[disordered] "Balanta", d/ Pintilie "Stranger than paradise", 1984, d/ Jim Jarmusch (USA) "Mystery Train", 1989, d/ Jim Jarmusch "Dead man", 1995, d/ Jim Jarmusch "Coffee and Cigarettes" (12 min) -- best short film, Cannes 86 full feature 2004 Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002) (solyanka) Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002) "Whisky", d/ Rebella and Stoll (2004), Uruguay "25 Watts", d/ Rebella and Stoll, Uruguay "Fat girl" (aka "A ma soeur!"), d/ Catherine Breillat, 2001 Seemed pointless: "A real young girl", d/ Catherine Breillat, 1975 "Code Inconnu", d/ Michael Haneke (2000) "An Affair of Love" (Une liaison pornographique), d/ Frédéric Fonteyne, 1999 "Breaking the Waves", d/ Lars von Trier, 96 (Cannes) "Five obstructions", d/ von Trier---interesting idea; dubious outcome. "One Day in September", 1999 "The mystery of Picasso" (Mystère Picasso, Le), d/ Clouzot, 56 A sentence by Picasso (probably paraphrased): "I like to paint until the painting refuses me." I heard it a couple of times in Godard's interviews, interpreted as "... until painting _as an occupation_ refuses me". A different interpretation seems more interesting: "I like to paint until the painting (_the painting I am painting right now_) refuses me". "Detective", d/ Godard "Money is like people. You have to let them come and go." "[...] women are better than men. They ask questions but don't want answers." "I am curious (Yellow)" (aka Jag är nyfiken - en film i gult), d/ Vilgot Sjöman, 1967 (Blue) - 1968 Tuvalu, d/ Helmer 99 "The five senses", d/ Jeremy Podeswa, 1999 "My dinner with Andre", 1981, d/ Louis Malle, w/ Wallace Shawn "Tape", 2001, d/ Linklater "Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle)" (aka "My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument"), d/ Arnaud Desplechin, 1996 "Last tango in Paris", d/ Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972 "Sweeping beauty", d/ Bertolucci "Conformista, Il" (aka "The Conformist"), d/ Bertolucci 1970 "I Sognatori" (The Dreamers), (2003), d/ Bertolucci "Prima della rivoluzione" (aka Before the Revolution), 1964 (He was just 22!) "Three women", d/ Altman 1977 "Don't look back" (1967), w/ Bob Dylan "The dinner game" (aka Le Diner de Cons), d/ Francis Veber (1998) "Dancer in the Dark" (2000), d/ Lars von Trier "Intimacy", d/ Patrice Chéreau, 2001 "Brief crossing", d/ Breillat "DECRYPTAGE", d/Philippe Bensoussan, 2003 "Love Film", Istvan Szabo underwhelming "Les invasions barbares", d/ Denys Arcand (2003) [Prix du scénario, Cannes ???] "Melvin goes to dinner", d/ Odenkirk (2003) "Uzak", d/ Nuri Bilge CeylaN (Turkey) (2003) "Trembling Before G-d", d/ Sandi Simcha Dubowski (2001), Israel To see (?): Samuel Beckett's "Film" d/ Schneider (65), 20min "Dans ma peau" (aka "In my skin") (2002), d/ Marina de Van "Trumpet in the Wadi", d/ Lisa and Slava Chaplin (2001), Israel "Out for love, be back shortly" (1997), d/ Katzir "Company Jasmine" (2001), d/ Katzir "Broken wings", Israel, 2002 "Or (Mon tresor)", Israel, 2004 "The man who loved woman" (aka "L' Homme qui aimait les femmes"), d/ François Truffaut (1977) "Steam: the Turkish Bath", d/ Ozpetek 97 ------ Jean-Luc Godard: "In praise of love", Jean-Luc Godard, 2002 ------------ "Notre Musique", Godard, 2005 We can consider death in two ways: the impossible of the possible or the possible of the impossible. Communism existed once, for two times 45 minutes at Wembley Stadium when Budapest's Honved beat England 6 to 3. The English played individually, the Hungarians played together. All the power of an image can only be expressed through it. They say our language arbitrarily divides up things in reality. And they say this as if it were our fault. --------------- "Contempt", d/ Jean-Luc Godard (w/ Fritz Lang and Bardo, filmed by Raoul Coutard), 1963 Plus mini-dialogues of Fritz Lang and Godard (The Dinosaur and the Baby): Lang: "Perhaps in each of our films you can find our heart, our desires, everything we love and that gives us away." "The movies back then were like bread rolls: nicely made, to be consumed today." ------------- "Nostalgia", d/ Tarkovsky "Beau Pere", 1981, d/ Bertrand Blier "Loves of a Blonde", d/ Milos Forman, 65 (if you watch it on the Criterion DVD, don't miss the deleted scene) "Sex, lies, and videotapes", d/ Steven Soderbergh, 1989 "That obscure object of desire", d/ Luis Bunuel, 1977 ;) (written with Jean-Claude Carriere) "The discrete charm of Bourgeoisie" d/ Bunuel, 1972 "Âge d'or, L'", d/ Bunuel, 1930 (w/ Salvador Dali) "The dreamlife of angels", d/ Erick Zonca, 1998 "Pro urodov i ludei" (aka "Of freaks and men"), 1998, d/ Balabanov "The Piano Teacher", d/ Michael Haneke, w/ Isabelle Huppert, 2002 "Late Marriage", d/ Dover Koshashvili, 2002 "See the sea" ("Regarde la mer"), d/ Francois Ozon, 1997 (I think this is his strongest so far.) "5x2", d/ Ozon, 2005 "Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes" (aka Water Drops On Burning Rocks), d/ Ozon, 2000 ?? "Peau d'âne" (aka Donkey Skin), d/ Jacques Demy, w/ Catherine Deneuve (1970) (excellent) "Vive L'Amour" To see: Jan Svankmajer, Spiklenci slasti (aka Conspirators of Pleasure), 1996 Rene Clair Errol Morris: "The Thin Blue Line", (1988) "The Fog of War" (2003) "Mama Roma", Pasolini 62 Eric Rohmer: "Chloe in the afternoon" "Claire's Knee", d/ Eric Rohmer, 1970 The Moral Tales: "Nuits de la pleine lune, Les" (aka "Full Moon in Paris") (1984) Boulangère de Monceau, La (aka Girl at the Monceau Bakery, The) (1963) Carrière de Suzanne, La (aka Suzanne's Career) (1963) "Good Marriage" (1981) "Nema-ye Nazdik" (aka "Closeup"), d/ Abbas Kiarostami, 1990. "Taste of Cherry", d/ Abbas Kiarostami, 1997, Cannes (hmmm...) to see: "Ten" (2002) "Kadosh", d/ Amos Gitai "Bitter Moon", d/ Polanksi "Tess", d/ Polanski, 1979, w/ Nastassja Kinski "M", d/ Fritz Lang, 1931 --------- "Three Colors Trilogy", d/ Krzysztof Kieslowski "The double life of Veronique" "Decalogue" (1-10) Newly released: "No end", "Blind chance", "Amator" ("Camera buff") "Pola X", d/ Leos Carax (99) "Nastroizhik", d/ Muratova (excellent) "Brief Encounters" (aka "Korotkie Vstrechi"), d/ Kira Muratova (w/ Vysotsky) "Dolgie Provody", d/ Muratova, 71 "Astenichesky Sindrom" (The Asthenic Syndrome), d/ Muratova, 89 "Lyubov'", d/ Valery Todorovsky, 91, classic "Strana glukhih", d/ Valery Todorovsky "Mother and son", d/ Sokurov "The Russian Ark", d/ Sokurov "The last waltz" (The Band), d/ Scorsese, 78 "Baise-Moi", France, d/ Despentes+Thi, 2000 To see: d/ Otar Iosseliani, "Lundi matin" (aka "Monday Morning", "Utro Ponedelnika") (2002) "Waking life" (2001), d/ Linklater "Slacker", 1991, d/ Linklater "Before Sunset", "Before Sunrise" "The days of being wild", /d Kar Wai Wong, 1991 "3-Iron" "Chungking Express" ======================================== "Since Otar left", 2004 "Yanna's friends", d/ Kaplan, Israel. Almodovar "Together", d/ Lucas Moodysson "In the mood of love", d/ Kar Wai Wong, 2000 "Knife in the Water", d/ Polanski, 62 To see: "Sånger från andra våningen" (aka "Songs from the second floor"), d/ Roy Andersson, 2000. "Sex is Comedy", 2004, d/ Catherine Breillat "Perfect Love" (Parfait amour!), 96, d/ Breillat --------------- d/ Godard: "Masculine, Feminine", 65? "Breathless" (aka "À bout de souffle"), 60 "Band of Outsiders", 64 "Paris Vu Par" "Forever Mozart" "Two or three things I know about her" w/ Marina Vladi, 67 "A Married Woman" "A Woman is a Woman", 61 "Le Petit Soldat", 60 "My life to live", 62 w/ Anna Karina "Alphaville", 65 "Made in USA" "Sympathy for the Devil" Woody Allen: Annie Hall Manhatten Interiors (a la Bergman) etc, etc Ingmar Bergman: Faithless Persona, 67 Scenes from a Marrage, 73 Through a Glass Darkly, 62 etc, etc ------------------ The format is from Lucian's list ;) http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/galescu/misc/films