My name is Wes Huizar and for as long as I can remember, I've been a cinephile. Cinema is my life. For the longest time, I wanted to be a filmmaker. As you can probably guess, that didn't exactly turn out the way I imagined. That said, even though my dream of becoming a filmmaker eventually shriveled up and died, my love and passion for film never left me. As I got a real job and got married, the time that I devoted to watching films became less and less. I also started a Facebook group with one of my friends which has become pretty successful, so all of the time and energy that I normally would've devoted to watching film was instead devoted to talking about film with other people. The more I talked about film, the less I watched film, and eventually I found myself not being able to keep up with a lot of conversations. To make matter worse, when I was watching film, instead of watching the films that I loved for so many years, I was instead watching the latest blockbusters and flavor-of-the-week films. I also got heavily involved in watching a lot of television shows (which, by the way, isn't a bad thing. Television is, at the moment, better than it has ever been). To say that I got away from my passion would be an understatement. Film was barely registering in my life, even though my passion for it remained. Eventually I said enough was enough and made up my mind to reconnect with film. That's where this blog comes in.
With a lot of other film blogs (and there are many), most people are content to just write film reviews and maybe their random thoughts on certain pictures. I don't want to do that. I want my blog to be a little bit more than that. That's not to say I won't write movie reviews, but that's not really my vision for this blog. I want to take a trip through time. I want to start with the birth of motion pictures -- June 19, 1878 to be exact -- and work my way up to the modern era, watching every important film in chronological order (or in as chronological order as I can manage), record my thoughts on each film, and give some background information to gain a better perspective on what was going on in cinema during that time. Hopefully, it will be as educational for you as it is for me. It is my hope that you will go on this journey through film with me.
And with that, I will leave you with this parting shot -- the very first film ever made -- The Horse in Motion, by Eadweard Muybridge, filmed on June 19, 1878.
