Why hello there, rosebuds, and welcome back to The 300, a magnificent feature on my attempt to watch 300 movies in theaters in the year 2018. I’ll be watching new releases, classics, hidden gems, and festival films to experience the wide world of cinema in all its forms. With so much moviegoing variety, there ought to be something here for you to enjoy.
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.
This week is a little slower than usual, and part of it due to the need for some downtime. I completed a full month of covering the 2018 New York Film Festival (The 300 Week 38, The 300 Week 39, The 300 Week 40). Counting this week’s films, I caught 24 movies that played at NYFF 56. My favorites coming out of the festival include Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters, and Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite. I also loved the title short from Joel and Ethan Coen’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, though the rest of the shorts varied in quality.
I wanted to catch more movies at the 2018 Brooklyn Horror Film Festival over the weekend, but New York City’s subway problems made getting around a hassle. I caught a doozy of a cult film at BHFF, however, and will be catching two more movies at the fest this week.
As of this writing I have 30 movies left to go.
And so, onward.
Source: Destructoid The 300 Week 41: Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind and the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival