This weekend I’ve been continuing some old quests: regular readers will know that I’ve been working my way through the AFI’s top 122 movies list (the result of combining the Institute’s original top 100 list and its revised top 100 list – 22 movies were added the second time around). As of this writing I’m […]
February 2, 2008
11:34 am
So far this weekend I’ve knocked off another two films on my AFI Top 100 project: Network (1976) and A Night at the Opera (1935), and so far it’s been a fantastic weekend. I know I should write more about these films, but really, you’ve gotta see these to believe ’em. When someone told me […]
January 27, 2008
11:37 pm
Since the last time I posted an update on this project, I’ve managed to watch A Clockwork Orange, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Unforgiven, and Raging Bull. If I weren’t still feeling relatively laid low by the bug I caught last weekend (this sucker’s a tenacious little SOB) I’d be writing up the kind […]
January 21, 2008
12:15 pm
Last night Laura and I continued our trek through the AFI top 122 with Frank Capra’s 1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, one of the films I’d been most looking forward to for several reasons. One, I’m a big Jimmy Stewart fan. Cary Grant and John Wayne are both awesome in their own ways, but […]
Something of a double feature today, with John Wayne in the morning and Marlon Brando in the afternoon – with a bit of shopping in between. One of the things I love about this project is that most of the top 122 AFI films are available on DVD for 10 bucks or less, if you […]
January 19, 2008
10:14 am
As I’m going through the AFI Top 100 (top 122, once you combine the old list and the new list), I’m continually discovering things. One, that it’s a terrible idea to watch classic films late at night when you’re tired, and two, it’s a much better idea to wake up early on a Saturday morning […]
As it turned out, the next film up on my project list was 1960’s Spartacus, starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Peter Ustinov and a very young Tony Curtis. Again, this was a viewing experience that I’m really glad to have had – Spartacus is one of those cast-of-thousands movies with a very palpable sense of […]
As I’ve mentioned here before, one of my main resolutions this year was to finish watching the AFI’s top 100 (now 122) best films of all time. I’ve debated with myself as to whether or not I should include my reactions to these films, or even share which films I’m currently watching, as some of […]
January 10, 2008
11:04 pm
Tonight after work a bunch of us – Mike and his wife, Matt and Clara, Pilar, Talieh, Lana and our newest addition to the lab family Jesper Juul – caught a free preview screening of Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Orphanage (or, in its original Spanish, El Orfanato). The film didn’t disappoint, as it was as […]
Last night my friends Matt and Clara and I went out after work to catch Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, There Will Be Blood. Matt’s a huge Anderson fan, and when he found out the film was opening up in Harvard Square, we rocketed down there to catch the 6PM showing. I myself am a […]
