They're here! They're here!

Please take off your coat. Make yourself at home. Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag; there's an extra toothbrush in the bathroom.

This blog will be a public display for both peers and school administrators in my progress during my Independent Study Project. 

An Independent Study Project (to which I will henceforth refer to as ISP), for those outside of the Pingry population, is a 5-week span of time during which our school respects the senior's right to not do any work (considering its lack of worth) and gives us the "freedom" to pick a project of our own. For my ISP, I proposed a 5-week journey into the realm of classic film, holing myself in a random classroom for hours at a time and rotting my brain with endless amounts of 50's, 60's, and 70's cinema. By some stroke of luck, my advisors approved the plan, and here I am.

Beginning on Monday, April 28, I will be posting reviews, critiques, and general musings about movies that I will be watching. I have a very detailed schedule that will probably need to be changed around a bit considering inconveniences presented by Improv Comedy classes in New York City and Advanced Placement exams. As of now, however, my list includes (but will not be limited to) the following movies:

• 12 Angry Men
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• 8 1/2
• Affair to Remember, An
• Breakfast At Tiffany's
• Citizen Kane
• Day The Earth Stood Still, The
• Gentleman's Agreement
• Gold Rush
• Good, The Bad, & The Ugly, The
• High Noon
• Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
• It's A Wonderful Life
• King Kong
• Lawrence Of Arabia
• Modern Times
• Philadelphia Story, The
• Psycho
• Rear Window
• Seven Samurai
• She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
• Singin' In The Rain
• Some Like It Hot
• Spartacus
• To Kill A Mockingbird
• Touch Of Evil
• Vertigo
• War Of The Worlds

Upon including this list in a Facebook note, I incited a comment riot of sorts. As such, I have in great surplus a variety of potential films that will be completing this list at a later time.

Anyway, this post will remain lonely for the next 3 weeks or so. In fact, I really only started this blog now so that I knew I would have the URL, and because it seemed more worthwhile than studying for my Les Jeux Sont Faits test and completing my Freedom journal on Camus' The Stranger.

So it goes.