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
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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