{"id":33551,"date":"2014-01-10T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/?p=33551"},"modified":"2014-01-10T09:56:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T17:56:50","slug":"blind-spots-look-back-and-looking-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/blind-spots-look-back-and-looking-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind Spots: Looking Back and Looking Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"

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T<\/span>his year I attempted to watch twelve films off my extensive Blind Spots list. I didn’t manage to watch them all, but you know what, that’s okay. I still watched several that I might otherwise not have gotten around to, so I’m ahead.<\/p>\n

There’s been some debate in the past couple of months over whether the whole Blind Spot project is worthwhile or not, stemming from Matt Brown’s post “Film is Not a Mission”<\/a> and tumbling into a really great Mamo episode<\/a> featuring Ryan McNeil<\/a>, who has been a big proponent of the Blind Spots series. I think Matt’s point that becoming too beholden to “canon” is fair, but I obviously still think it’s worthwhile to identify holes in your viewing you’d like to fill and make a concerted effort to do so, and that’s really what this is for me.<\/p>\n

That said, I did actually turn over part of my Blind Spot listmaking for 2014 to others, selecting a set of about 50 films that I consider Blind Spots and asking people to vote on which of those films they thought I should watch. But that’s really just crowdsourcing priority; I intend to watch all of the 50 films at some point.<\/p>\n

Anyway, since I blogged about even fewer of my 2013 selections than I watched, I’m going to run down the results of my 2013 viewing, then list what I’m planning to watch in 2014.<\/p>\n

What I Watched in 2013<\/h3>\n

My original watchlist<\/a> is as follows:<\/p>\n