Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
[3rd or so watch]
Rewatchathon 2020 #15. First Bond film I've (properly) watched since June 2018; and technically it continues a series rewatch I've been doing since 2012(!)
Saturday, 4 April 2020
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
After an incredibly busy month, things calm back down a bit with just four additions this week: one 4K new release, a pair of HMV-exclusive BDs, and one cheap second-hand 3D pickup. Even more shockingly, next week shouldn't see any additions at all! Though you never know when I'll cave to something on offer or get a random whim to pick up an old release -- that's what three of this week's four were, after all.
Number of titles in collection: 2,339 [up 4]
Of which DVDs: 1,109 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,230 [up 4]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 47 [up 1]
Number of discs in collection: 6,069 [up 8]
Number of films: 2,740 [up 4]
Number of TV episodes: 8,807 [no change]
Number of short films: 700 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
After an incredibly busy month, things calm back down a bit with just four additions this week: one 4K new release, a pair of HMV-exclusive BDs, and one cheap second-hand 3D pickup. Even more shockingly, next week shouldn't see any additions at all! Though you never know when I'll cave to something on offer or get a random whim to pick up an old release -- that's what three of this week's four were, after all.
Number of titles in collection: 2,339 [up 4]
Of which DVDs: 1,109 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,230 [up 4]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 47 [up 1]
Number of discs in collection: 6,069 [up 8]
Number of films: 2,740 [up 4]
Number of TV episodes: 8,807 [no change]
Number of short films: 700 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 3 April 2020
Theatre
One Man, Two Guvnors
The National Theatre's acclaimed production, filmed. It was released in cinemas in 2011, one of those live broadcast things they do all the time nowadays, and has now been made available on YouTube for free (but only until next Thursday).
The real question for me is: does it count as a film for 100 Films? I mean, is it a film? If it's not a film, what is it? Live theatre, obviously... but live theatre that's been filmed, and was released in the cinemas. Do those very acts make it a film? Argh!
[Watch it (again) on YouTube.]
The National Theatre's acclaimed production, filmed. It was released in cinemas in 2011, one of those live broadcast things they do all the time nowadays, and has now been made available on YouTube for free (but only until next Thursday).
The real question for me is: does it count as a film for 100 Films? I mean, is it a film? If it's not a film, what is it? Live theatre, obviously... but live theatre that's been filmed, and was released in the cinemas. Do those very acts make it a film? Argh!
[Watch it (again) on YouTube.]
Thursday, 2 April 2020
TV
Doctor Who
4x30 The Macra Terror Episode 4
+ all the special features on the Blu-ray (except the commentary), which are mostly just censored clips, photos, or behind-the-scenes bits from the animation. There are also several alternate presentations of the story, and...
Doctor Who
5x35 The Wheel in Space Episode 1 [mini-episode]
An 11-minute animation of some of The Wheel in Space Episode 1. It's as good as any of the other animations, and it's a nice little bonus in its own way, but ultimately it's rather pointless -- if they do the full story someday, this will be unnecessary; if they don't, well, there's still five-and-a-half episodes not animated.
4x30 The Macra Terror Episode 4
+ all the special features on the Blu-ray (except the commentary), which are mostly just censored clips, photos, or behind-the-scenes bits from the animation. There are also several alternate presentations of the story, and...
Doctor Who
5x35 The Wheel in Space Episode 1 [mini-episode]
An 11-minute animation of some of The Wheel in Space Episode 1. It's as good as any of the other animations, and it's a nice little bonus in its own way, but ultimately it's rather pointless -- if they do the full story someday, this will be unnecessary; if they don't, well, there's still five-and-a-half episodes not animated.
Films
The Kid (1921)
[#60 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
Rang De Basanti (2006)
[#59 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
Currently ranked as the 219th greatest film of all time on IMDb.
[#60 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
Rang De Basanti (2006)
[#59 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
Currently ranked as the 219th greatest film of all time on IMDb.
Wednesday, 1 April 2020
Tuesday, 31 March 2020
TV
The Twilight Zone
5x27 Sounds and Silences
As I continue to watch some of the worst of The Twilight Zone, I come to this, which is regarded as the worst out of all 156 episodes.
5x27 Sounds and Silences
As I continue to watch some of the worst of The Twilight Zone, I come to this, which is regarded as the worst out of all 156 episodes.
Films
The Breakfast Club (1985)
[#56 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
As part of this year's Blindspot list, I included 8 films that I'd failed to watch in previous years of the challenge and so hoped to tick off this year. This is the first of those I've watched, originally from 2019's list.
+ the This American Life radio episode included in Criterion’s special features, where Molly Ringwald talks about watching the film with her ten-year-old daughter for the first time. It’s a fascinating interview for a variety of reasons.
So Dark the Night (1946)
[#57 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
+ the featurette and trailer on Arrow's Blu-ray
[#56 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
As part of this year's Blindspot list, I included 8 films that I'd failed to watch in previous years of the challenge and so hoped to tick off this year. This is the first of those I've watched, originally from 2019's list.
+ the This American Life radio episode included in Criterion’s special features, where Molly Ringwald talks about watching the film with her ten-year-old daughter for the first time. It’s a fascinating interview for a variety of reasons.
So Dark the Night (1946)
[#57 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
+ the featurette and trailer on Arrow's Blu-ray
Monday, 30 March 2020
Films
Knives Out (2019)
[#55 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
One Cut of the Dead (2017)
[#54 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
[#55 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
One Cut of the Dead (2017)
[#54 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
Sunday, 29 March 2020
TV
Doctor Who
4x29 The Macra Terror Episode 3
The Twilight Zone
3x36 Cavender Is Coming
4x12 I Dream of Genie
The second episode inspired an ingenieous double-bill *badum-tish*
4x29 The Macra Terror Episode 3
The Twilight Zone
3x36 Cavender Is Coming
4x12 I Dream of Genie
The second episode inspired an ingenieous double-bill *badum-tish*
this week on 100 Films
2 new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...
Mission: Impossible - Fallout in 3D (2018)
Rocketman (2019)
More next Sunday.
Mission: Impossible - Fallout in 3D (2018)
the 3D is superb. It may be a post-conversion, but it’s really well done, in particular during the action sequences — which, in fairness, is most of the movie. The skydive; the Paris bike chase; the helicopter stuff; perhaps most of all the clifftop fight — they all gain something from the third dimension.Read more here.
Rocketman (2019)
this isn’t just “a film about music”, but a proper musical. It isn’t just a simplistic jukebox musical either, nor a standard musician biopic where the character performs some of their hits. Well, it is both of those... But it’s also more than that in the way it’s executed. Other characters break into song from time to time too, and there are clever reimaginings of several recognisable tracks. This is a restlessly imaginative movie.Read more here.
More next Sunday.
Saturday, 28 March 2020
Films
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
[#51 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
The Viking Queen (1967)
[#52 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
Both of these films were featured in the episode of Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema that I watched today. The first one I coincidentally watched before the episode; the second one I chose to watch after he included it. (I didn't even realise I had it in my DVD collection until I Googled where I might be able to watch it.)
[#51 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
The Viking Queen (1967)
[#52 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
Both of these films were featured in the episode of Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema that I watched today. The first one I coincidentally watched before the episode; the second one I chose to watch after he included it. (I didn't even realise I had it in my DVD collection until I Googled where I might be able to watch it.)
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
After reaching weekly numbers unseen for almost a decade earlier this month, I'm at it again. I've equalled that week's total of 13 new additions, but only one of them is an upgrade, so this week's net change of +12 is bigger than that week's +11. That makes it the second biggest week in the history of this column for increasing my collection (the winner is still a week from July 2011 that saw a whopping 14 additions).
This week's additions include a large pile from Indicator, a combination of splurging in their recent sale and a couple of preorders. That's topped up by two imports from Germany to get things unavailable here (Darren Aronofsky's Noah in 3D and Steven Soderbergh's Solaris); a preorder turning up 10 days early (hurrah for ordering direct from the label); and a couple of other random purchases to boot.
Number of titles in collection: 2,335 [up 12]
Of which DVDs: 1,109 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,226 [up 13]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 46 [up 1]
Number of discs in collection: 6,061 [up 22]
Number of films: 2,736 [up 22]
Number of TV episodes: 8,807 [no change]
Number of short films: 700 [up 9]
Oh, and it's also time for the monthly running time update! With two of my largest weeks of all time within the last month, plus a couple more big-by-normal-standards ones, let's see what effect that's had...
Total running time of collection (approx.):
443 days, 9 hours, and 57 minutes.
(Up 4 days, 2 hours, and 48 minutes from last month.)
Those 4-and-a-bit days are equivalent to 21% of the running time increase across the whole of last year, which is a lot really (if all was equal, each of these running time updates would represent 7.7% of the year). That said, it's less than a year since I had one even bigger, so in the grand scheme of things it's not that phenomenal. But I suspect most of those previous ones were boosted by a big TV box set or two, so, you know, swings and roundabouts.
Of course, all these huge increases have cost a small fortune (I added 39 new titles this month!), so hopefully things will be considerably calmer in April. But you never know...
See you next week, faithful reader.
After reaching weekly numbers unseen for almost a decade earlier this month, I'm at it again. I've equalled that week's total of 13 new additions, but only one of them is an upgrade, so this week's net change of +12 is bigger than that week's +11. That makes it the second biggest week in the history of this column for increasing my collection (the winner is still a week from July 2011 that saw a whopping 14 additions).
This week's additions include a large pile from Indicator, a combination of splurging in their recent sale and a couple of preorders. That's topped up by two imports from Germany to get things unavailable here (Darren Aronofsky's Noah in 3D and Steven Soderbergh's Solaris); a preorder turning up 10 days early (hurrah for ordering direct from the label); and a couple of other random purchases to boot.
Number of titles in collection: 2,335 [up 12]
Of which DVDs: 1,109 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,226 [up 13]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 46 [up 1]
Number of discs in collection: 6,061 [up 22]
Number of films: 2,736 [up 22]
Number of TV episodes: 8,807 [no change]
Number of short films: 700 [up 9]
Oh, and it's also time for the monthly running time update! With two of my largest weeks of all time within the last month, plus a couple more big-by-normal-standards ones, let's see what effect that's had...
Total running time of collection (approx.):
443 days, 9 hours, and 57 minutes.
(Up 4 days, 2 hours, and 48 minutes from last month.)
Those 4-and-a-bit days are equivalent to 21% of the running time increase across the whole of last year, which is a lot really (if all was equal, each of these running time updates would represent 7.7% of the year). That said, it's less than a year since I had one even bigger, so in the grand scheme of things it's not that phenomenal. But I suspect most of those previous ones were boosted by a big TV box set or two, so, you know, swings and roundabouts.
Of course, all these huge increases have cost a small fortune (I added 39 new titles this month!), so hopefully things will be considerably calmer in April. But you never know...
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 27 March 2020
Films
The Mad Magician 3D (1954)
[#50 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
Pardon My Backfire 3D (1953)
[#50b in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
The second and final Three Stooges short made in 3D, and included on Indicator's Blu-ray release of The Mad Magician. It's not very good, but at least it's better than...
Spooks! 3D (1953)
[#50a in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
The first Three Stooges short made in 3D, also included on Indicator's Blu-ray release of The Mad Magician. It's rubbish.
[#50 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
Pardon My Backfire 3D (1953)
[#50b in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
The second and final Three Stooges short made in 3D, and included on Indicator's Blu-ray release of The Mad Magician. It's not very good, but at least it's better than...
Spooks! 3D (1953)
[#50a in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
The first Three Stooges short made in 3D, also included on Indicator's Blu-ray release of The Mad Magician. It's rubbish.
Thursday, 26 March 2020
TV
Doctor Who
27x01 Rose [4th or so watch]
Watched as part of the big watchalong on Twitter, #TripOfALifetime. It's the first time I've seen it in about 13 or 14 years, and I enjoyed it. See also: the prequel and sequel stories released around this event.
[Watch Rose (again) on iPlayer.]
27x01 Rose [4th or so watch]
Watched as part of the big watchalong on Twitter, #TripOfALifetime. It's the first time I've seen it in about 13 or 14 years, and I enjoyed it. See also: the prequel and sequel stories released around this event.
[Watch Rose (again) on iPlayer.]
Films
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
[#48 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
Blindspot 2020 #3
Spider-Man: Far from Home 3D (2019)
[#49 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
+ a couple of extras on the Blu-ray, including the deleted scenes (good decisions), and what they've billed as a short film -- Peter's To-Do List -- but is really just an extended deleted sequence. But as they've called it a short film, I'll review it as #49a on 100 Films.
[#48 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
Blindspot 2020 #3
Spider-Man: Far from Home 3D (2019)
[#49 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
+ a couple of extras on the Blu-ray, including the deleted scenes (good decisions), and what they've billed as a short film -- Peter's To-Do List -- but is really just an extended deleted sequence. But as they've called it a short film, I'll review it as #49a on 100 Films.
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