This exists because of a glorified dare, or a particularly fuzzy human being. It will not review so much as ramble. It will not be academic but rather acidic. Growth will be apparent from the early to current stages, and the author will not attempt to hide progress through pretense. It will generally restrict itself to the medium of cinema, without ruling out the chance of evolving interests. It will be shameless with regard to obsessions, preferences, and narrowness. The intention will generally be for substance, but brevity will be rare. Few poetic attempts will be made, as the author’s prose is only too prosaic. Ire will give way to irony, and ignorance will be ignored. Near to none have been told about the existence of this log by the author. Those who have should visit often, at least once a year, but not daily.
2009 Calendar
- 03.20 – Duplicity – Tony Gilroy
- 05.08 – Rudo Y Cursi – Carlos Cuaron
- 05.08 – Star Trek – J.J. Abrams
- 05.29 – Up – Bob Peterson & Pete Docter
- 06.05 – The Hangover – Todd Phillips
- 06.11 – Tetro – Francis Ford Coppola
- 06.11 – The Limits of Control – Jim Jarmusch
- 06.19 – Whatever Works – Woody Allen
- 08.21 – Inglorious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino
- 09.04 – Extract – Mike Judge
- 09.18 – The Informant! – Steven Soderbergh
- 10.02 – A Serious Man – Joel & Ethan Coen
- 10.16 – Where The Wild Things Are – Spike Jonze
- 11.06 – Broken Embraces (Los Embrazos Rotos) – Pedro Almodovar
- 11.06 – Fantastic Mr. Fox – Wes Anderson
- 11.06 – The Men Who Stare At Goats – Grant Heslov
- 11.25 – Nine – Rob Marshall
- 12.18 – Avatar – James Cameron
Books - Closed
- Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) – Akira Mizuta Lippit
- Cinema East: A Critical Study of Major Japanese Films – Keiko McDonald
- City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles – Mike Davis
- Crime & Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Film Form – Sergei Eisenstein
- Film Theory: An Introduction – Lapsley & Westlake
- Have You Seen…? – David Thomson
- Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema – Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
- Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies – Reyner Banham
- Orientalism – Edward Said
- Philosophical Writings – Immanuel Kant
- Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction – Leela Gandhi
- The Everlasting Man – G.K. Chesterton
- The Leopard – Giusseppe di Lampedusa
- The Poetics of Space – Gaston Bachelard
- The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
- The Yiddish Policemen’s Union – Michael Chabon
- Unthinking Eurocentrism – Ella Shohat / Robert Stam
- What Is Cinema? Vol. 1 – Andre Bazin
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Films
- 11′09”01 – September 11 (2002)
- 400 Blows, The (1959)
- 8½ (1963)
- Adaptation. (2002)
- Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1939)
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
- Alphaville (1965)
- American Graffiti (1973)
- Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
- And Then There Were None (1945)
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- Avanti! (1972)
- Baby Face (1933)
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- Battle of Algiers, The (1966)
- Begotten (1990)
- Bella (2007)
- Belle Noiseuse, La (1991)
- Big Lebowski, The (1998)
- Big Sleep, The (1946)
- Birth of a Nation, The (1915)
- Black Book (2006)
- Blood of the Beasts (1949)
- Blood Simple (1984)
- Body Beautiful, The (1991)
- Bourne Identity/Ultimatum, The (2002/2007)
- Branded to Kill (1967)
- Brazil (1985)
- Broken Blossoms (1919)
- Broken Flowers (2005)
- Burn After Reading (2008)
- Caché (2005)
- Chico (2001)
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- Chinatown (1974)
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- Chronicle of a Summer (1960)
- City Lights (1931)
- Cloverfield (2007)
- Conformist, The (1970)
- Conversation, The (1974)
- Dangerous Thread of Things, The (2004)
- Darjeeling Limited, i (2007)
- Darjeeling Limited, ii (2007)
- Dark Knight, The (2008)
- Daughters of the Dust (1991)
- Dave (1993)
- Days of Being Wild (1980)
- Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)
- Death At A Funeral (2007)
- Decalogue I-III (1988)
- Decalogue IV-V (1988)
- Decalogue VI (1988)
- Deep Hearts (1981)
- Delicatessen (1991)
- Dial M for Murder (1954)
- Double Life of Veronique, The (1991)
- Dr. T and the Women (2000)
- Draughtsman’s Contract, The (1982)
- Drunken Angel (1948)
- Dumb and Dumber (1994)
- Duplicity (2009)
- E.T. (1982)
- Easy Rider (1969)
- Elegy (2008)
- Emma (1996)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
- Exorcist, The (1973)
- Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
- Fall, The (2006)
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
- Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
- Father Goose (1964)
- Feast of Love (2007)
- First Name: Carmen (1983)
- Fistful of Dollars, A (1964)
- Fountain, The (2006)
- Freaks (1932)
- From Russia With Love (1963)
- General, The (1927)
- Gilda (1946)
- Gold Rush (1925) & Modern Times (1936)
- Good German, The (2006)
- Good Soldier Schweik, The (1957)
- Goodfellas (1990)
- Gosford Park (2001)
- Gran Torino (2008)
- Great Expectations (1946)
- Gummo (1997)
- Hail Mary (1985)
- Hangover, The (2009)
- Hellboy (2004)
- Hellboy 2 (2008)
- High Fidelity (2000)
- Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
- Hitch (2005)
- How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1971)
- How To Steal A Million (1966)
- I Am Legend (2007)
- I Served the King of England (2006)
- I'm All Right, Jack (1959)
- In Good Company (2004)
- In The Cut (2003)
- Incredible Hulk, The (2008)
- Indiana Jones IV (2008)
- Indiscreet (1958)
- Inglourious Basterds (2009)
- Iron Man (2008)
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
- Ju Dou (1990)
- Juno (2007)
- Kids (1995)
- Killer’s Kiss (1955)
- Knife in the Water (1962)
- Kung Fu Panda (2007)
- L’Âge d’Or (1930)
- L’Eclisse (1962)
- Lady from Shanghai, The (1947)
- Lady Vanishes, The (1938)
- Ladykillers, The (1955)
- Last Emperor, The (1987)
- Last Supper, The (1976)
- Last Tango in Paris (1972)
- Laura (1944)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- Leatherheads (2008)
- Leopard, The (1963)
- Lifeforce (1985)
- Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
- M (1931)
- Man of Marble (1977)
- Masculin féminin (1966)
- Mean Streets (1973)
- Men Who Stare At Goats, The (2009)
- Metropolis (1927)
- Mildred Pierce (1945)
- Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters (1985)
- Mississippi Masala (1991)
- Mr. Death: The Rise & Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)
- Murmur of the Heart (1971)
- Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
- Mystic River (2003)
- Nanook of the North (1922)
- Nashville (1975)
- Night Mail (1936)
- No Country For Old Men (2007)
- North By Northwest (1959)
- Nosferatu (1922)
- Notorious (1946)
- Office Killer (1997)
- Onibaba (1964)
- Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
- Passion (1982)
- Peeping Tom (1960)
- Perfume of Yvonne, The (1994)
- Persepolis (2007)
- Pervert’s Guide To Cinema, The (2006)
- Piano, The (1993)
- Pickpocket (1959)
- Pierrot Le Fou (1965)
- Pineapple Express (2008)
- Potemkin (1925)
- Powaqqatsi (1988)
- Priceless (Hors de prix) (2006)
- Pride & Prejudice (2006)
- Quantum of Solace (2008)
- Rashomon (1950)
- Ratatouille (2007)
- Reassemblage (1983)
- Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
- Red Beard (1965)
- Red Desert (1964)
- Red-Headed Woman (1932)
- Roma, città aperta (1945)
- Round-Up, The (1965)
- Rudo Y Cursi (2009)
- Rules of the Game, The (1939)
- Sabrina (1954)
- Sabrina (1995)
- Scandal (1950)
- Scanner Darkly, A (2006)
- Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
- Shop on Main Street, The (1965)
- Sixth Sense, The (1999)
- Sleeper (1973)
- Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
- Solaris (1972)
- Some Like It Hot (1959)
- Son of Rambow (2007)
- Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
- Stalker (1979)
- Star Trek (2009)
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
- Sting, The (1973)
- Strangers on a Train (1951)
- Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- Tampopo (1985)
- Ten Little Indians (1965)
- There Will Be Blood (2007)
- Thieves’ Highway (1949)
- Third Man, The (1949)
- Three Colors: Blue (Trois Couleurs: Bleu) (1993)
- THX-1138 (1971)
- Touch of Evil (1958)
- Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
- Trouble With Harry, The (1955)
- Umberto D. (1952)
- Un Chien Andalou (1929)
- Up (2009)
- Volver (2006)
- Waitress (2007)
- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
- Walkabout (1971)
- Wall-E (2008)
- Waterloo Bridge (1931)
- Where The Wild Things Are (2009)
- White Christmas (1954)
- Winter Light (1962)
- Woman in the Dunes (1964)
- WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
- Wrestler, The (2008)
- Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
- Youth Without Youth (2007)
- Zabriskie Point (1970)
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- The Other “Twilight” November 27, 2009The second, and decidedly superior product, from Robert Benton last weekend. In the recent Feast of Love, Benton traded in the solid, veteran cast from his previous film Twilight for a set of young and sexy pawns to cater to navel-gazing empty-headed philosophes. This film, however, takes major advantage of its L.A. setting, incorporating the [...]ZC
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every day and a half. that’s how often I visit.
I just discovered and joined your website yesterday. Therefore, I hope to visit every other day. Once a year? ha!ha!
Nice new theme and layout!
Hey buddy. My name is Tom, and I was hoping that you would be interested in exchanging links with my website. It’s called what-song.com and it lists all the songs heard in movies. We currently receive around 1000 – 1500 visits a day, and are ranked 590 000th on Alexa if that means anything to you. I may be pushing it by asking for this. But i need a website to sponsor my website slightly more. I’m looking for a site that will put a ‘Music’ section in its links sidebar and in there you can put links to some of your favourite movie soundtracks linked to the corresponding page on my site. So, for example I just finished writing the scenes in for Inglorious Basterds. So you could put this link under the music section..
http://www.what-song.com/movie/title.php?Title=Inglourious%20Basterds
This may seem like overkill, but I need to test out links to individual pages. But yer, if you’re not keen for the individual links, im happy to do a simple link exchange. You put up http://www.what-song.com and i’ll put up http://www.andrewsidea.wordpress.com
Anyway, get back to me… Thanks a lot.
Tom