This fucking site, god damnit.
Laz's son knows about this, but, let me share my film mission with you all.
A few months ago, Laz posted a link to a site called icheckmovies, where there are all sorts of best of lists, and you check which you've seen, etc. There is one list in particular, called "They Shoot Pictures, Don't They" which has slightly over 1,000 films on it, in some sort of ranked order. Not sure how the rankings were determined, but, suffice to say, it's obviously a list containing many great films. I decided to, while still watching new releases (Watched Sugar and The Hurt Locker yesterday) work my backwards through said list, starting with #1 and just keep going until I get tired of it or whatnot. I'll skip the ones I've seen already, of course. So, just started this over the weekend and I've watched Vertigo (yeah, never saw it before, fuck off) 8 1/2, and The Rules of the Game. The Searchers is up next, followed by Seven Samurai.
Before that, I watched all but one of Leone's films (Holy fuck, Once Upon a Time in the West was outstanding) and I also completed the Miyazaki-thon, minus Ponyo. I'll watch the missing film from both directors soon.
In the theaters, the only thing I've seen in the past month would be Shutter Island.
So that's what's going on with me cinematically. Besides that, not much else going on. Oh, wait, my girlfriend and I broke up and she moved out of the apartment. So, besides all these movies and that, not much else going on. Wait, have a grad school interview tomorrow, even though I'm likely not gonna stay in the Bay Area when my lease expires. So that's that. Forgot, heading to Spring Training with some friends next week for a few days, followed by a trip to Vegas. Followed by a 3-week Syracuse-NYC-Philly-DC-Chicago-Denver trip to see friends and family, assuming I don't get a part-time gig between now and then.
That's really it.