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Watching films all year long
Jan. 4th, 2013 12:22 pmI couldn't access LJ on New Year's Eve to post my 2012 movie list, and then I subsequently forgot. But here it is, an actual internet page dedicated to it this time:
MOVIES 2012
That's 189 movies, not counting the rewatches. That's more than previous years', probably because I haven't had a very good year and among the multitude of reasons why I love movies, escapism ranks pretty highly.
There have been, as usual, some recurring names and themes among the movies I've seen. Some intended (Spencer Tracy, George Sanders, Bollywood, Busby Berkeley, Herbert Marshall) and some surprises (William Bendix sure popped up a lot somehow!).
My absolute favourite movie this year was a romantic comedy from 1932, Trouble in Paradise. Usually romantic comedies and love triangles are not my thing, but the story of a gentleman thief living in sin with a female confidence trickster (they first meet when they try to scam each other, thinking each other rich) who then falls in love with his next mark is just so absolutely delightful and I'm in love with all the characters. It's so wonderfully, elegantly risqué as well, without being crude.
Anyway, it was fun fiddling about with the HTML and posters for this year's list. I used Imgur to host the images, which means the poster images will eventually break - but it works for now.
MOVIES 2012
That's 189 movies, not counting the rewatches. That's more than previous years', probably because I haven't had a very good year and among the multitude of reasons why I love movies, escapism ranks pretty highly.
There have been, as usual, some recurring names and themes among the movies I've seen. Some intended (Spencer Tracy, George Sanders, Bollywood, Busby Berkeley, Herbert Marshall) and some surprises (William Bendix sure popped up a lot somehow!).
My absolute favourite movie this year was a romantic comedy from 1932, Trouble in Paradise. Usually romantic comedies and love triangles are not my thing, but the story of a gentleman thief living in sin with a female confidence trickster (they first meet when they try to scam each other, thinking each other rich) who then falls in love with his next mark is just so absolutely delightful and I'm in love with all the characters. It's so wonderfully, elegantly risqué as well, without being crude.
Anyway, it was fun fiddling about with the HTML and posters for this year's list. I used Imgur to host the images, which means the poster images will eventually break - but it works for now.
