Film and TV Viewing Log - February 2016

Taxi Driver

In a Glass Cage

Blood / O Sangue

I am Love

John Wick

Watched a lot this month, mostly on the small screen, but managed to go to the cinema too. Major highlights this month, watching Taxi Driver for the first time. Other highlights: In a Lonely Place, In a Glass Cage, O Sangue, I am Love, John Wick.

Also watched films from My French Film Festival which was streamed online and I'm trying to catch up on Jean-Luc Godard films, starting with his older films.

Film

★★★★★

In a Lonely Place (Dir. Nicholas Ray, 1950)

Taxi Driver (Dir. Martin Scorcese, 1976)

In a Glass Cage (Dir. Agustí Villaronga, 1987, Spain)

O Sangue / Blood  (Dir. Pedro Costa, 1989, Portugal)

I am Love (Dir. Luca Guadagnino, 2009)

John Wick (Dir. Chad Stahelski, David Leitch, 2014)

 

★★★★

Ashek Kerib / The Strange Lover (Dir. Dodo Abashidze, Sergei Parajanov, 1980, Georgia)

Psychohydrography (Dir. Peter Bo Rappmund, 2010)

House of Tolerance (Dir. Bertrand Bonello, 2011)

Innocence of Memories (Dir. Grant Gee, 2015)

How to be Single (Dir. Christian Ditter, 2016)

Hail, Caesar! (Dir. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 2016)

 

★★★

Ball of Fire (Dir. Howard Hawks, 1941)

The American Dreamer (Dir. L.M. Kit Carson, Lawrence Schiller, 1971)

As Tears Go By (Dir. Wong Kar-Wai, 1988)

Detropia (Dir. Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, 2012)

Le Week-End (Dir. Roger Michell, 2013)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (Dir. Francis Lawrence, 2014)

Bolshoi Babylon (Dir. Mark Franchetti, Nick Read, 2015)

Chi Raq (Dir. Spike Lee, 2015)

 

★★

Bel Nesbe La Boukra Chou (Dir. Ziad El Rahbani, 1978, Lebanon)

Desperately Seeking Susan (Dir. Susan Seidelma, 1985)

Fidelity (Dir. Andrzej Żuławsk, 2000)

 

My French Film Festival 2016

Alléluia (Dir. Fabrice Du Welz, 2014) ★★★

Cinéast(e)s (Dir. Mathieu Busson, Julie Gayet, 2014)★★★

À trois on y va / All About Them (Dir. Jérôme Bonnell, 2015) ★★★

La Belle Saison / Summertime (Dir. Catherine Corsini, 2015) ★★★

French Cinema mon amour (Dir. Damien Cabrespines, Anne-Solen Douguet, 2015) ★★★

 

Jean-Luc Godard films:

Charlotte et Véronique, ou Tous les garçons s’appellent Patrick (1957) ★★★

Une Histoire d'eau (1958) ★★★

Band of Outsiders (1964)★★★

Weekend (1967) ★★

 

TV

The X-Files - Season 10, Ep 2-6 (2016)

Survivor (Season 32) - Episodes 1 and 2

2016 Oscars - 88th Academy Awards

 

Film log - January 2016