Movies I watched in March
History of the World: Part 1 (1981 - M. Brooks)
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018 - R. Howard)
The Bride Wore Black (1968 - F. Truffaut)
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022 - M. McDonaugh)
Triangle of Sadness (2022 - R. Ostlund)
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022 - J. Crawford)
My Year of Dicks (short) (2022 - S. Gunnarsdóttir)
Confidentiality Yours (1983 - F. Truffaut)
The Death of **** Long (2019 - D. Scheinert)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945 - J. Stahl)
The Assassination Bureau (1969 - B. Dearden)
Golden Gate (1994 - J. Madden)
The Nice Guys (2016 - S. Black)
Mississippi Mermaid (1969 - F. Truffaut)
Runaway (1984 - M. Crichton)
City of Hope (1991 - J. Sayles)
The Twelve Chairs (1970 - M. Brooks)
The Mummy (1999 - S. Sommers)
It was kind of a slow month due to too much sports.
I caught up on a couple of Oscar nominated films early in the month. I liked
The Banshees of Inisherin but could have lived without
Triangle of Sadness. I had to check out
My Year of ****s when I heard it announced among the best animated shorts category. It was a pretty good coming-of-age story. That somehow led to
The Death of **** Long directed by one of the Daniels from EEAAO. It was a deadpan black comedy set in a small Alabama town with some fantastically stupid main characters.
I watched a couple of Mel Brooks comedies I hadn't seen before. You wouldn't expect Brooks to take on an often filmed Soviet era satirical novel like
The Twelve Chairs but it worked well and Dom DeLuise was hysterical. I didn't like
History of the World Part 1 nearly as much.
It's very random that
@Andy Dufresne and I both happened to watch
Leave Her to Heaven this month. I had a similar reaction as he. Gene Tierney was the best thing about it in a classic femme fatale role but I found the rest of the film to be an overwrought melodrama.
My director of the month was Francois Truffaut with three of his films based on American pulp novels.
The Bride Wore Black was the best of the bunch. It was a standard vengeance plot enlivened as a stylish homage to Hitchcock.
Mississippi Mermaid had terrific star power with Jean Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve but a rather silly and implausible plot. Truffaut's last film
Confidentially Yours was a vehicle for his wife at the time Fanny Ardant. It was a self consciously throwback effort filmed in black and white but it never took off for me.
Michael Crichton's 80s techno thriller
Runaway came highly recommended by the woman who cuts my hair. It was cheesy good fun with an action scene every 20 minutes like clockwork and Gene Simmons as an effective villain.
Puss in Boots, Solo, The Assassination Bureau and
The Mummy were also fun ways to pass a couple of hours. I didn't love
The Nice Guys as much as some of you in this thread have but it was entertaining and
Reynolds Gosling and Crowe had good chemistry in their scenes. I'm kind of surprised it didn't become a franchise.
John Sayles' ambitious film about the many levels of corruption in an Eastern city
City of Hope was one of the best things I watched this month. It was kind of like an Altman or PTA film with its large cast and multiple intertwined storylines but with a more gritty tone.
Worst movie of the month was
Golden Gate, a dull and preachy film about a FBI agent in post-war San Francisco. It was nice to see the city dressed up in retro style but Matt Dillon doesn't have the acting chops to pull off the transformation of his character.
