Of course, the extra workload has slowed down my pace on the Criterion Reflections blog. My goal now is to put up at least one post there each week, to balance my weekend deadline for the Eclipse column. This week I aim to put up two Reflections posts though since the films on my list (A Wind from the South and Night and Fog) are pretty short. We'll see how it goes though - I do work a fulltime job and have a family so I gotta pace myself sensibly!
The variable input from the Eclipse series (so many different eras, titles, filmmaking styles to choose from) has had a stimulating effect on my viewing and writing but I wonder if I will be able to maintain the same sense of watching film history unfold before me that I've experienced when immersing myself in the films of a particular year. I'm not worried about it - I think I've been applying myself to this task steadily enough over the past 18 months so that I can maintain continuity at CR even when I watch movies from outside the timeline I've set up there. And to that point, I also plan to weave some of my Eclipse reviews into the CR stream - beginnning this weekend, with Akira Kurosawa's I Live in Fear (1955) which would have fit right in after Night and Fog if it had been a regular Criterion release.
