{"id":2565,"date":"2014-03-01T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curtsiesandhandgrenades.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/01\/february-2014-cinema\/"},"modified":"2014-03-01T07:27:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T12:27:00","slug":"february-2014-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curtsiesandhandgrenades.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/01\/february-2014-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2014: Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"
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February was admittedly another slow month and I didn’t even come close to hitting my normal goal of one movie a day, but luckily the films that I did end up watching proved to be almost constantly great. The only real dud this month was the Sara Michelle Gellar starring horror film, The Return<\/i>, that I watched on HBO on a whim (never watch random movies on HBO, they are always bad). I finally got around to watching 2 John Waters classics after falling in love with Hairspray<\/i> last year. Pink Flamingos <\/i>and Female Trouble <\/i>proved to be among the very best films I watched in the shortest month of the year. Female Trouble <\/i>specifically is going to have me talking about eye liner for the rest of my life. I also watched Ms. 45 <\/i>which proved to be the finest film I’ve watched so far this year, and if I don’t fall into the trap of watching Antonio Cesaro swing every last man on earth into oblivion on the WWE I may have something more substantial to say about that film other than it’s awesome at some point in the future. Yes, I’m still currently obsessive in my wrestling viewing, and I guess this is just going to have to be a thing I learn how to balance. Finally, I closed out the month on a string of 2013 films that all proved worth my time, the improved sequel in the Hunger Games franchse, Catching Fire, <\/i>Lukas Moodysson’s humanistic ode to punk rock and girlhood We are the Best, <\/i>Spike Lee’s unfairly maligned remake of Oldboy, <\/i>the direct to video picture The Package, <\/i>and Ridley Scott’s modern noir The Counselor. <\/i>March is young, but I’m already off to a good start after having just finished Ernst Lubitsch’s The Doll. <\/i>Here is to hoping I can keep that consistency and figure out how to get to 31 films, and if I don’t then quality matters more than quantity right? Hope everyone else had a great February. <\/div>\n
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Best of the Month<\/b> <\/i><\/div>\n
Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara, 1981)<\/i><\/div>\n
Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945) <\/i><\/div>\n
Female Trouble (John Waters, 1974)<\/i><\/div>\n
Pink Flamingos (John Waters, 1972)<\/i><\/div>\n
The Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)<\/i><\/div>\n
 High School (Frederick Wiseman, 1968)<\/i><\/div>\n
Oldboy (Spike Lee, 2013)<\/i><\/div>\n
We are the Best (Lukas Moodysson, 2013)<\/i><\/div>\n
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Francis Lawrence, 2013)<\/i><\/div>\n
The Counselor (Ridley Scott, 2013)<\/i><\/div>\n
The Package (Jesse V. Johnson, 2013)<\/i><\/div>\n

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Best Rewatches<\/b><\/div>\n
Punch Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)<\/i><\/div>\n
Synecdoche New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)<\/i><\/div>\n
Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, 1997)<\/i><\/div>\n
The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky, 2008)<\/i><\/div>\n
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Worst of the Month<\/b><\/div>\n
The Return (Asif Kapadia, 2006)<\/i><\/div>\n
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Chris Columbus, 2002)<\/i>– rewatch <\/i><\/div>\n
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February was admittedly another slow month and I didn’t even come close to hitting my normal goal of one movie…<\/p>\n

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