If you have come to Projected Figures expecting accountancy, you are in the right place.
Accountancy is what film writers do: counting minutes, counting words, reducing all cinema’s abstract expressions to calibrations, evaluations and calculated formulae on a simplified, and simplifying, worksheet. Critics, you see, operate a kind of reverse-alchemy, transforming vibrant sights and sounds into bland verbiage and, if you’re lucky, the odd summary insight.
More importantly, though, all films are concerned, precisely, with projected figures. So this site is dedicated to those strange tropes and stranger creatures brought to shimmering life on the screen – for our awe, our amusement, and occasionally our alienation. Welcome!
Anton Bitel
May I take you up on your promise of accountancy and ask you how many films you think you have reviewed in your lifetime (approx) and how many reviews are included on this site (exact)? Thank you – J
On this site there are a little over 3000, and I reckon (though this is very, very approx) that there are probably about 1500 more of my reviews not published on this site (so maybe 4500 published in my lifetime). I started writing reviews in my early thirties, and regret not starting earlier…
Thank you! This is mind boggling. You are a modern day Leslie Halliwell. 👏🏼
Excellent work. I’d love to see this on Substack—it’s what it was made for.