{"id":13095,"date":"2010-12-15T16:07:03","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T21:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/?p=13095"},"modified":"2010-12-15T16:09:46","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T21:09:46","slug":"the-films-of-2010-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/the-films-of-2010-retrospective\/","title":{"rendered":"The Films of 2010 Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-filmography.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"2010-filmography\" width=\"550\" height=\"242\" class=\"centered size-full wp-image-13107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-filmography.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-filmography-290x128.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-filmography-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-filmography-454x200.jpg 454w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"movie\">T<\/span>here&#8217;s not much I love more than a well-done montage, and this is one of the best I&#8217;ve seen recently. A thematically and visually arranged collage of 2010 releases, both big and small, both good and not-so-good, giving a pretty comprehensive overview of the films of 2010 in a mere six minutes. And it&#8217;s truly a case where the whole becomes more than the sum of its parts, as the editor (genrocks on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/genrocks\">YouTube<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/genrocks\">Twitter<\/a>) uses snippets of dialogue here and there to create a great thematic rhythm and at times almost a narrative of the year. This is some incredible work. There&#8217;s a full list of the films used <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1wv-PfzG8aGp43ZF-vARPbcJaRRSJWJ8FXlMcQIrOiOo\/preview?hl=en&#038;pli=1&#038;sle=true#\">here<\/a>, but watch it first &#8211; it&#8217;s pretty cool to see how some of the clips you&#8217;ll recognize are used.<\/p>\n<div class=\"centered\"><object width=\"550\" height=\"334\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/I4dEWOB6THE?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s not much I love more than a well-done montage, and this is one of the best I&#8217;ve seen recently. A thematically and visually arranged collage of 2010 releases, both big and small, both good and not-so-good, giving a pretty comprehensive overview of the films of 2010 in a mere six minutes. And it&#8217;s truly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/2010-filmography.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3174,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/for-the-love-of-film-preservation-blogathon\/","url_meta":{"origin":13095,"position":0},"title":"For the Love of Film: Preservation Blogathon","author":"Jandy","date":"January 14, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I've toyed on and off (mostly off) with the idea of working with film preservation - actually physically restoring aging films frame by frame before time and the elements destroy them. 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