Film Watch List: September 2008

*film has been seen previously/rewatching
†watched in theatre

in viewing order
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Across the Universe (2007)
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)
Enchanted (2007)
Out of the Past (1947)
The Naked Spur (1953)
The Desperate Hours (1955)
30 Days of Night (2007)
Sophie's Choice (1982)
The Black Dahlia (2006)
Paper Moon (1973)
The Nines (2007)
Rocket Science (2007)
Written on the Wind (1956)
Skidoo (1968)
We Own the Night (2007)
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
Lust, Caution (2007)
Short Cuts (1993)
Battlestar Galactica: Razor (2007)
Burn After Reading (2008)†

Stats
Films watched: 23
Films previously seen: 0
Films watched in theatres: 1
Films made for direct-to-DVD: 1

Average # of films watched per day: 0.77

By Decade
1930s: 0
1940s: 3
1950s: 3
1960s: 1
1970s: 2
1980s: 1
1990s: 1
2000s: 12

Conclusion: Films like Shadow of a Doubt and Miracle of Morgan's Creek can be propelled from 'good' to 'great' by the addition of some psychosexual intrigue. In Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow, this is the raging sexual tension between our young teenage heroine and her possibly-a-murderer uncle. In Preston Sturges' Miracle, this is exemplified when our heroine, in the night where she has a pregnancy-resulting, amnesiac one night stand, bumps her head on phallic mirror ball. Did I mention this was the 1940s?