania- 2013)
36/ Unreported World: Fast Fashion's Toxic Legacy (2022)
37/ Where Have All the Lesbians Gone? (2022)
38/ Live and Let Die (1973)
39/ The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
40/ お茶漬けの味 (The Flavour of Green Tea over Rice - Japan - 1952)
41/ Dr. No (1962)
42/ Panorama: Protecting Our Children: A Balancing Act (2022)
43/ Dispatches: The Truth About Nike and Adidas (2022)
44/ From Russia with Love (1963)
45/ Goldfinger (1964)
46/ Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror (2022)
47/ Thunderball (1965)
48/ Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen (2022)
49/ The Queen: 70 Glorious Years (2022)
50/ Pride and Prejudice (1995) - 6 episodes
51/ Sense and Sensibility (1995) - again
52/ Howards End (1992)
53/ Persuasion (1995)
54/ The Office (The UK- 2001-2003) - 14 episodes
55/ The First Great Train Robbery (1978)
56/ House on Haunted Hill (1959)
57/ James May: Our Man in Japan (2020) - 6 episodes
58/ Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Lift to the Scaffold/ Elevator to the Gallows - France - 1958)
59/ Tirez sur le pianiste (Shoot the Pianist - France - 1960)
60/ Macbeth (1948)
61/ 곡성 (The Wailing - South Korea - 2016)
62/ King Creole (1958)
63/ The Merchant of Venice (1980 BBC)
64/ The Winter's Tale (1999 RSC, ft. Antony Sher)
65/ King Lear (1982 BBC)
66/ Africa Eye: Racism for Sale (2022)
67/ My Favourite Wife (1940)
68/ Easter Parade (1948)
69/ Spalovač mrtvol (The Cremator - former Czechoslovakia - 1969)
70/ Panorama: The Secret World of Trading Nudes (2022)
71/ Journey to Italy (Italy, France - 1954)
72/ Inside the Mind of a Cat (2022)
73/ Pauline à la plage (Pauline at the Beach - France - 1983)
74/ L'Ami de mon amie (My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, or Boyfriends and Girlfriends - France - 1987)
75/ La femme de l'aviateur (The Aviator's Wife - France - 1981)
76/ La Collectionneuse (The Collector - France - 1967)
77/ Вий (Viy - Russia - 1967)
78/ 彼岸花 (Equinox Flower - Japan - 1958)
79/ Song Lang (Vietnam - 2018)
80/ Maurice (1987)
81/ Quatre aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle (Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle - France - 1987)
82/ Jimmy in Saigon (2022)
83/ Những đứa trẻ trong sương (Children of the Mist - Vietnam - 2021)
84/ Deepfake Porn: Could You Be Next? (2022)
85/ The Hunt for the Worlds End Killers (2022)
86/ Mousehunt (1997)
87/ The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) - again
88/ Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu the Vampyre - West Germany, France - 1979)
89/ Airplane! (1980) - again
90/ Mrs Harris Goes to Paris (2022)
91/ Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022)
92/ Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
93/ Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
94/ War and Peace (1972) - 20 episodes
95/ Panorama: Disaster Deniers: Hunting the Trolls (2022)
96/ True Romance (1993)
97/ Top Hat (1935)
98/ The Menu (2022)
99/ White Christmas (1954)
100/ 헤어질 결심 (Decision to Leave - South Korea - 2022)
No love for James Bond!
ReplyDeleteWhat do you mean??? I liked 3 of them.
DeleteOh, I just saw the "The Spy Who Loved Me" bit....sorry :)
DeleteThe jokes in the Roger Moore films were so bad that I turned to my bf & asked if he's the one writing the screenplays lol.
DeleteOh yeah, it's pure cheese. Sometimes one feels like some cheese, others not.
DeleteI just don't like the Roger Moore films, I think. You do then?
DeleteI'd say "like" is too categorical. When one watches all the Bond movies in order, the Roger Moore movies seem weak (especially the first two). "The Spy Who Loved Me" is very watchable and "For Your Eyes Only" is decent. If I had to sum them up I'd say 'enjoyable when in the right mood', but some of them are hardly high-points in the Bond canon. It's a nice list of movies BTW. I thought my partner and I were the only people who could range from "Picnic at Hanging Rock" to "Goldfinger" and enjoy both.
DeleteHahaha.
DeleteInteresting that you didn't like Aguirre. Most people list that as a great film. I too found it hard to love -- the Herzog film I really love is Fitzcaraldo.
ReplyDeleteSo you didn't like Back to the Future, huh? I saw that movie at an impressionable age (I was 11 when it came out, and saw it theatre), but it has very a warm spot for me. Maybe I can't see it objectively.
I also enjoyed Meet the Parents; Owen Wilson in particular.
Oh I absolutely hate Back to the Future. The more I think about it, the more I hate it.
Deletelol. Eleven year-old me shrieks in protest.
DeleteMaybe I should make a list of pop culture things I hate and see how many followers I lose hahahahhaa.
DeletePrime of Miss Jean Brodie - yes - I saw this with my mom who was named Jeanne. Have you read the book? It shows up on "best" lists from time to time
ReplyDeleteWar & Peace - wonderful - watched this with my dad
Picnic at Hanging Rock - liked it - different & really well-done
Maurice - just read the book & rewatched the movie - I'm a big E.M. Forester fan...which leads me to
Howard's End - I loved the 1992 version
Yes, I've read The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. It's very good, I just didn't blog about it. Interestingly enough, I read the book before watching the film but couldn't shake the image of Maggie Smith out of my head whilst reading. She was Jean Brodie.
DeleteAgreed about Picnic at Hanging Rock being different.
Howards End, like Room with a View, lacks something, I think. Feeling? Passion? Warmth? I don't know. But those two films couldn't get me to care about the characters, and I watched Room with a View about 3 times or so because I loved Daniel Day-Lewis's performance.
Maurice was different though.
I think I get what you're saying about Howard's End. I saw the movie before I read the book. It was the book that grabbed me, and the movie was my first taste of the book, so to speak. I also really enjoyed Emma Thompson's humor (e.g. umbrella scene) and the magical quality of the house in the film.
ReplyDeleteTwo other movies that came to mind are "Gallopoli" and "Year of Living Dangerously", both directed by Peter Weir. Neither had the supernatural (or something - I haven't seen "Picnic..." in a long while. But both were very distinctive and I was impressed. Gallipoli began and ended with the same music (an Albinoni adagio) and sort of mirror image scenes, like bookends.
I see.
DeleteI do like Emma Thompson and Helena Bonham Carter. Helena especially, I love her voice.