I hope nobody minds if I take just one more day off before returning to the messy business of blogging? Only it's so nice to have year end crunch season wrapped up, and I'm shaking the last of a cold off, and it's been so lovely to sleep a lot. A couple more catch-up reviews from 2012 are still in the wings, and the tragic return of Disney's direct-to-video sequels is coming along next week, and I'm going to kick off another freaking retrospective Saturday series day after tomorrow, this one that is by no means as comprehensive as most.
Incidentally, if anyone does mind, it doesn't actually matter, because I won't be coming back until tomorrow afternoon, when I review the wonderful, incredibly unsettling family drama Elena, which you have no excuse not to watch, because it's on Netflix, along the with the same director's equally wonderful, and unsettling in a whole different register The Return. Double your inscrutable Russian arthouse films, double your fun!
03 January 2013
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Thanks, Tim, for a good year in reviews. Hope you get better.
ReplyDeleteSo, another definition to add to what a BACKSON is - the feeling of tiredness that comes after a long and hard spell of industriously (and consistently) writing good things.
ReplyDelete(And considering how few people even seem to have seen it in 2011, I wonder how many of your readers get the joke of the title.)
Cheers.
This is why you're the best, Tim. The vast majority of movie critic blogs(hell, just more blogs period) regular updates could be like, one every few days, sometimes larger gaps then that. But I come to this website every day and there's always another great quality review of some obscure impenetrable European art film or special feature chronicling Disney straight-to-video sequels. And when they're isn't, you think you have to apologize!
ReplyDeleteMaybe they have those films on 'merican netflix but us Canucks are left out in the cold because of some stupid bandwidth laws we have (damn you Stephen Harper -- burn in hell!). Wow Tim, 2013. I've been reading your blog daily since 07. Six years? Don't ever stop doing what you do.
ReplyDeleteThe one downside to Antagony and Ecstacy is that I write for a website where I struggle to crank out about three-to-four thousand words a month, and seeing this site's paranormal update speed makes me feel consistently ashamed of myself. So you take as long of as you need, Tim.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Tim! If anyone has earned some rest, you have.
ReplyDeleteHey, I remember seeing The Return back in the day! I don't remember a lot about it, except that I think "inscrutable" was indeed the word I would have used.
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