September 26 - October 2: Contemporary Cinema of Former Axis Nations
The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke, Germany, 2009
The Son’s Room, Nanni Moretti, Italy, 2001
Still Walking, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan, 2008
plumule
feather or seed
Was Fritz Lang’s Western Union Hollywood’s first Technicolor BROMANCE? I think it coulda been. (The Northwest Chicago Film Society screened it last night with Hart’s 1915 silent short Knight of the Trail and a lovely 1945 Disney cartoon, Legend of Coyote Canyon.)
Back when I worked at Facets, I made lists of hundreds of films-to-watch in my indispensable red Miquelrius notebook (graph paper, leather-look, 300 pages; gift of cousin Khanh with the Bruce Mau quote “For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails.”). In an attempt to catch up with technology, I’ve been transcribing these film titles (with director, year and country) to an Excel spreadsheet. As we speak, I am entering film number 203. If you would like to receive a digital copy of this list, please contact me.
Since I have 20 vacation days left this year, I thought I’d use 1/2 a day to treat myself to a 4 1/2-hour matinee: Mysteries of Lisbon, by Raul Ruiz.
