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"Lift High Your Lamp, Green Lady".

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Spies, coups, proxy wars and the balance of terror. Inspired by my love of the titular board game, as well as the subject in general.

*Note*

I have left off movies about the major armed conflicts of the time, most notably The Korean War and The Vietnam War, as I feel the sheer number of those would overwhelm the rest of the list.

1. The Russian Question
2. The Iron Curtain
3. Sofia
4. Meeting on the Elbe
5. Conspirator
6. The Red Menace
7. The Third Man
8. The Woman on Pier 13
9. The Red Danube
10. Guilty of Treason

...plus 249 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A list of some of the movies that have been shot in my neck of the woods (and prairie).

I welcome suggestions in the comments!

• 12 Men of Christmas

  Calgary

• After the Harvest

  Calgary, CL Ranch

• Agent of Influence

  Calgary

• Alpha

  Brooks

• Amber Waves

  Lethbridge

• Anatomy of a Hate Crime

  Black Diamond, Calgary, Cochrane

• Angel Flight Down

  Kananaskis Country, Calgary

• Angels Crest

  Coleman, Inglewood, Calgary, Kananaskis Country

• Another Country: A North of 60 Mystery

  Bragg Creek

• Anthrax

  Bearspaw

...plus 198 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

So this year, I thought it might be fun to watch nothing but Italian horror movies for the entire month, and it absolutely rocked. It gave me a chance to watch some things I've owned on disc for years but not gotten around to, to watch shiny new 4k editions of some of my favorites, and to fill in some of the gaps from the masters like the Bava's and Argento. I've already got enough material on my shelf to do it again next year! Avanti!

My favorite first time watches for the month were Lisa and The Devil, Shock, The Demon, Dellamorte Dellamore and Cannibal Apocalypse.

• Caltiki, the Immortal Monster
• The Whip and the Body
• Hercules in the Haunted World
• Blood and Black Lace
• Planet of the Vampires
• Five Dolls for an August Moon
• Hatchet for the Honeymoon
• A Bay of Blood
• Baron Blood
• Lisa and the Devil

...plus 39 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films that have influenced, or strongly resemble the classic side-scrolling brawlers of the 80's and 90's arcades. Frequently feature scenes of the protagonists battling hand-to-hand through waves of bad guys while making their way through various settings, or "levels".

• The Big Boss
• Blade
• Blade of the Immortal
• The Bodyguard
• The Boxer from Shantung
• Brawl in Cell Block 99
• The Brink
• BuyBust
• The City of Violence
• The Clones of Bruce Lee

...plus 59 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Streaming and Screaming! A huge chunk of what I watched this year was derived from what was on The Criterion Channel at the time. A few old favorites are sprinkled in there as usual, and I also finally got around to watching the entire Psycho franchise, thanks to the Arrow 4k box set that was released around that time. My favorite first time watches of the month were Island of Lost Souls, The Addiction, Onibaba, Kuroneko and The Shout.

• Videodrome
• Island of Lost Souls
• Svengali
• Thirteen Women
• Murders in the Zoo
• Mystery of the Wax Museum
• The Addiction
• Vampyr
• The Hidden
• From Beyond

...plus 24 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Yep, getting the list up two years after the fact.

Not much of a theme this year, except perhaps my dive into the films of Ryuhei Kitamura, which was definitely a hit-or-miss endeavor. Near the end of the month, I got into watching some 30's classics that I had yet to experience, and that would carry over into the following year. My favorite first time watches of the month were Pearl, The Slumber Party Massacre, The Black Cat, The Old Dark House and NIGHT KILLER!

• Attack of the Puppet People
• X
• Pearl
• Sole Survivor
• Don't Panic
• A Cure for Wellness
• Happy Death Day
• Happy Death Day 2U
• The Stepfather
• Werewolf by Night

...plus 26 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Stone
• Force 10 from Navarone
• Raiders of Atlantis
• Warriors of the Year 2072
• Eye of the Tiger
• Blue Vengeance
• Highlander II: The Quickening
• The Predator
• Spirits of the Dead
• The Counselor

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Can't Get You Out of My Head
• The Innocents
• Pig
• West Side Story
• The Last Duel
• Dune
• All That Jazz
• La Commune (Paris, 1871)
• The Killing Floor
• Captain Conan

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My lowest numbers yet! Disappointing! Ill have to make it up next year.

Started off in the first half of the month with some random stuff, a few more anthologies and such, but then in the second half I got out the J&B and went Giallo-crazy! My favorite first time watches this year were The Innocents, The Amusement Park, Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I have the Key, The Case of the Scorpion's Tail, and The House of The Laughing Windows.

• Relentless
• The Amusement Park
• The Innocents
• The Psychic
• The Beyond
• Three Cases of Murder
• From Beyond the Grave
• Tales That Witness Madness
• The Monster Club
• Southbound

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Midnight, January 1, 1995: I watched as Showcase Television launched in Canada, described as "the best of independently-produced movies, drama, comedy and mini-series from Canada and around the world". The first movie they aired that night was "Life Of Brian", and to my delight it was uncut! Thus began one of my earliest exposures to independent and world cinema, as well being provided a steady supply of nudity and naughtiness. The Showcase Revue was where I first experienced movies like "Scanners", "Bad Lieutenant", "The Long Good Friday", and many a foreign skin-flick. The golden age of Showcase lasted until the mid 2000's, when they seemed to drift away from anything interesting and morphed into a channel that simply played everyday Hollywood films, and NCIS and CSI reruns. This list was cobbled together from my own memory, and a few sources that I have found online, and while it is likely not completely accurate, hopefully it gives some sense of the great variety that was once offered on just one channel. Special thanks go to the people who made the following lists:
letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/0ona/list/drambuie-showcase-revued/

www.listchallenges.com/english-language-films-shown-on-the-showcase-revue

www.listchallenges.com/foreign-language-films-shown-on-the-showcase-revue

And also thanks to this video, which I watching many times in the weeks leading up to the launch:

www.youtube.com/results?search_query=showcase+television+launch

www.google.ca/amp/s/www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/arts/film/article-how-the-showcase-revue-influenced-a-generation-of-canadian-cinephiles/

• 1001 Nights
• 13 Gantry Row
• 36 Fillette
• The Adjuster
• An Affair of Love
• Age-Old Friends
• Agnes
• Albino Alligator
• All the Rage
• America's Dream

...plus 513 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• Uncut Gems
• Paris Is Burning
• Kanal
• Day of the Outlaw
• Lovers Rock
• The Invisible Man
• The Virgin Spring
• The Last Wave
• Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Chernobyl
• Fighting in the Age of Loneliness
• The Lady Hermit
• The Cranes Are Flying
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• The New One-Armed Swordsman
• Ikarie XB 1
• Tokyo Olympiad
• Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space
• The Irishman

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Franchises! After getting through the Resident Evil films the previous year, I just had to revisit Blade, and then take that deep dive into the Underworld! After that, it was just pumping that Price, and a healthy heaping of anthology films, with some scattered randoms for seasoning. My favorite first time watches for the month were The Abominable Dr. Phibes, The Invisible Man (1933), Butcher, Baker Nightmare Maker, The Haunted Palace and Asylum.

• Blade
• Blade II
• Blade: Trinity
• Underworld
• Underworld: Evolution
• Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
• Underworld: Awakening
• Underworld: Blood Wars
• House of Usher
• The Pit and the Pendulum

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films where of the free love generation either come to bad ends, or are portrayed in a negative light.

• Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
• Blow-Up
• The Born Losers
• Brute Corps
• Cisco Pike
• Corruption
• Deathmaster
• Dirty Harry
• Dracula A.D. 1972
• Easy Rider

...plus 41 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Pretty thick month, cleared out a couple of franchises that I had yet to complete, with of course Resident Evil being the crown jewel of the endeavour. My top five first time watches were Suspiria (2018), Beyond the Black Rainbow, Over the Garden Wall, As Above So Below, and...Chopping Mall!

• The Purge: Election Year
• The First Purge
• [REC]
• [REC]²
• [REC]³ Genesis
• [REC]⁴ Apocalypse
• Quarantine
• As Above, So Below
• The Toolbox Murders
• 976-EVIL

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My main goal was to average at least one film a day for the whole month, too many other distractions to get much more than that during the work week. Side quest was to watch all the Nightmare on Elm Street films, of which I had only ever seen the first and last. My favorite first time watches for the month were Spring, Amer, Night of the Eagle, Black Sabbath and The Hitcher.

• Blackout
• Mama
• Firestarter
• Blue Sunshine
• Deadly Eyes
• Vampire Circus
• The Hunger
• Wolf Creek 2
• A Nightmare on Elm Street
• The Untold Story

...plus 37 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A few more than last year, but with some re-watches sprinkled in this time (it had been far too long since I had seen The Fly). My favorite first-time watches of the month were Encounters of the Spooky Kind, Ebola Syndrome, The Wailing, Horror Express and God Told Me To.

• The Witch
• The Neon Demon
• Encounters of the Spooky Kind
• Def by Temptation
• Demons
• Parasite
• The Ruins
• Slither
• The Editor
• Demon Seed

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Put off making a list of last year's movies for some reason, then time just kept going by until all of a sudden its a year later. So here it is, all the goods I watched that October. Favorite first time watches were Stagefright, The Art of Dying, Eyes of Laura Mars, The Resurrected, and of course, Empire of the Dark.

• Eaten Alive
• Empire of the Dark
• Red to Kill
• The Funhouse
• Salem's Lot
• Below
• Eyes of Laura Mars
• Stage Fright
• Night of the Comet
• Re-Animator

...plus 33 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Finally got around to rewatching and completing the Romero and Argento filmographies, actually ended up with a fair amount of rewatches overall this year. My top 5 first time watches were Scream for Help, The Church, A Dark Song, Frankenhooker and Sleepless.

• Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
• Scream for Help
• Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
• Nightmare Sisters
• Hold the Dark
• Demons 2
• The Church
• A Dark Song
• Hungry Wives
• Doom

...plus 35 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• North by Northwest
• Sunset Boulevard
• The Right Stuff
• Stalker
• The Vietnam War
• Rome, Open City
• Dunkirk
• Her
• The Best Years of Our Lives
• Vengeance!

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Kiki's Delivery Service
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• From Here to Eternity
• Phantom Thread
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
• Duel to the Death
• Dekalog
• Godzilla
• Castle in the Sky
• Prince of the City

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Thought this would be a fun idea, and because my birthday is on the last day of the month (and because I’m crazy), I watched all of them in the month I was born as well. My favourites amongst these first time watches were Dreadnaught, The Day After Trinity, Reds, Prince of the City, and The Decline of Western Civilization. Thanks to kynky for the inspiration!

letterboxd.sitesdebloques.org/kynky/list/birth-year-challenge/

• Dreadnaught
• The Day After Trinity
• Martial Club
• The Loveless
• Lion vs. Lion
• Taps
• The Treasure Hunters
• The Duel of the Century
• Ms .45
• Eyewitness

...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Harakiri
• The Look of Silence
• O.J.: Made in America
• The ion of Joan of Arc
• The Sorrow and the Pity
• Green Room
• Stray Dog
• Bone Tomahawk
• The Spook Who Sat by the Door
• Son of Saul

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Red Shoes
• The Rules of the Game
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Sicario
• The Old Gun
• Possession
• Samurai Rebellion
• Solaris
• Le Cercle Rouge
• In a Lonely Place

...plus 20 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.