Viewing Journal: 11/30/23 - 11/29/23

561) NAPOLEON

(2023 dir. Ridley Scott) Date Seen: November 30 2023

As far as bloated historical epics go, this film's a push/pull war between a buncha dramaturgically wobbly stuff & exhilaratingly Hollywood Movie with a capital M stuff. + pretty to look at one minute-- sickly color-grading the next. So, unless Ridley's unabridged 4hr+ cut improves on those things later, I must proclaim that Gance's 1927 film remains the undisputed pièce de résistance on the subject of the tiny French man. 

[& is it just me or did they digitally hobbitify Joaquin Phoenix in certain shots of this?]

560) R.M.N.

(2023 dir. Cristian Mungiu) Date Seen: November 30 2023

559) SUSAN SLEPT HERE

(1954 dir. Frank Tashlin) Date Seen: November 30 2023

558) THE BISHOP'S WIFE

(1947 dir. Henry Koster) Date Seen: November 30 2023

557) LOVE LIFE

(2023 dir. Koji Fukada) Date Seen: November 29 2023

556) 

WHOEVER SLEW AUNTIE ROO?

(1972 dir. Curtis Harrington) Date Seen: November 29 2023

555) A PISTOL FOR RINGO

(1965 dir. Duccio Tessari) Date Seen: November 29 2023

554) LADY ON A TRAIN

(1945 dir. Charles David) Date Seen: November 29 2023

Viewing Journal: 11/28/2023

553) DREAM SCENARIO

(2023 dir. Kristoffer Borgli) Date Seen: November 28 2023

552) SCARLET [L'ENVOL]

(2023 dir. Pietro Marcello) Date Seen: November 28 2023

551) THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL

(1928 dir. Jean Renoir) Date Seen: November 28 2023

550) CHRISTMAS EVE

     Ночь перед Рождеством

(1913 dir. Wladyslaw Starewicz) Date Seen: November 28 2023

Viewing Journal: 11/27/2023

549) WISH

(2023 dir. Buck/Veerasunthorn) Date Seen: November 27 2023

548) THE LOST PLATOON

(1990 dir. David A. Prior) Date Seen: November 27 2023

547) 

THE PEANUT BUTTER SOLUTION

(1985 dir. Michael Rubbo) Date Seen: November 27 2023

546) THE INSECTS' CHRISTMAS

     Pождество обитателей леса

(1913 dir. Wladyslaw Starewicz) Date Seen: November 27 2023

Viewing Journal: 11/26/2023

545) THANKSGIVING

(2023 dir. Eli Roth) Date Seen: November 26 2023

544) 

MOONTRAP: TARGET EARTH

(2017 dir. Robert Dyke) Date Seen: November 26 2023

543) BIOTHERAPY

(1986 dir. Akihiro Kashima) Date Seen: November 26 2023

542) INVASION 

               OF ASTRO-MONSTER

(1965 dir. Ishirō Honda) Date Seen: November 26 2023

Viewing Journal: 11/25/2023

541) LEO

(2023 dir. lots of dudes) Date Seen: November 25 2023

540) THE NIGHT OF THE 12TH

(2023 dir. Dominik Moll) Date Seen: November 25 2023

539) BLOOD RAGE [SLASHER 

aka NIGHTMARE AT SHADOW WOODS]

(1987 dir. John Grissmer) Date Seen: November 25 2023

538) URUSEI YATSURA 2: 

               BEAUTIFUL DREAMER

(1984 dir. Mamoru Oshii) Date Seen: November 25 2023