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The Rail of Tomorrow: Films I Saw in 2010
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Films I Saw in 2010. The Book of Eli. The Good, the Bad, the Weird. For the Love of Movies. Red Riding – 1974. Hot Tub Time Machine. Red Riding – 1980. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. How to Train Your Dragon. The Secret in Their Eyes. Exit Through the Gift Shop. Get Him to the Greek. The Kids Are All Right. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. I’m Still Here. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Never Let Me Go. Waiting for “Superman”. The Killer Inside Me. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.
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The Rail of Tomorrow: December 2013
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Thursday, December 19, 2013. I wrote this piece for a class in college, with a prompt from Christian Keathley's wonderful book. Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees , which asked participants to focus on a specific, seemingly meaningless moment to speculate on and draw from it larger, probably unintended meaning. To coincide with the recent release of. Red River on Blu-ray, I thought it'd be a fitting time to revisit it. It has been modestly revised over the years. Philip Marlowe seems to onl...
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The Rail of Tomorrow: June 2013
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Thursday, June 6, 2013. If you're not already listening to Rudie Obias and West Anthony's AuteurCast. Well, you ought to do that. Every few weeks, they pick a filmmaker, discuss all of their films chronologically, with an episode dedicated to each film (they release two or three episodes a week, typically), in the hopes of analyzing, in Rudie's words that open each episodes, "what makes them an auteur, or at the very least, what makes them worth watching.". Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Films I Saw in ...
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The Rail of Tomorrow: January 2015
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Monday, January 12, 2015. My Favorite Cinematic Discoveries of 2014. Through both assignments and my own leisure, I saw 199 films made prior to 2013 for the very first time in 2014. Couldn’t quite crack the 200 mark, I guess. 40 were on film, 7 on DCP, 58 on Blu-ray, 52 on DVD, 40 on various home digital platforms, and 2 on Beta tape. I’m slightly ashamed by just how many were American (123! Isn’t six Japanese films downright pathetic, given that it is by far the most-represented country on Hulu? Especia...
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kino teorijos užrašai: (Ne)baigtas karas
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Jei sugalvotumėte pasinaudoti - prašau, bet tvarkingai. 2013 m. rugpjūčio 14 d., trečiadienis. Tai ištrauka iš straipsnio „Derybos dėl istorijos ir tapatumo dirbtuvės: Antrasis pasaulinis karas šiuolaikiniame rusų kine“, parengto knygai: Natalija Arlauskaitė, Dovile Jakniūnaitė (sud.), Šiuolaikinės Rusijos tapatybės paieškos ir politinė praktika, 1990-2010 m. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 2013. 1992, rež. Boris Galkin) baigiasi. 8220; ( Анкор, еще анкор! 1994, rež. Nikita Michalkov),. Kur veik...
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kino teorijos užrašai: Kinas + teorija + (ne)skaitymas
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Jei sugalvotumėte pasinaudoti - prašau, bet tvarkingai. 2013 m. rugsėjo 30 d., pirmadienis. Prieš dvi savaites „Kino teorijos užrašų“ FB paklausiau, ar kas skaitė kuriuos nors iš trijų per metus išėjusius straipsnius, skirtus skirtingiems (labai skirtingiems) kino teorijos klausimams. Išėjusius Lietuvos akademinėje spaudoje. Laisvai. Drįstu galvoti – tai geri straipsniai. Štai kelios „nulio“ versijos (pirmos dvi – savistabos, kitos – akademinio lauko stebėjimo rezultatas):. Lietuvoje skaitomi ne (akademi...
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Diary of a Country Cinephile: August 2010
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Diary of a Country Cinephile. Thursday, August 19, 2010. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski, 2010). A lot of people compare The Ghost Writer. In its grasp of paranoia and political corruption, but the most obvious reference point to me seems to be Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps. Manages goofy fun in the name of genre, seriousness in the name of tone and content, and maturity in its rejection of the overwrought defeatism that has made Chinatown. The ever-enduring hallmark of Polanski’s filmography.
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Diary of a Country Cinephile: June 2011
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Diary of a Country Cinephile. Thursday, June 30, 2011. Viewing Log: 6/1/11 - 6/30/11. Claude Chabrol, 1968). Claude Chabrol, 1970). 6/27/11 FULL METAL JACKET. Stanley Kubrick, 1987). 6/25/11 BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK. John Sturges, 1955). Don Siegel, 1971). 6/23/11 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PT. 1. David Yates, 2010). 6/20/11 CHLOE IN THE AFTERNOON. Eric Rohmer, 1972). 6/19/11 ADVISE and CONSENT. Otto Preminger, 1962). Jean-Luc Godard, 2004). Brian De Palma, 1984). 6/17/11 HIGH AND LOW. The Cinema ...
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Diary of a Country Cinephile: April 2010
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Diary of a Country Cinephile. Wednesday, April 21, 2010. Mélo (Alain Resnais, 1986). Many canonized directors often wind up endlessly lauded for a single work, and for Alain Resnais Last Year at Marienbad. Is that film. I had heard about it numerous times before ever once hearing about a single post-sixties film of his, or even his 1963 Muriel. Made only two years afterwards. I suppose like many people, I started with Marienbad. A few weeks ago I revisited Marienbad. Today I watched Mélo. Would be genuin...
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Diary of a Country Cinephile: Exploring Cassavetes: SHADOWS
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Diary of a Country Cinephile. Friday, March 25, 2011. When I first watched John Cassavetes' Shadows. And The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. Have taught me that forming conceptions of Cassavetes films is fruitless work. And Hitchcock's 50s period. Given that Welles's style changed drastically after traveling to Europe, Carney appears to be committing the cardinal sin of consigning the director to his most overpraised masterwork. Thankfully, this polemic ends when he begins to write about Shadows. This is no...