Wednesday, 1 February 2017

What my eyes have been watching - January 2017

This year I wanted to record exactly what I've been watching for the entire year, as I've found I get so lost in binge watching at times that I forget to look back on what I have watched and liked. So I plan to record the entire year of Film and TV shows that I have watched, this is my January watchlist and I'll include my faourite TV Show and film with a mini review at the end, (dates that are missing where days that I was either away or I went into the outside world and did something productive with my life). 

Things I’ve watched in 2017:
01/01 – Insecure, Search Party
02/01 – Atlanta
03/01 – Masters of Sex
04/01 – The Big Lebowski
05/01 – Read - Hero with a Thousand Faces
06/01 – The OA
07/01 – The OA
08/01 – The Crown
09/01 – The Crown
10/01 - The Crown
11/01 – Sherlock
12/01 – Hidden Figures
13/01 – Chungking Express
14/01 – Series of Unfortunate Events (TV Show)
15/01 – 2046, Sherlock
16/01 -  Away
17/01 - Away
18/01 – A Monster Calls, Maid In Manhatten
19/01 – Moonlight
20/10 – The Night Of
21/01 – The Night Of
22/01 – Taboo
23/01 – Jackie
24/01 – American Honey
25/01 – Chi Raq
26/01 – Trainspotting
27/01 – Manchester by the Sea
28/01 – Away
29/01 – Julieta, La La Land
30/01 – Lion
31/01 – Paterson

TV
Atlanta - The writing in this series meant I wanted to give Donald Glover a massive high five after watching this. It follows Earn (Glover) who’s essentially a homeless, broke father balancing his life with his girlfriend Van (Zazie Beetz) while hustling to manage his cousin Alfred aka Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry), an up-and-coming rapper. I loved how he wrote the female and male characters in this with innovative storylines and character traits. Also the cinematography by DP Christian Sprenger is just beautiful he really embraces the Atlanta landscape and kudos to director Hiro Murai. Also if you want to start off your year with a quality soundtrack then the music in this show is the best place to begin.



Film
Moonlight - As you can see my month has had a slight Wong Kar Wei theme to it so when I discovered that Barry Jenkins, the director of Moonlight also had this obsession and had used Wong Kar Wei's films as inspiration for the look of Moonlight, I felt like there was a certain destiny in me having nothing but pure love vomiting from my heart for this film. Hence this being my number one film of this month, not only did the story; based on the play ‘Black Boys look Blue’ Written by Tarell Alvin McCraney, which was so original and beautiful in its writing completely wrap me up in the film, but the cinematography by James Laxton was just a thing of pure beauty.



Top Reccomendations

Film
Julieta
American Honey
Moonlight
Paterson
Chungking Express

TV
The OA
Atlanta
The Crown
The Night Of


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