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The night of the hunter 7

The mirror (Tarkovski) 8

Mouchette (Bresson) 8
Children of paradise 8
Dog days 8
The skin I lived in (Almodovar) 3
what a terrible movie! And it's from Pedro!

Ordering through request it denver library:

Faust

Twenty nine palms

La Dentelliere (not coming, cancelled by the library)

Triumph over violence

Sunrise: a song of two humans

Nostalghia (Tarkovski) 

Mother Joan of the angels

only got these two

Nostalghia (Tarkovski)  7 

Mother Joan of the angels 7

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I hope I can finish all these plus a lot of more of previous due by the end of February!

Late Spring (Ozu)
The circle
Padre Padrone (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)
Children of heaven (Majid)
Heimat, a chronicle of Germany (Disk 1-3)
The wind will carry us (Abbas) 8
My mother's smile (Marco Bellocchio)
Babette's feast (Gabriel Axel)
Mishima, a life in four chapters (Paul Schrader)
Perfume, the story of a murderer (Tom Tykwer) This movie is unbearably bad, I can't finish.
Army of shadows (Jean Pierre Melville) 8
In the mood for love (revisit) (Wang Jiawei) 8 Masterpiece is masterpiece.
French lieutenant's woman (Karel Reitz) 6 Doesn't struck me as much as before.
Quest for fire
Manufactured landscapes
Indochine 7 The second half is better than first half
Subway 8 Seriously? it's better than Leon!
Heaven (Tom Tykwer) 7
In the realm of senses 7
War witch 7
Amarcord
Ballad of a soldier
Red circle
Ossessione (Lucino Visconti) 7
Fame
Autumn afternoon
Seppuku
Dersu Uzala 7 (Kurosawa)

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All that heaven allows (Douglas Sirk) 8
Hugo (Scorsese)  6
Scrarecrow (revisit)
Network (revisit) 7
The Vanishing (1988? first version) 7
Brief encounter (revisit) 7
The wind that shakes the barley (revisit)
Sunday bloody Sunday 8 (surprised! and impressed)
25 Firemans Street 6
Mephisto 8
Merry christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Nagisa Oshima) 6
The turin horse (7)
L'Atalante 8 WOW it is made in 1930!
The searchers (John Ford) 3 - I give it 3 points only because it was shot in monument valley. Otherwise 0 point.
Thin red line (revisit) 6 - doesn't strike me as before
Elepant (gus van cant) (revisit) 8 (still a masterpiece)
Paths of glory (Kubrick) 8
Empire of passion (Nagisa Oshima) 8 so far it's his best work

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The Denver library "request it" system got 30% of the 60 DVDs George and I requested. The other 70% was cancelled.

We got the following:
The return (Andrey Zvyagintsev ) 7
Man of Iron (Andzjei Wajda) 8
First name: Carmen
Minnie and Moskowitz 7 (one of casavettes's weaker movies)
The Marquise of O
Electra, my love
Little fugitive (7)
The stolen children
Gloria (John Casavettes) 7
The knack and how to get it
Johnny got his gun 7
Faraway, so close!
Fantastic planet 7
Ashes and Diamonds 8 Masterpiece!
Vagabond (Agnès Varda) 7
A world apart
Three complete classic of the soviet avant-garde (earth, chess fever, the end of St. peterburg)
The red and the white 7 (an interesting movie)
Artists under the big top: perplexed (another title: The artist in the circus dome: confused)
Wanda 7
Urga
Red Psalm (DVD not working)
Dust in the wind (lian lian feng chen) (Hou Xiao Xian) (in a VHS tape!) Couldn't play in correct aspect ratio.
Rosetta (Dardenne brothers) 8
Greed in the sun (finally the library bought it since there are other requests)

(They also sent Sergei Parajanov's The shadow of our ancestors and Wim Wenders's The state of things" in VHS format)

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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

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
Transaction	Title	Author	Status
829493	Film directing fundamentals : see your film before shooting / film directing fundamentals	Proferes, Nicholas T.	Interlibrary Loan Request Successful
829684	Cyclo clclo		Interlibrary Loan Request Successful
836431	King of the children	Chen, Kaige	Request Sent
836432	Lian lian fung zhen Dust in the wind	Hou, Xiaoxian	Not Purchased-Forwarded to ILL
836433	Bei qing cheng shi City of sadness.	Hou, Xiaoxian	Not Purchased-Forwarded to ILL
836608	La maman et la putain The mother and the whore	Eustache, Jean	Awaiting Request Processing
836609	Accident	Losey, Joseph	Awaiting Unfilled Processing
836611	Skupljaci perja I met a happy gipsy, too	Petrovic, Aleksandar	Awaiting Request Processing
836617	Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto	Volonté, Gian	Awaiting Request Processing
836618	Taking off	Forman, Milos	Awaiting Request Processing
836621	La planète sauvage Fantastic planet	Damiani, S	Request Sent
836625	Die Marquise Von O-- The Marquise of O--	Rohmer, Éric	Request Sent
836626	The shout	Thomas, Jeremy	Awaiting Request Processing
836629	Les années lumière	Tanner, Alain	Awaiting Request Processing
836631	A world apart	Menges, Chris	Request Sent
836633	Shi no toge	Araki, Masaya	Awaiting Request Processing
836634	Little fugitive	Ashley, Ray	Request Sent
836640	Riso amaro Bitter rice	De Laurentiis, Dino	Awaiting Request Processing
836641	La antena	Sapir, Esteban	Awaiting Request Processing
836642	Three complete classics of the Soviet avant-garde	Dovzhenko, Oleksandr	Request Sent
836643	Még kér a nép	Jancsó, Miklós	Awaiting Request Processing
836644	The Red and the White	Hernádi, Gyula	Request Sent
836645	Szerelmem, Elektra Electra, my love	Jancsó, Miklós	Request Sent
836648	Greed in the sun	Verneuil, Henri	Awaiting Request Processing
836651	Shadows of forgotten ancestors	Paradzhanov, Sergei	Request Sent
836652	Nostalghia	Tarkovski, Andreï	Awaiting Request Processing
836656	Love streams	Cassavetes, John	Awaiting Request Processing
836657	Minnie and Moskowitz	Rowlands, Gena	Request Sent
836679	Private vices, public virtues	Balázsovits, Lajos	Awaiting Request Processing

Outstanding Requests
Transaction	Title	Author	Status
836478	Wanda	Shuster, Harry	Request Sent
836484	Sous le soleil de Satan Under the sun of Satan	Pialat, Maurice	Awaiting Request Processing
836485	Man of iron	Wajda, Andrzej	Request Sent
836486	Une aussi longue absence Noch nach Jahr und Tag	Colpi, Henri	Awaiting Request Processing
836490	The go-between	Losey, Joseph	Awaiting Request Processing
836494	O pagador de promessas	Duarte, Anselmo	Awaiting Request Processing
836497	The knack-- and how to get it	Wood, Charles	Request Sent
836498	La classe operaia va in paradiso	Petri, Elio	Awaiting Request Processing
836499	The hireling	Bridges, Alan	Awaiting Request Processing
836556	Miracolo a Milano	De Sica, Vittorio	Awaiting Request Processing
836558	Jigokumon	Nagata, Masaichi	Awaiting Request Processing
836559	Le monde du silence	Cousteau, Jacques	Awaiting Request Processing
836561	Le gamin au vélo	Dardenne, Jean-Pierre	Awaiting Request Processing
836562	The mourning forest	Kawase,	Awaiting Request Processing
836563	Faraway, so close!	Wenders, Wim	Request Sent
836564	Il ladro di bambini The stolen children	Amelio, Gianni	Request Sent
836567	Faust	Sokurov, Aleksandr	Awaiting Request Processing
836568	The Return [Vozvrashcheniye]	Garin, Vladimir	Request Sent
836570	The legend of the holy drinker La leggenda del Santo Bevitore	Kezich, Tullio	Awaiting Request Processing
836577	Sans toit ni loi	Varda, Agnès	Request Sent
836578	Urga	Mikhalkov, Nikita	Request Sent
836579	Gloria	Rowlands, Gena	Request Sent
836582	The State of things	Wenders, Wim	Request Sent
836584	Die bleierne Zeit	Trotta, Margarethe	Awaiting Request Processing
836591	Prénom Carmen	Godard, Jean-Luc	Request Sent
836593	Vaghe stelle dell'orsa	Visconti, Luchino	Awaiting Request Processing
836594	Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel ratlos	Kluge, Alexander	Request Sent
836597	De Crápula a Herói (Il Generale della Rovere)	Rossellini, Roberto	Awaiting Request Processing
836602	La grande guerra	Monicelli, Mario	Awaiting Request Processing
836603	Muhomatsu no issho	Inagaki, Hiroshi	Awaiting Request Processing

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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

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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