Three weeks down, 21 days into 2021, 21 films watched! For someone with no follow-through, this is worth, if not a parade, then at least a small celebration.
I am no longer paying the slightest bit of attention to my lists, but am pretty consistently watching films on TCM, four out of this week’s seven films, then one was Bollywood Club, one was 2020 films, and one was an old fave watched because I was sleepy.
Speaking of sleepy, only one of the seven was chosen because it was an hour long, so that’s a step ahead. I don’t mind doing that, because you see some fun pictures that way, but it shouldn’t be my go to every other night.
Four films I had seen before, Stop Making Sense, Evil Under the Sun, Murder By Death, and Hang ‘Em High, and three were new, War, Tenet, and Bulldog Drummond’s Secret Police.
The best film I saw and the worst film I saw were both new to me, the best being the Bollywood film, War, that will probably be one of the best films I see all year, and the worst was Tenet, which was not only not good, it was extremely disappointing, being from a director whose other films I have consistently loved. If anyone could have made a good film about slipping forwards and backwards in time, you’d think it would be Nolan. But no.
In terms of the ones I had seen before, three of the four hold up nicely, but I’ll give the win to Stop Making Sense, and the fourth, Murder By Death turned out to be so shockingly racist that I found it difficult to watch, even though all of the non-racist parts were still funny.
Three weeks down, forty-nine to go!
365 Films in 365 Days 