Announcements Jul 25 2008 @ 01:40 pm
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Just a quick announcement that we are doing another ‘theme’ month here at MovieZeal during August. Last time we tackled the work of the Coen brothers, which I think was a modest success, but this time we’re aiming a bit higher. Instead of profiling a single director’s filmography, we’re featuring an entire movement: Film Noir. The festivities kick off a week from today on the 1st and we’ll be reviewing a different noir masterpiece each day of the month until the 31st. For those of you with mad trigonometry skillz, that equals 31 different films.
Rather than slowly go insane attempting to take on all of that work ourselves, we’ve invited numerous denizens of the film blogosphere to contribute pieces, so expect a lot of extremely talented guest writers. I’ll write more on this next week as we head into the month, but I wanted to formally announce it here.
Also, Josephe Demme of Cinexcellence is hosting an Unseen DVD Blog-a-Thon at his site. You are cordially invited to plunge head first into the $1 bargain bin at your local Walmart, retrieve the shiniest turd possible, and then write about it (masochism is your friend). He’s running the blog-a-thon until August 17th.
on Jul 25 2008 @ 1:48 pm 1. G said …
Oh man, I am so extremely talented, you have no idea.
on Jul 25 2008 @ 3:07 pm 2. Julia Harrington said …
To show my support for the upcoming theme, Luke and I will be renaming our puppy, Nora, “Noira” for the month. She’s black and white and likes movies, so I believe this is a valuable contribution.
on Jul 25 2008 @ 3:48 pm 3. Haiku Girl said …
Oh Yaaaa, I love this genre. Do we get a sneek peak at which films you’ll be reviewing? Fingers crossed for the 39 steps, and notorious!
on Jul 25 2008 @ 4:15 pm 4. Evan Derrick said …
I’ll post the entire list sometime next week, Colleeny. You should be satisfied with the selections.
on Jul 25 2008 @ 5:38 pm 5. Phillip Johnston said …
Woo-hoo! And a new column on the way as well. This is exciting.
on Jul 26 2008 @ 12:41 pm 6. Whitney said …
I hope you watch Duel. That’s my favorite film noir.
on Jul 26 2008 @ 12:42 pm 7. Whitney said …
I’m sorry. Not Duel. that’s that awful Spielberg movie where they drive at 60mph. I meant Detour. THAT’S my favorite (clearly…since I can remember the name and all)
on Jul 26 2008 @ 2:33 pm 8. Evan Derrick said …
You should be happy as well, Whitney.
on Jul 26 2008 @ 3:21 pm 9. Alexander Coleman said …
Duel is not awful at all. Not exactly a noir, however.
Can’t wait, Evan, but I’ll stay mum as I’m a co-conspirator.
on Jul 27 2008 @ 11:36 pm 10. Miranda Wilding said …
Evan, are you guys going to do modern noirs (like BODY HEAT or ROMEO IS BLEEDING) for noir month? I think some of them are actually superior to the old classic stuff.
And no, I am obviously no bloody purist.
Sounds exciting. I may actually be around for some of that action. I do adore me some mad noir.
I was actually going to type in my name as MATTY WALKER or MARY ANN SIMPSON. But then no one would’ve known who the hell I was - and I COULDN’T have that.
Anyway…
Hope you’re going to announce your choices soon. Should be great grand fun.
on Jul 28 2008 @ 2:11 am 11. Alexander Coleman said …
Ha, that’s funny, Miranda.
on Jul 28 2008 @ 7:41 am 12. Evan Derrick said …
Miranda, I have to admit we’ve chosen to focus on noirs from the ‘classic’ period, as it were, rather than on the neo-noirs (such as Taxi Driver and the ones you mentioned) that followed decades later. I’m no purist either, but when I looked into expanding the selection list past the late 50s, the scope of the retrospective expanded beyond what I wanted to take on. Our month obviously won’t be a complete look at film noir, but I do think it will be a very thorough one.
on Jul 28 2008 @ 8:46 am 13. Miranda Wilding said …
Good to know, Evan.
Thanks so much for that…