Latest Changes

05-04-08: Added Notes: Embracing (Naomi Kawase).
04/18 - 04/23/08: Added Journal entries from Romanian Cinema:

Orienteering (Dan Pita),
The Paper Will Be Blue (Radu Muntean),
The Return of the Banished (Malvina Ursianu),
Occident (Cristian Mungiu),
Ryna (Ruxandra Zenide),
Maria (Peter Calin Netzer),
Don't Lean Out the Window (Nae Caranfil).

04/05 - 04/14/08: Added Journal entries from Jean Eustache Retrospective:

Numéro Zéro (Jean Eustache),
La Peine perdue de Jean Eustache (Angel Díez),
Une sale histoire (Jean Eustache),
Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes (Jean Eustache),
Les Photos d'Alix (Jean Eustache),
Hieronymous Bosch's Garden of Delights (Jean Eustache),
Le Cochon (Jean Eustache).

03-25-08: Added Notes: Springtime: Three Portraits (Johan van de Keuken).
03-17-08: Added Notes: The Power of Emotion (Alexander Kluge).
03-12-08: Added Journal entry: Questions of Third Cinema edited by Jim Pines and Willemen.
02/26 - 3/4/08: Added Journal entries from 2008 Rendez-vous with French Cinema:

Un Secret (Claude Miller),
Ain't Scared (Audrey Estrougo),
Love Songs (Christophe Honoré),
La Question humaine (Nicolas Klotz),
Let's Dance! (Noémie Lvovsky),
All Is Forgiven (Mia Hansen-Løve),
The Feelings Factory (Jean-Marc Moutout),
Shall We Kiss? (Emmanuel Mouret).

02/15 - 02/21/08: Added Journal entries from 2008 Film Comment Selects:

Before I Forget (Jacques Nolot),
A Wonderful World (Luis Estrada),
Joy Division (Grant Gee),
Wolfsbergen (Nanouk Leopold),
The Duchess of Langeais (Jacques Rivette).

02-11-08: Added Notes: Lost, Lost, Lost (Jonas Mekas).
02-03-08: Added Notes: Kharij (Mrinal Sen).
01-27-08: Added Notes: O Sangue (Pedro Costa).
01-21-08: Added Notes: Umut (Yilmaz Güney and Serif Gören).
01-13-08: Added Notes: Voyage to Nowhere (Fernando Fernán Gómez).
01-06-08: Added Notes: The Adversary (Satyajit Ray).
12/14 - 12/18/07: Added Journal entries from Spanish Cinema Now:

Shortmetraje - Libra (Carlota Coronado), The Happy Man (Lucina Gil), Avant pétalos grillados (Velasco Broca), Said's Journey (Coke Riobóo), Traumatology (Daniel Sánchez Arevalo), You Can Walk Too (Cristina Lucas), Angel's Fire (Marcelo Bukin),
Chaotic Ana (Julio Medem),
Barcelona (A Map) (Ventura Pons),
Lola, La Película (Miguel Hermoso),
Solitary Fragments (Jaime Rosales),
Contestant (Rodrigo Cortes).

12-10-07: Added Notes: Romances de terre et d'eau (Jean-Pierre Duret and Andrea Santana)
12-04-07: Added Notes: Fantômes (Jean-Paul Civeyrac).
11-27-07: Added Notes: The Legend of Time (Isaki Lacuesta).
11-12-07: Added Journal entry: Poetics of Cinema 2 by Raúl Ruiz.
11-05-07: Added Journal entry: Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema by David Desser.
11-03-07: Added Notes: Tarrafal (Pedro Costa).
10-29-07: Added Notes: Naked Spaces: Living Is Round (Trinh T. Minh-ha).
10-23-07: Added Notes: In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa).
09/30 - 10/14/07: Added Journal entries from New York Film Festival:

Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant),
The Last Mistress (Catherine Breillat),
I Just Didn't Do It (Masayuki Suo),
Alexandra (Aleksandr Sokurov),
In the City of Sylvia (José Luis Guerín),
I'm Not There (Todd Haynes),
The Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-hsien),
Go Go Tales (Abel Ferrara),
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu),
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas).

10/4 - 10/13/07: Added Journal entries from Views from the Avant-Garde:

Volto sorpreso al buio (Paolo Gioli),
Pitcher of Colored Light (Robert Beavers),
Eniaios IV "Nefeli Photos" Reel 2 (Gregory Markopoulos),
Hide (Christoph Girardet and Matthius Müller),
Stranger Comes to Town (Jacqueline Goss),
Memories (Jeonju Digital Project): Respite, The Rabbit Hunters, Correspondences (Harun Farocki, Pedro Costa, Eugène Green).

09/22 - 09/27/07: Added Journal entries from Zeki Demirkubuz Retrospective:

Destiny (Zeki Demirkubuz),
The Waiting Room (Zeki Demirkubuz),
Fate (Zeki Demirkubuz),
The Third Page (Zeki Demirkubuz),
The Confession (Zeki Demirkubuz),
Innocence (Zeki Demirkubuz),
Block-C (Zeki Demirkubuz),
Panel Discussion on Turkish Cinema with Zeki Demirkubuz.

09/12 - 09/20/07: Added Journal entries from Joaquim Pedro de Andrade Retrospective:

Brasilia, Contradictions of a New City (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade),
Garrincha, Joy of the People (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade),
The Poet of the Castle (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade),
The Priest and the Girl (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade),
The Master of Apipucos (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade),
Macunaíma (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade).

09-05-07: Added Notes: En Construcción (José Luis Guerín).
09-01-07: Added Notes: Washed Ashore (Nikolaus Geyrhalter).
08-21-07: Added Notes: The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (Alexander Kluge).
08-16-07: Added Notes: Intentions of Murder (Shohei Imamura).
08-08-07: Added Notes: Sink or Swim (Su Friedrich).
08-04-07: Added Notes: Nordrand (Barbara Albert).
07-25-07: Added Notes: Night and Fog in Japan (Nagisa Oshima).
07/14 - 07/18/07: Added Journal entries from Woodfall Film Production Retrospective:

The Charge of the Light Brigade (Tony Richardson),
Tom Jones (Tony Richardson),
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Tony Richardson),
A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson),
The Entertainer (Tony Richardson),
Look Back in Anger (Tony Richardson).

07-11-07: Added Notes: Tales of Little People: Le Franc and The Little Girl Who Sold The Sun (Djibril Diop Mambéty)
07-06-07: Added Notes: Strongman Ferdinand (Alexander Kluge).
07-02-07: Added Notes: Les Tournesols, Quiproquo, Bouquets 1-10 (Rose Lowder).
06-25-07: Added Notes: The Ties That Bind (Su Friedrich).
06/17 - 06/20/07: Added Journal entries from Human Rights Watch International Film Festival:

New Visions: Sundance Documentary Film Program 'Work-in-Progress' Screening - A Jihad for Love (Parvez Sharma) and Project Kashmir (Senain Kheshgi and Geeta V. Patel),
Manufactured Landscapes (Jennifer Baichwal),
Sari's Mother (James Longley),
Enemies of Happiness (Eva Mulvad and Anja Al-Erhayem),
The Violin (Francisco Vargas),
Strange Culture (Lynn Hershman Leeson),
The Railroad All-Stars (Chema Rodriguez),
The City of Photographers (Sebastián Moreno Mardones).

06-13-07: Added Notes: Elsewhere (Nikolaus Geyrhalter).
06-08-07: Added Notes: Yesterday Girl (Anita G.) (Alexander Kluge).
06-04-07: Added Notes: A Man Vanishes (Shohei Imamura).
05-22-07: Added Notes: Diary (David Perlov).
05-16-07:Added Notes: Le Lit de la vierge (Philippe Garrel).
05-06-07: Added Journal entry: The Films of Oshima Nagisa: Images of a Japanese Iconoclast by Maureen Turim.
04/20 - 05/02/07: Added Journal entries from Carlos Saura Retrospective:

Love, the Magician (Carlos Saura),
¡Ay, Carmela! (Carlos Saura),
The Stilts (Carlos Saura),
Carmen (Carlos Saura),
Deprisa, Deprisa (Carlos Saura),
Blood Wedding (Carlos Saura),
Mama Turns 100 Years Old (Carlos Saura),
Elisa, My Love (Carlos Saura),
The Garden of Delights (Carlos Saura),
The Hunt (Carlos Saura).

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Acquarello's Top Ten Favorite Films

01. Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952)
02. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1952)
03. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
04. Landscape in the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos, 1988)
05. Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964)
06. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
07. Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowki, 1987)
08. News from Home (Chantal Akerman, 1977)
09. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
10. Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, 1972)

Acquarello's Cinemarati 100 Canon submittal may be found here.

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Film Related Reading Notes (in alphabetical order)

• Alain Resnais by James Monaco.
• The Anarchy of the Imagination: Interviews, Essays, and Notes by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
• Chasing the Truth: The Films of Mrinal Sen by John. W. Hood.
• Childhood Days, A Memoir by Satyajit Ray.
• Cinema Interval by Trinh T. Minh-ha.
• Claire Denis by Judith Mayne.
• BFI Modern Classics: A City of Sadness by Bérénice Reynaud.
• Chris Marker: Memories of the Future by Catherine Lupton.
• Contemporary Film Directors: Abbas Kiarostami by Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum.
• Close Up - Iranian Cinema: Past, Present and Future by Hamid Dabashi.
• DEFA East German Cinema, 1946-1992 edited by Seán Allan and John Sandford.
• Double Vision: My Life in Film by Andrzej Wajda.
• Editions Dis Voir: Bruno Dumont by Sébastien Ors, Philippe Tancelin, and Valérie Jouve.
• Editions Dis Voir: Tsai Ming Liang by Olivier Joyard, Jean-Pierre Rehm, and Danièle Revière.
• Editions Dis Voir: Wong Kar Wai by Jean-Marc Lalanne, David Martinez, Ackbar Abbas, and Jimmy Ngai.
• Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema by David Desser
• The Essential Mystery: The Major Filmmakers of Indian Art Cinema by John W. Hood.
• The Films of Oshima Nagisa: Images of a Japanese Iconoclast by Maureen Turim.
• The Films of Theo Angelopoulos: A Cinema of Contemplation by Andrew Horton.
• Film: The Front Line - 1983 by Jonathan Rosenbaum.
• Harun Farocki: Working on the Sight-Lines edited by Thomas Elsaesser.
• Indecent Exposures: Buñuel, Saura, Erice and Almodóvar by Gwynne Edwards.
• Japanese Film Directors by Audie Bock.
• The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos edited by Andrew Horton.
• My Only Great Passion: The Life and Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer by Jean Drum and Dale D. Drum.
• My Years With Apu, A Memoir by Satyajit Ray.
• Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday by Ivone Margulies.
• Our Films, Their Films by Satyajit Ray.
• Ozu by Donald Richie.
• Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s by Donald Kirihara.
• Poetics of Cinema 2 by Raúl Ruiz.
• Questions of Third Cinema edited by Jim Pines and Willemen.
• Radical Juxtaposition: The Films of Yvonne Rainer by Shelley Green.
• Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History edited by Arthur Nolletti Jr. and David Desser.
• Rows and Rows of Fences - Ritwik Ghatak on Cinema by Ritwik Ghatak.
• Shohei Imamura (Cinematheque Ontario Monographs, No. 1) edited by James Quandt.
• Speaking the Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer by Raymond Carney.
• Split Screen: Belgian Cinema and Cultural Identity by Philip Mosley.

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Other Articles

• Where are the Snows of Yesteryear? Hong Sang-soo Searches for Lost Time in Woman is the Future of Man (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 33).
• A Divine Tragedy: Kim Ki-duk Searches for Redemption in The Samaritan Girl (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 32).
• Theo Angelopoulos (Senses of Cinema, Great Directors series).
• A City of Sadness (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 26).
• An Actor's Revenge (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 25).
• Mass-Produced Alienation: Disposable Lives in Made in Hong Kong (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 24).
• Life of Oharu (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 22).
• Carl Theodor Dreyer (Sense of Cinema, Great Directors series).
• The Naked Truth, Demystifying the Void of Intimacy (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 19).
• Nostalghia (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 15).
• Blue (Senses of Cinema, The Cinema of Wong Kar-wai - A 'Writing Game', Issue No. 13).
• Unsentimental Journey: A Glimpse into the Cinema of Mikio Naruse (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 12).
• Music of a Frozen Heart: Love and Disharmony in Un Coeur en Hiver (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 10).
• Through the Olive Trees: Life as Art...as Life (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 9).
• The Exterminating Angel (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 8).
• Tierra: The Exterminator, Angel (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 8).
• Death in France: Liebestod and The Green Room (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 6).
• Solaris: Exploring the Frontier of the Subconscious (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 4).

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