I just feel terrible. So, I've had FilmStruck for a few months now and have been using it every once and awhile. I watched The Mirror and The Bicycle Thieves yesterday, but as I wrote this blog, I almost forgot that I had also watched Bicycle Thieves! One might say: "well The Mirror is just so powerful both visually and narratively, you just forgot the more tame BT." Nope, The Mirror was a dreamlike, visual masterpiece, but now that I'm thinking about it, I remember liking BT better, especially as a first-year law student who is thinking about what motivates others to commit crime on an almost daily basis. BT is subtler, but contains a much more fully realized, albeit complex, moral.
With this in mind, I feel like, even though I titled this blog: "Briggs' Music" I should use it to better retain the memory of the great films I've seen. Also, I just don't want to make a different blog cuz I don't feel like it. I went on listchallenges.com and checked how many of the Sight and Sound films I've watched. It was 82, a pretty respectable number at age 26. Four-stars. But there are some that I had trouble with. Have I seen Casablanca? Have I seen Gone With The Wind? I feel like I have, but I don't remember much about these films. So I didn't count them, I set a new goal that I have wanted to do for a while: watch every film on Sight and Sound's critic's list of 250 greatest films of all time and write my thoughts on each of them.
The thoughts will not be very deep. They will probably not be very long. But I want to do it so I can feel like I'm getting something more out of watching these movies than wasting 1-4 hours of my day. No one will probably want to read them so I might also give them a numerical score, just in case anyone ever feels like checking this blog out. That's it. I'm going to start by writing about The Mirror and Bicycle Thieves and then start from scratch (although I definitely won't be watching them in order). I might also include some thoughts on films from other lists I like like Ebert's, Scaruffi's, or Cinema Scene's. That's it.
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