This blog began as a challenge that I set myself for the year 2011: to watch a film that I have never seen every day of the year and write a few lines about it. My manifesto: I will watch 365 films. I will try to include as many different kinds of film as possible. I will explore vastly different genres. I will devour art cinema alongside cheesy commercial chick flicks. I will not privilege feature films over shorts. I will watch films from as many countries as possible. And I will hopefully become a better person for it. Although I didn't quite make it though the year this blog has become the outlet for all of my cine-thoughts. It is now an archive of screen spectatorship. It lives on.
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Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000, dir. John Ottman)
I saw this film on a warm, quiet Sunday night. I had two teenage horror fans sleeping over. We watched Urban Legend and they immediately demanded to see the sequel. This one is set in a film school. It is a reflexive wonder.
Urban Legends: Final Cut (aka Urban Legend 2) (2000, dir. John Ottman)
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Yesterday I saw FRANCES HA (Noah Baumbach, 2012) on YouTube, on a shared computer, in an office for casual teaching staff at my university. There's a lot to be said about the anxieties of permanence and impermanence in this film, and probably also in my life.
I’m so embarrassed. I’m not a real person yet.
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Nymphomaniac: Volume I (Denmark/Germany/France/Belgium/UK, 2013) dir. Lars von Trier
"For me love was just lust with jealousy added; everything else was total nonsense. For every hundred crimes committed in the name of love, only one is committed in the name of sex."
A man finds an unconscious woman in the street. He takes her back to his apartment and offers her a cup of tea. She tells him about her life and he finds resonance in peculiar ways. There is a lot to digest, but for now I cannot stop thinking about the magical lighting.
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Her (USA, 2013) dir. Spike Jonze
In a hipster-imagined utopian future, a lonely man falls in love with his operating system. I was swept away by the beautiful colours of the mise-en-scene and the glorious score by Arcade Fire.
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A Little Bit Behind (Australia, 2012) dir. Paul Slater
This short film about a botched time travel expedition asks us to consider what it would mean to live three seconds behind everyone else. It's an interesting premise that is executed quite well. Although the "slow" girlfriend is not cool.
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Get Back (USA, 2013) dir. Eliot Rausch
Created for the Lincoln Motor Company's film series "Hello Again," this film is about a collective desire to be connected. It looks at the impulse to be connected to each other via technology and equally at the things we miss out on when we become driven by these connections.
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We're Having Sex (USA, 2014) dir. Michael Callahan
A couple who haven't slept together in months decide to have sex.
This about the love between two people ending, and just how damn unceremonious and uncomfortable that can be. (Ivan Kander)
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DEAD (UK, 2014) dir. Joe Bichard
An animated poem about death.
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Tanner Hall (USA, 2009) dir.Tatiana von Fürstenberg and Francesca Gregorini
A coming of age film about four girls at a boarding school.
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Skin (USA, 2014) dir. Jordana Spiro
"A child taxidermist, an outsider in his small town, is entranced by a girl who finds his work beautiful. But just as their relationship begins to progress, he does something that drastically changes everything."
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Eager (USA, 2014) dir. Allison Schulnik
Figures and flowers dance together in this rhythmic claymation.
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Nightfall (USA, 1971) dir. Bas Jan Ader
The artist stands in a small room with lights at his feet on either side. He lifts a piece of cement, smashes one light, and walks out of frame into the darkness.
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Broken Fall (Organic) (USA, 1971) dir. Bas Jan Ader
The artist swings from a tree branch. He falls into the water below.
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Broken Fall (Geometric) (USA, 1971) dir. Bas Jan Ader
The artist stands on a road. Wind blows him over.
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I'm Too Sad to Tell You (USA, 1971)
The artist weeps in front of the camera.
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Fall II (USA, 1971) dir. Bas Jan Ader
The artist rides his bike into a canal.
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (USA/New Zealand, 2013) dir. Peter Jackson
Fight scenes, often slapstick in nature, interspersed with shots of small figures running through the expansive wilderness of Middle Earth/New Zealand.
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