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SCREENING LOG
- 7/18-7/24/2005
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Les Maitres Fous (1955, Jean Rouch)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048363
yes
by that I mean, this short little documentary reminded me most about FIGHT CLUB! I don't know if you've seen FIGHT CLUB, and to be honest I wouldn't have recommended that you do, but LES MAITRES FOUS provoked me to reconsider its importance as a reflection on the impossibility of living in 20th century modern capitalist civilization, every bit as much as LES MAITRES FOUS does.
As for Rouch's film, it's certainly engrossing viewing -- one thought above all that I'm trying to sort out is Rouch's involvement in the proceedings and how much his camera influences what it captures. That's a pretty obvious question given what we're watching but I didn't think of the film in those terms until after I was finished. If you have any thoughts along those lines or in any other way please share. My guess is that your interest in the film would be along the lines of performance/theater?
Kings of the Road (1976, Wim Wenders)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073152
yes
KINGS OF THE ROAD -- a bit of a disappointment I must say. Kind of a Germanized LAST PICTURE SHOW -- certainly beautifully shot and quite moving in parts, but I found it too long for its worth and rather nostalgic in a terminal way that doesn't really inspire me. I could care less about the end of 20th century Western civ (if you care to read the film that way) -- sooner the better I say! Chalk it up to personal preferences -- I seem to be more interested in a cinema of beginnings than of endings (witness my reaction to LAST DAYS last week).
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (2004, Danny Leiner)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366551
yes
It has a lot of fun having it both ways with stereotypes, either turning them on their ear or sending them up or playing them off. It's amazing how much a little pot smoking can make two Asian guys so likeable. Actually the most provocative use of stereotypes in this film involved an African American who gets profiled by the cops. I would love to do a movie kind of like this with two guys just driving in a car through the suburbs. Such a California thing (though this was set in Jersey).
Don't Look Back (1967, D.A. Pennebaker)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061589
yes
Pink Ribbon (2004, Kenjiro Fujii)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443187
mixed
The Girl Next Door (2004, Luke Greenfield)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265208
mixed Touki Bouki (1973, Djibril Diop Mamberty)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070820
YES (#4 for 1973 between MEAN STREETS and WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM)
Mysterious Skin (2005, Gregg Araki)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0370986
yes (#3 for new films seen in 2005 between SHAPE OF THE MOON and MEMORIES OF MURDER)
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