Films Umbrellas Saw in October 2020
These are all the films I saw in October, ranked in order of how much I liked them. Though there are some well-known ones near the top (The Breakfast Club, Black Sunday, and various Star is Borns) the film in top place is a pretty obscure 1991 film, Flirting, which is probably only on the radar of big Nicole Kidman fans. She's good, but only has a supporting role (the film's poster is very misleading in that regard). The main focus is in fact on the much less famous pairing of Noah Taylor and Thandie Newton, who are both excellent. I highly recommend this film. At the other end of the scale, a more negative surprise was the discovery that Akira Kurosawa is capable of making bad movies, which I had previously thought impossible. And Dodes'kaden is in my view very, very bad. Apparently Kurosawa became suicidal after it was panned by Japanese critics, which I suppose shows it wasn't one of those cases where a big name director phones it in. But heartfelt or not, it just doesn't work.
avg. score: 7 of 31 (21%)
required scores: 1, 3, 4, 6, 9
