We began the year hoping to see and review a movie every three or four weeks.  That notion devolved pretty quickly to every other month. It simply wasn’t a high priority for us in 2015.  We found other things to do.  So we finished with just six potential classics. If we can double that same pace in 2016, I guess we’ll be satisfied.

Of the movies themselves, only one was considered a miss by both of us: Fighting Caravans, the 1931 Gary Cooper western.  We very much enjoyed the other five, especially the ones from the 1950s, which is my own favorite decade of cinema.  Agree?  Disagree?  Post your comments on each movie if you have a strong opinion to express.

Barb, who picks a potential classic from batches of five which I present to her, finally chose a foreign film and she promises to someday pick a silent film.  She tends to stay away from really long films . . . although she prefers longer books when she reads.  Who knows?  The point is to keep visiting the oldies, and the not-so-oldies (any potential classic before 1990 is fair game), trying in our own modest way to determine whether these films continue to offer viewing rewards to modern audiences, and appreciating them all the more when they do.  Our list of the six films we watched in 2015 is below, followed by our reviews of them.

 

Our 2015 classics:

# 1: Wuthering Heights (1939)

# 2: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)

# 3: Lili (1953)

# 4: Fighting Caravans (1931)

# 5: Breaking Away (1979)

# 6: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)