{"id":1595,"date":"2008-12-31T23:58:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T03:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2008-12-31T19:54:43","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T23:54:43","slug":"happy-new-movie-year-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/1595","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Movie Year 2009!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow, I wrote too much last year<\/a> so I’ll keep this short. How am I doing on my ongoing quest to see every great movie<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

– My 2008 goal to watch movies I already had (mainly purchased, never-watched DVDs but also rented\/copied DVDs and downloads) was not a complete success, somewhere around a third complete. I’m allowing myself to start buying DVDs again with the condition that I watch at least one off the shelf for each new one I acquire… seems reasonable.<\/p>\n

– Filmmaker-oriented goals, to see all the movies by Rivette, Resnais, Marker, Bunuel, were well explored and advanced in 2008, but are on hold<\/strong> now, since I’ve decided to ban all foreign-language films (except theatrically and in certain other cases) until I’m at least halfway through my long-long-delayed French lessons.<\/p>\n

– Made my list of movies I definitely have to watch in 2009, but I overdid it as always, so it’s 270 titles long. Still, unrealistic goals are better than no goals at all.<\/p>\n

– And of the best-movies-ever lists that I often refer to, I’m up five to 211\/250 on the IMDB list (will never hit 100% as long as Crash 2004 is still on there), up fifty to 500\/1000 on the They Shoot Pictures list, up forty to 380\/1000 on the Rosenbaum list, up a mere five on the 1977 list, and up one percent (242\/519 from 205\/450) on the Criterion\/Eclipse list (the hardest one to keep up with).<\/p>\n

There are other new years goals and resolutions and lists and everything, but they ain’t movie-related so they are of no concern here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, I wrote too much last year so I’ll keep this short. How am I doing on my ongoing quest to see every great movie? – My 2008 goal to watch movies I already had (mainly purchased, never-watched DVDs but also rented\/copied DVDs and downloads) was not a complete success, somewhere around a third complete. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1984],"class_list":["post-1595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595","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=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/1598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}