TV SERIES WISH LIST: SILVER DREAMS มายาสีเงิน (1981, M.L. Bhandevanop Devakul)
This TV series is written by Permpol Choei-aroon and Jamnongsee Ratanin, and adapted from the novel DISTANT DREAM by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas.
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Monday, August 13, 2012
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
FILM WISH LIST: 12 SISTERS (1968, Ly Bun Yim, Cambodia)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyvOCge2x7c&feature=related
I wish there will be a film in which Meree, the anti-heroine in this Thai/Khmer folklore, fight against Medea from Greek mythology.
Thanks to Don Saron for telling me about this film.
I wish there will be a film in which Meree, the anti-heroine in this Thai/Khmer folklore, fight against Medea from Greek mythology.
Thanks to Don Saron for telling me about this film.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Book Wish List: KING KONG THEORY (Virginie Despentes)
Despentes writes for "men who'd like to be f***ed" and she asks, does there exist "no object at all to slip into your pussy when you go out for a stroll that will rip up the cock of any f***er who sticks it in there"? (from Artforum magazine)
Saturday, November 06, 2010
EUROPEAN FILM WISH LIST
Graiwoot's note makes me want to see these European films:
1.FOUR STEPS IN THE CLOUDS (1942, Alessandro Blasetti, Italy)
2.JEALOUSY (1925, Ewald André Dupont, Germany)
3.FANTASMAGORIE (1908, Émile Cohl, France)
4.NO EXIT (1954, Jacqueline Audry, France)
5.DAY IS LONGER THAN NIGHT (1984, Lana Gogoberidze, Soviet Union)
6.THE LAST STAGE (1948, Wanda Jakubowska, Poland)
7.THE CUENCA CRIME (1980, Pilar Miró, Spain)
8.CARMEN’S REVENGE (1996, Suzanne Osten, Sweden)
9.THE STRANGER LEFT NO CARD (1952, Wendy Toye, UK)
10.THE DESTINY OF JULIETTE (1983, Aline Isserman, France)
11.PICCERELLA (1922, Elvira Notari, Italy)
12.SHIP OF LOST WOMEN (1954, Raffaello Matarazzo, Italy)
13.BEAUTIFUL ADVENTURE (1932, Reinhold Schünzel, Germany)
14.ASPHALT (1929, Joe May, Germany)
1.FOUR STEPS IN THE CLOUDS (1942, Alessandro Blasetti, Italy)
2.JEALOUSY (1925, Ewald André Dupont, Germany)
3.FANTASMAGORIE (1908, Émile Cohl, France)
4.NO EXIT (1954, Jacqueline Audry, France)
5.DAY IS LONGER THAN NIGHT (1984, Lana Gogoberidze, Soviet Union)
6.THE LAST STAGE (1948, Wanda Jakubowska, Poland)
7.THE CUENCA CRIME (1980, Pilar Miró, Spain)
8.CARMEN’S REVENGE (1996, Suzanne Osten, Sweden)
9.THE STRANGER LEFT NO CARD (1952, Wendy Toye, UK)
10.THE DESTINY OF JULIETTE (1983, Aline Isserman, France)
11.PICCERELLA (1922, Elvira Notari, Italy)
12.SHIP OF LOST WOMEN (1954, Raffaello Matarazzo, Italy)
13.BEAUTIFUL ADVENTURE (1932, Reinhold Schünzel, Germany)
14.ASPHALT (1929, Joe May, Germany)
Thursday, September 16, 2010
THAI FILM WISH LIST
THAI FILM WISH LIST:
1.RESIST (2009, Teerani Siangsanoh, 54m)
2.THE REVENGE OF THE PESTLE สากกะเบือล้างแค้น (2009, Weerasak Suyala, 11 m)
3.EARLY RETIRED (2007, Thakoon Khempunya, 46m)
4.BLACK SHADOW นินจาเงา (2007, Wissanukorn Suwannasri, 54m)
5.SIDE LINE คนลิขิตดาว (2006, Teera Prachumkong, 56m)
6.XEROX STORY เรื่องถ่ายเอกสาร (2005, Tanatchai Bandasak, 12m)
7.MY MYSELF...AND I (2005, Vasin Sriwattanathumma, 37m)
8.ZEN GO เซน โกะ (2004, Tanawat Tangtong + Udomklang Wattanapannikorn, 30m)
9.THE PEN OF TEACHER ONEPEN ปากกาของครูวันเพ็ญ (2003, Tossapol Boonsinsukh, 46min)
10.REAL DOLL (2002, Jaturapat Bejrananda, 27min)
11.CHABA ชบาเพ้อ (2000, Janchai Maleesuthikul, 20min)
12.SHOPPING IN THE NIGHT (1999, Phonthep Sriwarakan, 11min)
13.GOOD MAN คนดี (1998, Taweewat Wantha, 37min)
14.AFTER MIDNIGHT กลางดึก (1996, Boonsong Nakphoo, 37min)
15.STILLNESS IN TIME (1996, Jibby Yunibandhu, 14min)
The 14th Thai Short Film and Video Festival ended early this month. I regret it very much that I didn't see many films this year. Actually I didn't see many many Thai films which were made in the past 15 years. If I could turn back time, I would try to see many Thai films, including the films in the list above.
เรื่องย่อจากสูจิบัตรเทศกาล
SYNOPSIS
1.RESIST
กลุ่มต้านทาน ต่อต้าน กลุ่มเพื่อนที่ต่างดิ้นรนบนถนน มิตรภาพ อาชีพ ความรัก ความฝัน ความว่างเปล่า
2.สากกะเบือล้างแค้น
สองพี่น้องกับการทำหนังสั้น
3.EARLY RETIRED
สารคดีค้นหาความหมายของชีวิต เมื่อป๊อปเชื่อมาตลอดว่าชีวิตจะมีความหมาย ต้องได้ทำสิ่งที่เรารัก แต่ป๊อปไม่เคยได้ทำสิ่งนั้นเลย ผิดกับพ่อที่ได้ทำมาตลอด แต่จู่ๆพ่อก็เลิกที่จะทำในสิ่งที่รักโดยการเออรี่รีไทร์จากงาน
4.นินจาเงา
นินจาเงาได้รับคำสั่งจากอาจารย์ให้ไปจัดการกับ 2 นินจาศิษย์ทรยศ
5.คนลิขิตดาว
อาคมได้รับมอบหมายให้ทำลายศพก่อนที่จะฟื้นคืนชีพ แต่ทำไม่สำเร็จ ศพฟื้นขึ้นมาและไปหาแสงหล้าเพื่อดื่มเลือดของเธอ อาชาต้องตามอาคมกลับมาทำลายศพให้สำเร็จให้ได้
6.XEROX STORY
It is about a last life of a xerox machine controller.
7.MY MYSELF...AND I
หนังของตัวเอง โดยตัวเอง เพื่อตัวเอง ...ที่คนทำไม่มีอะไรเป็นของตัวเองเลยสักอย่าง กระบวนการและขั้นตอนต่างๆมาจากการยืมแทบทั้งสิ้น ไม่ว่าจะยืมอุปกรณ์มาถ่ายทำ ตลอดจนยืมมือมาช่วยเหลือเอื้อเฟื้อ มันเป็นหนังว่าด้วยการออกเดินทางอันไม่เดียงสาและขาดสาระของเด็กหนุ่มคนหนึ่ง ...เมื่อมีแรงบันดาลใจเกิดขึ้น เขาจึงบันทึกประสบการณ์การเดินทางอันไร้ทิศทางนี้ด้วยรูปแบบกึ่งสารคดี (ที่จริง มีเพียงเสี้ยวส่วนของความเป็นสารคดีฉาบเจืออยู่เพียงน้อยนิดเท่านั้น แต่เขายังคงยืนยันว่ามันเป็นสารคดี!?)
8.เซน โกะ
นักเล่นหมากล้อม (โกะ) หนุ่ม ผู้หมดความท้าทายในชีวิตการเล่นหมากล้อม แต่เมื่อได้พบและเล่นหมากล้อมกับบุรุษหนุ่มผู้ลึกลับ ซึ่งมีพฤติกรรมคล้ายปีศาจ และฝีมือการเล่นอันพิสดาร ทำให้เขาได้สัมผัสกับปรัชญาแห่งการใช้ชีวิต และยังเปิดเผยถึงสาเหตุที่แท้จริงของการที่เขาคิดหันหลังให้วงการ
9.ปากกาของครูวันเพ็ญ
เรื่องของความรักที่ถูกมองกันคนละแบบ ก่อให้เกิดเป็นความสับสน ซับซ้อน ผิดหวัง ผลลัพธ์คือความเจ็บปวดที่คนอื่นคงไม่มีทางเข้าใจเขาทั้งสองคนได้
10.REAL DOLL
ผู้หญิงคนหนึ่งที่ต้องทนทุกข์ทรมานจากการเอาร่างกายเธอแลกกับบางสิ่ง
11.ชบาเพ้อ
เป็นการถ่ายทอดเรื่องราวเด็กผู้หญิงธรรมดาคนหนึ่งที่ต้องเผชิญกับปัญหาในช่วงหนึ่งของชีวิต
12.SHOPPING IN THE NIGHT
He is heart-broken, so he decides to die.
13.GOOD MAN
เมื่อขโมยกลายเป็นคนดี
14.AFTER MIDNIGHT
คืนหนึ่ง...ชายหนุ่มสามคนนัดสังสรรค์กัน แล้วเล่าประสบการณ์บางอย่างสู่กันฟัง ครั้นฟ้าสาง...ทั้งสามไม่อาจมองหน้ากันได้อีก
15.STILLNESS IN TIME
A fragment of childhood memory; a combination of fantasy and reality
1.RESIST (2009, Teerani Siangsanoh, 54m)
2.THE REVENGE OF THE PESTLE สากกะเบือล้างแค้น (2009, Weerasak Suyala, 11 m)
3.EARLY RETIRED (2007, Thakoon Khempunya, 46m)
4.BLACK SHADOW นินจาเงา (2007, Wissanukorn Suwannasri, 54m)
5.SIDE LINE คนลิขิตดาว (2006, Teera Prachumkong, 56m)
6.XEROX STORY เรื่องถ่ายเอกสาร (2005, Tanatchai Bandasak, 12m)
7.MY MYSELF...AND I (2005, Vasin Sriwattanathumma, 37m)
8.ZEN GO เซน โกะ (2004, Tanawat Tangtong + Udomklang Wattanapannikorn, 30m)
9.THE PEN OF TEACHER ONEPEN ปากกาของครูวันเพ็ญ (2003, Tossapol Boonsinsukh, 46min)
10.REAL DOLL (2002, Jaturapat Bejrananda, 27min)
11.CHABA ชบาเพ้อ (2000, Janchai Maleesuthikul, 20min)
12.SHOPPING IN THE NIGHT (1999, Phonthep Sriwarakan, 11min)
13.GOOD MAN คนดี (1998, Taweewat Wantha, 37min)
14.AFTER MIDNIGHT กลางดึก (1996, Boonsong Nakphoo, 37min)
15.STILLNESS IN TIME (1996, Jibby Yunibandhu, 14min)
The 14th Thai Short Film and Video Festival ended early this month. I regret it very much that I didn't see many films this year. Actually I didn't see many many Thai films which were made in the past 15 years. If I could turn back time, I would try to see many Thai films, including the films in the list above.
เรื่องย่อจากสูจิบัตรเทศกาล
SYNOPSIS
1.RESIST
กลุ่มต้านทาน ต่อต้าน กลุ่มเพื่อนที่ต่างดิ้นรนบนถนน มิตรภาพ อาชีพ ความรัก ความฝัน ความว่างเปล่า
2.สากกะเบือล้างแค้น
สองพี่น้องกับการทำหนังสั้น
3.EARLY RETIRED
สารคดีค้นหาความหมายของชีวิต เมื่อป๊อปเชื่อมาตลอดว่าชีวิตจะมีความหมาย ต้องได้ทำสิ่งที่เรารัก แต่ป๊อปไม่เคยได้ทำสิ่งนั้นเลย ผิดกับพ่อที่ได้ทำมาตลอด แต่จู่ๆพ่อก็เลิกที่จะทำในสิ่งที่รักโดยการเออรี่รีไทร์จากงาน
4.นินจาเงา
นินจาเงาได้รับคำสั่งจากอาจารย์ให้ไปจัดการกับ 2 นินจาศิษย์ทรยศ
5.คนลิขิตดาว
อาคมได้รับมอบหมายให้ทำลายศพก่อนที่จะฟื้นคืนชีพ แต่ทำไม่สำเร็จ ศพฟื้นขึ้นมาและไปหาแสงหล้าเพื่อดื่มเลือดของเธอ อาชาต้องตามอาคมกลับมาทำลายศพให้สำเร็จให้ได้
6.XEROX STORY
It is about a last life of a xerox machine controller.
7.MY MYSELF...AND I
หนังของตัวเอง โดยตัวเอง เพื่อตัวเอง ...ที่คนทำไม่มีอะไรเป็นของตัวเองเลยสักอย่าง กระบวนการและขั้นตอนต่างๆมาจากการยืมแทบทั้งสิ้น ไม่ว่าจะยืมอุปกรณ์มาถ่ายทำ ตลอดจนยืมมือมาช่วยเหลือเอื้อเฟื้อ มันเป็นหนังว่าด้วยการออกเดินทางอันไม่เดียงสาและขาดสาระของเด็กหนุ่มคนหนึ่ง ...เมื่อมีแรงบันดาลใจเกิดขึ้น เขาจึงบันทึกประสบการณ์การเดินทางอันไร้ทิศทางนี้ด้วยรูปแบบกึ่งสารคดี (ที่จริง มีเพียงเสี้ยวส่วนของความเป็นสารคดีฉาบเจืออยู่เพียงน้อยนิดเท่านั้น แต่เขายังคงยืนยันว่ามันเป็นสารคดี!?)
8.เซน โกะ
นักเล่นหมากล้อม (โกะ) หนุ่ม ผู้หมดความท้าทายในชีวิตการเล่นหมากล้อม แต่เมื่อได้พบและเล่นหมากล้อมกับบุรุษหนุ่มผู้ลึกลับ ซึ่งมีพฤติกรรมคล้ายปีศาจ และฝีมือการเล่นอันพิสดาร ทำให้เขาได้สัมผัสกับปรัชญาแห่งการใช้ชีวิต และยังเปิดเผยถึงสาเหตุที่แท้จริงของการที่เขาคิดหันหลังให้วงการ
9.ปากกาของครูวันเพ็ญ
เรื่องของความรักที่ถูกมองกันคนละแบบ ก่อให้เกิดเป็นความสับสน ซับซ้อน ผิดหวัง ผลลัพธ์คือความเจ็บปวดที่คนอื่นคงไม่มีทางเข้าใจเขาทั้งสองคนได้
10.REAL DOLL
ผู้หญิงคนหนึ่งที่ต้องทนทุกข์ทรมานจากการเอาร่างกายเธอแลกกับบางสิ่ง
11.ชบาเพ้อ
เป็นการถ่ายทอดเรื่องราวเด็กผู้หญิงธรรมดาคนหนึ่งที่ต้องเผชิญกับปัญหาในช่วงหนึ่งของชีวิต
12.SHOPPING IN THE NIGHT
He is heart-broken, so he decides to die.
13.GOOD MAN
เมื่อขโมยกลายเป็นคนดี
14.AFTER MIDNIGHT
คืนหนึ่ง...ชายหนุ่มสามคนนัดสังสรรค์กัน แล้วเล่าประสบการณ์บางอย่างสู่กันฟัง ครั้นฟ้าสาง...ทั้งสามไม่อาจมองหน้ากันได้อีก
15.STILLNESS IN TIME
A fragment of childhood memory; a combination of fantasy and reality
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
FILM WISH LIST 2010
FILM WISH LIST 2010
1.AIN’T NO TOMORROWS (2008, Yuki Tanada, Japan, 79 min)
2.ALL THINGS WERE NOW OVERTAKEN BY SILENCE (2010, Nicolás Pereda, Mexico, 62 min)
3.ANDER (2009, Roberto Castón, Spain)
4.THE ARBOR (2010, Clio Bernard, documentary)
5.ARGENTINA AVENIDA (2009, Lucia-Milena Bonse, 84 min)
6.ARMADILLO (2010, Janus Metz, documentary)
7.AT ELLEN’S AGE (2010, Pia Marais, Germany)
8.ATHENS-ISTANBUL (2008, Nikos Panayotopoulos, Greece, 103 min)
9.ATLANTIS (2008, Pieter Geenen)
10.BAD BIOLOGY (2008, Frank Henenlotter, USA, 85 min)
11.BARKING WATER (2009, Sterlin Harjo, USA, 85 min)
12.THE BEAST NOTES (2008, Keja Ho Kramer, France)
13.BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO (2009, Jessica Oreck, USA/Japan)
14.BENA (2009, Niv Klainer, Israel, 84 min)
15.THE BLACKS (2009, Zvonimir Juric + Goran Devic, Croatia, 75 min)
16.THE BLOOD TRAIL (2009, Jerrold Tarog, Philippines)
17.BRIDAL QUARTER (2010, Gutierrez Mangansakan II, Philippines)
18.BURNING PALACE (2008, Mara Mattuschka + Chris Haring, Austria, 32 min)
19.BURROWING (2009, Fredrik Wenzel + Henrik Hellström, Sweden)
20.CENTRO (2010, Sebastián Martínez, Argentina, 90 min)
21.THE CLONE RETURNS TO HOMELAND (2008, Kanji Nakajima, 110 min)
22.CONTACT HIGH (2009, Michael Glawogger, Austria)
23.CONTENT (2010, Christopher Petit, UK, documentary, 76 min)
24.CRAB TRAP (2009, Oscar Ruiz Navia, Colombia, 95 min)
25.CRACKIE (2009, Sherry White, Canada, 94 min)
26.CROSSING THE MOUNTAIN (2010, Yang Rui, China)
27.DANCING DREAMS (2010, Anne Linsel, Germany, documentary, 89 min)
28.THE DARK HARBOUR (2009, Naito Takatsugu, Japan, 99 min)
29.DEAR PRUDENCE (BELLE ÉPINE) (2010, Rebecca Zlotowski, France)
30.DEEP IN THE VALLEY (2009, Atsushi Funahashi, Japan)
31.DEEP IN THE WOODS (2010, Benoît Jacquot, France)
32.DEFIANT BRASILIA (2009, Gabriel Mascaro, Brazil, 85 min)
33.DEVOTES OF THE PRECIPITATE (2010, Julian Semilian, USA-Romania, 36 min)
34.THE DRIFTER (2010, Tatjana Turanskyj, Germany)
35.8 BEHIND THE WHEEL (2009, Trace Burroughs)
36.EIGHTEEN (2009, Jang Kun-jae, South Korea)
37.ELVIS’ LAST SONG (2009, Vasilis Raisis, Greece, 100 min)
38.ERIE (2009, Kevin Jerome Everson, USA, 81 min)
39.THE EXPLODING GIRL (2009, Bradley Rust Gray, USA, 79 min)
40.FACS OF LIFE (2009, Silvia Maglioni + Graeme Thomson, 115 min)
41.A FAINT TREMBLING OF THE LANDSCAPE (2008, Philippe Fernandez, France)
42.FISH EYES (2009, Zheng Wei, Korea/China)
43.40 DAYS (2008, Juan Carlos Martín, Mexico, 101 min)
44.THE FOUR TIMES (2010, Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy, 88 min)
45.FRESH AIR (2006, Ágnes Kocsis, Hungary, 109 min)
46.FROZEN BUTTERFLIES (2009, Mark Lipkin, Australia, 83 min)
47.GIGANTE (2009, Adrián Biniez, Uruguay)
48.GLAMOROUS YOUTH (2009, Philip Yung, Hong Kong, 133 min)
49.THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD (2009, Radu Jude, Romania)
50.HELSINKI, FOREVER (2009, Peter von Bagh, Finland)
51.HIGH RISE (UM LUGAR AO SOL) (2009, Gabriel Mascaro, Brazil, documentary, 71 min)
52.HUMAN FAILURE (2008, Michael Verhoeven, Germany, documentary, 91 min)
http://film-forward.com/nyjff10.html
53.I AM A CAT STALKER (2009, Takuji Suzuki, Japan)
54.THE IDIOT (2008, Pierre Léon, France, 61 min)
55.THE IMAGE INSIDE (2009, Wolfgang Scholz, Germany, documentary, 53 min)
56.IMPOLEX (2009, Alex Ross Perry, USA, 73 min)
57.INTER VIEW (2010, Makino Takashi, 25 min)
58.ISKA’S JOURNEY (2007, Csaba Bollók, Hungary, 92 min)
59.I TRAVEL BECAUSE I HAVE TO, I COME BACK BECAUSE I LOVE YOU (2009, Karim Ainouz + Marcelo Gomes, Brazil, 75 min)
60.JOURNEY TO THE MOON (2009, Kutlug Ataman, Turkey)
61.KAIFECK MURDER (2009, Esther Gronenborn, Germany, 86 min)
62.KAWASE SAN (2009, Christian Leighton, Chile, documentary, 77 min)
63.LOS LABIOS (2010, Iván Fund + Santiago Loza, Argentina, 100 min)
64.LAND OF SCARECROWS (2008, Roh Gyeong-tae, South Korea, 90 min)
65.THE LAST CIRCUS (2010, Álex de la Iglesia, Spain)
66.A LIGHT IN THE FOG (2009, Panahbarkhoda Rezaee, Iran)
67.LIFE AFTER THE FALL (2008, Kasim Abid, Iraq, documentary, 155 min)
68.LOWLANDS (2009, Peter Thompson, USA)
69.LOW LIGHTS (2009, Ignas Miskinis, Lithuania, 92 min)
70.LULU AND JIMI (2009, Oskar Roehler, Germany, 94 min)
71.LUPANG HINARANG (2009, Ditso Carolino, Philippines)
72.MANIQUERVILLE (2009, Pierre Creton, France, 84 min)
73.THE MAN’S WOMAN AND OTHER STORIES (2009, Amit Dutta, India)
74.LOS MATERIALES (2009, Los Hijos, Spain, documentary, 67 min)
75.MEMBERS OF THE FUNERAL (2008, Baek Seung-bin, South Korea, 98 min)
76.MEN ON THE BRIDGE (2009, Asli Özge, Turkey)
77.MISSING PERSON (2009, Seo Lee, South Korea, 95 min)
78.MOTHERS (2010, Milcho Manchevski, Macedonia)
79.NAHIED=VENUS (2008, Parisa Yousef Doust, Netherlands, documentary, 39 min)
80.NAVIDAD (2009, Sebastián Campos, Chile)
81.N’AVONS-NOUS PAS TOUJOURS ÉTÉ BIENVEILLANTS? (RECUEIL) (WE HAVE NOT ALWAYS BEEN BENEVOLENT: SERIES) (2010, Pierre Creton + Vincent Barré, France, documentary, 117 min)
82.OLD PARTNER (2008, Lee Chung-ryoul, South Korea, documentary, 78 min)
83.1 (2009, Peter Sparrow, Hungary)
84.108 (2010, Renate Costa, Spain/Paraguay)
85.ORAL HISTORY (2009, Volko Kamensky, Germany, 22 min)
86.THE OTHER ONE (2008, Patrick-Mario Bernard + Pierre Trividic, France, 97 min)
87.OUT OF LOVE (2009, Birgitte Stærmose, Denmark, 29 min)
88.PEACE WITH SEALS (2007, Miroslav Novak, Czech, documentary, 87 min)
89.THE PHILOSOPHER KINGS (2009, Patrick Shen, documentary, USA)
90.PINK HALO-HALO (2010, Joselito Altarejos, Philippines)
91.POSTCARD TO DADDY (2010, Michael Stock, Germany, documentary, 86 min)
92.PRESENT PARTICIPLE (2009, Shirin Sabashi, Iran/Sweden, 25 min)
93.RUÍNAS (2009, Manuel Mozos, Portugal, documentary, 60 min)
94.SÉRIE NOIRE (2009, Jean-Claude Rousseau, France)
95.THE SICILIAN GIRL (2009, Marco Aventa, Italy)
96.THE SILENCE (2010, Baran bo Odar, Germany, 119 min)
97.SILENT VOICE (2009, Léa Fehner, France)
98.SMALL REVOLTS (2009, Kyriakos Katzourakis, Greece)
99.SOTCHI 255 (2010, Jean-Claude Taki, France, documentary, 115 min)
100.SPECIAL TREATMENT (2010, Jeanne Labrunne, France)
101.STELLA (2008, Sylvie Verheyde, France, 103 min)
102.STINGRAY SAM (2009, Cory McAbee, USA, 61 min)
103.SYMBOL (2009, Hitoshi Matsumoto, Japan)
104.LE TEMPS DES GRÂCES (2009, Dominique Marchais, France, documentary, 123 min)
105.THIEVES BY LAW (2010, Alexander Gentelev, Russia, documentary)
106.THREE MEN AND A FISH POND (2008, Marias Maskalans + Laila Pakalnina, Latvia, documentary, 52 min)
107.T IS FOR TEACHER (2009, Rohan Spong, USA, documentary, 71 min)
108.TODAY AND THE OTHER DAYS (2008, Choi Wee An, South Korea, 102 min)
109.TOGETHER (2009, Nicolás Pereda, Mexico, 73 min)
110.THE TRAVELOGUES (2010, Dustin Thompson, 49 min)
111.THE TRIAL OF ANDRES BONIFACIO (2010, Mario O’Hara, Philippines)
112.TWO GATES OF SLEEP (2010, Alistair Banks Griffin)
113.UNTIL THE NEXT RESURRECTION (2008, Oleg Morozov, Russia, documentary, 90 min)
114.VAN DIEMEN’S LAND (2009, Jonathan auf der Heide, Australia)
115.VILLALOBOS (2009, Romuald Karmakar, Germany, documentary, 110 min)
116.VOX POPULI (2010, Dennis Marasigan, Philippines)
117.WAKE UP SID (2009, Ayan Mukherjee, India, 138 min)
118.WAYS OF THE SEA (2010, Sheron Dayoc, Philippines)
119.WE ARE WHAT WE ARE (2010, Jorge Michel Grau, Mexico)
120.WEST OF PLUTO (2008, Henry Bernadet, Myriam Verreault, Canada)
121.WHAT I LOVE THE MOST (2010, Delfina Castagnino, Argentina, 76 min)
122.WHY I DON’T SPEAK SERBIAN (IN SERBIAN) (2008, Phil Collins)
123.THE WOLBERG FAMILY (2009, Axelle Ropert, France)
124.A WOMAN’S WAY (2009, Panos H. Koutras, Greece)
125.WOMB (2010, Benedek Filegauf, Germany, 107 min)
126.YURI’S DAY (2008, Kirill Serebrennikov, Russia/Germany, 137 min)
HONG KONG FILM FESTIVAL WISH LIST
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2010/03/hong-kong-international-film-festival.html
ROTTERDAM FILM FESTIVAL WISH LIST
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2010/01/rotterdam-wish-list.html
DOCUMENTARY FILM WISH LIST
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2010/07/documentary-wish-list.html
BERLINALE FILM WISH LIST
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2010/02/berlinale-film-wish-list.html
1.AIN’T NO TOMORROWS (2008, Yuki Tanada, Japan, 79 min)
2.ALL THINGS WERE NOW OVERTAKEN BY SILENCE (2010, Nicolás Pereda, Mexico, 62 min)
3.ANDER (2009, Roberto Castón, Spain)
4.THE ARBOR (2010, Clio Bernard, documentary)
5.ARGENTINA AVENIDA (2009, Lucia-Milena Bonse, 84 min)
6.ARMADILLO (2010, Janus Metz, documentary)
7.AT ELLEN’S AGE (2010, Pia Marais, Germany)
8.ATHENS-ISTANBUL (2008, Nikos Panayotopoulos, Greece, 103 min)
9.ATLANTIS (2008, Pieter Geenen)
10.BAD BIOLOGY (2008, Frank Henenlotter, USA, 85 min)
11.BARKING WATER (2009, Sterlin Harjo, USA, 85 min)
12.THE BEAST NOTES (2008, Keja Ho Kramer, France)
13.BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO (2009, Jessica Oreck, USA/Japan)
14.BENA (2009, Niv Klainer, Israel, 84 min)
15.THE BLACKS (2009, Zvonimir Juric + Goran Devic, Croatia, 75 min)
16.THE BLOOD TRAIL (2009, Jerrold Tarog, Philippines)
17.BRIDAL QUARTER (2010, Gutierrez Mangansakan II, Philippines)
18.BURNING PALACE (2008, Mara Mattuschka + Chris Haring, Austria, 32 min)
19.BURROWING (2009, Fredrik Wenzel + Henrik Hellström, Sweden)
20.CENTRO (2010, Sebastián Martínez, Argentina, 90 min)
21.THE CLONE RETURNS TO HOMELAND (2008, Kanji Nakajima, 110 min)
22.CONTACT HIGH (2009, Michael Glawogger, Austria)
23.CONTENT (2010, Christopher Petit, UK, documentary, 76 min)
24.CRAB TRAP (2009, Oscar Ruiz Navia, Colombia, 95 min)
25.CRACKIE (2009, Sherry White, Canada, 94 min)
26.CROSSING THE MOUNTAIN (2010, Yang Rui, China)
27.DANCING DREAMS (2010, Anne Linsel, Germany, documentary, 89 min)
28.THE DARK HARBOUR (2009, Naito Takatsugu, Japan, 99 min)
29.DEAR PRUDENCE (BELLE ÉPINE) (2010, Rebecca Zlotowski, France)
30.DEEP IN THE VALLEY (2009, Atsushi Funahashi, Japan)
31.DEEP IN THE WOODS (2010, Benoît Jacquot, France)
32.DEFIANT BRASILIA (2009, Gabriel Mascaro, Brazil, 85 min)
33.DEVOTES OF THE PRECIPITATE (2010, Julian Semilian, USA-Romania, 36 min)
34.THE DRIFTER (2010, Tatjana Turanskyj, Germany)
35.8 BEHIND THE WHEEL (2009, Trace Burroughs)
36.EIGHTEEN (2009, Jang Kun-jae, South Korea)
37.ELVIS’ LAST SONG (2009, Vasilis Raisis, Greece, 100 min)
38.ERIE (2009, Kevin Jerome Everson, USA, 81 min)
39.THE EXPLODING GIRL (2009, Bradley Rust Gray, USA, 79 min)
40.FACS OF LIFE (2009, Silvia Maglioni + Graeme Thomson, 115 min)
41.A FAINT TREMBLING OF THE LANDSCAPE (2008, Philippe Fernandez, France)
42.FISH EYES (2009, Zheng Wei, Korea/China)
43.40 DAYS (2008, Juan Carlos Martín, Mexico, 101 min)
44.THE FOUR TIMES (2010, Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy, 88 min)
45.FRESH AIR (2006, Ágnes Kocsis, Hungary, 109 min)
46.FROZEN BUTTERFLIES (2009, Mark Lipkin, Australia, 83 min)
47.GIGANTE (2009, Adrián Biniez, Uruguay)
48.GLAMOROUS YOUTH (2009, Philip Yung, Hong Kong, 133 min)
49.THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD (2009, Radu Jude, Romania)
50.HELSINKI, FOREVER (2009, Peter von Bagh, Finland)
51.HIGH RISE (UM LUGAR AO SOL) (2009, Gabriel Mascaro, Brazil, documentary, 71 min)
52.HUMAN FAILURE (2008, Michael Verhoeven, Germany, documentary, 91 min)
http://film-forward.com/nyjff10.html
53.I AM A CAT STALKER (2009, Takuji Suzuki, Japan)
54.THE IDIOT (2008, Pierre Léon, France, 61 min)
55.THE IMAGE INSIDE (2009, Wolfgang Scholz, Germany, documentary, 53 min)
56.IMPOLEX (2009, Alex Ross Perry, USA, 73 min)
57.INTER VIEW (2010, Makino Takashi, 25 min)
58.ISKA’S JOURNEY (2007, Csaba Bollók, Hungary, 92 min)
59.I TRAVEL BECAUSE I HAVE TO, I COME BACK BECAUSE I LOVE YOU (2009, Karim Ainouz + Marcelo Gomes, Brazil, 75 min)
60.JOURNEY TO THE MOON (2009, Kutlug Ataman, Turkey)
61.KAIFECK MURDER (2009, Esther Gronenborn, Germany, 86 min)
62.KAWASE SAN (2009, Christian Leighton, Chile, documentary, 77 min)
63.LOS LABIOS (2010, Iván Fund + Santiago Loza, Argentina, 100 min)
64.LAND OF SCARECROWS (2008, Roh Gyeong-tae, South Korea, 90 min)
65.THE LAST CIRCUS (2010, Álex de la Iglesia, Spain)
66.A LIGHT IN THE FOG (2009, Panahbarkhoda Rezaee, Iran)
67.LIFE AFTER THE FALL (2008, Kasim Abid, Iraq, documentary, 155 min)
68.LOWLANDS (2009, Peter Thompson, USA)
69.LOW LIGHTS (2009, Ignas Miskinis, Lithuania, 92 min)
70.LULU AND JIMI (2009, Oskar Roehler, Germany, 94 min)
71.LUPANG HINARANG (2009, Ditso Carolino, Philippines)
72.MANIQUERVILLE (2009, Pierre Creton, France, 84 min)
73.THE MAN’S WOMAN AND OTHER STORIES (2009, Amit Dutta, India)
74.LOS MATERIALES (2009, Los Hijos, Spain, documentary, 67 min)
75.MEMBERS OF THE FUNERAL (2008, Baek Seung-bin, South Korea, 98 min)
76.MEN ON THE BRIDGE (2009, Asli Özge, Turkey)
77.MISSING PERSON (2009, Seo Lee, South Korea, 95 min)
78.MOTHERS (2010, Milcho Manchevski, Macedonia)
79.NAHIED=VENUS (2008, Parisa Yousef Doust, Netherlands, documentary, 39 min)
80.NAVIDAD (2009, Sebastián Campos, Chile)
81.N’AVONS-NOUS PAS TOUJOURS ÉTÉ BIENVEILLANTS? (RECUEIL) (WE HAVE NOT ALWAYS BEEN BENEVOLENT: SERIES) (2010, Pierre Creton + Vincent Barré, France, documentary, 117 min)
82.OLD PARTNER (2008, Lee Chung-ryoul, South Korea, documentary, 78 min)
83.1 (2009, Peter Sparrow, Hungary)
84.108 (2010, Renate Costa, Spain/Paraguay)
85.ORAL HISTORY (2009, Volko Kamensky, Germany, 22 min)
86.THE OTHER ONE (2008, Patrick-Mario Bernard + Pierre Trividic, France, 97 min)
87.OUT OF LOVE (2009, Birgitte Stærmose, Denmark, 29 min)
88.PEACE WITH SEALS (2007, Miroslav Novak, Czech, documentary, 87 min)
89.THE PHILOSOPHER KINGS (2009, Patrick Shen, documentary, USA)
90.PINK HALO-HALO (2010, Joselito Altarejos, Philippines)
91.POSTCARD TO DADDY (2010, Michael Stock, Germany, documentary, 86 min)
92.PRESENT PARTICIPLE (2009, Shirin Sabashi, Iran/Sweden, 25 min)
93.RUÍNAS (2009, Manuel Mozos, Portugal, documentary, 60 min)
94.SÉRIE NOIRE (2009, Jean-Claude Rousseau, France)
95.THE SICILIAN GIRL (2009, Marco Aventa, Italy)
96.THE SILENCE (2010, Baran bo Odar, Germany, 119 min)
97.SILENT VOICE (2009, Léa Fehner, France)
98.SMALL REVOLTS (2009, Kyriakos Katzourakis, Greece)
99.SOTCHI 255 (2010, Jean-Claude Taki, France, documentary, 115 min)
100.SPECIAL TREATMENT (2010, Jeanne Labrunne, France)
101.STELLA (2008, Sylvie Verheyde, France, 103 min)
102.STINGRAY SAM (2009, Cory McAbee, USA, 61 min)
103.SYMBOL (2009, Hitoshi Matsumoto, Japan)
104.LE TEMPS DES GRÂCES (2009, Dominique Marchais, France, documentary, 123 min)
105.THIEVES BY LAW (2010, Alexander Gentelev, Russia, documentary)
106.THREE MEN AND A FISH POND (2008, Marias Maskalans + Laila Pakalnina, Latvia, documentary, 52 min)
107.T IS FOR TEACHER (2009, Rohan Spong, USA, documentary, 71 min)
108.TODAY AND THE OTHER DAYS (2008, Choi Wee An, South Korea, 102 min)
109.TOGETHER (2009, Nicolás Pereda, Mexico, 73 min)
110.THE TRAVELOGUES (2010, Dustin Thompson, 49 min)
111.THE TRIAL OF ANDRES BONIFACIO (2010, Mario O’Hara, Philippines)
112.TWO GATES OF SLEEP (2010, Alistair Banks Griffin)
113.UNTIL THE NEXT RESURRECTION (2008, Oleg Morozov, Russia, documentary, 90 min)
114.VAN DIEMEN’S LAND (2009, Jonathan auf der Heide, Australia)
115.VILLALOBOS (2009, Romuald Karmakar, Germany, documentary, 110 min)
116.VOX POPULI (2010, Dennis Marasigan, Philippines)
117.WAKE UP SID (2009, Ayan Mukherjee, India, 138 min)
118.WAYS OF THE SEA (2010, Sheron Dayoc, Philippines)
119.WE ARE WHAT WE ARE (2010, Jorge Michel Grau, Mexico)
120.WEST OF PLUTO (2008, Henry Bernadet, Myriam Verreault, Canada)
121.WHAT I LOVE THE MOST (2010, Delfina Castagnino, Argentina, 76 min)
122.WHY I DON’T SPEAK SERBIAN (IN SERBIAN) (2008, Phil Collins)
123.THE WOLBERG FAMILY (2009, Axelle Ropert, France)
124.A WOMAN’S WAY (2009, Panos H. Koutras, Greece)
125.WOMB (2010, Benedek Filegauf, Germany, 107 min)
126.YURI’S DAY (2008, Kirill Serebrennikov, Russia/Germany, 137 min)
HONG KONG FILM FESTIVAL WISH LIST
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2010/03/hong-kong-international-film-festival.html
ROTTERDAM FILM FESTIVAL WISH LIST
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2010/01/rotterdam-wish-list.html
DOCUMENTARY FILM WISH LIST
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2010/07/documentary-wish-list.html
BERLINALE FILM WISH LIST
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2010/02/berlinale-film-wish-list.html
Friday, May 28, 2010
WALLFLOWER WISH LIST
I'm glad to find the book FEMINIST AUTEURS: READING WOMEN'S FILMS by Geetha Ramanathan at Kinokuniya, Paragon. It has reviews on INDIA SONG, CHOCOLAT (Claire Denis), HOUR OF THE STAR (Susana Amaral), MALOU (Jeanine Meerapfel), THE SMILING MADAME BEUDET (Germaine Dulac), SATI (Aparna Sen), A VERY CURIOUS GIRL (Nelly Kaplan), ILLUSIONS (Julie Dash), FLAME (Ingrid Sinclair), and DANZÓN (Maria Novaro).
http://www.amazon.com/Feminist-Auteurs-Reading-Womens-Films/dp/190476469X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274982341&sr=1-1
Graiwoot told me about the Wallflower publisher. I think it is a very interesting publisher! Sompot gave me the book JAMES BENNING published by this company a few years ago. These are my Wallflower wish list:
1.ALTERNATIVE EUROPE: EUROTRASH AND EXPLOITATION CINEMA SINCE 1945 (including interview with Jörg Buttgereit)
http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/product/alterimage/alternative-europe
2.CINEMA OF PRAYOGA: INDIAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO 1913-2006
http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/product/artists-film-video/cinema_of_prayoga
3.CINEPHILIA IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL REPRODUCTION
http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/product/film-media/digital-culture
4.DEKALOG 2: ON MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA
http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/product/alterimage/alternative-europe
5.HUNGARIAN CINEMA
http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/product/film-media/hungarian-cinema
6.THE IMAGE AND THE WITNESS: TRAUMA, MEMORY, AND VISUAL CULTURE (It discusses works by Chris Marker, Errol Morris, Derek Jarman, Doris Salcedo, Gerhard Richter, and Boris Mikhailov, )
http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/product/non-fictions/the-image-and-the-witness
7.JOHN COOK
http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/product/artists-film-video/john-cook
8.THE MEMO BOOK: FILMS, VIDEOS, AND INSTALLATIONS BY MATTHIAS MULLER
http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/product/new-titles/The_Personal_Camera
9.PETER TSCHERKASSKY
http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/product/artists-film-video/peter_tscherkassky
10.THE UNDERCUT READER
http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/product/artists-film-video/the-undercut-reader
http://www.amazon.com/Feminist-Auteurs-Reading-Womens-Films/dp/190476469X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274982341&sr=1-1
Graiwoot told me about the Wallflower publisher. I think it is a very interesting publisher! Sompot gave me the book JAMES BENNING published by this company a few years ago. These are my Wallflower wish list:
1.ALTERNATIVE EUROPE: EUROTRASH AND EXPLOITATION CINEMA SINCE 1945 (including interview with Jörg Buttgereit)
http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/product/alterimage/alternative-europe
2.CINEMA OF PRAYOGA: INDIAN EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO 1913-2006
http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/product/artists-film-video/cinema_of_prayoga
3.CINEPHILIA IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL REPRODUCTION
http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/product/film-media/digital-culture
4.DEKALOG 2: ON MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA
http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/product/alterimage/alternative-europe
5.HUNGARIAN CINEMA
http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/product/film-media/hungarian-cinema
6.THE IMAGE AND THE WITNESS: TRAUMA, MEMORY, AND VISUAL CULTURE (It discusses works by Chris Marker, Errol Morris, Derek Jarman, Doris Salcedo, Gerhard Richter, and Boris Mikhailov, )
http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/product/non-fictions/the-image-and-the-witness
7.JOHN COOK
http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/product/artists-film-video/john-cook
8.THE MEMO BOOK: FILMS, VIDEOS, AND INSTALLATIONS BY MATTHIAS MULLER
http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/product/new-titles/The_Personal_Camera
9.PETER TSCHERKASSKY
http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/product/artists-film-video/peter_tscherkassky
10.THE UNDERCUT READER
http://www.wallflowerpress.co.uk/product/artists-film-video/the-undercut-reader
Sunday, March 28, 2010
RESULTS OF POLL 73
My poll 73 ended with only one vote from me. This is the lowest record. Hahaha. Here is the result:
THESE ARE MY FAVORITE MINI-SERIES. WHICH ONES DO YOU LIKE?
1.BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ (1980, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 894 min)
+DOMBAIS ET FILS (2007, Laurent Jaoui, 180 min)
+GOLDENE ZEITEN (1981+1984, Michael Braun, 741 min)
+INTENSITY (1997, Yves Simoneau, 186 min)
+MASTER OF THE GAME (1984, Kevin Conner + Harvey Hart, 413 min)
+THE MURDER OF MARY PHAGAN (1988, William Hale, 251 min)
+RING (1999, Yoshito Fukumoto + Hiroshi Nishitani + Hidemoto Matsuda, 570 min)
+SALEM'S LOT (1979, Tobe Hooper, 184 min)
+A TIME OF INDIFFERENCE (1988, Mauro Bolognini, Italy)
+WAR AND REMEMBRANCE (1988, Dan Curtis, 1620 min)
Each of these mini-series got one vote, or 100 %.
11.THE BLOOD OF OTHERS (1984, Claude Chabrol, 175 min)
+CONDOMINIUM (1980, Sidney Hayes, 240 min)
+THE FRENCH ATLANTIC AFFAIR (1979, Douglas Hayes, 278 min)
+LACE II (1985, William Hale, 188 min)
+LONESOME DOVE (1989, Simon Wincer, 384 min)
+QUEENIE (1987, Larry Peerce, 233 min)
+PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1995, Simon Langton, 300 min)
+RETURN TO EDEN (1985, Karen Arthur + Kevin James Dobson, 266 min)
+SARTRE, L'ÂGE DES PASSIONS (2009, Claude Goretta, 165 min)
+TROPIQUES AMERS (2007, Jean-Claude Flamand + Jean-Claude Barny, 312 min)
Each of these mini-series got 0 vote.
My mini-series wish list:
(Including some TV programs which are not exactly mini-series)
1.LES ALSACIENS – OU LES DEUX MATHILDE (1996, Michel Favart, 360 min)
http://www.amazon.fr/alsaciens-deux-mathilde-partie-1870-1919/dp/B001210VLE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269737574&sr=8-3
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518i0Ei1L7L._SS500_.jpg
2.ANSWERED BY FIRE (2006, Jessica Hobbs, Canada)
3.BLOOD & ORCHIDS (1986, Jerry Thorpe, 240 min)
" They should be hailed as heroes. Instead, they became they accused. Four young Hawaiian men, who find a beaten and raped nude Caucasian woman and rush her to a Honolulu hospital, are the defendants in a heated trial that underscores the divide between locals and powerful, plantation-running whites of 1937 Hawaii. Working from his own bestselling novel, Norman Katkov provides the script for this miniseries tale of twisted justice and deadly vengeance. As the investigating police captain, who swims against the tide of racism and rancor surrounding the case, Kris Kristofferson leads a notable cast that includes Jane Alexander, Sean Young, Jose Ferrer, James Saito and Madeline Stowe. "
http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Orchids-2-Disc-Set/dp/B0035QHNVU/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269738651&sr=8-3
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519AUiudgPL._SS500_.jpg
4.DIE BUDDENBROOKS (1979, Franz Peter Wirth, West Germany, 614 min)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KKR8G214L._SS400_.jpg
5.THE CAPTURE OF THE GREEN RIVER KILLER (2008, Norma Bailey, Canada)
6.CRIMINAL JUSTICE (2008, Otto Bathurst + Yann Demange + Luke Watson + Marc Jobst, 300 min)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Criminal-Justice-DVD-Ben-Whishaw/dp/B0018JKX2W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269739868&sr=1-1
" The worst thing Ben has ever done is, tonight, he takes his Dad's black cab out without his permission. But that's not why Ben ends the evening in a police cell. What looked to be a spontaneous evening of fun with a sexy stranger, Melanie, has culminated in a dead girl and Ben covered in her blood, holding the murder weapon. All the evidence points to Ben. There are no other leads. But he didn t do it. He can t remember all the events of the night, but he s sure he didn t. Ben is about to see what the criminal justice system does to someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. "
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4100-LIDipL._SS500_.jpg
7.A CURSED MONARCHY (2005, Josée Dayan, France, 500 min)
http://www.amazon.fr/rois-maudits-Janne-Moreau/dp/B001210UWE/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269737697&sr=1-7
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516-6EvLynL._SS500_.jpg
8.DEADLY INTENTIONS (1985, Noel Black, 200 min)
9.DIAMONDS (2008, Andy Wilson, Canada, 240 min)
http://www.amazon.ca/Diamonds/dp/B0027GS5CK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269738276&sr=1-1
" Following a trail of greed and obsession, this powerful story traces the international web that brings us diamonds - the world's purest and most dazzling gems. From the fashionable enclaves of London, to the icy tundra of the Canadian Arctic, to the war-ravaged villages of Sierra Leone, Diamonds takes us inside the glamorous - and sometimes dangerous and illegal - international diamond industry. "
10.IL DUCE CANADESE (2004, Giles Walker, Canada, 240 min)
http://www.amazon.ca/Il-Duce-Canadese/dp/B000HDR828/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269738372&sr=1-1
" As the storm clouds of the Second World War form, Canada seems to be a centre of calm. Certainly Angelo Alvaro, an Italian immigrant baker living in Montreal, and his family are blissfully unaware that their lives are soon to be uprooted.
Angelo and his wife, Sara, work energetically to expand their small business. On the advice of community leader Aldo Mazzotta, Angelo joins the local Fascist organization in hopes of drumming up more business. Their teenage son Mario is a budding musician and looks forward to being sent to Italy by the same Fascist organization for some serious music instruction. Mario’s mentally challenged uncle Momo is so taken with Mussolini that he dresses up as a Black Shirt and salutes Il Duce at every opportunity. Fascism is not a political philosophy for the Alvaros—or indeed for most Italian Canadians. They are naively unaware of Italian Fascism’s insidious forces. Only Sara’s father, Turi, has any real sense of what Fascism means; for the rest, being Fascist in Canada is simply an expression of pride in their Italian heritage. Indeed, even in the wider community, Mussolini has long been seen as a bulwark against godless communism and the Canadian government has never discouraged Italian Canadians from joining the Fascist Party—it is perfectly legal.
War comes, and everything changes. The Canadian government initiates a series of rapid raids through the Italian community; anyone suspected of being a threat to national security is arrested and interned in military prison camps. Being Fascist is no longer perceived as an innocent expression of Italian pride. Angelo, Mario and Momo are caught up in the sweep, turned in to the RCMP by Mazzotta, who buys his own freedom by playing the informer and selling out his harmless fellow countrymen. "
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11.EDGE OF DARKNESS (1985, Martin Campbell, 317 min)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Edge-Darkness-Complete-bob-peck/dp/B00004CYR0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269739973&sr=1-1
" Edge of Darkness (1985) begins routinely enough. Emma Craven (Joanne Whalley in her first staring role, a year before The Singing Detective in 1986) is a young environmental activist killed in mysterious circumstances. Emma's father, Ron Craven, (Bob Peck in a star-making performance) will not be silenced and, as a police detective, is uniquely positioned to pursue his own unofficial investigation. He moves from grief to a determination to find the truth, all the while advised and/or comforted by Emma, but is she a ghost or a manifestation of his haunted psyche? Craven digs deeper, uncovering labyrinthine conspiracy in the nuclear industry and, as the body-count rises, encounters the garrulous CIA agent Darius Jedburgh (a superb Joe Don Baker) with a mysterious agenda of his own. Accompanied by a haunting musical score by Michael Kamen and Eric Clapton, Edge of Darkness builds on the legacy of Tinker Tailor, Soldier Spy and Smiley's People to become quite simply the best television thriller ever. Originally shown in six, 50-minute episodes, this tape presents the first half of the groundbreaking environmental-espionage shocker, tightening the ratchets of suspense to levels which would have turned Hitchcock himself green ... with envy. --Gary S. Dalkin "
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12.EIGHT HOURS ARE NOT A DAY (1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 470 min)
13.GOYA (1985, José Ramón Larraz, Spain, 330 min)
14.HOLOCAUST (1978, Marvin J. Chomsky, 475 min)
http://www.amazon.com/Holocaust-Joseph-Bottoms/dp/B00005JMLR/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269738781&sr=1-1
" The 30th anniversary edition of Holocaust marks the first time this remarkable, nine-and-a-half-hour television miniseries has been released on DVD. Originally broadcast on NBC as part of an ongoing TV phenomenon in the 1970s called "The Big Event," Holocaust was an original story written by Gerald Green, who later scripted Kent State and Wallenberg: A Hero's Story, the latter another Holocaust-era tale. Holocaust narrowed the enormous story of the Nazis' systematic destruction of Jews by focusing on one family living in Berlin. Fritz Weaver plays Dr. Josef Weiss, a Pole with a longtime family practice. Weiss debates with his wife, Berta (Rosemary Harris), the wisdom of moving out of Germany with their family. She insists they should not be chased away by Hitler, and by the time she thinks otherwise, it's too late for her, her parents, Josef, and the three Weiss children: Karl (James Woods), Rudi (Joseph Bottoms), and Anna (Blanche Baker). Holocaust begins with the marriage of Karl to Inga (Meryl Streep), a Christian, an arrangement already frowned upon by the rising Nazi regime in 1935. In time, Karl, a harmless artist, is dragged off to the concentration camp at Buchenwald, leaving Inga vulnerable to a predatory camp officer who passes notes between the husband and wife. Poor young Anna meets a grim fate that reveals something of the way Hitler was determined to eliminate the mentally ill along with Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and other groups of people. The rebellious Rudi ends up fighting the Germans from a different front, while Josef is deported to Warsaw, eventually joined by Berta. There, Holocaust details the plight of the walled-in, so-called Warsaw ghetto, and the despair of the people within. Meanwhile, the destiny of another important character, a rather effete lawyer named Erik Dorf (Michael Moriarty), offers a peek into the internal workings of the Holocaust machinery. Dorf takes a much-needed job as an aide to Reinhard Heydrich (David Warner), Gestapo head and chair of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, which finalized plans for the extermination of European Jews. Holocaust was criticized at the time of its broadcast for allegedly cheapening genocide by shrinking the dimensions of the Nazis' organized evil for commercial television. But as a story free to extend into different aspects of the war on Jews, Holocaust is a real eye-opener. Tom Bell, Ian Holm, Robert Stephens, and Sam Wanamaker are also featured in the cast. --Tom Keogh "
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15.HUMAN CARGO (2004, Brad Turner, Canada)
http://www.amazon.ca/Human-Cargo-DVD/dp/B000GJ0LD6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269738507&sr=1-1
" Human Cargo is a critically acclaimed, dramatic 6 part mini-series set in the world of the Canadian refugee system, international terrorism and the anarchy of one of Africa’s most vicious civil wars.
Shot on location in Vancouver and South Africa, Human Cargo features a top international cast including Oscar™-nominee Kate Nelligan (The Prince of Tides), multi-award winner Nicholas Campbell (Da Vinci’s Inquest), and Cara Pifko (This Is Wonderland). Directed by Brad Turner (24). "
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16.ISLAND AT WAR (2004, Peter Lydon + Thaddeus O'Sullivan, UK, 540 min)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Island-War-DVD-James-Wilby/dp/B000TGL9X2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269740102&sr=1-1
" Dramatisation of the events surrounding the capture of the Channel Islands during World War II and three of the families that struggle to come to terms with life under a new, dictatorial regime. "
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17.LES JURÉS DE L'OMBRE (1989, Paul Vecchiali, France, 364 min)
18.THE MASTER AND MARGARITA (2005, Vladimir Bortko, Russia, 500 min)
(Thanks to PC for telling me about this mini-series.)
19.ME ALQUILO PARA SOÑAR (1992, Ruy Guerra, Cuba, 330 min)
20.OCEANO (1989, Ruggero Deodato, Italy, 520 min)
21.PEER GYNT (1971, Peter Stein, West Germany) from Henrik Ibsen's play
22.PROCESO A MARIANA PINEDA (1984, Rafael Moreno Alba, Spain, 300 min) from the writing of Federico García Lorca
23.SANDRA PRINCESSE REBELLE (1995, Didier Albert, France, 720 min)
24.THE SECRET DRAWER (1986, Michel Boisrond + Roger Gillioz + Edouard Molinaro + Nadine Trintignant, France, 312 min)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280334/
" Michele Morgan is an absolute triumph: what a truly stunning actress she is. Without spoiling the mystery ... Morgan plays a glamorous psychologist whose businessman husband (her third) is killed in a plane crash. Shortly after the funeral her world is turned upside down: bailiffs arrive at her apartment to repossess her furniture: this wealthy widow is, in fact, broke - her late husband has taken out loans in her name, and forged her signature to do so. Whilst his bureau is being taken away a secret drawer is discovered, containing a wallet with mysterious contents. From then onwards Morgan's life becomes the stuff of detective novels. She is followed, discovers more secrets than you can shake a stick at, turns detective, travels to Geneva and Rome, and can trust no-one except her three children and her ex-husband, a high ranking policeman. The only trouble is they refuse to believe what is happening, so she basically has to unravel the mystery alone, until she meets up with a figure from her husband's past, Vivi, played by Jeanne Moreau. What is so clever about The Secret Drawer is the genuinely believable interplay between Morgan and her three screen children, all of whom have interesting personal lives which run parallel to the sleuthing being done by their mother. In particular, the gorgeous Marie France-Pisier, as Morgan's eldest daughter, is excellent and very funny "
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25.SEE NO EVIL: THE MOORS MURDERS (2006, Christopher Menaul, UK, 180 min)
" Powerful and thought-provoking drama based on one of the most shocking crimes of the 20th century. This is the chilling story of child killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley and how they were finally brought to justice. Convicted of the torture and killing of five youngsters, the Moors Murderers remain two of the most hated figures in Britain.
See No Evil reveals the untold story and is based on two years of intensive research and interviews with detectives and the key trial witness. It is produced in consultation with the murdered children’s relatives.
Starring Maxine Peak (Shameless), Sean Harris (24 Hour Party People), Joanne Froggatt (Spooks) and George Costigan (Casualty).
"Even 40 years on, it's hard to think of a subject more likely to raise hackles and misfire. So much braver, then, for ITV to tackle it; and so much more admirable for it to have been done so superbly." - The Daily Telegraph
"While it was undoubtedly grim viewing, it had a compulsive grip that I simply couldn't shake off." - Daily Express
"...Peake's performance (as Myra Hindley) was eerily convincing." - The Mirror
"
http://www.amazon.co.uk/See-No-Evil-Moors-Murders/dp/B001AHKH5U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269740205&sr=1-1
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26.THE SORROW OF BELGIUM (1995, Claude Goretta)
27.TANNER'88 (1988, Robert Altman, 353 min)
http://www.amazon.com/Tanner-Criterion-Collection-Michael-Murphy/dp/B00005JM80/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269739007&sr=1-1
" It still looks like one of the most adventurous projects ever undertaken for television: to concoct a fictional presidential candidate and follow him as he mingles (often improvising) amongst the real-life candidates on the campaign trail. Tanner '88 was the brainchild of director Robert Altman and "Doonesbury" cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who executed this on-the-fly series for HBO during the 1988 primary season. Thus we get "former Michigan congressman" Jack Tanner (Altman regular Michael Murphy) sorting out his messy professional and personal life as he hobnobs with the likes of Bob Dole, Pat Robertson, Kitty Dukakis, and real-life journalists. Some of these meta-fictional encounters are cameos, but some are remarkable full-blown sequences, such as Tanner's heart-to-heart with Bruce Babbitt as they stroll beneath Washington's cherry trees. (But then you always knew politicians were basically actors.) The deft supporting cast includes Pamela Reed and Cynthia Nixon. For fans of satire, Tanner is smart and sometimes mind-bending; for fans of Altman, it's the director at the top of his characteristic game: a multi-layered, many-sided ensemble picture that happens to be all about America. --Robert Horton "
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28.WEEKEND STORIES (1996-2000, Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)
29.WILD PALMS (1993, Kathryn Bigelow + Keith Gordon + Peter Hewitt + Phil Janou, 300 min)
http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Palms-James-Belushi/dp/B000AM6OPI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269739139&sr=1-1
" A dark, sexy, noir Los Angeles of the future is the backdrop for Oliver Stone's haunting, sci-fi saga of greed, treason and virtual reality. Harry Wyckoff (James Belushi) is about to become a player in a dark and terrifying battle where everything is at stake and no one is who they seem. Featuring an all-star cast, this story about a cult, a corporation, and a conspiracy to rule the country, is one of the most original movie events in recent history. "
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30.A WOMAN CALLED GOLDA (1982, Alan Gibson, USA, 240 min) starring Judy Davis and Ingrid Bergman as Golda Meir
http://www.amazon.com/Woman-Called-Golda-Ingrid-Bergman/dp/B001PKHS72/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269739248&sr=1-1
" As one legend playing another, Ingrid Bergman gives a shattering portrayal of Golda Meir, the first female prime minister of Israel. In fact, the film is shot through with drama, both onscreen and off, as the viewer is reminded that this fearless performance, for which Bergman won an Emmy, was her last; she died just three months after the film was aired in 1982. The biography of Meir is well known, and well told here: The daughter of Ukrainian refugees, she grew up in Milwaukee, and became involved in Zionist politics at an early age. She and her husband moved to a kibbutz in Palestine in the '20s--and there she focused her life on helping to establish a Jewish homeland in Israel. The supporting cast is splendid, with Judy Davis playing the young idealist Golda, and Leonard Nimoy, never better, playing Golda's politically active, and always supportive, husband. But the film belongs to Bergman, who so completely inhabits the look and mannerisms of Meir that she seems to fit comfortably inside Meir's skin. Gone is any trace of the glamorous movie star--but in its place is something even more compelling, and ultimately more beautiful: a performance haunting, powerful, and unquestionably inspirational. --A.T. Hurley "
THESE ARE MY FAVORITE MINI-SERIES. WHICH ONES DO YOU LIKE?
1.BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ (1980, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 894 min)
+DOMBAIS ET FILS (2007, Laurent Jaoui, 180 min)
+GOLDENE ZEITEN (1981+1984, Michael Braun, 741 min)
+INTENSITY (1997, Yves Simoneau, 186 min)
+MASTER OF THE GAME (1984, Kevin Conner + Harvey Hart, 413 min)
+THE MURDER OF MARY PHAGAN (1988, William Hale, 251 min)
+RING (1999, Yoshito Fukumoto + Hiroshi Nishitani + Hidemoto Matsuda, 570 min)
+SALEM'S LOT (1979, Tobe Hooper, 184 min)
+A TIME OF INDIFFERENCE (1988, Mauro Bolognini, Italy)
+WAR AND REMEMBRANCE (1988, Dan Curtis, 1620 min)
Each of these mini-series got one vote, or 100 %.
11.THE BLOOD OF OTHERS (1984, Claude Chabrol, 175 min)
+CONDOMINIUM (1980, Sidney Hayes, 240 min)
+THE FRENCH ATLANTIC AFFAIR (1979, Douglas Hayes, 278 min)
+LACE II (1985, William Hale, 188 min)
+LONESOME DOVE (1989, Simon Wincer, 384 min)
+QUEENIE (1987, Larry Peerce, 233 min)
+PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1995, Simon Langton, 300 min)
+RETURN TO EDEN (1985, Karen Arthur + Kevin James Dobson, 266 min)
+SARTRE, L'ÂGE DES PASSIONS (2009, Claude Goretta, 165 min)
+TROPIQUES AMERS (2007, Jean-Claude Flamand + Jean-Claude Barny, 312 min)
Each of these mini-series got 0 vote.
My mini-series wish list:
(Including some TV programs which are not exactly mini-series)
1.LES ALSACIENS – OU LES DEUX MATHILDE (1996, Michel Favart, 360 min)
http://www.amazon.fr/alsaciens-deux-mathilde-partie-1870-1919/dp/B001210VLE/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269737574&sr=8-3
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2.ANSWERED BY FIRE (2006, Jessica Hobbs, Canada)
3.BLOOD & ORCHIDS (1986, Jerry Thorpe, 240 min)
" They should be hailed as heroes. Instead, they became they accused. Four young Hawaiian men, who find a beaten and raped nude Caucasian woman and rush her to a Honolulu hospital, are the defendants in a heated trial that underscores the divide between locals and powerful, plantation-running whites of 1937 Hawaii. Working from his own bestselling novel, Norman Katkov provides the script for this miniseries tale of twisted justice and deadly vengeance. As the investigating police captain, who swims against the tide of racism and rancor surrounding the case, Kris Kristofferson leads a notable cast that includes Jane Alexander, Sean Young, Jose Ferrer, James Saito and Madeline Stowe. "
http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Orchids-2-Disc-Set/dp/B0035QHNVU/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269738651&sr=8-3
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4.DIE BUDDENBROOKS (1979, Franz Peter Wirth, West Germany, 614 min)
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5.THE CAPTURE OF THE GREEN RIVER KILLER (2008, Norma Bailey, Canada)
6.CRIMINAL JUSTICE (2008, Otto Bathurst + Yann Demange + Luke Watson + Marc Jobst, 300 min)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Criminal-Justice-DVD-Ben-Whishaw/dp/B0018JKX2W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269739868&sr=1-1
" The worst thing Ben has ever done is, tonight, he takes his Dad's black cab out without his permission. But that's not why Ben ends the evening in a police cell. What looked to be a spontaneous evening of fun with a sexy stranger, Melanie, has culminated in a dead girl and Ben covered in her blood, holding the murder weapon. All the evidence points to Ben. There are no other leads. But he didn t do it. He can t remember all the events of the night, but he s sure he didn t. Ben is about to see what the criminal justice system does to someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. "
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7.A CURSED MONARCHY (2005, Josée Dayan, France, 500 min)
http://www.amazon.fr/rois-maudits-Janne-Moreau/dp/B001210UWE/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269737697&sr=1-7
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8.DEADLY INTENTIONS (1985, Noel Black, 200 min)
9.DIAMONDS (2008, Andy Wilson, Canada, 240 min)
http://www.amazon.ca/Diamonds/dp/B0027GS5CK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269738276&sr=1-1
" Following a trail of greed and obsession, this powerful story traces the international web that brings us diamonds - the world's purest and most dazzling gems. From the fashionable enclaves of London, to the icy tundra of the Canadian Arctic, to the war-ravaged villages of Sierra Leone, Diamonds takes us inside the glamorous - and sometimes dangerous and illegal - international diamond industry. "
10.IL DUCE CANADESE (2004, Giles Walker, Canada, 240 min)
http://www.amazon.ca/Il-Duce-Canadese/dp/B000HDR828/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269738372&sr=1-1
" As the storm clouds of the Second World War form, Canada seems to be a centre of calm. Certainly Angelo Alvaro, an Italian immigrant baker living in Montreal, and his family are blissfully unaware that their lives are soon to be uprooted.
Angelo and his wife, Sara, work energetically to expand their small business. On the advice of community leader Aldo Mazzotta, Angelo joins the local Fascist organization in hopes of drumming up more business. Their teenage son Mario is a budding musician and looks forward to being sent to Italy by the same Fascist organization for some serious music instruction. Mario’s mentally challenged uncle Momo is so taken with Mussolini that he dresses up as a Black Shirt and salutes Il Duce at every opportunity. Fascism is not a political philosophy for the Alvaros—or indeed for most Italian Canadians. They are naively unaware of Italian Fascism’s insidious forces. Only Sara’s father, Turi, has any real sense of what Fascism means; for the rest, being Fascist in Canada is simply an expression of pride in their Italian heritage. Indeed, even in the wider community, Mussolini has long been seen as a bulwark against godless communism and the Canadian government has never discouraged Italian Canadians from joining the Fascist Party—it is perfectly legal.
War comes, and everything changes. The Canadian government initiates a series of rapid raids through the Italian community; anyone suspected of being a threat to national security is arrested and interned in military prison camps. Being Fascist is no longer perceived as an innocent expression of Italian pride. Angelo, Mario and Momo are caught up in the sweep, turned in to the RCMP by Mazzotta, who buys his own freedom by playing the informer and selling out his harmless fellow countrymen. "
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11.EDGE OF DARKNESS (1985, Martin Campbell, 317 min)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Edge-Darkness-Complete-bob-peck/dp/B00004CYR0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269739973&sr=1-1
" Edge of Darkness (1985) begins routinely enough. Emma Craven (Joanne Whalley in her first staring role, a year before The Singing Detective in 1986) is a young environmental activist killed in mysterious circumstances. Emma's father, Ron Craven, (Bob Peck in a star-making performance) will not be silenced and, as a police detective, is uniquely positioned to pursue his own unofficial investigation. He moves from grief to a determination to find the truth, all the while advised and/or comforted by Emma, but is she a ghost or a manifestation of his haunted psyche? Craven digs deeper, uncovering labyrinthine conspiracy in the nuclear industry and, as the body-count rises, encounters the garrulous CIA agent Darius Jedburgh (a superb Joe Don Baker) with a mysterious agenda of his own. Accompanied by a haunting musical score by Michael Kamen and Eric Clapton, Edge of Darkness builds on the legacy of Tinker Tailor, Soldier Spy and Smiley's People to become quite simply the best television thriller ever. Originally shown in six, 50-minute episodes, this tape presents the first half of the groundbreaking environmental-espionage shocker, tightening the ratchets of suspense to levels which would have turned Hitchcock himself green ... with envy. --Gary S. Dalkin "
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12.EIGHT HOURS ARE NOT A DAY (1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 470 min)
13.GOYA (1985, José Ramón Larraz, Spain, 330 min)
14.HOLOCAUST (1978, Marvin J. Chomsky, 475 min)
http://www.amazon.com/Holocaust-Joseph-Bottoms/dp/B00005JMLR/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269738781&sr=1-1
" The 30th anniversary edition of Holocaust marks the first time this remarkable, nine-and-a-half-hour television miniseries has been released on DVD. Originally broadcast on NBC as part of an ongoing TV phenomenon in the 1970s called "The Big Event," Holocaust was an original story written by Gerald Green, who later scripted Kent State and Wallenberg: A Hero's Story, the latter another Holocaust-era tale. Holocaust narrowed the enormous story of the Nazis' systematic destruction of Jews by focusing on one family living in Berlin. Fritz Weaver plays Dr. Josef Weiss, a Pole with a longtime family practice. Weiss debates with his wife, Berta (Rosemary Harris), the wisdom of moving out of Germany with their family. She insists they should not be chased away by Hitler, and by the time she thinks otherwise, it's too late for her, her parents, Josef, and the three Weiss children: Karl (James Woods), Rudi (Joseph Bottoms), and Anna (Blanche Baker). Holocaust begins with the marriage of Karl to Inga (Meryl Streep), a Christian, an arrangement already frowned upon by the rising Nazi regime in 1935. In time, Karl, a harmless artist, is dragged off to the concentration camp at Buchenwald, leaving Inga vulnerable to a predatory camp officer who passes notes between the husband and wife. Poor young Anna meets a grim fate that reveals something of the way Hitler was determined to eliminate the mentally ill along with Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and other groups of people. The rebellious Rudi ends up fighting the Germans from a different front, while Josef is deported to Warsaw, eventually joined by Berta. There, Holocaust details the plight of the walled-in, so-called Warsaw ghetto, and the despair of the people within. Meanwhile, the destiny of another important character, a rather effete lawyer named Erik Dorf (Michael Moriarty), offers a peek into the internal workings of the Holocaust machinery. Dorf takes a much-needed job as an aide to Reinhard Heydrich (David Warner), Gestapo head and chair of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, which finalized plans for the extermination of European Jews. Holocaust was criticized at the time of its broadcast for allegedly cheapening genocide by shrinking the dimensions of the Nazis' organized evil for commercial television. But as a story free to extend into different aspects of the war on Jews, Holocaust is a real eye-opener. Tom Bell, Ian Holm, Robert Stephens, and Sam Wanamaker are also featured in the cast. --Tom Keogh "
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15.HUMAN CARGO (2004, Brad Turner, Canada)
http://www.amazon.ca/Human-Cargo-DVD/dp/B000GJ0LD6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269738507&sr=1-1
" Human Cargo is a critically acclaimed, dramatic 6 part mini-series set in the world of the Canadian refugee system, international terrorism and the anarchy of one of Africa’s most vicious civil wars.
Shot on location in Vancouver and South Africa, Human Cargo features a top international cast including Oscar™-nominee Kate Nelligan (The Prince of Tides), multi-award winner Nicholas Campbell (Da Vinci’s Inquest), and Cara Pifko (This Is Wonderland). Directed by Brad Turner (24). "
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16.ISLAND AT WAR (2004, Peter Lydon + Thaddeus O'Sullivan, UK, 540 min)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Island-War-DVD-James-Wilby/dp/B000TGL9X2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269740102&sr=1-1
" Dramatisation of the events surrounding the capture of the Channel Islands during World War II and three of the families that struggle to come to terms with life under a new, dictatorial regime. "
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17.LES JURÉS DE L'OMBRE (1989, Paul Vecchiali, France, 364 min)
18.THE MASTER AND MARGARITA (2005, Vladimir Bortko, Russia, 500 min)
(Thanks to PC for telling me about this mini-series.)
19.ME ALQUILO PARA SOÑAR (1992, Ruy Guerra, Cuba, 330 min)
20.OCEANO (1989, Ruggero Deodato, Italy, 520 min)
21.PEER GYNT (1971, Peter Stein, West Germany) from Henrik Ibsen's play
22.PROCESO A MARIANA PINEDA (1984, Rafael Moreno Alba, Spain, 300 min) from the writing of Federico García Lorca
23.SANDRA PRINCESSE REBELLE (1995, Didier Albert, France, 720 min)
24.THE SECRET DRAWER (1986, Michel Boisrond + Roger Gillioz + Edouard Molinaro + Nadine Trintignant, France, 312 min)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280334/
" Michele Morgan is an absolute triumph: what a truly stunning actress she is. Without spoiling the mystery ... Morgan plays a glamorous psychologist whose businessman husband (her third) is killed in a plane crash. Shortly after the funeral her world is turned upside down: bailiffs arrive at her apartment to repossess her furniture: this wealthy widow is, in fact, broke - her late husband has taken out loans in her name, and forged her signature to do so. Whilst his bureau is being taken away a secret drawer is discovered, containing a wallet with mysterious contents. From then onwards Morgan's life becomes the stuff of detective novels. She is followed, discovers more secrets than you can shake a stick at, turns detective, travels to Geneva and Rome, and can trust no-one except her three children and her ex-husband, a high ranking policeman. The only trouble is they refuse to believe what is happening, so she basically has to unravel the mystery alone, until she meets up with a figure from her husband's past, Vivi, played by Jeanne Moreau. What is so clever about The Secret Drawer is the genuinely believable interplay between Morgan and her three screen children, all of whom have interesting personal lives which run parallel to the sleuthing being done by their mother. In particular, the gorgeous Marie France-Pisier, as Morgan's eldest daughter, is excellent and very funny "
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25.SEE NO EVIL: THE MOORS MURDERS (2006, Christopher Menaul, UK, 180 min)
" Powerful and thought-provoking drama based on one of the most shocking crimes of the 20th century. This is the chilling story of child killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley and how they were finally brought to justice. Convicted of the torture and killing of five youngsters, the Moors Murderers remain two of the most hated figures in Britain.
See No Evil reveals the untold story and is based on two years of intensive research and interviews with detectives and the key trial witness. It is produced in consultation with the murdered children’s relatives.
Starring Maxine Peak (Shameless), Sean Harris (24 Hour Party People), Joanne Froggatt (Spooks) and George Costigan (Casualty).
"Even 40 years on, it's hard to think of a subject more likely to raise hackles and misfire. So much braver, then, for ITV to tackle it; and so much more admirable for it to have been done so superbly." - The Daily Telegraph
"While it was undoubtedly grim viewing, it had a compulsive grip that I simply couldn't shake off." - Daily Express
"...Peake's performance (as Myra Hindley) was eerily convincing." - The Mirror
"
http://www.amazon.co.uk/See-No-Evil-Moors-Murders/dp/B001AHKH5U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269740205&sr=1-1
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41nKq-n9JWL._SS500_.jpg
26.THE SORROW OF BELGIUM (1995, Claude Goretta)
27.TANNER'88 (1988, Robert Altman, 353 min)
http://www.amazon.com/Tanner-Criterion-Collection-Michael-Murphy/dp/B00005JM80/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269739007&sr=1-1
" It still looks like one of the most adventurous projects ever undertaken for television: to concoct a fictional presidential candidate and follow him as he mingles (often improvising) amongst the real-life candidates on the campaign trail. Tanner '88 was the brainchild of director Robert Altman and "Doonesbury" cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who executed this on-the-fly series for HBO during the 1988 primary season. Thus we get "former Michigan congressman" Jack Tanner (Altman regular Michael Murphy) sorting out his messy professional and personal life as he hobnobs with the likes of Bob Dole, Pat Robertson, Kitty Dukakis, and real-life journalists. Some of these meta-fictional encounters are cameos, but some are remarkable full-blown sequences, such as Tanner's heart-to-heart with Bruce Babbitt as they stroll beneath Washington's cherry trees. (But then you always knew politicians were basically actors.) The deft supporting cast includes Pamela Reed and Cynthia Nixon. For fans of satire, Tanner is smart and sometimes mind-bending; for fans of Altman, it's the director at the top of his characteristic game: a multi-layered, many-sided ensemble picture that happens to be all about America. --Robert Horton "
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517RJWZ6QGL._SS500_.jpg
28.WEEKEND STORIES (1996-2000, Krzysztof Zanussi, Poland)
29.WILD PALMS (1993, Kathryn Bigelow + Keith Gordon + Peter Hewitt + Phil Janou, 300 min)
http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Palms-James-Belushi/dp/B000AM6OPI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269739139&sr=1-1
" A dark, sexy, noir Los Angeles of the future is the backdrop for Oliver Stone's haunting, sci-fi saga of greed, treason and virtual reality. Harry Wyckoff (James Belushi) is about to become a player in a dark and terrifying battle where everything is at stake and no one is who they seem. Featuring an all-star cast, this story about a cult, a corporation, and a conspiracy to rule the country, is one of the most original movie events in recent history. "
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512ZVQK7M8L._SS500_.jpg
30.A WOMAN CALLED GOLDA (1982, Alan Gibson, USA, 240 min) starring Judy Davis and Ingrid Bergman as Golda Meir
http://www.amazon.com/Woman-Called-Golda-Ingrid-Bergman/dp/B001PKHS72/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1269739248&sr=1-1
" As one legend playing another, Ingrid Bergman gives a shattering portrayal of Golda Meir, the first female prime minister of Israel. In fact, the film is shot through with drama, both onscreen and off, as the viewer is reminded that this fearless performance, for which Bergman won an Emmy, was her last; she died just three months after the film was aired in 1982. The biography of Meir is well known, and well told here: The daughter of Ukrainian refugees, she grew up in Milwaukee, and became involved in Zionist politics at an early age. She and her husband moved to a kibbutz in Palestine in the '20s--and there she focused her life on helping to establish a Jewish homeland in Israel. The supporting cast is splendid, with Judy Davis playing the young idealist Golda, and Leonard Nimoy, never better, playing Golda's politically active, and always supportive, husband. But the film belongs to Bergman, who so completely inhabits the look and mannerisms of Meir that she seems to fit comfortably inside Meir's skin. Gone is any trace of the glamorous movie star--but in its place is something even more compelling, and ultimately more beautiful: a performance haunting, powerful, and unquestionably inspirational. --A.T. Hurley "
Saturday, March 27, 2010
MY WISH LIST FOR HONG KONG DVDS
MY WISH LIST FOR HONG KONG DVDS
1.AN AMOROUS WOMAN OF TANG DYNASTY (1984, Eddie Fong)
http://www.dighkmovies.com/v4/233/233.html
2.CALL GIRL 1988
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095221/
3.COLD NIGHTS (1955, Lee Sun-fung)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082428/
4.FATHER AND SON (1981, Allen Fong)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082428/
5.HOME AT HONG KONG (1983, King Hoi-lam or David King)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1293779/
6.LOST SOULS (1980, Mou Tun-fei)
http://atrickofthelight.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/lost-souls-1980-mou-tun-fei/
7.MAN ON THE BRINK (1981, Cheung Gwok-ming or Alex Cheung)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185188/
8.NOMAD (1982, Patrick Tam)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084248/
9.SCHOOL ON FIRE (1989, Ringo Lam)
10.SUN, MOON & STAR (1988, Michael Mak)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096490/
1.AN AMOROUS WOMAN OF TANG DYNASTY (1984, Eddie Fong)
http://www.dighkmovies.com/v4/233/233.html
2.CALL GIRL 1988
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095221/
3.COLD NIGHTS (1955, Lee Sun-fung)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082428/
4.FATHER AND SON (1981, Allen Fong)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082428/
5.HOME AT HONG KONG (1983, King Hoi-lam or David King)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1293779/
6.LOST SOULS (1980, Mou Tun-fei)
http://atrickofthelight.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/lost-souls-1980-mou-tun-fei/
7.MAN ON THE BRINK (1981, Cheung Gwok-ming or Alex Cheung)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185188/
8.NOMAD (1982, Patrick Tam)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084248/
9.SCHOOL ON FIRE (1989, Ringo Lam)
10.SUN, MOON & STAR (1988, Michael Mak)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096490/
Monday, March 15, 2010
FILM WISH LIST: LATE SUMMER BLUES (1987, Renen Schorr)
This is my comment in Twilight Virus' blog:
http://twilightvirus.blogspot.com/2010/03/80.html
I have never heard of LATE SUMMER BLUES (1987, Renen Schorr) before. It sounds very interesting. Its plot reminds me of CAT AND MOUSE (1967, Hans Jürgen Pohland, A+++++), which also deals with friends before going to war.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2724/4434849387_951b55f511_o.jpg
I also haven't seen PAINTED FACES (1988, Alex Law). I think I used to be confused between this film and THE PUPPETMASTER (1993, Hou Hsiao-hsien), which I also haven't seen.
Btw, I just mentioned your article on European cinematographers in my blog. I think your articles are still very useful for me though you wrote it many years ago. I still have to refer to it or re-read it again and again.
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2010/03/poll-72-exquisite-cinematography.html
http://twilightvirus.blogspot.com/2010/03/80.html
I have never heard of LATE SUMMER BLUES (1987, Renen Schorr) before. It sounds very interesting. Its plot reminds me of CAT AND MOUSE (1967, Hans Jürgen Pohland, A+++++), which also deals with friends before going to war.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2724/4434849387_951b55f511_o.jpg
I also haven't seen PAINTED FACES (1988, Alex Law). I think I used to be confused between this film and THE PUPPETMASTER (1993, Hou Hsiao-hsien), which I also haven't seen.
Btw, I just mentioned your article on European cinematographers in my blog. I think your articles are still very useful for me though you wrote it many years ago. I still have to refer to it or re-read it again and again.
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2010/03/poll-72-exquisite-cinematography.html
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL WISH LIST
HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL WISH LIST
http://www.hkiff.org.hk/eng/main.html
1.BERLIN-STETTIN (2009, Volker Koepp, Germany, documentary, 115 min)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2771/4418016936_96a2797fa9_o.jpg
2.LAST TRAIN HOME (2009, Fan Lixin, Canada/China, documentary, 87 min)
3.MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON (2009, Stéphane Brizé, France)
4.MOTHER IS A WHORE (2009, Lee Sang-woo, South Korea)
http://www.hkiff.org.hk/eng/film/detail/34135.html
5.ONCE UPON A TIME PROLETARIAN: 12 TALES OF A COUNTRY (2009, Guo Xiaolu, China, documentary, 76 min)
6.OXHIDE II (2009, Liu Jiayin, China, documentary, 132 min)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4036/4418016946_9af31c5ce4_b.jpg
7.PETROPOLIS: AERIAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE ALBERTA TAR SANDS (2009, Peter Mettler, Canada, documentary, 96 min)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2685/4418016952_6513c4ca80_b.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/4418016948_e6e94926c8_b.jpg
8.RABIA (2009, Sebastián Cordero, Spain)
9.THE TEMPTATION OF ST. TONY (2009, Veiko Õunpuu, Estonia, 114 min)
10.THE WIND JOURNEYS (2009, Ciro Guerra, Colombia, 101 min)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/4418016958_377d9e041d_b.jpg
http://www.hkiff.org.hk/eng/main.html
1.BERLIN-STETTIN (2009, Volker Koepp, Germany, documentary, 115 min)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2771/4418016936_96a2797fa9_o.jpg
2.LAST TRAIN HOME (2009, Fan Lixin, Canada/China, documentary, 87 min)
3.MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON (2009, Stéphane Brizé, France)
4.MOTHER IS A WHORE (2009, Lee Sang-woo, South Korea)
http://www.hkiff.org.hk/eng/film/detail/34135.html
5.ONCE UPON A TIME PROLETARIAN: 12 TALES OF A COUNTRY (2009, Guo Xiaolu, China, documentary, 76 min)
6.OXHIDE II (2009, Liu Jiayin, China, documentary, 132 min)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4036/4418016946_9af31c5ce4_b.jpg
7.PETROPOLIS: AERIAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE ALBERTA TAR SANDS (2009, Peter Mettler, Canada, documentary, 96 min)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2685/4418016952_6513c4ca80_b.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/4418016948_e6e94926c8_b.jpg
8.RABIA (2009, Sebastián Cordero, Spain)
9.THE TEMPTATION OF ST. TONY (2009, Veiko Õunpuu, Estonia, 114 min)
10.THE WIND JOURNEYS (2009, Ciro Guerra, Colombia, 101 min)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/4418016958_377d9e041d_b.jpg
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
BERLINALE FILM WISH LIST
BERLINALE FILM WISH LIST
1.ALL MY TUMBLER GIRLS OR ALL ABOUT WOMEN WHO DARE TO... (2009, Lothar Lambert, Germany)
2.BOUNDARIES (2010, Andreas Kleinert, Germany)
3.THE COUNTING OF THE DAMAGES (2010, Inés de Oliveira Cézar, Argentina)
http://www.berlinale.de/en/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.php?film_id=20101927
4.DOUBLE TIDE (2009, Sharon Lockhart, USA/Austria)
5.EASTERN DRIFT (2010, Sharunas Bartas, Lithuania)
http://www.berlinale.de/en/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.php?film_id=20105896
6.GOING SOUTH (2009, Sébastien Lifshitz, France)
7.INITIATION (2009, Peter Kern, Austria)
8.IN THE SHADOWS (2010, Thomas Arslan, Germany)
9.NEW YORK MEMORIES (2010, Rosa von Praunheim, Germany)
10.ORLY (2010, Angela Schanelec, Germany)
1.ALL MY TUMBLER GIRLS OR ALL ABOUT WOMEN WHO DARE TO... (2009, Lothar Lambert, Germany)
2.BOUNDARIES (2010, Andreas Kleinert, Germany)
3.THE COUNTING OF THE DAMAGES (2010, Inés de Oliveira Cézar, Argentina)
http://www.berlinale.de/en/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.php?film_id=20101927
4.DOUBLE TIDE (2009, Sharon Lockhart, USA/Austria)
5.EASTERN DRIFT (2010, Sharunas Bartas, Lithuania)
http://www.berlinale.de/en/programm/berlinale_programm/datenblatt.php?film_id=20105896
6.GOING SOUTH (2009, Sébastien Lifshitz, France)
7.INITIATION (2009, Peter Kern, Austria)
8.IN THE SHADOWS (2010, Thomas Arslan, Germany)
9.NEW YORK MEMORIES (2010, Rosa von Praunheim, Germany)
10.ORLY (2010, Angela Schanelec, Germany)
Saturday, January 23, 2010
ROTTERDAM WISH LIST
ROTTERDAM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL WISH LIST
1.LOS CONDENADOS (Isaki Lacuesta)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA_zzzbjXpM
I got to know about Isaki Lacuesta from Misterio Abierto's blog:
http://misterioabierto.blogspot.com/2010/01/best-european-films-of-decade-2000-2010.html
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/los-condenados/
"Intense, atmospheric drama about a Latin American in exile who returns to his homeland where he fought dictatorship thirty years earlier. He helps look for the body of a guerrilla who disappeared back then in the damp jungle. Or does he want to bury the past?
Martin, an ex-guerrilla who has spent 30 years in Spanish exile, returns at the request of his old comrades Raúl to his birthplace to help look for the body of their friend, Ezequiel, who disappeared during a battle with soldiers. In secret, they go digging in the swampy Latin American jungle. Staying as guests near the clandestine digging are Ezequiel's close relatives. Tensions soon build.
Four years ago, the versatile and productive Spanish director Isaki Lacuesta screenedLa leyenda del tiempo in the Tiger competition. Damned, which won a Fipresci Award in San Sebastian, is his first fiction film. The teacher (and former student) of the master's in documentary making at Pompeu Fabra University made an intense moral fable, beautifully acted by a choice selection of Argentine actors."
2. HOTEL ATLANTICO (Suzana Amaral)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6dtv2AlJ7I
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/hotel-atlantico/
"An unemployed actor leaves without travel plans for the countryside, where a series of unexpected encounters and bizarre situations await him. This stylish film version of a book (based on the novel by João Gilberto Nolls) is Suzana Amaral's third film in twenty-three years.
An unemployed actor leaves the city without baggage or clearly defined travel plans. A tour bus takes him to the countryside - the starting point of a series of unexpected, special encounters and bizarre situations, devoid of any logic. The traveller never asks, but listens and observes. Between encounters, he occasionally roams completely deserted streets and lanes, sparingly accompanied by a clarinet solo. While he's a man of few words, his character unfolds through his multitude of emotions and the strange situations that seem to overcome him: he is goaded to the utmost, afraid, horny and pleasantly surprised.
This film version of a book based on the novel by João Gilberto Noll is both exciting and hilarious - and larded with dashes of action, drama and romance. It's the third film by Suzana Amaral in 23 years and is characterised by atmospheric images and a pleasant kind of absurdity."
3.MANILA SKIES (Raymond Red)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYl1tAW800c
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/himpapawid/
"Just before Raymond Red was the first Filipino to be given a Golden Palm in Cannes for his short film Anino (2000), he read a news report about a Filipino who hijacked an aircraft and then jumped out with a home-made parachute. In Manila Skies, Red wonders what drives someone to such an absurd deed and at the same time why his land just doesn't make progress. According to a news item in the film, 80% of the population lives in poverty. So too the protagonist Raul, a country boy who desperately and vainly searches for work in Manila. With his friends, all sharing his fate, he commits a robbery but panics at the high point and flees before finally breaking out of the vicious circle with violence.
A realistic portrait with several magic realistic moments, filmed with the very sharp Red One system, a reaction to the grainy, hand-held style that is now popular in Filipino independent cinema."
4.MARKS (1995, Sai Yoichi)
(recommended by Chuck Stephens)
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/maakusu-no-yama/
"Sai’s adaptation of a novel by Takamura Kaoru has two distinct but converging strands. One centres on Mizusawa, a young man who survived his family’s group suicide on Mount Kitadake 19 years ago and a subsequent incarceration in a mental hospital where he was sexually abused. The other centres on a series of identical but apparently unrelated murders in Tokyo: first a yakuza is found dead in a classy residential district, then the corpse of a Ministry of Justice official turns up in a less classy district, both with small but lethal wounds to the skull. The police investigation, which involves ‘lone wolf’ Aida Yuichiro, is riven by factional disputes and fails to prevent a third murder, although it emerges that the victims all had oblique connections with one lawyer."
5.MOSCOU (Eduardo Coutinho)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G71z7whKyk
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/moscou/
"In Moscow, Eduardo Coutinho follows the Brazilian theatre group Galpão as it prepares for the play Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov. The film is a documentary, but the basis is fictional: Coutinho approached the renowned theatre group with the idea of learning a play in three weeks. On the day that Coutinho started shooting, the actors first heard which text they were going to have to learn in such a short period. The film director was not interested in the end product but, just as in Chekhov's play, in the difficult road leading up to it. This is shown in exciting shots of workshops, improvisations and rehearsals."
6.NEWS FROM THE IDEOLOGICAL ANTIQUITY: MARX – EISENSTEIN – DAS KAPITAL (2008, Alexander Kluge, 9 hours 30 minutes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1423964/
http://www.wichaar.com/news/295/ARTICLE/11594/2009-01-21.html
7.NUIT BLEUE (Ange Leccia, France)
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/nuit-bleue/
"A young woman, Antonia, returns to her island of birth, Corsica, after one of her relatives has disappeared at sea. She is torn back and forth between her old love Ettore and the dumb Alexander. The quest for Antonia’s place in the masculine environment of armed nationalism is an excuse for all kinds of peregrinations in the spectacular landscape of Cap Corse - a landscape that itself becomes a leading character. The plot of this fascinating film, entirely without dialogue, is told in songs such as Ne dis rien by Serge Gainsbourg. With the songs, the maker reveals the psychology of his characters, who seem to be in the grip of an age-old, atavistic melancholy. "
8. THE OLD SCHOOL OF CAPITALISM (Zelimir Zilnik)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsXmArcRR4U
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/stara-skola-kapitalizma/
"In a playful, often hilarious mixture of documentary and fiction, the film maker Zelimir Zilnik traces sanctifying capitalism, sold to the Serbians after the disappearance of state socialism as the great new god. As a background for his story, Zilnik uses a number of strikes that took place in Belgrade in recent years and introduces us to several people involved who are allowed to 'play' themselves. That leads to explosive situations. Employees dressed in American football kits come to settle up with their employers with gangs of heavies in bullet-proof vests. But the factories have already been emptied. The arrival of a Russian tycoon and the American vice president Joe Biden light the fuse.
Zilnik's intriguing docu-drama observes with x-ray eyes and in a sharp tone what's going on in the new Serbia. No lazy ideological analysis, but a complex and yet lighthearted portrait of the consequences of globalised capitalism for a country that has only just joined in the game.
Zelimir Zilnik is a great Serbian master and he has been developing his own, idiosyncratic style in docu-drama that he uses in his film works since the 1980. The IFFR has regulraly shown his films since 2000: Wanderlust, Fortress Europe, Kenedi Goes Back home and its next sequence Kenedi Is Getting Married. He is a highly innovative and provocative author making films that make you think. In his films, he concentrates on people of the Central and Eastern Europe and their destinies in the middle of the turmoil of socio-economical changes. A very often used tool of this filmmaker is the active angangament of people in his films acting themselves. In this latest work, Zelimir Zilnik conentrates on the status quo of his own country and the lives of the ordinary people that live in it and are actually caged in it. It's a witty, critical and surprising cinema, something that makes you think differently: about the genre the director is using, and about the world around us."
9.PAJU (Park Chan-ok)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CBFdlP6dH8
10.PEPPERMINTA (Pipilotti Rist)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDOX7iVEx6A
11. PIGGIES (Robert Glinski)
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/swinki/
12. REFRAINS HAPPEN LIKE REVOLUTIONS IN A SONG (John Torres, Philippines)
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/ang-ninanais/
13. TOTÓ (Peter Schreiner)
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/tot/
14. THE WAY BETWEEN TWO POINTS (Sebastian Diaz Morales)
(Thanks to May Adadol Ingawanij for telling me about this.)
I wish to see the new film of Sebastian Diaz Morales. I just saw his short film called ORACLE and like its poetic, haunting quality. I think ORACLE can be screened together with some films of Tanatchai Bandasak and Phaisit Phanphruksachat because some of their films are also made of seemingly-unconnected scenes. I also heard that other films of Sebastian Diaz Morales deal with socio-political power more than ORACLE.
http://sebastiandiazmorales.net/Index/Sebastian_Diaz_Morales.html
15. YEMEN TRAVELOGUE – DAYS AT SHIBAM AND SEIYUN (Michael Pilz)
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/yemen-travelogue-days-at-shibam-and-seiyun/
1.LOS CONDENADOS (Isaki Lacuesta)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA_zzzbjXpM
I got to know about Isaki Lacuesta from Misterio Abierto's blog:
http://misterioabierto.blogspot.com/2010/01/best-european-films-of-decade-2000-2010.html
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/los-condenados/
"Intense, atmospheric drama about a Latin American in exile who returns to his homeland where he fought dictatorship thirty years earlier. He helps look for the body of a guerrilla who disappeared back then in the damp jungle. Or does he want to bury the past?
Martin, an ex-guerrilla who has spent 30 years in Spanish exile, returns at the request of his old comrades Raúl to his birthplace to help look for the body of their friend, Ezequiel, who disappeared during a battle with soldiers. In secret, they go digging in the swampy Latin American jungle. Staying as guests near the clandestine digging are Ezequiel's close relatives. Tensions soon build.
Four years ago, the versatile and productive Spanish director Isaki Lacuesta screenedLa leyenda del tiempo in the Tiger competition. Damned, which won a Fipresci Award in San Sebastian, is his first fiction film. The teacher (and former student) of the master's in documentary making at Pompeu Fabra University made an intense moral fable, beautifully acted by a choice selection of Argentine actors."
2. HOTEL ATLANTICO (Suzana Amaral)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6dtv2AlJ7I
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/hotel-atlantico/
"An unemployed actor leaves without travel plans for the countryside, where a series of unexpected encounters and bizarre situations await him. This stylish film version of a book (based on the novel by João Gilberto Nolls) is Suzana Amaral's third film in twenty-three years.
An unemployed actor leaves the city without baggage or clearly defined travel plans. A tour bus takes him to the countryside - the starting point of a series of unexpected, special encounters and bizarre situations, devoid of any logic. The traveller never asks, but listens and observes. Between encounters, he occasionally roams completely deserted streets and lanes, sparingly accompanied by a clarinet solo. While he's a man of few words, his character unfolds through his multitude of emotions and the strange situations that seem to overcome him: he is goaded to the utmost, afraid, horny and pleasantly surprised.
This film version of a book based on the novel by João Gilberto Noll is both exciting and hilarious - and larded with dashes of action, drama and romance. It's the third film by Suzana Amaral in 23 years and is characterised by atmospheric images and a pleasant kind of absurdity."
3.MANILA SKIES (Raymond Red)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYl1tAW800c
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/himpapawid/
"Just before Raymond Red was the first Filipino to be given a Golden Palm in Cannes for his short film Anino (2000), he read a news report about a Filipino who hijacked an aircraft and then jumped out with a home-made parachute. In Manila Skies, Red wonders what drives someone to such an absurd deed and at the same time why his land just doesn't make progress. According to a news item in the film, 80% of the population lives in poverty. So too the protagonist Raul, a country boy who desperately and vainly searches for work in Manila. With his friends, all sharing his fate, he commits a robbery but panics at the high point and flees before finally breaking out of the vicious circle with violence.
A realistic portrait with several magic realistic moments, filmed with the very sharp Red One system, a reaction to the grainy, hand-held style that is now popular in Filipino independent cinema."
4.MARKS (1995, Sai Yoichi)
(recommended by Chuck Stephens)
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/maakusu-no-yama/
"Sai’s adaptation of a novel by Takamura Kaoru has two distinct but converging strands. One centres on Mizusawa, a young man who survived his family’s group suicide on Mount Kitadake 19 years ago and a subsequent incarceration in a mental hospital where he was sexually abused. The other centres on a series of identical but apparently unrelated murders in Tokyo: first a yakuza is found dead in a classy residential district, then the corpse of a Ministry of Justice official turns up in a less classy district, both with small but lethal wounds to the skull. The police investigation, which involves ‘lone wolf’ Aida Yuichiro, is riven by factional disputes and fails to prevent a third murder, although it emerges that the victims all had oblique connections with one lawyer."
5.MOSCOU (Eduardo Coutinho)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G71z7whKyk
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/moscou/
"In Moscow, Eduardo Coutinho follows the Brazilian theatre group Galpão as it prepares for the play Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov. The film is a documentary, but the basis is fictional: Coutinho approached the renowned theatre group with the idea of learning a play in three weeks. On the day that Coutinho started shooting, the actors first heard which text they were going to have to learn in such a short period. The film director was not interested in the end product but, just as in Chekhov's play, in the difficult road leading up to it. This is shown in exciting shots of workshops, improvisations and rehearsals."
6.NEWS FROM THE IDEOLOGICAL ANTIQUITY: MARX – EISENSTEIN – DAS KAPITAL (2008, Alexander Kluge, 9 hours 30 minutes)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1423964/
http://www.wichaar.com/news/295/ARTICLE/11594/2009-01-21.html
7.NUIT BLEUE (Ange Leccia, France)
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/nuit-bleue/
"A young woman, Antonia, returns to her island of birth, Corsica, after one of her relatives has disappeared at sea. She is torn back and forth between her old love Ettore and the dumb Alexander. The quest for Antonia’s place in the masculine environment of armed nationalism is an excuse for all kinds of peregrinations in the spectacular landscape of Cap Corse - a landscape that itself becomes a leading character. The plot of this fascinating film, entirely without dialogue, is told in songs such as Ne dis rien by Serge Gainsbourg. With the songs, the maker reveals the psychology of his characters, who seem to be in the grip of an age-old, atavistic melancholy. "
8. THE OLD SCHOOL OF CAPITALISM (Zelimir Zilnik)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsXmArcRR4U
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/stara-skola-kapitalizma/
"In a playful, often hilarious mixture of documentary and fiction, the film maker Zelimir Zilnik traces sanctifying capitalism, sold to the Serbians after the disappearance of state socialism as the great new god. As a background for his story, Zilnik uses a number of strikes that took place in Belgrade in recent years and introduces us to several people involved who are allowed to 'play' themselves. That leads to explosive situations. Employees dressed in American football kits come to settle up with their employers with gangs of heavies in bullet-proof vests. But the factories have already been emptied. The arrival of a Russian tycoon and the American vice president Joe Biden light the fuse.
Zilnik's intriguing docu-drama observes with x-ray eyes and in a sharp tone what's going on in the new Serbia. No lazy ideological analysis, but a complex and yet lighthearted portrait of the consequences of globalised capitalism for a country that has only just joined in the game.
Zelimir Zilnik is a great Serbian master and he has been developing his own, idiosyncratic style in docu-drama that he uses in his film works since the 1980. The IFFR has regulraly shown his films since 2000: Wanderlust, Fortress Europe, Kenedi Goes Back home and its next sequence Kenedi Is Getting Married. He is a highly innovative and provocative author making films that make you think. In his films, he concentrates on people of the Central and Eastern Europe and their destinies in the middle of the turmoil of socio-economical changes. A very often used tool of this filmmaker is the active angangament of people in his films acting themselves. In this latest work, Zelimir Zilnik conentrates on the status quo of his own country and the lives of the ordinary people that live in it and are actually caged in it. It's a witty, critical and surprising cinema, something that makes you think differently: about the genre the director is using, and about the world around us."
9.PAJU (Park Chan-ok)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CBFdlP6dH8
10.PEPPERMINTA (Pipilotti Rist)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDOX7iVEx6A
11. PIGGIES (Robert Glinski)
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/swinki/
12. REFRAINS HAPPEN LIKE REVOLUTIONS IN A SONG (John Torres, Philippines)
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/ang-ninanais/
13. TOTÓ (Peter Schreiner)
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/tot/
14. THE WAY BETWEEN TWO POINTS (Sebastian Diaz Morales)
(Thanks to May Adadol Ingawanij for telling me about this.)
I wish to see the new film of Sebastian Diaz Morales. I just saw his short film called ORACLE and like its poetic, haunting quality. I think ORACLE can be screened together with some films of Tanatchai Bandasak and Phaisit Phanphruksachat because some of their films are also made of seemingly-unconnected scenes. I also heard that other films of Sebastian Diaz Morales deal with socio-political power more than ORACLE.
http://sebastiandiazmorales.net/Index/Sebastian_Diaz_Morales.html
15. YEMEN TRAVELOGUE – DAYS AT SHIBAM AND SEIYUN (Michael Pilz)
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/films/yemen-travelogue-days-at-shibam-and-seiyun/
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
FILM WISH LIST FOR STARZ DENVER FILM FESTIVAL
This is my comment in Peter Nellhaus' blog:
http://www.coffeecoffeeandmorecoffee.com/archives/2009/10/i_aim_for_the_s.html
If I can attend the Starz Denver Film Festival, I will go to see:
1.FILM IST. A GIRL AND A GUN (Gustav Deutsch, Austria)
2.I AM NOT YOUR FRIEND (Gyorgy Palfi, Hungary)
3.IRENE (Alain Cavalier, France)
4.THE LITTLE ONE (Tizza Covi + Rainer Frimmel)
5.MEMORY (Matthias Ludhardt, Germany)
http://www.coffeecoffeeandmorecoffee.com/archives/2009/10/i_aim_for_the_s.html
If I can attend the Starz Denver Film Festival, I will go to see:
1.FILM IST. A GIRL AND A GUN (Gustav Deutsch, Austria)
2.I AM NOT YOUR FRIEND (Gyorgy Palfi, Hungary)
3.IRENE (Alain Cavalier, France)
4.THE LITTLE ONE (Tizza Covi + Rainer Frimmel)
5.MEMORY (Matthias Ludhardt, Germany)
Saturday, October 17, 2009
MADAME X AND SPIDER LILIES ARE THE WINNERS
My poll 65 ended with 8 votes. Thanks very much to everyone who participated in it. Here is the result:
I LOVE THESE LESBIAN FILMS/PLAY. WHICH ONES DO YOU LIKE?
1.MADAME X: AN ABSOLUTE RULER (1978, Ulrike Ottinger, West Germany)
+SPIDER LILIES (2007, Zero Chou, Taiwan)
Each of them got 4 votes, or 50 %.
3.JE TU IL ELLE (1974, Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
+PEPI, LUCI, BOM (1980, Pedro Almodovar, Spain)
Each of them got 3 votes, or 37 %.
5.LES BICHES (1968, Claude Chabrol, France)
+SHOW ME LOVE (1998, Lukas Moodysson, Sweden)
Each of them got 2 votes, or 25%.
7.CACHE (1998, Carolyn Coal, USA)
+HERSTORY (เรื่องของเธอ) (1999, Buddhiporn Boosabarati, Thailand)
+HOME FOR CHRISTMAS (2000, Frank Mosvold, Norway)
+MAHANAKORN 2009 (2009, Taweewat Kamnerdpetch + Paiboon Soponsuwaparp, Thai play)
+MAHJONG (2009, Napha Sasalak, Thailand)
+1977 (2007, Peque Varela, UK)
+ROOM NO.3 (ห้องเลขที่ 3) (2004, Navarutt Roongaroon, Thailand)
+SHE AND HER (เธอและเธอ) (2008, Sutthion Na Lamphoun, Thailand)
Each of them got 1 vote, or 12%.
15.HAPPY END (2004, Narumon Jaisa-ard, Thailand)
+THE MARS CANON (2002, Shiori Kazama, Japan)
+MISS YOU SO MUCH (มีแต่คิดถึง...เธอ) (2009, Teera Prachumkong, Thailand)
+SHADOW OF A FIRE (2008, Mikael Ivan Roost, Switzerland)
+THE SPECIAL LOVE ('รัก'คนพิเศษ แบบพิเศษ เป็นพิเศษ) (2009, Pornrumpa Techavichitra, Thailand)
+WHEN FON LEFT CHUANG (เมื่อฝนทิ้งช่วง) (2009, Thossaporn Riantong, Thailand)
Each of them got 0 vote.
--My Lesbian films wish list:
1.THE AGGRESSIVES (2005, Daniel Peddle, USA, documentary)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xwz4Ob6qZQ
" This striking and illuminating documentary explores and exposes the secret subculture of New York lesbians living as "aggressives." Often mistaken for men, these women range from pretty tomboys to the blatantly butch, boldly creating their own identities outside of society's established sexual categories. Stripped of pretense, they lead us to fashion shoots and prison cells to reveal their work lives, love lives and social lives, including the underground "ball" scene where lesbians compete for lead "AG" status. The resulting documentary is the culmination of five years spent uncovering the "no apologies" lifestyle of six self-defined aggressives as they define their dreams, share their most intimate secrets and reveal their deepest fears. The female counterpart to Paris is Burning, this heartfelt all-access film exposes the AG community in all its unabashed, rough-edged glory and explores its impact on gender identity in the modern world."
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61C3SBTV7KL._SS500_.jpg
2.BORN IN FLAMES (1983, Lizzie Borden, USA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaiN5z-5PPc
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/borninflames.php
3.BRINCANDO EL CHARCO: PORTRAIT OF A PUERTO RICAN (1994, Frances Negron-Muntaner)
http://www.francesnegronmuntaner.net/HTML/filmography.html
4.COCONUT/CANE & CUTLASS (1994, Michelle Mohabeer, Guyana/Canada)
http://www.sawnet.org/cinema/?Mohabeer+Michelle
" A rich lyrical tapestry of imagery shot on location in Guyana melded with dramatic scenes shot in Toronto to communicate a complex, lyrical and touching rumination on exile and displacement. Narrated from the point of view of a mixed race Indo-Caribbean lesbian, "the exile" (and filmmaker) who immigrated to Canada as a young girl, this beautiful film explores personal experiences of identity as they relate to colonial and sexual oppression"
5.A COMEDY IN SIX UNNATURAL ACTS (1975, Jan Oxenberg)
http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC24-25folder/JanOxenberg.html
6.COSTA BRAVA (1995, Marta Balletbo-Coll, Spain)
7.DAMNED IF YOU DON'T (1987, Su Friedrich, USA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp8xu1aASXA
8.DESERT HEARTS (1985, Donna Deitch, USA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra4MGrQHb-k
9.THE DOCTOR'S DAUGHTER (2005, Janine Fung, Canada)
" Fung and Gillian Frise co-star as two young women who discover an irrepressible passion for one another, during a 1991 trip to Trinidad. Regan and Nikki are so overwhelmed by the onslaught of feeling that they abandon all pretense and all standing commitments -- including Regan's marital engagement to Howard -- to enter a lesbian relationship with one another. Years later, Howard is out of the picture, Nikki and Regan physically and emotionally intimate, live-in lovers in the grand city of Toronto -- sans the knowledge of Nikki's family, with whom she is inseparably close. As Fung observes the complications that arise from this situation, she cuts back and forth between two time periods, charting the emotional landscape of the relationship at two distinct phases. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide"
10.DOLLS (2007, Karin Babinska, Czech)
The whole film is available in Youtube with English subtitles, but you must click on the arrow at the bottom right-hand side of the screen to turn on the subtitles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6doCWtdWbU
"A coarse coming-of-ager from a country where that approach to the genre has garnered much coin in recent years, Czech drama "Dolls" goes where most Hollywood teen pics fear to tread in its close-to-explicit depiction of sexual awakening and late-teen horseplay. Awarded the Finale Plzen fest's main prize on the strength of debuting helmer Karin Babinska's impassioned approach to the material, pic will play fests but won't travel far theatrically. Three 18-year-old coeds (Petra Nesvacilova, Sandra Novakova, Marie Dolezalova) decide a road trip to Holland is in order on the late-summer eve of more adult endeavors. Tagging along is one of the girls' kid brother (Oldrich Hajlich), who bears witness to nude bathing, Sapphic experimentation and various identity crises. "Nobody's keeping an eye on anybody," is their oft-repeated mantra, with various heartaches explained by the eternally adolescent logic, "Everything's screwy anyway." Babinska pulls heartfelt, fearless perfs from her often nude leads, with kudos going to Nesvacilova, who gained weight to play Vendula, the caustic yet vulnerable fulcrum of the group. Tech credits are fine in that free-wheeling Czech style, typified by Martin Douba's vigorous HD lensing. - Eddie Cockrell (Variety)"
11.GHOSTED (2009, Monika Treut, Germany/Taiwan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9AM3vMCj8I
"In Taiwan, ghosts are rarely a laughing matter; in this ancestor-worship culture, where the memories of the living nurture the deceased, there is a belief that the dead become ghosts roaming between heaven and earth. In Ghosted — an unconventional, meditative love story directed by veteran German filmmaker Monika Treat (her seminal trans doc Gendernauts screened in our 99 line-up) — we are introduced to Sophie (Ingra Busch), a 40-something renowned German video-artist who has returned to Taipei to open an exhibition dedicated to her late Taiwanese lover Ai-Ling (Huan-Ru Ke). There she meets Mei-Li (Ting Ting Hu), a pushy and beautiful journalist who eerily reminds her of Ai-Ling. Mei-Lis constant questions and flirtatious overtures are too much, too soon, and Sophie retreats to Hamburg. When the journalist mysteriously turns up on her doorstep, Sophie decides to open herself to new sexual adventures. Her newfound trust is soon shattered when she discovers that Mei-Li isnt who she claims to be. Suspenseful and complex, this cross-border narrative is a rich addition to Treuts growing oeuvre of work. "
12.GUARDIAN OF THE FRONTIER (2002, Maja Weiss, Slovenia)
http://www.amazon.ca/Guardian-Frontier-Maja-Weiss/dp/B000DN5VX0
" Billed as a female version of Deliverance, Guardian of the Frontier is an allegorical thriller that takes place in the scenic but menacing Slovenian countryside. The film has as its protagonists Zana, Simona, and Alja, three college students who decide to spend part of their summer vacation on a canoe and camping trip down the Kolpa, the river separating Slovenia and Croatia. The three embark on their trip with a farewell to Alja's boyfriend, and before you can say "Go Fish," Alja and Zana are engaged in a sweaty affair that shocks Simona, a sexual naf. Things get even weirder after Simona meets an ostensibly pleasant fisherman; soon, the three young women realize something isn't right in the woods, and that they are being followed by someone or something who hasn't been invited along for the trip. Guardian of the Frontier was screened at the 2002 Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide"
http://img.amazon.ca/images/I/51WQWHPG7XL._SS500_.jpg
13.JOLLIES (1990, Sadie Benning, USA)
14.KARMEN GEI (2001, Joseph Gaye Ramaka, Senegal)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG_A5VJF8Ls
15.LOVE MY LIVE (2006, Koji Kawano, Japan)
http://www.afterellen.com/movies/2007/11/lovemylife
16.NITRATE KISSES (1992, Barbara Hammer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGuigR_vPRo
17.NOTHING ELSE MATTERS (2007, Julia von Heinz, Germany)
The film stars Marie Luise Schramm from GETTING MY BROTHER LAID (A+)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Oktws2PcY
" Carla ran away from home with great plans. She wants to go to Lyon to study fashion. At the train station in Berlin however, all her luggage is stolen and she has to stick with Rico who offers her a job on his construction site so she can earn money to finance her journey. On the same construction site, Lucie lives with her brother Michael in a boat. The boat is her home, this is where she feels fine, like she has a family. Things take a sour turn when, with almost enough money to leave for Lyon, Carla finds out she is pregnant from a reluctant one night stand with Rico. Too late for abortion, a despairing Carla is saved by Lucie who hatches a plan. Carla will pose as Lucie, and under German welfare laws they'll be able to get an apartment financed by the state, which they can share along with the baby and Lucie's brother Michael. This way, Carla will be able to leave the baby with Lucie who wants to take care of it, and go her own way. It is in this new apartment that love, jealousy, desperation and hope will flourish. Nothing Else Matters is a tender movie about having a place in the world. It is also a slow-burning and realistic film about the ways we love, and dont know about. It is about friendship, love and then longing, and the people we want to spend the rest of our lives with."
18.ROSA AND CORNELIA (2000, Giorgio Treves, Italy)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220011/
19.SEARCHING 4 SANDEEP (2007, Poppy Stockell, Australia, documentary)
This film is partly shot in Thailand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLzv-rOt6R4
20.SUPERFREAK (2006, Shine Louise Houston, USA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hNxSYg_MJA
I LOVE THESE LESBIAN FILMS/PLAY. WHICH ONES DO YOU LIKE?
1.MADAME X: AN ABSOLUTE RULER (1978, Ulrike Ottinger, West Germany)
+SPIDER LILIES (2007, Zero Chou, Taiwan)
Each of them got 4 votes, or 50 %.
3.JE TU IL ELLE (1974, Chantal Akerman, Belgium)
+PEPI, LUCI, BOM (1980, Pedro Almodovar, Spain)
Each of them got 3 votes, or 37 %.
5.LES BICHES (1968, Claude Chabrol, France)
+SHOW ME LOVE (1998, Lukas Moodysson, Sweden)
Each of them got 2 votes, or 25%.
7.CACHE (1998, Carolyn Coal, USA)
+HERSTORY (เรื่องของเธอ) (1999, Buddhiporn Boosabarati, Thailand)
+HOME FOR CHRISTMAS (2000, Frank Mosvold, Norway)
+MAHANAKORN 2009 (2009, Taweewat Kamnerdpetch + Paiboon Soponsuwaparp, Thai play)
+MAHJONG (2009, Napha Sasalak, Thailand)
+1977 (2007, Peque Varela, UK)
+ROOM NO.3 (ห้องเลขที่ 3) (2004, Navarutt Roongaroon, Thailand)
+SHE AND HER (เธอและเธอ) (2008, Sutthion Na Lamphoun, Thailand)
Each of them got 1 vote, or 12%.
15.HAPPY END (2004, Narumon Jaisa-ard, Thailand)
+THE MARS CANON (2002, Shiori Kazama, Japan)
+MISS YOU SO MUCH (มีแต่คิดถึง...เธอ) (2009, Teera Prachumkong, Thailand)
+SHADOW OF A FIRE (2008, Mikael Ivan Roost, Switzerland)
+THE SPECIAL LOVE ('รัก'คนพิเศษ แบบพิเศษ เป็นพิเศษ) (2009, Pornrumpa Techavichitra, Thailand)
+WHEN FON LEFT CHUANG (เมื่อฝนทิ้งช่วง) (2009, Thossaporn Riantong, Thailand)
Each of them got 0 vote.
--My Lesbian films wish list:
1.THE AGGRESSIVES (2005, Daniel Peddle, USA, documentary)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xwz4Ob6qZQ
" This striking and illuminating documentary explores and exposes the secret subculture of New York lesbians living as "aggressives." Often mistaken for men, these women range from pretty tomboys to the blatantly butch, boldly creating their own identities outside of society's established sexual categories. Stripped of pretense, they lead us to fashion shoots and prison cells to reveal their work lives, love lives and social lives, including the underground "ball" scene where lesbians compete for lead "AG" status. The resulting documentary is the culmination of five years spent uncovering the "no apologies" lifestyle of six self-defined aggressives as they define their dreams, share their most intimate secrets and reveal their deepest fears. The female counterpart to Paris is Burning, this heartfelt all-access film exposes the AG community in all its unabashed, rough-edged glory and explores its impact on gender identity in the modern world."
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61C3SBTV7KL._SS500_.jpg
2.BORN IN FLAMES (1983, Lizzie Borden, USA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaiN5z-5PPc
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/borninflames.php
3.BRINCANDO EL CHARCO: PORTRAIT OF A PUERTO RICAN (1994, Frances Negron-Muntaner)
http://www.francesnegronmuntaner.net/HTML/filmography.html
4.COCONUT/CANE & CUTLASS (1994, Michelle Mohabeer, Guyana/Canada)
http://www.sawnet.org/cinema/?Mohabeer+Michelle
" A rich lyrical tapestry of imagery shot on location in Guyana melded with dramatic scenes shot in Toronto to communicate a complex, lyrical and touching rumination on exile and displacement. Narrated from the point of view of a mixed race Indo-Caribbean lesbian, "the exile" (and filmmaker) who immigrated to Canada as a young girl, this beautiful film explores personal experiences of identity as they relate to colonial and sexual oppression"
5.A COMEDY IN SIX UNNATURAL ACTS (1975, Jan Oxenberg)
http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC24-25folder/JanOxenberg.html
6.COSTA BRAVA (1995, Marta Balletbo-Coll, Spain)
7.DAMNED IF YOU DON'T (1987, Su Friedrich, USA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp8xu1aASXA
8.DESERT HEARTS (1985, Donna Deitch, USA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra4MGrQHb-k
9.THE DOCTOR'S DAUGHTER (2005, Janine Fung, Canada)
" Fung and Gillian Frise co-star as two young women who discover an irrepressible passion for one another, during a 1991 trip to Trinidad. Regan and Nikki are so overwhelmed by the onslaught of feeling that they abandon all pretense and all standing commitments -- including Regan's marital engagement to Howard -- to enter a lesbian relationship with one another. Years later, Howard is out of the picture, Nikki and Regan physically and emotionally intimate, live-in lovers in the grand city of Toronto -- sans the knowledge of Nikki's family, with whom she is inseparably close. As Fung observes the complications that arise from this situation, she cuts back and forth between two time periods, charting the emotional landscape of the relationship at two distinct phases. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide"
10.DOLLS (2007, Karin Babinska, Czech)
The whole film is available in Youtube with English subtitles, but you must click on the arrow at the bottom right-hand side of the screen to turn on the subtitles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6doCWtdWbU
"A coarse coming-of-ager from a country where that approach to the genre has garnered much coin in recent years, Czech drama "Dolls" goes where most Hollywood teen pics fear to tread in its close-to-explicit depiction of sexual awakening and late-teen horseplay. Awarded the Finale Plzen fest's main prize on the strength of debuting helmer Karin Babinska's impassioned approach to the material, pic will play fests but won't travel far theatrically. Three 18-year-old coeds (Petra Nesvacilova, Sandra Novakova, Marie Dolezalova) decide a road trip to Holland is in order on the late-summer eve of more adult endeavors. Tagging along is one of the girls' kid brother (Oldrich Hajlich), who bears witness to nude bathing, Sapphic experimentation and various identity crises. "Nobody's keeping an eye on anybody," is their oft-repeated mantra, with various heartaches explained by the eternally adolescent logic, "Everything's screwy anyway." Babinska pulls heartfelt, fearless perfs from her often nude leads, with kudos going to Nesvacilova, who gained weight to play Vendula, the caustic yet vulnerable fulcrum of the group. Tech credits are fine in that free-wheeling Czech style, typified by Martin Douba's vigorous HD lensing. - Eddie Cockrell (Variety)"
11.GHOSTED (2009, Monika Treut, Germany/Taiwan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9AM3vMCj8I
"In Taiwan, ghosts are rarely a laughing matter; in this ancestor-worship culture, where the memories of the living nurture the deceased, there is a belief that the dead become ghosts roaming between heaven and earth. In Ghosted — an unconventional, meditative love story directed by veteran German filmmaker Monika Treat (her seminal trans doc Gendernauts screened in our 99 line-up) — we are introduced to Sophie (Ingra Busch), a 40-something renowned German video-artist who has returned to Taipei to open an exhibition dedicated to her late Taiwanese lover Ai-Ling (Huan-Ru Ke). There she meets Mei-Li (Ting Ting Hu), a pushy and beautiful journalist who eerily reminds her of Ai-Ling. Mei-Lis constant questions and flirtatious overtures are too much, too soon, and Sophie retreats to Hamburg. When the journalist mysteriously turns up on her doorstep, Sophie decides to open herself to new sexual adventures. Her newfound trust is soon shattered when she discovers that Mei-Li isnt who she claims to be. Suspenseful and complex, this cross-border narrative is a rich addition to Treuts growing oeuvre of work. "
12.GUARDIAN OF THE FRONTIER (2002, Maja Weiss, Slovenia)
http://www.amazon.ca/Guardian-Frontier-Maja-Weiss/dp/B000DN5VX0
" Billed as a female version of Deliverance, Guardian of the Frontier is an allegorical thriller that takes place in the scenic but menacing Slovenian countryside. The film has as its protagonists Zana, Simona, and Alja, three college students who decide to spend part of their summer vacation on a canoe and camping trip down the Kolpa, the river separating Slovenia and Croatia. The three embark on their trip with a farewell to Alja's boyfriend, and before you can say "Go Fish," Alja and Zana are engaged in a sweaty affair that shocks Simona, a sexual naf. Things get even weirder after Simona meets an ostensibly pleasant fisherman; soon, the three young women realize something isn't right in the woods, and that they are being followed by someone or something who hasn't been invited along for the trip. Guardian of the Frontier was screened at the 2002 Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide"
http://img.amazon.ca/images/I/51WQWHPG7XL._SS500_.jpg
13.JOLLIES (1990, Sadie Benning, USA)
14.KARMEN GEI (2001, Joseph Gaye Ramaka, Senegal)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG_A5VJF8Ls
15.LOVE MY LIVE (2006, Koji Kawano, Japan)
http://www.afterellen.com/movies/2007/11/lovemylife
16.NITRATE KISSES (1992, Barbara Hammer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGuigR_vPRo
17.NOTHING ELSE MATTERS (2007, Julia von Heinz, Germany)
The film stars Marie Luise Schramm from GETTING MY BROTHER LAID (A+)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Oktws2PcY
" Carla ran away from home with great plans. She wants to go to Lyon to study fashion. At the train station in Berlin however, all her luggage is stolen and she has to stick with Rico who offers her a job on his construction site so she can earn money to finance her journey. On the same construction site, Lucie lives with her brother Michael in a boat. The boat is her home, this is where she feels fine, like she has a family. Things take a sour turn when, with almost enough money to leave for Lyon, Carla finds out she is pregnant from a reluctant one night stand with Rico. Too late for abortion, a despairing Carla is saved by Lucie who hatches a plan. Carla will pose as Lucie, and under German welfare laws they'll be able to get an apartment financed by the state, which they can share along with the baby and Lucie's brother Michael. This way, Carla will be able to leave the baby with Lucie who wants to take care of it, and go her own way. It is in this new apartment that love, jealousy, desperation and hope will flourish. Nothing Else Matters is a tender movie about having a place in the world. It is also a slow-burning and realistic film about the ways we love, and dont know about. It is about friendship, love and then longing, and the people we want to spend the rest of our lives with."
18.ROSA AND CORNELIA (2000, Giorgio Treves, Italy)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220011/
19.SEARCHING 4 SANDEEP (2007, Poppy Stockell, Australia, documentary)
This film is partly shot in Thailand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLzv-rOt6R4
20.SUPERFREAK (2006, Shine Louise Houston, USA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hNxSYg_MJA
Saturday, October 03, 2009
VILLAGE PEOPLE RADIO SHOW IS THE WINNER
My poll 64 ended with three votes. Thanks to everyone who participated in it. Here is the result:
I LOVE THESE MALAYSIAN FILMS. WHICH ONES DO YOU LIKE?
1.VILLAGE PEOPLE RADIO SHOW (2007, Amir Muhammad)
It got 2 votes, or 66 %.
2.BEFORE WE FALL IN LOVE AGAIN (2006, James Lee)
+THE BIRD HOUSE (2006, Khoo Eng Yow)
+COMPANY OF MUSHROOMS (2005, Tan Chui Mui)
+HISTERIA (2008, James Lee)
+THE LAST COMMUNIST (2006, Amir Muhammad)
+LOVE CONQUERS ALL (2006, Tan Chui Mui)
+RAIN DOGS (2006, Ho Yuhang)
+SELL OUT! (2008, Yeo Joon Han)
+THIRD PARTY (2003, Khoo Eng Yow)
+WESTBOUND (2007, Kubhaer T. Jethwani)
Each of them got 1 vote, or 33 %.
12.ARTICLE 19 (2001, Eddie Lau)
+DANCING BELLS (2007, Deepak Kumaran Menon)
+DAYS OF THE TURQUOISE SKY (2008, Woo Ming Jin)
+DEMOLITION FROG (2001, Linus Chung Yao Fui)
+THE DINNER GUEST (1997, Bryant Low)
+FLOWER IN THE POCKET (2007, Liew Seng Tat)
+MAKYONG – PAGEANT OF THE ANCIENTS (2000, Bernard Chauly + Ho Yuhang)
+SPINNING GASING (2000, Teck Tan)
+TOTAA (2008, Akashdeep Sing)
Each of them got 0 vote.
--You can read Daniel Kasman's review of AT THE END OF DAYBREAK (2009, Ho Yuhang) here:
http://www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/1022
--A photo from RAIN DOGS
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3490/3974113989_262cabde27_b.jpg
--A photo from SELL OUT!
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2602/3974885130_ddab409af4_b.jpg
--I just watched CHOCOLATE (2009, Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysia, A+), which is only 3-minute long. You can watch it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HPt4Is5V50
--You can watch other short Malaysian films here:
http://15malaysia.com/films/
(I knew about it from Wise Kwai's blog http://thaifilmjournal.blogspot.com/ )
--MALAYSIAN FILM WISH LIST
1.ASTROLOGER PAK BELALANG (1959, P. Ramlee)
The whole film is available in Youtube with English subtitles. I just need to have time to watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Fk27mlJ34
2.HANG JEBAT (1961, Hussain Haniff)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ1-GC8Lq1s
3.SRI MERSING (1961, Salleh Ghani)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpo97P-MsNI
4.THE UNFILIAL SON (SI TANGGANG) (1961, Jamil Sulong)
The whole film is available in Youtube with English subtitles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt0tH9f4B0E
5.EVIL PORTENT (LANCHANG KUNING) (1962, M. Amin)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF8ny-uwb-I
6.OLDER BROTHER (ABANG) (1981, Rahim Razali)
This film has English subtitles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zDScXWHcdc
7.EVENING SKY (LANGIT PETANG) (1982, Shahrom Md. Dom)
I like the song in this clip from the film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4kpJT4hF_k
8.MECHANIC (1983, Othman Hafsham)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxoIFk0_aSs
9.THE HEART IS NOT A CRYSTAL (1990, Raja Ahmad Alauddin)
The whole film is available in Youtube with English subtitles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liSHpu8_v28
10.WOMAN, WIFE & WHORE (1991, U-Wei Shaari)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr3SCVE699c
11.LOVE FROM SALMAH (1995, Mahadi J. Murat)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXqG33-xws8
12.EROS (2008, Wardy Azman)
This is a gay short film, but it has no English subtitles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEvI9j5iItE
I knew about some of the films above from the article of Baharudin A. Latif in the book FILM IN SOUTH EAST ASIA: VIEWS FROM THE REGION.
I LOVE THESE MALAYSIAN FILMS. WHICH ONES DO YOU LIKE?
1.VILLAGE PEOPLE RADIO SHOW (2007, Amir Muhammad)
It got 2 votes, or 66 %.
2.BEFORE WE FALL IN LOVE AGAIN (2006, James Lee)
+THE BIRD HOUSE (2006, Khoo Eng Yow)
+COMPANY OF MUSHROOMS (2005, Tan Chui Mui)
+HISTERIA (2008, James Lee)
+THE LAST COMMUNIST (2006, Amir Muhammad)
+LOVE CONQUERS ALL (2006, Tan Chui Mui)
+RAIN DOGS (2006, Ho Yuhang)
+SELL OUT! (2008, Yeo Joon Han)
+THIRD PARTY (2003, Khoo Eng Yow)
+WESTBOUND (2007, Kubhaer T. Jethwani)
Each of them got 1 vote, or 33 %.
12.ARTICLE 19 (2001, Eddie Lau)
+DANCING BELLS (2007, Deepak Kumaran Menon)
+DAYS OF THE TURQUOISE SKY (2008, Woo Ming Jin)
+DEMOLITION FROG (2001, Linus Chung Yao Fui)
+THE DINNER GUEST (1997, Bryant Low)
+FLOWER IN THE POCKET (2007, Liew Seng Tat)
+MAKYONG – PAGEANT OF THE ANCIENTS (2000, Bernard Chauly + Ho Yuhang)
+SPINNING GASING (2000, Teck Tan)
+TOTAA (2008, Akashdeep Sing)
Each of them got 0 vote.
--You can read Daniel Kasman's review of AT THE END OF DAYBREAK (2009, Ho Yuhang) here:
http://www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/1022
--A photo from RAIN DOGS
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3490/3974113989_262cabde27_b.jpg
--A photo from SELL OUT!
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2602/3974885130_ddab409af4_b.jpg
--I just watched CHOCOLATE (2009, Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysia, A+), which is only 3-minute long. You can watch it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HPt4Is5V50
--You can watch other short Malaysian films here:
http://15malaysia.com/films/
(I knew about it from Wise Kwai's blog http://thaifilmjournal.blogspot.com/ )
--MALAYSIAN FILM WISH LIST
1.ASTROLOGER PAK BELALANG (1959, P. Ramlee)
The whole film is available in Youtube with English subtitles. I just need to have time to watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Fk27mlJ34
2.HANG JEBAT (1961, Hussain Haniff)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ1-GC8Lq1s
3.SRI MERSING (1961, Salleh Ghani)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpo97P-MsNI
4.THE UNFILIAL SON (SI TANGGANG) (1961, Jamil Sulong)
The whole film is available in Youtube with English subtitles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt0tH9f4B0E
5.EVIL PORTENT (LANCHANG KUNING) (1962, M. Amin)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF8ny-uwb-I
6.OLDER BROTHER (ABANG) (1981, Rahim Razali)
This film has English subtitles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zDScXWHcdc
7.EVENING SKY (LANGIT PETANG) (1982, Shahrom Md. Dom)
I like the song in this clip from the film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4kpJT4hF_k
8.MECHANIC (1983, Othman Hafsham)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxoIFk0_aSs
9.THE HEART IS NOT A CRYSTAL (1990, Raja Ahmad Alauddin)
The whole film is available in Youtube with English subtitles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liSHpu8_v28
10.WOMAN, WIFE & WHORE (1991, U-Wei Shaari)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr3SCVE699c
11.LOVE FROM SALMAH (1995, Mahadi J. Murat)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXqG33-xws8
12.EROS (2008, Wardy Azman)
This is a gay short film, but it has no English subtitles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEvI9j5iItE
I knew about some of the films above from the article of Baharudin A. Latif in the book FILM IN SOUTH EAST ASIA: VIEWS FROM THE REGION.
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
WISH LIST FOR MAY 2009
WISH LIST FOR MAY 2009
A. FILM WISH LIST
1.BLOOD APPEARS (2008, Pablo Fendrik, Argentina, 95 min)
2.BORDERLINES (2008, Lyne Charlegois, Canada)
3.FILMPHOBIA (2008, Kiko Goifman, Brazil, 80 min)
4.THE KOREAN WEDDING CHEST (2009,Ulrike Ottinger,82 min)
5.MY TEHRAN FOR SALE (2009, Granaz Mouusavi, Australia/Tehran, 96 min)
6.PERFECT LIFE (2008, Emily Tang, China)
7.PINK (2009, Rudolf Thome, Germany)
8.THE ROOM IN THE MIRROR (2009, Rudi Gaul, Germany, 106 min)
9.SOAP AND WATER(2009, Susan Gluth, Germany, documentary, 85 min)
10.THEY ALL LIE (2009, Matias Pineiro, Argentina, 75 min)
11.WAS DU NICHT SIEHST (2009, Wolfgang Fischer, Germany, 91 min)
12.YURI'S DAY (2008, Kirill Serebrennikov, Russia, 137 min)
B.EXPERIMENTAL FILM/VIDEO ART WISH LIST
(from Artforum magazine)
1.THE ABANDONED SHABONO (1976, Juan Downey, Chile, 27 min)
http://www.artinfo.com/galleryguide/19670/6216/115592/nohra-haime-new-york/exhibition/juan-downey-meditation-drawings/press_release/
" In pursuit of the last primitive tribe of the Americas, Juan Downey’s ‘The Abandoned Shabono’ focuses on the Amazon Rain Forest. The shabono is the circular communal dwelling built by the Yanomami Indians. The artist presents the building as a metaphor for the social structure and spiritual environment of an ecologically sound culture that is threatened by advancing civilization. "
2.ABOVE ALL I'M AN ART LOVER (2009, Christian Jankowski)
http://www.regenprojects.com/exhibitions/2009_1_christian-jankowski/pressrelease/
" Regen Projects is pleased to present Above All I'm an Art Lover, an exhibition of work by German artist Christian Jankowski. Conceptually based, his projects blur the boundaries between fiction and reality, often involving a dialogue with a specific social environment. Defying conventional notions of media and performance, Jankowski's past collaborators include magicians, fortunetellers and Customs guards. Exploring the position of the artist, he welcomes what is often a spontaneous or unexpected development as a result of his collaborations. Consequently, participants take on an active role in the work becoming contributors as opposed to subjects, and their association ultimately dictates the development of the work. Combining fictional situations with social interactions, Jankowski is able to create surprising and humorous intersections between popular culture, theatricality and the question of authorship. Employing the media of film and television, he is able to explore the art world and its discourse.
Jankowski's earnest engagement of his medium enables him to recapture art's mystery. His use of a circular mode of production presents a critique of the contemporary relationship between artist and viewer and attempts to break down the speeded-up forms of communication which have worsened our contemporary alienation. In addition, he embeds a strong sense of a human presence in his work through a transformative use of collaboration, humor, the subjective voice and the somewhat naïve manner in which he approaches technology.
(Jeff Fleming, "Christian Jankowski: The Big Wow," in Christian Jankowski: Everything Fell Together. Des Moines, Iowa: Des Moines Art Center, 2005. p. 13) "
3.Artur Zmijewski's videos from Poland
http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_zmijewski_artur
" Artur Zmijewski is a radical artist, realising extreme artistic concepts. In his works, in a nearly obsessive manner he thematises the human body perceived in the context of its physicality, its base biological functions. This perspective imposes questions about the relationship between the body, susceptible to illness and decay, and the sphere of human mind and spirit. What the artist finds most interesting, are cases, where heavy bodily dysfunction and severe disease foreclose any possibility of participation in social life and even destroy the mind. At the same time, he admits, those defects create a kind of otherness, seductive and much more telling than anything we consider normal. And this is Zmijewski at his most poignant. "
4.GOD (2007, Ragnar Kjartansson, 30 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5xYLXvnVO8
5.Lawrence Jordan's films
http://www.canyoncinema.com/J/Jordan.html
6.A LIFE OF ERRORS (2006, Nicholas and Sheila Pye)
http://www.angellgallery.com/exhibitions/?detail=35
" The Pyes' oeuvre is an exploration of the magnetic attraction of opposites, and a visual depiction of the struggle to retain one's sense of self in a close relationship with another person. Compelled beyond reason, the figures in the film wage a war with one another—grabbing tokens of the other’s person (locks of hair are slyly snipped) and setting traps. Perhaps most unsettling of all, the attacks are executed consensually. A blindfolded Nick allows Sheila to lead him around and over sharp and broken objects as the soles of his feet are cut. In a parallel, climatic scene, Sheila is guided by Nick into a circle defined by a fuse. She, masked and docile, jumps rope as he sets the ring on fire. The flames, her activity, and (metaphorically) the violent passion that hangs over the entire scenario consume all the oxygen in the small space, causing Sheila to collapse. Nick meets his own fate when he delivers Sheila’s lifeless body to her bed only to fall over a rope that she has rigged to trip him. "
7.LOUDLY, DEATH UNTIES (2007, Nicholas and Sheila Pye, 11 min)
http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/an-excerpt-from-nicholas-and-sheila-pyes-louly-death-unties/
" A banshee girl burrows her way into the back room of a couple’s home, releasing foreboding wails in this expressive and captivating experimental short. When one of the lovers begins succumbing to mysterious forces, it seems the banshee’s prophecy will be inevitably fulfill. "
8.LOVELY ANDREA (2007, Hito Steyerl, 30 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRQ8_t1s8yk
http://www.sixpackfilm.com/catalogue.php?oid=1621&lang=en
"If all pictures became current, in that they pass by and in doing so, are connectable with one another, whether elegantly or obscenely, through translation or association—how would it be possible to fasten down a picture? Hito Steyerl’s light-hearted picture translations are about fastening things in an elegant-obscene way: In Tokyo she is looking for a photo series that she posed for in 1987 as a “rope bondage” model. While making inquiries with experts and authorities in the bondage arts (which are mainly marketed online nowadays), she found what she was looking for in a magazine archive. The cinematic tension is extremely high just now says the translator while Steyerl looks through photos of herself from her days as a film student. Something that fastens, but no biographical final revelation; instead, the discovered photographs fall into the slipstream of an informally networked archive of a life with bondage as conveyed by the media—in the sense that the master and slave games, as they’re called, have become entirely normal."
9.NACH SPANDAU (2008, Claire Hooper, 53 min)
http://www.frieze.com/shows/review/claire_hooper
" Nach Spandau (2008), a new film by Claire Hooper, is a demonstration of an artist well versed in the language, techniques and motifs of cinema. While the work comes, at times, dangerously close to a staid retread of familiar precedents, Hooper manages to engage for the film’s entire 52-minutes, as she documents one of Berlin’s most architecturally attractive Metro lines: the U7. Spanning from the eponymous terminal to the city’s south-eastern fringes, the line was designed between 1971 and 1984 by engineer Rainer G. Rummier and is a mix of decorative Modernist stylings and run-down shopping kiosks. Hooper impressionistically documents each station with a series of collaged, forensically slow pans. The film isn’t narrated, the only sounds being the occasional rumble of a passing train or the crackle of a PA announcement "
10.THE PAPER WALL (2004, Nicholas and Sheila Pye)
http://videomedeja.org/en/nicholas-and-sheila-pye
" Nick and Sheila Pye primarily work with video and photography, their projects explore themes of intimacy and emotional interdependence. In their ten-minute video titled 'The Paper Wall', a thin division stands between two characters in separate bedrooms. The two protagonists - played by the artists – use nonverbal communication of fear and desire. They grow increasingly dependant on one another while performing a series of choreographed gestures that include basic bodily functions such as breathing and urinating. The silent characters in the Pyes' moody, erotic video open the work to several potential narratives "
11.ROOFTOP ROUTINE (2007-2008, Christian Jankowski)
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=32246520673
12.SEX IS SENTIMENTAL (2009, Erik van Lieshout, 21 min)
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/robinson/robinson2-6-09.asp
" Using a makeshift animation table and narrating the action as he goes, Van Lieshout combines drawings, collage, photographs, scrawled titles and live action into a cascade of funky imagery seemingly without style or technical guile. Artless and insouciant, the narrative nevertheless flows along with considerable verve and wit, propelled almost entirely by the force of the artist’s own charming personality. "
13.UNIVERSAL CITIZEN (1986, Peter Thompson, 23 min)
http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=7740
14.UP! (2007, Erik van Lieshout)
http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/erik_van_lieshout
" For ‘UP!’ (2005) Van Lieshout underwent therapy, focusing on his relationship with his mother. His lofty goal was to learn tolerance and thus overcome personal crisis. Van Lieshout concludes that he is, like his mother, unable to listen. The problem is that he constantly needs to talk. But rather than being simply a mouthpiece for himself, the work forms the framework for a plural narrative structure: for his own actions and utterances, in direct speech to his mother and his therapist and as a commentary on the film we are watching. ‘I wanna be in control, on top, in control’, the artist notes soberly, referring to his ‘ego’, over which he clearly loses control on a regular basis "
15.WHY WE MEN LOVE TECHNOLOGY THAT MUCH (1985, Stefaan Decostere, 65 min)
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/professionals/programme/public-programme-schedule/film.aspx?ID=05fe7a5e-bea2-4dfe-83c2-8f8a6375da34
" The documentary Why We Men Love Technology That Much was made in 1985 to analyze the close relation between war and technology. The video shows how war, speed and technology organize and reorganize reality, until only filtered reality remains. The artists - Klaus vom Bruch in video and Jack Goldstein in paint and sound - propose their personal artistic versions of it.Since then, no radical change has occurred in the relation between war and technology. It has only became more intensified. Technology brings the logic and reality of war even closer into our daily lives. Nowadays we all are actively involved with media. Digitisation, virtualisation and automation are our major interactions on a massive scale with technology. They guideline the basic moves possible in the playing field here. "
16.WORD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION (2007, Roy Arden)
http://www.royarden.com/worldas.html
17.THE WORLD OF LYGIA CLARK (1973, Eduardo Clark, 27 min)
http://www.lygiaclark.org.br/ingles3.htm
18.Yael Bertana's videos
http://www.krytykapolityczna.pl/Zaproszenia/Mary-Koszmary-fragment-filmu/menu-id-50.html
http://kafee.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/a-jewish-state-in-germany-as-an-artwork/
C.TRIBUTE WISH LIST
Mariko Okada, a Japanese actress
1.DANCING GIRL (1951, Mikio Naruse)
2.THE WOMAN WHO TOUCHED THE LEGS (1952, Kon Ichikawa)
3.MY WONDERFUL YELLOW CAR (1953, Senkichi Taniguchi) written by Akira Kurosawa
4.HUSBAND AND WIFE (1953, Mikio Naruse)
5.THE LOVERS (1953, Kon Ichikawa)
6.FLOATING CLOUDS (1955, Mikio Naruse)
7.WOMEN IN PRISON (1956, Seiji Hiramatsu) starring Setsuko Hara and Kinuyo Tanaka
8.FLOWING (1956, Mikio Naruse)
9.SEASON OF THE WITCH (1958, Minoru Shibuya)
10.AN AFFAIR AT AKITSU (1962, Yoshishige Yoshida)
11.THIS YEAR'S LOVE (1962, Keisuke Kinoshita)
12.ESCAPE FROM HELL (1963, Kazuo Inoue)
13.RADISHES AND CARROTS (1964, Minoru Shibuya) from Yasujiro Ozu's story
14.THE SCENT OF INCENSE (1964, Keisuke Kinoshita, 201 min) starring Nobuko Otowa and Kinuyo Tanaka
15.A STORY WRITTEN WITH WATER (1965, Yoshishige Yoshida)
16.WOMAN OF THE LAKE (1966, Yoshishige Yoshida) from the story of Yasunari Kawabata
17.TWO WIVES (1967, Yasuzo Masumura)
18.THE AFFAIR (1967, Yoshishige Yoshida)
19.FLAME AND WOMEN (1967, Yoshishige Yoshida)
20.AFFAIR IN THE SNOW (1968, Yoshishige Yoshida)
21.THE TIME OF RECKONING (1968, Tadashi Imai)
22.FAREWELL TO THE SUMMER LIGHT (1968, Yoshishige Yoshida)
23.EROS PLUS MASSACRE (1969, Yoshishige Yoshida)
24.HEROIC PURGATORY (1970, Yoshishige Yoshida)
25.CONFESSIONS AMONG ACTRESSES (1971, Yoshishige Yoshida)
26.I AM A CAT (1975, Kon Ichikawa) from the novel of Natsume Soseki
27.THE FALL OF THE AKO CASTLE (1978, Kinji Fukasaku, 159 min)
28.THE ADVENTURES OF KOSUKE KINDAICHI (1979, Nobuhiko Obayashi)
29.THE GEISHA HOUSE (1999, Kinji Fukasaku)
D.ART EXHIBITION WISH LIST
David Levinthal, a photographer
http://www.davidlevinthal.com/works.html
--HITLER MOVES EAST 1975-1977
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3555/3694833824_816bf9dfa5_o.jpg
--MODERN ROMANCE 1984-1986
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3593/3694833838_12d60b6a36_o.jpg
--THE WILD WEST 1987-1989
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2446/3694833860_e1a632ee27_o.jpg
--AMERICAN BEAUTIES 1989-1990
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2468/3694833820_9ab9e0101b_o.jpg
--MEIN KAMPF 1993-1994
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3631/3694833830_526493a34d_o.jpg
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Wish list for April 2009
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2009/05/wish-list-for-april-2009.html
WISH LIST FOR MARCH 2009
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2009/04/wish-list-for-march-2009.html
WISH LIST FOR FEB 2009
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2009/04/wish-list-for-feb-2009.html
WISH LIST FOR JAN 2009
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2009/04/wish-list-for-january-2009-full-version.html
WISH LIST FOR 2007 AND 2008
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2009/04/film-wish-list-in-2007-and-2008.html
A. FILM WISH LIST
1.BLOOD APPEARS (2008, Pablo Fendrik, Argentina, 95 min)
2.BORDERLINES (2008, Lyne Charlegois, Canada)
3.FILMPHOBIA (2008, Kiko Goifman, Brazil, 80 min)
4.THE KOREAN WEDDING CHEST (2009,Ulrike Ottinger,82 min)
5.MY TEHRAN FOR SALE (2009, Granaz Mouusavi, Australia/Tehran, 96 min)
6.PERFECT LIFE (2008, Emily Tang, China)
7.PINK (2009, Rudolf Thome, Germany)
8.THE ROOM IN THE MIRROR (2009, Rudi Gaul, Germany, 106 min)
9.SOAP AND WATER(2009, Susan Gluth, Germany, documentary, 85 min)
10.THEY ALL LIE (2009, Matias Pineiro, Argentina, 75 min)
11.WAS DU NICHT SIEHST (2009, Wolfgang Fischer, Germany, 91 min)
12.YURI'S DAY (2008, Kirill Serebrennikov, Russia, 137 min)
B.EXPERIMENTAL FILM/VIDEO ART WISH LIST
(from Artforum magazine)
1.THE ABANDONED SHABONO (1976, Juan Downey, Chile, 27 min)
http://www.artinfo.com/galleryguide/19670/6216/115592/nohra-haime-new-york/exhibition/juan-downey-meditation-drawings/press_release/
" In pursuit of the last primitive tribe of the Americas, Juan Downey’s ‘The Abandoned Shabono’ focuses on the Amazon Rain Forest. The shabono is the circular communal dwelling built by the Yanomami Indians. The artist presents the building as a metaphor for the social structure and spiritual environment of an ecologically sound culture that is threatened by advancing civilization. "
2.ABOVE ALL I'M AN ART LOVER (2009, Christian Jankowski)
http://www.regenprojects.com/exhibitions/2009_1_christian-jankowski/pressrelease/
" Regen Projects is pleased to present Above All I'm an Art Lover, an exhibition of work by German artist Christian Jankowski. Conceptually based, his projects blur the boundaries between fiction and reality, often involving a dialogue with a specific social environment. Defying conventional notions of media and performance, Jankowski's past collaborators include magicians, fortunetellers and Customs guards. Exploring the position of the artist, he welcomes what is often a spontaneous or unexpected development as a result of his collaborations. Consequently, participants take on an active role in the work becoming contributors as opposed to subjects, and their association ultimately dictates the development of the work. Combining fictional situations with social interactions, Jankowski is able to create surprising and humorous intersections between popular culture, theatricality and the question of authorship. Employing the media of film and television, he is able to explore the art world and its discourse.
Jankowski's earnest engagement of his medium enables him to recapture art's mystery. His use of a circular mode of production presents a critique of the contemporary relationship between artist and viewer and attempts to break down the speeded-up forms of communication which have worsened our contemporary alienation. In addition, he embeds a strong sense of a human presence in his work through a transformative use of collaboration, humor, the subjective voice and the somewhat naïve manner in which he approaches technology.
(Jeff Fleming, "Christian Jankowski: The Big Wow," in Christian Jankowski: Everything Fell Together. Des Moines, Iowa: Des Moines Art Center, 2005. p. 13) "
3.Artur Zmijewski's videos from Poland
http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_zmijewski_artur
" Artur Zmijewski is a radical artist, realising extreme artistic concepts. In his works, in a nearly obsessive manner he thematises the human body perceived in the context of its physicality, its base biological functions. This perspective imposes questions about the relationship between the body, susceptible to illness and decay, and the sphere of human mind and spirit. What the artist finds most interesting, are cases, where heavy bodily dysfunction and severe disease foreclose any possibility of participation in social life and even destroy the mind. At the same time, he admits, those defects create a kind of otherness, seductive and much more telling than anything we consider normal. And this is Zmijewski at his most poignant. "
4.GOD (2007, Ragnar Kjartansson, 30 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5xYLXvnVO8
5.Lawrence Jordan's films
http://www.canyoncinema.com/J/Jordan.html
6.A LIFE OF ERRORS (2006, Nicholas and Sheila Pye)
http://www.angellgallery.com/exhibitions/?detail=35
" The Pyes' oeuvre is an exploration of the magnetic attraction of opposites, and a visual depiction of the struggle to retain one's sense of self in a close relationship with another person. Compelled beyond reason, the figures in the film wage a war with one another—grabbing tokens of the other’s person (locks of hair are slyly snipped) and setting traps. Perhaps most unsettling of all, the attacks are executed consensually. A blindfolded Nick allows Sheila to lead him around and over sharp and broken objects as the soles of his feet are cut. In a parallel, climatic scene, Sheila is guided by Nick into a circle defined by a fuse. She, masked and docile, jumps rope as he sets the ring on fire. The flames, her activity, and (metaphorically) the violent passion that hangs over the entire scenario consume all the oxygen in the small space, causing Sheila to collapse. Nick meets his own fate when he delivers Sheila’s lifeless body to her bed only to fall over a rope that she has rigged to trip him. "
7.LOUDLY, DEATH UNTIES (2007, Nicholas and Sheila Pye, 11 min)
http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/an-excerpt-from-nicholas-and-sheila-pyes-louly-death-unties/
" A banshee girl burrows her way into the back room of a couple’s home, releasing foreboding wails in this expressive and captivating experimental short. When one of the lovers begins succumbing to mysterious forces, it seems the banshee’s prophecy will be inevitably fulfill. "
8.LOVELY ANDREA (2007, Hito Steyerl, 30 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRQ8_t1s8yk
http://www.sixpackfilm.com/catalogue.php?oid=1621&lang=en
"If all pictures became current, in that they pass by and in doing so, are connectable with one another, whether elegantly or obscenely, through translation or association—how would it be possible to fasten down a picture? Hito Steyerl’s light-hearted picture translations are about fastening things in an elegant-obscene way: In Tokyo she is looking for a photo series that she posed for in 1987 as a “rope bondage” model. While making inquiries with experts and authorities in the bondage arts (which are mainly marketed online nowadays), she found what she was looking for in a magazine archive. The cinematic tension is extremely high just now says the translator while Steyerl looks through photos of herself from her days as a film student. Something that fastens, but no biographical final revelation; instead, the discovered photographs fall into the slipstream of an informally networked archive of a life with bondage as conveyed by the media—in the sense that the master and slave games, as they’re called, have become entirely normal."
9.NACH SPANDAU (2008, Claire Hooper, 53 min)
http://www.frieze.com/shows/review/claire_hooper
" Nach Spandau (2008), a new film by Claire Hooper, is a demonstration of an artist well versed in the language, techniques and motifs of cinema. While the work comes, at times, dangerously close to a staid retread of familiar precedents, Hooper manages to engage for the film’s entire 52-minutes, as she documents one of Berlin’s most architecturally attractive Metro lines: the U7. Spanning from the eponymous terminal to the city’s south-eastern fringes, the line was designed between 1971 and 1984 by engineer Rainer G. Rummier and is a mix of decorative Modernist stylings and run-down shopping kiosks. Hooper impressionistically documents each station with a series of collaged, forensically slow pans. The film isn’t narrated, the only sounds being the occasional rumble of a passing train or the crackle of a PA announcement "
10.THE PAPER WALL (2004, Nicholas and Sheila Pye)
http://videomedeja.org/en/nicholas-and-sheila-pye
" Nick and Sheila Pye primarily work with video and photography, their projects explore themes of intimacy and emotional interdependence. In their ten-minute video titled 'The Paper Wall', a thin division stands between two characters in separate bedrooms. The two protagonists - played by the artists – use nonverbal communication of fear and desire. They grow increasingly dependant on one another while performing a series of choreographed gestures that include basic bodily functions such as breathing and urinating. The silent characters in the Pyes' moody, erotic video open the work to several potential narratives "
11.ROOFTOP ROUTINE (2007-2008, Christian Jankowski)
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=32246520673
12.SEX IS SENTIMENTAL (2009, Erik van Lieshout, 21 min)
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/robinson/robinson2-6-09.asp
" Using a makeshift animation table and narrating the action as he goes, Van Lieshout combines drawings, collage, photographs, scrawled titles and live action into a cascade of funky imagery seemingly without style or technical guile. Artless and insouciant, the narrative nevertheless flows along with considerable verve and wit, propelled almost entirely by the force of the artist’s own charming personality. "
13.UNIVERSAL CITIZEN (1986, Peter Thompson, 23 min)
http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=7740
14.UP! (2007, Erik van Lieshout)
http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/erik_van_lieshout
" For ‘UP!’ (2005) Van Lieshout underwent therapy, focusing on his relationship with his mother. His lofty goal was to learn tolerance and thus overcome personal crisis. Van Lieshout concludes that he is, like his mother, unable to listen. The problem is that he constantly needs to talk. But rather than being simply a mouthpiece for himself, the work forms the framework for a plural narrative structure: for his own actions and utterances, in direct speech to his mother and his therapist and as a commentary on the film we are watching. ‘I wanna be in control, on top, in control’, the artist notes soberly, referring to his ‘ego’, over which he clearly loses control on a regular basis "
15.WHY WE MEN LOVE TECHNOLOGY THAT MUCH (1985, Stefaan Decostere, 65 min)
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/professionals/programme/public-programme-schedule/film.aspx?ID=05fe7a5e-bea2-4dfe-83c2-8f8a6375da34
" The documentary Why We Men Love Technology That Much was made in 1985 to analyze the close relation between war and technology. The video shows how war, speed and technology organize and reorganize reality, until only filtered reality remains. The artists - Klaus vom Bruch in video and Jack Goldstein in paint and sound - propose their personal artistic versions of it.Since then, no radical change has occurred in the relation between war and technology. It has only became more intensified. Technology brings the logic and reality of war even closer into our daily lives. Nowadays we all are actively involved with media. Digitisation, virtualisation and automation are our major interactions on a massive scale with technology. They guideline the basic moves possible in the playing field here. "
16.WORD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION (2007, Roy Arden)
http://www.royarden.com/worldas.html
17.THE WORLD OF LYGIA CLARK (1973, Eduardo Clark, 27 min)
http://www.lygiaclark.org.br/ingles3.htm
18.Yael Bertana's videos
http://www.krytykapolityczna.pl/Zaproszenia/Mary-Koszmary-fragment-filmu/menu-id-50.html
http://kafee.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/a-jewish-state-in-germany-as-an-artwork/
C.TRIBUTE WISH LIST
Mariko Okada, a Japanese actress
1.DANCING GIRL (1951, Mikio Naruse)
2.THE WOMAN WHO TOUCHED THE LEGS (1952, Kon Ichikawa)
3.MY WONDERFUL YELLOW CAR (1953, Senkichi Taniguchi) written by Akira Kurosawa
4.HUSBAND AND WIFE (1953, Mikio Naruse)
5.THE LOVERS (1953, Kon Ichikawa)
6.FLOATING CLOUDS (1955, Mikio Naruse)
7.WOMEN IN PRISON (1956, Seiji Hiramatsu) starring Setsuko Hara and Kinuyo Tanaka
8.FLOWING (1956, Mikio Naruse)
9.SEASON OF THE WITCH (1958, Minoru Shibuya)
10.AN AFFAIR AT AKITSU (1962, Yoshishige Yoshida)
11.THIS YEAR'S LOVE (1962, Keisuke Kinoshita)
12.ESCAPE FROM HELL (1963, Kazuo Inoue)
13.RADISHES AND CARROTS (1964, Minoru Shibuya) from Yasujiro Ozu's story
14.THE SCENT OF INCENSE (1964, Keisuke Kinoshita, 201 min) starring Nobuko Otowa and Kinuyo Tanaka
15.A STORY WRITTEN WITH WATER (1965, Yoshishige Yoshida)
16.WOMAN OF THE LAKE (1966, Yoshishige Yoshida) from the story of Yasunari Kawabata
17.TWO WIVES (1967, Yasuzo Masumura)
18.THE AFFAIR (1967, Yoshishige Yoshida)
19.FLAME AND WOMEN (1967, Yoshishige Yoshida)
20.AFFAIR IN THE SNOW (1968, Yoshishige Yoshida)
21.THE TIME OF RECKONING (1968, Tadashi Imai)
22.FAREWELL TO THE SUMMER LIGHT (1968, Yoshishige Yoshida)
23.EROS PLUS MASSACRE (1969, Yoshishige Yoshida)
24.HEROIC PURGATORY (1970, Yoshishige Yoshida)
25.CONFESSIONS AMONG ACTRESSES (1971, Yoshishige Yoshida)
26.I AM A CAT (1975, Kon Ichikawa) from the novel of Natsume Soseki
27.THE FALL OF THE AKO CASTLE (1978, Kinji Fukasaku, 159 min)
28.THE ADVENTURES OF KOSUKE KINDAICHI (1979, Nobuhiko Obayashi)
29.THE GEISHA HOUSE (1999, Kinji Fukasaku)
D.ART EXHIBITION WISH LIST
David Levinthal, a photographer
http://www.davidlevinthal.com/works.html
--HITLER MOVES EAST 1975-1977
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3555/3694833824_816bf9dfa5_o.jpg
--MODERN ROMANCE 1984-1986
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3593/3694833838_12d60b6a36_o.jpg
--THE WILD WEST 1987-1989
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2446/3694833860_e1a632ee27_o.jpg
--AMERICAN BEAUTIES 1989-1990
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2468/3694833820_9ab9e0101b_o.jpg
--MEIN KAMPF 1993-1994
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3631/3694833830_526493a34d_o.jpg
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Wish list for April 2009
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2009/05/wish-list-for-april-2009.html
WISH LIST FOR MARCH 2009
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2009/04/wish-list-for-march-2009.html
WISH LIST FOR FEB 2009
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2009/04/wish-list-for-feb-2009.html
WISH LIST FOR JAN 2009
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2009/04/wish-list-for-january-2009-full-version.html
WISH LIST FOR 2007 AND 2008
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2009/04/film-wish-list-in-2007-and-2008.html
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