Welcome to Seeing Double
Double features in your inbox. Every week.
The idea of the double feature has always fascinated me. It can be hard enough these days to convince people to sit still long enough to engage with one movie, let alone two back-to-back. But even in our booked and busy modern world, the idea has continued to persist in some form. There’s a simple pleasure that comes from seeing two films linked together in unexpected ways, whether it’s seeing them programmed at a local cinema or just coming out of those excited conversations that come after watching something that really struck you. “Oh wow, that really reminded me of…” is one of the most blissful starts to a sentence I can think of. I love how movies inspire discovery and continued conversation, how just a simple link between two of them in your brain can send you down a rabbit hole of film history and even get you thinking about the world in a different lens. That’s why I’m starting Seeing Double, a newsletter that will bring you a new double feature to watch every week, straight to your inbox.
The films featured in Seeing Double won’t follow any self-imposed rules or guidelines. They’ll be little duos of whatever feels right to me for that week, whether they’re tied into a new release or something happening in the world that I think the films can speak to. In addition to whatever double features I end up programming, this will be a freefrom space to share whatever’s on my mind and also what you’re interested in sharing with people right now. I want this newsletter to have a collaborative feel, where each week I’m not the only one leading the conversation. Have an idea for a double feature of your own? Want to suggest a film that you’ll feel inspire one? Have a take on a recent bit of news that you want to tie a film into? It’s all up to you. Shoot me an email or a DM on Twitter and let’s chat about how whatever is on your brain can make it into the newsletter next time around. The joy of a project like this comes from sharing, so the more you do of it the better!
For now Seeing Double will be totally free, so the best way you can support it is to subscribe, share it with your friends, and engage with it in any way you see fit. My hope for starting this is that we all get a little bit happiness and knowledge out of what we’ll watch together, reminding ourselves of the value of film and working towards erasing that ugly nickname “content” from its identity. Most importantly I hope it’ll inspire you to sit down for a few hours, put your feet up, and go to another world for awhile. We all deserve that.
See you at the movies,
Ryan