“Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful -- our own innocence.”
-Pauline Kael

"How far are you going?"
"About thirty years."
-Back to the Future teaser trailer

Monday, January 2, 2012

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot. Does that mean that we should forget old acquaintances, or does it mean if we happened to forget them, we should remember them, which is not possible because we already forgot?"

Well I don't know about auld acquaintances, but my inactivity on this blog makes me wonder if it should be forgotten. I didn't keep the promises I made in regards to this blog and so now I need to re-think on how to proceed. One change I'm considering is to not limit myself to writing about films from just a singular year.  My original concept was to focus on films that were 30 years prior to the current year. Right now I may broaden that scope to included films from the last century. At least it gives me a greater choice of what to write about.

Right now the important thing is consistency. An un-updated blog becomes a neglected and unread blog.  There is still a small part of me that wants to put down my thoughts about the movies I've seen from my past as well as older unseen films that I've always meant to get around seeing.  A new year is supposed to herald the chance towards new beginnings. I'm hoping to give this blog a new start.

May fortune favor the foolish.
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