geezer cinema: wicked (john m. chu, 2024)
music friday: howlin' wolf

white mane (albert lamorisse, 1953)

I'm taking on another challenge. This one is The Criterion Challenge 2025. It's the fifth annual, my first try. "There are 52 categories. The goal is to watch any Criterion released film based on the categories ... between 1/1/25-12/31/25." There is no specified order, so I'll watch them as I get to them. My second category is "Watch a film from the year you were born".

White Mane is a classic short from Albert Lamorisse. His next film, The Red Balloon, also a short, won an Oscar. Both films are beautiful shot ... White Mane is lyrical in its approach to a story about the friendship between a young boy and a wild horse. I feel a bit curmudgeonly that while I appreciate these movies, and am happy to add my praise to the piles that have heaped upon them in the past, I don't feel the need to watch again. Charming, something you can show to children but also something adults will appreciate, and there aren't enough films like that.

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