When #WatchlistScreenCaps began, the point was merely to illustrate, in an eye-catching way, what I happened to be watching; by the time the exercise concluded a year later, I was watching films specifically so that they could be incorporated into the screenshot round-ups. The cart was now leading the horse, but it was still fun while it lasted, yielding concentrated selections of music videos, miniseries, Hollywood genre classics, auteurist masterpieces, sixties/seventies icons, and nostalgic Christmas reveries. At this time, I also made my first tentative approach to several recent series I'd eventually cover in viewing diaries.
Subjects include images from films about filmmakers, political reflections after watching the documentation of a revolution and coup, capsules on impressive movies I saw for the first time this year, a western countdown entry on different versions of Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, and a sprawling collection of leftover screenshots.
Alongside the similarly expansive sprawl of my Watchlist, my highlight for this period involves illustrated picks for best actor, actress, director, etc, via links at the top and bottom of Introducing 90 Years of Cinema: my "alternate Oscars", 1923 - 2012.
OCTOBER
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, 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
JANUARY
What I read in the second half of 2013
Screenshots from a dozen movies and three prestigious TV premieres (whose viewing diaries I would begin four years later)
Another ten screenshots, including several films by Peter Watkins
Commemorating the debut of my short film a year earlier
Capsules of Pyaasa • The Big City • The Man Who Planted Trees • Brideshead Revisited • Los Angeles Plays Itself • Perceval le Gallois • Chronicle of a Summer • It’s a Beautiful Day • I, Claudius • The Battle of Chile
Another ten screenshots, with a surprising number of whales
FEBRUARY
Another ten screenshots, sampling my favorite era
Another ten screenshots, with two versions of the repeating-time shtick and a couple silent comedies
Another ten screenshots, including very early Scorsese and Spielberg
Another ten screenshots, catching up with filmmakers who had not yet been featured on the watchlist
What I listened to in the first month of the year, with particular emphasis on re-visiting classic rock favorites
Screenshots from the Golden Age, featuring at least a half-dozen different genres, stars, and studios
One last mix of screenshots, including new discoveries and some of my oldest favorites
A huge overflow of leftover screenshots from a yearlong watchlist
Closing a year of screenshots with the earliest image of all
Gathering all the Watchlist galleries in one directory
(I covered this period on Episode 18 of my Patreon podcast)
Next: Getting Lost in Lynchland (March - June 2014)
(in which my Twin Peaks obsession begins by focusing on the filmography of its creator)
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