First, Some Exposition

For the last few days, I've been thinking of some fun semi-regular feature that I could do for this blog. Then I realized that I could simply combine it with a fun film project that I'm already doing. Several years ago, I decided to watch all of the films that have won Academy Award for Best Picture and also all the films that are on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies list from 1997, plus the twenty-three additional films that made AFI's updated 2007 list.

So as I watch movies that fall into those categories, I'll post about them. I would promise analytic essays that invoke intelligent discussion, but most likely the posts will consist of me saying "I like this movie" twelve different ways, namedropping, and musing pseudo-intellectually about that one sentence of Rousseau that I remember. Hell, I may resort to fanfic. I mean, the market could be ripe for the sequel I've written for Casablanca, a buddy picture following Rick and Louis as they drive from Casablanca to Cairo to meet up with one of Rick's old girlfriends.