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Top 100: August 2004
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Tuesday, August 31, 2004. My top 100 is awfully mercurial. Mainly due to my equally mercurial opinions. I'm now waiting for concussion #8 (i think), and it seems that the previous 7 have done nothing to help my memory. What does this mean? Updated 031005. Had to change everything again. Sorry. Am I losing all cred by instilling three films in my canon in one week? God, I hope not. That said,. Rebel Without a Cause. And in one of those rare occurences, back-to-back films make the pantheon. 8 Good Will Hun...
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D Luc Besson, 1990. Standing at the punch table swallowing punch. Thursday, November 08, 2007. D Luc Besson, 1990. You're always combining two things at once.". Depending upon where you live and how you read the film - is a romantic/relational drama masquerading as a spy thriller. Follow: Say you write a letter to a friend, a friend who just so happens to owe you money. You open with the niceties - how's life? This - could you, if it's at all convenient, send me that twenty bucks I let you. This collisio...
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Short Cuts:
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No Marian - you cheat, remember? Wednesday, March 08, 2006. D Steven Soderbergh, 2006. D Bennett Miller, 2005. Why, I now realize, Blake Edward's film version of Truman Capote's novella,. Blushes in comparison to the book is the absence of the author. Capote is such a compelling and interesting character that, I imagine (not having actually read. D Chu Yuan, 1977. Et Cetera. But it's so damn likable, too! Cowards Bend the Knee. D Guy Maddin, 2003. Cowards Bend the Knee. Leading us to believe that this is...
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&c.: September 2004
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Standing at the punch table swallowing punch. Thursday, September 30, 2004. Directed by Jacques Tati. Certain films have the potential to be ruined if analyzed too closely. Not that they collapse under the magnifying glass, or that there is analyzable material lacking; no, it's that certain films have such charm, such charisma, that to approach from an angle too analytical is to lose sight of the spirit of the film. Jacques Tati's 1967 Playtime. And M Hulot's Holiday. Makes a reappearance in Playtime.
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Top Tens: August 2004
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Tuesday, August 31, 2004. 1 The General (Clyde Bruckman/Buster Keaton; 1927). 2 The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Th. Dreyer; 1928). 3 Sunrise (F.W. Murnau; 1927). 4 Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein; 1925). 5 The Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov; 1929). Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton; 1924). 7 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene; 1919). 8 The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin; 1925). 9 The Kid (Charles Chaplin; 1921). 10 Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith; 1919). 1 A Trip to the Moon (Georges Melies).
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Film Log: 2006
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My Mind's Not Right. Sunday, January 01, 2006. Is symbolism for a feature length film. Are a metaphor for a short or television series. The imagery of the asterisk (*) denotes a theatre experience. A pound sign (#) portends a hindsight case of foreshadowing, wherein your humble correspondent feels as if he has, in fact, seen the affected film before. Let's get on with it, hm? 1 010106 - Punishment Park. 2 010106 - March of the Penguins. 3 010106 - The Notebook. 4 010206 - Lolita. 6 010306 - Boogie Nights.
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Run, Lola, Run. D Tom Tykwer, 1998. Standing at the punch table swallowing punch. Wednesday, November 21, 2007. Run, Lola, Run. D Tom Tykwer, 1998. This was among the first batch of films I watched when I first started. Posted by Michael K. at 12:59 AM. You know i had just seen Run Lola a few weeks ago and i considered not goin yesterday (also bc id just seen MiVi and No Country 2x on the big screen and wanted to keep them fresh in mind) -. But I thought Lola , for all its silliness, complimented Miami a...
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&c.:
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D Charles Chaplin, 1936. Standing at the punch table swallowing punch. Saturday, November 17, 2007. D Charles Chaplin, 1936. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. That saying kept bouncing through my head during the entire screening - the first section of the film is that idea taken to the nth degree. That is, what happens when the world you live in equips you to do one thing? Posted by Michael K. at 11:55 PM. Fave Films (by Year). Fave Films (by Filmmaker). Fave Albums (by Year).
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You were so kind. Standing at the punch table swallowing punch. Saturday, January 15, 2005. You were so kind. And you'll still be able to find my dynamic Top Ten of 2004 here. It'll change with my whims. Top Ten Films of the Year. Kill Bill Vol. II. Not as much fun as Vol. I, but still a true hoot. QT, love him or hate him, is a master. The guy has no business being as good as he is. The only relevant criticism is that he has nothing original up his sleeve. But isn't that the point? D David O. Russell.
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The Auteurs Best: The Auteurs
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I saved Latin. What did you ever do? Tuesday, August 31, 2004. Nb auteur theory makes sense to me kinda', but I don't think it should stop at directors - i.e. the singular velocity of a film isn't necessarily forged by its director - ergo the strange lists under Mamet, Herzog, Keaton, &c. Also: I don't necessarily love, or even like, all of these creators; inclusion here simply means that they are recognized as having a vision of sorts, as having amassed a body of work that. 02 Annie Hall (1977). 02 Requ...
