Friday, May 11, 2012

the tree of life (terrence malick, 2011)

in the hands of a lesser director, this film would suck.  but a great director can make something seemingly ordinary into something awesome.  this is why malick is arguably the greatest (american) director alive (but i think i'd still personally vote for ffc)

i'd probably rank this third among malick films, with days of heaven and thin red line (in that order) ahead of it

daydream nation (mike goldbach, 2010)

has it been three years already?  many reasons why i don't post as much as i once did; for one, i don't watch cinema as much.  after putting so much energy that year looking for festivals, i guess i burned myself out.  i wish i could say i was re-energized, but that would be a falsehood.  but a film like this, though flawed, reminds me that i can feel emotions, empathy, from and for a film.

Friday, April 20, 2007

all lo-fi tangents by anon

3-iron (kim ki-duk 2004)

13 tzameti (gela babluani, 2005)

16 blocks (richard donner, 2006)

28 weeks later (juan carlos fresnaillo, 2007)

the 40 year-old virgin (judd apatow, 2005)

300 (zack snyder, 2007)

abbey road (the beatles, 1969)

akai (carlos gananian, 2006)

all about love (joyce e. bernal, don cuaresma, jerry lopez sineneng, 2006)

amateur (hal hartley, 1994)

ambition (hal hartley, 1991)

angela (roberta torre, 2002)

apocalypse now (francis ford coppola, 1979)

are you the favorite person of anybody? (miguel arteta, 2005)

are we still married? (or stille nacht ii) (the brothers quay 1991)

as good as it gets (james l. brooks, 1997)

ash wednesday (edward burns, 2002)

at land (maya deren, 1944)

at the suicide of the last jew in the world in the last cinema in the world (david cronenberg, 2007)

au revoir, les enfants (louis malle, 1987)

the auteur (james westby, 2002)

babel (alejandro gonzález iñárritu, 2006)

the bakery girl of monceau (eric rohmer, 1963)

ballad of a soldier (grigori chukhrai ,1959)

bananas (woody allen, 1971)

bande à parte [ie, band of outsiders] (jean-luc godard, 1964)

be with me (eric khoo, 2005)

before sunrise (richard linklater, 1995) first tangent , second tangent

before sunset (richard linklater, 2004) first tangent, second tangent


behemoth (carlos g. gananian, 2003)

the bellboy (jerry lewis, 1960)

the best of youth (marco tullio giordana, 2003)

billy liar (john schlesinger, 1963)

bird (clint eastwood, 1988)

birthday boy (sejong park, 2004)

black tulips (richard stanley)

the blossoming of maximo oliveros (auraeus solito, 2005)

blue gate crossing (chin yen-yee, 2002)

breach (billy ray, 2007)

brick (rian johnson, 2005)

brokeback mountain (ang lee, 2005)

broken flowers (jim jarmusch, 2005)

bully (larry clark, 2001)

bunker 0: sumirib (jan philippe carpio, 2006)

the 'burbs (joe dante, 1989)

burden of dreams (les blank, 1982)

the cabinet of jan svankmajer (the brothers quay, 1984)

caché (michael haneke, 2005)

can't go wrong without you (or stille nacht iv) (the brothers quay, 1993)

capote (bennett miller, 2005)

caro diario (nanni moretti, 1993)

carpool (jerrold tarog)

cavite (neill dela llana,
ian gamazon, 2005)


children of men (alfonso cuaron, 2006)

clerks ii (kevin smith, 2006)

coagula (carlos g. gananian, 2005)

the coast guard (kim ki-duk, 2002)

cobra verde (werner herzog, 1987)

coda: thirty years after (eleanor coppola, 2007)

la collectionneuse (eric rohmer, 1967)

the colonial friend (rachid bouchareb, 2005)

the comb (the brothers quay, 1991)

control (anton corbijn, 2007)

crash (paul haggis, 2004)

crooked rain, crooked rain (pavement, 1994) first tangent, second tangent, third tangent, fourth tangent

crumb (terry zwigoff, 1994)

crying out love, in the center of the world (isao yukisada, 2004)

d' lucky ones (wenn v. deramas, 2006)

das rad (chris stenner,
arvid uibel,
heidi wittlinger, 2003)


david lynch's playstation 2 commercial (david lynch)

the dangers of sled riding (daniel johnston)

dangle (phil traill, 2003)

day of the fight (stanley kubrick, 1951)

daydream nation (mike goldbach, 2010)

de artificiali perspectiva, or anamorphosis (the brothers quay, 1991)

death proof (quentin tarantino, 2007)

deathdealer: a documentary (andy watts, 2004)

de ja vu (henry jaglom, 1997)

deja vu (tony scott, 2006)

the departed (martin scorsese, 2006)

the descent (neil marshall, 2005)

the devil and daniel johnston (jeff feuerzeig, 2005)

the devil's advocate (andrew neiderman, 1997)

disturbia (d.j. caruso 2007)

the diving bell and the butterfly (julien schnabe, 2007)

dramolet (or stille nacht i) (the brothers quay, 1988)

the draughtman's contract (peter greenaway, 1982)

drifters (xiaoshuai wang, 2003)

eastern promises (david cronenberg, 2007)

the ecology of love (brian hill, 2004)

el bola (achero mañas, 2000)

electric shadows (jiang xiao, 2004)

eliana, eliana (riri riza, 2002)

emperor tomato ketchup (stereolab, 1996)

the epic of gilgamesh or this unnameable little broom (the brothers quay, 1985)

eraserhead (david lynch, 1977)

evita [original london cast] (tim rice, andrew lloyd webber 1976) first tangent, second tangent, third tangent, fourth tangent

event horizon (paul w.s. anderson, 1997)

everything you always wanted to know about sex* (*but were afraid to ask) (woody allen, 1972)

evol (chris vincze, 2006)

the family jewels (jerry lewis, 1965)

feels so good (chuck mangione, 1977)

ferris bueller's day off (john hughes, 1986)

film by the sea (donal foreman, 2005)

film geek (james westby, 2005)

final destination 3 (james wong, 2006)

the first three lives of stuart hornsley (leigh dana jackson, 2004)

flushed away (david bowers,
sam fell, 2006)


flying padre (stanley kubrick, 1951)

the follow (wong kar wai, 2001)

for sale: baby shoes, never worn (ernest hemingway)

four brothers (john singleton, 2005)

four eyed monsters (arin crumley and susan brice, 2005)

free radicals (barbara albert, 2003)

ftrain (airon armstrong)

the funeral (abel ferrara, 1996)

funny face (stanley donen, 1957)

funny ha ha (andrew bujalski, 2003)

gallery of the weird (daniel johnston)

game of death (robert clouse, 1978)

the garden of heaven (han lee, 2003)

gasman (lynne ramsay, 1997)

get rich or die tryin' (jim sheridan, 2005)

the glass shield (charles burnett, 1994)

the godfather (francis ford coppola, 1972)

the godfather, part ii (francis ford coppola, 1972)

le grand voyage (ismaël ferroukhi, 2004)

the great escape (blur, 1995) first tangent ,
second tangent, third tangent

guard duty (lucas mcnelly)

guima (oscar nava, 2006)

gummo (harmony korine, 1997)

h (jong-hyuk lee, 2002)

la haine (mathieu kassovitz, 1995) first tangent, second tangent

a hard day's night (the beatles, 1964)

a hard day's night (richard lester, 1964)

hard-boiled (john woo, 1992)

he died with a felafel in his hand (richard lowenstein, 2001)

hearts of darkness (a filmmaker's apocalypse) (fax bahr, george hickenlooper, 1991)

heat (michael mann, 1995)

the hidden blade (yoji yamada, 2004)

the hills have eyes (alexandre aja, 2006)

a history of violence (david cronenberg, 2005)

hold up (madelein olnek, 2006)

the host (bong joon-ho, 2006)

hot fuzz(edgar wright, 2007)

i travelled 9000 km to give it to you (wong kar wai, 2007)

in cold blood (richard brooks, 1967)

in the heat of the night (norman jewison, 1967)

indigenes (rachid bouchareb, 2006)

inja (steve pasvolsky,
joe weatherstone 2001)


inland empire (david lynch, 2006)

inside man (spike lee, 2006)

the intervention (jay duplass, 2005)

the isle (kim ki-duk, 2000)

it must be monday (daniel johnston, 2006)

it's all around you (nick cross and helder mendonca, 2006)

ivan's childhood/my name is ivan/etc (andrei tarkovsky, 1962)

la jetée (chris marker, 1962)

john q (nick cassavetes, 2002)

justice league: the new frontier (dave bullock, 2008)

the keys to the house (gianni amelio, 2004)

kids (larry clark, 1995)

kill the day (lynne ramsay, 1996)

killer of sheep (charles burnett, 1977)

kontroll (nimrod antal, 2003)

l'attente (lucas mcnelly, 2006)

l'enfant (jean-pierre dardenne,
luc dardenne, 2005)


landscape in the mist (theo angelopoulos, 1988)

language extinction (jeffrey acaba, 2007)

lasershot (nico pueringer)

the last gag of buster quizon (khavn de la cruz)

the last man in brooklyn (roberto bentivegna, 2006)

last summer in the hamptons (henry jaglom, 1995)

the leopard (luchino visconti, 1963)

let's get started (azazel jacobs)

lick the star (sofia coppola, 1998)

the life acquatic with steve zissou (wes anderson, 2004)

linda linda linda (nobuhiro yamashita, 2005)

little miss sunshine (jonathan dayton and valerie faris, 2006)

long live philippine cinema! (raya martin, 2007)

a long weekend in pest and buda (karoly makk, 2003)

loulou (maurice pialat, 1980)

love and death (woody allen, 1975)

love in the afternoon (eric rohmer, 1972)

lovers (jean-marc barr, 1999)

the lullaby of guima (drei boquiren, 2006)

the machinist (brad anderson, 2004)

macho dancer (lino brocka, 1988)

the madness of king george (nicholas hytner, 1994)

the maltese falcon (john huston, 1941)

the man walking on snow (masahiro kobayashi 2001)

manhattan (woody allen, 1979)

marie antoinette (sofia coppola, 2006)

marty (delbert mann, 1955)

matt and curtis run into each other at sxsw (james m. johnston, david lowery, nick prendergast, yen tan, 2005)

maya lin: a strong clear vision (freida lee mock, 1994)

mean creek (jacob aaron estes, 2004)

meditation on violence (maya deren, 1948)

meetin' wa (jean-luc godard, 1986)

memento mori (tae-yong kim,
kyu-dong min, 1999)


memories of murder (bong joon-ho, 2003)

men at work (mani haghighi, 2006)

meshes of the afternoon (maya deren and alexander hammid, 1943)

the middle of the world (vincente amorim, 2003)



million dollar baby (clint eastwood, 2004)

millions (danny boyle, 2004)

mission: impossible iii (j.j. abrams, 2006)

mister wonderful (daniel clowes)

mo' better blues (spike lee, 1990)

mongolian ping pong (hao ning, 2005)

monster thursday (arlid ostin ommundsen, 2004)

more (mark osborne, 1998)

the mother and the whore (jean eustache, 1973)

mt. head (koji yamamura, 2002)

mujhse dosti karoge! (kunal kohli, 2002)

mutual appreciation (andrew bujalski, 2005)

my blueberry nights (wong kar wai, 2007)

my dinner with andre (louis malle, 1981)

my generation (dong-seok no, 2004

my life...disoriented (eric byler, 2005)

the naked kiss (samuel fuller, 1964)

nicotine (kharil m. bahar)

nothing but a man (michael roemer, 1964)

nothing serious (renaud philipps, 2004)

oasis (lee chang-dong, 2002)

ok computer (radiohead, 1997)



once (john carney, 2006)

the outlaw son [cut 1e] (david lowery)

the outsiders (francis ford coppola, 1983)

paris, je t'aime (2006)

pelle the conqueror (billie august, 1988)

peoples house (andrew bujalski, 2007)

perfect blue (satoshi kon, 1997)

pickpocket (robert bresson, 1959)

planes, trains and automobiles (john hughes, 1987)

'plano (antoinette jadaone, 2004)

premonitions of an evil deed (david lynch , 1996)

presentation, or charlotte and her steak (eric rohmer, 1951)

prison warz (declan mulvey)

the private life of a cat (alexander hammid, 1944)

prom night (nelson mccormick, 2008)

the protector (aka tom yum goong)(pracya pinkaew

psycho (alfred hitchcock, 1960)

the puffy chair (jay duplass, 2005)

raise the red lantern (zhang yimou, 1991)

ratcatcher (lynne ramsay, 1999)

regular lovers (philippe garrel, 2005)

rehearsals for extinct anatomies (the brothers quay, 1988)

return of the dragon (aka way of the dragon) (bruce lee, 1972)

rice people (rithy panh, 1994)

ritual in transfigured time (maya deren, 1945-6)

rio bravo (howard hawks, 1959)

robot boy (ted passon, 2003)

rubber soul (the beatles, 1965)

rv (barry sonnenfeld, 2006)

ryhthm in unison (jerrold tarog)

the sacrifice (andrei tarkovsky, 1986)

sangam (prashant bhargava, 2004)

scrapple (jay duplass and mark duplass, 2004)

scoop (woody allen, 2006)

shaun of the dead (edgar wright, 2004)

save me (paul thomas anderson, 1999)

saw (james wan, 2004)

saw ii (darren lynn bousman, 2005)

saw iii (darren lynn bousman, 2006)



the science of sleep (michel gondry, 2006)

sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band (the beatles, 1967)

sherman's march (ross mcelwee, 1986)

the shop on main street (jan kadar and elmar klos, 1965)

simple men (hal hartley, 1992)

sixteen candles (john hughes, 1984)

sleeper (woody allen, 1973)

small deaths (lynne ramsay, 1996)

small time crooks (woody allen, 2000)

solaris (andrei tarkovski, 1972)

some like it white (kharil m. bahar)

the sopranos (david chase, etc., 1999-2007)

the spirit of the beehive (victor erice, 1973)

stardust memories (woody allen, 1980)

the sterile cuckoo (alan j. pakula, 1969)

still (david lowery, 2003)

stray cats (ellen ongkeko-marfil, 2005)

street of crocodiles (the brothers quay, 1986)

a study in choreography for camera (maya deren and talley beatty, 1945)

sunflower (zhang yang, 2005)

superstar: the karen carpenter story (todd haynes, 1987)

surviving desire (hal hartley, 1991)

tales from the vienna woods (or stille nacht iii) (the brothers quay, 1992)

taxi driver (martin scorsese, 1976)

tekken the motion picture (kunihisa sugishima, 1997)


theory of achievement (hal hartley, 1991)

there's only one sun (wong kar wai, 2007)

terror twilight (pavement, 1999)

the texas chain saw massacre (tobe hooper, 1974)

this is john (jay duplass, 2003)

this thing of ours (danny provenzano, 2003)

a thousand words (melba williams, 2003)

three times (hou hsiao hsien, 2005)

time out (robbie chafitz, 2003)

to catch a thief (alfred hitchcock, 1955)

to each his own cinema
-[i travelled 9000 km to give it to you (wong kar wai, 2007)]

to sleep with anger (charles burnett, 1990)

tom yum goong (aka the protector) (prachya pinkaew, 2005)

toxic mango (khavn de la cruz, 2005)

the tree of life (terrence malick, 2011)

trust (hal hartley, 1990)

two cars, one night (taika waititi, 2003)

two of us (michael lindsay-hogg, 2000)

two solutions for one problem (abbas kiarostami, 1975)

ulee's gold (victor nuñez, 1997)

the umbrellas of cherbourg (jacques demy, 1964)

the unbearable lightness of being (philip kaufman, 1988)

the unbelievable truth (hal hartley, 1989)

uncle buck (john hughes, 1989)

under (donal foreman, 2005)

unusual occupations (george brandt, 1945)

the vagina monologues (eve ensler, 2002)

venice/vencie (henry jaglom, 1992)

véronique and her dunce (eric rohmer, 1958)

the very eye of night (maya deren, 1952-59)

vibrator (ryuichi hiroki, 2003)

violent cop (takeshi kitano, 1989)

volver (pedro almodovar, 2006)

war of the worlds (steven spielberg, 2005)

the way i spent the end of the world (catalin mitulescu, 2006)

way of the dragon (aka return of the dragon) (bruce lee, 1972)

where the truth lies (atom egoyan, 2005)

white lady (jeff tan, 2006)

who's camus anyway? (mitsuo yanagimachi, 2005)

we own the night (james gray, 2007)first tangent , second tangent

the weeping meadow (theo angelopoulos, 2004)

werner herzog eats his shoe (les blank, 1980)

wilby wonderful (daniel macivor, 2004)

wild at heart (david lynch, 1990)

winning (catherine annau, 2004)

the wire (david simon)

wishing stairs (jae-yeon yun, 2003)

the world of jacques demy (agnès varda, 2005)

wowee zowee (pavement, 1995) first tangent, second tangent, third tangent

the x-files (rob bowman, 1998)

yi yi (edward yang, 2000)

you are the one (cathy garcia-molina, 2006)

youngster (will canon, 2004)

zodiac (david fincher, 2007)