Here's a great little interview that popped up today:
http://www.sfinm.org/developments/336-jeffrey-goodman-on-the-last-lullaby.html
9 hours ago
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Favorite Films Each Year
- 1926: Nana (Jean Renoir)
- 1927: Sunrise (FW Murnau)
- 1928: The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
- 1930: The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg)
- 1931: La chienne (Jean Renoir)
- 1932: La Nuit du Carrefour (Jean Renoir)
- 1933: Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang)
- 1934: L'atalante (Jean Vigo)
- 1935: The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock)
- 1936: Les bas-fonds (Jean Renoir)
- 1937: You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang)
- 1938: Holiday (George Cukor)
- 1939: La regle du jeu (Jean Renoir)
- 1940: The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)
- 1941: Sergeant York (Howard Hawks)
- 1942: The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles)
- 1943: Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock)
- 1944: Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
- 1945: Les dames du bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson)
- 1946: The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler)
- 1947: Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
- 1948: Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls)
- 1949: Jour de fete (Jacques Tati)
- 1950: In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
- 1951: A Place in the Sun (George Stevens)
- 1952: Casque d'or (Jacques Becker)
- 1953: The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
- 1954: The Barefoot Contessa (Joseph Mankiewicz)
- 1955: Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
- 1956: Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk)
- 1957: Men in War (Anthony Mann)
- 1958: Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger)
- 1959: Pickpocket (Robert Bresson)
- 1960: Shoot the Piano Player (Francois Truffaut)
- 1961: Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan)
- 1962: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford)
- 1963: Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
- 1964: Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
- 1965: Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
- 1966: Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
- 1967: La Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer)
- 1968: L'enfance nue (Maurice Pialat)
- 1969: The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
- 1970: The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
- 1971: The French Connection (William Friedkin)
- 1972: The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
- 1973: The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
- 1974: Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
- 1975: Night Moves (Arthur Penn)
- 1976: Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders)
- 1977: Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
- 1978: Straight Time (Ulu Grosbard)
- 1979: Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
- 1980: Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
- 1981: Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
- 1982: The Thing (John Carpenter)
- 1983: L'argent (Robert Bresson)
- 1984: Boy Meets Girl (Leos Carax)
- 1985: Year of the Dragon (Michael Cimino)
- 1986: Hoosiers (David Anspaugh)
- 1987: Where Is the Friend's House (Abbas Kiarostami)
- 1988: Bird (Clint Eastwood)
- 1989: Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
- 1990: Trust (Hal Hartley)
- 1991: My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant)
- 1992: Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
- 1993: Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma)
- 1994: Les Roseaux sauvages (Andre Techine)
- 1995: Heat (Michael Mann)
- 1996: Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen)
- 1997: Hana-bi (Takeshi Kitano)
- 1998: The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
- 1999: The Insider (Michael Mann)
- 2000: Yi Yi (Edward Yang)
- 2001: Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
- 2002: Funny Ha Ha (Andrew Bujalski)
- 2003: All the Real Girls (David Gordon Green)
- 2004: Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
- 2005: Les amants reguliers (Philippe Garrel)
- 2006: L'enfant (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
- 2007: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
- 2008: Tulpan (Sergei Dvortsevoy)
- 2009
- 2010
- 2011
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
- Favorites Wrap-Up
MOST RECENTLY WATCHED
- Little Women (1933)
- Dumb and Dumber (1994)
- Wall Street (1987)
- Certain Women (2017)
- Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
- Dinner at Eight (1933)
- Mammy Water (1953)
- King in the Wilderness (2018)
- Choose Me (1984)
- I Called Him Morgan (2016)
On the headphones
- Spotify (mostly)
On the nightstand
- Austerlitz
In the lab
- Sanchez De Los Torros
Album blurbs
Followers
About Me
My Blog List
-
ON BEING FUNNY IN AN ALTERNATE HOLLYWOOD: BIFFLE & SHOOSTER WRITER-DIRECTOR MICHAEL SCHLESINGER - “Who are you?” “B-I-double F-iffle. Biffle! S-H-double O-ooster. Shooster! We’re Biffle and Shooster! Need we say more?” In 1928, the vaudeville comedy ...
-
Happy birthday to American poet Hart Crane - Post from those long-ago days when I did Daily Book Excerpts. This is one of the excerpts from The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Volu...17 hours ago
-
-
Les Chansons de l'été : Slum Village - Fall In Love (2000) - * Cet été, on vous fait replonger dans un déluge de chansons estivales sur LPAE. C'est vraiment chouette, c'est une rubrique qu'on fait tous les ans dep...
22 hours ago -
My Death is a Mockery (1952) - | Hanged for a lamb? | UK / 65 minutes / bw / David Dent, Adelphi Dir: Tony Young Pr: David Dent Scr: Douglas Baber Cine: Phil Grindrod Cast: Donald Housto...1 day ago
-
81. Batman 66 (1966-8) - by Sam Juliano One of my fondest childhood memories dates back to the summer of 1967. At that time television was all the rage for the bay boomer crowd es...1 day ago
-
In the Presence of a Clown: On the Films of Rick Alverson - “Alverson takes familiar images, milieus and scenarios as a starting point, only to render them alien, jettisoning the usual tenets of narrative cinema i...1 day ago
-
Touki-Bouki (1973) - Director/Screenwriter: Djibril Diop Mambéty By Roderick Heath Following its 2007 restoration by Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation, Djibril Diop Mam...1 day ago
-
Episode #106 - Janet Staiger (Zombieland) - "I see both my work as an attempt to understand how history works and how people experience and live, and how they can live better lives as critical consu...
2 days ago -
The Last Ten Movies I Saw - 1. Tangerine (Baker) 2. Dishonored (Von Sternberg) 3. Stranger By the Lake (Guiraudie) 4. About Time (Curtis) 5. Blindsided (Estrada) 6. Breathless (Godard...2 days ago
-
Outstanding Plate Lunches at Bergeron’s in Shreveport - Luckily for local food lovers, there are two locations of Bergeron’s Boudin and Cajun Meats in Shreveport-Bossier, and they’re both great in different ways...3 days ago
-
Hey Abbott! - Abbott and Costello never received the critical respect they deserved in the comedy world; they were considered too low-brow. Yet, for me back when I was i...3 days ago
-
Felt reissues continue with ‘Forever Breathes the Lonely Word’ and 4 more albums - Cherry Red Records continues its reissue of the entire Felt catalog this September with CD and vinyl re-releases of the acclaimed indie-pop act's second fi...4 days ago
-
Jean-Marie Straub on THE 6TH OF JUNE AT DAWN - (LE 6 JUIN À L'AUBE, Jean Grémillon, 1944-46) It was probably the first film of Grémillon’s I saw. And it’s surely the one that left the biggest traces o...
1 week ago -
The Rockford Files (1974-1980) - --> When I was a child my grandfather and I bonded over several things: Clint Eastwood films, James Bond and *The Rockford Files*. Some of my fondest me...
3 weeks ago -
8 Hours' Terror - *Follow the Bouncing Bus* (All images are iPhone photos taken of frames of the film playing off the Arrow Blu-ray of the film.) === If Paul McCartney w...
3 weeks ago -
Remembering the Owl Fine Foods - This is a collection of memories about the Owl Fine Foods store written by a hobbyist historian source that would like to remain anonymous. With the potent...1 month ago
-
Please Support Brandon Colvin's A DIM VALLEY at Kickstarter - The extraordinary filmmaker Brandon Colvin has just recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fiance his upcoming film, *A Dim Valley*, and I would ...
1 month ago -
April 2018 viewing diary - Bouncing back from a lean March, April has been full of good and interesting films for me. Unfortunately, I did NOT plan accordingly and ran out of time to...
2 months ago -
Love After Love (2018) A Film by Russell Harbaugh - "For a film about the breakdown of a bourgeoisie family’s comfortable suburban existence following the death of its patriarch, Russell Harbaugh’s *Love Af...
3 months ago -
Liam O'Flaherty - Four Books - Liam O'Flaherty - Four Books *Skerrett* / *Return of the Brute* / *Famine* / *Insurrection* I have long been aware of Liam O'Flaherty and a huge admirer of ...
3 months ago -
Facsimile Podcast #32: The Act of Seeing Series 1, Episode 10: Je vous salue, Marie (Jean-Luc Godard; 1968) - This week on *The Act of Seeing* . . . Preliminaries: Twitter nonsense/Hal Hartley/Starting the show . . . A discussion of Jean-Luc Godard's *Je vous sal...
3 months ago -
Best of 2017: The 13 Best Films of the Year - by Tony Dayoub As Academy Awards night bears down on us, here is my annual filmic appreciation. For your consideration, my top films of 2017, followed by...
4 months ago -
Jean Harlow, Mary Dees, and SARATOGA - I watched SARATOGA again last night for the first time in years and still found it very depressing. It is so sad to watch Harlow, clearly weak and listless...4 months ago
-
Links - So it should be obvious from a cursory look that this site isn't really updated anymore but I am still writing around the internet so here are links to my ...5 months ago
-
Anecdote of the Week: 'Spit It Out' - A story told by John Sayles, from a wonderful 1995 conversation between him and historian Eric Foner. Their dialogue opens the book *Past Imperfect: His...
5 months ago -
2017: A Personal Round-Up - At the end of a *monstrous* year, here is a personal inventory of some things that were in fact good and life-affirming and precious in 2017 ... *3 Favor...
6 months ago -
2017: Rebirths and Afterlives - I adore this time of year. It’s the time when we write out short lists to memorialize the past twelve months. The selections don’t matter, nor does the ord...6 months ago
-
Modernism, By Other Means: The Films Of Amit Dutta - I am excited to announce that I will be curating a retrospective of Indian filmmaker Amit Dutta at the Bombay Art Society in Mumbai between the 8th and the...7 months ago
-
Disques mythiques, part.12 - Après une trop longue absence sur ce blog ainsi que sur la blogosphère en général, retour aux affaires en douceur avec un billet pochettes de disques . J'a...1 year ago
-
Déménagement… - … et surtout emménagement à une nouvelle adresse que j’espère pleine de belles promesses, soit un nouveau blog modeste et sans fioriture que j’essayerai d’...1 year ago
-
All Good Things… - Friends, There’s no easy way to deliver bad news, so it’s best to cut to the chase: Movie Mezzanine, unfortunately, is closing its doors. Sadly, while ou...1 year ago
-
ABSOLUTELY COOL... - *Cette fois, je n'ai pas attendu que Big Brother me fiche à la porte... Parfois, dans l'existence, il ne faut pas hésiter à repartir de zéro pour tenter ...
1 year ago -
THE DEATH OF ANTAGONY & ECSTASY - This will be the last new post on Antagony & Ecstasy, almost eleven and a half years after the first one. It has been a good and steady companion to me, an...1 year ago
-
Summer of ’96: On “Gabbeh” and “A Moment of Innocence” - *This essay was originally written for Movie Mezzanine. Few figures in world cinema are as contentious as Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The mere mention of his name c...
1 year ago -
First Time Viewings / 2015 - Twenty five, in vaguely preferential order: *Les Fantomes du Chapelier* (Claude Chabrol, 1982) *Alice, or the Last Escapade* (Claude Chabrol, 1977) *Abigail...2 years ago
-
New Home - My writing – about music, not film, at the moment – can currently be found at my new blog: reddy brown objects.3 years ago
-
John Frankenheimer: The Train - [image: The_train_poster] Growing up with action films in the ‘80s and ‘90s — memorizing every John Woo slow-mo gun battle, every world-weary Bruce Willis c...
4 years ago
No comments:
Post a Comment