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  • All films by Zora Neale Hurston

    All films by Zora Neale Hurston

    Hurston, a well-known author, also produced 15 reels (85 minutes, all silent) of probably the earliest autoethnographic documentation, from around 1928 to 1940 in the American South. Currently, it is a challenge to determine the details of each reel, so I’ll piece it together here the best I can. There are no simple IMDb entries…

  • A Life in Film – my Letterboxd stats

    I was recently inspired by the stats visualizations on Letterboxd.com, a movie review website. The stats page is available for Pro subscribers only, but I’ve enjoyed Letterboxd as a free subscriber since 2013. Now that I’ve paid for a year of Pro, I can actually look at stats for each of the years that I’ve…

  • 2018 movie watching in review

    Top 12 favorites, 1001 Movies favorites, notable first-time viewings, and a list of 2018 movies I did not get a chance to see yet. Past reviews: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014.

  • 2017 movie watching in review

    Top 12 favorites, 1001 Movies favorites, notable first-time viewings, and a list of 2017 movies I did not get a chance to see yet. Past reviews: 2016, 2015, 2014.

  • Two years of watching Movies You must See Before You Die

    Listed in this post are my favorite films that I’ve watched since October 2014 from the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. You can read more about the first year, but I do have a couple of things I’d add to my initial commentary: In case you hadn’t noticed already, I place a…

  • Best Albums of 2014

    My third annual list. This is mostly personal preference, but with an ear to recommend both popular and obscure (mostly alt-rock and electronic) albums to other music lovers. On this list, albums get either a 1 (best) or 2 (rest); within those two groups, most have equal ground. This may seem like a boring list…