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Films I saw in January 2010
I may not be able to keep this up every month, but in January I saw 32 (mostly) good films, so I figure I can do a top ten list. There are a few minor spoilers.
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Sometimes my view on a film takes time to coalesce. While I found the experience of watching the Texas Chain Saw Massacre a few weeks ago to be extremely unpleasant, it has stuck in my mind, and the more I think about it, the better I think it is.
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Gimme Shelter
Gimme Shelter is a beautifully edited glimpse of late 60s life. It chronicles the (lack of) planning and execution of the free concert at Altamont in December 1969. The focus is naturally on the Rolling Stones, but it goes beyond the formulaic concert footage that one expects and receives from it.
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Films I saw in 2009
I watched a total of 162 films in 2009. I only saw five that actually came out in 2009. Of those (Watchmen, Broken Embraces, Life During Wartime, District 9, Star Trek) none of them were in the top sixty films I saw during the year.
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The Dark Knight -- not that dark
I finally saw The Dark Knight which had everyone talking a few months ago. To begin with, it's not a good film or a particularly bad film; it's not properly a film at all, rather an action flick along the lines of the later Die Hard films and should be regarded as such, rather than with the inflated value that people I know seem to have assigned to it.
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Two french films
Perhaps it's just having seen its latter incarnations, Stalag 17, The Great Escape, etc., but I found The Grand Illusion greatly overrated. Renoir's mixture of comic and bleak works in Rules of the Game, whose void leaves its audience to ponder society's vacuity. In The Grand Illusion, most of the jokes fall flat, and one is left questioning the point of the film.
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Lou Reed's Berlin
About three weeks ago I saw Lou Reed perform his 1973 album Berlin, live at Royal Albert Hall. I'm not a huge Velvet Underground fan, and I can't say I know all of Lou Reed's stuff either, but Berlin is definitely an amazing album.
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There Will Be Blood
Although I don't see many new films, I enjoyed There Will Be Blood tonight, even though I can relate to someecards' take on it.
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Film log
Ratings are on a scale of zero to ten.
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Chopper
Just watched Chopper (2001), which was not what I was expecting but worth seeing. When I heard it was about a likeable serial killer I expected something like Man Bites Dog, which it certainly is not. While one is attracted to the charisma of the latter's protagonist at times, he is much more callous and consistently sadistic, whereas Bana in Chopper plays a killer with a more ambivalent relationship to his own brutality (though overall it's an inferior film).
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