Arise, dead blog!

Obviously, I haven't been very good at keeping up with this blog; it's been over a year since my last post. A lot of things have happened since then; I finished my senior year in college, became interested in the New Hollywood era, discovered Tumblr, and discovered that finding a job is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Except the pieces of hay will also prick you with the pain of disappointment and the needle may or may not actually exist.

I decided to revive this blog because I've become more interested in keeping up with current films (although I still have a metric ton of past films I should have watched already). I've been writing film posts on my personal tumblr, but because of the more...frivolous things I also post on there, I wanted to have a space solely dedicated to serious (or at least attempts to be serious) posts about film. I plan to double post my film posts both here and on my tumblr from now on, and since I'm unemployed, I totally don't have an excuse for not updating anymore! I'll start by copying some past posts I've made onto here.

What the hell is this all about? (Intro Post)

So welcome to Film Deprived! I'm a film studies about to go into my senior year of college, and I've called myself film deprived for a while because despite supposedly being a film scholar, I just really haven't seen nearly as many movies as I should have, the classics in particular. I've decided then to, with the help of Netflix, vastly increase the number of films I watch, and I plan to write something about each one I see.

I'm starting off by participating in a Nicolas Cage year-long marathon (see Deconstructing Cage) along with another effort on a film forum to get myself to watch some of the classics (and not so classics) that I've missed. When I go back to school, I might write more about more recent films; the town that I go to school in is a lot cheaper to go see a movie in than New York City.

Hopefully this'll be at least sort of interesting!