Watched and Learned: My Take on Films from Whenever and Wherever

Once again , nobody had recommended this flick to me, broadly or personally. Nor was I interested back when it came out, if only because I h...

I put this off for a bit in part because a fellow cinephile made it sound extra depressing. Then again, he had also said that No Country for...

I think I had two main reasons to put this on my queue: The Academy nominated it for Best Picture, and the early '70s were a good time f...

Just as I thought, this is the earliest western I've reviewed on this blog. I thought wrong about it being a sequel, tho. In an unspe...

All I recalled learning of this one was that my mom had seen it and reported that people in India apparently know how to put on lavish parti...

I realize this is neither modern nor widely regarded as a classic, but I've encountered just enough references to it that I thought to e...

The announcement of Academy Award nominations was the first I'd heard of this Netflix-adopted feature. I didn't bother to learn much...

Yes, already another movie that's partly about war in southeast Asia , but that's about where the similarity ends. I previously ment...

The only movie I'd previously seen directed (not associate-directed) by Kon Ichikawa was The Burmese Harp . As war flicks go, it's p...

It's not often that I watch inherently tragic documentaries, no matter how honored they are. In this case, I accepted a Meetup invitatio...