The relationship we have with film is a bit of a rollercoaster, perhaps for me more than a general audience member given the number of films I see, but nevertheless, I think we can all admit to falling into a rut at times.
For general audience members, however, you can step away from the weekly noise of the new releases and just sit back with a favorite TV show or an old favorite and find your groove once again until the next new release piques your interest. For me, I’m constantly trying to find that great new movie that I haven’t seen as well as watching the occasional favorite I’ve seen before, or finding the time to completely invest in a television show I enjoy, such as was the case last week with “Hannibal” (speaking of I have a treat for you at the end of this post). Last week, however, also found me seeing…
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…Clint Eastwood‘s Jersey Boys as my lone trip to the theater. At home I watched Werner Herzog‘s Fata Morgana, which didn’t impress me and then I watched the samurai film Goyokin, which also left me a bit underwhelmed. It was an 0-for-3 situation and I don’t like batting with such low numbers.
On Saturday I started the day with Michael Bay‘s Bad Boys, which was for an upcoming article I’m going to write after I watch The Island again today or tomorrow. Then I went into previously uncharted territory, first with John Huston‘s Key Largo, which I mentioned in my “What I Watched” column yesterday as a bit of an uneven film, a fun distraction, but still looking for something to spark that fire.
Then came Herzog’s The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser. Watching these Herzog movies on Fandor.com (I’m Chromecasting them to my TV through my phone) offers a chance for plenty of starts and restarts, but this one had me glued. My imagination was flowing and I was hooked.
It reinvigorated me for the week and I’m curious, is there a movie recently or one you can remember that may have energized you out of a cinematic funk? You’d seen several bad movies in a row or simply movies that just weren’t quite doing it for you and then that one gem came along and you were back on track. I’d love to read your stories in the comments below.
P.S. I was looking to put together a classical music playlist and I decided to create one on Spotify out of the classical music featured in “Hannibal“. Here it is if you’re interested:
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