Really, I am. The key to catching-up, I find, is keeping up. So I’m trying to actually write about and review films when the damn things come out. That’s why you’ve seen some more straight-forward posts (while maintaining my incredibly casual/unprofessional/whatever voice) as I talk about all these films that publicists have been kind enough to invite me to. Yet, I still find myself behind with my continuing lists of “posts-to-write-that-I-have-yet-to-write” as well as things that come-up day-by-day, many of which have fallen by the wayside.
And here we are with the new TV season fast approaching (or basically here, at least on Fox). Oh woe’s me … so much to watch, so much to do, not enough hours in the day, and my advancing age proving that I need to reserve more of them for sleep.
Regardless, I’m going to continue to keep you updated on my continuous quest to achieve the “unattainable goal” of viewing an average of a movie a day in 2006. Excitedly enough, this year, my “unattainable goal” is actually damn close to attainable, and after the rush of the fall and awards season, I think I will most definitely surpass it. August 31 was day 243 of 2006, and as of that day, I had watched 236 different movies. From here on, for those of you utterly insane enough to care even one iota or for the consistent need of good sleeping material, I’m going to give monthly updates. So even though I’m actually up to 245 as of today, we’re we’re going to stick with the 236 and 8/31/06 number. Everyone clear? Good. Awake? Didn’t think so.
This post contains the first 205 titles. August saw me achieve this goal for this one month — 31 movies in 31 days. After the jump is the list …
(Titles in ALL CAPS link to Out of Focus posts.)
August
- (206) Ride the High Country (BAM: Sam Peckinpah series)
- (207) Four Days in September (DVD)
- (208) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (TCM)
- (209) The Matador (DVD)
- (210) Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (AMC Empire 25)
- (211) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (AMC Empire 25)
- (212) Strangers With Candy (Landmark Sunshine)
- (213) The Night Listener (AMC Lincoln Square)
- (214) The Conversation (TCM)
- (215) The Illusionist (Broadway Screening Room)
- (216) Bullets Over Broadway (DVD)
- (217) FRATRICIDE (Film Forum)
- (218) SNAKES ON A PLANE (Regal Union Square)
- (219) Inside Man (DVD)
- (220) Queen Kelly (TCM)
- (221) Crooklyn (Sundance)
- (222) How to Eat Fried Worms (Disney Screening Room)
- (223) Beerfest (AMC Lincoln Square)
- (224) LASSIE (Broadway Screening Room)
- (225) Manhattan Murder Mystery (DVD)
- (226) Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Lincoln Plaza)
- (227) The Young Savages (TCM)
- (228) Mighty Aphrodite (DVD)
- (229) The Dead Zone (DVD)
- (230) THX-1138 (TCM)
- (231) One Day in September (IFC)
- (232) Club Dread (DVD)
- (233) The Last Mogul: The Life and Times of Lew Wasserman (DVD)
- (234) PAPER DOLLS (Film Forum)
- (235) SHERRYBABY (Magno Review Screening Room)
- (236) All About My Mother (Lincoln Plaza)
On to September …
Out of Focus 