16 May 2011

The Celluloid Curtain - Europe's Cold War in Film

The Celluloid Curtain - Europe's Cold War in Film

The Celluloid Curtain - Europe's Cold War in Film, link here.

30 October 2010

London Film Festival, 2010

This year's film festival screenings for me were:

14/10 Pandora's Box, 1929 (G.W. Pabst)
15/10 Conviction, 2010 (Tony Goldwyn)
16/10 Acto de Primavera (Rite of Spring), 1963 (Manoel de Oliveira)
16/10 Picnic, 1955 (Joshua Logan)
21/10 The Mayor of Hell, 1933 (Archie Mayo)
23/10 Boxing Gym, 2010 (Frederick Wiseman)
25/10 Wild River, 1960 (Elia Kazan)

I missed the screening I'd bought a ticket for:
24/10 A Brighter Summer Day, 1991 (Edward Yang)

02 May 2010

A Single Man

A Single Man #1

A Single Man #2

Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman film season at The Barbican centre; 20th June - 12th July 2009.

Sergei Parajanov: Parajanov Festival 2010

Sergei Parajanov

Visit the Parajanov Festival 2010 website here.

Pig Business

Pig Business

Visit the 'Pig Business' website here.

01 November 2009

London Film Festival, 2009

This year's film festival screenings for me were:

16/10 Double Take, 2009 (Johan Grimonperez)
17/10 Jubal, 1956 (Delmer Daves)
19/10 The Touch, 1971 (Ingmar Bergman)
20/10 Far From Vietnam, 1967 (Chris Marker et al)
23/10 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, 2009 (Werner Herzog)
24/10 J'Accuse, 1919 (Abel Gance)
24/10 Trash Humpers, 2009 (Harmony Korine)
25/10 The Night of Counting the Years, 1969 (Chadi Abdel Salam)

Tickets for 'Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno' were sold out, so I plan to see that in early November.

24 November 2008

Alphabet Meme

A ll About Eve
B attle of Algiers, The
C hinatown
D oulos, Le
E uropa 51
G
H iroshima Mon Amour
I mitation of Life (Douglas Sirk)
J udex
K nack, The
M ama Roma
N otte, La
O tto e Mezzo
P assenger, The aka Profesion: Reporter
Q uatre Cent Coups
R
S avage Innocents, The
T axi Driver
U gestu
V ertigo
W ild Bunch, The
X
Y eux Sans Visage
Z odiac

I saw this post on Self-Styled Siren's site, which came from this site so I decided that would be a fun thing to do, although for me a struggle if I did it in front of a PC. So last Saturday as I caught the train to go out I took a blank peice of paper and scribbled down my thoughts.