movies i’ve never seen

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Almost exactly ten years ago I launched a new series on The Knight Shift: Movies I’ve Never Seen.  It’s just what it suggests.  I would watch a movie that until now I’ve not beheld before and write about it.  It would be an attempt to fill in the many gaps that exist in my personal motion picture database.  It would be contributing to the cultural dialogue.  And it would be a lot of fun.

Well, that new series until now has had one… and only one… entry: my viewing of The Big Lebowski.  And then like with so many other things at the time the wind was just lacking in my sails.  It was a few months after Dad passed and I was still reeling from that.  I was also trying to maintain some income as a freelance technical writer.  And failing miserably at writing my book (which ...

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This is the first installment of something that I’ve had in mind to do for a few years now.  I think this is going to be a fun new feature of The Knight Shift.

Here’s the deal: my DVR is loaded… and I mean loaded… with movies that for some reason or another I’ve never watched before in my entire life.  They’ve just been sitting there, waiting for me to take the time to partake of them.  And as time goes by and especially as I find my knowledge of films has some significant gaps in it, I increasingly find myself wondering “what the heck’s in there?”

So I’m finally going to see what these movies are about, and then share my thoughts about them here on this blog.  This is going to be an ongoing if irregular feature, but I’ll try to do it at least once a ...

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I cannot remember the last time that a movie has so captivated me, that the next day I am still overwhelmingly enchanted by its beauty, its grandeur, and its sense of humanity.

 Hugo came out late last year, but until last night I
knew precious little about it save for some of its cast and that it was
directed by Martin Scorsese. And that it was based on a book. And that it was in 3-D. Maybe that was one reason why I didn’t see it in theaters earlier, because truth be told I have become exhausted with the 3-D fad. Too much use of it in places where it shouldn’t be used at all.

After watching Hugo for the first time however, I am kicking myself for not catching it during its theatrical run. I would pay good money just to watch that very first shot of the ...

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Last week I said that there were two new features coming to this blog: Movies I’ve Never Seen and A Sermon A Week. And the plan was to kick them off this past Sunday.

Obviously that didn’t transpire according to plan.

It was bad timing more than anything else. This past weekend I was doing the last few performances of our community theatre guild’s production of Gypsy. And then some other stuff happened and the new stuff got pushed to the backburner.

I’m now hoping to do the first Movies I’ve Never Seen sometime this coming week, and A Sermon A Week next Sunday. The stuff that’s on my plate should have cleared off by then for me to give it the attention that it deserves. I’m not worried about Movies I’ve Never Seen, except that I just have to figure out which movie that I’ve never seen ...

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As if the Being Bipolar series wasn’t enough: I’m about to put even more on this blog on a regular basis!

(Maybe it has something to do with the recent redesign of this place, that it’s just demanding lots of new content…? 🙂

The first is something that I’ve had in mind since Christmas, and is coming out of some necessity but also I think it’ll be a lot of fun: Movies I’ve Never Seen! It’s like this: my DVR is fast filling up with stuff that I’ve recorded from TCM and some other channels. And I haven’t seen them yet. Like, not ever. Even though most of these are movies that I’ve heard of all my life! Well, I’m going to begin watching them, and posting reviews of them here. Expect that to start up sometime this week.

And then, there is something that… is going to be ...

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