I watched 45 movies in March. 29 of them were new to me. 14 of them were made before I was born. It was Westerns in March, and I watched seven of those. That’s a piddling number. As I’ve mentioned a couple of times now, I’ve been trying to up my game in terms of writing for Cinema Sentries. The more “official” reviews I do, the less time I have for watching what I want. You would think I’d want to watch whatever theme I’m doing in a given month, but that winds up feeling like work again, and so I just watch other stuff. I may be winding the whole monthly theme thing down. Or, more likely, I’ll just plan on writing about one theme movie a week or something like that.
It was a good month. It felt like a weird month, and looking back on everything I watched, I was a bit all over the place. I caught two movies in the theater (The Bride! and Project Hail Mary), which is rare for me. Favorite new-to-me watches included Project Hail Mary, Hamnet, Bleeder, and Hidden in the Fog.
The actors list changed quite a bit. I watched three films from director Nicolas Winding Refn, which tied him for second place, but those three films had actor Zlatko Burić in them, and apparently he is also in The Bride! and Wolfs, which put him in the top spot, even though I’d never heard of him before. We’ve been watching some Tom Baker era Doctor Who, and he’s tied for number one with five films. I’m glad to see Lino Ventura in the list as well. He’s one of my favorite French actors.
I got a boxed set of Yves Boisset films the other day. Technically I watched them this month, but since Letterboxd doesn’t break them down like that, he gets counted in this journal. I’ll have a review of that boxed set soon.
It is nice to see the director’s list getting filled out even if I haven’t seen a lot of movies from any one person.
Anyway, here’s the full list.
Bullet in the Head (1990) ****
Project Hail Mary (2026) ****
The Deadly Companions (1961) ***1/2
Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen (1985) ***1/2
A Perfect Murder (1998) ***
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) ***
Pusher II (2004) ***1/2
Dial M for Murder (1954) ****
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) ****
Tea and Sympathy (1956) ****
Bye Bye Morons (2020) ***1/2
Once a Thief (1991) ****
A Bridge Too Far (1977) ***1/2
It All Came True (1940) ****
The Dancing Hawk (1978) **1/2
The Funhouse (1981) ***
Maigret Sees Red (1963) ***1/2
Hidden in the Fog (1953)
Hamnet (2025)
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942)
Doctor Who: Warriors’ Gate (1981) ****
The Bride! (2026) ****
Big City Blues (1932) ***
Decision at Sundown (1957) ****
Doctor Who: State of Decay (1980) ****
The Marvels (2023) ***1/2
Jason X (2001) **
Ganja & Hess (1973) ***
Re-Wind (1988) ***
The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) ****
Dead for a Dollar (2022) ***1/2
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) ****
Doctor Who: Full Circle (1980) ****
Pusher (1996) ***1/2
Dead Again (1991) ***1/2
Bleeder (1999) ****
Valdez Is Coming (1971) ***1/2
Suspicion (1941) ***1/2
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004) ***
Excalibur (1981) ****
The Quick and the Dead (1987) *1/2
Hour of the Gun (1967) ***
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