Any interest in a weekly movie discussion?
With some inspiration from the Album of the Week over in ~music I was thinking of having something similar for movies. A weekly discussion on a specific movie - we just need to find a selection format that works. We already have a fine weekly thread with free for all discussion, but I was thinking more like a movieclub type thing.
I was thinking a format where every Monday a new topic is created for a specific movie, and the first Monday of the month it will also include the titles for the rest of the month.
The big problem is how to select the movies and what considerations to availability on various streaming services should be done. Which is not easy since the catalog isn't even the same across countries for the same service. I would like there is some element of random discovery, but with some intent of finding quality titles.
I personally enjoy older classics and film festival type movies such as what is on The Criterion Channel and to an extent Mubi. They also have the benefit of being curated services with monthly selections we could simply piggyback on. But maybe that is a bit too niche. There are of course tons of various "best movies of all time"-lists to use and the 1001 movies you must see before you die would be a good candidate to get a mix of all time classics and some titles that aren't mainstream.
We could also do various thematic selections based on decade, genre, director or actors, but I really just want to get started and see how the traction is.
Feel free to chime in if you are interested and have suggestions on how we could choose the movies to watch, and hopefully I can get this thing started Monday the 30th of October.
I would participate in these threads ... depends somewhat (of course) on the movie each week, but generally, yeah.
I would tentatively suggest twin weekly threads, one thread discussing the current movie, the other thread voting on next week's movie, where anyone can nominate any movie they want to discuss, and everyone votes for the movie(s) they'd like to discuss.
Personally, however we choose, I would prefer some kind of bias towards less well-known films ... I don't (necessarily) mean bizarre French avant garde silent black-and-white arthouse things ... just please not the latest Marvel blockbuster every week.
While I can see benefits of voting, I am not overly keen on it. It adds an extra thing that needs facilitating each week and also removes the random discovery part a bit. Also harder to facilitate your second wish. Unless perhaps the voting is not free for all but based on something narrower.
Maybe a weekly ask.survey about what films people have watched this week and then over the next few days someone can curate from that list to facilitate something more specific.
This way more people can curate, gauge interest in about a specific title, and if someone wants to have a discussion about a specific film they can do so.
that already kinda happens: https://tildes.net/~movies/1bfu/midweek_movie_free_talk