June Screening Log

Color coded via Dan Sallitt's method (Current or upcoming releases not included). Click on the titles to writing when applicable.

1. The Son (Dardennes, Belgium, 2002)

2. Tokyo Twilight (Ozu, Japan, 1957)

3. Hatari! (Hawks, USA, 1962)

4. Trail of the Vigilantes (Dwan, USA, 1940)

5. Umberto D (De Sica, Italy, 1952)

6. Manhandled (Dwan, USA, 1924)

7. Early Summer (Ozu, Japan, 1951)

8. Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (Ozu, Japan, 1952)

9. One Mile From Heaven (Dwan, USA, 1937)

10. Drunken Master II (Lau, Hong Kong, 1994)

Also Notable (No order besides color categorization): Paris Belongs To Us (Rivette, France, 1959), Record of a Tenement Gentleman (Ozu, Japan, 1947), The Munektata Sisters (Ozu, Japan, 1950), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn (Meyers, USA, 1982), Birth (Glazer, USA, 2004), The Only Son (Ozu Japan, 1936), A Modern Musketeer (Dwan, USA, 1917), There Was a Father (Ozu, Japan, 1942), Stage Struck (Dwan, USA, 1925), Frontier Marshall (Dwan, USA, 1938), Brewster's Millions (Dwan, USA, 1945), They All Lie (Piñeiro, Argentina, 2009) Late Autumn (Ozu, Japan, 1960), Police Story 3: Supercop (Chan, Hong Kong, 1992), The Restless Breed (Dwan, USA, 1957), Driftwood (Dwan, USA, 1947), Rosalinda (Piñeiro, Argentina, 2010), Impolex (Perry, USA, 2009), The Iron Mask (Dwan, USA, 1929), Rendezvous With Annie (Dwan, USA, 1946), Dragnet Girl (Ozu, Japan, 1933), The Stolen Man (Piñeiro, Argentina, 2007), An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu, Japan, 1962)

Screening Log: Action Scene Aesthetics Edition

            Sorry for missing last week’s screening log folks, but as you know, things can get quite crazy. My one note of interest is that I refuse to write anything on Girls because pretty much every other person on the Internet has done so. I will say that I thought the first two episodes episode are fantastic, and everything you need to know about the show’s relation to its characters is said in that first shot, and that during Hannah’s AIDS monologue all we can see is her face. This is a girl who is clearly unaware of her surroundings, not a prophet.

                                                       

-Police Story, 1985. Directed by Jackie Chan. 35mm projection at Film Society of Lincoln Center.

-Bird, 1988. Directed by Clint Eastwood. 35mm projection at Film Society of Lincoln Center.

-Frenzy, 1972. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. 35mm projection at IFC Center.

-Mouchette, 1967. Directed by Robert Bresson. 35mm projection at Brooklyn Academy of Music.

-Numéro Zéro, 1971. Directed by Jean Estuche. 35mm projection at private screening.