I didn’t even realize this was going to be the 250th installment of the “What I Watched” columns. To think I started this column almost four years ago with my first viewing of Federico Fellini‘s La Dolce Vita, a film that would become my first “Best Movies” entry this year, is almost astonishing. I guess it’s also exciting, for me personally, that I saw a film just today, a film I finished only seconds before starting today’s column, that I absolutely loved. That film was Werner Herzog‘s The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, which will be this week’s Herzog review so more on that shortly.
Today, in fact, was a day of movies for me as I also watched Michael Bay‘s Bad Boys and John Huston‘s Key Largo starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall and Lionel Barrymore. You all know Bad Boys, but I will say about Key Largo is it’s amazing how utterly dark that film can get in its final moments to a scene where Bacall is opening the Largo Hotel windows and drenched in warm sunlight. It’s a tone deaf ending and a bit of a wishy-washy film, but I enjoyed it.
I also DVR’d This is the End today just so I could watch Michael Cera‘s opening scenes then I stopped watching.
Other than that, movie wise I watched Goyokin, which I wasn’t a huge fan of, Herzog’s Fata Morgana, which I also reviewed.
I’ve already written about my adventures of watching the second season of “Hannibal” as well as the first three episodes of “The Leftovers” and last Sunday I finished off the final two “episodes” of “Sherlock“. All-in-all, while I was sick with strep throat this week I sure as hell got a lot of movie and TV watching in… how about you?
