I take pride in my DVD library. And the news that Dallas’s Premiere Video was done fighting the good fight gave me the inspiration to dig into the shelves and watch some films that I hadn’t seen in awhile and actually watch some discs I hadn’t yet cracked open. It’s about as eclectic a combo as I’ve had since starting this section on Festworks, which is one of the reasons I wanted to get people to check in and compare what they are watching to what I am watching and inspire all of us to discover more. And I’ve got a couple months before the next film festival run starts up again, so this could be a summer filled with wildly divergent choices, veering from one genre to another, classic to the unexpected.
So, what have you been watching…?
1.ONE CRAZY SUMMER (DIR: Savage Steve Holland) – VOD
ONE CRAZY SUMMER
2. JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 (DIR: Chad Stahelski) – Theater
3. LA DOCE VITA (DIR: Federico Fellini) – DVD
LA DOLCE VITA
4. FIELD OF DREAMS (DIR: Phil Alden Robinson) – DVD
5. THE TIN DRUM (DIR: Volker Schlondorff) – DVD
THE TIN DRUM
6. SISTERS (DIR: Brian De Palma) – DVD
SISTERS
7. ALIEN: COVENANT (DIR: Ridley Scott) – Theater
8. AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (DIR: Robert Bresson) – DVD
AU HASARD BALTHAZAR
9. A SERIOUS MAN (DIRS: Joel and Ethan Coen) – DVD
10. BLOOD AND SAND (DIR: Rouben Mamoulian) – DVD
BLOOD AND SAND
How do you remember all of these? I can barely remember the last three.
Well, to be fair, there isn’t A LOT of time in between viewing
each of the films…
Black Butterfly, Berlin Syndrome, It Comes at Night, The Big Sick, War Machine, The Book of Henry, Dean, Wakefield, Freaky Friday and something I can’t say (but it’s not Wonder Woman).
The usual eclectic list of a paid critic (like the old gal said, ‘First you do it for love, then you do it for fun, finally you do it for money’ — I’ll let you guess which is which): So, going backwards from last night: Unforgiven,The Magnetic Monster, The Front Page, Megan Leavey, Everything Everything, War Machine, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Commune.
Ed –
What did you think of IT COMES AT NIGHT?
Stephen –
And WAR MACHINE…? Quick thoughts…