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| Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 | | 3:42 pm |
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movie round-up, February
Let's do a little catching up, shall we? K. 24. THE FRENCH CONNECTION 25. YEAR OF THE DRAGON 26. 7 UP 27. 7 PLUS SEVEN 28. 21 UP 29. CARNAGE 30. PERFORMANCE 31. THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE 32. PICKPOCKET 33. AMERICAN GIGOLO 34. THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE 35. I'M GONNA GIT YOU, SUCKA 36. POOTIE TANG 37. MALCOLM X 38. DO THE RIGHT THING *39. ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA 40. NORWEGIAN WOOD 41. THE SECRET LIFE OF ARRIETTY 42. HUGO 43. PATHS OF GLORY 44. MARGARET 45. THE MYSTERY OF THE EIFFEL TOWER 46. L'ARGENT 47. A MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH 48. THE MUSIC LOVERS No commentary, really. BUT: ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA is one of my favorite films of the year, and San Francisco residents will get another chance to see it at the end of May. I strongly recommend it - one of the most enthralling and quiet films I've seen in some time. | | Friday, March 2nd, 2012 | | 2:35 pm |
| | Thursday, March 1st, 2012 | | 11:43 am |
movie round-up, January
A bit late with this. Heh. 1. WEEK END2. SILENT SOULS 3. THE MILL & THE CROSS 4. AMERICAN PSYCHO 5. WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE 6. SHAME 7. A DANGEROUS METHOD 8. THE DUELLISTS9. THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE: 1967-1975 10. WATTSTAX *11. PINA 12. RED DESERT 13. TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY 14. FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: THE SACRED STAR OF MILOS 15. WARREN ELLIS: CAPTURED GHOSTS 16. UNDERWORLD U.S.A. 17. THIEVES HIGHWAY 18. THE BREAKING POINT 19, THE GREAT GATSBY 20. THREE STRANGERS 21. HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY 22. HAYWIRE *23. THE GREY ( More, as usual, beneath the cut... ) | | Friday, January 6th, 2012 | | 11:40 am |
movie round-up, December
206. THE MUPPETS 207. EAMES: THE ARCHITECT AND THE PAINTER 208. TWICE UPON A TIME 209. MELANCHOLIA210. THRONE OF BLOOD 211. MacBETH 212. LADY ON A TRAIN 213. THE SOFT SKIN 214. THE DESCENDANTS 215. THE BRIDE WORE BLACK 216. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO 217. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL 218. THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN (219. HICKEY & BOGGS) 220. ORPHEE I'm reconsidering how I write about film here, what little I do. Most of my serious film writing, including my top 20 list for 2011, is over at The House of Sparrows. I'm seriously considering retooling the monthly updates into a media diet (as coined by Steven Soderbergh). We'll see what happens. Meanwhile, you wanna talk about any of the movies listed above, just drop me a comment below. And Happy New Year. On video: THE HEARSE, JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, INFERNAL AFFAIRS II, INFERNAL AFFAIRS III, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, [REC]2 | | Sunday, December 25th, 2011 | | 5:30 pm |
quiet at the holiday
Despite being a bit sick, infecting my mom's computer with spyware (then pretty much killing the thing by trying to debug it), and other holiday related stresses, I'm having a lovely holiday with the family. Some lovely gifts under the tree, including one replacement of an item lost in the fire that nearly brought me to tears - didn't think I'd ever see another copy of He Said Omala's CATCH SUPPOSES, but there was this angelic little voice that piped up when its familiar light green color peeked thru the wrapping. Thanks Mike. Some old stuff, some new stuff, a nice walk to Safeway with my uncle, an episode of DEXTER (season 6 is borderline shark-jumping, but it ain't boring), and some great smelling pork from my dad's oven. I'm wishing you all similar, and the best the season has to offer. Love you. | | Thursday, December 1st, 2011 | | 2:03 pm |
intense relief
Though it didn't look like the room was going anywhere, I was still panicked that things were taking too long, that someone would swoop in and grab it while I waited for the deposit to make my account, etc. But yes, today I got word that I have secured tenancy of a room in a nice Victorian house, just a couple of blocks away from the Former-But-Here's-Hoping-Also-Future Robson Station in the Lower Haight. My future remains open, but at the very least this place will give me a chance to relax, catch my breath and wait until either a) I get a larger, closer-to-my-original-place place via the new Good Samaritan Tenancy legislation, or b) they actually rebuild my former building and let us back in. The room itself seems rather tiny, but the residence itself is fairly deluxe. The rent is higher, but it pays a lot of utilities that I was previously responsible for, so I'm not, in the end, spending that much more money per month. And, most importantly, I can stop leaping from friend's place to friend's place. Anyway, I am pleased. And relieved. And very, very tired. How's it with you? | | Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 | | 9:05 pm |
| | Friday, November 4th, 2011 | | 1:38 pm |
movie round-up, October
My mood is up, my mood is down, but the cinema is eternal, and I keep going there to see things. Such as.... 177. LOLA 178. 50/50 179. THE GOONIES 180. THE HOLE 181. GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH 182. THE EVIL DEAD 183. FRIGHT NIGHT 184. THE EXORCIST III 185. ROSEMARY'S BABY 186. INFERNO 187. NADJA 188. LAURA 189. TWIN PEAKS: Pilot 190. TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME 191. DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST( Details under the cut... ) | | Saturday, October 1st, 2011 | | 6:25 pm |
movie round-up, September
What you think I'm going to let the loss of my living space affect my cinephilia? Fuck that. 159. NORTH BY NORTHWEST 160. CHARADE 161. MONKEY BUSINESS 162. FILM SOCIALISME 163. NOTORIOUS 164. SUSPICION 165. CONTAGION166. CHILLERAMA
167. DRIVE168. WHISTLE AND I'LL COME TO YOU 169. THE HAUNTED PALACE 170. BERKELEY SQUARE 171. RESTLESS172. ATTACK THE BLOCK 173. PUNISHED 174. DON'T GO BREAKING MY HEART 175. THE LONG GOODBYE 176. CALIFORNIA SPLIT 177. HICKEY & BOGGS ( More beneath the cut... ) | | Wednesday, September 28th, 2011 | | 10:15 am |
so this is a thing, now, a thing I have to deal with.
I think everyone here follows me elsewhere, but dammit, I just gotta rant. A huge fire tore thru my building yesterday. I was at work when it happened, and it looks like there were scant few injuries. Sometime today I'm going to head back to my building and see if I can access my apartment and maybe salvage a few items. I'm not optimistic. It's been hitting me in waves, and my moods swing precariously. The generosity of my friends and family is a beacon, but it can be really hard to accept the magnitude of help that one needs in this kind of situation (I guess? I'm new to this.). A coworker took me in and fed me. My girlfriend helped me grab supplies to get through the next several days. A friend is leaving town and it looks like I'll be staying at his place for the next couple of weeks. The first hour, the first night, the first week...this, it seems, is how we move forward. | | Wednesday, September 7th, 2011 | | 3:17 pm |
let me hate you down
I never liked the Clash. Found their music po-faced even when I had time for punk. Though I respected other people's liking for the band, it always seemed out of proportion to what I was hearing. That their politically-charged music has become the stuff of boozy, unthinking singalongs today has seemed right to me, exposing a hollowness that I always perceived in it. (I've always respected and LIKED Joe Strummer's solo stuff more than his Clash work, but that's for another time.) So upon entering Safeway coupla nights back I was stuck making the rounds, getting stuff I needed, while "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" played quite clearly and loudly over the intercom. The most worthless song (with its idiotic schoolboy lyric) by an overrated band continued to accompany me, with speakers directly over the sections of the market I needed to visit. It's a short song, but dragged on. It finally ended to be swapped out in the rotation for an even more worthless song: Glass Tiger's mid-80s pop schlock one-hit "Don't Forget Me When I'm Gone". I could feel a music-related hatespasm start to rise within me, but my head consoled my gut: "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" has finally been put in the correct context. RIGHT NEXT TO "Don't Forget Me When I'm Gone." It's like the universe safely corralled it, realizing that it was a crap song to be filed alongside other crap songs. It was a moment of cosmic justness. Checking out was a breeze. | | Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 | | 10:19 pm |
movie round-up, August
141. THE BIG SLEEP 142. KEY LARGO 143. KING KONG 144. FOUR NIGHTS WITH ANNA 145. KING, QUEEN, KNAVE 146. THE GUARD 147. THE SHELTERING SKY 148. A WIFE CONFESSES 149. IKIRU 150. FRIGHT NIGHT 151. LATE AUTUMN 152. ESSENTIAL KILLING 153. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY 154. CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 155. BELLFLOWER 156. RESURRECTION OF EVE 157. RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 158. BEGINNERS ( Commentary after the cut... ) | | Monday, August 1st, 2011 | | 5:15 pm |
movie round-up, July
I could go cold turkey on movies in August and still be on pace for 200 for the year. absurd. but fun! Anyway... 121. TEX 122. OVER THE EDGE 123. CARS 2 124. RED BEARD 125. RED DAWN 126. THE POPE OF GREENWICH VILLAGE 127. WHAT'S UP, DOC? 128. I WAS BORN, BUT... 129. WINNIE THE POOH 130. GREEN LANTERN 131. TRIGUN: BADLANDS RUMBLE132. SAFE 133. ROAD TO NOWHERE 134. RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND 135. THE SHOOTING 136. COCKFIGHTER 137. THE SIXTH SIDE OF THE PENTAGON138. THE EMBASSY 139. BE SEEING YOU 140. THE TRIP Quite a lot this week - from what I'm hoping will NOT be the last gasp of Japanese classics (124) and anime (131) at Viz Cinema (soon to be taken over by the San Francisco Film Society) to what is almost certainly my last movie enjoyed at the lamented Red Vic Movie House (127 - shown on video, alas, which added a really sad note to the finality of the screening). Splurging on the work of some great fucking filmmakers, specifically Monte Hellman (133-136) and Chris Marker (137-139). What're you watching? Video: THE CAR, TWIN PEAKS season 2 | | Friday, July 29th, 2011 | | 12:34 pm |
moments
--Went up to the Marina to catch a special screening at the Exploratorium in honor of Chris Marker's 90th birthday. We had time to kill, so we went up to the water. We were happy to get to a cafe right before closing to snag a snack, and spent a precious few minutes at the water. The fog obscured the view of the Golden Gate Bridge, but did nothing to dampen the enthusiasm of some two dozen kitesurfers. The wind blew them to and fro, their chutes dancing in the air under the grey fog, and we realized that we'd see this nowhere else. --THE SIXTH SIDE OF THE PENTAGON (the first of three films screened) was a compelling, downright infectious documentary that captures the energy, anger, and absurdity surrounding a day of Vietnam War protests. Marker gets down in the trenches with the protesters, and effectively captures moments in which thousands of people turn from apathetic citizens into impassioned activists. The credits sequence (realized simply with label tape on a black background) dropkicks you into the action, and Marker offers just enough narration and commentary throughout to nail the specificity of some priceless moments (including a bit where the Department of Defense prevents the amassed protesters from levitating the Pentagon more than 30 feet). The movement's taken for granted today, but it comes vividly to life here. My mind wandered throughout to the current debate in Washington over the debt ceiling, and the anger in this film fueled my own, offering a useful valve for my frustration and fear. --Marker, incidentally, turns 90 today. Last night they served a birthday cake at the screening, frosted with the image of Marker's trademark grinning cat. RE/Search publisher V. Vale played both "Happy Birthday To You" and "La Marseillaise" on the piano. --In all, a typical San Francisco night. | | Friday, July 8th, 2011 | | 1:59 pm |
the morning's bus ride
Passengers in my immediate vicinity included a guy strumming (well) on a guitar, a guy talking on a cell phone giving advice to a friend in Vegas (who was about to hit the tables), and another guy reading Bukowski. Occasionally San Francisco opens up and takes you in its confidence. | | Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 | | 12:02 am |
it's still the 4th, barely.
After a shelf collapsed in my kitchen, scattering books and media all over the place and rendering the room barely accessible, I finally (with the insanely valuable assistance of the woman I love), dismantled the shelf, organized the room, and made the eastern part of my apartment more accessible than it's been since I moved in. Thanks, D. Spent the day sleeping in, doing laundry, eating smoked salmon and scrambled eggs (a Robson staple meal), watching old school anime (the final part of CYBER CITY OEDO 808, in which "Adolescent Sex" era David Sylvian battles vampires) and new school (the first episode of D. GRAY-MAN, a gift from my niece). Outside my building they're blowing up the street. Inside they're noisily fucking. Happy 4th, people. | | Friday, July 1st, 2011 | | 4:04 pm |
| | Sunday, June 5th, 2011 | | 11:09 pm |
movie round-up, May
90. RETOUR DE FLAMME shorts program 91. 13 ASSASSINS 92. TINDERSTICKS: CLAIRE DENIS FILM SCORES 93. THOR 94. BRIAN ENO: THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH: 1971-1977 95. ROCK 'N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL 96. THE BLUES BROTHERS 97. OUT OF THE BLUE 98. 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA99. STAKE LAND 100. HANNA 101. CAMILLE 2000 102. Groovy Educational Films program by FoFF at Oddball Films 103. THE BEAVER 104. FAST FIVE ( More behind the cut... ) | | Thursday, May 12th, 2011 | | 10:10 pm |
movie round-up, April
Before the list, I would invite you, if you have not already, to read the one-hundredth post over at my other/"real" blog, The House of Sparrows. It really was the piece that I started that blog to write, even though it took me over a year to get to it. It'll give you some context for this:  Anyway, the list!: 64. BEAU TRAVAIL 65. TROUBLE EVERY DAY 66. CARANCHO67. RUBBER68. OF GODS & MEN 69. FRIDAY NIGHT 70. VERS MATHILDE 71. HEAVY METAL 72. THE MONSTER SQUAD 73. THIS IS SPINAL TAP 74. TRICK OR TREAT 75. MONSTER DOG 76. ELMER GANTRY 77. INSIDIOUS78. WIN WIN 79. MYSTERIES OF LISBON 80. WORLD ON A WIRE 81. "The Deep End" program of experimental short films 82. THE STOOL PIGEON 83. THE TROLL HUNTER84. THE SLEEPING BEAUTY 85. THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE 86. END OF ANIMAL 87. DRAWING RESTRAINT 17 88. MiDNiTES FOR MANiACS trailer selections 89. AT LONG LAST LOVE ( More beneath the cut... ) |
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