I watched 36 movies in November. 27 of them were new to me. 26 of them were made before I was born. It was Noirvember and I watched 20 film noirs. As per usual I didn’t review nearly as many as I wanted but that’s okay. This is just for fun anyway.
We turned our Thanksgiving break into a Bond weekend and I caught up on a few that I hadn’t seen since I was a kid.
I seem to have forgotten to write a movie journal for October, but the director/actor race has stayed more or less the same. I didn’t watch any Classic Doctor Who in November, but William Hartnell had a small role in Odd Man Out which puts him at #1 with 11 films watched. And Christopher Lee took a two-film bump now tied for third place with 9 films watched.
John Carpenter smashed into second place with six films watched. But I suspect Terrence Fischer will keep his lead, especially since my plan is to make the month of December all about British films. I’ll have more on that later. And next month I’ll do a full write-up on my year in movies. Until then, here’s the full list.
North by Northwest (1959) *****
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) ****1/2
Target (1985) **
Little Women (1994) ****
Smile (2022) ***1/2
Odd Man Out (1947) ****1/2
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) ***1/2
The Living Daylights (1987) ***1/2
Licence to Kill (1989) ***
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) *****
Escape from New York (1981) ***1/2
Rusty Knife (1958) ***
Live and Let Die (1973) ***1/2
So Long at the Fair (1950) ***1/2
Someone’s Watching Me! (1978) ****
The Ward (2010) **
The Woman on Pier 13 (1949) ***
The File on Thelma Jordon (1949) ***1/2
Strange Fascination (1952) **1/2
The Window (1949) ****
Cry of the Hunted (1953) ****
Nightfall (1956) ****
The Leopard Man (1943) ***1/2
Dear Murderer (1947) ***1/2
The Whistler (1944) ***
Double Indemnity (1944) *****
Targets (1968) ****1/2
Strip Nude for Your Killer (1975) **1/2
Berlin Express (1948) ***1/2
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) ***
Japan Organized Crime Boss (1969) ****
Death Becomes Her (1992) ***1/2
No Way Out (1950) ****
Woman on the Run (1950) ****1/2
The Night of the Hunter (1955) ****1/2
The Face Behind the Mask (1941) ***
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Hi Matt
I always enjoy your movie stuff, well n=maybe except the horror ones. But I do look forward to your one star review of North by Northwest.
Chris
🙂 🙂
Clearly, that was a typo. North by Northwest is one of my all-time favorite movies. I actually will have a review of the new 4K UHD release up soon.
Oh well….I was having such fun trying to frame a one star review. Cary Grant so out of his depth… the crop-duster scene so hackneyed…