This is a contemplative documentary about the life's work of Alan Goble, a film fan from early childhood who achieved the impossible in adulthood: cataloguing every film ever made.
He did this first on paper, and then tape, and then CD-ROM and finally the internet, adapting his project to each emerging technology as the decades marched on. You are reading this review on a site which itself stands on the shoulders of Alan Goble.
The film is partly a record of how this mammoth task was achieved, and partly a study of the personality behind it. It's impossible to watch this film without thinking of everyone you know, and the traces that each of their loves will leave behind them.
He did this first on paper, and then tape, and then CD-ROM and finally the internet, adapting his project to each emerging technology as the decades marched on. You are reading this review on a site which itself stands on the shoulders of Alan Goble.
The film is partly a record of how this mammoth task was achieved, and partly a study of the personality behind it. It's impossible to watch this film without thinking of everyone you know, and the traces that each of their loves will leave behind them.
