Viewing Log - January 2016

(Strongly Recommended, Don't Bother...)

1. 45 Years (2015, dir. Andrew Haigh) [Click for showtimes]
2. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015, dir. J.J. Abrams)* x 2 (and 2 other times in December) [Click for showtimes]
3. Cube (1997, dir. Vincenzo Natali)
4. The Saddest Music in the World (2003, dir. Guy Maddin)
5. Girl, Interrupted (1999, dir. James Mangold)
6. Barbarella (1968, dir. Roger Vadim)
7. La Jetée (1962, dir. Chris Marker) [Hulu]
8. Point Break (1991, dir. Kathryn Bigelow) [iTunes]
9. Alps (2011, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
10. I Love You to Death (1990, dir. Lawrence Kasdan)
11. Death Proof (2007, dir. Quentin Tarantino)* [iTunes]
12. Lady Snowblood (1973, dir. Toshiya Fujita) [Hulu]
13. Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (1974, dir. Toshiya Fujita)
14. Talk to Her (2002, dir. Pedro Almodóvar) [Starz]
15. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, dir. George Miller)* [HBO]
16. Show Me a Hero (2015, dir. Paul Haggis) [HBO]
17. Paprika (2006, dir. Satoshi Kon)
18. Perfect Blue (1997, dir. Satoshi Kon)
19. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015, Paul Tibbitt and Mike Mitchell)
20. World of Tomorrow (2015, dir. Don Hertzfeldt)* [Netflix]
21. Galaxy Quest (1999, Dean Parisot)
22. Bridge of Spies (2015, dir. Steven Spielberg)
23. The Piano (1993, dir. Jane Campion) [Cinemax]
24. Storytelling (2001, dir. Todd Solondz)
25. Dark Horse (2011, dir. Todd Solondz)
26. Bicycle Thieves (1948, dir. Vittorio De Sica)* 
27. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
28. Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005, dir. Miranda July)* [Netflix]
29. Good Morning (1959, dir. Yasujirō Ozu)
30. Advantageous (2015, dir. Jennifer Phang)
31. Backcountry (2014, dir. Adam MacDonald) [Showtime]
32. The Elephant Man (1980, dir. David Lynch) [Starz]
33. Margin Call (2011, dir. J.C. Chandor)
34. The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936, dir. Jean Renoir)
35. About Elly (2009, dir. Asghar Farhadi) [Netflix]
36. Death of a Cyclist (1955, dir. Juan Antonio Bardem) [Hulu]
37. A Separation (2011, dir. Asghar Farhadi) 
38. Naked Lunch (1991, dir. David Cronenberg)
39. Unfriended (2014, dir. Leo Gabriadze) [HBO]
40. Milk (2008, dir. Gus Van Sant)

* indicates rewatch

Sundance Film Festival 2016 - Ten Most Intriguing Films

The 2016 Sundance Film Festival has just ended, and it was quite an interesting year! Records were broken. Streaming services not only entered the game, but shocked studios with the money they were willing to spend. Films about farting corpses, a lady with a sexual relationship with a wolf, and Nick Jonas beating the shit out of fraternity pledges all premiered this year and many films (including two of those^^^^^) were picked up for US distribution, so we'll probably see them some time this year.

Here are the 10 films from this year's festival I am most excited and/or intrigued to see...

Most Overlooked Films of 2015

What better way to spend January, infamously the worst month to go to the movies, than to watch ten incredible films from last year that pretty much NO ONE watched. These ten recommendations are films that grossed less than $1 million at the domestic box office (an amount of money Star Wars: The Force Awakens made in about 10 minutes), but absolutely deserve to be seen!

I mostly focused on films currently available on Netflix or iTunes, as well as one still in theaters...