Film and TV Viewing Log - July 2016
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) ★★★★★