Greetings, listeners!
First of all, a very Happy New Year to everyone. We hope you had a relaxing end to 2013 with plenty of festive film viewing and are getting geared up for another great year of movies.
2013 proved to be a bit of a frustrating year for Movie Matters in terms of our releasing schedule. Despite our frequent and absolutely sincere promises, unavoidable real-life events beyond our control intervened, resulting in us being less productive than we'd hoped to be. Despite this, we did manage to spearhead a couple of new initiatives, namely Lee's Movie Matters [Mono] and [Music] solo offerings.
As we move into 2014, both Lee and myself are approaching the podcast with renewed vigour and endeavour to bring you as many shows as we are able. We appreciate and are inspired by our listeners' appraisal of Movie Matters as 'quality rather than quantity', and thank you all for your patience and continued support. Our first major milestone will be to get out our much-belated Halloween 2013 episode, featuring frequent guest Daniel Sardella, into public hands as soon as possible. The second will be to record and release our "Top 10 of 2013" episode.
The Top 10 episodes are something of a Movie Matters tradition -- we've done one every year since we started, and they've always proved to be interesting (and occasionally controversial) affairs. As with our previous Top 10s, we'd love it if as many listeners (and even non-listeners!) as possible could submit their own Top 10 lists, either in text or MP3 form. (If submitting an MP3, please try to keep it below five minutes in length.) The criteria for which films qualify for inclusion are yours to decide, though let us know what they are. (Some examples: released theatrically in your home country in 2013; released theatrically in the film's country of origin in 2013; released on DVD/Blu-ray in 2013.)
In addition to your Top 10 favourites list, we'd also be happy to hear what your biggest disappointment was or indeed what your worst film of the year was.
In addition to your Top 10 favourites list, we'd also be happy to hear what your biggest disappointment was or indeed what your worst film of the year was.
Please reply to this thread with your lists or send them to moviematterspodcast@gmail.com.
We look forward to hearing from you and to getting our voices back out there in the webisphere once again!
Best wishes,
Michael
As per usual my cinema outings have been scarce, but here are the 2013 UK cinema releases I enjoyed the most;
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2.Alan Partridge : Alpha Papa
3.Byzantium
4.Spirit of '45
5.Broken
6.The World's End
7.Gangster Squad
8. I Give It A Year
9. Les Miserables
10. Spike Island
Thanks, Mark!
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ReplyDeleteActually surprised myself, looks like I've caught more new releases than I originally imagined. Some of them aren't really critics faves (Spike Island, I Give It A Year, Gangster Squad) but I enjoyed them for all their respective flaws.
Some didn't make the cut; The Look of Love and the documentaries Utopia and McCullin, whilst A Field In England and Only God Forgives are two beautiful movies but hardly entertaining films.
I'm up to 60 films released in the UK in 2013 myself, hoping to reach at least 70 before I lock my list. So far, I've got ten films in my Top 10 that I'm pretty happy with, but everything below that is either fairly middling our downright disappointing, but a couple of absolute stinkers thrown in for good measure.
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