What first time viewings did you love in April?

Loved

Fallen Angel / Otto Preminger (1945)
Roman J. Israel, Esq. / Dan Gilroy (2017)
Invisible Invaders / Edward L. Cahn (1959) Cheap, cheesy, terrible, and a lot of fun
A Stranger In Town / Roy Rowland (1943)
Metropolitan Opera HD Live: Massenet: Cendrillon (2018) Live performance broadcast to theaters

Liked

Gunfight At The OK Corral / John Sturges (1957)
Blondie Hits The Jackpot / Edward Bernds (1949)

It Was O.K., I guess

Darkest Hour / Joe Wright (2017)

Didn’t Like (3 is a pretty high number for me; I try hard NOT to see bad movies)

Pretty Maids All In A Row / Roger Vadim (1971)
Lady Bird / Greta Gerwig (2017). One of last year’s most acclaimed landed with a thud for me
I Was A Teenage Ninja / Yoshikazu Katō (2007)

Memorable--and good movies--viewed for the first time in April:

Did a little extra on Anthony Quinn
The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)
Lion of the Desert (1980)
Wild Is the Wind (1957)--FAVORITE OF THE MONTH

The Long Gray Line (1955)--Good new bio directed by John Ford 
Goya's Ghosts (2006)--ANOTHER FAVORITE OF THE MONTH in memory of Milos Forman's passing
Madame X (1937) (one of several versions of the movie) where is discovered Oscar nominee Gladys George
The Fugitive Kind (1960)--good interpretation of a rarely seen Tennessee Williams play, Orpheus Descending

9/10

Once Upon a Time in America (1984/Sergio Leone) - the length and the fact that lashings of violence tend to be a turn-off for me had put me off watching this for years, but in the end it exceeded all my expectations.  Absolutely beautiful to look at, riveting for four whole hours - and Morricone contributes what has to be one of the most breathtaking movie scores ever.

8/10

Nights of Cabiria (1957/Federico Fellini)

7/10

Exotica (1994/Atom Egoyan)
Black Bread (2010/Agusti Villaronga)
Pitfall (1962/Hiroshi Teshigahara)
The Impostor (2012/Bart Layton)
The Thin Blue Line (1988/Errol Morris)
A Brief History of Time (1991/Errol Morris)
The Past (2013/Asghar Farhadi)
Unfaithfully Yours (1948/Preston Sturges)

6/10

Owning Mahowny (2003/Richard Kwietniowski)
Kung-Fu Master! (1988/Agnes Varda)
I Don't Want to Go Back Alone (2010/short/Daniel Ribeiro)
Everything Will Be OK (2006/short/Don Hertzfeld)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010/Banksy)
Straight Time (1978/Ulu Grosbard)
The Homecoming (1973/Peter Hall)
Life on a String (1991/Kaige Chen)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991/Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper & Eleanor Coppola) - George Hickenlooper has to be one of my favourite names ever.
Fat City (1972/John Huston)
The Great Beauty (2013/Paolo Sorrentino)
The Last Time I Saw Richard (2014/short/Nicholas Verso)
Swimmer (2012/short/Lynne Ramsay)
1984 (1984/Michael Radford) - having recently read the book and seen a very impressive stage adaptation, I finally got around to watching this.  The atmosphere is suitably gloomy, it's exceptionally well shot and designed and Richard Burton is marvellous in his final film.  John Hurt, while always watchable, is somewhat miscast, however.
The Blue Dahlia (1946/George Marshall)
The Damned United (2009/Tom Hooper)
Streetwise (1984/Martin Bell)
Chimes at Midnight (1965/Orson Welles)

5/10

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006/Ming-ling Tsai)
Why Does God Hate Me? (2011/short/Joel Ashton McCarthy)
Proof (1991/Jocelyn Moorehouse)
The Mission (1986/Roland Joffe) - rambles to little consequence.  Gorgeous, though - and another masterpiece from Morricone.
Carmen Jones (1954/Otto Preminger)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002/Paul Thomas Anderson)

4/10

Mother (1996/Albert Brooks) - I tend to love Brooks' films but this was a letdown.
The Razor's Edge (1946/Edmund Goulding)
Ready Player One (2018/Steven Spielberg)
Curse of the Cat People (1944/Robert Wise & Gunther von Frisch)
The Horse Thief (1986/Zhuangzhuang Tan)

Even though the Met has been doing these broadcasts to theaters for 10 or 11 years, My Lovely Wife and I have, over about the last 5 years, attended 3 or 4 a season. The tickets cost much more that a regular movie - about $26 per in our metro area. Most we have seen are very well done. Some, like Cendrillon, are, as you say, spectacular.

I have been an opera fan since 1977 when the Met broadcast its very first live TV performance on PBS. It was La Bohème. I was enjoying it enough, all right, until the second act that takes place in the Latin Quarter of Paris. The free-spirited Musetta enters singing her song (if you think you haven't heard it, the melody was used in the 1959 hit "Don't Your Know" sung by Della Reese). It was like evangelicals describe a conversion experience: you are suddenly struck by the spirit and your life is changed in an instant. I can tell you the exact moment in the song where it happened (check out the 4:10 mark in the second video below). Nothing like that has ever happened to me before or since. I have talked to people about how they became opera buffs and read other experiences and would like to issue this warning: La Bohème is the opera that more than any other has changed people into unbearable raving opera maniacs. Don't say you haven't been warned!

Why did you only rate it a six? What didn't you like?