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23 March 2004

Movie Log

A few years ago I started keeping track of the movies I see, whether in theaters or on video. And the books I read and concerts I attend. Sometimes it feels kind of (or very) nerdy, but it helps me get a handle on what's passing through my brain, in some way.

I've thought about putting this log online like some other people do on their sites. My laptop has been in the shop for several weeks (my logic board picked the same time as everyone else's to die — the part is backordered), which has made me change my usual routine pretty drastically. Everything from writing to logging my movies has been shifted around.

So I'm temporarily keeping my movie log in the little paper notebook that I always carry with me. (It's not for taking notes during movies, by the way.) And since I have an urge to type the entries into a computer, I'm going to dump the last couple of weeks' worth into this blog.

Maybe I'll start doing this on a regular basis.

3-8 Shaolin Soccer (Chow)
3-8 God of Cookery (Chow)
3-9 15 (Tan)
3-9 A Good Lawyer's Wife (Im)
3-10 Dolls (Kitano)
3-11 S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (Panh)
3-16 American Stories (Akerman)
3-19 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry)
3-21 Chantal Akerman on Chantal Akerman (Akerman)
3-21 The Man With the Suitcase (Akerman)
3-21 Moving In (Akerman)
3-21 Portrait of a Young Girl in the Late Sixties in Brussels (Akerman)
3-22 Small Soldiers (Dante) [DVD]

(Note: I don't log video viewings of movies I've seen before.)

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Reader Comments

March 23, 2004, 12:03 PM

davis

By the way, for discussion of the Akerman movies that are whipping up and down the California coastline, head over to the Akerman thread at filmjourney.org.

March 23, 2004, 01:41 PM

Ray Ryan

I dare you to make this a public iCalendar.

March 23, 2004, 10:16 PM

davis

Hi, Ray. I didn't know you were stopping by. Glad to hear from you.

It's funny, publishing the calendar wouldn't be hard at all, if I got in a jam (i.e. if someone triple dog dared me). I do use iCal for planning, but I don't use it for logging (OmniOutliner!).

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