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I’m Lauren, 25, librarian, film nerd. Add it up and you get TLC, for I’m very sure the same quirks led me to both a career in libraries and this, which more than a film blog is really a database of my experience with film, obsessively catalogued. It also aims to be more personal than professional, hence the life cinematic; ie I’m concerned with what a film does for me rather than what a film does for all film — so there’s a lot of slobbering over celebrities I fancy, aimless feminist screeds, and awfully self-indulgent ruminations on the meaning of life. Sometimes I pass this off as objective criticism.
Reviews, if you can call them that, are generally written in haste and most were originally posted on message boards for a certain audience. You will find inside jokes and references to people with strange names. And hardly any will pass for thorough analysis of a film; I collect a few thoughts (experience teaching me I will mostly forget a film within a year if I don’t) and watch another movie.
Review and score don’t always seem to correspond. The score — which I have come to value less, but keep as a way of organizing information — should be interpreted as my overall impression of a film. The review may not get to that at all. I can think of many films which I rate rather highly but appear to have only criticism for, and other films I rate critically but say nothing particularly against. It is that my reviews are not comprehensive, and I say only a few things that come to mind. Faults and pleasures are relative, too, so whatever I mean by that, y’know, bear it in mind.
I tend to get on obsessive kicks — see the projects section — and watch only a certain type of film for long stretches. If you enjoy reading my blog at all, you may only enjoy it periodically, then. As a broad statement, though, I watch a lot of classic Hollywood and all French cinema, try to keep up with highbrow new releases, and enjoy world cinema of all stripes from the 60s and 70s. Theoretically I am interested in everything, but these are areas that come up again and again.
I enjoy comments and recommendations, and if you blogroll me I’ll generally blogroll you: I love reading the thoughts of others who also take film very personally. Say hello!
TLC runs happily on WordPress, a heavily modified version of Sonny Parlin’s Conestoga Street theme, and the hosting prowess of Dreamhost. It looks best in Firefox, but perhaps that goes without saying; some attempts have been made to look presentable in IE, and I don’t know about no other stinkin’ browsers.
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I see you are changing this place up. Bold. I like your intro, but it should be shorter.
Comment by Mango — 1 May 2008 @ 1 May 2008Your face should be shorter.
I mean, thanks!
Comment by Lauren — 2 May 2008 @ 2 May 2008greetings from another librarian. I was directed to your site from the cinessu facebook page after inquiring about somewhere online that people discuss film for how it matters in a personal sense, as opposed to the rampant fanboy fetishism and academic paralysis of understanding. It seems a rarity for people to appreciate the ‘art’ value of film and elaborate on how one is transformed by it. Look forward to checking your blog out in detail and will definately blogroll it with mine. I am in a momentary hiatus from writing on my blog but I do perhaps write far more on rowthree (a very active film blog community that ’strives’ towards the aesthetic musing, but like most are somewhat servient to the next big thing).
Cheers
Comment by mike rot — 9 May 2008 @ 9 May 2008I just discovered your blog because someone linked to mine from yours - so first, thanks for adding “Allure” to the list, and secondly, what a great blog you have here. I’m surprised I haven’t come across it sooner. I will surely be checking back and will add it to the list of links on my blog.
Comment by Bob F — 13 May 2008 @ 13 May 2008