1)
We went to a real movie
in a real movie theater two nights ago.
Penelope Cruz and Banderas in
Official Competition. We loved loved loved it.
2)
Toby Talbot wrote a piece about for Alte
about Dan Talbot’s wonderful new book In Love With Movies
(Columbia University Press).
Dan and Toby brought foreign films
to many of us.
3)
Today David Cale posted his 50 favorite movies,
(in no order, and certain to be missing some)
1. The River (Jean Renoir)
2. Beau Travail (Claire Denis)
3. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
4. The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni)
5. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)
6. Late Spring (Yasujirō Ozu)
7. M (Fritz Lang)
8. Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard)
9. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard)
10. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder)
11. Les Rendezvous D’Anna (Chantal Ackerman)
12. Out of the Past (Jacques Tourneur)
13. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
14. Accident (Joseph Losey)
15. Diary of a Country Priest (Robert Bresson)
16. A Star is Born (George Cukor)
17. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
18. The Big Combo (Joseph H. Lewis)
19. All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar)
20. Babel (Alejandro Iñárritu)
21. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)
22. Caché (Michael Hanaeke)
23. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
24. The Earrings of Madame D (Max Ophuls)
25. Laura (Otto Preminger)
26. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
27. Kes (Ken Loach)
28. An Unmarried Woman (Paul Mazursky)
29. Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol)
30. Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais)
31. The Killers (Robert Siodmak)
32. Point Blank (John Boorman)
33. Klute (Alan J. Pakula)
34. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
35. All About Eve (Joseph Mankiewicz)
36. Cabaret (Bob Fosse)
37. Nashville (Robert Altman)
38. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
39. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy)
40. Belle de Jour (Luis Bunuel)
41. The District Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Bunuel)
42. My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant)
43. Close-Up (Abbas Kiorostami)
44. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard)
45. Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni)
46. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk)
47. The Big Heat (Fritz Lang)
48. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai)
49. Morocco (Josef Von Sternberg)
50. Sunrise (F.W. Murnau)
Tell me yours.
Midnight Cowboy
400 Blows
Children of Paradise
Wages of Fear
Le Bal
I’m Going Home(Je Rentre à la Maison)
Diabolique
Madame Rosa
I Sent a Letter to My Love
A Room at the Top
The Stranger(Visconti)
Amarcord
Umberto D.
The Gleaners and I
Daguerrotypes
Jacquot de Nantes
Chocolat(Claire Denis)
35 Shots of Rum
A Christmas Tale
Jules and Jim
Breathless
Band of Outsiders
The Bicycle Thief
Fellini’s Roma
Christ Stopped at Eboli
La Dolce Vita
Il Divo
Gomorrah
The Great Beauty
Vento di Terra
Vento di Mare
Mid-August Lunch
The Gospel According to Saint Matthew
The Short films of Vittorio se Seta set in Sicily
Buena Vista Social Club
Cape Fear
Casablanca
Notorious
Psycho
To Catch a Thief
Rear Window
Love, Actually
From Here to Eternity
The Godfather 1 & 2
Dog Day Afternoon
Taxi Driver
Arsenic and Old Lace
Chinatown
Of Time and the City
A Streetcar Named Desire
Harold and Maude