pops baron: cinema

04 August 2015

the log / seventh month / year 2015

/pedro costa taught me more than film school/ depressing to see that something as important as in vanda's room with pedro doing a q&a afterwards doesn't sell out/ or that the whole retrospective in general wasn't as well attended as i would've hoped/ delved into moma's technicolor series/ explored the museum of the moving image/

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Trash

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7/2: Two Years at Sea, DVD

* 7/4: Celine and Julie Go Boating, avi file

* 7/7: The Battle of Midway, 35mm (short)

* 7/7: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, 35mm

* 7/9: Mad Max: Fury Road, Real D 3D

* 7/11: Chryskyloden Blues, Vimeo

7/11: Heaven Knows What, DCP w/ Q&A

* 7/12: What Did the Lady Forget?, 35mm

* 7/12: The Lodger, DCP w/ live piano accompaniment

* 7/12: Technicolor for Industrial Films, 35mm (short)

* 7/12: Cobra Woman, 35mm

* 7/12: Wagon Master, 35mm

* 7/13: Funny Little Bunnies, 35mm (short)

* 7/13: Easter Parade, 35mm

* 7/13: Homegrown, Streaming

7/14: The Naked Spur, 35mm

* 7/14: Eden, DCP

7/17: Ossos, 35mm

* 7/17: Casa de lava, DCP

* 7/18: The Fearmakers, 35mm

* 7/18: O sangue, 35mm

7/18: In Vanda's Room, 35mm

7/18: Ne change rien, 35mm

* 7/19: 6 Bagatelas, Digital

7/19: Not Reconciled, 35mm

7/19: Colossal Youth, 35mm

* 7/21: Land of the Pharaohs, 35mm

* 7/21: Daïnah la métisse, 35mm

* 7/21: Trás-os-Montes, 35mm

* 7/21: Two Lovers, Streaming

* 7/22: The Green Years, 35mm

* 7/23: Western Union, 35mm

* 7/23: Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?, 35mm

* 7/23: Why Don't You Play in Hell?, Streaming

7/24: The Tenant, DVD

* 7/25: Mogambo, 35mm

* 7/25: How Green Was My Valley, DVD

* 7/26: The Record of a Tenement Gentleman, 35mm

7/26: Hollis Frampton program [Zorns Lemma, (nostalgia)], 16mm

* 7/27: Drums Along the Mohawk, DVD

* 7/28: A New Dawn, 35mm

* 7/29: May God Forgive Me, 35mm

* 7/29: Money From Home, 3D excerpt

7/29: Artists and Models, 35mm

7/29: Coma, DVD

* 7/30: Horse Money, DCP

7/30: The Bodyguard, Blu-Ray

* 7/31: Blood and Lace, 35mm

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* First time viewings

Top Five:

1. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)

- Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? (Pedro Costa, 2001)

2. Land of the Pharoahs (Howard Hawks, 1955)

3. Daïnah la métisse (Jean Grémillon, 1932)

- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford, 1949)

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31 July 2015

Blood and Lace (Philip Gilbert, 1971)

Opening with a beautiful homage to Psycho via a dream sequence that marries Eisenstein (the past) and Halloween (the future). Everything else that follows seems to come from a different universe. If Mr. Gilbert would've ever made another film maybe that universe could have expanded but he didn't so it's all contained here. A blonde (Melody Patterson) finds herself as an underage orphan after her prostitute mother is brutally murdered. This propels a series of events that could constitute the plot of ten different films. Throw in Gloria Grahame in her What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? role. An ending worthy of Oldboy and Sleepaway Camp that has a time traveling cameo by a fat Freddy Kreuger. A film that subconsciously entered cinema history through it's influence, even if it went widely unseen (until recently at least).