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Smiles of a summer night (Bergman) 6
Paradise Love (Ulrich Seidl) 7
Cannibal tours 7
Heading south 6
'Night mother (Tom Moore) 8 oh boy, everybody should see this movie

Peru May 5 - 15th

Dig a hole will fill this later

first night stay in hostel close to airport, oh boy, a lot of wild dogs and their shit

Flying to Cusco next day
Machupicchu the day after
Another day in Cusco

Back to Lima

San Jose, Costa Rica

2012 November

San Jose is small

B - two places
The park, met the chinese speaking Costa Rican and his taiwanese teacher
The street protestors!

Mexico city 4th, 5th, and 6th visit

2013 August, November and 2014 January

Zocalo visit every time, saw kids display, outdoor skating and military show.
Discovered:
Garibaldi - Mariachi's plaza and Cabrito market and the bakery shop
Museum of popular arts at Coyancan
Blue house at downtown, inside mural and restaurant, bar and the narrow porch
JW person sent info in chinese outside Blue house
Badminton at YMCA close to hotel Fontan
Basilica the plaza and the park going up to the church
Metro bus from aeroporto to hotel, not recommended
PUEBLA (museum of revolutionary)
OAXACA
etc

People:
Julio
Richard/Ricardo
Guillermo
Liang
Axel
Crustian
Gabriel
and anonymous ones

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Walkabout (Nicolas Noeg) 8 (wow new film language, need a copy)
After hours (Scosesse) 6 (ok do we need to be surprised all along the movie?)
Frances Ha (Noah) 6 (The only good thing about this movie is how young generation - or maybe some of them -lives their lives in USA)
Barbarian invasions
An angel at the table (Jane campion)
The decline of the American expire
Le Grande Bouffe
Audition
Closely watched trains
Jesus of Montreal
La Vie de Jsus (life of Jesus)
Picnic at hanging rock
The city of your final destination (Jame Ivory) Revisit
Death in Venice (Visconti)
Mahler (Ken Russell)
American Gigolo
Germany, Pale mother
The damned (Visconti)
Women in love (Ken Russell)
La Caza (Carlos Saura)
Memories of underdevelopment
Yeelen (Solomani Sise)
Local hero (Bill Forsyth)
Deus e o diabo na terra do sol
He who hits first, hits twice (Santiago Alvarez)
Timecode (Mike Figgis)

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The children are watching us (De Sica) 9 (how many movies can you remember in your life when you die? - this is one of them)
Pierrot Le Fou (Godard) 9
Nothing but a man (michael Boemer)
Letter from an unknown woman (Max Ophuls) 5 (hate this noblety thing)
Les Cousins (Claude Charbrol) 7 (not sure how good the ending is)
Melo (Resnais) 8 True masterpiece
La Guerre Est Finie (Resnais) 8
Girl with a suitcase (Valerio Zurlini) 8 (great film language, clean)
Violent summer (Valerio Zurlini) 7
A man escaped (Bresson) 8
Wild reeds (revisit, Andre Techine) 8
Sergei Einstein autobiography 7
Wend Kunni (7)
Beyond the clouds (Antonioni) 7 (there are some good shots should have had a copy
Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle) 7 (too story-eyy)
Kaagaz ke Phool (Guru dutt) 7 (some good shots)

ALSO WATCHED:
Electra, my love (Miklos Jancso) 6 ok long takes long shot but so what? what is that important?
The were expendables (John ford) 6 - as much as people like me don't care about john ford, I appreciate this movie being very low key in describing soldiers' everyday life like normal
The marquise of O (Eric Rohmer) 6 - I actually feel this movie is high-evaluated as some of his others - it is like a stage play: fake.
Children of men (Alfonso) 7
vive l'amore (Tsai ming-liang) 7
Hands over the city (Rosi) 7.5
The knack and how to get it 6 sorry not my tea
Que viva Mexico! (Eisenstein) 7
Gaslight (1944) 7
Duck soap 8 Incredibly funny (airplane copied some of the tricks)
Pelle the conqueror (Bille August) 8 masterpiece

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Distant voices, still life (Terence Davies) 7 Semi-autobiography - i am not sure the style.
The tenant (Polanski) 7 Interesting, but lacking something to become a masterpiec
Come and see 6
Paradise: hope (Uldrich) 6 (a bit disappointing)

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Let the right one in 6 (only some shots are good when they first met)
Take shelter 7 (I am not sure, it is intriguing, but very far from a masterpiece)
Vicent and theo (Altman) 4 (worst Altman film)
Blast of silence 7 (oh, THE black white film)
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Richard Thorpe) 7 (decent story, that's it)
The assassination of Richard Nixon 7
Persona (Bergman) 7
Julia (Fred Zinnemann)
Paradise: Faith (Ulrich)
The heiress
Bubble (Soderberg) 7 (some great shots of the environment)
'Night mother
Duck soup 8
Naked (Mike leigh)
Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray) (some good elements) 7
El Sol del Membrillo (Victor Erice) 7
Manon (Clouzot)
Wartime moments (videotape can't watch)
Insect woman 8
Videodrome 7 (good start, terrible ending)
Pelle the conqueror
Lars and the real girl
Harold and Maude
The perks of being a wallflower (intriguing, funny, and thats it) 7
Mary and Max
Adaptation
Elling 6
The complete Jean Vigo (4 films)
Repulsion
A taste of honey
Mr. Brooks 6 (hollywood)
Three days of condor 7 (hollywood)
The Machinist 7 (good built-up, just for hit and run?)