Series Tracker

This is a post whose idea I had a while back and never did, but now I came up with a better approach. Essentially, my plan with themes/series’ lately has been, for the most part, to split them up. My series on A.I. was virtually all consecutive. My unwillingness to post my ’80s series every day for practically a month led to that one halting and restarting. So I figured this would be easy access to other posts for you the reader, and a great reminder for me about what’s in-progress and should be touched upon on occasion.

Ongoing Series

Make Your Own Festival

I select slates to demonstrate the ease of self-programming titles.

Pick an Actor: Robinson Stevenin
Macaulay Culkin
Pick a Country 1: Brazil
Brazil 2
Pick a Country: Brazil 3
Pick a Country: Part 4
Pick a Country: Part 5
Pick a Country: Part 6
Pick a Country: Part 7
Bad Movies
Macaulay Culkin

The Arts on Film

I examine instances of other arts on film to examine the source material a bit more closely.

Ivan’s Childhood

Silent Feature Sunday

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Waxworks
Haxan
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Nosferatu
Man with a Movie Camera
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
Battleship Potemkin
The Kid (1921)

Hero Whipped

A chronicle of my journey back to the comics medium, usually also relating the characters to their depictions in other media, especially film.

From Film to Comics (Part 1)
From Film to Comics (Part 2)
Comics and the Studio System
A Question of Form
The Double Life of Archie Andrews
Why This Spider-Man Amazed Me
Richie Rich
Hellraiser

Tarzan Thursday

A retrospect on Tarzan films through the ages.

Tazan Thursday: Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
Tarzan Thursday: Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
Tarzan Escapes
Tarzan and His Mate
Tarzan Finds a Son!
Tarzan’s Secret Treasure
Tarzan’s New York Adventure
Tarzan Triumphs
Tarzan’s Desert Mystery
Tarzan and the Amazons
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
Tarzan and the Huntress (1947)
Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)

Cinematic Episodes

Introduction

Don’t You Recognize Me?

Posts on early roles by know well-known actors that occurred to me by surprise.

Joel Edgerton
Andrew Lincoln
Chris Evans
Sarah Paulson

61 Days of Days of Halloween 2013

Dracula (1931 – Philip Glass Score)
Saw
Films to Keep You Awake: A Christmas Tale
Curse of Chucky
Demonic Toys 2
Gorgo
Trilogy of Terror
Films to Keep You Awake: To Let
Sisters
Blame
Pulse (1988)
The Dead Father
Asylum
The Baby’s Room
The Fog (1980)
V/H/S 2
Insidious: Chapter 2
Die Farbe
A Real Friend
Dead of Night
The Asphyx
Spectre
The Case of the Bloody Iris
Graveyard Disturbance
Dementia 13
Tremors 2
Child’s Play 3
Bride of Chucky
The Blair Witch Project
Introduction

2013 BAM Award Considerations

Monthly posts tracking contenders for this year’s BAM Awards, my personal film awards.

September
August
July
June
May
April
March
February
January

Mini-Review Round-Up

Bite-size reviews of titles viewed at home. Many of which need a wider audience.

2013

Late August/September
August
July
June
May
April
March
February
January

2012

In December it was replaced by Year-End Dash
November
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
February
January

2011

#5
#4
#3
#2
#1

Film Thought

Moviegoing Solo
I Think We’re Alone Now
Walking Out of a Movie
Film Word Association
Who Would Play You in a Movie?
What’s Your Favorite Film?
Sorry, No Refunds for Bad Movies
Excuse Me, Did You Like the Movie?
The Foundation of Everything is Drama
A Film For All Occasions
No List is Ever Complete
The Elasticity of Film
Critical Buzzwords in Need of Banishment

In Anticipation Of

Mercy
The Necroscope

Limited Series, Current

Bela Tarr Retrospective

Short Film Saturday: Prologue from Visions of Europe
Werckmeister Harmonies

Limited Series, Comncluded

Underrated Dramas

Brazil
Benelux
France

Shyamalan Week

BAM Best Picture Profile – The Sixth Sense
Things Worth Discussing
Village Building
The Spiritual Trilogy

Django Unchained

Django Unchained: Mandingo Fighting and Phrenology
Django Unchained: Apparent Defeat and Tarantino’s Cameo
Django Unchained: The Politics of Language
Django Unchained: Introduction and the Spaghetti Western Treatment
Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained: How Good it is to Kill Fascists, Racists and Slave Owners!

Poverty Row April

Posts and reviews about shoestring Hollywood productions, mainly in the 1930s.

Short Film Saturday: The Phantom Empire, Chapters 1-3
Book Review: Poverty Row Studios, 1929-1940
Poverty Row April: Viewing Log and Introduction
Short Film Saturday: The Phantom Empire, Chapters 1-3
Short Film Saturday: The Phantom Empire, Chapters 4-6
Short Film Saturday: The Phantom Empire, Chapters 7-9
Poverty Row April: Wrap-Up

Once Upon a Time in the 80s

A wide-ranging paper on what made the 80s unique in entertainment, mainly film.

Once Upon a Time in the 80s: Conclusion
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: Kidco
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: Amazing Grace and Chuck
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: The Breakfast Club
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: Parenthood
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: The Neverending Story
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: Television
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: Genremeld
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: Music Videos
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: Directors
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: The Directors
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: Animation
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: The International Scene
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: Box Office Boom
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: Sequels
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: Special Effects
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: Sociopolitical Overview
Once Upon a Time in the 80s: Introduction

March to Disney

A focus on films by Walt Disney Studios.

March to Disney: Disney Animated Feature Ranking
March to Disney: Titles That Should Come Out of the Vault
March to Disney: Disney at the BAM Awards
March to Disney: Terabithia, Timothy Green and Other Inauspicious Ends
March to Disney: Secretariat and the Sports Films of Disney
March to Disney: Zokkomon and Disney World Cinema
March to Disney: What Bolt and Dumbo Share
The Gnome-Mobile
Trips to Treasure Island
Der Fuehrer’s Face
The Rescuers in More Ways Than One
Three Little Pigs
Short Film Saturday: The Little Matchgirl
Short Film Saturday: Aquamania (1961)
Short Film Saturday: Runaway Brain

Blogathon Entries

Funny Lady Blogathon: Louise Fazenda
Children in Film Blogathon 2: The Juvenile Award
Children in Film Blogathon 1: Jackie Searl
Actors in Comic Book Films
Journalism in Classic Film Blogathon: Doctor X (1932) and The Return of Doctor X (1939)