Wednesday, November 27, 2002
I can't believe it took me so long to get to this, the first of Werner Herzog's films I've seen. I really really loved it, although it was a lot different than I expected.
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Saturday, November 23, 2002
Seriously, I just accidentally typed "Jean-Luc Picard" up there. These two films were shown as part of a Film Center series on how non-German directors view Germany called "Germay As Seen By..." I didn't really know much about either of them, but they fit some free time I had and my curiosity was piqued by the descriptions in addition to the fact that I had never seen any Resnais.
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Friday, November 22, 2002
Welcome to the 100th entry on Cineblog. I've been doing this for about 7 months now, which is fairly weird frankly. Its pretty common for me to start something, be excited about it for about a month and then get distracted by something else. I had every reason to believe that would happen with this website as well. For some reason it hasn't, and I continue on here. If anything amazes me, its that people actually read this rambling text. Yet according to my logs I have about 20 or so semi-reguar visitors. Shout outs to all of you, especially those of you I haven't corresponded with at all. Drop a line or leave a comment someday.
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Saturday, November 16, 2002
As I write this, Aliens is on AMC in the background. Pan and scan, with commercials. Meanwhile, half the commercials they show are letterboxed. Someone explain to me the justice in this. Anyways, this is just some notes on various recent viewings.
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Posted by gdd @ 09:26 PM CST [Link]
Wednesday, November 13, 2002
As a longtime Kieslowski nut, I was both thrilled and saddened when I discovered that the script to Heaven was being directed by Tom Tykwer. Thrilled because this was the last morsel of Kieslowski genius we would probably ever receive, and saddened because I had serious questions about whether or not Tykwer could do the material justice based on Run Lola Run (still the only other film of his I've seen.) That film's frenetic pace seemed mismatched for a Kieslowski think-piece. Thankfully, Tykwer kept himself in check and created a marvelous picture. [more]
Posted by gdd @ 01:53 PM CST [Link]
The other day I read several articles about this new startup called Movielink, which provides films for download and viewing on a rental basis. This is the venture that is a co-production of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal and Warner Bros - their first foray into the digital world. This sounded pretty interesting to me for doing train viewings, since a downloaded movie wouldn't eat battery nearly as much as a DVD would (because it doesn't have to run the motor which spins the DVD.) So I figured I would give it a shot, which I did, and my report follows. [more]
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Tuesday, November 12, 2002
Songs From The Second Floor is the third or fourth feature (depending on how you define feature) from Swiss director Roy Andersson, his first in 25 years. I had read so many good words about it that I forced myself out on a weeknight to see it, although I was relegated to the small room at Music Box due to the Kurosawa/Mishune retrospective hogging up the main theatre. Too bad too, this film's lush visuals would have been even more powerful on the larger screen. Even so, at this point, I would say this is the best film I've seen all year. [more]
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Wednesday, November 6, 2002
I caught the first four parts of Jean-Luc Godard's 4.5 hour multimedia presentation Histoire(s) Du Cinema this weekend at Block (the link above goes only to part one.) Their copy of parts 5-8 was not subtitled so I didn't stick around for the rest, although I have to say I feel like I get the gist of it, unless there is something radically different going on in the latter portions.
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Monday, November 4, 2002
Recently Michael Moore was interviewed by Bill O'Reilly on The O'Reilly Factor. I didn't see the interview but I read a transcript which was reported widely by a variety of online sources. In the interview, O'Reilly poses a series of articulate straightforward questions to Moore, who then proceeds to turn them into jokes without ever answering a single one. This just cemented A feeling I had always had about Moore - that he was more entertainer than political commentator. A liberal Rush Limbaugh if you will. I am an avowed liberal, I even voted for Nader, but the last thing we need is our own Rush Limbaugh. It's bad enough that we have our own Ann Coulter (Ted Rall.) Then, sometime later, I saw later I saw Moore on Charlie Rose, where he gave straightforward thoughtful articulate answers to all the questions that were posed to him (this interview was actually conducted by
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