Movies and Plays I saw 12/18/02-8/24/03

DECEMBER 18-JANUARY 4
The Two Towers (2002, Peter Jackson) (Irvine Spectrum)
Big Trouble (V) (2002, Barry Sonnenfeld)
Die Another Day (2002, Lee Tamahori) (I forget where or with whom)
Strange Brew (1983, Thomas and Moranis) (V) (R) (at Jeff's with K and Rajay)
Some half-animated clown short (Silent Movie Theater) 
[?] (Charlie Chase short) (Silent Movie Theater)
1 A.M. (1916, Chaplin) [aka Solo] (Silent Movie Theater)
Sherlock Jr. (R) (1924,Keaton) (Silent Movie Theater)
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002, Baird) (with Jeff and his folks)
Barbershop (2002, Tim Story) (V) (home, with Adam)
Proof (performed by South Coast Repertory Theatre)

JANUARY 5-31
Adaptation (2002, Spike Jonze) (Shattuck with Joel and Nick)
Shaft (1971, Parks) (V)
Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock (V) (1983,Nimoy)
Andrei Rublev (1969,Tarkovsky) (PFA)
Koyaansquatsi (1983, Godfrey Reggio) (Fine Arts)
Gummo (1997,Harmony Korine) (Fine Arts)
Gangs of New York (2002, Scorsese) (Oaks with Nick and Alfonso)
Kramer vs. Kramer (V) (Robert Benton, 1979) (Robin's)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (V) (1958, Richard Brooks) (e.taylor/p.newman/b.ives 
	version) (Robin's)
Woman on the Run (1950, Norman Foster) (PFA)
Friday (V) (1995,Gray)
25th Hour (2002,Spike Lee) (California with Joel (& ?) )
Skipped Parts (V) (2000, Davis)
The Law of Desire (V) (1987, Almodovar)

FEBRUARY
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2002, Kevin Smith) (V) (R)
The Chairs (Ionesco, presented by Aurora Theatre Company)
Russian Ark (2002, Alexander Sokurov) (Shattuck)
Shanghai Knights (2003, some fool) [Worst Jackie Chan movie EVER.  And I'm not just mad because moviefone.com lied to me and told me that the latest Asterix movie would be playing at the theatre I saw this piece of junk at.  And the historical inaccuracies were so lame and unfunny they didn't make up for being egregiously and glaringly incorrect.  Like Allan Sherman's "Good Advice" except not nearly as funny.  And if you hate Allan Sherman, the level of funniness in Shanghai Knights therefore becomes negative.  So, boooooo!]  (Shattuck)
Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch) (Fine Arts)
Beavis and Butthead Do America (V) (R~4) (1996, Judge)

MARCH-APRIL 1
Viridiana (1961, Bunuel) (V) (Spanish Cine-Club)
No One's Ark (2002, Yamashita) (PFA)
Iron Monkey (V) (1993, Yuen)
All Power to the People (1997, Lee) (PFA)

APRIL 2-24

nothing

APRIL 25-MAY 25
A Mighty Wind (2003, Guest) (California)
Calculus: Newton's Whores (Carl Djerassi); presented by someone. (with Alfonso, Nick, etc.)
Horse Feathers (V) (R)
Hukkle (2002, Gyorgi Palfi) (PFA)
Monday Morning (2002, Otar Iosseliani) (PFA)
Come Drink with Me (1966,King Hu) (PFA)
Last 2/3 of Golden Swallow (1968, Zhang Che) (PFA)
The Matrix (1999, Wachowski bros) (R6) (Chabot Omnimax)
Partition (Hauptmann); presented by Aurora Theatre Company
Vengeance! (1970, Zhang Che) (PFA)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943, Tourneur) (PFA)
Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan aka Ai nu (1972, Yuen Chor) (PFA)
Raw Force aka Warrior Island (1982, Murphy) (PFA)
Pigkeeper's Daughter (left after an hour; most boring sex scenes ever.  last hillbilly exploitation movie I go to.) (1972, Buckalew) (PFA)
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965, Taurog) (PFA)
X-Men 2 (2003, Singer) (UA B)
Ten (2002, Kiarostami) (Shattuck)
Blood Brothers (PFA)
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978, Chia-Liang Liu) (PFA)
Return to the 36th Chamber (1980, Chia-Liang Liu) (PFA)
The Matrix Reloaded (2003, Wachowski bros) (will never reach R6, alas, but I was amused to see brother West.  "a lumpy, gaseous treatise of a movie"--A.O. Scott)  (Shattuck)
Shaft in Africa (V) (at home, with Nick)
Bling-Bling (2001, Ali G) (V)

MAY 25-JUNE 24 (Boston, New York, Central Europe)
Cremaster 3,4,5 (Barney) (3 at MFA, 4&5 in a theater in Greenwich Village)
Sound of a Voice (performed by the American Repertory Theatre)
2/3 of A Guy Thing (2003, some dope) (V) (airplane)
most of Looking for Langston (Julien) (a museum in Vienna)
Two Impossible Films (?): Das Kapital, History of Psychoanalysis (same museum in Vienna)
The Matrix Reloaded (2003, various Wachowskis) (R) (theater in Vienna)
The Great Dictator (1940, Chaplin) (Vienna)
Duck Soup (1933, McCarey) (R~12) (Vienna)
Donnie Darko (2001, Richard Kelly) (Budapest)
Helpmates, Any Old Port, ? (all Laurel and Hardy, aka Stan es Pan) (Budapest)
Hukkle (2002, Palfi) (R) (Budapest)
1/2 of Maid in Manhattan, 1/4 of Just Married (recently, dopes) (V) (airplane)
most of Catch Me if you Can (2002, Spielberg) (V) (airplane)
High Noon (1952, Zinneman) (HFA)

JUNE 25-JULY 31 (return to Berkeley)
In Memory of a Day Gone By (1990, Bartas) (PFA)
Three Days (1991, Sarunas Bartas) (PFA)
God Told Me To (1976, Larry Cohen) (PFA)
The Master (1989,Tsui Hark [Jet Li]) (4-Star)
The Miracle Fighters (1982, Yuen Wo-Ping) (4-Star)
Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989, Kaurismaki) (PFA)
Hamlet Goes Business (1987, Kaurismaki) (PFA)
Bruce Almighty (2003) (V)
She Shoots Straight (1990, Corey Yuan) (4-Star)
The Storm Riders (1998, Andrew Lau) (4-Star)
Ariel (1989, Kaurismaki) (PFA)
Ali G: In Da House (2002) (V)
La Vie de Boheme (1992, Kaurismaki) (PFA)
I Hired a Contract Killer (1990, Kaurismaki) (PFA)
Blade (V) 
Go West (Buster Keaton) (Castro Silent Film Festival)
The Good Old Naughty Days (French 1920's silent hardcore porn) (Red Vic)
Incubus (1965, Leslie Stevens) (PFA)
Juha (Kaurismaki) (PFA)
Fong Sai Yuk II (1993, Corey Yuen) (4-Star)
Fist of the White Lotus (dubbed) (1980, Lo Lieh/Shaw Bros) (4-Star)
Next Friday (V)
The Weather Underground (2003, Green and Siegel) (Shattuck)
The Ladies Man (V)

AUGUST 1-24 (until the fall term started)
Born in East LA (198?,) (V) (Rajay's)
Johnny English (2003,) (Metro Point, with Dad and Rajay)
So's Your Old Man (W.C. Fields) (PFA)
The Fatal Glass of Beer (W.C. Fields) (PFA)
The Man on the Flying Trapeeze (W.C. Fields) (PFA)
Gigantic (200?,) (Castro)
Masked and Anonymous (2003,) (Acts 1&2)
The Phantom of Liberty (197?,Bunuel) (Castro with Nick/Joel/Soroosh)
Salvation! (198?, B) (PFA)
Oceans 11 (2002, Soderbergh) (V)
American Splendor (2003, someone who's not Terry Zwigoff) (PFA with Scott/Nina/Joel/? after Cheese Board)
Veronique of the Mounties (performed by the San Francisco Mime Troupe in 
	People's Park)
Unbreakable (Shyamalan) (V)
Ali G Innit (Sacha Cohen) (V)

Gems:  
Raw Force, Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, Hukkle, Monday Morning,
Gangs of New York, Andrei Rublev, Adaptation, 36th Chamber and Return to
the 36th Chamber, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, The Storm Riders, The 
Phantom of Liberty

Books/comic collections I've read since 12/18/02 (Not including technical 
math)

DECEMBER 18-JANUARY 4
Sweet Myth-tery of Life (Asprin) (R)
Mythion-Improbable (Asprin)
Phule Me Twice (Asprin)
Stupid White Men (Michael Moore)

JANUARY 5-31
When Harlem Nearly Killed King (Hugh Pearson)
The Boondocks: Beause I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper (McGruder)
Fresh For '01 You Suckas: A Boondocks Collection (McGruder)

FEBURARY
Lord of the Rings book 3 (Tolkien)
"Ethan Brand" (Hawthorne)
"The Approach to al-Mu'tasim", "The Aleph" (Borges)
"A Diamond as Big as the Ritz" (Fitzgerald)
"The Magic Barrel" (Malamud)
"The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg" (Twain)

MARCH
Skipping Towards Gomorrah (Dan Savage)
"The Luck of Roaring Camp", "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" (Bret Harte)
Lord of the Rings books 4,5,6 (Tolkien)
the chapter on the movies in And a Time to Hope: Americans and the Great 
	Depression
"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" (Hawthorne)
"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" (Garcia Marquez)
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (Thurber)
"A Cask of Amontillado" (Rn) (Poe)
Books 1-6 of The Odyssey (Homer)

APRIL
"A Good Man is Hard to Find" (Flannery O'Connor)
Look Back in Anger(John Osborne)
"The Death of the Hired Man" (R) (Frost)
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (T.S. Eliot)
"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (Leaves of Grass my ass!)

MAY
Volpone (Ben Jonson)

JUNE
Only Yesterday (Frederic Lewis Allen)
How Monkeys Make Chocolate (Forsyth)
Ragtime (Doctorow)

JULY
Woodrow Wilson (Auchincloss)
Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing (someone)
Behold the Man (Michael Moorcock)
Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut (Emily White)

AUGUST
Around the World in 80 Days (Verne)

currently reading with various amounts of dedication:
Out in the Castro
Fates Worth Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage (Vonnegut)
The Basque History of the World (Mark Kurlansky)
The Dustbin of History (Marcus)
Piled Higher and Deeper collection
The New York City Draft Riots (Bernstein)
Newton and Leibniz, Barrow and Hooke (or something similar) (Arnol'd)
The Honors Class (Yandell)
The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood)
Fast Food Nation (Schlosser)
American Skin (someone; now returned to the library and i'll likely never finish the last 40%)
Mathematics and Physics (Manin)

Things I am unlikely to finish
The Aeneid (I read the first 10 books in summer of 2001 and eventually
mean to get back to it...but i'm not dying to do so and i'll probably
reread homer before i do) 

Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Tom Wolfe is better in small doses, and
this got put aside sometime in 2002)