I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
Him: I can explain everything!
(It's his best joke yet I think)
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but when I took one's "P" away they became irate.
Inspired by u/ PopeDarthPaul's post, I decided a year ago to start reviewing the many films I watch. Bit by bit, writing these short reviews, became my main creative project for 2021.
The combination of being retired, and alone, plus Corona, enabled me to happily watch an average of nearly 3 films per day, and reverted me to the old days 40 years ago, when I studied Film at the University of Copenhagen under Peter Schepelern, and learned about semiotics, history & film theories.
I enjoyed this year tremendously, and intend to continue spending (“wasting”) my time exploring old and new films alike.
Below are some statistics and a short list of a few curious finds.
I called my project “1,000 films” but ended up seeing a total of 'only' 885. Out of these, 122 were documentaries, 41 Shorts and 10 were stand-ups.
I thought of myself as an an all-round cineast, versed in world cinema, interested to discover rare gems old and new. But sadly, after looking at my end-year summery, I realized that this was not the case and I am far from a completist: Only 302 were “foreign films” and at least 198 (22%, and usually of my best-rated films) were films I had seen before, sometimes more than 2-3 times.
Of the “foreign” films, 64 were French, 43 were from the UK, 40 from Denmark, 19 each were Japanese and Italian, 13 from Germany, 10 from Sweden, 9 each from Poland & Israel, 6 each from Iran, Mexico and Norway. Others were from Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Brazil, Catalonia, Chile, Holland, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Korea, Lebanon, Mongolia, Romania, Spain, Turkey, Uganda, USSR and Venezuela.
Initially I was hoping to take a sizable bite out of the many films I hadn't seen before. But the field is much too vast: There are too many masterpieces in Russian, Thai, Arabic, Flemish, Mandarin, Portuguese, Swiss and what-not that I may never be able to see.
In the process, I also fell prey to “NEWS”, the 'Never-Ending Watchlist Syndrome', and ended up with a saved list of over 400 more selections waiting to be consumed.
The year was, to my surprise, also heavily populated by newer films, with 98 from 2021, 73 from 2020, a total of 406 from the last 10 years, and only 61 from before 1960. So, not much of Film-History flair either.
Of the individual directors, I was mostly taken by Anders Thomas Jensen (10 films), Agnès Varda (6), Céline Sciamma (4), A
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Half the time they are up to something, the other half they are just bringing you down. I should really start taking steps to avoid them..
Answer: Paw-jamas
'Cause my jokes never land.
They are afraid of pop music.
But it's starting to grow on me.
Buenosdillas
Now I'm an iWitness
I guess we won't work out.
Knock knock. Who's there? Daddy. Daddy who? Daddy's there.
The closing needs some work, but it was a pretty impressive attempt! Just a proud dad over here :,-)
He’s all right now.
There was only 2 of us on the production line so I had to make every second count
A Seizure Salad
It was a four gun conclusion.
But his brother Frank was a real monster!
That way, you can make a grand entrance
'Cause they're afraid of the mouse
because they take everything literally.
"It's a little fit bunny...."
Comes great "response ability"...
Bartenders.
One, but it has to be during dinner
turns out he’s only eligible for a Current Account
You stab it 23 times.
