341 Days, 219 Movies
I watched 232 movies in the 365 Days of 2010 . Here are movies 219-215 that I watched: The Party 1968. 99 minutes. USA. Directed by Blake Edwards. Watchdate: 12/7/2010. Aside from a few opening scenes setting up the fairly simple fish-out-of-water premise, I am convinced that the movie was mostly unscripted and Blake Edwards just had a camera crew follow Peter Sellers around the titular party, throwing comic set pieces in Sellers' way as he thought of them. At least that's how I like to think of it. It's a simple but effective technique. My personal favorite sequence starts with Sellers finally finding a toilet after a long search and then proceeding to break, clog and flood the entire bathroom to such an extent that he is forced to escape through a window. What follows is the best fall in the history of slapstick comedy. The movie eventually devolves into pure nonsense, with a vandalized elephant and mysteriously metastasizing foam. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1...