Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Favorite (four), part thirty

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Just like in my other twenty-nine posts in this series, I want to take a second to single out the highlights of my recent film viewing.  Mos...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Favorite (four), part twenty-nine

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Just like in my other twenty-eight posts in this series, I want to take a second to single out the highlights of my recent film viewing.  Mo...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

I Flunked, But... (1930)

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The first Ozu film I was unable to find with English subtitles so I was forced to watch it the Langlois way and focus almost entirely on its...
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Saturday, July 11, 2015

Walk Cheerfully (1930)

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I had to order this film which is part of the reason there has been a gap in time since I last posted in this series. I would classify  Wa...
Monday, May 25, 2015

A Straightforward Boy (1929)

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Based on the thirteen minutes of surviving footage I was able to see, this film seems like quite the oddball.  It reminded me a little of On...
Sunday, May 24, 2015

I Graduated, But... (1929)

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Ozu's next surviving film only had several minutes of footage left that I was able to find.  Personally I had some difficulty in the v...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

Fighting Friends (1929)

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It is unclear watching how much of the finished film survives.  What I saw was a mere fourteen minutes long and almost worked as is but also...
Friday, May 22, 2015

Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)

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5/21/15 I watched Brett Morgen's Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck .  I always liked Cobain and a good bit of Nirvana and wanted to be enligh...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Days of Youth (1929)

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Just a few expectations to set before I begin this exploration of Ozu.  My notes on each film will be more impressionistic, steering clear f...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

Going Renoir on Ozu

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I lived in France for about two years total.  About six weeks during the Summer of 1993, about a year from the Fall of 1994 to the end of Su...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Favorite (four), part twenty-eight

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Just like in my other twenty-seven posts in this series, I want to take a second to single out the highlights of my recent film viewing (mo...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Television

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For some reason I never grew up watching much television.  And as long as I have been a cinephile, I have known a lot about film and film hi...
Sunday, January 11, 2015

My Top Ten Films of 2014

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Another year when I did not see as many new films as I would have liked.  Nor nearly as many films in general as in some other years.  Yet ...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Les Inrockuptibles chimes in

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I will be putting my own list together in the next week or so.  But in the meantime my favorite French magazine, Les Inrockuptibles , just p...
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Sunday, September 7, 2014

Favorite (four), part twenty-seven

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Just like in my other twenty-six posts in this series, I want to take a second to single out the highlights of my recent film viewing.  Most...