Movies and performances and other things I've seen since 12/13/04
Note: (R)=second time seeing it. (Rn)=nth time seeing it. (V)=film i 
saw on video.  (Naz8)=Fremont Naz8.  I don't list movies under 'gems' on 
repeat viewings because it would force me to be consistent or something. 

DECEMBER
Garam Masala (2005, Priyadarshan) (Naz8, with K, Lauren, Denis, Tathagata, and Matt)
Leading Lizzie Astray (Arbuckle) (SFC)
An Eastern Westerner (Lloyd) (SFC)
Steamboat Bill Jr. (Keaton) (SFC)
Fist of Legend ( (Jet Li) ) (V, home)
The Killer Elite (Peckinpah) (PFA)
Zatoichi...(Balboa, with Jomy)
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron (Balboa)
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (197x, Sam Peckinpah) (PFA, with Kirsten)
Wallace and Grommit: something something Were-Rabbit (Aardman...) (Woodbridge Dollar Cinemas with Dad)
The Bellhop, The Butcher Boy (Fatty Arbuckle/Buster Keaton) (V) (home,with dad)
Neal and Nikki (2005, ) (Naz8 Artesia) (so vapid...)
Ek Ajanabee (Naz8 Artesia with Adam)
Dewaane Huye Pagal  (Naz8 Artesia)  (the most over the top Indian film I've seen)
throughout: most of Ali G USA season 2 (with Dad and/or K and/or Sunjay)
Baazigar (V) (home, with Adam)
Brokeback Mountain (2005, Ang Lee) (South Coast Village w/ K, Mom, Dad, Adam)
Seeta aur Geeta (Ramesh Sippy) (V) (home)
John Waters: Change of Life exhibit at OCMA (with K, Mom, Adam)
Hag in a Black Leather Jacket (1964, John Waters) (OCMA)
Bluffmaster (2005, Rohan Sippy) (Naz 8 Artesia w/ K)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (V) (home with K)
Munich (2005, Spielberg) (Metro Point w/ K, Mom, Dad)

gems: Fist of Legend, Deewane Huye Pagal, Brokeback Mountain

NOVEMBER
2 of Ernie Gehr's short films about Manhattan that I wasn't in the mood for (PFA)
Salaam Namaste (Naz8)
Marshall Plan Films, Program 1: (PFA, Peter McC also there)
Trance films at Oddball (Oddball Film and Video, with K and Peter McC)
They Might Be Giants (at Bimbo 365, with K)
Sing-a-Long Purple Rain at Midnight Mass (Bridge, with K)
Shaadi No. 1 (2005, David Dhawan) (Naz, with Arindam)
silent shorts with women (SFC)
1st Half of Kaala Patthar (1979, Yash Chopra)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (at ACT, with Brendan and Lev)
a short about India, Bombay Movies (a short about Vinod Khanna), Calcutta (Louis Malle) (Oddball, with Arindam)
Meghe Dhaka Tara (Ritwik Gathak) (Castro, with Tathagata, Gargi, and Arindam)
silent shorts involving drag: A Woman (Chaplin), Know Thy Wife (), ... (SFC)
some Monty Python episodes (home, with K)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone) (Castro)
Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005) (Act 1&2, with K, Juli, Rachel, Ceren, Bill)
All in the Timing (David Ives) (Barestage, with Matt Levine)
Harvest (Manjula Padmanabhan, dir. Sudipto Chatterjee) (at Durham Stage in Dwinelle, with Alfonso and Ari)
Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch) (Balboa: Sin in Soft Focus, with Juliana)
The Smiling Lieutenant (Lubitsch) (Balboa: Sin in Soft Focus, with Juliana)
The Immigrant (Chaplin), The Paleface (Keaton), Putting Pants on Philip (Laurel and Hardy), The Pilgrim (Chaplin) (SFC)
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998, Karan Johar) (at Polina's, with Nick, Aaron, Polina, and Pooja) (V)
Mississippi Masala (1991, Mira Nair) (Robin's, with K, Mom, Dad, Rob and Les) (V)
some of Sister Act (199something, some schmo) (Robin's, with K, Mom, Dad, Rob, and Les) (V) (I hadn't remembered how pallid this is)
last n-10 minutes of Requiem for a Dream (2000, Darren Aronofsky) (V) (Robin's, with K, Mom, Dad, Rob, and Les) (even more intense than I'd remembered)
Easy Street (Charlie Chaplin (Mutual)) (SFC) (V)
Speedy (Harold Lloyd) (SFC) (V)
Drunken Master (Yuen Wo-Ping, Jackie Chan) (at Polina's, with her and Nick) (V)

gems: Once Upon a Time in the West, Drunken Master

OCTOBER
various shorts about cars (SFC, with Seth and Juliana)
The Strong Man (Harry Langdon) (SFC)
various shorts about houses (SFC)
No Entry (2005, ) (Naz8, with Kirsten and David Boyk)
Peter Kubelka's Metric Films (, Kubeka) (PFA)
The Idle Class (1921, Charie Chaplin) (V) (SFC, in Moffitt MRC)

SEPTEMBER
[The Sprinkler Sprinkled], something else short
The Sea Inside (2004, Alejandro Amena'bar) (Iberia Cine-Cycle, with Alfonso etc.) (V) 
Born into Brothels (2004, ) (Wheeler SUBERB)
monday film 108 screenings
La Belle et la Bete (Philip Glass, performed by Oakland Opera) (with Simon and Aaron)
Batman Begins (2005, Christopher Nolan) (Wheeler, with Tathagata)
Asha Bhosle with the Kronos Quartet (YBCA with David Boyk).  Also 
something by Terry Riley that used toys.
second half of Kaala Patthar (1979, Yash Chopra)
Duplicate (1997, _ Bhatt)
Jodi No. 1 until the subtitles died at 1:49 (2001, David Dhawan)
beginning of Utsav (1984, Girish Karnad)
(last 4: Bollywood Mega-Marathon with Aaron, Tathagata, Jeff, Eli, Matt Levine, David Boyk and many of David Boyk's friends. 16 total for various parts of it).
The Playhouse (R), The Frozen North, The Navigator (R) (all Keaton) (Dwinelle 142)
The Overcoat (Gogol/Shostakovich/hosers) (ACT with Alex Mints)
The Playhouse (R3)
Bunty aur Babli (Shaad Ali Saghal, prod. Aditya Chopra, 2005) (R2) (V) (in Austin at Nick's, with Ben, Carl Mautner, Max Maydanskiy (sp?) and Martin the Swede)

AUGUST
Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (1998, ) (V) (home, with David Boyk)
a short and For Heaven's Sake (Harold Lloyd) (PFA, Boyk and Michelle also 
there)
The Aristocrats (California, with Kirsten)
Mangal Pandey (2005, ) (Naz8, with Gaius, Sabrina, Tathagata, and Gargi)
Broken Flowers (2005, Jarmusch) (UCI with Mom and Dad)
Chinese Ghost Story (1987,) (SF Asian Film Festival at the Presidio)
Girl Shy (19x, Harold Lloyd) (Castro) (R2)
Speedy (1928, Harold Lloyd)
The Freshman (192x, Harold Lloyd) (Castro) (R2)
Why Worry? (192x, Harold Lloyd) (Castro)
Welcome, Danger (1930, Harold Lloyd) (Castro)
The Cat's Paw (1934, Lloyd) (Castro)
Hot Water (1924, Lloyd) (Castro)
The Kid Brother (1927, Lloyd) (Castro)
Doctor Jack (1922, Lloyd) (Castro) (R2) 
Movie Crazy (193x, Lloyd) (Castro)
5 Shorts (192x, Lloyd) (Castro) (some R2)
lloyd
lloyd
The Floorwalker (1916, Chaplin), The Cook (1918, Arbuckle), The Scarecrow 
(1920, Keaton), Saturday Afternoon (1926,Langdon) (Silent Film Class)
Dil Chahta Hai (2001, )(at home over several nights)

gems: the short, For Heaven's Sake, Broken Flowers, Movie Crazy, Speedy, 
Why Worry?, The Cook, The Scarecrow

JULY
Trouble in Paradise (193x, Lubitsch) (PFA)
The Goat, or Who is Syliva? (Edward Albee) (ACT, with K and Juli)
Masquerade, The Tramp (191x, Chaplin) (Fabe's class)
Ministry of Fear (194x, Fritz Lang) (PFA)
Paheli (2005, ) (Naz8 with Aaron, Matt, David Boyk, and Paul Reverdy)
Prem Sanyas (1925, Franz Osten and Himansu Rai) (Silent Film Festival at the Castro)
Saboteur (1942, Alfred Hitchcock) (PFA)
Spies (1925, Fritz Lang) (PFA; Jon, Reverdy, and Juliana also there) 
Get Out and Get Under and Safety Last (19xx, Harold Lloyd) (PFA with Dad)
Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya (2005, David Dhawan) (Naz8 with Dad)
The Shiek (192x, ) (Castro, with Ray and Juliana)
The Love God? (196x, starring Don Knotts) (Yerba Buena, with Lev and Meredith)
Viruddh (2005, ) (Naz8) (on Jul 23)
Sarkar (2005, Ram Gopal Varma) (Naz8)
Dus (2005, ) (Naz8) (on Jul 24, same as Sarkar)

gems: Trouble in Paradise, Ministry of Fear, The Love God?, Sarkar

JUNE
A Peck on the Cheek (Kannathil Muthamittal) (2002, Mani Ratnam) (Balboa, with my backpack)
Bunty aur Babli (2005,) (Naz8, with Priya)
Revenge of the Sith (2005,Lucas) (AMC Emeryville, with K and Juli)
Los Olvidados (195x,Luis Bunuel) (Balboa)
Kontroll (2003,) (Embarcadero, with K and Juli)
Kung Fu Hustle (200x, Steven Chow) (UA Galaxy)
half of 1988--The Remake (PFA, with K)
Parineeta (2005, ) (IMC6, with Sachin)
Chandramukhi (2005, P.something) (IMC6, with Sachin) (I wish this hadn't begun at 11pm!)
Enter the Dragon (Parkway with Jomy and Jeff)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask, performed by the Hunger Artists Theater) (with K)

gems: Bunty aur Babli, Los Olvidados, Kontroll, Chandramukhi, Enter the Dragon

MAY
Master of the Flying Guillotine (1975, Yu Wang) (Castro, with Jeff Brown)
Sholay (1975, Ramesh Sippy) (V) (R4, with Nicole (R2))
Kaal (2005, Soham Shah) (Naz8, with Aaron and Julia) (soulless)
Palindromes (2005, Solondz) (Act I and II with K, Juli, Juli's friend Rachel)
City Lights with restored score (1931, Charlie Chaplin) (Pathe Tuschinski)
Mother India (1957, Mehboob Khan) (R) (Nederlands Filmmuseum Cinerama)

gems: Master of the Flying Guillotine, City Lights

APRIL
Mughal-e-Azam (1960, K. Asif) (Naz8 with Sunanda, K, and Nicole, the latter two of whom will presumably abandon me as a result)
Amar, Akbar, Anthony (1977, Manmohan Desai) (home) (V) (hi-larious)
DDLJ (1995, Aaditya Chopra) (R3) (V) (home, with Aaron, Joel, Hannah, and Soroosh)
Bombay (1995, Mani Ratnam) (R) (bollywood class) (I thought it was good the first time I saw it, but it's much better than I remember)
Minnie's Boys (42nd something or other) (I should've just watched a Marx video instead)
Pirates of the Carribean (200x, some tool) (V) (home, with Nicole) (eh)
Waqt: The Race Against Time (2005, Vipul Shah) (Naz8 with Kirsten) (Kirsten: "I didn't even regret seeing it")
Three...Extremes: Dumplings, Box, Cut (2004, Fruit Chan, Chan-wook Park, Takashi Miike) (Kabuki with Joel, Hannah, Larissa, and Jomy)
Dil Se (R) (1998, Mani Ratnam) (V, home)
Kal Ho Naa Ho (R5) (2003, Johar/Advani) (Bollywood class)
Bride of Frank (1996, ) (Yerba Buena) (this was totally fucked-up.  it made "Three...Extremes" seem like barney.)
Black Friday (2004, Kashurap?) (PFA, with Emma, Priya, Jim, Lawrence, SC)

Gems: Amar, Akbar, Anthony; Bombay; Dumplings; Bride of Frank

MARCH
Bobby (1973, Raj Kapoor) (V) (R) (home)
Deewar (1975, Yash Chopra) (V) (English 203)
Sholay (1975, Ramesh Sippy) (R) (home) (censored version)
Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior (2003, Prachya Pinkaew) (R) (Shattuck)
Deewar (1975, Yash Chopra) (V) (R) (home)
Sholay (1975, Ramesh Sippy) (R3) (English 203) (censored version)
Mission Kashmir (2001, Vinod Chopra) (V) (Dwinelle 142) (and Vikram Chandra Q&A after)
Sideways (2004) (V) (airplane to NY) (Tepid.)
Avenue Q (Jeff Whitty,Robert Lopez,Jeff Marx) (Golden Theater)
John Ashberry reading from Where Shall I Wander	(192 Books)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, Thom Anderson) (Anthology Film Archives)
The Flower Thief (1960, Ron Rice) (zzzzzz...) (Anthology Film Archives, with Ciprian)
Diamond Queen (194_, Franz Osten) (Library of Congress)
2 of 13 reels of Sant Tukaram (1937) (Library of Congress)
1 of 4 reels of Kismet (Library of Congress)
1 of 4 reels of Chandralekha (Library of Congress)
Dil Se (1998, Mani Ratnam) (V) (Guy and Carol's)
Death Race 2000 (1975, ) (PFA) (with Mischa)

Gems: Deewar, Avenue Q, Los Angeles Plays Itself, Death Race 2000

FEBRUARY
Shree 420 (1957, Raj Kapoor) (V) (English 203)
Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation( , ,) (SF Indiefest:Women's Building) (best home movie ever!)
Agogo Weto (2002, Tunde Kelani) (African Film Festival at the PFA)
Campus Queen (2004, Tunde Kelani) (African Film Festival at the PFA) (it was fine, but I had higher hopes for Nollywood)
Shree 420 (1957, Raj Kapoor) (V) (R) (Davis TV room, with Nicole)
Moolade (2004, Sembene) (PFA)
Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior (2003, Prachya Pinkaew) (California) (wow!)
Mother India (1957, Mehboob Khan) (V) (home)
Pyaasa (1957, Guru Dutt) (V) (English 203)
Sholay (1975, Ramesh Sippy) (V) (Davis House TV room, with Nicole, Kirsten, Shaddy)
Bride and Prejudice (2004, Gurinder Chadda) (Albany Twin)
Black (2005, Sanjay Leela Bhansali) (BAL, with Kirsten) (so overrated!)
buttload of simpsons episodes (alfonso's, home)
Bobby (1973, Raj Kapoor) (V) (English 203)
Cleopatra Jones  (1973, Jack Starrett) (Parkway)
Deep Throat (1972, Gerard Damiano=Jerry Gerard) (Roxie, with K) (this was a great disappointment)
Tadpole (2002, Winick) (V) (home, with K)

gems: Shree 420, Moolade, Mother India, Pyaasa, Sholay, Ong-Bak, Cleopatra Jones

JANUARY
various DS9 episodes at home
The Guru (2002, Mayer) (V, SA with Adam)
Main Hoon Na (2004, Khan) (V,Rajay's, with R and Adam)
One Good Turn (1931, Horne/Laurel and Hardy) (V, SA with Dad)
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (2004, Leiner) (V, SA with Rajay and Adam)
Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (2003, Hirani) (V, SA with Adam)
Kumbh Mela (2004, Benazzo & Day) (Opera Plaza, with K)
Bad Education (2004, Almodovar) (Shattuck)
Quiet as a Mouse (2004, Mittermeier) (Berlin and Beyond at Castro)
The Yes Men (2003, Red Vic, with Kirsten)
Devil's Helper, Mr. Visit Show, Pink Christmas (Chambliss) (YBCA) (wow!)
Do the Rot Thing (Alameda County!) (Davis house tv room with Nicole))
Naked City (1948, Dassin) (Balboa, with K, Soroosh, Nathan, and Katia)
Hum Aapke Hain Koun! (1994, Barjatya) (V, home with K,Nicole,Jomy,Jeff,Eli,Paul,Jade,Matt)
American Beauty (1999, Mendes) (V) (home, with Nicole (and K for the end))
Clerks (1994, Smith) (R5) (V) (home, with K and Nicole)
The Princess Bride (adapted by Jim and Cameron) (Darkroom SF) (with K)
services of the Saint John Will-I-Am Coltrane African Orthodox Church (with Ciprian)
Digital Underground (at the Red Devil Lounge, with Jeff Brown)
On the Waterfront (1954, Kazan) (Castro, with Ciprian)
Boys in the Sand (1971, Poole) (V, home, with K, Alfonso, Nicole)
Bijou (1972, Poole) (R) (V, home, with K, Alfonso, Nicole)
Awara (1951, Raj Kapoor) (V, home)
Kisna (2005, Subhash Ghai) (Naz8, with K)

gems: The Yes Men, Naked City, Boys in the Sand, Awara

DECEMBER 13-31
Swades (2004, Gowariker) (Naz8) (with K,JeffB,MattL,AaronE,Linda,Hannah,ScottM,NinaW,CharlotteG,Erica,AlexM,JomyA,Katia,Nathan) (!)
Shwaas (2004, Sawant) (Naz8) (with Eli, Sachin, Sunanda, and Piotr)
2/3 of Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, Tsai) (I used to like anemic, referential, self-conscious movies where nothing occurs.  what happened?) (Roxie)
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995, A. Chopra) (R) (V)
Dolemite (1975, Martin) (with Rajay and, for the end, Vijay) (V, rajay's)
Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003, Advani) (R3) (with Adam) (V, home)
first half of Kal Ho Naa Ho (R3.5) (with Mom and Dad) (V, home)
Napoleon Dynamite (with Rajay, Sunjay, Vijay, Mari, Shinji, another Japanese fellow) (V, rajay's)
The Sting (R) (V) (SA, with K, Mom, Adam, Dad)
Who's On First (not the usual version) (Egyptian, with Dad and K)
Violent is the Word for Curly (Egyptian)
Horse Feathers (Egyptian)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Egyptian)
Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Saathiyo (Naz8 Artesia, with K and Adam)
House of the Flying Daggers (South Coast Village, with K and Rajay)
the last third of I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (Rajay's, with Rajay and Vijay and K)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (,Ed Wood) (SA, with Rajay and K)
four Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes
three South Park episodes



 

What I've read 12/04-12/05.  Most of the Bollywood-related things I read 
from February to May were directly or indirectly for Priya Joshi's English 
203 class.  I've been pretty lazy about entering the reading I did for 
that class or for the sporadic reading I do for Sandberg's silent film 
comedy class.



currently reading:
Strangers Among Us [about latino immigration to the us]
The White Album (Joan Didion)
How East New York Became a Ghetto
Endangered Peoples of Europe
A Field Guide to Sprawl
Our Oldest Enemy: Boy, I Hate France (Mark Molesky, some conservative)
The Death of Vishnu (Manil Suri)
Magister Ludi (Hermann Hesse)
Grand Central Winter (Lee Stringer)

NOVEMBER
Eye in the Sky (Philip K. Dick)
Pnin (Vladimir Nabokov)
samuel l jackson article

OCTOBER
America (Daily Show/Jon Stewart)
Shadow of the Giant (Card) (because i suck)

SEPTEMBER
Philistines at the Hedgerows ()
Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer ()

AUGUST
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Tom Robbins)
Rainbow Party (some stooge) (don't ask me why i read this...)
Pattern Recognition (William Gibson)

JULY 
the part of a book on korean immigrants in NYC about markets

JUNE
The Man in the High Castle (Philip K. Dick)

MAY
Teach Yourself Beginner's Hindi Script (Rupert Snell)
more bollywood

APRIL
for Bollywood Class:
Popular Literature (Antonio Gramsci)

MARCH
Chronicles, Volume 1 (Bob Dylan) (this is amazing)
Bonfire of the Vanities (Tom Wolfe) (that was a lot of hours I'll never get back)

for Bollywood class:
Mulvey, Mulvey, Eleassar
Kazmi
""and "Flaming Success" from India 50
Sholay: Making of a Classic (Anupama Chopra)

FEBRUARY
"Indian...Nigerian Lovers" (Philip Larkin)

for Bollywood class:
(Farzi chapters)
The Secret Politics of Our Desires: Introduction (A... Nandy)
articles on mother india (Rosie Thomas and ...)
Mother India (Gaytari Chaterjee)
Eleassar, Kabir,..
first half of Awara (Gaytari Chaterjee)


JANUARY
The Black Island (Herge)
Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia (Peter Maas)
Donnie Brascoe (Joe Pistone)
Dirty Poole:  The Autobiography of a Gay Porn Pioneer (Wakefield Poole)
for Bollywood class:
"Public Modernity in India" (Carol Breckenridge and Arjun Appadurai)
"What is a Nation?" (Ernst Renan)
"Tryst with Destiny" (Jawaharlal Nehru's speech on the eve of independence)
"This Thing Called 'Bollywood'" (Madhava Prasad)
"Beginnings", "Empire", "Studio", "Industry" and "Wide World" from Indian Film (Eric Barnouw and S. Krishnaswamy)

DECEMBER
Bollywood: A Guide to Hindi Popular Cinema (Tejaswari Ganti)
"Bollywood and Beyond" in Cinemas of the World ()
The Castifiore Emerald (Herge)
The Calculus Affair (Herge)


Paused for the time being:
Teach Yourself Hindi (Snell/Wightman)
book on Las Vegas
Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters (John Waters)
Billy Bathgate (E.L. Doctorow)
Colloquial Hindi (Tej Bhatia)
Chambal Valley (T.C. Bhaduri)
A People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn)
Last Exit to Brooklyn (Hubert Selby, Jr.)
Cinema of Interruptions
Life on the Mississippi (Mark Twain)
The Ramayana (Valmiki and William Buck)
Only In New York (New York Times)
Smoke and Mirrors (Neil Gaiman story collection)
The Glass Bead Game (Hermann Hesse)
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (Greg Palast)
Fortress of Solitude (Jonathan Lethem)
Sholay: A Cultural Reading (Kazeem Farzi)
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.) (mislaid)
chapter on the Greek Slave in Hiram Powers (at Guy's)
Ire in the Soul (Kazeem Farzi)
Talking Film (Kabir in converation with Javed Akhtar)
Horny? San Francisco
The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
Colloquial Hindi (Tej Bhatia)
X-Rated (Mitchell Brothers bio) (the first quarter was on or led up to porno, but the rest seems to be about artie mitchell's sex life, which i probably won't slog through)
 Indian Popular Cinema: A Narrative of 
Cultural Change Imagined Communities ( Anderson)
history of indian film book
         (Chakravarty)
Indian Film (Barnouw & Krishnamurthy)
Gotham Unbound: How New York City Was Liberated from the Grip of Organized Crime (returned to library)
Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction, 1992-2002 (Salman Rushdie)