zedz wrote:RBMs (Really Big Motherfuckers) – There are some huge sets that I’m never going to be able to churn through in anything like consecutive sittings. I’m still only about halfway through Flicker Alley’s fantastic Melies set, but I keep it close by and every so often plough through more of it when I’m in the mood.
The Melies box is a real problem for me, since it's so damn massive (in quantity terms) and thus difficult to remember just where you left off last time. For a while (the first two discs, IIRC), I kept it out next to my movie-watching chair as a constant nagging reminder that I needed to pop in the current disc while the DVD player could still remember where it had stopped the last time. Then, after disc 2, I got wrapped up in the BFI's
Free Cinema, and for a while it sat on top of Melies. Now both are back on the shelf, and the current plow-through-it-when-time-permits* box is
Unseen Cinema.
I keep my kevyip (which, I'm grateful to learn, is less than many of yours at a mere 48 titles with five more on order) much like Domino described, but in my current configuration it's in another room and out of sight, so the satisfaction of sliding the disc back into place is less than it once was. Plus only the acquisitions since late May are still in shelvable form; the first 1200 or so are packed into notebooks that my cross-country move demanded, and there's a few loyal kevyippies buried in there (e.g., the aforementioned Elvis docos.) So I keep a handy list of the kevyip constituency, along with running times, on my computer (as an adjunct to the master list with the random title selector), and that is generally what I work off for the nightly movie. Although like many, I'm focusing on titles from this decade for the lists project, I purposely try to mix up my viewing in terms of director, genre, and vintage, at least a little bit, to keep from getting stale. Exceptions must be made for special circumstances, however; for example, I had to conduct a private mini-festival in honor of my avatar after her death a month ago.
There is one final variable that enters the formula, one I am somewhat hesitant to mention. I made a decision some time ago to post 140-character review blurbs on
Twitter for each movie I watch. Thus, when I'm deciding between, say,
L'Eclisse or
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise, one factor is "do I really want the Twitterverse to know that I watched
that?"
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I don't want to give the impression that any of these boxes are anything less than fabulous. They're hard work, but hard work can be fun, or so they tell me.