Our February number 1s are:
- The series 'War & Peace' (based on the story by Tolstoy) and
- 'Being There', directed by Jerzy Kosinski, drama with Peter Sellers (1979). The movie tells a story about quite a special man: Mr Chance Gardner.
The worst movie, in our opinion, was 'The Flame and the Arrow' (1959) - simply a very weak story. The main character, who is supposed to be good, is actually a bad guy. He has a lady in every corner of the village, a son with king's wife and does not care about anybody/anything. The bad king is actually good and rather merciful, as he does not punish the 'good' man when he kills the king's hawk and offends the monarch. In reality such an arrogant would have been arrested and killed soon afterwards. All bad things in the plot are results of the 'positive' guy's rather selfish actions. Furthermore, a lady betrays her own family and have them killed to protect the good/bad man.
Colors (related to movie genres) which I use in my diary notes:
Action
Adventure
Comedy
Documentary
Detective/Crime Story
Drama
Fantasy, SF
Family
History
Horror
Musical
Thriller
War
Western
Some of the films are marked with asterisks (if we really like them/do not care for them much). Most of the titles on the list are not marked at all - we simply generally enjoy watching them because of different reasons.
85. Bonnie & Clyde - 1967 (drama)
86. Are You being Served?: Wedding Bells - 1975 (comedy)
87. The Twilight Zone: The Old Man in the Cave - 1963 (SF)
88. War & Peace ep.3 - 2016 (drama)
89. Blood Feuds: The Pleasant Valley War - 2016 (history)
90. Blood Feuds: Hatfields and McCoys - 2016 (history)
91. The Purge: Anarchy - 2014 (action)
92. Diagnosis Murder: Obsession part 1 - 1998 (detective story)
93. Diagnosis Murder: Obsession part 2 - 1998 (detective story)
94. Blood Feuds: The Royal Gorge War - 2016 (history)
95. Midsomer Murders: Ghosts of Christmas Past, part 1 - 2004 (detective story)
96. Midsomer Murders: Ghosts of Christmas Past, part 2 - 2004 (detective story)
97. Green Berets - 1958 with John Wayne (war)
98. Whitechapel ep.5 - 2010 (detective story)
99. Death in Paradise 4.5 - 2015 (detective story)
100. Downton Abbey 6.5 - 2015 (drama)
101. Days of Wine and Roses 1952 (drama)****
102. Are You Being Served?: German Week - 1975 (comedy)
103. The Murdoch Mysteries: Dead End Street - 2011 (detective story)
104. War & Peace ep.4 - 2016 (drama)
105. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries: Death and Mystery - 2015 (detective story)
106. The Murdoch Mysteries: Confederate Treasure - 2011 (detective story)
107. A Walk Among The Tombstones - 2014 (crime story)
108. Blood Feuds: The Johnson County Wars - 2016 (history)
109. The Letter - 1940 (crime story, drama)
110. Farewell to Arms - 1932 (war,drama)
111. The Entertainer - 1960 (drama)
112. Rick Steve's Europe - Poland Rediscovered: Kraków, Auschwitz and Warsaw - 2004 (documentary)
113. The Murdoch Mysteries: Dial M for Murdoch - 2011 (detective story)
114. Nature: Love in the Animal Kingdom - 2013 (documentary)
115. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries: Death at the Grand Hotel - 2015 (detective story)
116. Fawlty Towers: Anniversary - 1979 (comedy)
117. The Vicar of Dibley: The Handsome Stranger - 2006 (comedy)
118. The Vicar of Dibley: The Vicar in White - 2006 (comedy)
119. Downton Abbey 6.6 - 2015 (drama)
120. Vinyl - Pilot - 2016 (drama) - quite a dark story about music business. Well, I prefer listening to music and not thinking about all the dark side of the moon.
121. Death in Paradise 4.6 - 2015 (detective story)
122. The Twilight Zone: The Last Night of a Jockey - 1963 (SF)
123. Whitechapel ep.6 - 2010 (detective story)
124. San Antonio - 1945 (western)
125. Vikings: A Good Treason - 2016 (drama)
126. Black Legion - 1937 (drama)
127. Natural Born Outlaws: Al Capone - 2016 (history)
128. The Treasure of Sierra Madre - 1948 (adventure, drama)
129. The Untouchables - 1987 (crime, drama)
130. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries: Game, Set and Murder - 2015 (detective story)
131. Natural Born Outlaws: Machine Gun Kelly - 2016 (history)
132. Whitechapel ep.7 - 20012 (detective story)
133. Death in Paradise 4.7 - 2015 (detective story)
134. The Flame and the Arrow - 1950 (adventure)*
135. Death Valley Days: The Bell of San Gabriel - 1953 (western)
136. The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean - 1972 (comedy, western)
137. Are You Being Served?: New Look - 1975 (comedy)
138. Vinyl: Yesterday Once More - 2016 (drama)
139. Bad Words - 2013 (drama)
140. The Twilight Zone: Passage on the Lady Anne - 1963 (SF)
141. Saved! - 2004 (drama)
142. House on Haunted Hill - 1959 (horror) - the horror effects are quite funny although it must have been scary at the time when the film was made.
143. The World of The Words - 1953 (SF) - quite well made, considering the year of production.
144. Vikings: Kill the Queen - 2016 (drama, history)
145. Midsomer Murders: Things That Go Bump in the Night part 1 - 2004 (detective story)
146. Midsomer Murders: Things That Go Bump in the Night part 2 - 2004 (detective story)
147. Being There - 1979 (drama)****
148. Whitechapel ep.8 - 2012 (detective story)
149. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries: Death Do Us Part - 2015 (detective story)
150. More Manners of Downton Abbey - 2016 (documentary)
151. Vinyl ep.3 - 2016 (drama)
152. San Andreas - 2015 (action, drama)
153. Are You being Served?: No Sale - 1976 (comedy)
How about you? What movies did you find interesting last month?
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