Latest Changes

09/28 - 10/10/08: Added Journal entries from New York Film Festival:

Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa),
The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel),
Four Nights with Anna (Jerzy Skolimowski),
Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo),
Lola Montès (Max Ophüls),
24 City (Jia Zhang-ke).

10-07-08: Added Journal entries from Views from the Avant Gardel:

Novel City (Leslie Thornton),
Horizontal Boundaries (Pat O'Neill),
America Is Waiting (Bruce Connor),
New York Lantern (Ernie Gehr),
Sarabande (Nathaniel Dorsky),
Winter (Nathaniel Dorsky).

09-21-08: Added Notes: Bucharest, Memory Lost (Albert Solé).
09-13-08: Added Notes: No, or the Vain Glory of Command (Manoel de Oliveira).
09-05-08: Added Notes: Hear My Cry (Maciej Drygas).
08-31-08: Added Notes: The Forsaken Land (Vimukthi Jayasundara).
08-17-08: Added Notes: Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson).
08-09-08: Added Journal entry: Manoel de Oliveira by Randal Johnson.
07-31-08: Added Notes: Calcutta 71 (Mrinal Sen).
07/19 - 07/24/08: Added Journal entries from Slovenian Cinema:

Idle Running (Janez Burger),
Beneath Her Window (Metod Pevec),
Paper Planes (Matjaz Klopcic),
Vesna (Frantisek Cáp),
Valley of Peace (France Stiglic),
Spare Parts (Damjan Kozole),
Rooster's Breakfast (Marko Nabersnik),
Raft of the Medusa (Karpo Godina),
Dance in the Rain (Bostjan Hladnik).

07-17-08: Added Notes: The Little White Girl Had to Bow Her Head for Emperor Hirohito (Frans Buyens and Lydia Chagoll).
07-10-08: Added Notes: Tren de sombras (José Luis Guerín).
07-02-08: Added Notes: Less Dead Than the Others (Frans Buyens and Lydia Chagoll).
06/21 - 06/26/08: Added Journal entries from Human Rights Watch:

Sari Soldiers (Julie Bridgham),
China's Stolen Children (Jezza Neumann),
Project Kashmir (Senain Kheshgi and Geeta Patel),
Behave (Maria Ramos),
Youth Producing Change.

06-18-08: Added Notes: The Way South (Johan van der Keuken).
06-12-08: Added Notes: H story (Nobuhiro Suwa).
06-05-08: Added Notes: State of Weightlessness (Maciej Drygas).
05-26-08: Added Notes: Flowing (Mikio Naruse).
05-24-08: Added Notes: Rising Tide (Robert Todd).
05-14-08: Added Notes: Japanese Girls at the Harbor (Hiroshi Shimizu) and Katatsumori (Naomi Kawase).
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).

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Lists

• Senses of Cinema End of the Year 'Favorite Film Things': 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001.
• Pillow List - 2006.
• Cinemarati 100 Canon.

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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.
• Manoel de Oliveira by Randal Johnson.
• 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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