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  1. While PEARLS OF THE FAR EAST narrowly avoids Asian exoticism, the same cannot be said for its depiction of women as alien/other. 8:29 AM Mar 5th via web
  2. @cackling_madcap Sort of, I posted a "signing off" entry sometime back in the notes section that I wouldn't be blogging like I used to. 5:57 AM Feb 5th via web in reply to cackling_madcap
  3. Imamura's A MAN VANISHES is less a play on documentary as truth as it is on truth as multifaceted, contradictory and irresolvable. 6:29 PM Jan 22nd via web
  4. @venkyyells I bumped up the CSS font by 1, but you can also always zoom in/out of any web page via your browser view tab. 8:05 AM Jan 21st via web in reply to venkyyells
  5. @vjmfilms I meant that Tran's detailedness could have really created a depth to essentially empty characters, but it never came together. 4:49 PM Jan 15th via web in reply to vjmfilms
  6. Tran's antipodean use of texturality in NORWEGIAN WOOD to capture ennui is more a suspension of dissimilar elements than something alchemic. 4:39 PM Jan 15th via web
  7. I guess I'm skipping Rendez-vous w/French Cinema this year at FSLC for the Robert Bresson retro at NGA. tinyurl.com/7kfakc4 2:03 PM Jan 1st via web
  8. Tran Ahn Hung is adapting Haruki Murakami's NORWEGIAN WOOD? Yay! bit.ly/ttuvla 6:44 PM Dec 2nd, 2011 via web
  9. Viewing note: Edward Yang uses shadowplay on architecture in TAIPEI STORY in the way José Luis Guerín later does to evoke ghosts of history. 5:17 PM Nov 29th, 2011 via web
  10. @AdrianMartin25 Sweet! If it's anything like what they did for Kluge, I'll be one happy (and poor) camper. 6:55 AM Nov 14th, 2011 via web in reply to AdrianMartin25
  11. Great news from Austrian Film Museum that James Benning's AMERICAN DREAMS and LANDSCAPE SUICIDE is coming to DVD. bit.ly/uddTpH 6:49 AM Nov 14th, 2011 via web
  12. I'm really looking forward to this Edward Yang retro at FSLC on Thanksgiving weekend. filmlinc.com/films/series/a… 4:45 PM Oct 30th, 2011 via web
  13. Loved Bela Tarr's comment about how people live their rituals a little differently every day, but all wearing us slowly towards death. #NYFF 9:40 PM Oct 9th, 2011 via web
  14. Seeing LE HAVRE after the Teuvo Tulio retrospective a few years ago makes me appreciate how Kaurismaki uses formalist melodrama to upend it. 5:32 AM Oct 5th, 2011 via web
  15. A SEPARATION plays out the mental minefields of a Zeki Demirkubuz film without the inscrutability of human behavior. #NYFF 5:27 AM Oct 5th, 2011 via web
  16. @longpauses @smith_ms Thanks for the well wishes, guys. I'm looking forward to returning to civilian film life, scattered ideas and all. 5:25 PM Sep 27th, 2011 via web
  17. Hmph! Cinephile passes are useless if you're planning on buying a companion ticket and want to sit together. #NYFF 2:15 PM Aug 31st, 2011 via Twitter for iPhone
  18. Back from HRWFF weekend. I really liked the complexity of FAMILIA; not your usual take on the issues surrounding migrant work. 6:44 PM Jun 26th, 2011 via web
  19. @debanjanG Yes, the Ray series was great! Unfortunately, I still missed the two I really wanted to see, DELIVERANCE and SIKKIM. 3:48 PM May 24th, 2011 via web in reply to debanjanG
  20. @debanjanG BTW, the end result from all this offline activity was ~70 lbs lost. It's tough to sit down and write after a nightly 6 mi. run. 1:35 PM May 22nd, 2011 via web in reply to debanjanG