Who Watches the Watchlist? | In the Mouth of Madness, Heaven's Gate

Harvey Keitel is a great actor for first films. He played a role in the first films of Scorsese, Shrader, Ridley Scot, Tarantino, Jane Campion etc.

In the mouth of madness is one of my favorite movies, it slowly became my favorite carpenter movie over the years. Something about it is just perfect to me

My solution personally to this problem is that I don’t actually keep a watchlist, on letterboxd or physically or anywhere, I just watch whatever new movie I’m feeling like on the day. Less stressful for me.

My suggestion for watching Andrei Tarkovsky’s films is to watch them in order of release. His earlier films are generally more accessible than his later ones, and it’s fascinating to see how Tarkovsky evolves as an artist throughout the course of his career.

Interesting to see Hero and The Duellists next to each other - two films both structured around a series of duels, but at totally opposite ends of the 'realism' spectrum.

Kudos to your restraint cause I could never do 10 movies per watchlist.

I too have struggled with the daunting size of my watchlist, and about 3 years ago, I came up with my own system that happens to be very similar to yours. I'd simply curate a "focused watchlist" each month of films from my list that I MUST watch before month's end--no excuses! Eventually, I went from a fluctuating number to a set 15 films each month, sometimes even less (last month I was in Cannes, so I whittled it down to 10 films to watch before I left). My whole system of keeping the larger watchlist manageable and picking WHICH 15 films I watch each month is far more stupidly convoluted and involves an actual physical watchlist written on paper, but the system really works to keep things efficient for me!

This was really fun to listen to. I eagerly await the next part in this series 😁

"In the mouth of madness" is the only Lovecraft movie that truly feels like Lovecraft.

Thanks for the suggestions. I will now put them on my giant watchlist and then never proceed to watch them👍

I am one of the few people that totally love Heaven's Gate.

Thanks, Daniel, for posting such interesting videos. Being old, I especially appreciate your interest in all eras of cinema. Far too many YT movie channels focus exclusively on new releases. I imagine that approach garners more clicks. I enjoyed your comments about watchlists. Given my age, I grew up experiencing the releases of New Hollywood first-hand, and so did not have to catch up with them later on. When home video came along, however, it felt a little overwhelming to try to get caught up on Old Hollywood. Having myself been there to witness so many decades of new releases, I imagine the sheer volume of the back catalog must be doubly overwhelming to currently youth. I only had half as much to catch up on as you now do. I also had a good chuckle in this vid when you described an action scene as "gripping". You must be an old soul, as I don't think I've heard that term in several years. When I was a kid, "gripping" was so over-used by marketing for both movies and books that my siblings and I used to use it as short-hand when we loved anything. If we were asked, "Hey, what did you think of (insert any subject)?", we would simply respond with, "Gripping!", and be forgiven any requirement to elaborate further. Keep producing your gripping content. I always look forward to each of your videos.

The Duellists might almost be my favourite Ridley Scott movie. His others are more iconic but The Duellists is just so fun. The duels are just absolutely fantastic.

EXCELLENT! As a film freak I just can't believe your list represents films (apart from three) that I've always wanted to see. I'm re-adjusting my viewing schedule. BTW, I was on the set of "One From The Heart" ( the studio was a couple of blocks from our film school) Many thanks.

Really appreciate the insights on Hero, one of my favourites when I was a teenager but a lot of that went over my head.

Your channel is great...... That's it that's all I have to say about your channel. It's great. And I'm happy when ever you upload.

Great video as always Daniel! This has been my system for getting thought my watchlist for the last year. I have my watchlist on Letterboxed. I also have all the film in my phone notepad to tell me where they are available. I mostly get my movies from the library. Each week my best friend will pick 4 random years and numbers. For example say he picked the year 1964. I go into my watchlist on letterboxed for 1964. Than I see how many films I have for that year. Say I have 13. So I tell him, “Pick between 1 and 14”. Whatever he picks I have to watch. We do this 4 or 5 times till I have enough films to watch for the following week, (following week only because it takes about a week to get the movies transferred from the library) this system has been working for me so far and it’s fun to have the films in my watchlist randomly picked for me. BUT films are always being added, I always discover new things I want to watch all the time. So it’s a never ending process, but that may be a good thing!

Love your videos and this was another great one Sir! Funnily enough been adopting a similar technic lately . A watchlist within the watchlist. A smaller selection sometimes motivates one more to give that 5 hour Black and white hungarian film finally a go that one has been dancing around for ages. Cant say that it does work all the way for me, there is the odd sneak ins. But I'll try. Great Movies you watched by the way. The Duellists s been on my list since ages. Time to put it on the other one.😅

I'm glad The Duellists is getting some love. I saw it last Xmas and loved the heck out of it. Especially for a first feature film, it's incredible! As far as Carpenter goes, I'd say his last great film is Mouth of Madness, but his last good one is Vampires (which is at least on par with Christine).

the 10 movie watchlist is a brilliant idea! very enlightening