Films Watched January 8 - January 14


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I've had a bad, painful stiff neck the past three days (like someone glued my vertebrae to a big titanium plate) and while I'm much better today than the previous two days, I'm still having a little pain when sitting down (something about the way my spine curves, I guess) so some of these are shorter than they'd normally be, to save me some time ( Read more... )

I also watched the complete Firefly series at isogon and mnemosyne15's place, and while (as with any series) I liked some episodes better than others, overall I was rather impressed with it. Very sad that it was cut so short.

Film Watched December 18 - December 31


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Films Watched December 04 - December 17

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (Jean-Luc Godard, 1991) - Due to the combination of my own tiredness and the general reconditeness of Godard's late work, I had a great deal of trouble following this film. As a result, I was left with a series of disparate interesting ideas lacking greater thematic coherence, and ( Read more... )

Films Watched November 27 - December 3

Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006) - This could have been just another standard futuristic thriller. It's easy to hear the deep-voiced sound bytes in your ear: "IN A WORLD where hope is a thing of the past, ONE MAN will protect the future!"* It would have been so easy to make that movie. Any director ( Read more... )

Two weeks here.

Films Watched November 13 - November 26

What is it? (Crispin Hellion Glover, 2001/5) - This is the film that single-handedly held up last week's entry, as it's very difficult to write about it with any normal sort of lucidity. Here's a simple synopsis written with an effort to describe it as plainly as possible: a cast made up ( Read more... )

I didn't watch any movies this week, so in lieu of my usual Sunday screening log entry I'm directing you instead to a couple of essays I read.
The director Ilya Khrzhanovsky talks about change happening very fast and very contingently in the new Russia and some of its former satellite states. It’s as though it demands a different form of narrative ( Read more... )

Films Watched October 30 - November 5


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Films Watched October 23 - October 29


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I just learned from the newspaper that Tideland is only playing in Chicago for one week. It'll be gone after this Thursday. Sad.

For those of you that haven't seen it, this is what Gilliam did to promote the film when it opened in New York: