Earlier
Movies and plays I've seen between 7/1/02 and 12/18/02
JULY
Fucking Amal (aka Show Me Love) (1998, Moodyson) (V) (Tagline: Jag ska aldrig
mer bli ihop med n?n. Jag ska bli celibat.)
Insomnia (2002, Nolan) (Shattuck)
Getting Straight (1970, Rush) (PFA)
Remember the Night (1940, Leisen/script Sturges) (PFA)
The Good Fairy (1935, Wyler/script Sturges) (PFA)
Christmas in July (1940, Sturges) (PFA)
The Great McGinty (1940, Sturges) (PFA)
Easy Living (1937, Leisen/Sturges script) (PFA)
The Others (2001, Amena'bar) (V)
Age of Consent (PFA)
[instructional film about marriage] (PFA)
Cry-Baby (Waters) (V)
Junk Film II at the 4-Star (4-Star)
Once a Cop (Tong) (4-Star)
Romance (Bianchi). This made no sense to me. (PFA)
The Lady Eve (Sturges) (PFA)
The Palm Beach Story (1942, Sturges) (PFA)
Girl-Shy (1924, Lloyd) (Castro)
Star Wars (1977, Lucas) (V) (R~6)
The Monster on the Campus (Jack Arnold) (PFA)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (V)
Haiku Tunnel (2002, Kornbluth) (V)
No Man's Land (2001) (V)
Y Tu Mama Tambie'n (2001, Cuaron) (Act 1&2)
The Empire Stikes Back (1980) (V)
The Swinging Cheerleaders (Jack Hill) (PFA)
Return of the Jedi (1983) (V)
AUGUST
The Vagina Monologues (Ensler, HBO filmed version) (V)
Repo Man (V) (1984, Alex Cox)
3 in the Cellar (1970, Flicker) (PFA)
some prelinger archive ephemera (PFA)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (V) (2002, Vardalos) (airplane to Boston or connection to London, I forget)
Changing Lanes (V) (2002, Mitchell) (airplane to London)
The Navigator (1924, Keaton) (well, most of it. stupid Hammersmith and
City Line) (a theater in London whose name I forget)
Talk to Her (Almodovar, 2002) (a theater in Oxford whose name I forget)
Stargate (1994, Emmerich) (V) (R) (hotel room in Oxford)
Clockstoppers (2002, Jonathan Frakes) (V) (airplane from London)
The Scorpion King (V) (2002, Russell) (airplane from London)
the last half hour of John Q (2002, Nick Cassavetes) (V) (airplane from London)
about half of My Big Fat Greek Wedding (V) (R1.5) (airplane from Boston or connection, I forget)
The first 2/3 of Psychopathia Sexualis (Zugsmith) (PFA)
Some Like it Hot (1959, Wilder) (R) (PFA)
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964,Wilder) (PFA)
The Apartment (1960,Wilder) (PFA)
One, Two, Three (1961, Wilder) (PFA)
Mr. Smith Goes to Obscuristan (SF Mime Troupe, People's Park)
SEPTEMBER
A Touch of Zen (1969, King Hu) (PFA)
You Only Live Twice (R3?) (V) (1967, Gilbert)
The Backyard (2002, Paul Hough) (PFA)
Dragon Inn (1966, King Hu) (PFA)
[sitcom architect] (PFA)
1/2 * [rizzoli] (PFA)
Thesis (Amenabar) (Spanish Cine-Club)
The Naked Gun (V)
The Valiant Ones (King Hu) (PFA)
Night and Day (Tom Stoppard, performed by American Conservatory Theatre)
OCTOBER
The Daddy of Rock and Roll (PFA)
Spangled (PFA)
Shadows (Cassavetes) (R4) (PFA)
Faces (Cassavetes) (PFA)
[cone] (PFA)
[shapes] (PFA)
Powers of 10 (Eames Bros.) (PFA)
Zorn's Lemma (Frampton) (PFA)
Disco Dolls in Hot Skin (in 3D!) (Act 1&2)
Death of a Neopolitan Mathematician (PFA)
[a calculated cinema 2] (PFA)
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (V)
Hidden Fortress (Kurosawa) (PFA)
Belle Epoque (Spanish Cine-Club)
Husbands (Cassavetes) (PFA)
80% of some dull movie by mario bava...lisa something (PFA)
N is a Number (Czis...) (PFA)
Moebius (PFA)
[a calculated cinema 3] (PFA)
Demon of the Derby (PFA)
NOVEMBER
Blazing Saddles (V) (Mel Brooks)
Wonder Boys (V)
Men in Black II (V) (Sonnenfeld or something)
Bread and Tulips (V)
The Jerky Boys (V)
DECEMBER
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa) (PFA)
Die Another Day (V)
Bowling for Columbine (2002, Michael Moore) (Act 1&2)
I Live in Fear (Kurosawa) (PFA)
(Rn) indicates a repeat viewing, n the number of viewings, (R):=(R2).
(V) indicates that it's a film I saw in a video transfer of some sort but
is omitted if the work itself is a video.
Gems:
Junk Film II, the Sturges stuff collectively, Talk to Her, Some Like it
Hot.
Total:
72 features
2 shorts
5 programs of shorts
1 play
Books,plays,comic strip collections,stories,essays,etc. I've read
since 7/1/02
I started The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Cold War and the Color Line,
but put both aside.
JULY
The Professor and the Madman (Simon Winchester)
On Politics and the Art of Acting (Arthur Miller)
The Devouring Fungus
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (Hilton)
AUGUST
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson)
SEPTEMBER
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (Wodehouse)
The Secret of the Unicorn (Herge)
The Seven Crystal Balls (Herge)
Land of Black Gold (Herge)
Red Rackham's Treasure (Herge)
OCTOBER
I read part of Galapagos and not much else.
NOVEMBER
The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton (Joe Klein)
Galapagos (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
Lady Windemere's Fan (Oscar Wilde)
partway through:The Dustbin of History (Greil Marcus)
Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser)
Stupid White Men (Michael Moore)
Skipping Towards Gomorrah (Dan Savage)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Chapter 3 of The Twentieth Century World: An
International History
Personal History (Katherine Graham)
Total
4 works of nonfiction
5 plays and works of fiction
4 tintin comics