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Movies and Plays I've seen 8/25/03-4/30/04
AUGUST 25-SEPTEMBER
The Medallion (200?). (UA B)
Head of State (2003) (V)
The Match Factory Girl (Kaurismaki) (MFA)
Leningrad Cowboys Go America (Kaurismaki) (R) (MFA)
Boston Film Festival Shorts Program #2: "Are You Feeling Lonely",
"Nutria","Live Bait", "The New Patriots", "Luminous", "The Rotting
Woman" (Loews Boston Common)
The Italian Job (2003) (V)
A Night at the Opera (R>=6) (1937, Sam Wood) (V)
Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón (1980, Almodovar) (V) (Span. club)
City of God (Wheeler)
Camp (Elmwood)
Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen) (V)
gems: The Match Factory Girl
OCTOBER
Pumping Iron (1976, Butler) (Roxie)
Party Monster (2003,) (Shattuck)
Krampack (Iberia Cine-Club)
Holy Land (Shattuck)
Kill Bill Vol. 1(2003, Tarantino) (Oaks)
Safety Last (1924, Lloyd) (Paramount)
Minnie the Moocher (Betty Boop) (Paramount)
Lost in Translation (2003, Sofia Coppola) (Four Star)
Tristana (Bunuel) (Span. Club)
gems: Safety Last
NOVEMBER
The Matrix Revolutions (2003, Wachowski brothers) (Metreon Imax)
The Animatrix (2003, Wachowskis and others) (V)
Bubba Ho-Tep (2003) (California)
Maximum Penalty (2001, Jorge Echeverry) (Span. Club)
When it Rains... (1995 , Charles Burnett) (Yerba Buena)
Emitai (1971,Sembene) (Yerba Buena)
Autumn Spring (2001, Michalek) (Opera Plaza)
Friday After Next (2002, someone) (V)
Porn Theater [La Chatte a deux tetes] (2002, Nolot) (Act 1 & Act 2)
The Shawshank Redemption (V) (Robin's)
State and Main (Mamet) (V) (Robin's)
Mr. Bean Goes to School, Mr. Bean does something else (V) (Robin's)
Bad Santa (2003, Zwigoff) (Jack London)
Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith) (Yerba Buena)
Bijou (1972, Wakefield Poole) (Yerba Buena)
Imitation of Christ (1967, Warhol) (Yerba Buena)
Waiting for Godot (Beckett, performed by ACT)
gems: Bubba Ho-Tep, Bad Santa, Bijou
DECEMBER
X-Men (V) (R) (_ ,Singer)
Fellowship of the Ring, longer cut (2001, Jackson) (Metreon)
Continental Divide: Daughters of Revolution (David Edgar) at Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Continental Divide: Mothers Against (David Edgar) at Berkeley Repertory Theatre
The Two Towers, longer cut (2002, Jackson) (Metreon)
Return of the King (2003, Jackson) (Spectrum IMAX)
Master and Commander (2003, Weir) (Big Newport)
Ghostbusters (R~3 or 4) (V) (SA)
The Flying Deuces (V) (SA)
The Cooler (UCI)
The Triplets of Belleville (UCI)
One-Hour Photo (V) (SA)
Girl With a Pearl Earring (SC Village)
gems: Triplets of Belleville
JANUARY 1-10
Clerks (the 6 episode cartoon) (Rajay's and SA)
The Producers (SA)
The Safety of Objects (SA)
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (R) (V) (Rajay's)
The Fog of War (2003, Morris) (UCI)
JAN 11-
Modern Times (1926, Chaplin) (R3) (Roxie)
21 Grams (2003,In~arritu) (Shattuck)
Side Street (1950, Mann) (PFA)
Winged Migration (2002,Perrin) (Elmwood)
A Doll's House (Ibsen; American Conservatory Theater)
Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent (David Sterry;Spanganga)
gems: Chicken
FEBRUARY
Arabian Nights (Pasolini) (Yerba Buena)
The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo) (Castro)
The Canterbury Tales (Pasolini) (YBCA)
Salo, or, 120 Days of Sodom (Pasolini) (YBCA)
gems: Arabian Nights, Canterbury Tales
MARCH
Man of Destiny (by Shaw, presented by Aurora Theater Company)
Marat/Sade (Peter Weiss, at Zellerbach Hall)
Notorious C.H.O. (V) (home)
Just a Woman (PFA)
Being Normal (PFA)
The Adventures of Iron Pussy (PFA)
Goodbye, Lenin! (South Coast Village)
Killing Them Softly (Dave Chapelle) (V) (Rajay's)
The Chicago Conspiracy Trial () (LA Theaterworks recording)
Radio Mambo: Culture Clash in Miami (Culture Clash) (recording)
Stupidity (200_) (Roxie)
Jersey Girl (2004, Smith) (Shattuck)
"Smith used to make movies to make fun of movies like this"
--Robert Wilonsky, SF Weekly
gems: The Adventures oF iron Pussy
APRIL
Nightjohn (Charles Burnett) (PFA)
My Brother's Wedding (Charles Burnett) (PFA)
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett) (PFA) (R)
Olivia's Story (Burnett) (PFA)
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (Burnett) (PFA)
Several Friends (Burnett) (PFA)
The Horse (Burnett) (PFA)
When It Rains (Burnett) (PFA) (R)
The Glass Shield (Burnett) (PFA)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Demy) (Castro)
French Twist (1995, Balasko) (V) (Queer Resource Center)
The Same River Twice (2004, Robb Moss) (Red Vic)
Kill Bill, Vol 2 (2004, Tarantino) (UA Berkeley)
Part of an unknown porno of poor quality (Palm)
gems: My Brother's Wedding, Several Friends, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Same River Twice, Kill Bill, vol 2
Gems: "Are You Feeling Lonely", City of God, Kill Bill, Autumn Spring, Bad
Santa, The Shawshank Redemption, The Triplets of Belleville, The Fog of
War,Bijou,Arabian Nights, that segment in The Canterbury Tales where the
trickster guy keeps getting people to fall in the water, My Brother's
Wedding,Killer of Sheep,When it Rains (these three are my favorites by
far),Umbrellas of Cherbourg,The Same River Twice
All time favorites: Duck Soup, Animal Crackers, Modern Times, The General, Taxi
Driver, Shadows, Dr. Strangelove (M, The Passion of Joan of Arc,...)
Books/comic collections I've read since 8/25/03 (Not including technical math books and articles)
AUGUST 25-30
first few stories from Bagombo Snuff Box (Vonnegut)
SEPTEMBER
Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
Speaker for the Dead (Card)
Xenocide (Card)
OCTOBER
Children of the Mind (Card)
Ender's Shadow (Card)
Shadow of the Hegemon (Card)
Shadow Puppets (Card)
Clubland:The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture (Frank Owen)
Sorrow Floats (Tim Sandlin)
Social Blunders (Tim Sandlin)
NOVEMBER
Sex and Sunsets (Tim Sandlin)
"Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities" (Borges)
"Capone's Revenge" (Jeffrey Toobin)
"Young Convicts" (James T. Farrell)
Post-Dykes to Watch Out For (Alison Bechdel)
Confessions of a Conservative (Gary Wills)
A Dangerous Place (Mark Reisner)
DECEMBER
Hocus Pocus (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
Free as in Freedom (the Richard Stallman biography)
The Last Party: Studio 54 and the Culture of the Night (Arthur Hayden-Guest)
Focus (Arthur Miller)
JANUARY
In Her Shoes (Jennifer Weiner)
FEBRUARY
Watchmen (Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons)
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Jeanette Winterson)
the R. Crumb American Splendors (Harvey Pekar/R. Crumb)
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Alan Moore/)
V for Vendetta (Alan Moore/)
Conscience in Politics: Adlai Stevenson in the 1950's (Stuart Brown)
MARCH
Post-Soul Nation: The Exposive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic
1980s as Experienced by African Americans (Previously Known as
Blacks and Before That Negroes) (Nelson George)
The New American Splendor Anthology (Harvey Pekar/various artists)
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black
Market (Eric Schlosser)
some X-men collection
Girl 9 (Haruo Ko(n?)bayashi)
APRIL
Lies, and the Lying Liars That Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced
Look at the Right (Al Franken)
Miss Lonelyhearts (Nathaniel West)
A History of X: 100 Years of Sex in Film (Luke Ford)
currently reading with various amounts of dedication:
Life on the Mississippi (Mark Twain)
Washington (Meg Greenfield)
Since Yesterday (Frederick Lewis Allen)
The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Amos Tutuola)
Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? & Nothing But Good Times Ahead
Dave Barry is Not Making This Up
The Elegant Universe (Brian Greene)
Fashionable Nonsense (Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont)
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
In Our Time (Ernest Hemingway)
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 (Jorge Cham)
The New York City Draft Riots (Bernstein)
Newton and Leibniz, Barrow and Hooke (or something similar) (Arnol'd)
The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood)
Mathematics and Physics (Yuri Manin)
Things I am unlikely to finish anytime soon
The Honors Class (Yandell) (returned)
Out in the Castro (returned to library)
Fast Food Nation (Schlosser) (lost in car wreck)
American Skin (someone; now returned to the library and i'll likely never finish the last 40%)
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)
The Clash of Fundamentalisms (Tariq Ali) (returned to
library; didn't feel like reading it immediately, but
it seems good)