1978, nostrovia!

-interiors (d. woody allen) cnematography by gordon willis

-a wedding (d. robert altman)

-coming home (d. hal ashby) cinematography by haskell wexler

-halloween (d. john carpenter)

*the deer hunter (d. michael cimino) with john cazale, christopher walken, john savage, robert de niro and meryl streep, cinematography by vilmos zsigmond

-the fury (d. brian de palma) with john cassavetes

-renaldo and clara (d. bob dylan) with harry dean stanton

-every which way but loose (d. james fargo) with clint eastwood

-the brink's job (d. william friedkin) with peter falk, peter boyle, allen garfield, warren oates and gena rowlands

*straight time (d. ulu grosbard) with gary busey, harry dean stanton and m. emmet walsh, cinematography by owen roizman

-amore, piombo e furore (d. monte hellman & tony brandt)

-the driver (d. walter hill)

-sun tunnels (d. nancy holt)

*the doctor's dream (d. ken jacobs)

-fist (d. normon jewison) with peter boyle and rod steiger, cinematography by lászló kovács

-invasion of the body snatchers (d. philip kaufman) cinematography by michael chapman

*days of heaven (d. terrence malick) cinematography by néstor almendros

*the buddy holly story (d. steve rash) with gary busey

-dawn of the dead (d. goerge romero)

*american boy: a profile of: steven prince (d. martin scorsese) cinematography by michael chapman

-blue collar (d. paul schrader)

-boys from brazil (d. franklin j. schaffner)

*the last waltz (d. martin scorsese) cinematography by michael chapman and camera operators including vilmos zsigmond and lászló kovács

the deer hunter (d. michael cimino)

1979, at present, there's no indication of any violence

-manhattan (d. woody allen) cinematography by gordon willis

-being there (d. hal ashby)

-oklahoma (d. james benning)

-saint jack (d. peter bogdanovich) with ben gazzara, cinematography by robby müller

*the china syndrome (d. james bridges) with jack lemmon

-an evening at home (d. gail camhi)

*apocalypse now (d. francis ford coppola)

-fast company (d. david cronenberg) not american, but good

*the brood (d. david cronenberg)

-the warriors (d. walter hill)

-the in-laws (d. arthur hiller) with alan arkin and peter falk

-wise blood (d. john huston)

*tess (d. roman polanski) not really american, cinematography by ghislain cloquet and geoffrey unsworth

-winter kills (d. william richert)

*hardcore (d. paul schrader) with peter boyle, cinematography by michael chapman

*alien (d. ridley scott) with harry dean stanton and john hurt

*escape from alcatraz (d. don siegel)

george c scott and peter boyle

the quiet before the storm
george c scott (a block from my work)

hardcore (d. paul schrader)

intended to be used for making inscriptions in memory

new film by m swiezynski, 2007
(shot at eno river, nc, sound by m swiezynski)

ready soon for distribution by joe squirrel production company ltd. with offices in bakersfield, fresno and piedmont california, please contact for more information

elephant, some things just stick in your mind

young man gunned down out of focus

gus van sant editing elephant

images from gus van sant's elephant, 2003

cinematography by harris savides (with work like this, who needs contemporary popular photography?)
editing by gus van sant
sound design by leslie shatz with beethoven’s "für elise" & additional sound by hildegard westerkamp
the most beautiful film so far of the 21st century?
beauty and chaos.......

(fans of this should also see alan clark's film elephant, from which the title comes)



other things that have kept me busy lately:
(films)

-the bourne ultimatum, 2007 (d. paul greengrass) great photography by oliver wood
-vanishing point, 1971 (d. richard c. sarafian) dp. john a. alonzo, and that means darn good
-melvin and howard, 1980 (d. jonathan demme) essential
-the wind blows where it will, 2006 (d. kunal mehra) bressonian dvd sent to the offices of arthur o. memory
-sam fuller criterion set (i shot jesse james 1949, the baron of arizona 1950, steel helmut 1951) steel helmut was my favourite of the lot
-the face of another, 1966 (d. hirsoshi teshigahara) can't seem to get into any of his films besides women in the dunes
-the lives of others, 2006 (d. florian henckel von donnersmarck) not without interest, good photography by hagen bogdanski
-forgotten silver, 1995 (d. peter jackson & costa botes) on the startling achievements of director colin mckenzie
-guilty by suspicion, 1991 (d. irwin winkler) dp michael ballhaus, and that means darn good. martin scorsese as joseph losey (referred to as joe, shows robert de niro a second from his film the boy with green hair 1948, with dean stockwell)


music:

-skoltz_kolgen: silent room faktory box
(enormous thanks to herr in be tween noise)
with 2 audio CDs created with the participation of artists : steve roden, akira rabelais, taylor deupree, sawako, fm3, kenneth kirschner, steinbrüchel and many others.
sound artists asked to produce pieces using only field recordings of the ambient sounds of their apartments as source material, inspired by erik satie's concept of musique d'ameublement
-vashti bunyan: some things just stick in your mind - early singles and demos 1964-1967 (earlier work before diamond day)
some very melancholic tunes as usual
-jefre cantu-ledesma: black is the color of my true loves hair & shining skull breath
2 really great albums (esp. shining skull breath), in addition to his borges related the garden of forking paths
-ben frost: theory of machines
tracks 2 and 4 are truly breathtaking
-richard garet: intrinsic motion
-jim haynes: telegraph by the sea
-valgeir sigurðsson: ekvílibríum
some good tracks, some with insipid beats. includes will oldham
-renaldo rinaldi: hoarse frenzy
-henryk górecki: symphony no. 3, string quartets 1,2
-morton feldman: violin orchestra (1979) with paul zukofsky
-the hafler trio: an answer from allure (fovea hex bonus disc)
stunning like most of his releases
-stephano pilia: the 1 season
-john hudak: pond
good music to listen to while walking around my local lake, minute uncoverings of lost or unnoticeable sounds
-herbert stanley littlejohn: 17th and 18th century works of funerary violin
a great cd just for the name!
-tellemake: elegie aux murmures
beautiful basinski-like loops
-sad hills: sleepwalkers (both thanks to niemand)