documentaries
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There is no experimental film
“People talk about experimental film, avant-garde film, etc. But there is no experimental film or avant-garde film. There’s just film… in which some people make shit, some make soup, others make films like beans, and then some make highly refined dishes, like we do.”
Maurice Lemaître, Free Radicals.
Of Time and the City (2008)
This one reminded me of London by Patrick Keiller, but it’s about Liverpool and not so good.
Watchings
• Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Alexander Mackendrick
• La fleur du mal (2003)
Claude Chabrol
• The Servant (1963)
Joseph Losey
• Vampyr (1932)
• Gertrud (1964)
• Vredens dag (1943)
Carl Theodor Dreyer
• House of Cards (2013)
• Magic Mike (2012)
Steven Soderbergh
• Side by Side (2012)
Christopher Kenneally
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Stephen Chbosky
• Street Angel (1928)
Frank Borzage
Watchings
• Hit & Miss (2012)
Paul Abbott
• Moone Boy (2012)
Chris O’Dowd
• The Zen Mind (2007)
Jon Braeley
• Straw Dogs (1971)
Sam Peckinpah
• NWR (Nicolas Winding Refn) (2012)
Laurent Duroche
• 東京流れ者 (Tôkyô nagaremono) (1966)
Seijun Suzuki
Watchings
• Peeping Tom (1960)
Michael Powell
• Cosmopolis (2012)
David Cronenberg
• Thief (1981)
Michael Mann
• A Zed & Two Noughts (1986)
Peter Greenaway
• Beginners (2010)
Mike Mills
• Last Supper [watch] (2005)
Bigert & Bergström
• The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
Guy Maddin
• Zéro de conduite [watch] (1933)
Jean Vigo
• Cry Baby (1990)
John Waters
Eliane Radigue portrait #4 09
“Her music is a slow flux of dense sounds subject to imperceptible mutations. A timeless architecture of deep vibrations speaking not to the intellect or to hearing, but to the entire body. A music which is unsettling if one submerges oneself in it. A music that possesses the monumental subtlety of the movement of oceans.”
IMA Institut für Medienarchäologie
Push record *NOW
Watchings
• Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (2008) [watch]
Joss Whedon
• Coupling, Seasons 1-4 (2000-2004)
Steven Moffat
• Noise (2007)
Henry Bean
• Pusher (1995), Pusher II (2004) & Pusher 3 (2005)
Nicolas Winding Refn
• Redland (2009)
Asiel Norton
• Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)
Art Linson
• Alchemists of Sound (2003) [watch]
Roger Pomphrey
Watchings
• The Breakfast Club (1985)
John Hughes
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1987)
John Hughes
• They Call It Acid (2009)
Gordon Mason
• Steve Reich – Phase to Face (2009)
Eric Darmon, Franck Mallet
• The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2011)
Marie Losier
Watchings
• Half Nelson (2006)
Ryan Fleck
• Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Craig Gillespie
• Sound of Noise (2010)
Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
• The Shock Doctrine (2009)
Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom
• How I Met Your Mother, Seasons 1-6 (2005-2011)
Carter Bays, Craig Thomas
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Nicholas Stoller
• True Blood, Season 4 (2011)
Allan Ball
• The IT Crowd, Seasons 1-4 (2006-2010)
Graham Linehan
• Drive (2011)
Nicolas Winding Refn
Watchings
• The Walking Dead (2010)
Frank Darabont
• Sound in Context (2009) [watch]
• The Social Network (2010)
David Fincher
• Remington Steele, Seasons 1-5 (1982-1987)
Robert Butler and Michael Gleason
• The Eye of the Heart (2003)
Mark Kidel
• Artscape – Stephen Vitiello – Listening With Intent [watch]
• The New Sound Of Music (1979) [watch]
• SYGNOK & The War For Radical Computer Music (2011) [watch]
• The Future of Art (2011) [watch]
Watchings
• Arduino The Documentary (2010) [watch]
• Dead Set (2008)
Charlie Brooker
• Misfits, Season 2 (2010)
Howard Overman
• Sherlock, Season 1 (2010)
Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat
• Dexter, Season 5 (2010)
• Breaking Bad, Seasons 1-3 (2008-2010)
Vince Gilligan
• Sons of Anarchy, Season 3 (2010)
Kurt Sutter
• How I Met Your Mother, Seasons 1-5 (2005-2010)
Carter Bays and Craig Thomas
• The Big Bang Theory, Seasons 1-3 (2007-2010)
Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady
Watchings
• Fringe, Seasons 1-2 (2008-2010)
J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci
• Человек с киноаппаратом / Man with a Movie Camera (1929) [watch]
Dziga Vertov
• Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
• The Ghost Writer (2010)
Roman Polanski
• El Abecedario de Gilles Deleuze. A de Animal (1988) [watch]
• Some Like It Hot (1959)
Billy Wilder
• Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Sidney Lumet
Haunted Mind
“Broadcaster Don Hill saw and felt a chilling apparition in the basement of his house. The house had reportedly been haunted for years, driving out many occupants. A four-year odyssey to discover the truth behind the ghostly encounters turned up some startling new science which suggests that weak electromagnetic fields, naturally occurring in the environment, are responsible for stimulating mystical experiences, UFO reports and especially, ghostly entities and poltergeist phenomena.”
This quote talks about a documentary entitled Haunted House, Haunted Mind that I haven’t watch. I”m not interested in ghosts, UFOs and paranormal phenomena, but I’m interested in electromagnetic fields and mystical experiences, so maybe it’s worth to remember this film.
Watchings
• Nip/Tuck (2003 – 2010)
Ryan Murphy
• London (1994) [watch]
Patrick Keiller
• The IT Crowd. Series 4 (2010)
Watchings
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Wes Anderson
• … ere erera baleibu izik subua aruaren… (1968-70)
José Antonio Sistiaga
• I’m Not There (2007)
Todd Haynes
• Le chant du dragon [watch]
Joel Daguerre & Maître Kosen
Crossing the Great Sagrada (1924)
Adrian Brunel
Original: 35mm, black and white, silent.
Crossing the Great Sagrada is a strange film with an odd sense of humour and a slightly postmodern feeling. It’s not a masterpiece, but in a sense it’s decades ahead of its time.
“(…) this journey is portrayed in an absurd manner, drawing attention to the artificial nature of the film. (…) Titles, intended to provide narrative orientation, constantly give conflicting information, producing a confused, comic effect. (…) Crossing the Great Sagrada satirises the colonial stereotype of ‘native’ people. It also places doubt upon the authenticity of many of these travel films (…) The film’s surreal humour prefigures that of later innovative British comedy, such as Monty Python’s Flying Circus.”
Watchings
• Simplicité volontaire et décroissance (2007) [watch]
Jean-Claude Decourt
• The IT Crowd. Series 1-3 (2006-2008)
• Full Frontal (2002)
Steven Soderbergh
• Innocent Blood (1992)
John Landis
• Footprints (1992)
Bill Morrison
• The Bats (1998)
Jim Trainor
• C’mon Babe (1988)
Sharon Sandusky
• Swamp (1971)
Nancy Holt & Robert Smithson
• Hyas et sténorinques (1927)
Jean Painlevé
• Science Friction (1959)
Stan Vanderbeek
• Historia Naturae (Suita) (1967)
Jan Svankmajer
• Crossing the Great Sagrada (1924)
Adrian Brunel
• Supermâché, aire de pique-nique (2008)
Laurent Sfar & Jean Guillaud
Mental Colonization
“La publicité (…) c’est la plus grande entreprise de colonisation mentale.”
Serge Latouche in Simplicité volontaire et décroissance [watch]
Watchings
• Flicker (2008)
Nik Sheehan
• Heroes, Volume 5: Redemption (2009-2010)
• Muchachada Nui, 4ª temporada (2010) [watch]
• The Girlfriend Experience (2009)
Steven Soderbergh
• Outer Space (1999) [watch]
Peter Tscherkassky
• Arnulf Rainer (1958-1960) [watch]
Peter Kubelka