{"id":14012,"date":"2020-12-31T21:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T02:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14012"},"modified":"2020-12-31T16:22:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T21:22:12","slug":"the-movie-year-in-review-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14012","title":{"rendered":"The Movie Year in Review, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Happy New Movie Year!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Again I kept a letterboxd list of <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/alvogler\/list\/2020-must-sees\/\">all the must-see movies released in 2020<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;ll finalize it next week.  I&#8217;ve currently seen around a third of those, which isn&#8217;t so bad considering home life and work life were weird, we moved cross-country, I stopped watching current films at all for a while, and Shocktober lasted two months.<\/p>\n<p>Early in the year I scoured the year-end and decade-end lists of some less commercially-minded film critics and tried to watch those&#8230; that&#8217;s where my interest in <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13740\">Lois Pati\u00f1o<\/a> and <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13467\">Arthur Jafa<\/a> came from, for instance&#8230; got through about 20% of that list, not bad, and I&#8217;ll see if there are more titles I can add this year.<\/p>\n<p>And other projects and lists, which I&#8217;m not getting into, and didn&#8217;t do so well on, but the whole point is to keep watching good movies, and feeling good about them, and that&#8217;s been going alright.<\/p>\n<p>I also watched a bunch of online concerts and livestreams and archival shows, and bought audio concerts and things on bandcamp&#8230; these shows helped the time pass, though they all place a distant third to actual concerts we attended pre-lockdown by Sloan and Kelly Hogan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Movie Year! Again I kept a letterboxd list of all the must-see movies released in 2020 &#8211; I&#8217;ll finalize it next week. I&#8217;ve currently seen around a third of those, which isn&#8217;t so bad considering home life and work life were weird, we moved cross-country, I stopped watching current films at all for [&hellip;]<\/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-14012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14012","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=14012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14016,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14012\/revisions\/14016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}