– Fandor Keyframe Daily<\/a> for less-frequent links to good articles elsewhere, and the best film festival aggregate coverage.<\/p>\n – Letterboxd<\/a> activity feed (feat. most of the ex-Dissolvers)<\/p>\n – Shadowplay<\/a> for the best film writing in the business.<\/p>\n – Screencrush, but only Matt Singer’s articles<\/a> (because I cannot bear to see things like “10 Facts you might not know about Ant-Man<\/em>” in my news).<\/p>\n – Criticwire<\/a>, but not the rest of Indiewire (because they had a series of oscar-prediction articles in August<\/em>). In case I ever reconsider, here are actual headlines from a recent day’s Indiewire front page: “[some trailer] Will Take Your Breath Away,” “[another trailer] Will Break Your Heart],” “[another trailer] Will Send You Into A Vicious Fit.” They also wrote a review of a banner ad<\/em>.<\/p>\n Occasionally twitter is useful, and AV Club<\/a>‘s okay. Still avoiding video content and podcasts because who has time for those? And I’ve got a pile of sites to check weekly, and others to check monthly\/occasionally, not worth replicating here since they change often and since nobody is reading this. And there’s always my treasured Cinema Scope<\/a> paper subscription (thinking about adding Cineaste and\/or Film Comment).<\/p>\n That was over eight years ago! I’ve continued to add new directors: Bresson, Chaplin, Sternberg, Polanski, Fellini, Bergman, not to mention keeping up with old favorite directors and discovering new ones all the time. Lately I’m always starting film-watching projects and never finishing any, making a hundred must-watch lists (see above) and trying to make gradual progress on them all at once. I miss the sense of accomplishment, saying “there, I’ve seen ALL the Lang movies I can find – here are my faves, here are the ones I need to rewatch on bluray” or whatever. So back to that 2007 list: I’ve averaged one Bunuel per year since then, still missing five (sort of) Resnais, one or two Rivettes (plus the extended Joan the Maid<\/a><\/em>), and it’s hard to tell how many Markers are available these days – they’ve been steadily surfacing on video. Either way, I could reasonably watch the remainder of these by the end of 2015 – and there’s another big list I’m almost through, assuming I can find the energy to watch Shoah<\/em> sometime.<\/p>\n 1. “It’s good, but flawed” (pref. with no elaboration on “flawed”).<\/p>\n 2. “This movie from the past\/present could never be made in the present\/past because these\/those days movies are\/were like ____.”<\/p>\n 3. Any mention of “explosions and car chases” re: a movie that lacks these things.<\/p>\n Number of movies watched per year:<\/em> The Dissolve was my favorite film site, and most important resource for news and opinions. Check it in the morning for today’s reviews (always well written and nearly-always giving a good indication whether I’ll like the film in question) and movie news. Check in the late afternoon for a news update, feature articles (if time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1984],"class_list":["post-10141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10162,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10141\/revisions\/10162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhat else is going on?<\/p>\n
\n– The BBC polled “62 international film critics” to make a top-hundred list of American films, which is mostly more of the same so I don’t feel like tracking it too closely. The eight I haven’t (fully) seen: Imitation of Life<\/em>, Birth of a Nation<\/em>, Marnie<\/em>, A Place in the Sun<\/em>, The Shop Around The Corner<\/em>, The Right Stuff<\/em>, The Shanghai Gesture<\/em>, Heaven’s Gate<\/em>. Little White Lies list of 100 Great Movies by Female Directors looks more exciting. Also found some best-animation and best-horror and best-chinese lists, and there’s still the Criterion collection, and recommendations from my books and magazines and the Anthology Film Archives list and the Sight & Sound poll and Cahiers lists and all the new movies coming out daily.<\/p>\n
\n– Auteur Completism Update: In October 2005, I finished watching all the Sam Fuller movies I was able to find (later found and watched four more<\/a>, and rewatched<\/a> a bunch in improved DVD and bluray copies), then decided to tackle Fritz Lang movies next. In March 2007, I finished<\/a> watching all the Fritz Lang movies I was able to find (later found and watched four more<\/a>), and had since added Rivette, Resnais, Marker and Bunuel to the auteur-completism stack.<\/p>\n
\n– I’m building a list of movie write-up traps – here are three:<\/p>\n
\n– An Adrian Martin phrase I liked very much:
\n“harnessing our hard drives as our outsourced memory banks”<\/p>\n
\n– Since it has become sport to ask me how many movies I watch per year, I’ve accessed my outsourced memory banks to come up with an answer: 238, on average.<\/p>\n
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