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Andy Warhol:
Most of the Andy Warhol movies I saw don't really count. They had Andy Warhol bootlegs at this rental place and the disc would skip and I didn't see most of them all the way through.
Beauty #2 (1965)
Chelsea Girls (1966) Split screen throughout the film.
Heat (1972) This one was supposed to be based on Sunset Blvd. It features some of the worst acting I've seen in my life.
Poor Little Rich Girl (1965) It features Edie Sedgwick out of focus for the first 1/2. The second half was better. She was listening to Bob Dylan and the Everly Brothers and goofing off..
Vinyl (1965)
Bette Davis:
In This Our Life (1942)
Madame Sin (1972)
Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
Satan Met a Lady (1936)
That Certain Woman (1937)
Claude Chabrol:
Liens de sang, Les /Blood Relatives (1978) Pretty lame.
Une partie de plaisir (1975) Not great.
David Cronenberg:
"Teleplay" (1976): The Lie Chair and The Italian Machine / not that great.
The Brood (1979) I really liked this one. Creepy, if you've ever been a kid!! Or if you think creepy kids would scare you.
Crash (1996/I) This is supposed to be one of D.C.'s worst movies. I didn't listen to everyone who told me this, because I thought it was just because they didn't like the plot (people getting turned on by car crashes). They could have done so much more with this plot, let me tell you. It's not the plot that stinks, but the movie itself. Phew!
Emir Kusturica:
Crna macka, beli macor / Black Cat, White Cat (1998) See "Babel" -I really liked BCWC. It was funny. I saw this maybe 3 days before I saw "Babel" again. Screenwriter Guillermo Arriga said he was going to make a movie called "Black Dog, White Dog" and a week later Emir Kusturica announced his new film: "Black Cat, White Cat." (He also said he was going to call Babel "The Last Day" but Gus van Sant called his rock star movie "Last Days." I think G.A. still could have gotten away with it, but I think he wanted to avoid confusion.
Otac na sluzbenom putu / When Father Was Away On Business (1985)
Family Guy:
"Family Guy: Blind Ambition (#4.3)" (2005)
"Family Guy: Don't Make Me Over (#4.4)" (2005)
"Family Guy: Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High (#4.2)" (2005)
"Family Guy: North by North Quahog (#4.1)" (2005)
James Bond:
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) Ok.
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) Probably the James Bond with the sexiest storyline. The car was cool too.
Jean-Pierre Melville:
Enfants terribles, Les (1950) Got the recommendation from a guy I randomly met twice. Not that great of a film, though.
Un flic (1972) I wasn't gung ho on this one.
Luis Bunuel:
Hurdes, Las (1933) Ok.
Mort en ce jardin, La (1956) Not that great.
Nazarín (1959) Wonderful.
Robinson Crusoe (1954) Sort of ok.
Pedro Almodovar:
Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón (1980) This was extremely offensive and at the same time very good.
Tacones lejanos / High Heels (1991) Interesting.
Robert Bresson:
Argent, L' (1983) Not my favorite.
Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (1956) "
David Lynch:
·"On the Air" (1992)
David Lynch - On the Air - 1992, 2-4
David Lynch - On the Air - 1992, 3-4
David Lynch - On the Air - 1992, 4-4
I saw most of a David Lynch directed episode on YouTube. It's interesting and slapstick. I'm not sure I'd be glued to the tube for this one, and unfortunately, it got canceled. :(
·Also saw a David Lynch appearance on Jay Leno (YouTube). He was promoting On the Air.
Other:
Atalante, L' (1934) This one is supposed to be a classic, but I didn't really like it.
Babel (2006) (second viewing) Saw this again because screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga was speaking. He was older than I thought, nicer than I thought, and very humble. He is no longer on good terms with director Innaritu, however he didn't diss him, just politely disagreed on a credit issue.
Bez konca / No End (1985) I was disappointed by this.
Border Radio (1987) It was showing at the Egyptian Theater because of the DVD release. Allison Anders and most of the cast was there. It was an exciting night and the movie was pretty fun and interesting to watch.
Céline et Julie vont en bateau (1974) Not my favorite Rivette. Not sure why it is so famous, but worth a watch. These girls in their twenties act like they're 10. But whatever.
Femmes, Les (1969) What I thought was just going to be some trashy vehicle for Brigitte Bardot was actually pretty funny and entertaining!
Hard Candy (2005) I had been waiting about a year to see this one. Finally, it arrived on DVD. I was extremely disappointed. It was extremely lame and did not live up to my expectations. There were some good moments.
Jour se lève, Le (1939) Most people rave about this movie. I wasn't thrilled w/it, because it reminded me too much of Fury (1936). Funny. That movie came out 3 years before Le Jour Se Leve, so my bet is that Marcel Carne ripped it off or got a little too inspired by it.
Kicking and Screaming (1995) This is by Noah Baumbach who co-wrote The Life Aquatic and who wrote & directed The Squid & the Whale. I like both of those movies, but found Kicking and Screaming to be awful. Lots of sarcastic talk about bestiality. Um, do I want to hear that? Lots of talk about sex with just anyone. I didn't find it to be my favorite.
Kung-Fu master / Le Petit Amour (1987) This was one of the worst Agnes Varda films I've seen. An older woman (40) gets involved with a guy her daughter's age (14). The way the French view underage relationships. Ooh la la!
Lásky jedné plavovlásky / Loves of a Blonde (1965) Not my favorite, but a semi-interesting Milos Forman movie.
Laberinto del Fauno, El /Pan's Labyrinth (2006) Guillermo Del Toro was there for two minutes (so I saw him twice this month). The movie was really good, but somehow just wasn't one of my favorites. I was astounded how good of an actress the little girl was (Ivana Baquero).
The Last Kiss (2006) This was so terrible. I'm glad I didn't see it in the theater. The DVD was sort of skipping and I almost didn't get to see it all the way through. Avoid at all costs. Sure Zach Braff is sorta cute, but get your fix through Garden State.
Lola (1961) Fantastic! I liked it.
The Major and the Minor (1942) A little bit silly, but one of the few Billy Wilder films I have never seen. Ginger Rogers was cute in it, trying to pass as a 12 year old girl so she could get 1/2 fare for a train back home.
Maman et la putain, La (1973) A lot of people say they love this movie.
Mon homme (1996) I love the director, but had trouble locating this movie. It is by far his worst film.
Nénette et Boni (1996) Hated it. hated it. hated it. Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi making out with Vincent Gallo? What?
Night on Earth (1991) Jim Jarmusch. I liked. (spoiler, maybe) 5 stories. The first story starts off with a chick who's entirely content with her life. Each story is more serious than the previous one. By the fifth story, the guy is completely dissatisfied as life has taken away more than it has given him.
Partner (1968) Terrible Bertolucci.
Performance (1970) When I rented this one, the guy at the video store said, "Wild choices as always." Just how wild I was about to find out.
Petite voleuse, La (1988) Based on a Francois Truffaut script - made after he died. With Charlotte Gainsbourg. Okay.
Pierrot le fou (1965) I liked it. But the first time I tried seeing this (2-3 years ago) I gave up on it, because the narrative was all over the place and I couldn't get into it. It was good though.
Septième ciel, Le /Seventh Heaven(1997) ok.
Signé Charlotte (1985) Isabelle Huppert is a punk singer from the '80s. It's pretty funny in retrospect, but wasn't astounding. Why? Well, it was directed by her sister.
Sitcom (1998) Pretty wild. Entertaining. From Francois Ozon.
Sous le soleil de Satan (1987) Alright.
Thieves Like Us (1974) Altman
Toto le héros (1991) I wasn't over ecstatic about it, despite numerous recommendations.
Vampyr - Der Traum des Allan Grey (1932)
Waking Life (2001) Every character talked like they were a grad student. Highly annoying, and yet somewhat interesting.
Silents:
A Fool There Was (1915) Theda Bara movie on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pa1lvWfAn8). Not the best, but hey I made it all the way through!
Haldane of the Secret Service (1923) When I found out a local theater was playing a movie w/Harry Houdini, my first thought was: Harry Houdini made films!?!? He financed this picture himself and made quite a bit of money. It was his last film before he died. The thing was, it wasn't that great of a film, though.
Live piano player: Richard Friend
They also showed the following short films that night:
Farfalle (1908) (second viewing) This short was included on the Rien ne va plus / The Swindle DVD. I got the chance to see it yet again when I saw the Houdini movie. It seemed there was an additional few minutes of ladies dressed up in kimonos. A Japanese "butterfly" movie done by the French. Who'd have thought?
His Musical Career (1914) What I saw was actually called "The Piano Tuner" and was an "east coast" film. However, the plot is exactly the same. They are to deliver a piano to 666 Green St. and they end up delivering it to 999 Brown St. or some such thing.
An Incompetent Hero (1914) This one was about three fat men and would have probably been offensive today.
Universal Studios Tour - Life in Hollywood(1923) They showed a bunch of actors that were popular at the time, but that I really have no clue about today!
Additional Short Films:
Breakaway (1966) This one is by director Bruce Conner. cutandpaste wrote about Bruce Conner and I decided to check him out on YouTube. Unfortunately most of the Bruce Conner movies have since been taken down. It's a bummer, because most of them were good.
Naughty Nurse (1969) / The Secret Cinema (1968) (second viewing) Weirdly enough, I had seen Secret Cinema before. Where? I have no clue. I browsed the indie section of my video store and researched the most interesting looking titles before deciding on this set of films. Naughty Nurse was so bad that I really couldn't get through it.
Valse Triste (1977) Bruce Conner.
Vivian (1965) My favorite Bruce Conner film.
Turned off:
Kumonosu jô / Throne of Blood (1957) I was not about to watch another Japanese horror movie even though this one was highly rated.
Lolita (remake) (1997) Hated it. I would have seen all of it, but I sort of lost interest and it was just getting to be way too much!
Clip of:
The Terror of Tiny Town (1938) I saw this on Myspace videos. An all midget western musical. Funny? Sort of.
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Favorites: Nazarín, Lola (1961), Night on Earth (1991), and Laberinto del Fauno, El /Pan's Labyrinth (2006). Honorable mentions: Crna macka, beli macor / Black Cat, White Cat (1998).
Worst movies: Besides the ones I've turned off, Nénette et Boni (1996), The Last Kiss (2006), and Kung-Fu master (1987). Kicking and Screaming (1995) was probably the most disappointing.
ART CHANGES PEOPLE
PEOPLE CHANGE THE WORLD
I agree with this. I think this is why it is important to create art. A song on a lonely road, a night at the cinema, a painting that captured the imagination; these things change people in a major way. And that changes the world: oh, how it changes us . . .
Here's the other side of the shuttered doors:
WE ARE DOING NEW WORK
AND THAT IS OUR
DOWNFALL
Now, the whole point of modernism is not really too much of anything definable excepting that it breaks from its past in a major, groundbreaking way. That's how the oddly geometrical, cubist paintings came out, how E.E. Cummings could be so hideously irreverent, and how Ezra Pound could mix a thousand myths and feel like he didn't have to explain himself. It was new and it was shocking.
Was. It was new.
Reactions to modernism can also be considered modernist even if nothing else in their philosophies agrees with another. Gerard Manley Hopkins' reaction was to retreat to an even more ancient past, to early strains of the English language. Was that modernist? There are other questions to this, too; how big of a break does it have to be? does it just have to do with style or is it thought also? a mixture of the two, perhaps?
I've always operated under the principle that there really is nothing new under the sun, and that thought colors my perspective on most subjects; these stenciled shutters make sense to me, though.
We consistently try to find truth and show it to others in a way that will reach them where they are. We try to disarm and dismay people with our swords of truth and beauty (and whatever other principles we stand for at the moment). That happens in art--from Titian to Picasso--but the newness wears off, becomes faded and shabby. Who is shocked by Andy Warhol's bright Marilyn Monroe pictures now? What is it to us to pick up a copy of Walt Whitman's writhing, hot verses?
I wonder, sometimes, whether my work is also my downfall. No, no, no; it isn't. I'm not writing new things. I'm writing for people to know the truth--I'm writing for them to want the best for other people. I'm writing to help people understand why other people do things. And humanity is humanity the world round; my writing will be culturally dated, it will be stylistically accounted for and conceptually mundane, but I will change the world in my own small-but-maybe-artistic way. I am doing real work, and that is my salvation.
"So, just like this..." [opening line to my favorite poem by a living poet: Wang Ping]. I weep or at least could at or over what she tells us, relates to us, informs us of and pleads for us to know about her life when she arrive as an immigrant-student to The united states Part Of AMERICA. Check it out and her later, most compelling accoutn of her maternal ancestry. Shame on us ingnorant, misguided men; terrible shame on us.
I hit a newspaper in China today; the "Qingdao Morning......" something. I do not know the name of the paper but in this city of six-million-plus people [consider The Detroit Free Press originates in a city of less than a million] there was an article in which I was mentioned with a photo too. Hey, Mr. Warhol, I got my fifteen minutes!
Indeed, the events around my unilateral decision to actively and agressively participate in and diseminate information about "International Aids Awareness Day" [title attributed by me because I do not know what the name of "the day" was; ya know] and to offer condoms to students to my English classes here, fostered and lead to the inclusion of the coverage of my intent in this newspaper I have maybe never seen and certainly never read. Hey man, that's cool. I dig it. Groovey and sweeeeeet and all such; ya know?
"You are famous!" I have been told [I think and believe 'cause my Chinese language ability is very, very limited; ya know] by both stranges and too friends of over a decade or less for my decision to go aganist Chinese culture and tradition with my decision to discuss here openly with my students a subject around and or about sex.
I talked about, gave out printed information about AIDS and offered condoms to students at an afternoon of no-class sports compition activities and also, so far, to two of my eight two-hour classes inclusive of four-hundred students at Shandong Foreign Trade Vocational College.
Because [out of wont and penchat to not being able to accept plaudetts or accolades for good that is done and attributed to me {a disorder of the psyche or emotions or somesuch, itaw; ya know?] I am a little drunk I cannot continue with this commentary or whatever might be the proper, correct or percise word to describe what I have doone or attempedte to do her, I quite and or stop here now at this point; ya know?
SCRANTON, Pa. - An oil painting by Jackson Pollock and a silkscreen by Andy Warhol were stolen from a museum by thieves who shattered a glass door in the back of the building, officials said.
The Pollock was likely worth about $11.6 million and the Warhol had a value of about $15,000, experts said.
The thieves had disappeared from the Everhart Museum by the time police arrived — four minutes after the alarm sounded at 2:30 a.m. Friday. Surveillance cameras were not working, officials said.
The stolen Pollock oil-on-canvas painting, “Springs Winter,” measures 40 inches by 32 inches and was created in 1949 by the famed abstract expressionist. It was on loan to the Everhart Museum from a private collector. The museum declined to identify the lender.
The stolen Warhol, “Le Grande Passion,” is a 40-by-40 inch silkscreen on board. The pop art icon created the work in 1984 on commission for an ad campaign for Grand Passion cognac. It was owned by the museum.
Paintings could be worth millions
Authorities and museum officials said they were unsure of the actual value of the paintings, which were taken from the museum’s second floor exhibition hall.
But Helen Harrison, director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in East Hampton, N.Y., said the Pollock’s value was comparable to a similar painting that sold at auction for $11.6 million in May 2004. Art dealer Pierette VanCleve said the Warhol piece would have an auction value of about $15,000.
The thieves appeared to have been aided by a large tent covering the museum’s back entrance for an event, investigators said. Officials said they had no immediate leads.
The museum did not say why the surveillance cameras were not working. Wilbur Faulk, former security director at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, said the problem was not unusual.
“It takes money to maintain systems, whether it’s a computer system or an alarm system,” he said. “If we traveled around the United States, we would be surprised at how many places this is the case.”
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