Lost in the Movies: Record of a Summer (with additional images)

This was definitely the summer of the screen-cap (and more will follow in a moment...). Since February, I've been keeping a visual diary of every movie I watched - including short films and online videos - and at times the pace has been rapid enough to drown out my other pieces. August was such a time: a succession of cartoon screen-cap round-ups swallowed up my homepage and hid the rest of my summer work.

So I'm using the end of the season to look back and offer highlights from the past few months - posts that weren't viewing, listening, or reading round-ups (I've also been posting album covers to reflect my iPod playlists and book covers to reflect a reading list).

I will continue the visual diary approach in coming months: I enjoy it, it's relatively easy to do, and seems to appeal to readers. However, I also hope to supplement these mostly silent images (adorned only with epigrams) with more essays, particularly focused on memorable movies I've seen in 2013 (I haven't reviewed a film since April). Not, that is, movies from 2013 - of which I've so far seen only one. But that's another story.

Meanwhile, here are my non-#WatchlistScreenCaps posts from Memorial Day to Labor Day, 2013:

Perceval and Parsifal: a visual tribute • images

Dozen images from two visually striking Grail films

The Pebble and the String: an allegory for art • quotation

Indian screenwriter's thoughts on tradition and innovcation

What I feel needs to be said • essay

Reflections on race and political discourse after the Trayvon Martin case

Lost in the Movies turns 5 today • announcement

Very short acknowledgement of my blog's anniversary

5 Years: The Complete History (more or less) of Lost in the Movies, 2008 - 2013 • essay

Very, very long reflection on my blog's history, with pictures of its former looks

Odyssey of Images: a complete guide to The Story of Film • images

Complete directory - in images - to every film featured in Mark Cousins' documentary