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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
R.I.P. Molly Ivins
Didn't really read her stuff, but I was always glad she was there.
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Monday, January 29, 2007
Non-profit pharmacy opens in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine neighborhood
Not so much about prices -- as the article says, pharmacies don't make money off prescriptions -- but rather providing access to a pharmacy in a place without one, for the poorest residents of the city.
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Friday, January 26, 2007
Movies I watched all the way through last year:MOVIES 2006Key: (r) -- re-viewing
The March of the Penguins*
Dancehall Queen*
Where the Sidewalk Ends
A Summer at Grandpa's*
Platform (Zhantai)*
Newsfront (r)*
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Jeder fur sich und Gott gegen alle) (r)**
The Bad Sleep Well**
The Constant Gardener
Heart of Glass (Herz aus Glas) (r)**
Kontroll
Cure (Kyua) (r)*
Nowhere Man - disc 1 (series)
The Marriage Circle*
Vital**
Lessons of Darkness
Landscape in the Mist*
The Milky Way (La voie lacteau)
Common Ground (Lugares Comunes)*
Thumbsucker*
The Clash: Westway to the World*
Stranger Than Paradise (r)**
Somewhere in the Night
The Prefab People
Saving Face (2004, Wu)
Dust in the Wind*
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans**
The First World War (Channel 4 Series)**
La bete humaine**
The World (2004, Jia)*
Broken Flowers
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
The Waiting Time*
Seven Men From Now
The White Diamond
In Order Not To Be Here
Where the Truth Lies
Cafe Lumiere**
The Night Stalker (pilot) (r)
The Night Strangler (r)
Fela: Music Is the Weapon*
The Memory of a Killer (De Zaak Alzheimer)
The Sandbaggers*
Valley of the Bees (Udoli vcel)
Il Posto
Devils on the Doorstep*
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Squid and the Whale**
Grizzly Man**
Everything Is Illuminated
Marebito
Huff (season 1)*
Edvard Munch**
The Wind Will Carry Us*
Capote*
Stay (2005, Forster)
A Time to Live, A Time to Die (1985, Hou)**
Safe (1995, Haynes) (r)**
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (r)**
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (r)**
The House on Telegraph Hill
The Nomi Song*
Shaun of the Dead*
Alice in Wonderland (1966, Miller)*
Dersu Uzala*
A History of Violence*
Elevator to the Gallows
The Intruder (L'intrus)
Whisky*
Hoodwinked
The Chess Players (Shatranj Ke Khilari)
Tony Takitani
El Bruto (1953, Bunuel)*
The Tunnel (2001, Richter)
My Mother's Smile (L'Ora di religione)**
The Da Vinci Code
Comic Book Confidential**
Embalming
Gemini (Soseiji)
Prime Cut
High Fidelity (r)**
William Gibson: No Maps for These Territories (r)**
Kinamand*
Black Hawk Down*
The Snow Walker
Decision Before Dawn
Coup de torchon (Clean Slate)**
Time Code (r)*
Death in Gaza*
Chasing Sleep
Night Stalker series (2005)
I Wake Up Screaming*
Friends and Crocodiles
Constantine*
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Late Spring**
Slacker (r)**
House of Strangers*
Stroszek (r)
Born to Kill**
Syriana*
Triple Agent*
Morituri*
Tokyo Fist*
Wire: On The Box 1979 (r)*
Out of the Blue - The Definitive Investigation of the UFO Phenomenon*
A (Mori, 1998)
Transamerica**
Why We Fight (Jarecki, 2005)*
Ce jour-la (That Day)*
Henry IV (Bellocchio, 1984)
Edge of Outside*
The Matador (Sheperd, 2005)
Burst City**
Bad News Bears (Linklater, 2005)
Cache (Haneke, 2005)
The Quack (Hoffman, 1985)
Weeds (series)**
The Lower Depths (Donzoko)**
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story*
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room*
Clean (Assayas, 2004)*
Railroaded! (Mann, 1947) (r)
Buongiorno, notte (Good Morning, Night)*
The Passenger (Antonioni, 1975) (r)**
Track of the Cat**
Electric Dragon 80,000V**
Tape*
A Canterbury Tale
Keane
Secret Agent series
Kingdom of Heaven (Director's Cut)*
Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi)*
Inside Man (Lee, 2006)
The Lost City (Garcia, 2005)
Brick**
Open Water
The Nazis: A Warning from History
The Hanging Garden*
Day of Reckoning (Brabin, 1933)
Don't Come Knocking
Land of the Blind (Edwards, 2006)
A Scanner Darkly**
Fargo (r)**
Black Books (season one)
Zizek!
The Ice Harvest*
Black Christmas
Rome (series)**
Kicking and Screaming (r)*
Day of the Wacko*
Eternity and a Day*
Lost (Lemke, 2004)
Ride the High Country (r)**
Mountain Patrol: Kekexili*
The Crooked Way
Unknown White Male*
Lemming
Miller's Crossing (r)**
La Buche*
The Great New Wonderful
The Death of Mr Lazarescu*
Gilda (Vidor, 1946)**
The Proposition (Hillcoat, 2005)*
La Guerre Est Finie*
Prestige (Garnett, 1932)
Late August, Early September**
Hard Candy*
Red Lights (Feux Rouges)
eXistenZ (r)*
The Notorious Bettie Page
Seventh Heaven (Jacquot, 1997)*
Wonderfalls (series)*
Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell
Tickets*
Quadrophenia (r)*
In Her Shoes
L'Appartement (Mimouni, 1996)*
Le Samourai*
The Norliss Tapes
Les Patriotes (Rochant, 1994)
Expo: Magic of the White City*
Gaslight (Dickinson, 1940) (r)*
The Fall of Fujimori
In & Out (Oz, 1997) (r)*
Mongolian Ping Pong*
Velvet Goldmine (r)*
The Seventh Victim (r)*
The Power of Kangwon Province*
Twelve and Holding**
The Woman with Red Boots
Bukowski: Born Into This*
Hamish Macbeth (season one)*
Lonesome Jim
Roadblock (Daniels, 1951)(r)
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film**
The Killers (Siodmak, 1946)*
The Nanny (Bellocchio, 1999)*
Oh! What a Lovely War
Archangel (Jones, 2005)
Hands Over the City*
The Great Ecstasy of the Sculptor Steiner
La Soufriere
Carnivale - Season 2
Stolen (Dreyfuss, 2005)
The Young Poisoner's Handbook*
Clash by Night*
The Conversation (Coppola, 1974)(r)**
Wah-Wah
Land of Plenty*
John Cale: An Exploration of His Life and Music
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man*
Forty Guns
Look Both Ways*
The Da Vinci Code (r)*
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (r)*
Burn to Shine 2 - Chicago, IL - 09.13.2004*
Le Fils (The Son)*
I Am a Sex Addict*
Lewis Black: Red, White and Screwed
House,MD - season 1**
L.I.E.**
Still Crazy
The VIrgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors*
Little Miss Sunshine
Scrooge (A Christmas Carol)(Desmond-Hurst, 1951)(r)**
The Illustrated Man
Hamish Macbeth - season 2*
Where the Green Ants Dream
Burn to Shine 3 - Portland, OR - 06.15.05*
Cisco Pike (r)
Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America*
RocketKitKongoKit
Three Times**
* -- recommended
** -- don't miss
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Thursday, January 25, 2007
My friend Jeph Jerman will be touring the Northwest beginning this weekend; if your tastes are similar to mine, or you are in the mood for some challenging and mind-expanding music, do check him and his cohorts outjan 27th -- animist orchestra good shepard center chapel seattleDownload of his performance with Greg Davis in New Zealand last July.
jan 28th -- floating leaves tea room seattle
jan 29th -- AVA gallery astoria oregon (with paul hoskin and doug theriault)
jan 31st -- new american art museum portland oregon (with doug theriault)
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Australian online movie zine Rouge (definitely cinephile-oriented) [Chicago Reader's film blog, itself a good resource for same]I’ve been told by [Indian director Ritwik] Ghatak’s son Ritaban that none of his father’s films employ direct sound and that all of them, by technical necessity, are post-dubbed. But this latter fact only emphasises the degree to which Ghatak’s soundtracks are composed, and what I find most striking about his highly unorthodox methods of sound composition are the ways that they essentially ‘rethink’ the dramaturgy of the visuals, and affect the ways that we look at these visuals by drawing our attention towards certain details and away from certain others.
This principle is facilitated by the way that Ghatak seems to compose both his visual mise en sc⇅ and his aural mise en sc⇅ in discrete layers. He frequently employs deep focus cinematography, permitting a certain counterpoint between background and foreground details that on occasion reminds me of the early films of Orson Welles. [Jonathan Rosenbaum]
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John Cusack on his new film Grace Is Gone
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Sunday, January 21, 2007
A clutch of modern pagans honored Zeus at a 1,800-year-old temple in the heart of Athens on Sunday -- the first known ceremony of its kind held there since the ancient Greek religion was outlawed by the Roman Empire in the fourth century
For some reason this cheers me.
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"The old film culture was based on hierarchical assumptions about taste and quality that have all but vanished, replaced by niches and networks of fans. You like your Romanian hospital movie, I like my Asian horror, and we have our Web sites and DVD rental queues to keep us happy; everything’s cool. And maybe, in these circumstances, no movie is really foreign. Or maybe every movie is."
A O Scott on the parallel but rarely overlapping worlds of american theatregoers and the world's cinephiles [link] [NYT registration pass in left column]
Of course part of the reason American cinephiles don't go to theatres much is that DVDs and the big new TVs look so damn good. But movies which "demand close attention and serious reflection rather than passive absorption" have never been in high demand in the US, or anywhere else.
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Saturday, January 20, 2007
A pretty good week for TCM, at least for my taste: Anthony Mann's period noir The Black Book (aka Reign of Terror)(Monday 2:30AM); Richard Wallace's Framed, with Glenn Ford & Barry Sullivan (Tuesday 8:30AM); an odd-sounding little comedy with Joan Blondell & George Brent called The Corpse Came C.O.D. (Tuesday 10:AM); an early Jean Arthur vehicle Party Wire, part of a month-long tribute (Tuesday 9:15PM); but the 2 essentials are Fritz Lang's Human Desire, a re-tooling of Renoir's La bete humaine with Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame & Broderick Crawford (Monday 2:00PM) and Billy Wilder's corrosive satire of media vampirism Ace in the Hole (aka The Big Carnival) (WednesdayThursday 12:30AM)
None of the above except The Black Book are on disc or tape as far as I know.
All times are AZ time, which corresponds to MST right now (we don't observe DST here except on the Navaho rez).
ADDENDUM: whoops Ace in the Hole is on tonight, not last night.
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Friday, January 19, 2007
sweet jesus
This is just so frightening, so diabolically deviant, I might have to watch it on disc, god help me
we have that sick fuck john waters to thank for this.
i have to go take a shower now. . .
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Saturday, January 13, 2007
R.I.P. Carlo Ponti
Among many other films, he produced Godard's Contempt & A Woman Is a Woman, Antonioni's Zabriskie Point, Blow-Up & The Passenger, Vardas' Cleo from 5 to 7 & Elio Petri's The 10th Victim.
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Someone please tell me why the Daria series isn't on disc, save for the Is It Fall Yet? extended episode?
Easily the best thing that MTV ever produced, and a unique classic.
I also had a weak spot for the Downtown series: though it's not in the same class, it shared some of the same creative team as Daria.
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disinfo will release a DVD on Marshall McLuhan next month
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George Clooney may produce a mini-series version of Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age for Sci-Fi
The last book by Stephenson I got through, I'm afraid.
Who knows, might be good.
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Huge hole as subway station collapses in Sao Paulo, but an even bigger one as Robert Anton Wilson leaves the physical plane -- on my birthday, no less
His site.
Cheers, Bob.
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007
time of the lists 1:textura's music
craig's list
filmbrain
simon reynolds' music
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Sunday, January 07, 2007
Rosenbaum on Pan's Labyrinth & Children of Men
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Saturday, January 06, 2007
Robert Stone's (Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise, Damascus Gate) Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties memoir is no doubt worth a read
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Fighting off a flu or something again. but at least the nifty new pc is running perky. anyway, some links to feed on as i get myself bask to normalcy er...Lynch interviewed [Pop candy]
film blogs:
filmjourney
long pauses
also like life
fortunemagazine's Scary Tech Top 12 of 2006 (#6 = windows vista)
giornale nuovo on one of Burroughs' favorite writers, Denton Welch
kerouac's on the road scroll fragment on display in Denver
uk art mavens at saatchi gallery created myspace-for-young/aspiring-artists Your Gallery
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Monday, January 01, 2007
Traprock Peace Center: end the war now
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and s-integrator
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Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.
--Chris Marker