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Monday, August 20, 2012

Screening Log: I'm in Love! Edition

No notes for this week. Please note that /brackets/ represent films I’ve already seen.

-A Perfect World, 1993. Directed by Clint Eastwood. 35mm projection at Museum of Modern Art.

-The Truth About Charlie, 2002. Directed by Jonathan Demme. DVD.

-Million Dollar Legs, 1932. Directed by Edward F. Cline. 35mm projection at Brooklyn Academy of Music.

-The Bank Dick, 1940. Directed by Edward F. Cline. 35mm projection at Brooklyn Academy of Music.

-Casque D’Or, 1952. Directed by Jacques Becker. 35mm projection at Film Forum.

-Charade, 1963. Directed by Stanley Donen. DVD.

-/North By Northwest/, 1959. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Screened on Turner Classic Movies.

Sunday, July 01, 2012

Screening Log: Goin' Up In Flames Edition

Happy July 4^th week everyone! If anyone needs to borrow my DVDs of Armageddon or Independence Day, let me know. Both are required viewing in the Labuza household.

-Haywire, 2012. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Blu-Ray.

-Days of Heaven, 1978. Directed by Terrence Malick. 35mm projection at Museum of the Moving Image.

-Funny Face, 1957. Directed by Stanley Donen. Digital Cinema Projection at Film Forum.

About the Author

Peter Labuza is the host of The Cinephiliacs and the author of Approaching The End: Imagining Apocalypse in American Film. He has contributed to Variety, Reverse Shot, Little White Lies, Indiewire, The Playlist, In Review Online, and Press Play. He serves as an editor for To Be (Cont'd), a columnist for The Film Stage, and a booklet editor for the UK Blu-Ray distributor Masters of Cinema. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California in the Critical Studies department where he is focusing on the late studio period of Hollywood between 1959-1966. Previously, Peter earned both a BA and an MA in Film Studies from Columbia University in New York City.

Here at this blog, he collects links to his various writing, and posts other things of interest when he has the time and passion. Day to day, you can find him either chatting away on Twitter or writing brief thoughts on films on Letterboxd. He lives in Los Angeles and is often found roaming the city's various repertory theaters. You can reach Peter by email (plabuza@gmail.com) for possible writing/podcast opportunities that may interest him.