Film and TV Viewing Log - March 2016
Dust in the Wind
Night of the Hunter
Rosemary's Baby
Possession
My major film highlight this month was watching films by Hou Hsiao-hsien in Singapore (you can read all about it here).
Another highlight is I finally got to see Night of the Hunter starring Robert Mitchum, and an impromptu double bill at home with Rosemary's Baby and Possession.
Very Big Shot, a film from Lebanon by Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya was a great discovery and a suprise and I urge you to seek this film out. I wrote some thoughts about it here. Was also glad to re-watch Theeb at the cinema when it was re-released to celebrate its Oscar Best Foreign Film nomination.
Here's the complete list:
Hou Hsiao-hsien films (read more about it here)
A Time to Live, A Time to Die (1985) ★★★★★
Dust in the Wind (1986) ★★★★★
The Puppetmaster (1993) ★★★★★
Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996) ★★★★★
Millennium Mambo (2001) ★★★★★
Café Lumière (2003) ★★★★
Three Times (2005) ★★★★★
Agnès Varda films:
Du côté de la côte (1958) ★★★★
Jane B. by Agnès V. (1987) ★★★
Ydessa, the bears and etc. (2004) ★★★★
★★★★★
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
★★★★
Rosemary's Baby (Dir. Roman Polanski, 1968)
Autumn Sonata (Dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1978)
Possession (Dir. Andrzej Żuławski, 1981)
Theeb (Dir. Naji Abu Nowar, 2014)
Very Big Shot (Dir. Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya, 2015) (My thoughts about it here.)
★★★
Trumbo (Jay Roach, 2015)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (Dir. Francis Lawrence, 2015)
Steve Jobs (Dir. Danny Boyle, 2015)
Anomalisa (Dir. Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson, 2015)
The Mermaid (Dir. Stephen Chow, 2016)
★★
Cannibal Holocaust (Dir. Ruggero Deodato, 1980)
TV
Survivor (Season 32) - Episodes 3, 4, 5, 6, 7