Film Diary 2024
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amado1OK, I realized I should be doing this too, if I'm also doing books! I'll catch up with January, February, and March now.
January:
-- Society of the Snow, Jan. 17.
-- Re-Animator, Jan. 30.
Only these two movies for January. Prior to this year I didn't watch a lot of movies or TV but I guess my informal New Year's resolution was to actually put in effort into watching the films I'm interested in, even if it means scheduling weekly movie nights with friends to FORCE myself to watch them! Re-Animator was the first of those movie nights, and I loved it. Society of the Snow, also, was a 5-star film, I absolutely loved it.
February:
-- Lawrence of Arabia, Feb. 3;
-- The Dresser, Feb. 13.;
-- Just a Gigolo, Feb. 14;
-- Heavy Metal, Feb. 20.;
-- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Feb. 27.
Five films this month! Our first big movie night was at Reece's house for LoA, which he had never seen before. It was an amazing rewatch for the rest of us. Then my roommate chose The Dresser, an 80s dramedy starring Tom Courtenay as the underappreciated gay dresser to a tyrannical (and senile), aging star. Just a Gigolo was a solo watch, and I disagree with all the critics, I thought it was lovely. But I'm definitely biased because Bowie is gorgeous in it. In any case, whatever else you can say about it, it's beautifully shot. I adored every frame.
Then A. David chose Heavy Metal for his movie night, which was trippy and weird and wonderful. It's an animated anthology movie made up of sci-fi/fantasy moments that center around a malevolent glowing green orb. We topped off the month with my movie night choice, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence -- another Bowie feature.
March:
-- Prisoners, March 4.
-- The Bad Seed, March 5.
-- John Cassavetes' Shadows, March 6.
-- Purple Rain, March 17.
-- Saved!, March 18.
-- The Great Satan, March 19.
-- From Beyond, March 28.
-- Crimson Peak, March 29.
-- Ed Gein: The Musical, March 29.
-- The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, March 30.
-- Castle Freak, March 31.
-- The Evil Clergyman, March 31.
This month I also watched True Detective S4 and Deadloch S1, and loved them both, and even used my one movie night this month to watch Deadloch episodes! XD So, in March, "Shadows" is my roommate's pick, "The Great Satan" is A. David's pick, "From Beyond" is Pan's pick, and the rest are all just random things that my roommate and I watched together in-between movie nights. Tomorrow is my roommate's choice, and I think he's going to use it as a game night, but since he got to choose the Jeffrey Combs movies we watched this weekend, I guess that's fair XD
I think I will carve out some time to watch my own choices this week though.
January:
-- Society of the Snow, Jan. 17.
-- Re-Animator, Jan. 30.
Only these two movies for January. Prior to this year I didn't watch a lot of movies or TV but I guess my informal New Year's resolution was to actually put in effort into watching the films I'm interested in, even if it means scheduling weekly movie nights with friends to FORCE myself to watch them! Re-Animator was the first of those movie nights, and I loved it. Society of the Snow, also, was a 5-star film, I absolutely loved it.
February:
-- Lawrence of Arabia, Feb. 3;
-- The Dresser, Feb. 13.;
-- Just a Gigolo, Feb. 14;
-- Heavy Metal, Feb. 20.;
-- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Feb. 27.
Five films this month! Our first big movie night was at Reece's house for LoA, which he had never seen before. It was an amazing rewatch for the rest of us. Then my roommate chose The Dresser, an 80s dramedy starring Tom Courtenay as the underappreciated gay dresser to a tyrannical (and senile), aging star. Just a Gigolo was a solo watch, and I disagree with all the critics, I thought it was lovely. But I'm definitely biased because Bowie is gorgeous in it. In any case, whatever else you can say about it, it's beautifully shot. I adored every frame.
Then A. David chose Heavy Metal for his movie night, which was trippy and weird and wonderful. It's an animated anthology movie made up of sci-fi/fantasy moments that center around a malevolent glowing green orb. We topped off the month with my movie night choice, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence -- another Bowie feature.
March:
-- Prisoners, March 4.
-- The Bad Seed, March 5.
-- John Cassavetes' Shadows, March 6.
-- Purple Rain, March 17.
-- Saved!, March 18.
-- The Great Satan, March 19.
-- From Beyond, March 28.
-- Crimson Peak, March 29.
-- Ed Gein: The Musical, March 29.
-- The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, March 30.
-- Castle Freak, March 31.
-- The Evil Clergyman, March 31.
This month I also watched True Detective S4 and Deadloch S1, and loved them both, and even used my one movie night this month to watch Deadloch episodes! XD So, in March, "Shadows" is my roommate's pick, "The Great Satan" is A. David's pick, "From Beyond" is Pan's pick, and the rest are all just random things that my roommate and I watched together in-between movie nights. Tomorrow is my roommate's choice, and I think he's going to use it as a game night, but since he got to choose the Jeffrey Combs movies we watched this weekend, I guess that's fair XD
I think I will carve out some time to watch my own choices this week though.
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Date: 2024-04-02 02:16 pm (UTC)Lawrence of Arabia: Lawrence (a very pretty Peter O'Toole) is whipped and raped about halfway through the movie. Later, his wounds re-open while he's in uniform and he bleeds through, surrounded by men who didn't know he'd been tortured.
Prisoners: Paul Dano's character is gruesomely tortured and spends most of the movie bloodied and fucked up. David Dasmalchian also gets roughed up, and it's a great movie for ManPain from Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Crimson Peak: Tom Hiddleston is stuck in an abusive, incestuous relationship with his older sister and suffers some, uh....pretty serious physical wounds...
Society of the Snow: This is a re-telling of the 1972 Andes plane crash, so the whole movie is about a bunch of young rugby players trying to survive in the snow vs. gruesome injuries and cannibalism. It's too sad for me to really consider it whump.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence: Bowie's character is a POW in a Japanese camp who is repeatedly tortured at the hands of a prison guard homoerotically obsessed with him.
Purple Rain: Prince's dad is physically abusive to him, and Prince in turn is abusive to his girlfriend. But he's very pretty while doing it 💀
Re-Animator, From Beyond, and Castle Freak all feature Jeffrey Combs in various states of whump, but From Beyond is probably the best for it. He's at his most sympathetic in that movie and he spends the first half of it wrapped up in big fluffy sweaters and trying not to cry. Castle Freak adds an element of emotional whump as his character is grieving the death of his son and his marriage is falling apart.
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