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I am not sure if this is going to be a monthly thing or not – I have revisited this blog several times, before life picks up again and I find myself not particularly inspired to continue. Last month I wrote about how I had watched a new film every day – a feat that I did not match this month, although I came pretty close, watching twenty new films in the first twenty-four days. Tomorrow I beginning a hitchhiking tour around Germany, so I thought I would do my essay on this month's films a week early. It was hard for me to pick a favorite – The Fallen Idol, Dial M for Murder, Ben-Hur, The Bride of Frankenstien, Life is Sweet, The Hidden Fortress,   Titus  and  Wings of Desire  were all amazing films in their own way, but the film the film I want to write about is  Dark City . It might be because I didn’t have any expectations – released around the same time as The Matrix , it seemed to me from the trailer as if Dark City was trying to cash in on some of that hype. It wasn’t.

February is always a difficult month for me. The days are cold and short, and Seasonal Affective Disorder turns my usual stoic and determined mood into one of melancholy. My insomnia, which seems to hit hardest at this time of year, doesn’t help much either. This year I decided I was going to conquer the longest month of the year by changing things up in two ways – I was not to have a drop of alcohol, and I was to watch a new film each day. This exercise was meant to keep my mind active, while my body cleaner and wallet fuller. Below is the list of films. There are actually twenty-nine on that list, because I ended up finally seeing both Hunger Games films in one day due to the pressure of some of my friends. I am a self indulgent elitist when it comes to films, but despite myself I managed to have fun watching them. They certainly were not the worst film I saw last month – that would be Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers . I am not quite sure why I expected Spring Breakers to be any