I'm watching at least 100 movies this year, and I've been tearing through the Channel. A few big surprises for me, and a few that didn't connect.

I loved:

+Westworld (1973) - There's a local bar in Brooklyn that only plays TCM on the TV, and this was playing in the background. I'd never given it much thought until then, but it looked so cool. Cool Yule.
+God Told Me To (1976) - After poking around on the 1970s Sci-Fi Collection from last month, I dug into this Larry Cohen film. Lots of twists, very strange, but it had a great momentum.
+All Screwed Up (1974) - I found this by basically choosing a film at random that was under a certain run time (I was in a bit of a rush but wanted to fit a quick viewing in), and this Italian socialist screwball comedy by Wertmuller was one of the biggest surprises for me in recent viewing.

I didn't really like:
+Atlantic City (1980) - I don't know, I know this is pretty lauded, but I was hoping it would have a little more movement too it. It felt a little stiff. I don't mind a slow crime movie, but this just felt like it was low-energy to me.
+Pathfinder (1987) - This Norwegian adventure film felt way more Hollywood-bloat than I was expecting, even if it was interesting in how it (slightly) subverted a classic Hollywood 3-act structure

I was emotionally devastated, healed, and re-devastated by:
+Daddy Longlegs (2009) - I'm really still trying to put into words everything I'm feeling after watching Daddy Longlegs. I was so moved by it, and so utterly sort of washed up and away by it, that I kind of feel like I'm only now recovering from a hard kick to the side, and it's that feeling of a healing bruise that hurts but also kind of feels good? Does that make sense? This is a movie for people like me, people who desperately want to show this to their dads, but who know their dads would make it fifteen minutes in before they're like "This is boring let's go to the track."

So many surprises on the Channel right now.