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Two weeks ago, I embarked on my annual journey of catching up on a bunch of movies that I had yet to see.   Before this week began, I had seen five movies that I hadn’t yet watched that are viewed by my Twitter peers as classics.   I continued that journey this week by adding three more movies to my month long marathon of filling in blindspots.   But before I get into the movies I watched this past week, I must once again give an overview of what this marathon encompasses.   There may be people who have yet to read the other two posts. There are a lot of movies that people deem as classic, must-watch films that I have missed over the twenty-four years of my life.   Two years ago, I decided that I would dedicate my month of September to seeking out some of these movies that I had missed.   I would use the month to fill in the blind spots that I have when it comes to film.   Or, at least, I would attempt to fill in some of them. The first year was a collection of movies ch

Once a year I devote a month to watching the great movies that I have missed over my many years of watching movies.   That would be the month of September.   I use September as a means to catch up on many of the movies I have overlooked while watching the movies that I typically watch.   If you know me, you know that is a big deal.   I spend a lot of time watching things like Battledogs and Baby Geniuses , while movies such as Drive and The Prestige go unwatched.   September is all about rectifying that.   Yes, I still watch some of the stuff I usually watch (out of necessity this year), but I also shift my focus to watching some of the greats that I haven’t seen yet. This year, I began the month by flying out of the gate and watching a lot of movies in the first week or so.   Then I slowed down a little bit.   My schedule at work made it so.   The good thing is that I still managed to sneak in two of the movies from the Talk Film Society Top 100 that I hadn’t yet seen.  

For the past two years, September has become the month where I spend much of my movie time catching up on some of the big blindspots I have when it comes to watching movies.   I would spend the month watching the classic movies that had somehow passed me by.   This way, I would no longer have to say I hadn’t seen these popular movies from decades past when people brought them up. The first year I did this was 2012.   I chose one movie from each decade that motion pictures have existed.   I went from the first decade of the 20 th century until the first decade of the 21 st .   It was a marathon of movies that led me to see movies such as The Jazz Singer , The Usual Suspects , and 12 Angry Men .   I saw a lot of great movies and a lot of movies that changed the film industry.   It inspired me to do the same thing the next year. In 2013, I repeated my marathon, albeit with different films in the lineup.   Once again, I wanted to go through the history of film and watch c