Wednesday, December 26, 2012

movie talk 57

Friendly persuasion
Michael Collins
Make way for tomorrow
My son, My son, what have ye done
The unvanished Aparajito 8
The enigma of Kaspar Hauser 7
Vertigo 7
The red shoes 7
Ugetsu 7
Fellini Satyricon (Fellini) 7
Juliet of the spirit

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

movie talk 56 - special edition

Today I used up 60 limits of both George and my library accounts for Denver library to request the following movies from other libraries in the country. Let's see how many we can get:


Outstanding Requests
TransactionTitleAuthorStatus
829493Film directing fundamentals : see your film before shooting / film directing fundamentalsProferes, Nicholas T.Interlibrary Loan Request Successful
829684Cyclo clclo Interlibrary Loan Request Successful
836431King of the childrenChen, KaigeRequest Sent
836432Lian lian fung zhen Dust in the windHou, XiaoxianNot Purchased-Forwarded to ILL
836433Bei qing cheng shi City of sadness.Hou, XiaoxianNot Purchased-Forwarded to ILL
836608La maman et la putain The mother and the whoreEustache, JeanAwaiting Request Processing
836609AccidentLosey, JosephAwaiting Unfilled Processing
836611Skupljaci perja I met a happy gipsy, tooPetrovic, AleksandarAwaiting Request Processing
836617Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospettoVolonté, GianAwaiting Request Processing
836618Taking offForman, MilosAwaiting Request Processing
836621La planète sauvage Fantastic planetDamiani, SRequest Sent
836625Die Marquise Von O-- The Marquise of O--Rohmer, ÉricRequest Sent
836626The shoutThomas, JeremyAwaiting Request Processing
836629Les années lumièreTanner, AlainAwaiting Request Processing
836631A world apartMenges, ChrisRequest Sent
836633Shi no togeAraki, MasayaAwaiting Request Processing
836634Little fugitiveAshley, RayRequest Sent
836640Riso amaro Bitter riceDe Laurentiis, DinoAwaiting Request Processing
836641La antenaSapir, EstebanAwaiting Request Processing
836642Three complete classics of the Soviet avant-gardeDovzhenko, OleksandrRequest Sent
836643Még kér a népJancsó, MiklósAwaiting Request Processing
836644The Red and the WhiteHernádi, GyulaRequest Sent
836645Szerelmem, Elektra Electra, my loveJancsó, MiklósRequest Sent
836648Greed in the sunVerneuil, HenriAwaiting Request Processing
836651Shadows of forgotten ancestorsParadzhanov, SergeiRequest Sent
836652NostalghiaTarkovski, AndreïAwaiting Request Processing
836656Love streamsCassavetes, JohnAwaiting Request Processing
836657Minnie and MoskowitzRowlands, GenaRequest Sent
836679Private vices, public virtuesBalázsovits, LajosAwaiting Request Processing
Outstanding Requests
TransactionTitleAuthorStatus
836478WandaShuster, HarryRequest Sent
836484Sous le soleil de Satan Under the sun of SatanPialat, MauriceAwaiting Request Processing
836485Man of ironWajda, AndrzejRequest Sent
836486Une aussi longue absence Noch nach Jahr und TagColpi, HenriAwaiting Request Processing
836490The go-betweenLosey, JosephAwaiting Request Processing
836494O pagador de promessasDuarte, AnselmoAwaiting Request Processing
836497The knack-- and how to get itWood, CharlesRequest Sent
836498La classe operaia va in paradisoPetri, ElioAwaiting Request Processing
836499The hirelingBridges, AlanAwaiting Request Processing
836556Miracolo a MilanoDe Sica, VittorioAwaiting Request Processing
836558JigokumonNagata, MasaichiAwaiting Request Processing
836559Le monde du silenceCousteau, JacquesAwaiting Request Processing
836561Le gamin au véloDardenne, Jean-PierreAwaiting Request Processing
836562The mourning forestKawase,Awaiting Request Processing
836563Faraway, so close!Wenders, WimRequest Sent
836564Il ladro di bambini The stolen childrenAmelio, GianniRequest Sent
836567FaustSokurov, AleksandrAwaiting Request Processing
836568The Return [Vozvrashcheniye]Garin, VladimirRequest Sent
836570The legend of the holy drinker La leggenda del Santo BevitoreKezich, TullioAwaiting Request Processing
836577Sans toit ni loiVarda, AgnèsRequest Sent
836578UrgaMikhalkov, NikitaRequest Sent
836579GloriaRowlands, GenaRequest Sent
836582The State of thingsWenders, WimRequest Sent
836584Die bleierne ZeitTrotta, MargaretheAwaiting Request Processing
836591Prénom CarmenGodard, Jean-LucRequest Sent
836593Vaghe stelle dell'orsaVisconti, LuchinoAwaiting Request Processing
836594Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel ratlosKluge, AlexanderRequest Sent
836597De Crápula a Herói (Il Generale della Rovere)Rossellini, RobertoAwaiting Request Processing
836602La grande guerraMonicelli, MarioAwaiting Request Processing
836603Muhomatsu no isshoInagaki, HiroshiAwaiting Request Processing

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Movie talk 55

Wide at heat (David Lynch) revisit 8
Straight time 7
La Bête humaine (jean Renoir)
Atonement (Joe Wright) 8
The Piano (Jane Campion) 8 (revisit)
Ice Storm (Ang Lee) 7 (revisit)
Brokeback mountain (Ang Lee) 8 (revisit)
The piano factory 5
Up 7
The artist 8
Shame (Steve McQueen) 6
Little Children (Todd Field) 7
Hannah and her sisters (woody allen) 7
Not one less (Zhang Yimou) 8
Raging bull (Scorsese) 8
Cyclo
Notorious (Hitchcock) 7
The last picture show (revisit) 8
Dong (Jia zhang ke) 7
Lust, Caution (Ang Lee) (revisit) 7




Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Movie talk 54

Got a long list of movies to watch this month:

Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean) 8
Leopard (visconti) 9
The man from london  (bella tarr)
Vengeance is mine (Shohei Imamura)
Runaway train (Andrei Konchalovsky) 6 This is more or less a comedy I think.
Rocco and his brothers (Visconti) 8
Le Notti Blanche (visconti) 8
Ragtime (Milos Forman) 8
Silent light (Carlos Reygadas)
Of mice and men (bad DVD)
Going places 7
Letters from Fontain (Pedro costa)
In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa) 7
Ossos (Pedro Costa)
The phantom of liberty (Luis Brunel) 8
The fall (Tarsem Singh) 6
The adjuster 6
The general cops; playhouse (Bad DVD)
House of games (David Mamet) 7
The fallen idol (Carol Reed) 8
Berline Alexanderplatz (fassbinder) 7


Monday, October 22, 2012

movie talk 53

Kandahar Mohsen Makhmalbaf  7
days of heaven (Terrace Malick) 7
3-iron (or empty room) Kim Ki-duk 6
Kramer VS kramer (robert bensen) 8
Trees of life (terrace malick) 8
Brotherhood (Nicolo Donato) 8
The good, the bad and the ugly (sergio Leone) 7
Crouching tiger, hidden dragon (Ang Lee) 7
In a better world (susanne bier) 7

Thursday, October 11, 2012

movie talk 52

The great magician (大魔术师)5
黄金大劫案 (宁浩) 7
Anyang baby 安阳婴儿 (王超)6
Shunli and the poet (我是丽) 7
A separation 8
Chung Kuo - cina (antonioni) 8


Monday, September 10, 2012

movie talk 51

Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky) 7
L'argent (Robert Bresson) 8
Ordet (Carl Dreyers) 7
Green mile 7
The strawberry statement

Thursday, September 06, 2012

movie talk 50

Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky) 9 All special features together 10 hours finished in four days
Shelter (Jonah Markowitz) 5
Requiem (Bernd Lange) 8
The cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene) 7 (art direction fabulous)
In July (Fatih Akin) 7
A woman is a woman (Godard)
Sacrifice (Andrei) 6 disappointing
Macario (Roberto Gavaldo)
The official story (luis puenzo)
Women at the verge of breakdown (Almodovar)
Law of desire (Almodovar)
Matador (Almodovar)
The flower of my secret (Almodovar)
Children of men (Alfonso Cuanron?)
Once upon a time in anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) 7


Friday, August 24, 2012

movie talk 49

1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci) 7
The sheltering sky (Bernardo Bertolucci) 7
Private fears in public places (Alain Resnais)  9
The color of pomegranates (Seigei Parajanov) 8
Red desert (Antonioni) 8
Volver (almodovar)7
Love and anger (Pasolini, bertolucci, etc) 6
The flower of St. Francis (Rosellini) 6
A summer at grandpa's (Hsian-hsien Hou) 7
A time to live and a time to die  - aka - tong nian wang shi (Hsian-hsien Hou) 8

Friday, August 10, 2012

movie talk 48

Hunger (Steve Mcqueen) 7
Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvois) 6
Hallelujah (king virda) 5
8 1/2 (Fellini) 8
La Terra Trema (visconti) 6
Paisan (Rossellini) 7
German year zero (Rossellini) 8
I Vitelloni (Fellini) 8
Repentance (Tengiz Abulaze) 7
The take of power by luis XIV (Rossellini) 7
Naked (Mike Leigh) 7

Saturday, July 21, 2012

movie talk 47

The Painted Veil (John Curran) 6
La Promesse (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Lucas Dardenne) 7
Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman) 7
A farewell to arms (didnt watch)
The American Friend (Wim Wenders) 8
American History X 7
Scent of a woman 7
Cache 8
Land of plenty (wim wenders) 6 One of the worst wenders movie)
My voyage to Italy 7
Le Samourai 7 (George likes much more than I do)

Monday, July 16, 2012

movie talk 46

Shame (Ingmar Bergman) 8
The social network (David fincher) 8
Fight club (David Fincher)  8
Drive (Nicholas Winding Refn) 7
A Girl with a dragon tattoo (David Fincher) 7
The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev) 8
Alien (1) (Ridley Scott) 7
The King's Speech 7
Andrew Rublev (Andrew Kartovskiy) 7
P.S. I love you (Richard LaGravenese)  3
A screaming man (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun) 7
Breakfast club (John Hughes) 7
Throne of blood (akiro Kurosara) 8
Umberto D (Vittorio De Sica) 7
Indiscretion of American Wife (Vittorio De Sica) 7
Lorano's silence (Jean-pierre Dardenne) 7


Monday, April 02, 2012

movie talk 45

Alphaville
Silkroad 7
Closer 7
Wit 7
The royal tenenbauws 6
Donnie darko 7
The fisher king
The great gatsby (robert redford) 7
Working girl 7
Ashes of time (deux) 8


Friday, February 24, 2012

movie talk 44

The accidental tourist 87
Saraband (ingmar) 6
The serpent's egg (ingmar) 7
raising arizona (coen brothers) 7
the big chill 6
Magic flute (ingmar) 6
Thelma and louise (ridley scott) 8
The virgin spring (ingmar) 7
philadelphia 7
Sullivan's travels (preston sturges) 7
Lorna's silence  7
The son 7

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

movie talk 43

Rosemary's baby 7
Blue man group 5
Time bandits (couldn't finish)
Life of Brian (couldn't finish)
Mr. Bean (TV and movie) 7
Husbands (John Cassavetes) 8


Monday, January 30, 2012

movie talk 42

Taste of cherry (abbas kiarostami) 8
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead (Tom Stoppard) (didn't finish)

John Cassavetes's works
Faces 7
A woman under the influence 9 - WOW masterpiece. What a shame that I never heard about him before!
opening night 8
The killing of a chinese bookie 8
Shadows 7
A constant forge 8 (documentary about him)

Revisited
Secrets and Lies (mike Leigh) 8
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee) 8

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Mexico City (11/22-30 2011)

Long due. Just a short review.

Third time in MC.
Latino american building visit
Belles de artes (bought ticket for a germany youth symphony performance - mediocre)
Alameda park
Building of department of education (diego's mural)
Cathedral as usual
Le cebox(?) gay performance
Finiste (terrible)
Walking w Julio/Saul in Frida's town area (coffee)
Monument de revolution/museum
Death parade
Meeting with arrogant american professor
taxi just fine
evening tacos w giant beer
Market prawn dish - dilicious
Casitas
Stood up by some




Movie talk 41

The garden of finzi-continis (Vittorio De Sica) 8
Terminal Station AKA Indiscretion of an american wife(vittorio de sica) 7 and 6 points seperately
Winter lights (Ingmar bergman) 8
Persona (Ingmar Bergman) 7

Monday, January 16, 2012

movie talk 40

Fanny Hill 5
Winter of frozen dream 5
This beautiful city 6
Monster (Patty Jenkins) 8
Fanny and Alexander (ingmar bergman) 8
Through a glass darkly (ingmar bergman) 8
Scenes from a marriage (ingmar bergman) 7


Monday, January 09, 2012

movie talk 39

Naked (mike Leigh) 7
Fish tank (andrea arnold) 8 (also recommend her RED ROAD)
Wild strawberries (bergman) 9
Angel's fall (semih kaplanoglu) 8
BAL (Semih Kaplanoglu) 7
Uncle Boonmee who can recall his past lives ( Apichatpong Weerasethakul) 8 - IMDB categorizes it as comedy - what a joke

A screaming man
Barry lyndon 7
Lolita
Drive