{"id":17440,"date":"2015-04-06T18:46:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T08:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=17440"},"modified":"2015-04-06T18:46:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T08:46:17","slug":"the-classic-movies-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=17440","title":{"rendered":"The Classic Movies Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"casablanca\"<\/a><\/p>\n

O<\/span>ne of the proudest accomplishments I associate with The FAT Website is its sheer longevity and the breadth of content it has accumulated in that time. \u00a0Sixteen years, over two thousand posts and over five hundred\u00a0reviews spanning film, television, video games and whisky. \u00a0The film reviews remain my most passionate writing subject. \u00a0One day I’d like to catch Roger Ebert’s milestone of 10,000 movie reviews. \u00a0In truth, I’ll fall well short of that. \u00a0I think I’d take 1,000.<\/p>\n

Yet if there’s one aspect of film reviewing I’d like to expand upon, its reviewing classic films. \u00a0The immediacy and contemporary nature of blogging and social media means that usually I’m writing about what I saw this week at the cinema. \u00a0So even though I’m sorta happy with having punched out 250 reviews, it also means I’ve written about\u00a0Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0but not about\u00a0Casablanca<\/em>. \u00a0I’ve written about the merits of\u00a0Jackass 3D<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>but not about what makes 12 Angry Men<\/i> so special to me. \u00a0I haven’t written about my favourite films nearly as much as I’d like.<\/p>\n

So I’d like to try and change that over the next couple of years. \u00a0That doesn’t mean I’ll stop writing about new release\u00a0films. \u00a0I’ll still make time for that. \u00a0But my aim is to try and knock out a couple of classic film reviews each month. \u00a0Going back to stuff like Alfred Hitchcock’s\u00a0The 39 Steps\u00a0<\/em>[1935] to more recent fare like\u00a0Jurassic Park [1993]<\/em>. \u00a0I may not catch Ebert for total reviews written but one day I’d like my collection of classic film reviews to rival the quantity of his Great Movies essays. \u00a0He did 300 of ’em.<\/p>\n

\"vertigo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

To help work out where to start and what to watch, this weekend I penned my hundred favourite films of all time. \u00a0I didn’t do very well. \u00a0I couldn’t narrow it down to less than 150. \u00a0So I’ll start by writing\u00a0about the films that made my list this weekend. \u00a0They include the likes of\u00a0The Third Man, Mr Smith Goes To Washington, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Rear Window<\/em> and The Invisible Man<\/i>. \u00a0Then there’s\u00a0Psycho, Harvey, Mutiny on the Bounty\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Lawrence of Arabia<\/em>. \u00a0More recently, I’m looking forward to revisiting the likes of\u00a0Fargo, Die Hard, Grave of the Fireflies<\/em> and\u00a0Slingblade<\/em>.<\/p>\n

My first milestone will be posting a list of my hundred favourite films of all time with a review for every entry. \u00a0Once I get there, I’ll aim for a Top 500 list.<\/p>\n

Wish me luck!<\/p>\n

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