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__ Movies of 2019
Jan. 5th, 2020 07:26 pm
I suppose before it gets too far away I should post my annual Ten-ish Movies list, in which I see if I can remember ten movies I saw In Theatres in the just-finished calendar year. This year however I have cheated--I looked back through my google calendar, because I felt like I was going to have trouble coming up with pretty much anything. I did quickly remember one that wasn't on the calendar, which means it must have been a more or less game time decision, which was fortunate because if this was a Top Ten list it would easily be #1: the Polish film (1) Cold War, about which I have had a draft of a post unfinished since March. Come to think of it I guess it would go on a Top X movies of the '10s list, if I had one, which I can think of seven movies I would put on off the top of my head after scouring the last decade's worth of Palme d'Or contenders and filmographies of usual suspects, which would be, in no particular chronological order: (1) The Tree of Life (which, holy cow, that feels like so long ago, (2) Inside Llewyn Davis, (3) Birdman, (4) The Lobster, (5) mother!, (6) Foxtrot, and (7) Cold War ... with honourable mentions to You Were Never Really Here, Anomalisa, and Love and Mercy, the former two because I don't remember them very well but feel like they might make the list if I saw them again, and the latter one because, uh, I liked it, but I dunno.
Speaking of unfinished drafts, do you know how many drafts of posts I have on my laptop? Forty-four. Is that a lot? I think so maybe, though some of them I have probably posted already and forgot to delete. That would be going on nine years worth of drafts, on my going-on-nine-year-old laptop, nearly nine years being by far the longest I have ever had a primary computer, which I think is pretty interesting--every computer I've had prior to this one has become defunct more or less because the internet, within a few years, outstripped its mental capacities; this one, which was not a particularly high-end machine when I got it, still quite comfortably handles the internet (though it never has very comfortably handled my pictures), and I keep hearing, to my great offense, that it is becoming obsolete because it won't comfortably run what will soon be the only supported version of Windows.
( Anyway, the rest of my __ Movies of 2019: )
Speaking of unfinished drafts, do you know how many drafts of posts I have on my laptop? Forty-four. Is that a lot? I think so maybe, though some of them I have probably posted already and forgot to delete. That would be going on nine years worth of drafts, on my going-on-nine-year-old laptop, nearly nine years being by far the longest I have ever had a primary computer, which I think is pretty interesting--every computer I've had prior to this one has become defunct more or less because the internet, within a few years, outstripped its mental capacities; this one, which was not a particularly high-end machine when I got it, still quite comfortably handles the internet (though it never has very comfortably handled my pictures), and I keep hearing, to my great offense, that it is becoming obsolete because it won't comfortably run what will soon be the only supported version of Windows.
( Anyway, the rest of my __ Movies of 2019: )
