Screening Log. 9/27

Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn) (1967)



excellent article @ bright lights (be sure to read all of the footnotes) [link]

Reading Log. Siddhartha

Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse) (1922)



free online text [link]
beautiful collection of Siddhartha book covers [link]
wikipedia [link]

Screening Log. 9/19

Manufactured Landscapes (Jennifer Baichwal) (2006)

Screening Log. 9/20

The Chase (Arthur Penn) (1966)

Screening Log. 9/12

12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu) (2006)

Reading Log. The Crucible

The Crucible (Arthur Miller) (1952)


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Crucible Fact & Fiction [link]
@ West Springfield HS [link]
@ AngliaCampus [link]
@ Internet Broadway Database [link]
Arthur Miller Society [link]
wikipedia [link]

Nouvelle musique. Panamericana

Federico Aubele - Panamericana



I have not spent much time listening to Latin lounge music...but maybe I should. Now don't let that term "lounge" turn you off...its really just a very good pop album (with some electronic/tango/dub/reggae elements). And if any of those damned 'hipster' music critic-sites get behind this album (as they should), it could be a surprise hit. It's slowly becoming my new favorite album of the year.
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myspace [link]
allmusic [link]
wikipedia [link]

Screening Log. 9/9

La Religieuse AKA The Nun (Jacques Rivette, 1966)

100 Films for a Century of Animation

From a worldwide poll of 30 specialists, this is the final selection of the top 100 animated shorts, as complied by the Annecy Festival and Studio and Variety. [link]

1 : Gertie the Dinosaur, Winsor MCCAY, 1914, US
2 : Fantasmagorie, émile COHL, 1908, FR
3 : Moznosti dialogu, Jan SVANKMAJER, 1982, CZ
4 : Crac!, Frédéric BACK, 1981, CA
5 : L'homme qui plantait des arbres, Frédéric BACK, 1987, CA
6 : Shazka skazok, Youri NORSTEIN, 1979, SU
7 : Une nuit sur le mont Chauve, Alexandre ALEXEÏEFF, Claire PARKER, 1933, FR
8 : A Colour Box, Len LYE, 1935, GB
9 : L'Idée, Berthold BARTOSCH, 1931, FR
10 : La rue, Caroline LEAF, 1976, CA
11 : Neighbours, Norman MCLAREN, 1952, CA
12 : Blinkity Blank, Norman MCLAREN, 1955, CA
13 : Duck amuck, Chuck JONES, 1953, US
14 : Harpya, Raoul SERVAIS, 1978, BE
15 : Luxo Jr., John LASSETER, 1986, US.
16 : Betty Boop in Snow White, Dave FLEISCHER, 1933, US
17 : Creature Comforts, Nick PARK, 1989, GB
18 : Tango, Zbigniew RYBCZYNSKI, 1980, PL
19 : Street of Crocodiles (Ulica krokodyli), Timothy & Stephen QUAY, 1986, GB
20 : Begone Dull Care, Norman MCLAREN, 1949, CA
21 : Le Petit Soldat, Paul GRIMAULT, 1947, FR
22 : What's Opera, Doc?, Chuck JONES, 1957, US
23 : Father and Daughter, Michaël DUDOK DE WIT, 2000, NL, GB
24 : Red Hot Riding Hood, Tex AVERY, 1943, US
25 : Ruka, Jiri TRNKA, 1965, CZ
26 : Steamboat Willie, Walt DISNEY, Ub IWERKS, 1928, US
27 : Le Nez, Alexandre ALEXEÏEFF, Claire PARKER, 1963, FR
28 : La gazza ladra sinfonia, Giulio GIANINI, Emanuele LUZZATI, 1964, IT
29 : Gerald Mc Boing Boing, Robert CANNON, 1950, US
30 : La Joie de vivre, Anthony GROSS, Hector HOPPIN, 1934, FR [view excerpt]
31 : Miest kinooperatora, Ladislas STAREWITCH, 1911, RU
32 : Pas de deux, Norman MCLAREN, 1967, CA
33 : La Faim, Peter FöLDES, 1974, CA
34 : Girls Night Out, Joanna QUINN, 1986, GB
35 : Satiemania, Zdenko GASPAROVIC, 1978, YU
36 : Komposition in blau, Oskar FISHCHINGER, 1935, DE
37 : La Traversée de l'Atlantique à la rame, Jean-François LAGUIONIE, 1978, FR
38 : Moonbird, John HUBLEY, Faith ELLIOT, 1959, US
39 : Den Offentlige Røst, Lejf MARCUSSEN, 1988, DK
40 : Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs, Bob CLAMPETT, 1943, US
41 : Free radicals, Len LYE, 1958, US
42 : La Course à l'abîme, Georges SCHWIZGEBEL, 1992, CH
43 : Vincent, Tim BURTON, 1982, US
44 : Franz Kafka, Piotr DUMALA, 1991, PL
45 : Dojoji, Kihachiro KAWAMOTO, 1976, JP
46 : Entre deux sœurs, Caroline LEAF, 1990, CA
47 : Seriy volk i krasnaïa chapotchka, Garri BARDINE, 1990, SU
48 : Balance, Christoph LAUENSTEIN, Wolfgang LAUENSTEIN, 1989, RF
49 : Lojik v toumane, Youri NORSTEIN, 1975, SU
50 : When the Day Breaks, Wendy TILBY, Amanda FORBIS, 1999, CA
51 : Rooty toot toot, John HUBLEY, 1952, US
52 : The Skeleton Dance, Walt DISNEY, 1929, US
53 : King Size Canary, Tex AVERY, 1947, US
54 : Frank Film, Frank MOURIS, 1973, US
55 : The Flying Man, George DUNNING, 1962, GB
56 : Egged On, Charley BOWERS, 1926, US
57 : Le Paysagiste, Jacques DROUIN, 1976, CA
58 : Jumping, Osamu TEZUKA, 1984, JP
59 : Harvie Krumpet, Adam Benjamin ELLIOT, 2003, AU
60 : The Wrong Trousers, Nick PARK, 1993, GB
61 : Omboro film, Osamu TEZUKA, 1985, JP
62 : Damon the Mower, George DUNNING, 1972, GB
63 : Fast Film, Virgil WIDRICH, 2003, AT, LU
64 : Geri's Game, Jan PINKAVA, 1997, US
65 : L'Horrible, Bizarre et Incroyable Histoire de Monsieur Tête, Jan LENICA, Henri GRUEL, 1959, FR
66 : Ryan, Chris LANDRETH, 2004, CA
67 : Café Bar, Alison DE VERE, 1974, GB
68 : Repete, Michaela PAVLATOVA, 1995, CZ
69 : Ego jena kouritsa, Igor KOVALIYOV, 1989, SU
70 : Atama Yama, Koji YAMAMURA, 2002, JP
71 : Out of the Inkwell : Invisible Ink, Dave & Max FLEISCHER, 1921, US
72 : 78 tours, Georges SCHWIZGEBEL, 1985, CH
73 : The Sinking of the Lusitania, Winsor MCCAY, 1918, US
74 : Closed Mondays, Will VINTON, 1974, US
75 : Cat's Cradle, Paul DRIESSEN, 1974, CA
76 : Les Trois Inventeurs, Michel OCELOT, 1980, FR
77 : The Big Snit, Richard CONDIE, 1985, CA
78 : The Sandman, Paul BERRY, Colin BATTY, Ian MACKINNON, 1991, GB
79 : The Blitz Wolf, Tex AVERY, 1942, US
80 : Feeling from Mountain and Water, Te WEI, Ma KEXUAN, Yan SANCHUN, 1988, CN
81 : La Demoiselle et le Violoncelliste, Jean-François LAGUIONIE, 1964, FR
82 : Le Chapeau, Michèle COURNOYER, 1999, CA
83 : Lev a pisnicka, Bretislav POJAR, 1959, CZ
84 : The Sand Castle, Co HOEDEMAN, 1977, CA
85 : Apel, Ryszard CZEKALA, 1970, PL
86 : A, Jan LENICA, 1964, FR, RF
87 : Der Fuehrer's Face, Jack KINNEY, 1943, US
88 : Strojenie instrumentow, Jerzy KUCIA, 2000, PL
89 : Le Pas, Piotr KAMLER, 1974, FR
90 : Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor, Dave FLEISCHER, 1936, US
91 : Great, Bob GODFREY, 1975, GB
92 : Au bout du monde, Konstantin BRONZIT, 1998, FR
93 : Felix in exile, William KENTRIDGE, 1994, ZA
94 : The Band Concert, Wilfred JACKSON, 1935, US
95 : Le Concert de M. et Mme Kabal, Walerian BOROWCZYK, 1962, FR
96 : Seiltänzer, Raimund KRUMME, 1986, RF
97 : Hotel E, Priit PÄRN, 1992, EE
98 : Film-film-film!, Fedor KHITRUK, 1968, RU
99 : Les Jeux des anges, Walerian BOROWCZYK, 1964, FR
100 : Flux, Christopher HINTON, 2002, CA

Most of these can be downloaded in a torrent titled 'A Century of Animated Shorts' (thank you 'oldskool77'!). I will also post the links to where they can be streamed as I watch them/find them/feel like it. The hand-full that I have watched so far have already drastically changed my idea of animation and its possibilities. Really amazing stuff.

Reading Log. The Bell Jar

The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath) (1963)



-The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
I knew perfectly well the cars were making a noise, and the people in them and behind the lit windows of the buildings were making a noise, and the river was making a noise, but I couldn't hear a thing. The city hung in my window, flat as a poster, glittering and blinking, but it might just as well not have been there at all, for all the good it did me.
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Literary Encyclopedia [link]
Great online collection of Plath's poetry [link]
sylviaplath.info [link]
sylviaplath.de [link]
Modern American Poetry [link]

Screening Log. 9/1

My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant) (1991)