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(UPDATE, June 2007: Don't forget that this series hasn't stopped; it's just moved to the website for my arts organization, the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography.)
Tired of seemingly all discussion of movies in this country anymore sliding towards poop fests and other kiddie fare? Me too, which is why I've decided to dedicate my new Netflix account to nothing but "grown-up" movies, and to write reviews here of each one I see. If you've got a suggestion of a movie I should see, by the way, by all means let me know!
Movies now seen and reviewed:
Triumph of the Will
Cube
Equus
The Departed
The Third Man
The Prestige
Requiem for a Dream
Metropolis
The next 70 films on my queue list:
A Scanner Darkly
24 Hour Party People
Dead Ringers
Mimic
Storytelling
The Passion of Ayn Rand
Party Monster
The Squid and the Whale
Primer
Alphaville
Time Bandits
Zardoz
The Man Who Fell To Earth
The Short Films of David Lynch
Chinatown
Ran
The Maltese Falcon
Rosemary's Baby
Y Tu Mama Tambien
La Dolce Vita
Mysterious Skin
From Hell
The New World
Velvet Goldmine
Westworld
The Omega Man
Silent Running
The 39 Steps
Deliverance
The Deer Hunter
Badlands
Quadrophenia
The Animatrix
RKO 281
The Day The Earth Stood Still
The Andromeda Strain
Serenity
Soylant Green
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Vertigo
The Man Who Would Be King
Lawrence of Arabia
Midnight Cowboy
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Gods and Monsters
Bound
Jacob's Ladder
Swimming Pool
Meet the Feebles
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Cabaret
Last Tango in Paris
I Am Curious
The Fountain
Spider
The Triplets of Belleville
The Weather Underground
Goodbye, Lenin!
Wings of Desire
Rashomon
Young Adam
Steamboy
Psychopathia Sexualis
The Virgin Suicides
Secretary
Absolute Beginners
The Falcon and the Snowman
Me and You and Everyone We Know
The Naked City
Kontroll
It's true that I monitor an insane amount of blogs each day through my news reader, close to 400 of them now; and also true that I almost never share the list online, in that it's so large and unwieldly. Anyway, a friend here in Chicago recently was asking if I could recommend some ultra-great blogs to him; I ended up on a roll, listing and briefly describing my favorite 59. As long as the list was typed already and all, I thought I'd post it here at my personal blog as well, for those who might be interested. Enjoy!
MOVIES/TV/ARTS
CHUD: Info on latest cult films
Tim Goodman: SF Chronicle's TV critic
The Sound of Young America: Indie-rock, edgy comedians
Onion AV Club staff blog: stuff you don't see in the paper version
Facets Multimedia: Staff blog about indie films
IFC blog: from the staff of the Independent Film Channel
TECH/COMPUTERS/INDUSTRY NEWS
Gizmodo
MAKE
GigaOM
TechCrunch
Valleywag
Coding Horror
Creative Bits
Cult of the Dead Cow
Freemacware
Logic + Emotion
37 Signals staff blog
CULTURE/WEIRD
IKEAHacker: Doing new things with IKEA furniture
Lifehacker: Personal productivity
43 Folders: Personal productivity
CTA Chair: Personal blog by head of the CTA
Re-Imagineering: Disney Animation employees bitch about the corporatization of Disney theme parks
TibTec: Group building ad-hoc wireless network for exiled Tibetans in India
Gapers Block: Chicago cultural guide
Time Out: Chicago
Chicagoland Bicycle Federation:
Boing Boing: Underground culture and absurdist political activism
YesButNoButYes: Pop culture
10 Zen Monkeys: Edgy pop/sci-fi culture
Green Bean: Profiles of environmentally-friendly cutting-edge Chicago architectural projects
COMICS/IMAGES
ACT-I-VATE
Penny Arcade
Player Versus Player
Savage Chickens
Wondermark
XKCD
Cute Overload
John K, creator of Ren & Stimpy
Drunken Stepfather
Fickr Blog
Gallery of the Absurd
I Can Has Cheezburger
Looper
PERSONAL BLOGS
Author Warren Ellis
Screenwriter Ken Levine
Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn
Author Bruce Sterling
Tech veteran Jason Calacanis
Tech veteran Dave Winer
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark
Chicago poet Daniel X. O'Neil
Fimoculous: Lots of great links to interesting things
Author William Gibson
NYT columnist and author Malcolm Gladwell
Hiphop DJ and podcaster Julien Smith
Filmmaker Kevin Smith
Author Neil Gaiman
Chicago author and dark humorist Dan Kelly
Author and actor Wil Wheaton
And anyone who'd like to see all 400 feeds I read each day can of course click here.
