Past seven days

Looking at all the summer film calendars, from New York Times, AV Club, Washington Post and many more  A wide variety of films, but as usual, for the summer at least, not too many that are female oriented.


Man Bites Dog
We Always Lie to Strangers

Past seven days

A funny and heartfelt actor who sometimes was a toughie, RIP Bob Hoskins.


41st Student Academy Awards
Admission
Celeste and Jesse Forever
Hateship, Loveship
Master of the House

Past seven days

An interesting highlight of the last seven days was seeing the Brothers Quay, who have been experimental filmmakers for many years.  Although at times they are not entirely forthcoming with their filmmaking methods, we got to hear firsthand about some of their work ethic and experiences in making short films and surreal animation.


The Brothers Quay short films
Chan is Missing
Family Tree
The Guild
The Sapphires
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

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A merging of film fests this week.  The short Asian American Showcase butts up with the Latino Film Festival.  This year though I only one one of the Showcase's films that inspired me, the documentary Documented, which details ex-Washington Post journalist Jose Antonio Vargas' revelation of being an undocumented citizen.  I wish we had a legitimate Chinese film fest here, curiously we do not.  Anyone want to start one with me?

Detained in the Desert
Documented
Locke
Melaza
The Misfortunates
The Railway Man
Solo
World's West End

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Continuing with the Latino fest, ignoring my DVDs. :-( But more Latin movies! :-)

The Boy and the World
Captain America: Winter Soldier
Cesar Chavez
Dream Team 1935
Fading Gigolo
Ida
Longest Distance
Noah

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Sliding from one fest to another, and looking forward to the summer in Chicago. Many free film events take place in the summer--movies in the park, movies at the Cultural Center, and many organizations offering up new and old films for screenings!

Autumn Blood
Cuban Fury
De-Lovely
Jodorowsky's Dune
Muppets Most Wanted
Spider

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Heading toward the end of the European Union Film Festival...onto the Chicago Latino Film Festival!

A Bag of Flour
The Chiney Shop
Class Enemy
Come Out and Play
Exhibition
Half: The Story of A Chinese-Jamaican Son
High Tech, Low Life
Immortality aka Wisdom of the Crocodiles
Lawless Heart
Operation E
Summer Storm
Unit 7
Wadjda

Past seven days

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. Mostly the European Union Film Festival!

Aglaya
Divergent
Dual
Free Fall
Love is Blind
One Shot
Veronica Mars
We Are the Best

Past seven day

I guess I am sneaking in a past fourteen days instead!  At least I averaged over one movie a day this time, with the help of a local Wes Anderson Anthology film fest.  Upcoming is the European Union Film Festival and then the Chicago Latino Film Festival, both of which I am looking forward to.

12 Years a Slave
Bad Words
Casablana
Darjeeling Limited
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Great Muppet Caper
Leonie
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Moonrise Kingdom
Nada +
Parker
The Royal Tenenbaums
Rushmore
Silent Light
A Single Shot
Stranger by the Lake
Sweetwater

Past seven days

Not in the mood for movies lately...

American Hustle
The Lego Movie
Noi the Albino
Revolution '67

Past seven days

We're slowly getting through this cabin fever known as winter, although the weather here as usual is doing its flip flop, between frigid, windy, rainy and springlike.

End of Watch
Pompeii
The Skin I Live In
Skycrawlers
The Traveling Executioner

Past seven days

My first foray into Michelangelo Antonioni.  Definitely one I need to read up on.

L'Avventura
Monuments Men
Moonrise Kingdom
Winter's Tale

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Several winter-set movies this week, even two set at Christmas!

All is Bright
The Island
Oscar Animated Shorts 2014
The Painting
Winterlochter

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Looks like it has been a Netflix week.  The weather kept me in again so just DVDs and streaming:

All Is Bright
Audition
Grabbers
Secrets of Scotland Yard
Temple Grandin

Past seven days

Despite another almost repeat of a polar vortex, I'm still stuck watching TV dvds and not movies.


American Experience:  The Poisoner's Handbook
American Experience:  Triangle Fire
American Experience:  Tupperware!
Frontline: The Secret State of North Korea
The Legend of Drunken Master

Past seven days

I guess I am on a Sherlock Holmes kick, rewatching my DVD sets of the newish Sherlock series from BBC.  Here are some other DVDs I watched in the last 14 days:

The Big Clock
Burning Love
I Love You, Man
Sesame Street Old School
Sherlock Holmes and he Baker Street Irregulars
The Soloist

Past seven days

Although I did watch a lot of DVDs, very few were movies, and in fact, the two I did watch were movies I had seen before on the big screen. Hope your 2014 is getting off to a film-filled start!

Berberian Sound Studio
The Muppets

Past seven days

A semi-break from work next week means I'll be at home with lots of stuff to watch! In the meantime, here are the last seven days:

The Avengers
Colossus: The Forbin Project
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
My Name is Bill W.

Past seven days

I got to see some films that are not yet out, some opening in a couple days, others not until the new year. Have fun at the movies!

August: Osage County
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Chicago Drawbridges
How to Murder Your Wife
The Kind With a Bike
Saving Mr. Banks
A Serious Man

Past seven days

Caught up on some old tv by re-watching Fringe season 3 during the holiday break, but still have to tackle 4 and 5.  In the meantime, I checked out a couple sequels and a new movie by Spike Jonze:

Her
Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Thor: The Dark World