Eighth Happiness (1988)

On the Eve ()

Rio Bravo

Cuida el Pueblo su Leyenda (2012)

"Work in Progress", in all fairness. Still.
"You say you want a revolution" #fidelcastroquotes

Fathers and Sons ()

La cérémonie (1995)

"Les noces rouges" + "Don Giovanni" on TV, [AROS-notes].

Habemus Papam (2011)

Honestly, enjoyed the volleyball, not much else. [shrug] Ending's something though.

Miss Pinkerton (1932)

Direction perfunctory.  Blondell scenes - especially the pre-"gothic house" ones - a delight.

Buenas Noches, Buenos Aires (2003)

Flaming City ()

Ladies They Talk About (1933)

Point de fuite (1984)

La ville des pirates (1983)

Predator (1987)

Généalogies d'un crime (1997)

Le film à venir (1997)

The Territory (1981)

Combat d'amour en songe (2000)

House (1977)

The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1970)

Bound (1996)

(1908)

(1908)

(1908)

(1908)

To Rome with Love (2012)

Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage (1926)

Hard to Handle (1933)

Ghosts of Mars (2001)

Le spectre rouge (1907)

L'antre de la sorcière (1906)

Le courant électrique (1906)

Les cent trucs (1906)

Ah! La barbe (1905)

Plongeur fantastique (1905)

Le roi des dollars (1905)

Barcelone - Parc au crépuscule (1904)

L'hereu de can pruna (1904)

Los héroes del sitio de Zaragoza (1903)

Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)

Psalm III: 'Night of the Meek' (2002)

Force of Evil (1948)

Rio Bravo (1959)

Histoires extraordinaires (1968)

Space Cowboys (2000)

Der letzte Mann (1924)

Early Spring (1956)

This Ozu is dark compared to Ozu.

The Lady and the Beard (1931)

 

 

Search for Beauty (1934)

So much fun when it isn't Buster Crabbe or Ida Lupino being healthy.

28 Days Later... (2002)

Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (1986)

Leila Attacks (2007)

Three Cheers for the Whale (1972)

English 2007 verison.

The Birth of a Nation (1915)

La sixième face du pentagone (1968)

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)

Saw this because of the Noah Baumbach screenwriting credit, but there was so much to love. Including Kary Perry (!)

Murder at the Vanities (1934)

Oldboy (2003)

Che: Part Two (2008)

Che: Part One (2008)

Face to Face (at Aros)

L'éclipse du soleil en pleine lune (1907)

La lune à un mètre (1898)

Le voyage dans la lune (1902)

Color version.

Amarcord (1973)

4:44 Last Day on Earth (2011)

Ocean's Thirteen (2007)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Hotel Magnezit (1978)

Thor (2011)

Children of Eve (1915)

Breakfast at Tiffany's ()

+

Short stories a bit of a slog.

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

The Saphead (1920)

L'étoile de mer (1928)

Le retour à la raison (1923)

Terence Conran (1981)

La belle et la bête (1946)

I Flunked, But... (1930)

Körkarlen (1921)

Boccaccio '70 (1962)

Killer's Kiss (1955)

The Interrupters (2011)

The Egyptian (1954)

Insanely hot. Blue "hair". Nefer.

 A Dangerous Method Akhnaton. A poor man's Rock Hudson in the lead. Always happy to see Gene Tierney.

Emak-Bakia (1926)

Survival of the Dead (2009)

Diary of the Dead (2007)

Land of the Dead (2005)

Day of the Dead (1985)

Run for Cover (1955)

That red, no?

Captive (2012)

Follies in Concert (1986)

The Other Guys (2010)

Creepshow (1982)

Ins Blaue hinein (1931)

Menschen am Sonntag (1930)

Harakiri (1962)

Aventure Malgache (1944)

Lifeboat (1944)

Days of Youth (1929)

Stereo (1969)

Turning Gate (2002)

Lady for a Day (1933)

David and Bathsheba (1951)

Sunday in the Park with George (1986)

Bridesmaids (2011)

A Dangerous Method (2011)

Separate Tables (1954)

JOHN. (Shortly, at length.) It'll do.

...

MAJOR POLLOCK. One's apt to excuse oneself sometimes by saying: Well, after all, what I do doesn't do anybody much harm. But one does, you see. That's not a thought I much like.

Woman of Tokyo (1933)

I Graduated, But... (1929)

North to Alaska (1960)

Bonjour Tristesse

Big Trouble in Little China ()

Prometheus (2012)

A Certain Smile

Day in the Life of a Cleaning Lady

Ostensibly (1989)

Calming.

Warrior (2011)

Paul (2011)

The Day I Met Caruso (1956)

Runaway (2010)

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

The Rooney-scenes were worse than I remembered, practically everything else richer to an unimagined degree. "I understand completely." The gags in the party scene ("The Party"), how Edwards obviously has fun in "spy thriller"-mode, John McGiver at Tiffany's the mise-en-scene which brought Sirk to mind. The book at the bus station, "Never Love a Stranger"! After "10" and seeing this again, no more convincing necessary: Blake Edwards was major.

+ more research on Truman Capote and George Axelrod definitely needed.

The Paleface (1922)

Hard Luck (1921)

The Haunted House (1921)

The Scarecrow (1920)

Haiku (2009)

Kicking and Screaming (1995)

"All my accomplishments are in the past." 

"What I used to able to pass off as a bad summer could now potentially turn into a bad life."

 "I'm nostalgic for conversations I had yesterday. I've begun reminiscing events before they even occur. I'm reminiscing this right now. I can't go to the bar because I've already looked back on it in my memory... and I didn't have a good time."

The Boat (1921)

Life Without Principle (2011)

Can't Tell Me Nothing (2007)

The Day was a Scorcher (2009)

Beat It

Billie Jean

Thriller (1983)

Scattered Showers

Sodom and Gomorrah

Default Averted

Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)

Caterpillar (1973)

Ostensibly (1989)

Convinced I'll return to this an infinite amount of times.

Julie (1980)

Ostensibly (1989)

Gold on the Ceiling (2012)

My Philosophy of Life

[...]

"Still, there's a lot of fun to be had in the gaps between ideas.
That's what they're made for!  Now I want you to go out there
and enjoy yourself, and yes, enjoy your philosophy of life, too.
They don't come along every day. Look out!  There's a big one..."

Ostensibly (1989)

Ostensibly

Ostensibly (1989)

The Apple ()

Night Fantasies (1991)

L'illusionniste (2010)

Yeah, the naysayers are right.

Wu Yen (2001)

Sparrow (2008)

Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

Ilha das Flores (1989)

Träum

Un Agenzia matrimoniale (1953)

I clowns (1970)

Ôdishon (1999)

Interview with Owen Land (2004)

"The film came about because Carmen Vigil recommended that I read Wit and its Relation to the Unconscious because he thought that what Freud was describing were things that occurred in some of my other films. So I started reading the book and I was struck by the fact that Freud keeps citing marriage broker jokes. They're the only jokes that he uses as examples, and they're bad jokes! Freud didn't have any good material. He would have bombed in Las Vegas."

- Owen Land, 2004

A Therapy (2012)

L'Atalante (1934)

Throw Down (2004)

Where Eagles Dare (1968)

There was just nothing for me here.

Together Again (1944)

Oedipus Wrecks (1989)

One joke, and it isn't really that funny.

Life Without Zoe (1989)

So much of Sofia Coppola in this.

Life Lessons (1989)

Easily the best segment of "New York Stories".

The Gauntlet (1977)

Ashes (2012)

True Grit (2010)

Northhanger Abbey

A Tale of Two Cities

Der Viennale '04-Trailer (2004)

Incendiary Cinema

Fire and Rain

We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

Dug the target in her eye + zoom in. And the cut from the masturbation scene to "Last Christmas" made me laugh. Otherwise...

Small Time Crooks (2000)

Love, love, love Elaine May in this.

Contains a lot of thematic stuff I "struggle" with. Can't buy class. Ignorance is bliss. Aspiration to culture.

Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)

Number 10 (1956)

Number 7 (1951)

Number 2: Message from the Sun (1941)

Toy Story 3 (2010)

Solitary Man (2009)

Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège (1933)

Toy Story 2 (1999)

The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

Dark Shadows (2012)

Mighty Aphrodite (1995)

The Wild Bunch (1969)

Eddie Izzard: Unrepeatable (1994)

Le gamin au vélo (2011)

Toy Story (1995)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Major Bennett Marco is the most incompetent intelligence officer ever?

Bird of Paradise (1932)

Stupid Hoe (2012)

Parisienne People (1992)

Louis C.K.: Chewed Up (2008)

Gamer (2009)

Absolute Power (1997)

Bon Voyage (1944)

La Donna è Mobile (1908)

The Young Victoria (2009)

Le silence de Lorna (2008)

A King in New York (1957)

Soldier (1998)

Square Times (1967)

Under the Brooklyn Bridge (1953)

The Aviary (1955)

Capricci (1969)

The shots through veils! Those scenes that seemed out of "Week End"!

...

That whimpering policeman.

L'Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) (2011)

Listened to "Nights in White Satin" like a hundred times after this.

Un amour de jeunesse (2011)

Himizu (2011)

Un été brûlant (2011)

Tout est pardonné (2007)

Le père de mes enfants (2009)

The Avengers (2012)

Abendland (1999)

O som ao redor (2012)

Hauntings 1 ()

Shepard's Delight - An Ananalysis of Humour (1984)

So very funny.

Om ()

Associations (1975)

The Girl Chewing Gum ()

On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed? (1977)

Don Giovanni (1970)

Swan (2011)

Not really that incisive, smart, powerful, but does have a striking image/scene in the photo under the tap in the sink. Deducted “points” for that silly sincere/opportunistic (?)  dedication at the end: “For the children.” Only thing other than the “water-photo” that mattered was when in the Q&A she talked about the difficulty of “private art” that aren’t shared with an audience.  Reminded me of this entry in Susan Sontag’s essays, I read a few days earlier:

The Comedy (2012)

Good Bye (2011)

Kiseki (2011)

La folie Almayer (2011)

The Crazies (1973)

Bubble (2005)

The Dead Pool (1988)

Cantico de Criaturas (2006)

Mobile Men (2008)

Haywire (2011)

Worldly Desires (2005)

Bad Lieutenant (1992)

Sudden Impact (1983)

Pale Rider (1985)

En construcción (2001)

Zombieland (2009)

Emma (1996)

La frontière de l'aube (2008)

Intermission (1963)

Une catastrophe (2008)

Les amants réguliers (2005)

The Apartment (1960)

How Do You Know (2010)

Video Phone (2009)

Indestructible (2010)

The Time Machine (1895)

Unstoppable (2010)

Crazy Clown Time (2012)

Douro, Faina Fluvial (1931)

Surfing the Zeitgeist ()

Go! Go! Go!

King of New York (1990)

Who's Minding the Store? (1963)

It'$ Only Money (1962)

Fort Apache (1948)

The Yards (1999)

Day & Night (2010)

Cute.

The Political Prisoner ()

J'entends plus la guitare (1991)

Frisco Jenny (1932)

Weekend (2011)

Les baisers de secours (1989)

Sauvage innocence (2001)

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)

Le Havre (2011)

Hugo (2011)

A Ticket for Thaddeus (1956)

Literally made me cry, pretty much from when the suitcase opened.

Day Is Done (1955)

La naissance de l'amour (1993)

Breaking News (2004)

Everyone Says I Love You (1996)

Didn't enjoy most of this, but that second to last scene at the Seine...

On the Bowery (1957)

Image in the Snow (1952)

Sisters of the Gion (1936)

Heroes: Season 2

Heroes: Season 1

Shame (2011)

The Enforcer (1973)

Man on Fire (2004)

I Love to Singa

Katnip Kollege

Le silence de la Mer (1949)

Running Out of Time 2 (2001)

Calle Mayor (1956)

Exactly what I needed. Saw it in French.

A Sense of History (1992)

The Air I Breathe (2007)

A Choice of Coward #4: Design for Living (1964)

The Clerk

Peanuts and Bullets (1915)

Running Out of Time (1999)

The Thick of It - Season 3 + Specials

Selected Letters 1924-1950

Branded to Kill (1967)

1941 (1941)

Compositon No. 2: Contrathemis (1941)

Compositon No. 1: Themis (1940)

Scherzo (1939)

Chumlum (1964)

Tokyo Drifter (1966)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Company (2007)

Running on Karma (2003)

My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (2002)

Mikres Afrodites (1963)

Fat Choi Spirit (2002)

Lost in the Mountains (2009)

Koma (2009)

The Domain of the Moment (1977)

The Machine of Eden (1970)

Take Aim at the Police Van (1960)

The Descendants (2011)

The Artist (2011)

Scarlet Street (1945)

The Insect Woman (1963)

Boeing Boeing (1965)

Hvidsten gruppen (2012)

Mildred Pierce (2011)

Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)

So the weekend had a double feature of Fredric March as a drunk. And this even has a young Cary Grant.

Repo Man (1984)

Sleeping Beauty (2011)

Nishi-Ginza Station (1958)

Rango (2011)

A Star is Born (1937)

The Geisha Boy (1958)

Nog (1968)

Practicalities ()

"I’m told men often do the rough work and that you often see them in the household section of department stores. I don’t even answer that sort of thing. Rough work is fun for men. To cut down trees after a day at the office isn’t work – it’s a kind of game. Of course, if you tell a man of ordinary build and average strength what needs doing – he does it. Wash up a couple of plates – he does it. Do the shopping – he does it. But he has a terrible tendency to think he is a hero if goes out and buys some potatoes. Still, never mind."

-          Translated by Barbara Bray

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

His mood was subdued, even a little glum. Like an actor, he had a sense of approaching anti-climax before the curtain went up, a sense of great things dwindling to a small, mean end; as death itself seemed small and mean to him after the struggles of his life. He had no sense of conquest that he knew of. His thoughts, as often when he was afraid, concerned people. He had no theories or judgements in particular. He simply wondered how everyone would be affected; and he felt responsible.

…

He had often wondered which side he would be on if the test ever came; after prolonged reflection he had finally to admit that if either monolith had to win the day, he would prefer it to be the East.

“It’s an aesthetic judgement as much as anything,” he explained, looking up. “Partly a moral one, of course.”

“Of course,” said Smiley politely.

Young Adult (2011)

Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958)

Flickers (1995)

When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

Design for Living (1933)

3 (2010)

J. Edgar (2011)

Decline and Fall (1928)

The King's Speech (2010)

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

Den vilde fårejagt

”Jeg er ikke ekspert i Farah Fawcetts næse,” sagde jeg og tog en lille slurk vin. Så glemte jeg, hvad det var, jeg var ved at sige.

- oversat af --- fra den engelske oversættelse af ---.

Rendezvous a Paris

Norwegian Wood

”Jeg slog op med ham … sådan,” sagde hun, stak en Marlboro i munden, skærmede for den med hånden, tændte den og tog et sug.

”Hvorfor?”

”Hvorfor?” skreg hun. ”Er du dag fuldkommen idiot?! Du har styr på engelsk konjunktiv, du forstår dig på trigonometri, og du har læst Marx, og alligevel fatter du ingenting. Hvordan kan du spørge om sådan noget? Hvordan kan du tvinge en pige til at skulle sige sådan noget? Fatter du slet ikke, at jeg bedre kan lide dig end ham? Jeg ville da gerne have forelsket mig i en fur, der så bedre ud, men nu er det altså dig, jeg har forelsket mig i.”

- Oversat af Mette Fugl.

Carnage (2011)

Not Sadness Which is Always There

After I had learned to live with my sadness

There came another, more disturbing strangeness

Whose purpose I could never understand, who always came late at night

And who kept me awake all hours

Until I turned on the headlamp to read,

As if finally forced to concede,

Not understanding that some things have nothing to do with the Will.

I who had conducted my life so that

I could not do other that what I do,

Who had steered my heavy ship around and around

Until it could only steer in one direction,

I saw no way to put this turmoil to good use.

It was not sadness, which is always there

like a cat I raised from childhood and stroke absent-mindedly

Not even loneliness, which I had trained to back down

In the presence of good company,

But something more needy.

Even as I sit with friends in the Hungarian pastry shop

Dawdling over sweets,

I am shaken by the urge to run home

To be alone with it, to let it work be over,

The mice combing the bag of day-old crumbs

Raking my stomach for overlooked mistakes.