Recent Cinema
On Friday night I went to a screening of Chungking Express. On Sunday I went to a different theatre to see the new restoration of Seven Samurai. That’s a pretty good weekend for film. It made me curious to see a list of the films I had watched in theatres over the past 12 months. I queried the Expenses:Entertainment:Film register of my ledger to put one together.
Newly released blockbusters:
Newly released arthouse films:
Classiques du cinéma:
- All About Eve
- Apocalypse Now (Final Cut)
- Blade Runner (Final Cut)
- Chungking Express (with pineapple cake by Fear the Feast)
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
- Le Samouraï
- Night of the Living Dead (with live score by Sleepbomb)
- RoboCop (Director’s Cut)
- Seven Samurai
- Sunset Boulevard
- The Abyss
This is a pretty decent collection, and these past 12 months have not been unusual in that regard. I had the sense that I saw fewer new films in theatres, but that appears not to be the case. I think going to a revival screening of a film I already know is just more memorable as a theatrical experience. I enjoy living in a place with a robust culture of cinema, where I can go see some IMAX spectacle one weekend and a 35MM noir the next.
