Friday, May 30, 2008

invisible birds (forthcoming)

eugène atget

josef sudek

henry fox talbot

richard long

as if you were the voice that moves up and down the rungs of the world, between earth and sky, never beyond, always in the infinite globe, free but inside it, over there, close at hand, where the silver branches fork, awaiting nothing, fleeing nothing, traveller whom a second's joy, for no reason at all, steals from the journey's movement and leaves perched, at a halt...

from landscapes with absent figures translated by mark treharne

Thursday, May 29, 2008

second addendum to the essential cinema





- lindsay anderson: o lucky man!, 1973

- paul thomas anderson: there will be blood, 2007

- robert benton: the late show, 1977

- ingmar bergman: virgin spring, 1960

- claude berri: le vieil homme et l'enfant (the two of us), 1967

- mary ellen bute: rhythm in light, 1934

- nuri bilge ceylan: uzak (distant), 2002

- coen brothers: no country for old men, 2007

- joseph cornell: carousel animal opera, 1930
- joseph cornell: jack's dream, 1930
- joseph cornell: thimble theater, 1930

- david cronenberg: eastern promises, 2007

- george cukor: diner at eight, 1933
- george cukor: a star is born, 1954

- walt disney & david hand: bambi, 1942

- evelina domnitch & dmitry gelfand: camera lucida, 2006

- daryl duke: payday, 1973

- oskar fischinger: an optical poem, 1938

- john ford: drums along the mohawk, 1939

- milos forman: lásky jedné plavovlásky (loves of a blonde), 1965

- david gordon green: george washington, 2000

- edmund goulding: grand hotel, 1932

- ulu grosbard: straight time, 1978

- alexander hall: here comes mr. jordan, 1941

- howard hawks: the thing from another world, 1951

- werner herzog: the enigma of kaspar hauser, 1974

- norman jewison: in the heat of the night, 1967

- larry jordan: works

- abbos kiarostami: five dedicated to ozu, 2003

- *dimitri kirsanoff: rapt, 1934

- henry koster: no highway in the sky, 1951

- stanley kubrick: dr. strangelove or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, 1964
- stanley kubrick: barry lyndon, 1975

- gregory la cava: my man godfrey, 1936
- gregory la cava: stage door, 1937

- albert lamorisse: le ballon rouge, 1956
- albert lamorisse: crin blanc: le cheval sauvage , 1953

- ang lee: brokeback mountain, 2005

- mike leigh: secrets & lies, 1996

- mike leigh: all or nothing, 2002

- david lynch: eraserhead, 1977
- david lynch: blue velvet, 1986 (not sure why i left these out of the original list)

- rouben mamoulian: queen christina, 1933

- man ray: le retour a la raison, 1923

- paul mazursky: harry and tonto, 1974

- oscar michaeax: body and soul, 1925

- vincente minelli: meet me in st. louis, 1944

- kenji mizoguchi: sansho the bailiff, 1954

- roy william neill: sherlock holmes in pursuit to algiers, 1945

- yuri norshteyn: hedgehog in the fog, 1975

- yasujiro ozu: early spring, 1956
- yasujiro ozu: tokyo twilight, 1957

- james parrot: the music box, 1932 (laurel & hardy move a piano)

- leighton pierce: mr person in the water, 2006

- nicolas ray: lusty men, 1952

- dick richards: rafferty and the gold dust twins, 1975

- tony richardson: the loneliness of the long distance runner, 1962

- richard sarafian: vanishing point, 1971

- martin scorsese: the last waltz, 1978

- vittorio de sica: la ciociara (two women), 1960

- don siegel: the shootist, 1976

- todd solondz: happiness, 1998

- ralph steiner: mechanical principles, 1930

- jános szász: woyzeck, 1994

- andrei tarkovsky: ivanovo detstvo (ivan's childhood), 1962

- andré de toth: crime wave, 1954

- jacques tourneur: canyon passage, 1946

- irwin winkler: guilty by suspicion, 1991

- william wyler: detective story, 1951

images from no country for old men
* have not seen

Monday, May 19, 2008

trains in cinema, part 4

- woody allen: zelig, 1983





- pt anderson: there will be blood, 2007

- wes anderson: darjeeling limited, 2007

- james benning: rr (railroad), 2007 *



- claude berri: le vieil homme et l'enfant (the two of us), 1967

- robert bresson: un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou le vent souffle où il veut (man escaped), 1956



- robert bresson: pickpocket, 1959





- frank capra: mr. smith goes to washington, 1939




- frank capra: arsenic and old lace, 1944

- david chase: the sopranos, 1999-2007




- andrew dominik: the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford, 2007







- hsiao-hsien hou: le voyage du ballon rouge, 2007



- akira kurosawa: one wonderful sunday, 1947







- akira kurosawa: stray dog, 1949







- albert lamorisse: le ballon rouge, 1956

- ernst lubitsch: ninotchka, 1939



- terrence malick: days of heaven, 1978






- oscar micheaux: body and soul, 1925

- f.w. murnau: sunrise: a song of two humans, 1927

- ermanno olmi, abbas kiarostami & ken loach: tickets, 2005

- yasujiro ozu: early spring, 1956
- yasujiro ozu: tokyo twilight, 1957

- tony richardson: the loneliness of the long distance runner, 1962





- douglas sirk: all that heaven allows, 1955




- douglas sirk: imitation of life, 1959



- john stahl: imitation of life, 1934



- matthew swiezynski: fludd's memory system, 2007



- wim wenders: paris, texas, 1984

- robert wise: the day the earth stood still, 1951







- robert wise: the sound of music, 1965




more to come.....