A worthy project!

2 Month's and all is well!

February - The Romance of it All, a pretty easy and quite enjoyable challenge. Though the original consideration of Romantic comedies only may have proved a little more challenging. Yet somehow not as appealing, allowing a more general romance film paved the way for some more alternative watches. Wall-E and Top Gun for instance, yet it also allowed me to see the rather brilliant In the Mood for Love, one of my highlights of the month.

 

Considering it was the month of love, the cinema was relatively lite on the romance front, I managed 4 films. I give it a year, Warm Bodies, Beautiful Creatures and the musical Moulin Rouge. Moulin Rouge being the stand out film for me at the cinema for this genre. 
 

Yet I continued to look for more alternative romance films, Blue Valentine; Ryan Gosling and Michelle William’s whirlwind romance, marriage and breakup; not an easy watch. Yet as usual Gosling delivers a quality performance. So I would say well worth watching. 

Another interesting film was Daydream nation, having some strange plot lines and fighting against the typical romantic features, it proved quite an entertaining watch. The cast were all reasonable, and the script smart and funny. Yet it had a secondary plot that was out of left field! Watch it to find out.

    Though I had completed the challenge with a few days to spare, I wanted to see a few more films, with the aim of finishing it with The Princess Bride, after also watching Stardust along the way. Though I had 2 films I was really hoping to fit in and did were Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, with the 3^rd film Before Midnight getting rave reviews, this was a perfect time to see them.

    Both are superb films, I was transfixed by Hawke and Delpy for 3 hours! Brilliant! If you haven’t seen these 2 films, I urge to watch them.

I also had my Link film to watch – The Deer Hunter, tied to Close encounters by the cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond. From The Deer Hunter I went to American Psycho, using the studio; Universal. From American Psycho; which I watched on the opening day of the month I can get rid of the song link; one link which was or could have proved quite tricky. The Song is Lady in Red and takes me to Dodgeball in April not the best but at least the link has gone!

 Again the film project is showing its worth; its design to lead me to films I may have missed, some I may never have seen is working. I have focus and a drive like never before, to boldly go where I have never been before!

 

March is going to be the true test of this; the first 15 films on the IMDB 250 list. I have to say it’s quite a shocking list. Films any film buff should have seen long ago, but not me and a major failing on my part; hating the word “classic” I tend to bypass these films. 12 Angry Men, Schindler’s List,Vertigo, City Lights and Citizen Kane, I could easily look the other way!

Yet March isn’t going to be easy, most films on my list are well over 110 minutes long, 4 or 5 well over 2 hours, 2 of them nearly 3 hours long, add to that a heavy cinema schedule plus the personal challenge films; that’s a lot of films this month! Seeing 3 films at the cinema in 1 day and none of them counting for a single challenge doesn’t help!

As they say Bring it on!