{"id":2536,"date":"2015-02-01T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curtsiesandhandgrenades.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/01\/january-2015-in-cinema\/"},"modified":"2015-02-01T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T22:22:00","slug":"january-2015-in-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curtsiesandhandgrenades.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/01\/january-2015-in-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2015 in Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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In 2015 I shifted my cinematic focus to women. I wanted to make this year a conscious goal to watch movies that were either directed by or about women. I kept to this goal all throughout the month, and while I rewatched a lot of films with men at the center and behind the camera my newest viewings were aligned with women in one way or another. Most notably I began the Female Filmmaker Project<\/a> on this blog, and reviewed Sally Potter’s The Gold Diggers<\/a>, <\/i>Catherine Breillat’s Romance<\/a>, <\/i>Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher<\/a>, <\/i>and Karen Gehres’ Begging Naked<\/a>. <\/i>All of these films were worthwhile in different ways, and I was especially drawn towards Breillat’s deconstructive picture of sex and love. Outside of those films I officially reviewed for this blog I fell in love with Whisper of the Heart <\/i>and Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. <\/i>In lieu of Blackhat<\/i> I rewatched my favourite Michael Mann pictures (Collateral <\/i>and Miami Vice<\/i>), and my hype for Blackhat <\/i>was completely warranted as it proved to be a total realization of Michael Mann’s aesthetic qualities he had been building towards ever since he started working with digital. Adam Cook summarizes<\/a> it as a picture whose innovations are equal to or more expansive than Godard’s Goodbye to Language 3D<\/i>, and I’d have to agree with him. The lukewarm at best reception by critics at large is baffling to me. I would close the month with rewatches of Blade Runner <\/i>& Darkman <\/i>at the digital cinema festival being held in St. John’s. <\/i>I appreciate Darkman <\/i>more than I did years ago, as I now understand both comic books and cinema much better than on that initial viewing. My happiest cinematic moment happened in the middle of the month though as I introduced my boyfriend to Broadcast News. <\/i>I would fall asleep with his arms wrapped around me with about 20 minutes left in the picture, and I have a feeling it’s a movie that just became even more special to me.
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Best of January
1. Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean <\/i>(Robert Altman, 1982)
2. Whisper of the Heart <\/i>(Yoshifumi Kondo, 1995)
3. Blackhat (<\/i>Michael Mann, 2015)
4. Hookers on Davie <\/i>(Holly Dale, Janis Cole, 1984)
5. Barton Fink <\/i>(Coens, 1991)
6. Romance (<\/i>Catherine Breillat, 1999)
7. The Gold Diggers <\/i>(Sally Potter, 1983)
8. Mommy <\/i>(Xavier Dolan, 2014)
9. The Floorwalker <\/i>(Charlie Chaplin, 1916)
10. Begging Naked <\/i>(Karen Gehres, 2007) <\/p>\n

Favourite rewatches<\/span>
Broadcast News <\/i>(James L. Brooks, 1987)<\/span>
Fat Girl <\/i>(Catherine Breillat, 2001)
Miami Vice <\/i>(Michael Mann, 2006)
Collateral <\/i>(Michael Mann, 2004)
Darkman <\/i>(Sam Raimi, 1990)
Blade Runner <\/i>(Ridley Scott, 1982)
City Lights <\/i>(Charlie Chaplin, 1931)<\/p>\n

Tally: (<\/b>Before I started this year I wanted to keep all my new to me viewings balanced on a gender spectrum. I do realize it’s ridiculous to note gender as a binary, but I currently do not know any non-binary filmmakers. Drop a line in the comments to alert me of some if you know of any. Thank you. I’ll be keeping this tally as I watch movies this year. Rewatches do not count towards this number.)<\/p>\n

Women: 9
Men: 12<\/p>\n

So you can see I’m already failing. However, Women already have the lead 1-0 this month. Let’s hope they can pull back to the front in February. <\/span><\/p>\n

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