This is an announcement for the Charles Parsons film festival beginning January 2nd, 2012 and ending January 31st, 2012. The list is based off a list I found online for a thirty day movie challenge. That list was lacking, so this one is improved with the extra challenge that each movie be a movie that the viewer has not seen before or at least not seen in its entirety or that needs revisiting because one does not really remember it. 

If you feel so inclined, create your own list based off this one. Though you may feel this list needs improving, challenge yourself. 

It was a challenge to put together the list, realigning the categories while at the same time using the WWW (the webrcrawler, as I call it) to specify the titles.

Regrets. This list is not perhaps as artsy as it could have been (should have been?). It is, for the greatest part, a popular American box office driven movie list. This, I feel, is forgivable. 

In all sincerity, this whole thing has to be seen as an indulgence. I will not be reviewing each movie on this blog. This is due to the concern that I am in my thirties (not at an earlier point in my life where I may have felt that I had something important to say about everything), and in all likelihood, what could I hope to add to the vast and superior artistic/historical criticism already existing on a film such as, let's say, Joe Dirt. This project, if it is a project, this festival, if it is a festival, this challenge, if it is a challenge, is only an indulgence that may, if lucky, help to spur some creative idea out of the fire and into the frying pan's center region. 

Maybe not. Maybe it will add little to no value to anything. But I will be watching them. Barring catastrophe of Zone One proportions.

Without further ado, I provide you with the list itself:

Best Movie of the Last Year (Tomatometer): Source Code (2011)

Most Underrated Movie: The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

Movie that will make you Happy: The Wizard of OZ (1939)

Movie that will make you Sad: The Champ (1979)

Movie with a Love Story: Singin’ In the Rain (1952)

Movie that is a TV Adaptation: The Fugitive (1993)

Movie with a surprise twist ending: Primal Fear (1996)

Movie that is the most watched of all time: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Movie with the best soundtrack: A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

Movie that is the best classic: Dr. Strangelove, How Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Movie that changes opinions: An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

Movie that Ebert hated the most: Joe Dirt (2001)

Movie that is a guilty pleasure: The Boondock Saints (1999)

Movie that no one would expect me to like: Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)

Movie with the most influential character: Gone with the Wind (1939)

Movie with the most love/hate public reaction: Avatar (2009)

Movie that was the most disappointing:  Lady in the Water (2006)

Movie that I have criminally not seen: City Lights (1939)

Movie based on a book that I have not seen: The Hunt for Red October (1990)

Movie with my favorite actor: Quiz Show (1994)

Movie best action: Die Hard (1988)

Movie best documentary:  Man on Wire (2008)

Movie best animated: Toy Story 2 (1999)

Movie top rated for me on NetFlix: Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Movie best comedy: Airplane! (1980)

Movie that I used to like but can’t really remember: The Truman Show (1998)

Movie of the Last Year I had Wanted to See in Theaters but didn’t: Super 8 (2011)

Movie from my favorite director that I have never seen:  Tetro (2009)

Movie from my childhood: That Darn Cat (1965)

Movie that is top grossing that I have never seen: E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial  (1982)

The viewing times. M-F movies begin at 8 p.m.
                             Saturday at 10 a.m.
                             Sunday at 6 p.m.

If anyone out there is interested in hosting any particular film, please let me know it.
If you are interested in attending, give your keys to the valet.
If you are interested in complaining, save it for a loved one.
If I am your loved one, save it for me, but let us go over it in private.

Otherwise, and in all things, let me know what you think. If you cannot do that, try thinking anyway.