Starting this weekend, I am entering my “Summer of Film”. My objective is to watch 100 films by Labor Day (The first weekend of September). The only criteria is that they should be films I have not seen before. It is an ambitious project (especially considering the fact that I work full time), but one that I have succeeded at once before (granted, back then I was unemployed). Let the games begin!
UPDATE: Day 10 progress report: At the 10th day of my 82 day endeavor I have seen 9 films; must give up half an hour of work and half an hour of sleep a day 
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Wonder Boys (2000) « Things of Which I May Not Speak says:
[...] Summer of Film #29 of 100 Wonder Boys is a screenplay written to convince the writer that being a writer is actually a very cool thing. And while this is noble enough- the mistake it makes is in what it defines as coolness. I can the writer’s thought process now… [...]
November 19, 2009, 10:05 amThe War of the Worlds (2005) « Things of Which I May Not Speak says:
[...] Summer of Film #23 of 100 If people in the future ask, “Who was Steven Spielberg?” the answer is this: He is the man who made Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List in the same year. And maybe after this year, you will be able to say he’s the guy who made The War of the Worlds and Vengeance (or the Untitled 1972 Munich Olympics Project) in the same year. But that remains to be seen. [...]
November 19, 2009, 10:17 amBoogie Nights (1997) « Things of Which I May Not Speak says:
[...] Summer of Film #16 of 100 Paul Thomas Anderson is a genius and Boogie Nights is his the only ticket to greatness he needs. That he followed it up with two of my favorite films of the last decade- Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love is only icing on the cake. [...]
November 19, 2009, 10:51 amThe Frighteners (1996) « Things of Which I May Not Speak says:
[...] Summer of Film #15 of 100 Did somebody at New Line actually watch Peter Jackson’s The Frighteners and say- “I think they’re right. Let’s give him $300 million and let him make his Lord of the Rings“. I think so; it’s that good a movie, though not exactly the way the LOTR are. [...]
November 19, 2009, 10:51 amSpellbound (1945) « Things of Which I May Not Speak says:
[...] Summer of Film #22 of 100 Alfred Hitchcock, like Spielberg in modern times, had the ability to take any material and change it into a ‘Hitchcock-movie’ with his craft. Many times the material was mediocre- where the movie was the MacGuffin – but he would dazzle you with his craft so that if you weren’t paying attention you would think the craft was the movie. [...]
November 19, 2009, 10:52 amsex, lies and videotape (1989) « Things of Which I May Not Speak says:
[...] Summer of Film #9 of 100 The advent of sex, lies and videotape in 1989 caused three things major events to occur: It brought the attention of the world upon the great Steven Sorderbergh who not only lived up to his indy protégé status but soon surpassed it with his back-to-back Oscar favorites Erin Brokovich and the brilliant Traffic and his bringing together one of the great ensemble casts in modern motion picture history for Ocean’s Eleven. [...]
November 19, 2009, 10:52 amand already we have an archive « Things of Which I May Not Speak says:
[...] reviews, some film notes that I wrote for a local indie theatre and other random stuff. Like the summer I tried to document 100 days, 100 movies. I got to 55. Enjoy. Filed under: Film, Writing Leave a [...]
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