Lost in the Movies: THE ARCHIVE Chapter 12: Running on "Remembering" (January - May 2011)

THE ARCHIVE Chapter 12: Running on "Remembering" (January - May 2011)


During a harsh winter, in which both weather and work contributed to a sense of exhaustion, I kept my online flame flickering purely through the Remembering the Movies series. At this point these rounds-ups consisted mostly of highlights from other critics alongside whatever images or videos I could dig up for the (often obscure) selections; even so, I couldn't build a backlog and barely kept up week-to-week. The spring found me burnt out on both this endeavor and my larger blogging project so I decided to end the site...or so I thought.

Subjects include Sidney Lumet's subtle filmmaking, a Rocky tribute that toys with its images, recollections of early nineties films that impressed me as a little kid (even when I couldn't see them), screenshots from my own experimental film, and my contempt for the Academy Awards ending their Honorary Oscars broadcast.

My highlight from this period is my year-end collection of other bloggers' work, Blog 10, which not only forms a striking collage of prose, image, and video, but also provides a snapshot of a particular moment in the film blogging community that would dissipate in the decade to come.

JANUARY

Remembering the Movies, Jan. 7 - 13
What came out this week in movie history, including the end of Rico

Remembering the Movies, Jan. 14 - 20
What came out this week in movie history, featuring some iconic horror

Remembering the Movies, Jan. 21 - 27
What came out this week in movie history, featuring a couple meet-cutes

Remembering the Movies, Jan. 28 - Feb. 3
What came out this week in movie history, featuring two iconic blonde movie stars who were gone too soon

FEBRUARY

Remembering the Movies, Feb. 4 - 10
What came out this week in movie history, featuring a Charlie Chaplin double feature

Remembering the Movies, Feb. 11 - 17
What came out this week in movie history, featuring traps in two supernatural medieval castles (and even more buildings-as-monster-movie-traps)

Blog 10
Movie bloggers choose their own favorite posts for 2010, highlighting essays, pictures, videos, and more in the biggest of these round-ups

Remembering the Movies, Feb. 18 - 24
What came out this week in movie history, including some iconic musical standards

Dishonorary Awards: Why Not to Watch the Oscars This Year
When the Academy axed their on-air Honorary segment, I'd had enough

Remembering the Movies, Feb. 25 - Mar. 3
What came out this week in movie history, featuring Alfred Hitchcock, Preston Sturges, Jacques Demy, Luchino Visconti, and Oliver Stone


MARCH

Remembering the Movies, Mar. 4 - 10
What came out this week in movie history, featuring "the Charlie Chaplin of the Jungle"

Remembering the Movies, Mar. 11 - 17
What came out this week in movie history, featuring the debut of George Lucas

Remembering the Movies, Mar. 18 - 24
What came out this week in movie history, featuring heroes in a half-shell

Remembering the Movies, Mar. 25 - 31
What came out this week in movie history..."isn't that a Western with Marlon Brando?"

APRIL

Remembering the Movies, Apr. 1 - 7
What came out this week in movie history, featuring two drug movies, two on/offscreen romances, and an early F.W. Murnau

The Dancing Image Image Past, Present, Future
Grand announcement of my intentions for the site - but three weeks later I would (temporarily) close up shop

Remembering the Movies, Apr. 8 - 14
What came out this week in movie history, featuring some Arthurian lore

So what's so special about Oct. 22, 2010??
Trying to figure out how my site traffic works

Return of the Visual Tribute
Stray pictures gathered after months or years in my backlog

Remembering the Movies, Apr. 15 - 21
What came out this week in movie history, including Siskel and Ebert praising their favorite film of 1991, Drop Dead Fred

Running on Empty (directed by Sidney Lumet)
Paying tribute to Sidney Lumet with a film that mixes coming-of-age conventions with the Weather Underground legacy

Visual Tribute to What a Long Strange Trip It's Been
Screencaps of home movies, original footage, and an old VHS tape I used to make an experimental film years earlier

Remembering the Movies, Apr. 22 - 28
What came out this week in movie history - concluding the series with Amélie, The Public Enemy, and Yojimbo, among others

(farewell announcement)
Closing down the blog...or so I thought!

Top of the World
Snapshots of Rocky's morning run (works in desktop view much better than mobile)

MAY

Explore The Dancing Image: TOP POSTS
Speeding off into the distance, a departure that lasted four months (in three years of blogging, my longest break had been a couple weeks) but not forever, as I initially expected

(I covered this period on Episode 12 of my Patreon podcast)

Next: Video Dreams (September - November 2011)
(in which I arrange clips from my entire collection into a voyage through film history)

Previous: Golden Age (September 2010 - January 2011)


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