PopGap #16: Spring Cleaning, Cleaned.

Every Spring I put the brakes on adding a bunch of new movies to my Watchlist and try to catch-up on a few of the titles that have been lingering in its cavernous nooks for ages. This April I also wanted to correct course after spending a few months slogging through relatively mediocre movie selections, and my engineering of the lottery reaped the needed rewards: the 14 movies I watched during April averaged out to 71% as I ranked them on my Flickchart, with a couple of new strong favorites emerging from the pack, and not a single one of the 14 movies earning lower than a 5/10 rating.

Here's how April's movies ranked for me:

• Touch of Evil (1958)
  Dir.: Orson Welles
  My rank: #129 (96%)
• Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali (1955)
  Dir.: Satyajit Ray
  My rank: #216 (94%)
• Late Spring (1949)
  Dir.: Yasujiro Ozu
  My rank: #350 (90%)
• The Seventh Seal (1957)
  Dir.: Ingmar Bergman
  My rank: #510 (85%)
• All About Eve (1950)
  Dir.: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  My rank: #692 (80%)
• Apu Trilogy: Apur Sansar (1959)
  Dir.: Satyajit Ray
  My rank: #828 (76%)
• Apu Trilogy: Aparajito (1956)
  Dir.: Satyajit Ray
  My rank: #923 (73%)
• Freaks of Nature (2015)
  Dir.: Robbie Pickering
  My rank: #964 (72%)
• Human Nature (2001)
  Dir.: Michel Gondry
  My rank: #1047 (70%)
• I Stand Alone (1998)
  Dir.: Gaspar Noé
  My rank: #1380 (60%)
• Swing Time (1936)
  Dir.: George Stevens
  My rank: #1504 (56%)
• Men Don't Leave (1990)
  Dir.: Paul Brickman
  My rank: #1588 (54%)
• Yi Yi (2000)
  Dir.: Edward Yang
  My rank: #1784 (48%)
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai... (1984)
  Dir.: W.D. Richter
  My rank: #1816 (47%)

(I cheated a bit on my last batch of reviews, as a flu hit me during the final week.)

April's selections were chosen from a pool of 60 movies, combining:

• Twenty movies randomly picked from the dustiest section of my Watchlist
• The Top 20 movies from my Watchlist, according to Letterboxd
• Twenty movies randomly selected from my entire Watchlist

Twelve movies were picked at random from the resulting lot.