My short film Class of 2002 • Criterion-Hulu marathon • #WatchlistScreenCaps round-ups begin: images from international classics, viral YouTube, Arthurian/Grail films, live-action shorts, documentaries, music videos, miniseries, Christmas media, and hundreds of cartoons • The Story of Film • Lost in the Movies' 5th anniversary • first interview with Kevin B. Lee (on my first video essay) • #iPodAlbumPlaylist & #JoelsReading List round-ups begin • 90 Years of Cinema: my "alternate Oscars"
Chapter 16: Best Face Forward (November 2012 - January 2013)
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These pictures speak 747,000 words
Updating my picture gallery
Lost in the Movies Status Update
Deciding what to do now that my film is complete
Paper vs. Plastic
Visual tribute to two competing motifs in David Fincher's Facebook film
Why you should follow me on Twitter (#WatchlistScreenCaps)
Here is where Lost in the Movies really crossed over to Twitter
The Hangman Puzzle
Pictures from Nagisa Oshima's blistering, satirical, sensitive avant-garde polemic
Recommended Cinema: Hulu, Criterion & Beyond
Fresh capsules on A Nos Amours, Hobson's Choice, Mamma Roma, The River, Salesman, Summer with Monika, and Tokyo Twilight along with quotes from my older reviews on several other films
Tomorrow I will live-blog/tweet a Criterion marathon
Announcing my first live-blogging, as I prepare to watch a bunch of films I've never seen before, choosing from a Criterion/Hulu library
The Criterion-Hulu Marathon (live-blogging)
The Love Goddesses • Courage for Every Day • The Junk Shop • Emporte-Moi • Being Two Isn’t Easy • The Machine That Kills Bad People • Emotion
#WatchlistScreenCaps 2/12 - 2/24
A screenshot and a caption for every feature, short, music video, miniseries, and original YouTube content I will watch for a full year...it starts with this first round-up of ten
The Favorites - Death by Hanging (#94)
After a two-month break I resumed the Favorites series with Oshima's iconoclastic work - but this would be my last entry for two and a half years
#WatchlistScreenCaps 2/26 - 3/4
Another ten screenshots, including a couple Indian classics and a couple new releases
Lost in the Movies status update, March 2013
Shifting into a mostly visual approach for a while, with Twitter leading the way
Souvenirs from The Story of Film
A screenshot for each chapter of the documentry miniseries
#WatchlistScreenCaps 3/5 - 3/21
Another ten screenshots, from many emotionally intense films
Lost in the Movies celebrates its 5th anniversary, starting now
Building up to the fifth anniversary, I re-shared my favorite pieces for several months
#WatchlistScreenCaps (80s short films), 3/26 - 3/28
Another ten screenshots, focused on shorts and videos from 1982 to 1984
Pyaasa
Swept up by my first Guru Dutt production, not knowing anything about him beforehand (this was my last film review for six months)
Boston, You're My Home
Memories of the New England city, written immediately after the marathon bombing
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 4/2 - 4/20
Another ten screenshots, including some more Indian classics
Visions of Filmmaking: 2 quotes from Truffaut & Godard
Two New Wave giants offer insight into their creative process
Movie Marathon (#WatchlistScreenCaps 4/22)
Screenshots of documentaries, cartoons, experimental films, and a few live-action narrative features watched in a single day
Press Play features my De Palma video w/ Kevin B. Lee interview
Kevin B. Lee interviewed me about my first video essay (from 2009) and my concerns/process with video work
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 4/23 - 4/30
Another ten screenshots, with several imaginative low-budget selections
Music to My Ears: #iPodAlbumPlaylist
Rounding up the albums I listened to over the previous two months
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 5/1 - 5/7
Another ten screenshots, including the first YouTube classic selections
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 5/7 - 5/8 (viral video edition)
Another ten screenshots, based mostly off some random "Greatest YouTube videos from its first five years" list (aside from the frog one, which is very much a personal favorite)
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 5/10 - 5/14
Another ten screenshots, with many 1990 short films
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 5/14 - 5/24
Another ten screenshots, almost exclusively tied to Arthurian legends
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 5/28 (viral video edition II)
Another ten screenshots based on that YouTube list, with animal and infant hijinks
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 5/28 (viral video edition III)
Another ten screenshots based on that YouTube list, with some Election 2008 flashbacks
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 5/28 - 5/29 (viral video edition IV)
Another ten screenshots, the last of the YouTube exclusives based on that list
Top 10 Movie Marathon (#WatchlistScreenCaps, 6/3)
Finished with dog memes and onto Carl Thodor Dreyer, as I screenshot my personal favorite films of all time
Literary Interlude: the last 20 books I read
For the third type of media round-up I introduced this spring, a documentation of books via covers and sample passages
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 5/29 - 6/17
Another ten screenshots, half from Disney
Perceval and Parsifal: a visual tribute
Eric Rohmer and Hans-Jurgen Syberberg adapt the Grail legends - here are pictures of each version
The Pebble and the String: an allegory for art
Tradition and revolt in tension (a Javed Akhtar quote from The Story of Film)
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 6/18 - 6/24
Another ten screenshots, including various adaptations of Dangerous Liaisons
What I feel needs to be said
I didn't usually blog about politics at this time but was horrified by the Trayvon Martin verdict and infuriated by the rhetoric surrounding the case (although in retrospect I didn't go far enough in some observations)
And the beat goes on...: #iPodAlbumPlaylist, pt. II
Albums I listened to in the early summer
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 7/5 - 7/16 (short films edition)
Another ten screenshots, featuring narrative and experimental shorts (both live-action and animated)
Lost in the Movies turns 5 today
Briefly marking my fifth anniversary, with a much bigger post to come
5 Years: The Complete History (more or less) of Lost in the Movies, 2008 - 2013
In an essay stuffed with links, I trace my content, expansion, and many changes in design over a half-decade
#WatchlistScreencaps, 7/17 - 7/24
Another ten screenshots, featuring many action-oriented car promo films directed by major auteurs
Odyssey of Images: a complete guide to The Story of Film
Massive tribute to the work of Mark Cousins, with a screenshot of every single film included in his fifteen-part documentary
Watch my short film, Class of 2002
Marking six months since I completed my movie
It Was 20 Years Ago Today: When A Star Moves
Remembering the creation of an undersung masterwork from a nine-year-old maverick with a Hi-8 camera and lots of toy dinosaurs
Strange Sounds: #iPodAlbumPlaylist, pt. III
More albums I listened to in mid-summer, emphasis on seventies and eighties (across quite a few different genres)
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 7/25 - 8/3 (early 00s short films edition)
Another ten screenshots - shorts I was watching for a year-by-year "alternate Oscars" poll
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 8/3 - 8/4 (animated shorts edition)
A collection of cartoons from various sources
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 8/6 (Bosko edition)
Another ten screenshots, exclusively of an early Warner Brothers character
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 8/7 - 8/9 (classic animated shorts edition)
Another ten screenshots, mixing different cartoon characters and studios
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 8/9 (Ub Iwerks Comicolor edition)
Another ten screenshots, highlighting later work from Mickey Mouse's co-creator
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 8/10 (Max Fleischer Cartoon Classics edition)
Another ten screenshots, brought to you by the Fleischer brothers
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 8/10 (Betty Boop edition)
Another ten screenshots, bringing the icon into the (sadly) post-Code era
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 8/10 (black-and-white Mickey Mouse edition)
Another ten screenshots: the mouse in glorious monochrome
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 8/11 (Mickey Mouse edition)
Another ten screenshots, drawing Mickey from two different collections
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 8/11 - 8/12 (Technicolor Mickey Mouse edition)
Another ten screenshots, with Disney in eye-popping color
The Sunday visual diary: Viewing marathon, 8/18
Watching and screenshotting TV/webseries episodes, shorts, features, and video essays
(Mostly) Familiar Favorites: #iPodAlbumPlaylist, pt. IV
Albums I listened to in late summer 2013
Back and back and back...
Quotes from Carl Jung, accompanied by references to 2001 and The Giver
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 8/13 - 8/27 (first-time features edition)
Another ten screenshots - after many shorts, a return to feature films (all first viewings)
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 8/28 - 8/31
Another ten screenshots, including several experimental shorts
Record of a Summer (with additional images)
What I posted besides screenshots in a mostly visual summer
A Gallery of Movie Moments: Image from every film I've watched since February (344 #WatchlistScreenCaps)
Introducing a gallery page with all of the Watchlist screencaps in one place
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 9/1 - 9/8
Another ten screenshots, featuring a classic from each decade (including my first-ever rewatch of Fire Walk With Me)
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 9/9
Another ten screenshots - over half belong to Don Hertzfeldt
Images from the Two-Day Viewing Marathon, 9/15 - 9/16
Another eclectic grouping of screenshots from a variety of forms
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 9/9 - 9/21
Another ten screenshots: eight recent shorts and two features all from within a decade of each other
Images from the Documentary Marathon, 10/1
Screenshots cover a nonfiction line-up
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 9/21 - 10/2
Another ten screenshots: iconic feature films of directors from Sergei Eisenstein to Quentin Tarantino
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 10/2 - 10/4 (live-action short films edition)
Another ten screenshots of short films, this time veering in the opposite direction from animation
Generations Linked by Video: The iHistory WW2 Project & Interview with Jeffrey Worthington
Brief Q&A about a project where students interview World War II veterans
A Saturday of Classic Cartoons: 90 images from my animation viewing marathon, 10/5
Saturday morning cartoons extend all day long as I finished a number of animation DVDs and collected screenshots
The Eyes Have It
Visual tribute to an uncanny moment captured by Robert Bresson
Introducing 90 Years of Cinema: my "alternate Oscars", 1923 - 2012
After almost two years of voting in weekly polls, I gathered all my "alternate Oscar" picks together
90 Years of Features: my "alternate Oscars", 1923- 2012
An illustrated list of my favorite feature year by year
90 Years of Shorts: my "alternate Oscars", 1923 - 2012
An illustrated list of my favorite short year by year
90 Years of Actors: my "alternate Oscars", 1923 - 2012
An illustrated list of my favorite actor year by year
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90 Years of Actresses: my "alternate Oscars", 1923 - 2012
An illustrated list of my favorite actress year by year
90 Years of Directors: my "alternate Oscars", 1923 - 2012
An illustrated list of my favorite director year by year
90 Years of Cinema: my "alternate Oscars", 1923 - 2012
An illustrated list of my choices in every other category year by year
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 10/4 - 10/27
Another ten screenshots, all rarities brought to my attention by Wonders in the Dark
Western Countdown - Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
My first review in half a year, analyzing different cuts of the same movie (follow the Wonders link to read a comment from one of those editors)
The Final Shuffle: #iPodAlbumPlaylist, pt. VII
What I was listening to leading up to my thirtieth birthday
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 10/27 - 11/10
Another ten screenshots, with a dash of horror for Halloween
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 11/11 - 11/17 (music video edition)
Another ten screenshots, from a larger line-up of music videos
Fiction and Nonfiction - 10 Long-Form Films: #WatchlistScreenCaps, 11/17 - 12/7 (miniseries edition)
Another ten screenshots from miniseries old and new, dramatic and documentary
Frances Ha
Charmed by Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach
4 thoughts in response to The Battle of Chile
Observations sparked by a documentary about the fall of a democratically-elected socialist to a U.S.-backed coup; I don't necessarily stand by all of the notes but some have proven even more true with time
Music video marathon, 12/16 - 12/18
Screenshots from the MTV archives (and further back than that)
#WatchlistScreenCaps, 12/22 - 12/24
Another ten screenshots, including several YouTube mash-ups and a Vine compilation
The Christmas Day Nostalgia Marathon (#WatchlistScreenCaps)
The Ghost of Christmas Past guides this line-up of screenshots
Soundtrack to a Warm Winter: #iPodAlbumPlaylist, December 2013
What I listened to in the holiday season
(I covered this year on Episode 15 (public), 16, 17, and 18 of my Patreon podcast)
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JANUARY
Part 1 of my short film was completed just before midnight on the west coast (retained for postery, but this is a rough version soon superseded by some additional footage/re-cutting)
Part 2 of my short film (rough version/original cut) follows the characters introduced in Part 1 after high school
Part 3 of my short film (rough version/original cut) draws out the narrator's connection to one of the stories he tells
My dramatic mock-documetnary uses still images and found footage accompanied by narration - this is the final revised version
Recounting the creation of the film from first concept to final edit
Remembering Obama's first inauguration on the occasion of his second
Offering a glimpse of my film through quotes as well as screenshots
The final round-up presenting all of my work on or around Class of 2002, my short film
Chapter 17: Talking to Twitter & Embracing the Image (February - July 2013)
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FEBRUARY
Updating my picture gallery
Deciding what to do now that my film is complete
Visual tribute to two competing motifs in David Fincher's Facebook film
Here is where Lost in the Movies really crossed over to Twitter
Pictures from Nagisa Oshima's blistering, satirical, sensitive avant-garde polemic
Fresh capsules on A Nos Amours, Hobson's Choice, Mamma Roma, The River, Salesman, Summer with Monika, and Tokyo Twilight along with quotes from my older reviews on several other films
Announcing my first live-blogging, as I prepare to watch a bunch of films I've never seen before, choosing from a Criterion/Hulu library
The Love Goddesses • Courage for Every Day • The Junk Shop • Emporte-Moi • Being Two Isn’t Easy • The Machine That Kills Bad People • Emotion
A screenshot and a caption for every feature, short, music video, miniseries, and original YouTube content I will watch for a full year...it starts with this first round-up of ten
After a two-month break I resumed the Favorites series with Oshima's iconoclastic work - but this would be my last entry for two and a half years
MARCH
Another ten screenshots, including a couple Indian classics and a couple new releases
Shifting into a mostly visual approach for a while, with Twitter leading the way
A screenshot for each chapter of the documentry miniseries
Another ten screenshots, from many emotionally intense films
Building up to the fifth anniversary, I re-shared my favorite pieces for several months
Another ten screenshots, focused on shorts and videos from 1982 to 1984
APRIL
Swept up by my first Guru Dutt production, not knowing anything about him beforehand (this was my last film review for six months)
Memories of the New England city, written immediately after the marathon bombing
Another ten screenshots, including some more Indian classics
Two New Wave giants offer insight into their creative process
Screenshots of documentaries, cartoons, experimental films, and a few live-action narrative features watched in a single day
Kevin B. Lee interviewed me about my first video essay (from 2009) and my concerns/process with video work
MAY
Another ten screenshots, with several imaginative low-budget selections
Rounding up the albums I listened to over the previous two months
Another ten screenshots, including the first YouTube classic selections
Another ten screenshots, based mostly off some random "Greatest YouTube videos from its first five years" list (aside from the frog one, which is very much a personal favorite)
Another ten screenshots, with many 1990 short films
Another ten screenshots, almost exclusively tied to Arthurian legends
Another ten screenshots based on that YouTube list, with animal and infant hijinks
Another ten screenshots based on that YouTube list, with some Election 2008 flashbacks
Another ten screenshots, the last of the YouTube exclusives based on that list
JUNE
Finished with dog memes and onto Carl Thodor Dreyer, as I screenshot my personal favorite films of all time
For the third type of media round-up I introduced this spring, a documentation of books via covers and sample passages
Another ten screenshots, half from Disney
Eric Rohmer and Hans-Jurgen Syberberg adapt the Grail legends - here are pictures of each version
Tradition and revolt in tension (a Javed Akhtar quote from The Story of Film)
Another ten screenshots, including various adaptations of Dangerous Liaisons
JULY
I didn't usually blog about politics at this time but was horrified by the Trayvon Martin verdict and infuriated by the rhetoric surrounding the case (although in retrospect I didn't go far enough in some observations)
Albums I listened to in the early summer
Another ten screenshots, featuring narrative and experimental shorts (both live-action and animated)
Briefly marking my fifth anniversary, with a much bigger post to come
In an essay stuffed with links, I trace my content, expansion, and many changes in design over a half-decade
Another ten screenshots, featuring many action-oriented car promo films directed by major auteurs
Massive tribute to the work of Mark Cousins, with a screenshot of every single film included in his fifteen-part documentary
Marking six months since I completed my movie
Remembering the creation of an undersung masterwork from a nine-year-old maverick with a Hi-8 camera and lots of toy dinosaurs
Chapter 18: The Watchlist Hits Toontown (August - October 2013)
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AUGUST
More albums I listened to in mid-summer, emphasis on seventies and eighties (across quite a few different genres)
Another ten screenshots - shorts I was watching for a year-by-year "alternate Oscars" poll
A collection of cartoons from various sources
Another ten screenshots, exclusively of an early Warner Brothers character
Another ten screenshots, mixing different cartoon characters and studios
Another ten screenshots, highlighting later work from Mickey Mouse's co-creator
Another ten screenshots, brought to you by the Fleischer brothers
Another ten screenshots, bringing the icon into the (sadly) post-Code era
Another ten screenshots: the mouse in glorious monochrome
Another ten screenshots, drawing Mickey from two different collections
Another ten screenshots, with Disney in eye-popping color
Watching and screenshotting TV/webseries episodes, shorts, features, and video essays
Albums I listened to in late summer 2013
Quotes from Carl Jung, accompanied by references to 2001 and The Giver
Another ten screenshots - after many shorts, a return to feature films (all first viewings)
Another ten screenshots, including several experimental shorts
SEPTEMBER
What I posted besides screenshots in a mostly visual summer
Introducing a gallery page with all of the Watchlist screencaps in one place
Another ten screenshots, featuring a classic from each decade (including my first-ever rewatch of Fire Walk With Me)
Another ten screenshots - over half belong to Don Hertzfeldt
Another eclectic grouping of screenshots from a variety of forms
Another ten screenshots: eight recent shorts and two features all from within a decade of each other
OCTOBER
Screenshots cover a nonfiction line-up
Another ten screenshots: iconic feature films of directors from Sergei Eisenstein to Quentin Tarantino
Another ten screenshots of short films, this time veering in the opposite direction from animation
Brief Q&A about a project where students interview World War II veterans
Saturday morning cartoons extend all day long as I finished a number of animation DVDs and collected screenshots
Chapter 19: Classics & Completionism (October 2013 - February 2014)
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Visual tribute to an uncanny moment captured by Robert Bresson
After almost two years of voting in weekly polls, I gathered all my "alternate Oscar" picks together
An illustrated list of my favorite feature year by year
An illustrated list of my favorite short year by year
An illustrated list of my favorite actor year by year
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An illustrated list of my favorite actress year by year
An illustrated list of my favorite director year by year
An illustrated list of my choices in every other category year by year
Another ten screenshots, all rarities brought to my attention by Wonders in the Dark
My first review in half a year, analyzing different cuts of the same movie (follow the Wonders link to read a comment from one of those editors)
NOVEMBER
What I was listening to leading up to my thirtieth birthday
Another ten screenshots, with a dash of horror for Halloween
Another ten screenshots, from a larger line-up of music videos
DECEMBER
Another ten screenshots from miniseries old and new, dramatic and documentary
Charmed by Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach
Observations sparked by a documentary about the fall of a democratically-elected socialist to a U.S.-backed coup; I don't necessarily stand by all of the notes but some have proven even more true with time
Screenshots from the MTV archives (and further back than that)
Another ten screenshots, including several YouTube mash-ups and a Vine compilation
The Ghost of Christmas Past guides this line-up of screenshots
What I listened to in the holiday season
(I covered this year on Episode 15 (public), 16, 17, and 18 of my Patreon podcast)
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