Films

Isn't It Romantic (2019)
[#34 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

TV

Would I Lie To You?
14x04 Episode 4
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Musicals: The Greatest Show
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Dig (2021)
[#33 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
[#32 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

this week on 100 Films

We're a whole week into February now, but that week began with February beginning, and so over at 100 Films in a Year it was time to look back at the first month of 2021...





And I published 3 new film reviews, too...


The 100-Week Roundup XXIV

Featuring...
- Bruce Almighty
- Isle of Dogs
- Life is Beautiful

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

Films

When the Wind Blows (1986)
[#31 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
+ the commentary by first assistant editor John Fordham and film historian Nick Redman ("first assistant editor" sounds like a bit of a lowly position to be doing the commentary, but Fordham was there for most of production and seems to know a fair bit — it's not a bad track), and the interview with Raymond Briggs (insightful into the original conception of the characters, including how he had to make them "fairly dim" in order to slavishly follow the "lunatic" official advice!)

Collection Count

Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.

Last week I said this week might challenge some of the record-breakers from last year. In the end, due to stuff getting lost in the post or not arriving as quickly as expected, it's not quite at that level — but it's still a relatively big'un, with 11 all-new titles, containing 15 films (no multi-film sets, just a bunch of extra films as special features!) and 38 episodes of TV, plus a pile of short films too. Sadly, nothing on Ultra HD or DVD, and no additional cuts, otherwise every single stat would've gone up. Hey-ho, you can't have it all!

Number of titles in collection: 2,537 [up 11]
Of which DVDs: 1,080 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,457 [up 11]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 96 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 6,507 [up 28]
Number of films: 2,935 [up 15]
Number of additional cuts: 206 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,048 [up 38]
Number of short films: 821 [up 9]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

The Twilight Zone
1x12 What You Need

WandaVision
Part 5 On a Very Special Episode...

Films

Frozen 3D (2013)
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2021 #3

Films

High Life (2018)
[#30 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

Films

The Burning Buddha Man (2013)
[#29 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

Coming to America (1988)
[#28 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

Films

Weird Woman (1944)
[#27 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
The second Inner Sanctum Mystery.
+ commentary by film historian Justin Humphreys & author Del Howison

Films

Psycho Goreman (2020)
[#26 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

TV

Would I Lie To You?
14x03 Episode 3
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

this week on 100 Films

It was time for another TV column on 100 Films in a Year this week...





But film was not left out, with 3 new movie reviews too...


Rope (1948)

Nowadays fake single takes are all over the place — some of them even last whole movies. But, as with so much cinematic trickery, it’s not actually a new idea. I don’t know if Alfred Hitchcock was the first director to attempt to trick the viewer into thinking they were watching one long take, when in fact it’s several shots stitched together via hidden cuts, but his effort is certainly one of the most famous. As an exercise in style, it’s a mixed success. Hitch is presumably inventing techniques that other filmmakers would polish and perfect in later attempts at the same stunt, but these first attempts don’t always come off perfectly

Read more here.


The 100-Week Roundup XXIII

Featuring...
- Sherlock Gnomes
- Swimming with Men

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

The Twilight Zone
5x04 A Kind of a Stopwatch
5x07 The Old Man in the Cave
+ the commentary on A Kind of a Stopwatch by TZ expert Martin Grams, Jr.

WandaVision
Part 4 We Interrupt This Program

Films

Sansho Dayu (1954)
[#25 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
Blindspot 2021 #1
+ the introduction by Tony Rayns on the Masters of Cinema Blu-ray

Collection Count

Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.

After last week's busy-ness, it's back down to a more acceptable level this week... although I have so much stuff in the post or awaiting dispatch, if it all manages to turn up in the next 7 days then next week might be back up in record-breaker levels. Oh dear!

Well, for now, here's a reasonably-sized update — and, along with it, the first running time update of 2021...

Number of titles in collection: 2,526 [up 3]
Of which DVDs: 1,080 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,446 [up 3]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 96 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 6,479 [up 4]
Number of films: 2,920 [up 3]
Number of additional cuts: 206 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 9,010 [no change]
Number of short films: 812 [up 1]

Total running time of collection (approx.):
468 days, 7 hours, and 57 minutes.
(Up 1 day, 17 hours, and 25 minutes from last month.)

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema
3x03 Cult Movies [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Twilight Zone
5x02 Steel
+ audio commentary by TZ expert Marc Scott Zicree and classic sci-fi expert Bill Warren

Films

Cats (2019)
[#24 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

The Secret Garden (2020)
[#23 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]