March 2014

  • Only Yesterday - w/sis - 8
  • 300: rise of an empire - times square cinema in Tyler, TX - 4
  • The wind rises - Alamo drafthouse, Austin TX - 8

February 2014

  • Her - Scotiabank - w/jenn & kev - 9
  • The Past - Varsity - 8
  • The Great Beauty - Varsity - 7
  • Garden of Words - w/sis - 9
  • Heavenly Bodies - w/sean - 7
  • The Wolf on Wall Street - 7.5

January 2014

  • ghost in the shell - w/sis - 8.5
  • akira - w/sis - 8
  • Wolf Children Ame & Yuki - w/sis - 7
  • Her - 10
  • American Hustle - 6
feb 10 2019 ∞
feb 10 2019 +
  • TO WATCH:
  • Tyrannosaur (2011) dir. Paddy Considine
  • House of Pleasure (2011) dir. Bertrand Bonello
  • The Kid With a Bike (2011) dir. Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne
  • Into The Abyss (2011) dir. Werner Herzog
  • Turin Horse (2011) dir. Bela Tarr
  • Carre Blanc (2011) dir. Jean-Baptiste Léonetti
  • Urbanized (2011) dir. Gary Hustwit
  • Tomboy (2011) dir. Celine Sciamma
  • The Keyhole (2011) dir. Guy Maddin
  • The Black Power Mixtape, 1967-1975 (2011) Göran Olsson
  • WATCHED:
dec 12 2011 ∞
feb 22 2012 +
  • Boston, MA: find stanley cavell in harvard, talk to him about existential phenomenology & his thoughts on the cinema of today & the manifestations of media on the internet
  • Chicago, IL: hit up green mill, blue chicago on clark & andy's jazz club
  • Cincinnati, OH: visit taft museum of art, figure out why i wanted to go in the first place
  • Salt Lake City, UT: attend sundance film fest in january, or next best thing, watch a random movie never heard of before
  • Paris, TX: shoot a short film on the spur with wim wenders in mind as inspiration
  • Waco, TX: watch a movie at the theater where terrence malick attended his screening of the new world. run into malick and become bffs
dec 11 2011 ∞
dec 28 2011 +
  • Antonioni:
    • Blow-Up
    • La notte
    • L'eclisse
    • Red Desert
    • L'avventura
    • Identification of a Woman
  • Brakhage:
    • The Art of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
dec 12 2011 ∞
dec 12 2011 +
  • Gent, Belgium: find where i used to live, the market square, movie theater across the canal & visit kindergarden and gradeschool
  • Antwerp, Belgium: find that mcdonalds on the cobble stone alley
  • Bergen, Norway: visit nils & oystein
  • Ålesund, Norway: check out art nouveau architecture
  • Las Palmas, Canary Island: watch a las palmas footy game
  • Torshavn, Faroe Islands: live for at least 2 months
  • Lille, France: visit maxime & sophie
  • Paris, France: visit sebastian, go to museums
  • Saint Etienne, France: listen to air france while jogging in a park
  • Cannes, France: watch a film in a film fest theater
  • Venice, Italy: visit jacopo & all the ita...
dec 28 2011 ∞
dec 28 2011 +
  • Winter 2013 - A Short History of Progress (2004) by Ronald Wright (re)
  • Winter 2013 - Willpower (2011) by Roy. F Baumeister & John Tierney
  • Winter 2013 - Introducing Camus
  • Winter 2013 - Introducing Kafka
  • Winter 2013 - How Much Land Does A Man Need & Other Short Stories by Leo Tolstoy
  • Winter 2013 - The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka
  • Winter 2013 - Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller
  • Winter 2013 - The Homecoming (1964) by Harold Pinter
  • Winter 2013 - A Certain Mr. Takahashi (1985) by Ann Ireland
  • Winter 2013 - May Day (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Winter 2013 - The Death of Ivan Ilych (1886) by Leo Tolstoy
  • Winter 2013 - The Leaf Storm (1955) by Ga...
apr 18 2012 ∞
mar 4 2013 +
  • Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino
  • Mortality (2012) by Christopher Hitchens
  • Magic Hours (2012) by Tom Bissel
  • The Age of Miracles (2012) by Karen Thompson Walker
  • The Swimmer (1964) by John Cheever
  • Without Feathers (1975) by Woody Allen
  • Steppenwolf (1929) by Hermann Hesse
  • Dharma Bums (1958) by Jack Kerouac
  • Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace
  • The Rings of Saturn (1995) by W.G. Sebald
  • The World Viewed (1971) by Stanley Cavell
  • Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory (2010) by Stanley Cavell
  • All Men Are Brothers: Life and Thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi (1958) by Mahatma Gandhi
  • Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) by F. Scott ...
dec 12 2011 ∞
nov 19 2012 +
  • A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926)
  • The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957)
  • I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964)
  • Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1964) *rewatch
  • Marketa Lazarová (Frantisek Vlácil, 1967)
  • The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov, 1968)
  • Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1973) *rewatch
  • O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson, 1973)
  • World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973)
  • The Travelling Players (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1975)
  • The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1989) *rewatch
  • A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989)...
dec 25 2011 ∞
dec 25 2011 +
dec 30 2011 ∞
dec 30 2011 +
  • TOP 10 SCREENINGS OF 2012:
  • Post Tenebras Lux by Carlos Reygadas
  • The Master by Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Samsara by Ron Fricke
  • Amour by Michael Haneke
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild by Behn Zeitlin
  • Moonrise Kingdom by Wes Anderson
  • Life of Pi by Ang Lee
  • Bestiare by Denis Cote
  • Jiro Dreams of Sushi by David Gelb
  • Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino
  • 2012 SHORTLIST:
  • Take This Waltz by Sarah Polley
  • Leviathan by Verena Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor
  • Anna Karenina by Joe Wright
  • Miss Lovely by Ashim Ahluwalia
dec 29 2012 ∞
jan 6 2013 +
  • recommend me some albums dude!
  • solyaris - tarkovsky
  • stalker - tarkovsky
  • afterlife/wonderful life - kore eda
  • cha no aji/taste of tea - katsuhito ishii
  • day for night - truffaut
  • fahrenheit 451 - truffaut
  • the world - jia zhang ke
  • still life - jia zhang ke
  • shadows - cassavetes
  • in a lonely place - nicholas ray
jul 3 2012 ∞
jul 3 2012 +
  • TOPTEN:
  • 1. Tree of Life - Terrence Malick
  • 2. Meek's Cutoff - Kelly Reichardt
  • 3. Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn
  • 4. Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen
  • 5. The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
  • 6. Pina 3D - Wim Wenders
  • 7. Contagion - Steven Soderbergh
  • 8. Inni - Vincent Morisset
  • 9. Hugo 3D - Martin Scorsese
  • 10. Melancholia - Lars von Trier
  • SHORTLIST:
  • Take Shelter - Jeff Nichols
  • The Ides of March - George Clooney
  • Martha Marcy May Marlene - Sean Durkin
  • 2010SCREENEDIN2011:
  • Hubble 3D - Toni Myers
  • Beginners - Mike Mills
  • The Illusionist - Sylvain Chomet
dec 28 2011 ∞
jan 4 2012 +