Film Posts 2013

Another yearly index post.

Occasional Pieces:

1/15: Oshima Obituary
1/29: Director of the Month: Oshima
2/28: Donald Richie obit and comments (and a list)
3/31: Director of the Month - Akira Kurosawa
4/4: Roger Ebert Obituary
4/29: April Director - Mikio Naruse.
6/25: June Director - Kon Ichikawa
8/3: July Director (despite the date): Shohei Imamura
8/28: August Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
10/29: Yasujiro Ozu for Director of the Month
12/12: Ozu memorial

Published Elsewhere:

10/1: My review of the Coens' True Grit, at Wonders in the Dark, for the Western Countdown.
10/9: Bend of the River, also for the countdown
11/22: Winchester 73 atWonders in the Dark


Polls, Lists, Memes, etc.

1/2: Best of 2012 - first cut
1/9: WITD Poll - 1960s
2/23: Oscars and Categories
3/10: Spring Quiz - Jean Brodie
3/24: WITD Poll - 1970s
5/20: WITD Poll - 1980s
8/13: WITD Poll - 1990s
10/1: Western Countdown announcement
12/14: Larry Gopnik Quiz from Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule.

Reviews:

1/5: Lincoln & Django Unchained
1/25: Zero Dark Thirty - plus Barbara and the Central Park Five
2/19: Up Series (56 Up released)
4/24: Big Roundup of Auteurist films seen this spring - To The Wonder, Upstream Color, Beyond the Hills, Spring Breakers, Like Someone in Love, Night Across the Street, Stoker and Side Effects
5/12: Roundup: Angel's Share, Mud, Renoir, In the House, Something in the Air.
6/19: Another Roundup: Stories We Tell, Deceptive Practices, Frances Ha, Before Midnight, Post Tenebras Lux, An Oversimplification of her Beauty
9/9: Very big roundup of summer film viewing: Much Ado About Nothing, The Bling Ring, A Band Called Death, Lone Ranger, The Hunt, I'm So Excited, You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet, Computer Chess, Crystal Fairy, The Act of Killing, The Way Way Back, Despicable Me 2, In a World, Prince Avalanche, Ain't Them Bodies Saints, The Grandmaster, Austenland

Film Posts 2012

This post is meant for the sidebar, as an index of my film posts in a given year. A little more flexibly than the tags.

Long Form:

2/18 - Hugo and the Artist, and neo-silent movies (from Luimiere and cCompany to Heart of the World.)
12/7: Zep and the Mats: More music and nostalgia than film - but based around two DVDs - Celebration Day and Color Me Obsessed

Occasional Pieces:

1/2: Best Films of 2011 list.
2/5: Ben Gazzara obits and screen shots.
2/26: My Oscar picks.
4/28: Dennis Cozzalio's Spring Quiz - Nuns!
5/21: 1930s Polls - my votes from the 30s for Wonders in the Dark
6/20: Andrew Sarris
7/8: Halftime Report
7/30: Chris Marker obit.
8/5: my votes for films of the 1940s on Wonders in the Dark.
8/7: Reflections on Sight & Sound's Poll, and my top 10.
10/13 - Fall Quiz...
10/15: 1950s Films Voting record

Screen Grabs:

1/1: Happy New Year! - Husducker Proxy
1/8: Desert Island DVDs
1/15: Shopping Report - Godard's Histoire(s) du Cinema, and Tokyo Drifter.
2/12: WWII films: Mrs. Miniver
2/19: WWII: Cranes Are Flying
3/4: WWII: Fighting Elegy
3/18: WWII: Cross of Iron
4/1: WWII: Fires on the Plain - long essay, with pictures
4/8: WWII: Christ imagery, for Easter
4/15: WWII: The Pianist
4/22: WWII: Das Boot
5/13: WWII: Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
6/4: John Ford's Midway
6/6: D-Day Sam Fuller shot
8/26: Fassbinder's Lola
10/31: Re-Animator, for Halloween

Reviews:

1/17: Recent Films - Carnage, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Descendants, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Le Havre and Outrage.
1/28: Catch up from 2011 - Week End and Weekend, Tales from the Golden Age, Rum Diary, Gainsbourg and Mill and the Cross.
3/26: In Darkness and Free Men - two new WWII films.
6/19: Big Roundup - Chico and Rita, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Mirror Mirror, Kid With the Bike, Deep Blue Sea, Five Year Engagement, This is Not a Film, Dark Shadows, Bernie, The Pirates...
6/24: Moonrise Kingdom
8/18: Summer Film Roundup - Keyhole, Safety Not Guaranteed, Your SIster's Sister, To Rome With Love, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Hara Kiri: Death of a Samurai, Brave, The Campaign, Dark Horse.
9/27: The Master, with comments on For Ellen
12/3: Fall Roundup #1 - Restless City, Two Days in NY, Cosmopolis, Oslo: August 31, Lawless, Compliance, Paranorman
12/16: Fall Roundup #2 - Silver Linings Playbook, My Worst Nightmare, The Sessions, Argo, Alps, How to Survive a Plague, Keep the Lights On, Looper
12/18: Fall Roundup 3 - Killing them Softly, Holy Motors, Cloud Atlas

Film Posts 2011

Here then is my yearly Index of my film posts. This year, I think I will add links to blogathons and similar projects during the year, even if I don't actually participate. I used to try to keep on top of these things, but these days, there are fewer of them, and I am lazier - I won't pretend this is comprehensive, but I'll try to make it useful.

Mostly, though, this is to keep track of what I manage to write during the year.

Longer Pieces:

2/13: Notes on Hong Sang Soo - films, and appearance.
5/31: Mr Deeds Goes to Town - shots and essay
6/2: John Doe Footnote
9/18: Screen grabs and mini-essay on Capitalism, Violence and the Media in some Fassbinder films
10/30: Illustrated essay on the two classic Frankenstein films.

Occasional Pieces:

1/2: Best of 2010 (and 2009, in retrospect).
1/4: A quiz.
2/11: Pointers to Noir blogathon, Korean, Michael Mann blogathons. - Iranian blogathon announcement here.
2/14 & 17: Maltese Falcon (1931) notes, on style, especially in the meeting between Spade and Gutman. And 1941 notes on the same scene. For the Noir blogathon.
2/22: Iranian film blogathon, announcement and list.
also - 2/27: on Sound in Iranian films. (Shirin and The Mirror.)
3/7: Korean film blogathon - my list.
5/8: Mother's Day Screen shots - Japanese films
5/19 - Comments on Cannes, mostly Von Trier
5/22 - Syberberg Screen Shots
6/6: Big Red One D-Day post
6/12: Mon Oncle shots
6/18: Springtime Quiz
6/19: Fathers Day - Ozu
6/26: Sunday - Triangles (Ozu, Lester)
6/27: Peter Falk memorial, Columbo's strength
7/2: Halftime Report - movies of 2011.
7/3: Screen shots - Rio Bravo.
8/7: Screen Shots - The Furies
8/14: Screen Shots - Carol Reed
8/21: Screen Shots - minute 55 of three 1955 films (Ordet, Kiss Me Deadly, Smiles of a Summer Night)
9/4: Screen shots - Kick Me Deadly - feet in Kiss Me Deadly
9/11: Memorial, with shot from Stosczek
9/26: Shots from Guy Maddin's Dracula ballet movie, and links to a Maddin blogathon.
10/2: Rio Lobo shots.
10/9: from Horror of Dracula.
10/16: Empty spaces in Let the Right One In.
10/23: Thirst
10/28: Halloween Quiz from SLIFR.
11/13: Sergeant York, in honor of Armistice Day.
11/20: Platinum Blonde screen shots.
12/4: Godard's birthday commemorated with shots from 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her.
12/11: Manoel de Oliveira turns 103 - Eccentricities of a Blonde Haired Girl shots.
12/12: Ozu's birthday, in pictures.
12/18: Snow! - from Frgo and The Saddest Music in the World.
12/25: Have yourself a Melancholy Christmas - courtesy of Meet Me in St. Louis.

Reviews:

1/17: Capsules - True Grit, Rabbit Hole, Blue Valentine, Somewhere.
4/20: Certified Copy
4/23: Le Quattro Volte.
6/9: Midnight in Paris and Tree of Life Reviews
6/23: Big roundup - Bridesmaids, Princess of Montpensier, The Trip, Nostalgia for the Light, Blank City, Legend fo the Fist, 13 Assassins, Meek's Cutoff
7/10: Summer roundup - Pianomania, Buck, Page One, Bad Teacher, Larry Crowne.
8/15: Capsules - Tabloid, Friends With Benefits, Road to Nowhere, The Future
9/7: New films - The Sleeping Beauty, Mysteries of Lisbon, Magic Trip, Myth of the American Sleepover and Senna.
9/21: More theatrical viewings - Contagion, The Guard, Rapt, Drive & World on a Wire.
10/21: More new films: Detective Dee, Restless, Black Power Mix Tape, Ides of March, Love Crime
12/6: Recent films - Melancholia, Take Shelter, Martha Marcy May Marlene, The Skin I Live In.

Outside Events - blogathons, etc.:

1/17: Alfred Hitchcock blogathon at the Classic Movie Blog Association.
2/13-20: For the Love of Film Noir blogathon. Donation site.
2/21-27: Iranian Blogathon.
3/7-13: Korean blogathon.
9/5-9/9 : My 9/6 link to Nick Ray blogathon
11/10: Reaction to Wonders in The Dark's musical countdown.

My 2010 Movie Posts

This is just what it is - an index of film posts, sorted a bit. As much for my convenience as anything, since it's the only way to find things I might have written once.

Longer Posts:

5/11: Kick-Ass and Superheroes - inspired by Matt Zoller Seitz.
6/4: Gertrud considered, and the Dreyer site.
9/11: On making it up - mostly Tarsem's The Fall, though Gentlemen Broncos and The Three Musketeers as well. More essay than review.
9/24: Vampires - Nosferatu and Dracula, at length.
10/31: Halloween, sympathetic monsters, and Mamoulian's Jekyll and Hyde.
11/1: Jekyll and Hyde part 2 - style.

Occasional Posts:

01/07: Best of 2009.
01/10: Resolutions (mostly movie related)
01/13: Rohmer obit.
01/17: Best older films seen for the first time in 2009.
2/13: Comments on Auteurism and diegesis, and more death of criticism, sparked by Sam Juliano vs. Stephen Russell-Gebbett.
3/4: Miscellany - more death of criticism, particularly related to spending money (the Ebert club) - and links. One review, of Mother.
4/26: Television considerations.
5/1: Mayday with Pirate Jenny.
5/6: Lubtchansky Obituary.
5/8: National Train Day pictures.
5/25: Panahi's release.
5/30: Dennis Hopper remembrance and Blue Velvet.
7/1: Canada Day with Guy Maddin.
7/14: Bastille Day and Godard.
7/20: Pictures from the new Ozu set and Vivre sa Vie.
8/6: Blogathon links. (Huston, Summer Movies, Cronenberg.)
8/12: Bruno S obituary.
9/8: Professor David Huxley's Back to School quiz.
11/4: Japanese film blogathon link and comments.
11/11: The Great War remembered - Paths of Glory.

Reviews etc:

1/26: January Roundup - Police, Adjective, The Man From London, The WhIte Ribbon, the Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, plus Yella, Scott Walker, Fritz Lang, in passing.
2/9: Another Roundup - Fish Tank, Crazy Heart, A Town Called Panic, The Last Station
2/15: Roundup - Broken Embraces, Most Dangerous Man in America, The Headless Woman
4/1: Catchall again - Greenberg, Secret of the Kells, The Red Shoes, Ghost Writer, Byron on DVD.
4/12: Roundup again - Warlords, The Sun, several Kurosawa films (Red Beard, Cobweb Castle, Lower Depths and Dedeskaden), LAnd fo the Pharoahs, The Sheik and Sleeper.
5/4: Late April roundup: Exit through the Gift Shop, Vincere, Hausu, The Good the Bad the Weird, plus Kingdom of Heaven on DVD, and Mysterious Object at Noon, mentioned but not reviewed.
5/19: Another roundup - No One Knows About Persion Cats; Hot Tub Time Machine; Bluebeard; Please Give.
6/26: June Reviews: Metropolis; Air Doll; Harlan: in the Shadow of Jud Suss; Network; Casino Jack and the United States of Money.
8/18: Summer film roundup, part 1, oldies and foreign films - Anthony Mann films, Wild Grass, 36 Vues du Pic St. Loup, Eccentricities of a Blonde Haired Girl, I Am Love.
8/19: New American films seen - Cyrus, The Kids Are All Right, Despicable Me, Dinner for Schmucks.
9/5: Weekly theatrical reviews - Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Soul Kitchen, Two in the Wave, The Tillman Story.
10/4: A Film Unfinished review.
10/8: another roundup - Room in Rome, A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop, Catfish, The American, Machete and Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child.
10/18: The Social Network review.
11/14: Ishtar screening.
12/19 - Roundup - brief notes on White Material, Black Swan, Marwencol, I Love You Phillip Morris, Tiny Furniture, Waking Sleeping Beauty, Anton Chekhov's The Duel, Inside Job and Red.

My 2009 Movie Posts

The roundup, with notes.

Essays and Long Forms:

1/5: FOTMC: Bad Influence - Not-so Noir.
1/11: FOTMC 2: Ambiguity.
1/29 - German Film History: Student of Prague and Caligari
2/20: Modern Dancers - Mabuse and Faust and Modernism.
3/17: Dekalog - vs. Dan Schneider.

April Film of the Month Club Entries on Mabuse the Gambler:
4/1 - Introduction
4/9 - Mabuse and his World
4/20 - Doubles and Series in Mabuse
4/30 - Pacing in Mabuse
5/2 - Wrapup

4/11: Fifty Years of Nouvelle Vague & Breathless - for the blogathon.
Several posts for the Japanese Cinema Blogathon:
6/16: Cinematography sampler #1.
6/17: Why I love Ozu.
6/19: Cinematography #2 - Kurosawa Akira edition
6/20: great brute of an essay on Early Spring and Tokyo Twilight
7/8: The Disappearing Floor - for the Spirit of Ed Wood blogathon.
8/7: Writing the City - contribution to the Film of the Month Club
10/10: (Too late for the double billathon proper) - Riefenstahl vs. Eisenstein. Eisenstein wins.
12/17: Pictures missing from my Nazi Cinema class final paper.

Occasional Posts:

Best of 2008, First cut.
2/12: comments on Three Cabelleros, The Class, Rio Bravo, Nosferatu, Mabuse the Gambler, plus.
4/11: Link to FOTMC and TOERIFC.
5/13: Retrospective best of 2008.
5/26: Links to various.
5/30: Upcoming blogathons.
6/4: Favorite Film books.
6/10: more links - to blogathons, new FOTMC, etc.
7/6: Links roundup - blogathons, film of the month club (Hands Over the City), etc.)
7/28: Reply to Memory meme from Joseph B - slides and Bening's RR.
8/5: Severus Snape Summer Quiz.
8/18: Another Quiz, from MovieTone News.
8/27: On not seeing Inglourious Basterds yet.
9/20: Stuart Street Theater plus some comments on Cinemension, DVDs and dubbing.
9/29: Contra Polanski.
10/5: Various - Pixar Week at HND, a double bill blogathon, baseball and more Polanski.
11/7: Making fun of Dan Schneider.
11/7: Hollywood vs. Lisandro Alonso - on the virtues of small films.
11/13: Friday Thirteenth - Cairns on Vertigo; Cozzalio vs. Schickel; Ebert on a gate crashing genius.
12/2: Beyond the Canon reaction.
12/5: Quiz time.
12/20: Best of the Decade.

Reviews:

1/26: Che reviewed - at length.
2/2: Various - FOTMC comments; Light Sleeper, Blue Collar, HUsbands and Wives
3/1: mostly a roundup - Gomorra, Secret of the Grain, El Cant dels Ocells, Waiting for Sancho, Deconstructing Harry - plus comments on theater, etc.
3/8: Two Lovers plus comments on M's legacy, Alphaville, etc.
3/28: Three Films: Sita Sings the Blues, Watchmen, Hunger
8/23: Short reviews of Thirst and 24 City.
8/29: Inglourious Basterds review.
9/23: Bandwagon.
9/15: Whale roundup, mostly - plus Extract.
10/26: Antichrist.

Blogathon List - 2008 Onward

As we move into the new year, it is time to start a new list of blogathons. Maybe I will start breaking these out by year. Added as I find them. This is mostly for my own use, to keep track of them (even if after the fact), but I hope this is useful to people...

October 26: 1984 Blogathon - in honor of the 25th anniversary of the release of Terminator. Entries collected here.

OCtober 19-31: Italian Horror blogathon at Hugo Stiglitz Makes Movies. Contributions collected here.

October 5-9: Double Bill Blogathon at Broken Projector.

September 7-16: Brian De Palma blogathon, at Cinema Viewfinder.

July 6-12: Sprit of Ed Wood blogathon at Cinema Styles. In action, here.

June 28-July 4: Michael Mann week at Radiator Heaven.

June 21-30: Claude Chabrol blogathon, hosted by Flickhead. Main page here.

June 15-21: Wildgrounds hosts a Japanese Cinema Blogathon. Main page.

June 15-19: Pauline Kael week, at The Cooler. Index here.

January 12-23, 2009: Early Hawks, hosted by Ed Howard at Only the Cinema. I suppose that's a 2009 blogathon, but there you go.

Dec 28-31: second annual Endings Blogathon, at JD's Valley Dreaming.

November 4-9: Politics and Movies blogathon, at The Cooler.

November 5-7: James Bond blogathon at Piper's.

October 24-November 16: Another James Bond blogathon at Dr. Mabuse's Kaleido-scope. Bonds everywhere!

October 3-6: Tension and Suspense, examined, at Mystery Man on Film.

August 22-24: Goatdogblog hosts a Movies about Movies blogathon. Home Page here. And my contribution, on King Kong (mostly).

July 20-26: X-Files blogathon at South Dakota Dark.

July 25-August 1: Kiyoshi Kurosawa honored at The Evening Class. Starting here, and continuing. My (premature contribution is here.

July 14: Celebrate Bastille Day at Vinyl Is Heavy!

July 9-13: Self-involvement blogathon from Culture Snob.

July 7-14 (approximately): outside the film world - John Holbo at the Valve hosts a discussion of Douglas Wolk's excellent Reading Comics.

June 29-July 3: a New York Films blogathon, at 12 Grand In Checking. And here it is.

June 23-25: I don't know why I even link to this idiocy, but here's another Bizarro World Blogathon from Lazy Eye Theater - bound to be dull, humorless and mean to great and significant Artists like Michael Bay and Rob Schneider. Somewhere, Doug Piranha is smiling.

June 12-15: RC hosts a Dads in Media blogathon at Strange Culture. Main page.

June 12: though not precisely a blogathon, this is Brian Darr's date for beginning this month's Film of the Month Club discussion, on Cecil B. DeMille's 1915 film, The Golden Chance. Collected here.

May 16-23: How did I miss this exactly? Ali Arikan hosts an Indiana Jones Blogathon. Already underway!

May 19-25: Production Design Blogathon at Jeremy Bushnell's Too Many Projects Film Club.

May 19: the starting date for the Film of the Month Club discussion of The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On.

May 4-10: Ferdy on Films hosts a Dance Movie Blogathon. It's Here!

April 14: Film at 11 Hosts a blogathon devoted to Andrew Sarris and The American Cinema. Here is the Home Page for this blogathon.

February 1-8: Celebrate the bright lights and shiny colors, at the Deeply Superficial Blogathon at South Dakota Dark. And here's the blogathon proper.

February is also Black History month, being celebrated by Odienator at Big Media Vanadalism with Black History Mumf.

February is Burt Reynolds month, at Welcome to LA.

January 14, 2008: Michael Guillen at the Evening Class hosts a blogathon dedicated to the great Val Lewton. It begins on the 14th, and runs all week to match TCM's Lewton programming and new documentary from Kent Jones and Martin Scorsese. The festivities are underway - with a wrap up post here.

January 6-13: At Unspoken Cinema, the blogathon that never really went away returns - another go at considering Contemplative Cinema - the continued consideration of the plotless, minimalist branch of art cinema. Opening announcement is up.

January 1-5, 2008: Start the year with the Opening Credits Blogathon, at Evan Burchfield's Continuity. Already in progress!

For previous blogathons - here my list; there's also a fine compilation at Unspoken Cinema. A lot of other people keep track of these tings - I will link to them as I find them. This is one of those constantly updated posts...

My 2008 Movie Posts

Index of film posts at this blog for the year. This allows a bit more classification and commentary than tags.

Essays and Long form:

Two for the Contemplative cinema blogathon: contemplative cinema as art films; and parametric variations in contemplative films
Jose Luis Guerin retrospective notes.
3/25: Manoel De Oliveira retrospective.
5/14: Comments on Blogs and Criticism.
5/20: Production design blogathon post - Princess Raccoon screen shots.
5/24: More production design - a number of favorites: The Pornographers, The Apartment, a couple Ed Wood films (Ed Wood?), and Inland Empire.
5/25: in association with the Film of the Month Club, discussion of some of the themes and devices in Kazuo Hara's films.
5/28: And authorship in Hara's films. (Cross posted to Film of the Month Club.)
6/15: Make Way For Tomorrow and Tokyo Story essay.
7/19: Essay on Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Retribution. A week early for the blogathon - another link.
8/7: Double Bills.
8/24: For movies about movies blogathon - King Kong (mostly) - and spectacle...
8/30: Dr. Smith's Back to School Quiz. (Original quiz here.)
9/8: Holy Grail Meme. (Original, and continuing commentary at The Dancing Image.)
10/4: Ozu's camera movements - geometry, the Crane shot.
11/7: Alphabetical list meme.
11/16: Poetry as film, featuring Ozymandias.
11/22: Things I love about Old Movies photo-post.
12/30: Professor Kingsfield quiz, from SLIFR.

Occasional Posts:

Best of 2007.
Blogathons of 2008.
Moments of 2007.
Vampira obituaries
Val Lewton Blogathon notice.
Kon Ichikawa obit.
Oscar picks and guesses.
Funny Games controversy.
4/6: Charlton Heston obit.
4/14: Sarris blogathon begins.
4/14: Links and so on - Cannes, etc
5/4: Links, blogathons (dance movies, production design), etc.
5/6: 2007 Retrospective top 25. 5/7: Top Tens by decade (revised from last year); 2000s Top Tens by year.
5/10: More in a similar vein - the 1990s, by year, and overall.
5/11: West Side Story clip.
5/17: Links - blogathons, Film of the Month Club notes, Speed Racer.
6/9: Spring Quiz, from Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule.
7/16: Links, a mid-year list, etc.
7/24: Chahine Obit.
8/5: Parallel Universe Film Guide link.
9/27: Paul Newman in the Hudsucker Proxy.
10/27: Minelli announcement.
10/30: Links, Ebert's 8 minute review, Bordwell on political narratives, and more Minelli.
12/9: Oshima series note.
12/11: Oliveira turns 100.
12/18: Lots of notes and links - Oshima teasers, Alison Bechdel's film rule; Absolute Beginners, Cairns n Brazil, etc.

Reviews:

1/31 - Roundup for January: There Will be Blood, Assassination of Jesse James, Sweeney Todd, Persepolis, Charlie Wilson's War, Walk Hard
3/11 - DVD review of Adventures of Robin Hood.
3/24: Big Roundup - 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days; Michael Clayton; Diary of the Dead; Witnesses; Be Kind Rewind; Band's Visit; Taxi to the Dark Side; Still Life; Paranoid Park; CJ7.
4/2: another roundup of reviews: Don't Touch the Axe; Abraham's Valley; Princess Raccoon; The Black Pirate.
4/9: More mini-reviews: Married Life; Leatherheads; Monkey Warfare,; The Bank Job; Sea Hawk.
4/14: Short reviews: Contempt, All For Free & Fairbanks X 2: Mark of Zorro and Don Q.
4/29: 3 Reviews: Flight of the Red Balloon, My Blueberry Nights and The Visitor
7/19: Retribution on DVD.
9/3: Vicky Cristina Barcelona disappoints.
9/16: Edward Yang/Wu Nien-jen comments, part 1.
9/28: Yang/Wu Part 2.
10/12: Ohayo at the Brattle.
12/1: Synecdoche, NY review.
12/11: Rachel Getting Marries and A Christmas Tale, reviewed.

Film Posts, 2007

An index - while tags do some of the work these posts do, I still like to have an index post, because I can classify thing a bit differently - add info to the link, even if most of the info is just the list of films reviewed any given week.

Essays:

Jacques Rivette Retrospective - Rivette 1 and Wrap-Up (1) (parameters and general principals) and Wrap-up (2) (doubles)
Contemplative Cinema entry - Bela Tarr
Second Tarr Post - reviews
Contemplative Cinema Conclusion - plus Colossal Youth, briefly noted
Wilder and Kieslowski blogathons - with Wilder screen shots
Lists: Best of 2006 - Best of the 2000s - Top Ten by Decades, all the way back
Blogathon Placeholder
Misunderstood Blogathon entry: Inland Empire, "explained"
Batman Comments (camp vs. The Dark Knight)
Action Heroines Blogathon - Brigitte Lin in Swordsman II.
John Huston blogathon inspired Beat the Devil post.
Bizarro version of WC Fields.
11/08 - Life of Brian for the Film & Faith blogathon
11/15 - Kurosawa Blogathon Intro
11/18 - Rashomon essay for the blogathon
12/17 - It's a Wonderful Life blogathon entry.
12/31 - end the year with an post on Imamura's Endings - aimed at the Endings blogathon, though I missed the deadline.

Occasional Posts:

2006 Best of List
Contemplative Cinema Blogathon Announcement
Comments - contemplative films, music, Philippe Garrel
Bad Behavior - Huckabees and Bloggingheads
Chase Scenes - with Harold Lloyd video
Roundup post, with Torture porn notes and some housekeeping.
Roundup, noting the passing of Ousmane Sembene, Richard Rorty and Rudolph Arnheim
Thinking Blogger meme
Edward Yang Obit
Response to AFI - 100 Films listed
Top 100 All Time
Ingmar Bergman Obit
Response to the Online Film Community top 100 movies list.
Comedy List.
Various Links for August.
Comments on Rosenbaum vs Bergman, and theater.
Foreign Film List 1: my ballot (and alternative.)
Foreign Film 2: comments on the process.
Foreign Film 3: Complaints
Foreign Film 4: Results and my Ballot
Fall Preview (9/28) - blogathons and such
11/25 - throwaway comments on No Country for Old Men and Southland Tales

Reviews:

Reviews - 1/22/07: Pan's Labyrinth, Case of the Grinning Cat, Belle Toujours, Climates, Curse of the Golden Flower
2 Reviews - Letters from Iwo Jima and Jeanne La Pucelle
Factory Girl (plus some Rivette) - 2/12
Grindhouse - an actual review!
A Heapin' Helpin' of (Mini) Film ReviewMay Day - The Red and the White review
6/2 - Boss of it All review
7/11 - Sicko & Michael Moore
9/7 - Reviews of 3:10 to Yuma and The Bourne Ultimatum (with theory)
9/10 - Two more: Syndromes and a Century and Fallen Angels rerelease
9/16 - Reviews: I Don't Want to Sleep Alone and Across the Universe
10/14 - My Kid Could Paint That plus art comments
10/23 - misc comments, plus Lust, Caution snark and Arnaud Desplechins
11/06 - round up post: Control, Lars and the Real Girl & Wristcutters: A love Story, Exiled, and blogathon previews
11/12 - Two Noirish films: No Country for Old Men and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.
12/3 - quickies on I'm Not There and Imamura (Vengeance is Mine, A Man Vanishes and Profound Desire of the Gods)
12/5 - longer comments (if not quite reviews) on No Country for Old Men, Southland Tales and Margot at the Wedding.
12/12 - Review and comments on Bergman's Shame.
12/30 - Review of Juno.

Film Posts, 2006

For my own convenience as much as anyone else's, I have created this post to hold links to all my film posts. If blogger can do categories*, I will turn to that more elegant solution; but for now, this will have to do. These are roughly chronological, within the categories.
[* And as of November 06, roughly, blogger does have a more elegant solution. But this has merits anyway, especially for review posts, since it offers more information.]

Special Posts (essays, lists, etc.):

Altman I: Autobio
Altman II: McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Barbara Stanwyck: (4/13) Baby Face and Night Nurse
Imamura Obit
Altman Obit

Best of 2005 - released films
2005 Lists: Acting, Directing, Scripts, DP
2000s Top Tens by Year
Andy Horbal's Poll - And Results (including my top 10)
No More Marriages Blogathon posts: Near and Dear; Addendum -12/3&4

Reviews and comments:

Reviews: Lawrence of Arabia; Shall We Dance & Follow the Fleet; Breakfast on Pluto; Fun With Dick and Jane; Casanova; Cafe Lumiere; Meatballs & Stripes; Marx Brothers
The Town Hall Memo (Ben Shapiro on politics and the Oscars)
Reviews: Cache; Good Morning, Night; The Passenger; The Matador; The Wild Blue Yonder; Mrs. Henderson Presents
Reviews: Bubble, L'Intrus, The New World
Academy Award Speculation: best film since Annie Hall? and political twittery
Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (briefly)
Semi-reviews: 9 Songs, Why We Fight
Reviews (2/19/06): Tristram Shandy, Neil Young: Heart of Gold, Charisma
Reviews: Pulse, CSA, Nightwatch, Springtime in a Small Town
Oscar Comments
Comments on Crash vs. Brokeback and The New World on the blogs (with comparison to Ashes of Time)
Reviews (3/16): The President's Last Bang, Music from the Inside Out, Clay Pigeons, The Libertine, Battle in Heaven, Winter Passing
Reviews (3/22): Innocence, V for Vendetta
Reviews (short): (3/26): Thank You for Smoking, Don't Come Knocking
Broken Down Film/Osamu Tezuka link
Reviews (4/13/2006): Breaking News, Friends With Money, Lucky Number Slevin, Pitfall, 3 Laura Mulvery short films
Reviews (4/17): L'Enfant, Stoned, Kelly's Heroes
Reviews (5/14): Three Times, I AM A Sex Addict, Art School Confidential, Badlands, Days of Heaven
DVD Notes (5/16): Secret Honor, Mr Jealousy, The Apartment, Marie and Julien, Oasis, 40 Guns, Broadway Melody
Art School Confidential - comments
Older Films Seen (6/2) - Spirit of the Beehive, Top Hat, Shall We Dance, Royal Wedding and Gay Divorcee
Reviews - Recent Films (6/3) - Puffy Chair, Somersault, The Proposition, Stolen (with comments on art)
Reviews (6/13) - Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Clean, Prairie Home Companion
Briefly - Banlieue 13 and a link to David Lynch's Lumiere film
Roundup (7/30): brief comments on Rossellini double feature and documentary; Nacho Libre; Leonard Cohen; Withnail & I/Big Leboswki double bill; Scanner Darkly
Death of Mr. Lazarescu - longer review, 7/31
Reviews: Snakes on a Plane, Little Miss Sunshine, The Oh in Ohio (8/26)
Ozu Train Clips
Movie Catchup: Talledega Nights, Half Nelson, Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, Something Like Happiness, Lucnacy, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Reviews (9/23): This Film is Not Yet Rated, Science of Sleep, plus Murder by Numbers
15 Horror Films Blogathon (10/28)
Reviews (11/06) - Borat and Babel
Reviews (11/13) - Stranger than Fiction; Scream of the Ants
Reviews (11/19) - Fast Food Nation; For Your Consideration
Reviews (12/5) - Ten Items or Less, Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, Enthusiasm
Reviews (12/11) - History Boys and F*ck.
Inland Empire (12/11) - at length