thirteen for fourteen

first tier

/disguised as a goodbye, a new beginning makes more sense
a new visual language in multiple dimensions
two ancients combined and transformed
new ones built from earth/

goodbye to language 3D

thou wast mild & lovely

the sleepwalker

second tier

/the static frame relaxes
the primal state of eroticism blinds
the rise of technology warps emotions/

/mundane communications evolve,
a star is humbled,
a master relaxed
&another perfects the image/

norte, the end of history

stranger by the lake

the heart machine

person to person

happy christmas
inherent vice

jealousy

third tier

/a true hollywood classic
&the politics it battles/

citizenfour

pompeii

January Viewing

swanberg taught filmmaking, garrel expressed love, tashlin somehow managed laughter/

lewis &boetticher taught lighting &about the good ol' american dream/

sono explained family dynamics (again &again), pasolini talked about love &life (&nudity)/

depalma remade hitchcock (w/ more sex), bauer told the future (in the past)/

miyazaki warned about nature, bonello spoke of adolescence (&sexuality)/

&many others 

* Not first viewings

TIER I

The Zone

The Birth of Love 

Who's Minding the Store?* 

TIER II

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

The Canterbury Tales

The Killer is Loose

Guilty of Romance 

The Big Combo 

Arabian Nights

Himizu 

Vinyl* 

TIER III

Flight

Rampage 

Headshot

The Hole

Nausicaä*

Idiocracy*

Barbarella 

Dressed to Kill 

Anna Karenina

Castle in the Sky 

Snow on tha Bluff 

My Neighbor Totoro*

Behind Locked Doors 

Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos 

An American Werewolf in London

TIER IV

The Food of the Gods 

The Moth Diaries 

Thinner*  

TRASH

Life of Pi 

Shorts:

TIER I

Twilight of a Woman's Soul 

Black Ice* 

Mothlight* 

TIER II

L'imprudence 

Aidez l'Espagne 

Premios Nacionales 

Where the Boys Are 

No compteu amb els dits 

Window Water Baby Moving*

Hapax Legomena III: Critical Mass