In 2023 I set a goal of watching as many movies as possible, in particular a lot of classics I’d never seen before. While I fell far short of watching one film a day, I did manage to watch a total of 234 different films in 2023 (and a few I saw more than once). Partially inspired by British film director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Baby Driver), I decided to log every film I watched. At the end of each year Wright posts to Instagram a list of all the films he watched in the previous 12 months.
Although it’s almost lost to film history, Hong Kong’s Golden Harvest studios was very active in international film production during the 1970s. Spurred by the worldwide success of their Bruce Lee films, Golden Harvest moved into English language-productions such as Amsterdam Kill , which featured Robert Mitchum, and Night Games , a sex fantasy by French erotica specialist Roger Vadim..