Chapter 8: The Image Emerges (January - February 2010)
Right away as the new decade hit, I began featuring images more prominently on my sites. They were incorporated into visual tributes featuring screenshots from a single or multiple works, line-ups of posters spanning many years, and multimedia approaches mixing pictures with quotes. Having ended my commitment to the Examiner, my online work was at least temporarily taking on a more impulsive, immersive air.
Subjects include my second round-up of other bloggers' work, quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald, reflections on fascist propaganda, my first YouTube video (ironically, audio-only), and why I never liked the term "indie."
My highlight for this period is, of course, image-heavy; They Once Were Coming Attractions... (memories of my movie past, 1988 - 1998) uses film posters to convey a thorough survey of my childhood moviegoing as well as aesthetic shifts over a decade of poster design.
JANUARY
Kicking off the new year (and decade) with a shot of Bulle Ogier
John Lennon quote from the early days of Beatlemania (also, my earliest YouTube clip - albeit audio only)
Picking apart the troubling implications of Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda, with the help of a Susan Sontag essay
As a new decade dawned, my very first visual tribute - to a film I'd reviewed a few weeks earlier, divided between country and city
For this round-up of the movie blogosphere, many bloggers submitted their own best work for sampling/visual display...a taste of where we were in '09
Tributes to a French auteur who passed away and a Hollywood star who turned 100
Updating my best of the blogosphere round-up
A clip of an MLK speech for his birthday
Excerpts from the essay "My Lost City"
FEBRUARY
Random collection of screen-caps, continuing the new visual emphasis in my work
Departing the Examiner site (includes links to original comments)
Considering films that became icons years after their release
Soviet comedy with a more subtle approach than many of its contemporaries, but still very inventive and clever
Watching a Howard Zinn documentary shortly after his death, very early in my first tentative steps toward the left
Linking to an argument about criticism
A gallery of posters from a decade of moviegoing, from the four-year-old convincing his dad to take him to Twins in '88 to the fifteen-year-old catching Affliction in early '99
Arthur Rimbaud, screen-caps from The Rules of the Game and other relevant films, and a bunch of sadly defunct YouTube clips
Roberto Rossellini sends Ingrid Bergman to a volcanic island
(I covered this period on Episode 8 of my Patreon podcast)
Next: Four's Company (February - May 2010)
(in which I make one last attempt to become a regular reviewer)
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