June 2016 in Film

As any devotee of classic film should know, tomorrow we celebrate Olivia de Havilland’s 100th birthday! I have a post planned in celebration of her life and career, so the wrap-up for June is being posted a day early. Here’s a look at what I’ve watched in the past month!

New-to-me viewings: 16

Re-watches: 2

TOTAL FOR JUNE: 18

TOTAL FOR 2016, SO FAR: 128

The new-to-me list:

Illegal (1955)
Money Monster (2016)
On Your Toes (1939)
The Life of the Party (1937)
Night Must Fall (1937)
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)
Angel Baby (1961)
Paris Interlude (1934)
Dark Journey (1937)
Casting By (2012)
The Bachelor (1999)
Miss Potter (2006)
The Princess Bride (1987)
Central Intelligence (2016)
A Date with Judy (1948)
Colleen (1936)

This month’s re-watches were both classics, Don’t Bother to Knock (1952) and They Died With Their Boots On (1941). Blog posts on both, and many of the films in the list above, coming soon!

Viewing methods:

At the cinema – 3
DVR: TCM – 3
From my collection – 3
Hulu – 1
Netflix – 2
Warner Archive Instant – 2
WatchTCM – 4

By decade:

1910s – 0
1920s – 0
1930s – 6
1940s – 2
1950s – 2
1960s – 1
1970s – 0
1980s – 1
1990s – 1
2000s – 1
2010s – 4

The 1930s take the cake this month for most-viewed decade, and the classic to modern ratio is 11 to 7 (about 61% classic).

The month in blogging:

June marked a new chapter for TMP as I ditched the daily blogging schedule and went down to five days a week, taking “off” days every Tuesday and Saturday. Five posts a week still generates plenty of fun on the blog, though!

In particular:

“Favorite things about…” took a dark turn with Fritz Lang’s brilliantly chilling 1931 film M.
I reviewed one book, Evelyn Keyes’ Scarlett O’Hara’s Younger Sister: My Lively Life In and Out of Hollywood. This marked my first review for the Summer Reading Classic Film Book Challenge!
I started a new series, Distractions, which I’ll be posting monthly. A place for me to talk about all of the things I’ve enjoyed throughout the month that aren’t film-related, like the TV shows I’ve been watching, or the books I’ve read.
I made two posts from my vintage magazine collection — “How Stars are Made” from Movie Album, and Modern Screen‘s “Inside Story” column from April 1956.
The “One year, one film” series continued making its way toward the mid-1960s with A Cold Wind in August (1961) and Carnival of Souls (1962). (As a reminder, “One year, one film” was designed to stretch from 1925 through 1965, so we’re nearing the end!)