Movies and performances and other things I've seen since 1/1/2005
Note: (R)=second time seeing it. (Rn)=nth time seeing it. (V)=film i 
saw on video.  (Naz8)=Fremont Naz8.  I often don't list movies under 
'gems' on repeat viewings because it would force me to be consistent 
or something. 

JANUARY

Way Out West (1932, Laurel and Hardy) (American Cinematheque at the Egyptian with Dad)
Sons of the Desert (1937, Laurel and Hardy) (Egyptian with Dad) (R)
first two movies on the Oliver Hardy Collection (V) (SA, with dad)
Hulchul (2004, Priyadarshan) (V) (SA)
Pissarro and Cezanne exhibit at LACMA (with K, Mom, Dad, Rob, Les)
The Godfather (1973, Francis Ford Coppola) (V) (home, with K)
King Kong (1933, ) (Castro)
Match Point (2005, Woody Allen) (California, with K)
Dosti (2005,) (Naz8, with K)
Street Without End (19 , Naruse) (PFA)
Jungle Fever (199 , Spike Lee) (V) (home, with K)
The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950, ) (Noir City--Palace of Fine Arts with Matt)
Thieves' Highway(Jules Dassin) (Noir City--Palace of Fine Arts with Matt)
Cruising (1980, William Friedkin) (Castro, with K and Mischa and Mischa's Brad)
Best of Youth, Parts 1 and 2 (2004?, ) (PFA)
Gay Sex in the 1970's (Castro, with K)
Shikhar (2004, John M. Mathan) (Naz8)
Night Editor (1946) (Noir City--Balboa)
Nocturne (1946) (Noir City--Balboa)
Oakland Raider Parking Lot (PFA, with K)
La Lucha (PFA, with K)
Gilda (1946,) (Noir City--Balboa)
The Killers (1946,) (Noir City--Balboa)
Roller Boogie (1979) (Freaky Fridays at the Castro, with K)
Xanadu (1979, Mike Greenwald) (Freaky Fridays at the Castro, with K)
Sexual Perversity in Chicago (David Mamet, presented by the ACT) (with K)
Scarface (1980, Brian DePalma) (Castro)

gems: Sons of the Desert, The Godfather, King Kong, Match Point, Street 
Without End, Thieves' Highway, Cruising, The Best of Youth, Gay Sex in the 
1970's, Nocturne, Gilda, Roller Boogie

FEBRUARY
Rang de Basanti (2005, ) (Naz8 with David Boyk)
Mujhse Dosti Karogi () (V) (home)
Mad Cowgirl (2005,) (SF Indiefest at Women's Building)
Initial D (2005, ) (SF Indiefest at Roxie, with Jeff Brown)
(prophet omega movie) (PFA, with K)
Okie Noodling (,) (PFA, with K)
House of Fury (2004, ) (SF Indiefest at Roxie)
Johnny Montana (2006) (SF Indiefest at Women's Building)
Naisu No Mori (2005) (SF Indiefest at Roxie)
A History of Violence (2005, David Cronenberg)
Pup, Born in a Barn (PFA with K, Aaron, Andre)
Breaking News (Johnny To) (Balboa)
Shopaholics (Johnny To) (Four Star)
Classe Tous Risques () (Balboa with Ciprian, Joel, Hannah, and Andre) (blind people movie)
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2005, David Metzler) (PFA with K, Joel, Hannah, Aaron)

gems: Naisu No Mori, A History of Violence, Plagues and Pleasures on the 
Salton Sea, Prophet Omega movie

MARCH
Shut Yer Dirty Little Mouth (200?,) (Elmwood, with K) (twenty minutes of two old guys screaming at each other was enough; the last 70 were pretty superfluous)
Night Nurse (Balboa)
The School for Romanace (Balboa)
Baby Face (Balboa)
Plan 9 from Outer Space (, Ed Wood) (Castro) (premiere of colorized version!)
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (198?, Leonard Nimoy) (V, home)
The Godfather Part II (1974, Francis Ford Coppola) (V) (home with K)
House Party (1989ish, Reginald Hudlin) (V, home)
Taxi Number 9211 (2006, Milan Luthria) (Naz8, with Tathagata)
V for Vendetta (2006, someone/Wachowskis) (UA Berkeley with K)
Night Watch (200x,) (Elmwood) (got bored and didn't finish it)
Clans of Intrigue (1977, Chu Yuan) (Heroic Grace II at PFA) (with Jeff Brown)
King Boxer (1972,  Chung Chang-wha) (Heroic Grace II at PFA) (with Alex) 
The Boxer from Shantung (1972, Zhang Che, Bao Xueli) (Heroic Grace II at PFA)
Dirty Ho (1979, Lau Kar-leung) (Heroic Grace II at PFA) (with Jeff Brown)

gems: Baby Face, Boxer from Shantung,Dirty Ho

APRIL
most of Dirty Harry (V, SA)
16 Blocks (2006,) (Smith Ranch Drive In, 29 Palms CA with K)
Wild at Heart (David Lynch) (Balboa)
Eraserhead (David Lynch) (Balboa)
Prime (airplane Dulles->SFO)
parts of Aeon Flux (airplane Dulles->SFO) (patent nonsense)
Pulp Fiction (199x, Quentin Tarantino) (V, home with K)
Mondo Cane (1962,)(Oddball, with K)
An episode (the second?) of the new Dr. Who series (Lev's Capp Street Movie Palace, with K, Lev, various filmmaking friends of Lev)
Shaadi Se Pehli (Naz)
17th and Pennsylvania and Cartography of Ashes (both projected onto a fire station, with Lev and pals)
Workingman's Death (,Michael G...)(PFA)
The Rivals (Richard Brinsley Sheridan, performed by ACT)
turnabout
Fatty Arbuckle 1 (MOMA)
Street Thief (2006, ) (Tribeca Film Festival at Loews East Village with Lev)

MAY
Fatty Arbuckle 2 (MOMA)
Hammer and Tickle (2006, ) (Tribeca Film Festival at Loews East Village with Lev and Ciprian)

Police Beat (Anthology Film Archives)
Kiss Me Deadly (R) (Film Forum)
The Killers (195x, Kubrick) (Film Forum)
The Coconuts (Marx Brothers) (V) (home)
Water (2006, Deepa Mehta) (Albany Twin, with K)
Art School Confidential (2006, Zwigoff) (with K, and coincidentally, with Miriam and Chris)
Boondocks "Return of the King" (200?,?) (with K, at home)

---BOOKS---


currently reading:
Grift Sense (james Swain)
The New York Trilogy (Paul Auster)
Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting : Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (Vijay Prashad)
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Suketu Mehta)
A Field Guide to Sprawl (Dolores Hayden,Jim Wark)
Dr. Futurity (Philip K. Dick)
Freakonomics (Steven Levitt and some guy)
It Happened in Manhattan: An Oral History...Mid-Century...
Peanuts first year (Charles Schultz)

JANUARY
Grand Central Winter (Lee Stringer)
Magister Ludi (Hermann Hesse)
The Death of Vishnu (Manil Suri)

FEBRUARY
Warlords of Crime: ...Triads... (Gerald Posner)
Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For (Alison Bechdel)
Invasion of the Dykes to Watch Out For (Alison Bechdel)
Huygens and Barrow, Newton and Hooke: pioneers in mathematical analysis and catastrophe theory from evolvents to quasicrystals (V.I. Arnol'd)

MARCH
The Blue Lotus (Herge)

APRIL
The Mafia (Time-Life)

MAY
New York (Imre Kertesz)
most of the articles in Golden Years of Moscow Mathematics (various authors: Arnold, Fuchs,Postnikov,...)


gave up on:
Choke (Chuck Palahniuk)