Not only is it a new year, but it's also he loved him some movies' birthday. Yes, it's actually been a year since I crawled up from a cave in Mountlake Terrace and started this blog. And it's been a pretty cool blog year to boot. Let's see: Met some totally amazing and cool compadres-in-cinephilia (Scott, Steve, Matt, Dan, Chris, and his alter-ego, Chris); got in contact with friends from the Old Country (Hey Nate! Hey Jess & Matt! Hope to find that tape soon!); discovered Listology and its super-cool creator, Jim; and Martin and I made the Project Greenlight Top 100 with our script, Yellow (and wrote two drafts, as well).
Hopefully 2005 will be as good. Although I have some goals for the new year, I'm trying not to call them "resolutions"; as Mary cruelly informed me while in Brighton this year, 80% of all resolutions fail, if you call them "New Year's Resolutions". So, anyway, goals. Here's a juicy quote from January 3, 2004:
"So, anyway, I hope to see at least 50 movies in the theater this year and get back into the swing of things.
Heh. Well, I only saw 24 movies in the theater in 2004, about two a month. A lot of that had to do with a lack of funds; that shouldn't be the case this year. But more than getting out of the house and away from the DVD and TiVo, I want to make an effort to see more limited-run foreign films. There's at least three good places to see non-mass-market fare in Seattle: The Grand Illusion, the new Northwest Film Forum theater, and the Seattle Art Museum, which also programs a lot of classic films, as well. Let's see if I can give them some of my business this year.
Addendum, five minutes later: I just discovered that SAM is having a frickin' Michael Powell retrospective, including I Know Where I'm Going!, Black Narcissus, Peeping Tom, The Red Shoes, the never-seen-by-me Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, and one of the best movies ever made, A Matter of Life and Death. I damn well better do this. Maybe Martin can whip me into shape.
Where we saw it: general | We deign to rate it: outta 100You should celebrate the fact that you actually have some options in Seattle for seeing non-MOR films. I can only cling to our local, four screen Landmark. What I'd do to get a rep house back in this banana republic.
Posted by: Scott at January 1, 2005 12:29 PMMaybe now that I'm in town we can both whip each other into shape. I noticed SAM is also doing a Bertolucci retro, all of which I missed when it came through town. At the very least I am dragging my gf kicking and screaming to The Conformist but I'd be up for any of the others too.
Posted by: GDD at January 3, 2005 08:19 AMHappy new year and good luck with the 2005 film goals. I'm planning on being in Seattle for the film fest in May, so hopefully I can meet up with you and Greg Cineblog. There's also been talk of an eventual move to Seattle, but those things tend to change from week-to-week.
Posted by: socialretard at January 3, 2005 09:08 AMFirst, I invite all readers to pass their cursor over Greg (GDD)'s "email" name. It's awesome.
Wow, Greg's here, and SR might be coming up for SIFF. 2005 is shaping up to be pretty good.
Greg, shoot me an email when you get a chance. Make plans to meet at The Conformist?
SR, hope you can make it up here, especially for SIFF. We'll have to introduce you to the "pleasures" of the Secret Fest.
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Posted by: lolita at January 19, 2005 06:00 PM