Films Umbrellas Saw in December 2020 - Page 2

Happy New Year one and all! Here are all the films I saw in December 2020, listed by much I liked them (most liked first). Around Christmas I often watch more established favourites, and the top 5 are all familiar friends. Top of the films I saw for the first time last month was Boyhood, another fascinating Linklater experiment which I think works so well precisely because it's so ordinary and largely avoids conventional (melo)dramatic action. That helps focus attention on the film's unique feature of showing a child becoming a man. God knows how you cast for a project of this kind but Ellar Coltrane works out fine. Imagine if it had been, say Mickey Rooney. Other than that, Colorado Territory was a close second - a fine, moody western, and for me much better than High Sierra (is this the only case where a director remade his own film but switched genres?). As it's New Year I won't say rude things about the films at the bottom - but I certainly won't be revisiting the last two.