01-18-10: Added Journal entry: Alain Resnais (French Film Directors) by Emma Wilson.
12-28-09: Added Journal entry: Marguerite Duras (French Film Directors) by Renate Günther.
12/14 - 12/16/09: Added Journal entries from Spanish Cinema Now:
Los Condenados (Isaki Lacuesta),
Torero (Carlos Velo),
Almadrabas (Carlos Velo and Fernando G. Mantilla),
Moroccan Romance (Carlos Velo and Enrique Domínguez Rodiño).
11-25-09: Added Notes: Teen Kanya (Satyajit Ray).
11-21-09: Added Journal entry: The Overcoat (Alberto Lattuada).
11-15-09: Added Notes: Liverpool (Lisandro Alonso).
09/30 - 10/18/09: Added Journal entries from New York Film Festival:
Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar),
Bluebeard (Catherine Breillat),
White Material (Claire Denis),
Mother (Bong Joon-ho),
36 Views of Saint-Loup Peak (Jacques Rivette),
Life During Wartime (Todd Solondz),
The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke),
Everyone Else (Maren Ade),
Min Yè (Soulaymane Cissé),
Ne Change Rien (Pedro Costa),
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea),
Sweet Rush (Andzej Wajda),
Independencia (Raya Martin),
Ghost Town (Zhao Dayong),
Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu),
Vincere (Marco Bellocchio),
Kanikosen (Sabu),
Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl (Manoel de Oliveira),
Sweetgrass (Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor),
Les Herbes folles (Alain Resnais).
09-23-09: Added Notes: Wife! Be Like a Rose! (Mikio Naruse).
08-23-09: Added Notes: Paria (Nicolas Klotz).
08-16-09: Added Notes: La Vie moderne (Raymond Depardon).
08-02-09: Added Notes: On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time (Guy Debord).
07-14-09: Added Notes: Racines (Richard Copans).
06-28-09: Added Journal entry: Cinema of the Other Europe: The Industry and Artistry of East Central European Film by Dina Iordanova.
06/05 - 06/11/09: Added Journal entries from Open Roads: New Italian Cinema:
Brave Men (Edoardo Winspeare),
Animated Passions: The Films of Urusula Ferrara (Ursula Ferrara),
The Sicilian Girl (Marco Amenta),
I Am Alive (Dino and Filippo Gentili).
06-04-09: Added Notes: Death on a Full Moon Day (Prasanna Vithanage).
05-20-09: Added Journal entry: Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s by Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano.
05/05 - 05/07/09: Added Journal entries from Forbidden Catalan Cinema Under Franco:
Lock-Out (Antoni Padrós),
Sexperiencias (José María Nunes),
Field for Men (Helena Lumbreras and Marià Lisa),
Long Journey to the Rage (Llorenç Soler),
52 Sundays (Llorenç Soler),
Happy Parallel (Enric Ripoli i Freixes and Josep Maria Ramon).
04/23 - 4/27/09: Added Journal entries from New Independent Cinema from China:
Good Cats (Ying Liang),
The Other Half (Ying Liang).
04-19-09: Added Journal entry: Refiguring Spain: Cinema/Media/Representation edited by Marsha Kinder.
04/14 - 04/16/09: Added Journal entries from New York African Film Festival:
Sex, Okra and Salted Butter (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun),
Sacred Places (Jean-Marie Téno),
The Prodigal Son (Kurt Orderson),
The Fighting Spirit (George Amponsah).
04-09-09: Added Notes: Dark Night of the Soul (Prasanna Vithanage).
03-30-09: Added Notes: The Pope's Toilet (César Charlone and Enrique Fernández).
03-23-09: Added Journal entry: Russian Critics on th Cinema of Glasnost edited by Michael Brashinsky and Andrew Horton.
03/09 - 03/15/09: Added Journal entries from Rendez-vous with French Cinema:
Bellamy (Claude Chabrol),
Eden Is West (Costa-Gavras),
Villa Amalia (Benoît Jacquot),
With a Little Help from Myself (François Dupeyron),
The Beaches of Agnès (Agnès Varda),
Change of Plans (Danièle Thompson),
Versailles (Pierre Schöller),
The Girl from Monaco (Anne Fontaine).
02/25 - 03/03/09: Added Journal entries from Film Comment Selects:
Demon Lover Diary (Joel DeMott),
Seventeen (Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines),
The Frontier of Dawn (Philippe Garrel),
The Chaser (Na Hong-jin),
A Woman in Berlin (Max Färberböck),
The Third Generation (R. W. Fassbinder),
The Tiger'sTail (John Boorman),
Paradise (Michael Almereyda).
02-07-09: Added Notes: Septiembres (Carles Bosch).
01-21-09: Added Notes: L'Enfance nue (Maurice Pialat).
01-05-09: Added Notes: Innisfree (José Luis Guerín).
11/24 - 12/17/08: Added Journal entries from Spanish Cinema Now:
Casual Day (Max Lemcke),
Rated-R (Dunia Ayaso and Félix Sabroso),
The Sixth Sense (Nemesio M. Sobrevila and Eusebio Fernández Ardavín),
Fiction (Cesc Gay),
Pudor (David Ulloa and Tristán Ulloa).
12-15-08: Added Journal entry: The Sky Crawlers (Mamoru Oshii).
12/06/08: Added Journal entries from Teuvo Tulio Retrospective:
The Way You Wanted Me (Teuvo Tulio),
Song of the Scarlet Flower (Teuvo Tulio).
11-17-08: Added Notes: L'Arbre mort (Joseph Morder).
11-11-08: Added Notes: Quem és tu? (João Botelho).
11-02-08: Added Journal entry: Disintegration in Frames by Pavle Levi.
10-29-08: Added Notes: Eros Plus Massacre (Yoshishige Yoshida).
09/28 - 10/20/08: Added Journal entries from New York Film Festival:
Serbis (Brillante Mendoza),
Bullet in the Head (Jaime Rosales),
Tulpan (Sergey Dvortsevoy),
Let It Rain (Agnès Jaoui),
It's Hard Being Loved by Jerks (Daniel Leconte),
Chouga (Darezhan Omirbaev),
A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin),
Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa),
The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel),
Four Nights with Anna (Jerzy Skolimowski),
Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo),
Lola Montès (Max Ophüls),
24 City (Jia Zhang-ke).
10-07-08: Added Journal entries from Views from the Avant Gardel:
Novel City (Leslie Thornton),
Horizontal Boundaries (Pat O'Neill),
America Is Waiting (Bruce Connor),
New York Lantern (Ernie Gehr),
Sarabande (Nathaniel Dorsky),
Winter (Nathaniel Dorsky).
09-21-08: Added Notes: Bucharest, Memory Lost (Albert Solé).
09-13-08: Added Notes: No, or the Vain Glory of Command (Manoel de Oliveira).
09-05-08: Added Notes: Hear My Cry (Maciej Drygas).
• End of the Year Favorites: 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001.
• Pillow List - 2006.
• Cinemarati 100 Canon.
| Film Related Reading Notes (in alphabetical order) |
• Alain Resnais by James Monaco.
• Alain Resnais (French Film Directors) by Emma Wilson.
• The Anarchy of the Imagination: Interviews, Essays, and Notes by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
• Chasing the Truth: The Films of Mrinal Sen by John. W. Hood.
• Childhood Days, A Memoir by Satyajit Ray.
• Cinema Interval by Trinh T. Minh-ha.
• Claire Denis by Judith Mayne.
• BFI Modern Classics: A City of Sadness by Bérénice Reynaud.
• Chris Marker: Memories of the Future by Catherine Lupton.
• Cinema of the Other Europe: The Industry and Artistry of East Central European Film by Dina Iordanova.
• Contemporary Film Directors: Abbas Kiarostami by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum.
• Close Up - Iranian Cinema: Past, Present and Future by Hamid Dabashi.
• DEFA East German Cinema, 1946-1992 edited by Seán Allan and John Sandford.
• Disintegration in Frames: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Cinema by Pavle Levi.
• Double Vision: My Life in Film by Andrzej Wajda.
• Editions Dis Voir: Bruno Dumont by Sébastien Ors, Philippe Tancelin, and Valérie Jouve.
• Editions Dis Voir: Tsai Ming Liang by Olivier Joyard, Jean-Pierre Rehm, and Danièle Revière.
• Editions Dis Voir: Wong Kar Wai by Jean-Marc Lalanne, David Martinez, Ackbar Abbas, and Jimmy Ngai.
• Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema by David Desser
• The Essential Mystery: The Major Filmmakers of Indian Art Cinema by John W. Hood.
• The Films of Oshima Nagisa: Images of a Japanese Iconoclast by Maureen Turim.
• The Films of Theo Angelopoulos: A Cinema of Contemplation by Andrew Horton.
• Film: The Front Line - 1983 by Jonathan Rosenbaum.
• Harun Farocki: Working on the Sight-Lines edited by Thomas Elsaesser.
• Indecent Exposures: Buñuel, Saura, Erice and Almodóvar by Gwynne Edwards.
• Japanese Film Directors by Audie Bock.
• Marguerite Duras (French Film Directors) by Renate Günther
• The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos edited by Andrew Horton.
• Manoel de Oliveira by Randal Johnson.
• My Only Great Passion: The Life and Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer by Jean Drum and Dale D. Drum.
• My Years With Apu, A Memoir by Satyajit Ray.
• Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s by Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano.
• Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday by Ivone Margulies.
• Our Films, Their Films by Satyajit Ray.
• Ozu by Donald Richie.
• Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s by Donald Kirihara.
• Poetics of Cinema 2 by Raúl Ruiz.
• Questions of Third Cinema edited by Jim Pines and Willemen.
• Radical Juxtaposition: The Films of Yvonne Rainer by Shelley Green.
• Refiguring Spain: Cinema/Media/Representation edited by Marsha Kinder.
• Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History edited by Arthur Nolletti Jr. and David Desser.
• Rows and Rows of Fences - Ritwik Ghatak on Cinema by Ritwik Ghatak.
• Russian Critics on th Cinema of Glasnost edited by Michael Brashinsky and Andrew Horton.
• Shohei Imamura (Cinematheque Ontario Monographs, No. 1) edited by James Quandt.
• Speaking the Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer by Raymond Carney.
• Split Screen: Belgian Cinema and Cultural Identity by Philip Mosley.
• History Repeating (AFI Fest Daily News, October 31, 2009).
• Where are the Snows of Yesteryear? Hong Sang-soo Searches for Lost Time in Woman is the Future of Man (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 33).
• A Divine Tragedy: Kim Ki-duk Searches for Redemption in The Samaritan Girl (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 32).
• Theo Angelopoulos (Senses of Cinema, Great Directors series).
• A City of Sadness (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 26).
• An Actor's Revenge (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 25).
• Mass-Produced Alienation: Disposable Lives in Made in Hong Kong (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 24).
• Life of Oharu (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 22).
• Carl Theodor Dreyer (Sense of Cinema, Great Directors series).
• The Naked Truth, Demystifying the Void of Intimacy (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 19).
• Nostalghia (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 15).
• Blue (Senses of Cinema, The Cinema of Wong Kar-wai - A 'Writing Game', Issue No. 13).
• Unsentimental Journey: A Glimpse into the Cinema of Mikio Naruse (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 12).
• Music of a Frozen Heart: Love and Disharmony in Un Coeur en Hiver (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 10).
• Through the Olive Trees: Life as Art...as Life (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 9).
• The Exterminating Angel (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 8).
• Tierra: The Exterminator, Angel (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 8).
• Death in France: Liebestod and The Green Room (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 6).
• Solaris: Exploring the Frontier of the Subconscious (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 4).
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