Geography of the Body (1943)

Quiet as Kept (2007)

House of Cards (1947)

Il était une fois... Le mépris (2009)

The Dark Tower (1999)

Stellar (1993)

I... Dreaming (1988)

Time out of Mind (1999)

"I've written little because there is so much not to be said. I like Charles Wright's line: 'There is so little to say and so much time to say it in.'

...

The poet who read yesterday at Berkeley said, 'I don't like great poetry. It's too finished. It makes me feel it doesn't need me.' Ridiculous, I thought, but then thought, No; the idea that great poetry doesn't need her is very good. It doesn't need anybody, and whether or not you like it is irrelevant."

June 10, '80, The Diaries of Leonard Michaels 1961-1995.

The Last Christmas (2010)

Some pretty undistinguished (but at least a bit silly) Canadian TV-non-mystery. Jennifer Finnigan is some sort of beauty though.

Time out of Mind (1999)

 "I still have to read twenty novels for my qualifying exam. It's maddening to read not for pleasure but only to finish, especially Hardy's novels. They refuse simply to go where you know they are going. In James' The Ambassadors I counted sixteen uses of the phrase 'hung fire' before I stopped reading. I'm a slow reader and there is too much to read, especially this way, without pleasure or interest. The night before his law exams, Malcolm read The Brothers Karamazov. He failed his exams, but that's the proper spirit in which to read novels."

- Feb.3, '65, The Diaries of Leonard Michaels 1961-1995.

The Iron Mule (1925)

Just delightful, really. Silly/fun intertitle puns abounds.

When It Rains (1995)

The Horse (1973)

Stan Brakhage on "Artificial Intelligence: AI" (2003)

 "It is said that the child actor Haley Joel Osment, whom I would simply call the Mozart of living screen actors, trained himself to never move his head before he'd moved his eyes first, to always take the exact same steps around any corner of the studio set, soforth, and yet to retain some full measure of himself as being very normally a little boy. Without this great art of acting at center, the film's themes would be completely unrecognizable.
    Time must stretch, within the fiction, to thousands of years. It must do so (as an equation) to counterbalance (thus make sense of) the single day in which the child can reconcile with his originally abandoning mother. It is this part of the film, Artificial Intelligence, that does most need the counter-(Kubrick)-balancing resonances of Spielberg - to wit, express sentiment so pervasive as to almost, but not quite, pitch over into sentimentality."

From "The Hidden God: Film and Faith", edited by Mary Lea Bandy and Antonio Monda.

We're in the Money (1933)

The World Viewed (1971) + More of the World Viewed (1974)

Published together in "The World Viewed: Enlarged Edition", 1979.

Several Friends (1969)

Der Himmel über Berlin (1987)

Peter Falk (1927-2011)

Even: As You and I (1937)

Manhatta (1921)

Killer of Sheep (1977)

Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics (1911)

The Kids Are All Right (2010)

Hey, I like David Bowie, Mark Ruffalo and lesbians, too. But small potatoes.

Sylvia (1992)

Christmas U.S.A. (1949)

All of the Lights (2011)

 

 

Keep an Eye on Amélie (1973)

Title of the series.

 

 

The Break-Up (2006)

A Close Shave (1892)

Fitting for Ladies (1887)

translated by Peter Meyer.

An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

The Misfits (1961)

 Love Metty, love Monroe, but Huston is defenseless against Miller.

Melancholia (2011)

Batwoman: Elegy (2010)

The Good Wife - Season 1 (2009-2010)

 

 

The Beautiful Summer ()

Crack Glass Eulogy (1992)

Black Ice (1994)

The Dante Quartet (1987)

Le mystère Picasso (1956)

Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)

Dogtooth (2009)

Bones: Season 2 (2006-2007)

This is Water (2005)

"Here is one example of the utter wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of.

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.

We rarely think about this sort of natural, basic self-centeredness, because it's so socially repulsive, but it's pretty much the same for all of us, deep down.

It is our default setting, hardwired into our boards at birth.

Think about it: There is no experience you've had that you were not at the absolute center of.

The world as you experience it is there in front of you, or behind you, to the left or right of you, on your TV, or your monitor, or whatever.

Other people's thoughts and feelings have to be communicated to you somehow, but your own are so immediate, urgent, real."

- Published in 2009.

The Life of Students (1915)

Bones: Season 1 (2005-2006)

Akibiyori (1960)

The Benefactor (1963)

Down with Love (2002)

Third viewing. Still sorta love it.