October 2012 Film Wrap-Up

From now on, I will end each month with a blog post of all the films I saw in that month, accompanied by my rating out of five for each film. The films will be ordered by the date I saw them on.

OCTOBER 1

Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003) = 4

OCTOBER 3

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) = 4.5

Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) = 5

OCTOBER 5

Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, 1972) = 3.5

OCTOBER 6

Zelig (Woody Allen, 1983) = 3.5

And Your Mother Too! (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001) = 5

OCTOBER 8

Some Kind of Wonderful (Howard Deutch, 1987) = 4

Tomboy (Céline Sciamma, 2011) = 4

OCTOBER 11

Three Colours: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993) = 4.5

OCTOBER 12

Woody Allen: A Documentary (Robert B. Weide, 2012) = 4

OCTOBER 13

Everything Must Go (Dan Rush, 2010) = 3

Three Colours: White (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994) = 3.5

OCTOBER 14

Urban Legend (Jamie Blanks, 1998) = 2.5

OCTOBER 16

Apt Pupil (Bryan Singer, 1998) = 3

OCTOBER 17

Three Colours: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994) = 4

OCTOBER 18

To Rome with Love (Woody Allen, 2012) = 2.5

OCTOBER 19

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (Lorene Scafaria, 2012) = 3.5

Paranormal Activity 4 (Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman, 2012) = 2.5

OCTOBER 21

Stuck on You (Peter Farrelly & Robert Farrelly, 2003) = 3

OCTOBER 22

Vincent Wants to Sea (Ralf Huettner, 2010) = 3.5

OCTOBER 25

Urban Legends: Final Cut (John Ottman, 2000) = 1.5

OCTOBER 26

Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990) = 4

OCTOBER 27

Goodbye Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker, 2003) = 4.5

OCTOBER 28

The 'Burbs (Joe Dante, 1989) = 3.5

OCTOBER 29

Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003) = 4.5

OCTOBER 30

The Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard, 2011) = 3.5

THE BEST = Excluding my third-favourite film of all time, Rear Window (because I've seen it before), the best film I saw in October was And Your Mother Too! (Y tu mamá también). I bought a second-hand DVD copy from eBay on impulse, and I'm so glad I did. One of the best films about sex I have ever seen. Perhaps the best.

THE WORST = Urban Legends: Final Cut, hands down. 

Notes: I watched Vertigo and Rear Window as a double feature at the Randwick Ritz. Great night! They are the only two films I rewatched in October. To Rome with Love will go down as the first Woody Allen film I saw at a cinema, and I was disappointed by how flat and uninspired it was. It was nice to finally check out the Three Colours trilogy. Blue is my favourite. The other two were good, but didn't affect me in the same way. Dogville is an extremely challenging film, and I would put it in the must-see category. Goodfellas was a great movie, but it didn't wow me in the way it has wowed others. Elephant is an excellent high school film, but not in the traditional sense. It will shock you, and in some ways, it works as a horror film. Everything feels too real.