Ten Films I Like About Memory

Apropos of nothing, I have made a video of me talking about movies that I like which deal with memory, or specifically, memory loss (and its opposite).

I guess sometimes I feel like talking about things more than writing about them.

101 Movies That I Love the Most – Part Four [25-01]

So lately I made a Youtube video, for the first time (I’ve made films before, and put them on Youtube, but I never made a video specifically to just say stuff on Youtube) in which I share my 101 Films That I Love the Most. You can see the video and read all about it here.

In addition to making this video, I thought I’d also share it in writing—for easy reference in case you or I don’t feel like listening to me talk about this over 40 minutes of real time.

47 Great Movie Moments #33 – Dark City

And we continue with this series of 47 moments in film that I love. (Why 47?).  For #33, we look at the second film in a row whose title is two four letter words!

Dark City (1998)

47 Movie Blogs #47 – Great Movie Moments Where Victory is Snatched from the Jaws of Defeat

An exciting victory by the hero–one that is clever, resourceful and maybe most of all, unexpected–is one of my favorite things about a good adventure story.  For this post, I’ve been asked to write about some of the best ones.

47 Movie Blogs #33 – Movies About Memory

Today we are talking about movies about memory, something that lots of movies have dealt with in one way or another, for both dramatic and comedic effect.

47 Movie Blogs #3 – Five Movies with Fake Arms

“What?  What sort of crazy topic is this?” I cry to my friend Jo.  Except that I am kidding, I actually came up with it myself.  In fact, it might have been a bit of an inspiration for the general list that Jo is working from to select each subject for this blog series.

11 Fan Theories about movies that will completely blow your mind and reshape the way you look at life and reality itself

Fan theories!  We love ’em!  They take movies that we love (or not), that someone created and slaved over, and add whole other layers of meaning and depth to them that often the film maker’s never intended.  And sometimes…dare we say it…they make the movies better than the producers could ever have done on purpose.

Here are eleven that are absolutely guaranteed to reshape not just how you see the movie, but life itself.

And because I’m exercising some level of self-control, only a few of these are about Star Wars.