Film and TV Viewing Log - July 2016

cenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1974)

cenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1974)

Stand By for Tape Back Up (Ross Sutherland, 2015)

Stand By for Tape Back Up (Ross Sutherland, 2015)

Watched lots of films and TV this month. But thre things I watched this month deserve five stars in my book, Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage (1974), an experimental film essay, Stand By for Tape Back Up and the Netflix series Stranger Things.

Here's my list for July:

★★★★★
Scenes from a Marriage - The Theatrical Version (Ingmar Bergman, 1974)
Stand By for Tape Back Up (Ross Sutherland, 2015)

★★★★
Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
Anyab / Fangs (Mohamed Shebl, 1981)
Fear City (Abel Fererra, 1984)
Footloose (Hebert Ross, 1984)
Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997)
Curses (Jody Mack, 2016)
Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him & Her (Ned Benson, 2014)
The Final Girls (Todd Strauss-Schulson, 2015)
Ghostbusters (Paul Feig, 2016)

★★★
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
Jaws 2 (Jeannot Szwarc, 1978) 
White Dog (Sam Fuller, 1982)
The Keep (Michael Mann, 1983)
Pretty in Pink (Howard Deutch, 1986)
The Decline Of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (Penelope Spheeris, 1988) 
The Decline Of Western Civilization Part III (Penelope Spheeris, 1989)
Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (Peter Tscherkassky, 2005)
Flight Plan ( Robert Schwentke, 2005)
Made in Egypt (Karim Goury, 2007)
Patti Smith: Dream of Life (Steven Sebring, 2008)
Cloverfield (Matt Reeves, 2008)
Adventureland (Greg Mottola, 2009)
The Inside Man ((Karim Goury, 2012)
Les Petits Chats (Sherif Nakhla, 2015) 
The Conjuring The Conjuring 2 (James Wan, 2013 and 2016)
Elvis and Nixon (Liza Johnson, 2016)
The Purge: Election Year (James DeMonaco, 2016)
Speed Sisters (Amber Fares, 2016)

★★
The Decline Of Western Civilization (Penelope Spheeris, 1981)
A Distant Episode (Ben Rivers, 2015) 
Star Trek Beyond (Justin Lin, 2016) 


TV
Orphan Black Season 1 (2013) ★★★
Marcella - Episodes 1-8 (2016) ★★★★
Stranger Things - Episodes 1-8 (2016) ★★★★★

 

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