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    Only Yesterday - w/sis - 8 300: rise of an empire - times square cinema in Tyler, TX - 4 The wind rises - Alamo drafthouse, Austin TX - 8  February 2014 
    Her - Scotiabank - w/jenn & kev - 9 The Past - Varsity - 8 The Great Beauty - Varsity - 7 Garden of Words - w/sis - 9 Heavenly Bodies - w/sean - 7 The Wolf on Wall Street - 7.5  January 2014 
    ghost in the shell - w/sis - 8.5 akira - w/sis - 8 Wolf Children Ame & Yuki - w/sis - 7 Her - 10 American Hustle - 6   feb 10 2019 ∞feb 10 2019 +
              
         
 
  
          
  
     TO WATCH:  Tyrannosaur (2011) dir. Paddy Considine House of Pleasure (2011) dir. Bertrand Bonello The Kid With a Bike (2011) dir. Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne Into The Abyss (2011) dir. Werner Herzog Turin Horse (2011) dir. Bela Tarr Carre Blanc (2011) dir. Jean-Baptiste Léonetti Urbanized (2011) dir. Gary Hustwit Tomboy (2011) dir. Celine Sciamma The Keyhole (2011) dir. Guy Maddin The Black Power Mixtape, 1967-1975 (2011) Göran Olsson   WATCHED:    dec 12 2011 ∞feb 22 2012 +
              
         
 
  
          
  
    Boston, MA: find stanley cavell in harvard, talk to him about existential phenomenology & his thoughts on the cinema of today & the manifestations of media on the internet Chicago, IL: hit up green mill, blue chicago on clark & andy's jazz club Cincinnati, OH: visit taft museum of art, figure out why i wanted to go in the first place Salt Lake City, UT: attend sundance film fest in january, or next best thing, watch a random movie never heard of before Paris, TX: shoot a short film on the spur with wim wenders in mind as inspiration Waco, TX: watch a movie at the theater where terrence malick attended his screening of the new world. run into malick and become bffs   dec 11 2011 ∞dec 28 2011 +
              
         
 
  
          
  
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        Blow-Up La notte L'eclisse Red Desert L'avventura Identification of a Woman
          
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        The Art of Seeing with One's Own Eyes   dec 12 2011 ∞dec 12 2011 +
              
         
 
  
          
  
    Gent, Belgium: find where i used to live, the market square, movie theater across the canal & visit kindergarden and gradeschool Antwerp, Belgium: find that mcdonalds on the cobble stone alley Bergen, Norway: visit nils & oystein Ålesund, Norway: check out art nouveau architecture Las Palmas, Canary Island: watch a las palmas footy game Torshavn, Faroe Islands: live for at least 2 months Lille, France: visit maxime & sophie Paris, France: visit sebastian, go to museums Saint Etienne, France: listen to air france while jogging in a park Cannes, France: watch a film in a film fest theater Venice, Italy: visit jacopo & all the ita...   dec 28 2011 ∞dec 28 2011 +
              
         
 
  
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    ✔ Winter 2013 - A Short History of Progress (2004) by Ronald Wright (re) ✔ Winter 2013 - Willpower (2011) by Roy. F Baumeister & John Tierney ✔ Winter 2013 - Introducing Camus ✔ Winter 2013 - Introducing Kafka ✔ Winter 2013 - How Much Land Does A Man Need & Other Short Stories by Leo Tolstoy ✔ Winter 2013 - The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka ✔ Winter 2013 - Death of a Salesman (1949) by Arthur Miller ✔ Winter 2013 - The Homecoming (1964) by Harold Pinter ✔ Winter 2013 - A Certain Mr. Takahashi (1985) by Ann Ireland ✔ Winter 2013 - May Day (1920) by F. Scott Fitzgerald ✔ Winter 2013 - The Death of Ivan Ilych (1886) by Leo Tolstoy ✔ Winter 2013 - The Leaf Storm (1955) by Ga...   apr 18 2012 ∞mar 4 2013 +
              
         
 
  
          
  
    Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino Mortality (2012) by Christopher Hitchens Magic Hours (2012) by Tom Bissel The Age of Miracles (2012) by Karen Thompson Walker The Swimmer (1964) by John Cheever Without Feathers (1975) by Woody Allen Steppenwolf (1929) by Hermann Hesse Dharma Bums (1958) by Jack Kerouac Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace The Rings of Saturn (1995) by W.G. Sebald The World Viewed (1971) by Stanley Cavell Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory (2010) by Stanley Cavell All Men Are Brothers: Life and Thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi (1958) by Mahatma Gandhi Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) by F. Scott ...   dec 12 2011 ∞nov 19 2012 +
              
         
 
  
          
  
    A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926) The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957) I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov, 1964) *rewatch Marketa Lazarová (Frantisek Vlácil, 1967) The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov, 1968) Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1973) *rewatch O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson, 1973) World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973) The Travelling Players (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1975) The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1989) *rewatch A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989)...   dec 25 2011 ∞dec 25 2011 +
              
         
 
  
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    TOP 10 SCREENINGS OF 2012:  Post Tenebras Lux by Carlos Reygadas The Master by Paul Thomas Anderson Samsara by Ron Fricke Amour by Michael Haneke Beasts of the Southern Wild by Behn Zeitlin Moonrise Kingdom by Wes Anderson Life of Pi by Ang Lee Bestiare by Denis Cote Jiro Dreams of Sushi by David Gelb Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino  2012 SHORTLIST:  Take This Waltz by Sarah Polley Leviathan by Verena Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor Anna Karenina by Joe Wright Miss Lovely by Ashim Ahluwalia   dec 29 2012 ∞jan 6 2013 +
              
         
 
  
          
  
    recommend me some albums dude!   solyaris - tarkovsky stalker - tarkovsky afterlife/wonderful life - kore eda cha no aji/taste of tea - katsuhito ishii day for night - truffaut fahrenheit 451 - truffaut the world - jia zhang ke still life - jia zhang ke shadows - cassavetes in a lonely place - nicholas ray   jul 3 2012 ∞jul 3 2012 +
              
         
 
  
          
  
    TOPTEN: 1. Tree of Life - Terrence Malick 2. Meek's Cutoff - Kelly Reichardt 3. Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn 4. Midnight in Paris - Woody Allen 5. The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius 6. Pina 3D - Wim Wenders 7. Contagion - Steven Soderbergh 8. Inni - Vincent Morisset 9. Hugo 3D - Martin Scorsese 10. Melancholia - Lars von Trier  SHORTLIST: Take Shelter - Jeff Nichols The Ides of March - George Clooney Martha Marcy May Marlene - Sean Durkin  2010SCREENEDIN2011: Hubble 3D - Toni Myers Beginners - Mike Mills The Illusionist - Sylvain Chomet   dec 28 2011 ∞jan 4 2012 +
              
         
 
  
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