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Letterboxd

I’ve joined Letterboxd! If you find it difficult to interact with me here, you can hang out with me there! I also log ALL movie watches there, as well as early looks at my ratings and reviews for films on the main site here. Here’s the Letterboxd:  https://boxd.it/1HF7t

Introduction

Introduction to "5... Films" Choosing a film to watch can be really difficult. I never know whether I'm in the mood for a drama or comedy; a classic film or a contemporary indie; a first-time watch or one I've seen one hundred times before. Add in the fact that I've got well over 250 DVDs and Blu-Rays, and access to at least 10 different streaming services, and you see my dilemma. I needed some sort of easy way to choose a film to watch, and thus the concept for "5... Films" was born. "5... Films" is pretty simple in theory. Every two weeks, I watch 5 films from a given theme. They could be 5 Roman Polanski films. 5 Judy Garland musicals. 5 William Shakespeare adaptations. It doesn't really matter what the theme is, so long as I have a theme in place. Once my theme is decided, I'll pick 5 films to fulfill it (in the case of the Polanski example, the 5 films may be: Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, The Pianist, Repulsion, and Tess ). The