Continuing my March Around the World and celebrating Isabelle Huppert’s birthday with the 1991 German film โMALINA directed by Werner Schroeter on MUBI. ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ช
The next stop in my March Around the World is in Greece as I watch the 2018 film โPITY directed by Babis Makridis on MUBI. ๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ท
Today my March Around the World film is from Vietnam with the 2019 film THE TREE HOUSE directed by Truong Minh Quy on MUBI. ๐ฅ ๐ป๐ณ
My next March Around the World film is from France, directed by Nelly Kaplan in 1969 โ A VERY CURIOUS GIRL on The Criterion Channel. ๐ฅ๐ซ๐ท
Continuing to March Around the World by stopping in Ireland to watch the 2020 film โTO THE MOON directed by Tadhg O’Sullivan as part of Montrรฉal’s Festival du nouveau cinรฉma’s Nuit Blanche celebration. ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ช๐
Watching โDEATH OF A LADIES’ MAN directed by Matt Bissonnette because of Leonard Cohen music, Gabriel Byrne, and a bunch of Quรฉbรฉcois actors. ๐ฅ
Watching โthe sublime and beautiful THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL yet again. ๐ฅ
Watching โa film from Japan in my March Around The World with Naomi Kawase’s 2020 film TRUE MOTHERS. ๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ต
Watching โa 1953 film from Spain for my next stop in my March Around World โ SEGUNDO LรPEZ, URBAN ADVENTURER directed by Ana Mariscal thanks to the Instituto Cervantes. ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ธ
Film #12 in my March Around the World is from Poland โ the 2019 film โCORPUS CHRISTI directed by Jan Komasa on the Criterion Channel. ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฑ
Watching โfilm #11 in my March Around the World with a 2020 film from Georgia โ BEGINNING directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili on MUBI. ๐ฅ๐ฌ๐ช
Today in March Around the World I’m watching a film from Armenia from 2006 โ โTHE LIGHTHOUSE directed by Mariya Saakyan on MUBI. ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฒ
Watching โa Hitchcock that I haven’t seen in my March Around the World with his UK film โTHE 39 STEPS from 1935 on TCM. ๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ง
Film #8 in my March Around the World is a 2006 film from Chad โ DRY SEASON directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun on The Criterion Channel. ๐ฅ ๐น๐ฉ
Watching โa film from Mexico set in Newfoundland as stop #7 in March Around The World with Yulene Olaizola’s 2012 film FOGO on MUBI. ๐ฅ ๐ฒ๐ฝ
Watching a film from Morocco as #6 in my March Around the World โ โABOUT SOME MEANINGLESS EVENTS from 1974 directed by Mostafa Derkaoui on MUBI. ๐ฅ ๐ฒ๐ฆ
March Around the World film #5 is the Norwegian film โTHE WAYWARD GIRL directed by Edith Carlmar from 1959 on MUBI. ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ด
Continuing my March Around the World with the Chinese film โ24 CITY from 2007 directed by Jia Zhangke ๐ฅ
Watching โElaine May’s darkly funny 1971 film A NEW LEAF again on The Criterion Channel. ๐ฅ
Film #3 of March Around the World is from Czechoslovakia in 1970 โ โFRUIT OF PARADISE directed by Vฤra Chytilovรก on The Criterion Channel. ๐ฅ
Film #2 in my March Around the World 2021 from Senegal is Ousmane Sembรจne’s 1968 film โMANDABI on The Criterion Channel. ๐ฅ
Starting March Around the World 2021 with Aotera / New Zealand and the 2017 film โWARU directed by Briar Grace Smith, Casey Kaa, Ainsley Gardiner, Katie Wolfe, Chelsea Cohen, Renae Maihi, Awanui Simich-Pene, and Paula Whetu Jones.
Looking forward to the March Around the World Challenge this year. The goal is to watch 30 feature films you haven’t seen from 30 different countries. You need to watch 1 film from a featured country which is New Zealand / Aotearoa this year.
Watching โRobin Campillo’s brilliant 2017 film BPM again. ๐ฅ
Watching โAmber Sealey’s 2016 film NO LIGHT AND NO LAND ANYWHERE on MUBI. ๐ฅ