
PopGap #16: Spring Cleaning, Cleaned.
Written by dorrk | 29 April 2016 |
Spring Cleaning: There's too many of them... There's too little of me... Get out!
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.
Trailers for March's Watchlist

THE BEST MOVIES I HAVEN'T SEEN... YET!
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I post reviews for all the movies on this blog, and live-tweet most viewings here:
https://twitter.com/popgap
This list is posted to Letterboxd, here:
https://letterboxd.com/dorrk/list/popgap-2016-04-spring-cleaning/
You can keep track of my Flickchart here:
http://www.flickchart.com/Charts.aspx?user=dorrk
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