The Viewing Files : 365 Movies in 365 Days - Week Eleven

You know the story.  More movies and more oldies in the mix.  

I definitely feel that I need to mix it up a little bit more and add some foreign language films.  I also need to get back into watching some more documentaries.  On the whole though I feel I'm doing pretty well.

Out of the Past
Starring: Robert Mitchum
Original release: 1947
Synopsis:  Jeff Bailey is an average guy living in an average small town leading an average life.  But when a stranger arrives in town, Jeff is forced to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.

A nice guy who needs to be bad to get away from the bad girl who pretends to be nice pretty much sums up this movie and it was so good.

The kind of movie where men smoke cigarettes and call sexy girls dame and where bad girls give smoldering looks and generally have every guy falling at their feet.

Totally loved it.

I now need to add more film noir movies from this era to my To Be Watched List.

The Man Who Knew Too Much
Starring: James Stewart and Doris Day
Original release: 1956
Synopsis:  A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. 

Annoying kid, way too much singing and zero sex appeal makes for yet another Hitchcock dud.  I'm beginning to think that the 3 films of his I love are the only films of his I'm gonna like.

Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri
Starring: Sam Rockwell and Frances McDormand
Original release: 2017
Synopsis:  A mother challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit.  

This is not an easy movie to like.  The subject matter is unpleasant and so are the main characters.  So I can see why it gets a lot of criticism from viewers.  

And yet the anger and  prejudice shown is, I think, kind of the point.  Not all grieving mothers are sad, crying figures some are filled with a righteous anger that blinds them to everything else, a prejudice cop can still love his mother or his wife and kids.  

It's a glimpse of small town American life in all it's  unpleasantness and it's all the more real for it.

Kiss At Pine Lake
Starring: People I've never heard of
Original release: 2012
Synopsis:  A boy and a girl fall in love during summer camp and promise to stay in touch, but they don’t. Fifteen years later they meet again in the same camp under very different circumstances.

A Hallmark movie.

To be honest I kind of have a soft spot for these.  Sappy and cheesy where happy endings are a must.

This one was pretty average for me.

3 Days of the Condor
Starring: Robert Redford
Original release: 1975
Synopsis:  A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.

Loved it.

Exactly my kind of movie plus Robert Redford's hair was totally on point.  He also does geeky glasses look pretty well.