Remember the Night
Because things can get so lost in the bowels of Blogistan, I thought it might be helpful, if only to me, to catalog my years-so-far of weekly IFC columns. Disregard this entry's inception date; I'll be updating it perpetually. Thus:
10/30/06: Down to the Bone, Hands Over the City
11/06/06: Wordplay, The Fountainhead
11/13/06: 49 Up, Pocket Money
11/20/06: The Wild Blue Yonder, Pandora’s Box
11/27/06: Tribulation 99: Alien Anamolies Under America, the vintage Superman serials
12/4/06: Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, the Wim Wenders box
12/11/06: 4, Lubitsch in Berlin: The Wildcat, The Oyster Princess, Sumurum, etc.
12/18/06: The Conformist, 1900, Little Miss Sunshine
1/8/07: Street Fight, The Weeping Meadow
1/15/07: La Moustache, Mouchette
1/22/07: Robert Mitchum, Kenneth Anger
1/29/07: Idiocracy, Sherrybaby
2/5/07: The Science of Sleep, Vibrator
2/12/07: 13 Tzameti, The Invisible Dr. Mabuse, The Return of Dr. Mabuse, The Death Ray Mirror of Dr. Mabuse
2/19/07: Lunacy, Apartment Zero
2/26/07: The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On, Profondo Russo
3/5/07: Early Hitchcock: The Manxman, The Ring, Murder!, The Skin Game, etc.; Quiet Flows the Don
3/12/07: The Burmese Harp, Un Chant d’Amour
3/19/07: My Country, My Country; Bloody Reunion
3/26/07: Re-Animator, The Perfect Crime
4/2/07: Radio On, The Bridesmaid
4/9/07: Flannel Pajamas, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
4/16/07: Sombre, Notes on a Scandal
4/23/07: Al Franken: God Spoke, Hacking Democracy
4/30/07: Old Joy, The Elusive Corporal, Le Testament de Docteur Cordelier, Nana, etc.
5/7/07: Comedy of Power, How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman
5/14/07: Deliver Us from Evil, David and Lisa
5/21/07: Regular Lovers, Sansho the Bailiff
5/28/07: Able Edwards, Black Test Car
6/4/07: Tears of the Black Tiger, Viva la Muerte, I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse, The Guernica Tree
6/11/07: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (2006), Sweet Land
6/18/07: Raining Stones, The Call of Cthulhu
6/25/07: WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Sweet Movie, Heavy Petting
7/2/07: Climates, Isolation
7/9/07: Woman in the Dunes, Pitfall, The Face of Another, Missing Victor Pellerin
7/16/07: Malpertuis, Tideland
7/23/07: Five, Avant Garde 2: Experimental Cinema 1928-1954: Venom and Eternity, etc.
7/30/07: Factory Girl, 20 Million Miles to Earth
8/6/07: Wooden Crosses, Les Miserables, Popeye the Sailor 1932-1938
8/13/07: They Live by Night, Act of Violence, Where Danger Lives, etc., Zodiac
8/20/07: Inland Empire, Puzzlehead
8/27/07: Broken English, The Young One
9/3/07: The Castle, Horrors of Malformed Men
9/10/07: On the Silver Globe, the Rudolph Valentino Collection: Moran of the Lady Letty, The Young Rajah, etc.
9/17/07: The Wind that Shakes the Barley, From Beyond, The Return of the Living Dead
9/24/07: The Boss of It All, Red Road
10/1/07: Green Chair, Cinema 16: European Short Films: Before Dawn, World of Glory, Six Shooter, The Man without a Head, etc.
10/8/07: 12:08 East of Bucharest, the Kenneth Anger Collection Vol. II
10/15/07: the Roger Corman Collection: Gas! Or It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It, X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, etc.; Treasures III: Social Issues in American Film
10/22/07: A Cottage on Dartmoor, Casshern
10/29/07: Into Great Silence, Adanggaman
11/5/07: Sicko, Basket Case 2
11/12/07: Berlin Alexanderplatz, Killer of Sheep
11/19/07: I Am Cuba, Manufactured Landscapes
11/26/07: Our Hitler: A Film from Germany, The Freethinker
12/3/07: Innocence, Drunken Angel
12/10/07: Two-Lane Blacktop, The Way I Spent the End of the World
12/17/07: Once, Feed
12/24/07: The Best Non-Theatrical/Straight-to-Video Debuts of 2007
1/7/08: The District, Chameleon Street
1/14/08: Kz, Klimt
1/21/08: The "Saved from the Flames" orphan film set, The Kingdom 2
1/28/08: Los Muertos, Quiet City
2/4/08: Rocket Science, Right At Your Door
2/11/08: The Films of Sergei Paradjanov, El Cid
2/18/08: Pierrot le Fou, Helas pour Moi
2/25/08: Walker, The Draughtsman's Contract
3/03/08: Kilometre Zero, the Lubitsch musicals (The Love Parade, Monte Carlo, The Smiling Lieutenant, One Hour with You)
3/10/08: Her Name is Sabine, Terror's Advocate
3/17/08: George Melies DVD sets, Khadak
3/25/08: Moolaade, Daisy Kenyon
4/1/08: The Ice Storm, Melo
4/8/08: The Night of the Shooting Stars, Diva Dolorosa
4/15/08: Lars and the Real Girl, The Dragon Painter
4/22/08: Hannah Takes the Stairs, The World According to Shorts
4/29/08: The Guatemalan Handshake, Lois Weber's Hypocrites
5/6/08: Bamako, the films of Morris Engel (Little Fugitive, Lovers and Lollipops, Weddings and Babies)
5/13/08: I'm Not There, La Roue
5/20/08: La Chinoise, Le Gai Savoir, silent Ozu: Tokyo Chorus, Passing Fancy, I Was Born, But...
5/27/08: the "delirious fictions" of William Klein (Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, Mr. Freedom, The Model Couple), All You Need Is Love
6/3/08: Variety, Come Drink with Me
6/10/08: the films of Chris Marker (The Last Bolshevik, The Case of the Grinning Cat, Remembrance of Things to Come, etc.), Boarding Gate
6/17/08: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days; Diva
6/24/08: Derek Jarman's Glitterbox (with Caravaggio, Wittgenstein, The Angelic Conversations and Blue), Heavy Metal in Baghdad
7/1/08: My Blueberry Nights, The Free Will
7/8/08: Sunflower, Napoletano Carosello
7/15/08: Times and Winds, Chop Shop
7/22/08: Satantango, Eagle Shooting Heroes
7/29/08: Wholphin No. 6 (and Wholphin-ing in general), Flicker Alley's collection Perils of the New Land
8/5/08: Joy House, The Witman Boys
8/12/08: the films of Larisa Shepitko, A Throw of Dice
8/19/08: Lech Majewski and The Garden of Earthly Delights, Brand upon the Brain!
8/26/08: Please Vote for Me, Primo Levi's Journey
9/2/08: Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Television Under the Swastika
9/9/08: Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis; It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
9/16/08: The Forsaken Land, Team Picture
9/24/08: Aki Kaurismaki's "proletariat trilogy," and Jerzy Kawalerowicz's 1956 Shadow
9/30/08: Jellyfish, Snow Angels
10/7/08: Boy A, The Unforeseen
10/14/08: Melville's Le Doulos and Le Deuxieme Souffle, Murnau's The Last Laugh
10/21/08: Paris vu par... (Six in Paris), Arch of Triumph
10/28/08: Flight of the Red Balloon, Mystery Science Theater 3000
11/4/08: Billy the Kid; No Mercy, No Future and the ignored corpus of Helena Sanders-Brahms
11/11/08: the Budd Boetticher box (Ride Lonesome, The Tall T, Comanche Station, et al.), Sembene's Camp de Thiaroye
11/18/08: the Nippono-camp satires of Minoru Kawasaki (Executive Koala, The World Sinks Except Japan, etc.), Keaton's The General
11/25/08: Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
12/2/08: Jia Zhangke's Still Life, Roberto Rossellini's Era Notte a Roma
12/9/08: Assayas's Irma Vep, the eco-doc Flow: For the Love of Water
12/16/08: Fuller's White Dog, and Herzog's Ballad of the Little Soldier
12/23/08: My Father My Lord, Takva
12/30/08: Woman on the Beach, Operation Filmmaker
1/6/09: The Wedding Director, Powell's A Matter of Life and Death
1/13/09: Blind Mountain, Inheritance
1/20/09: The Taking of Power by Louis XIV, The Order of Myths
1/27/09: Patti Smith: Dream of Life, The Deal
2/3/09: Our Man in Havana, The Singing Revolution
2/10/09: Luis Bunuel and Simon of the Desert, W.
2/17/09: I Served the King of England, The Whole Shootin' Match
2/24/09: Moving Midway, The Midnight Meat Train
3/3/09: F.T.A., The Kaiser's Lackey
3/10/09: The Pervert's Guide to Cinema; Synecdoche, New York
3/17/09: Hiroshi Shimizu (Ornamental Hairpin, Mr. Thank You, et al.), Visconti's L'Innocente
3/24/09: Dear Zachary, Poil de Carotte
3/31/09: William Wellman's Forbidden Hollywood (Other Men's Women, Wild Boys of the Road, etc.), The Believer's album of Godardabilia, JLG in USA
4/7/09: Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde 1947-1986, Microcinema's Experiments in Terror 3 (including a Kuchar and a new Maddin!)
4/14/09: The Kite, The Broken
4/21/09: The Wrestler, House of the Sleeping Beauties
4/28/09: Cargo 200, 13 Most Beautiful... Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests
5/5/09: Wendy & Lucy, A Grin without a Cat
5/12/09: Momma's Man, Of Time and the City
5/19/09: The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Tarkovsky's Tempo di Viaggio
5/26/09: Philippe Garrel's Emergency Kisses and I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar, and Antonioni's Zabriskie Point
6/2/09: Suzuki's Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards!, Lang's Man Hunt
6/9/09: Cronenberg's M. Butterfly, Ferreri's La Grande Bouffe
6/16/09: In Love We Trust, Une Femme Mariee
6/23/09: Waltz with Bashir, Flirtation Walk
6/30/09: Last Year at Marienbad, Los Bastardos
7/7/09: Tokyo!, Alice's House
7/14/09: Amos Gitai's One Day You'll Understand, and the Belgian road comedy Eldorado
7/21/09: Godard's Made in U.S.A., and the old Barrymore silent Sherlock Holmes
7/28/09: Polanski's Replusion, plus Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
8/4/09: Loose Change and 9/11 conspiracy docs, plus samurai pulp classic Sleep Eyes of Death
8/11/09: London to Brighton, Azazel Jacobs's The GoodTimesKid
8/18/09: Cassavetes's Husbands, the Azerbaijanian fairy-tale-farce Absurdistan
8/25/09: Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, and Andrzej Wajda's Katyn
8/31/09: Jonas Mekas's rare, huge home-movie portrait of the '60s Walden, plus Trouble the Water
9/7/09: Carlos Reygadas's Silent Light, and Masaki Kobayashi's The Human Condition
9/14/09: Peter Greenaway's Nightwatching and Rembrandt's J'Accuse, and Rene Clement's Gervaise
9/21/09: Sally Potter's Rage, and the Kazakh hit Tulpan
9/29/09: Frownland, Aventurera
10/6/09: Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Princess
10/13/09: Dusan Makavejev Man Is Not a Bird, Love Affair or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator & Innocence Unprotected, plus Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie
10/20/09: Hans-Jurgen Syberberg's Karl May and Ludwig, plus the Karloff creaker The Walking Dead
10/27/09: Fear(s) in the Dark, Il Divo
11/3/09: Sam Fuller's Shockproof, Scandal Sheet, It Happened in Hollywood, etc.; plus Wings of Desire
11/10/09: Lance Hammer's Ballast, Don Siegel's The Lineup
11/17/09: Park Chan-wook's Thirst, Kent MacKenzie's rediscovered The Exiles
11/24/09: Luis Bunuel's never-remembered Death in the Garden, and Michael Ritchie's acidic '70s honey Downhill Racer,
12/1/09: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Three Monkeys, and the philosophical mega-doc The Ister
12/8/09: The historic doc event The Battle of Chile, plus Kino's Avant-Garde 3
12/15/09: Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, Nina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues
12/22/09: The annual Best-Films-to-Go-Straight-to-Video-and-Why-Is-That-Not-a-Legit-"Release" megalist
12/29/09: Lucrecia Martel's The Headless Woman, plus a shout-out to Facets' new disc of Alexander Alexeieff animation
1/5/10: (500) Days of Summer, Miss Mend
1/12/10 : Roy Andersson's You, the Living, plus Duncan Jones's Moon
1/19/10: the Dardennes' Lorna's Silence, Craig Baldwin's Mock Up on Mu
1/26/10: Pontypool, Import/Export
2/2/10: Wholphin 10, and W.S. Van Dyke's White Shadows of the South Seas
2/9/10: Korean indie Daytime Drinking, and "bad girl" noirs (Two of a Kind, The Killer that Stalked New York, One Girl's Confession, et al.)
2/16/10: The first ever Holocaust film, 1948's The Last Stage, plus Downloading Nancy
Skol!
thanks, mike. it's like _the collected m.a. 06-07_ in one blog post!
re: _inland empire_ -- i've been a little skittish about dedicating the three or so hours of my life to take in lynch's latest post-narrative digi-provocation; every time i read some ecstatic praise, someone else comes back suggesting it's a huge, dreadful disappointment. but of course lynch is only dreadful when he's furthest from his native aesthetic instincts (_dune_, _tp (!) - fire walk this way_). and he's been on a roll over the last decade plus, with _lost highway_ as underrated as _mullholland_ is overrated ("silencio," seguramente!).
so, i'll give _inland_ a shot on michael atkinson's recommendation, and while the dvd's still in the new releases section...
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Whatever became of Elena Lowenshon? Her performance in the delirious Sombre was fearless. She turned her character's loneliness and sexual frustration into a kind of strength, which she used to repeatedly place herself in the path of a murderous fiend.
Unfortunately, the disc I got from Netflix was almost unwatchable, due to the poor transference. It's a shame because Sombre is one of the most impressive debuts by anyone, ever. I'm eager for Grandrieux's La Nouvelle Vie to appear on disc. Likely, it, too, will suffer from an indifferent presentation.
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