PopGap #16: Spring Cleaning, Cleaned.

Every Spring I put the brakes on adding a bunch of new movies to my Watchlist and try to catch-up on a few of the titles that have been lingering in its cavernous nooks for ages. This April I also wanted to correct course after spending a few months slogging through relatively mediocre movie selections, and my engineering of the lottery reaped the needed rewards: the 14 movies I watched during April averaged out to 71% as I ranked them on my Flickchart, with a couple of new strong favorites emerging from the pack, and not a single one of the 14 movies earning lower than a 5/10 rating.

Here's how April's movies ranked for me:

Touch of Evil (1958)

Dir.: Orson Welles

My rank: #129 (96%) Amazon iTunes

Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali (1955)

Dir.: Satyajit Ray

My rank: #216 (94%) Amazon iTunes

Late Spring (1949)

Dir.: Yasujiro Ozu

My rank: #350 (90%) Amazon iTunes

The Seventh Seal (1957)

Dir.: Ingmar Bergman

My rank: #510 (85%) Amazon iTunes

All About Eve (1950)

Dir.: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

My rank: #692 (80%) Amazon iTunes

Apu Trilogy: Apur Sansar (1959)

Dir.: Satyajit Ray

My rank: #828 (76%) Amazon iTunes

Apu Trilogy: Aparajito (1956)

Dir.: Satyajit Ray

My rank: #923 (73%) Amazon iTunes

Freaks of Nature (2015)

Dir.: Robbie Pickering

My rank: #964 (72%) Amazon iTunes

Human Nature (2001)

Dir.: Michel Gondry

My rank: #1047 (70%) Amazon iTunes

I Stand Alone (1998)

Dir.: Gaspar Noé

My rank: #1380 (60%) Amazon

Swing Time (1936)

Dir.: George Stevens

My rank: #1504 (56%) Amazon iTunes

Men Don't Leave (1990)

Dir.: Paul Brickman

My rank: #1588 (54%) Amazon iTunes

Yi Yi (2000)

Dir.: Edward Yang

My rank: #1784 (48%) Amazon

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai... (1984)

Dir.: W.D. Richter

My rank: #1816 (47%) Amazon iTunes

(I cheated a bit on my last batch of reviews, as a flu hit me during the final week.)

April's selections were chosen from a pool of 60 movies, combining:

• Twenty movies randomly picked from the dustiest section of my Watchlist
• The Top 20 movies from my Watchlist, according to Letterboxd
• Twenty movies randomly selected from my entire Watchlist

Twelve movies were picked at random from the resulting lot.