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Movies of March

March comes to an end and with it another month of watching movies. It started with a personal pledge to watch a film a day in February, but it has grown to two months and, grander still, a full year. The one movie per day rule is dead, but the target average remains. 365 movies in a year. And since I didn't start keeping track until February, I have some catching up to do.

The following are the films I have seen in full during March. There were other movies I caught parts of, but I don't list them (consequently, a wiki is very useful for keeping track of such useless bits of data... wait, does this make me autistic? The test says 26. Almost.)

• Falling Down (A&E) [Mar.2]
• Once Upon A Time In America (DVD) [Mar.3]
• Gandhi (Hist) [Mar.4]
• Layer Cake (TMNOD) [Mar.4]
• The French Connection (Bravo) [Mar.5]
• Strangers on a Train (MPIX) [Mar.5]
• Advertising Rules! (DVD) [Mar.7]
• Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (DVD) [Mar.7]
• Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia (DVD) [Mar.10]
• High Plains Drifter (DVD) [Mar.12]
• The Decalogue 1, 2, 3 (DVD) [Mar.13]
• Red Eye (DVD) [Mar.15]
• My Architect (DVD) [Mar.15]
• The Decalogue 4 (DVD) [Mar.17]
• Good Night and Good Luck (DVD) [Mar.17]
• Pale Rider (DVD) [Mar.17]
• The Decalogue 5, 6 (DVD) [Mar.18]
• Glengarry Glen Ross (TVO) [Mar.18]
• The Decalogue 7 (DVD) [Mar.19]
• A History of Violence (DVD) [Mar.20]
• The Conversation (DVD) [Mar.21]
• How To Get Ahead in Advertising (DVD) [Mar.22]
• The Decalogue 8, 9 (DVD) [Mar.23]
• The Decalogue 10 (DVD) [Mar.24]
• Shane (DVD) [Mar.24]
• Capote (DVD) [Mar.24]
• The Ballad of Cable Hogue (DVD) [Mar.25]
• High Noon (DVD) [Mar.26]
• Chungking Express (DVD) [Mar.27]
• My Name Is Nobody (DVD) [Mar.31]

If anything, the western theme remained strong. High Noon was outstanding, I don't know why it took so long for me to see it. Shane was disappointing and a good reminder as to why I had an aversion to the Western genre in the first place. It wasn't a bad movie, but this often labeled "greatest Western" was too classically romanticized for my tastes. I preferred Eastwood's Pale Rider, which was so similar in theme that it might be considered a Shane remake, since it was more ambivalent and less "apple pie". It was very post-Leone, which, as should be obvious by now, appeals to me.