April/May 2015 - MDP Film Journal

Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003)

Lots of things going on and didn't get much time in for film. Hence, the combined April/May months.

Best of April/May 2015
1.  Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003)
2.  The Century of the Self (Adam Curtis, 2002)
3.  Lucky Dragon No. 5 (Kaneto Shindô, 1959)
4.  Gone Girl (David Fincher, 2014)
5.  Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014)
6.  Moonwalker (Jerry Kramer, Will Vinton, Jim Blashfield & Colin Chilvers, 1988)

Favorite Rewatches of April/May 2015
Mr. Thank You (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1936)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
Collateral (Michael Mann, 2004)
Armageddon (Michael Bay, 1998)
Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990)

Films watched in April: 6
Films watched in May: 11
Rewatches in April/May: 9
Total tally for 2015: 81

(I'm borrowing this format idea from Curtsies and Hand Grenades.)