Hey, I’m walking here, and welcome back to The 300, my ratty attempt to watch 300 movies in theaters in the year 2018. I’ll be seeing new releases, classics, hidden gems, and festival films to experience the wide world of cinema in all its glory. With that much variety (and so many festival films), I hope you see something here you’ll want to check out.
As always, there are three rules for The 300:
- The movie must be at least 40 minutes long, meeting the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ definition of a feature film.
- I must watch the movie at a movie theater, screening room, or outdoor screening venue.
- While I can watch movies I’ve seen before 2018, I cannot count repeated viewings of the same film in 2018 multiple times.
Today begins our coverage of the 2018 New York Film Festival. The 56th entry of the venerable NYC film festival officially kicks off on Friday, September 28 with Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite and runs until Sunday, October 14. I’ve been attending a lot of the pre-fest press screenings, which make up the majority of this heavy week for The 300. NYFF 56 capsule reviews will continue on The 300 for the next few weeks; full-length reviews for Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma and the Coen brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs will be up by next weekend.
As NYFF 56 is winding down, I will also catch a few movies at the 2018 Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, which runs from Thursday, October 11 to Thursday, October 18. There are some great films running at this year’s festival, and I hope to catch several of them since the programming at the BHFF is always strong from year to year.
As of this writing, I have 47 movies left to go. I am so tired.
And so, onward.
Source: Destructoid The 300 Week 38: If Beale Street Could Talk and Early Reviews from NYFF 2018