Movies watched in 2022

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These are my 19 favorite films this year. I’ve never been much of a superhero fan, but The Batman and new Doctor Strange were quite enjoyable, as well as the Werewolf by Night special. On the wave of Marvel’s Multiverse Saga, A24 added to the mayhem with Everything Everywhere All at Once. Disney’s other big universe, Star Wars, brought us several new series; I didn’t see them all, but Obi-Wan Kenobi was my favorite. In the Golden Globes nominations, Top Gun: Maverick deserves Best Drama, and Everything Everywhere as Best Musical/Comedy, although there are a number of nominees I have yet to see.

Film posters of my 10 favorite films, screenshot from Letterboxd

Previous years: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012.

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Federated social media is the future

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Takeaway after using Mastodon for a few days: Federated social media is the future. The mass exodus from the birdsite this month shows that people are hungry to use tech that is not corporately owned.

But don’t expect free services to protect your data. Invest in a website where you have control of the content. From your home page, reach out through the fediverse to discover new worlds. Oh, and back up your data.

– From a 20-year IT professional

1914 Trans-Antarctic Expedition Map

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It’s still baffling to me how Shackleton thought this was a good idea. Compare the size of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean around it to the Northern hemisphere. It’s over 2,100 miles on land alone; approximately the same distance as a dogsled trip from Seattle, WA, to northern Michigan.

Shackleton’s planned 1914 route
Northern hemisphere
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Video clips and history of world cinema: 1948-1957

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10 Years 10 Films (10Y10F) is a project to display embedded YouTube selections of cinema history. This is Decade Seven of a series that aims for a quick time-lapse view of how movie technology and style has developed throughout the world – one clip each year – from 1888 through 2017, starting with the foundations to see how filmmakers build or deconstruct them.

World cinema 1948-1957

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Movies watched in 2021

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These are my 20 favorite films this year. More than any other year that I can think of, the release schedule of films were really thrown off due once again to another year of COVID. Nomadland and A Quiet Place II, for example, are technically 2020 films, but they didn’t get a wide release until 2021.

Previous years: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012.

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