100 movies 2013 - end of year update

I DID IT! i watched 100 movies in 2013! 101, to be exact.
i found it so much harder than i expected, especially once i started my foundation course, because i usually get home at 5pm and combined with work, tv, reading, showering, eating, etc., i never had time to sit and actually watch a film. i managed to do it though!
because i found it so hard, as mentioned in my '14 things to do in 2014' post, i've decided to only try for 50 this year. the main reason for this is to put less pressure on myself, but also because i found myself just watching ANYTHING so i could add another film to my list. five or six times i would put a film on and not even pay attention, so i want the quantity of the films i watch to decrease which will hopefully prompt an improvement in quality. :)

1. the wedding video
2. the hunger games
3. LOL
4. quarantine 2: terminal
5. katy perry: part of me
6. child's play
7. seed of chucky
8. amelie
9. ted
10. flakes
11. 32a
12. not suitable for children
13. hard candy
14. despicable me 2
15. dare
16. recess: taking the fifth grade
17. avengers assemble
18. cyberbully
19. requiem for a dream
20. detention
21. the princess diaries
22. we need to talk about kevin
23. burlesque
24. free samples
25. panic button
26. kill bill vol. 1
27. the innkeepers
28. nine
29. rent
30. hotel transylvania
31. sister act
32. pretty in pink
33. the art of getting by
34. insidious
35. toy story of TERROR!
36. the bling ring
37. spring breakers
38. step brothers
39. playback
40. cabaret
41. queen live in budapest: hungarian rhapsody
42. in their skin
43. mama
44. the hunger games: catching fire
45. this is 40
46. black pond
47. love bite
48. anger management
49. 17 again
50. the full monty
51. new year's eve

the line, the cross, & the curve

when i was around 6 years old, i had a babysitter who owned a copy of this film on video. i loved it and used to watch it every time i was at her house. i've spent the last year or so frantically googling to try and find out what it was. all i could remember was that it featured red pointe ballet shoes, mirrors, dancing in fruit, and that the cover of the video said 'kate bush' on it. whatever i searched, though, google only ever seemed to conclude that i was looking for 'black swan', but last weekend, i finally found it!

it turned out to be a short film directed by and starring kate bush, called 'the line, the cross, & the curve'. it is basically a re-telling of the classic fairytale 'the red shoes' (more info on that here), which inspired kate's album, also titled 'the red shoes'. the film is around 45 minutes long and is essentially several music video's for kate's songs strung together but I LOVE IT SO MUCH.

it feels so great finally being able to relive this part of my childhood that i thought i'd lost! i've been watching it every day since i found it, i'm just so happy to be able to watch it again. it was unfortunately only available on video (it was released for a short time on DVD in america but those copies are very rare and cost over £100 on amazon) but the whole film is available to watch on youtube (above), which is where i've been watching it.

one of my favourite parts of the film are the songs, because they sound so much like my childhood. i'm a big fan of kate's most famous song, 'wuthering heights', which i've posted about previously, but i had never really gotten around to looking into her other work. it feels so weird to think that i've loved kate bush since i was 6 years old, when i only really started getting into vintage music around a year ago. 

my favourite songs from the album are: 'and so is love', 'eat the music', 'moments of pleasure', 'lily', and the title track, 'the red shoes', and all of those appear in the film. it's a very strange album and i feel that a lot of people may dislike it (partly because it sounds so different to 'wuthering heights' and that's the sound that people generally expect from kate bush) but it's such a big part of my childhood, how could i not love it?!

ah, i'm just in such a good mood from finding this film! i plan on ordering the cd soon (i found it for only £2.93 on ebay!) and listening to it all the time, pretending i'm 6 years old again. xx