{"id":548,"date":"2008-04-15T18:01:25","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T22:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=548"},"modified":"2008-04-15T18:01:25","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T22:01:25","slug":"two-years-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/548","title":{"rendered":"Two Years In Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hooray, it’s the two year anniversary<\/a> of my movie journal. I have now covered 807 films in 531 journal posts. Contemplation time!<\/p>\n

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\nSome Things Change:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– I discovered keyword tagging! All the posts now have clickable keywords, and if you click on the title of a post, it will use these keywords to calculate which posts\/movies are the most similar. Therefore I now know that The Fury<\/a> is similar to The Savages<\/a> and Sukiyaki Western Django<\/a> is similar to Zazie dans le metro<\/a>. I never could’ve drawn those connections on my own.<\/p>\n

– I have three sometime-readers (up from last year’s one). That’s three more than I ever intended to have, but I’m still gonna leave the sucker online and searchable instead of taking it private, because I like the idea that if someone’s googling something obscure like Red Garters<\/a><\/em> or Gran Casino<\/a> or that episode of a cop show<\/a> that Joe Dante directed, there’ll be something written online about it, even if it’s something snarky and uninformative and poorly written.<\/p>\n

– People whose articles I quote can also find me on google<\/a> and make me feel bad for having attacked their writing style, so I’m going with the first-initial last-name approach in my credits these days to avoid further embarrassment. I’m not obscuring the names of directors however, so I’m sure the filmmakers of yesterday’s experimental shorts entry<\/a> will find and rebuke me soon enough.<\/p>\n

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\n…And Some Stay The Same:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– I’m still way behind on all my viewing goals, but that’s because my viewing goals are still unachievable. I guess they’re technically achievable if I were to stop watching new releases and anything arbitrary, methodically viewing only films on my current must-see list. But that’d take all the fun out of everything, wouldn’t it?<\/p>\n

– My writing hasn’t gotten any better, any more rigorous, any funnier. I haven’t improved at analyzing films or even analyzing my own reactions to films. As a “movie memory”, I am doing a fine job, blandly marking my reactions to every single movie I watch (except for Mystery Science Theater movies, which do not count). Since I never really intended to be a Famous Film Critic or a brilliant writer, I guess that’ll do fine.<\/p>\n

– Still haven’t learned any French. Didn’t I mean to begin learning French two years ago?<\/p>\n

– I am currently working through my thoughts on the “Finding Forrester effect”<\/a>, especially after having just wasted my time on some Atlanta Film Festival screenings. Can’t eliminate risk entirely and only watch critically-proven films, but there must’ve been some way I could’ve known to avoid Fugitive Pieces<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nMy most enjoyable posts from the past year:<\/strong><\/p>\n

There’s little record in the posts themselves of my week-long mailing-list argument over Charlie Wilson’s War<\/a> vs. Twilight’s Last Gleaming<\/a>, but it made a deep impression on me. I enjoyed watching The Story of Marie and Julien<\/a>, writing about it, then reading some articles and having my whole perspective on the film change. My illustrated interpretation of Glory to the Filmmaker!<\/a> was fun to assemble. Three
\ndifferent<\/a> shorts<\/a> programs<\/a> were a blast to do, but time-consuming to get all the screenshots. Histoire(s) du cinema<\/a> was a baffling adventure. Recently I had fun writing about Southland Tales<\/a> than watching it. Also pleased with posts about Werckmeister Harmonies<\/a>, Dog’s Dialogue<\/a> and, since they are so exciting to watch and learn more about, the latest string of movies by Marker<\/a> and Resnais<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hooray, it’s the two year anniversary of my movie journal. I have now covered 807 films in 531 journal posts. Contemplation time! ———– Some Things Change: – I discovered keyword tagging! All the posts now have clickable keywords, and if you click on the title of a post, it will use these keywords to calculate […]<\/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-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","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=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}