Friday, September 28, 2007

Screening Log. 9/27

Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn) (1967)



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

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Reading Log. Siddhartha

Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse) (1922)



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

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Screening Log. 9/19

Manufactured Landscapes (Jennifer Baichwal) (2006)

Screening Log. 9/20

The Chase (Arthur Penn) (1966)

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Screening Log. 9/12

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

Monday, September 10, 2007

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]

Sunday, September 9, 2007

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)

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

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.

Monday, September 3, 2007

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]

Saturday, September 1, 2007

Screening Log. 9/1

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

 
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