I'm catching up with my viewing log.

8-9 The Brown Bunny (Gallo)
8-14 Collateral (Mann)
8-20 In the Mood for Love (Wong) [DVD]
8-21 The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
8-22 The White Nights (Visconti)
8-22 The Stranger (Visconti)

9-9 Notre Musique (Godard) [Toronto Int. Film Fest]
9-9 Le Fantôme d'Henri Langlois (Richard) [TIFF]
9-10 Tropical Malady (Weerasethakul) [TIFF]
9-10 Heaven's Gate (Cimino) [TIFF]
9-10 Whisky Romeo Zulu (Piñeyro) [TIFF]
9-10 Turtles Can Fly (Ghobadi) [TIFF]
9-11 Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate (Epstein) [TIFF]
9-11 Nobody Knows (Kore-eda) [TIFF]
9-11 My Summer of Love (Pawlikowski) [TIFF]
9-12 House of Flying Daggers (Zhang) [TIFF]
9-12 3-Iron (Kim) [TIFF]
9-12 Tarnation (Caouette) [TIFF]
9-12 The Woodsman (Kassell) [TIFF]
9-12 Tell Them Who You Are (M. Wexler) [TIFF]
9-13 A Letter to True (Weber) [TIFF]
9-13 Cinévardaphoto (Varda) [TIFF]
9-13 Moolaadé (Sembene) [TIFF]
9-13 Brothers (Bier) [TIFF]
9-14 Tenth District Court (Depardon) [TIFF]
9-14 Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (Butler) [TIFF]
9-14 Stray Dogs (Meshkini) [TIFF]
9-15 La Noire de... (Sembene) [TIFF]
9-15 The Holy Girl (Martel) [TIFF]
9-15 Café Lumière (Hou) [TIFF]
9-15 Land of Plenty (Wenders) [TIFF]
9-16 L'Intrus (Denis) [TIFF]
9-16 Eros (Wong, Soderbergh, Antonioni) [TIFF]
9-17 Evolution of a Filipino Family (Diaz) [TIFF] [60%]
9-18 As Follows (Veiroj) [TIFF] [short]
9-18 Whisky (Rebella/Stoll) [TIFF]

9-20 No Fear, No Die (Denis) [VHS]
9-21 Nénette et Boni (Denis) [VHS]

One blogger's hiatus is another's breath between paragraphs. Or sentences. A comma, even.

I've recently taken on a new project, unrelated to any of the stuff that I talk about here, and I've had to move such things as blogs and movies to the back burner. Waitaminute waitaminute. Blogs, maybe, but not movies:

7-29 The Bourne Supremacy (Greengrass)
7-31 Smiles of a Summer Night (Bergman)
7-31 Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
8-1 In the Bathtub of the World (Zahedi) [DVD]
8-2 I Was Possessed By God (Zahedi) [DVD] [short]
8-3 A Man Escaped (Bresson) [DVD]
8-5 The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (Kitano)
8-6/7 The Sopranos: The Fourth Season: Episodes 4-5 [DVD]
8-8 Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (Greenwald)

7-14 The Door in the Floor (Williams)
7-14 Thirst (Snitow/Kaufman) [TV]
7-15/22 Pippi Longstocking TV Series, Episodes 1-4 [DVD] [1968]
7-19/21 Curb Your Enthusiasm First Season, Episodes 7-10 [DVD]
7-20 Playtime (Tati) [70mm]
7-21 Time of the Wolf (Haneke)
7-22 I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (Hodges)
7-23 The Hunting of the President (Perry/Thomason)
7-24 Riding Giants (Peralta)
7-26 Tomorrow We Move (Akerman)

6-15 Sunrise (Murnau) [DVD]
6-16/18 The Office, Series 2 [DVD]
6-18 Twentynine Palms (Dumont)
6-28 Fahrenheit 9/11 (Moore)
6-30 The Atomic Cafe (Loader, Rafferty, Rafferty) [DVD]
7-1 unknown doc about Jean Rouch, after 1967 [10-minute clip]
7-1 Jaguar (Rouch)
7-1 Petit ? petit (Rouch) [6-minute clip]
7-2 Before Sunset (Linklater)
7-5 The Trial (Welles)
7-6 Confidential Report (aka Mr. Arkadin) (Welles) [Janus print w/ flashback]
7-8 Humanit? (Dumont) [DVD]
7-9 Spider-Man 2 (Raimi)
7-11 The Circus (Chaplin)

I posted some thoughts about the Rouch films at filmjourney, and I'll post capsules on some of the other films shortly. Twentynine Palms, at least.

This week's movie log actually covers more than a week because of some recent traveling.

5-16 This So-Called Disaster (Almereyda)
5-17 What Time is it There? (Tsai) [DVD]
5-18 The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Passolini) [DVD]
5-16/20 The Office, Series One [DVD]
5-28 Distant (Ceylan)
6-04 Word Wars (Chaikin/Petrillo)
6-07 Twentieth Century (Hawks)
6-08 Melting (Andersen short)
6-08 Olivia's Place (Andersen short)
6-08 — —— (Andersen short)
6-08 Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (Andersen)
6-09 Persona (Bergman) [DVD]
6-10 The Element of Crime (von Trier) [DVD] [half]
6-11 Saved! (Dannelly)
6-13 Los Angeles Plays Itself (Andersen)

Here are the rules, since it's been a while: all viewings are theatrical screenings unless otherwise indicated, and I don't report DVD viewings of movies I've seen before (e.g. a third of Rushmore while eating lunch).

Here's this week's movie log, without much commentary for now. This includes the tail end of the SFIFF.

4-27 The Five Obstructions (Leth/von Trier)
4-27 Grimm (van Warmerdam)
4-28 A Diary from the Next World (Barkovskaya short)
4-28 Bad Behaviour (Clarke)
4-28 L'Esquive (Kechiche)
4-29 Reconstruction (Boe)
4-30 Serge Daney: Journey of a Cin?-Son (Boutang/Rabourdin)
5-1 Suzhou River (Lou) [DVD]
5-1 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Tarantino)
5-4 The Lovers on the Bridge (Carax) [DVD]
5-6 Chronicle of a Summer (Rouch)
5-6 The Mad Masters (Rouch short)
5-7 Millennium Mambo (Hou) [second time]

I'm currently travelling for a few days, but I'll be back to the movies shortly.

It's been a while since my last movie log. Here's most of April. Note that several of these are shorts, which makes the list look longer. Still, if I'm going to do this I shouldn't let so much time lapse between updates.

All of these are theatrical screenings unless otherwise indicated.

3-23 A Thousand Clouds of Peace (Hernández)
3-26 La Captive (Akerman)
3-26 Night and Day (Akerman)
3-27/28/30 Shoah (Lanzmann) [DVD]
3-30 With Sonia Wieder-Atherton (Akerman)
3-30 Pour Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, El Salvador (Akerman short)
3-30 A Voice in the Desert (Akerman installation)
3-31 Big Animal (Stuhr)
4-1 My Brother's Wedding (Burnett)
4-2 Scarface (Hawks) [DVD]
4-3 Nightjohn (Burnett)
4-3 Several Friends (Burnett short)
4-3 The Horse (Burnett short)
4-3 When It Rains (Burnett short)
4-3 To Sleep With Anger (Burnett)
4-7 Crimson Gold (Panahi)
4-7 Mysterious Object at Noon (Weerasethakul) [DVD]
4-8 Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (Burnett)
4-8 Olivia's Story (Burnett short)
4-12 Permanent Vacation (Jarmusch) [VHS]
4-13 Year of the Horse (Jarmusch) [VHS]
4-14 Le Samourai (Melville) [VHS]

4-14/15 Coffee & Cigarettes (Jarmusch)
4-16 The Saddest Music in the World (Maddin)
4-17 Last Life in the Universe (Ratanaruang)
4-17 Festival Express (Smeaton)
4-18 Control Room (Noujaim)
4-18 Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (Berlinger/Sinofsky)
4-19 The Green Butchers (Jensen)
4-19 Life and Death of a Boring Moment (Bossard short)
4-19 That Day (Ruiz)
4-19 Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai)
4-20 The Missing (Lee)
4-21 Since Otar Left (Bertuccelli)
4-21 Triple Agent (Rohmer)
4-22 Doppelganger (Kurosawa)
4-23 Back to Kotelnich (Carrère)
4-23 Popaganda: The Art & Subversion of Ron English (Carvajal short)
4-23 Super Size Me (Spurlock)
4-24 Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel (Khleifi/Sivan)
4-25 The Corporation (Achbar/Abbott)

4-20/22/23/24 The Simpsons Third Season, Episodes 1-6 [DVD]
4-25 Un Chien Andalou (Buñuel short)
4-25 L'Age D'Or (Buñuel short)

A few years ago I started keeping track of the movies I see, whether in theaters or on video. And the books I read and concerts I attend. Sometimes it feels kind of (or very) nerdy, but it helps me get a handle on what's passing through my brain, in some way.

I've thought about putting this log online like some other people do on their sites. My laptop has been in the shop for several weeks (my logic board picked the same time as everyone else's to die — the part is backordered), which has made me change my usual routine pretty drastically. Everything from writing to logging my movies has been shifted around.

So I'm temporarily keeping my movie log in the little paper notebook that I always carry with me. (It's not for taking notes during movies, by the way.) And since I have an urge to type the entries into a computer, I'm going to dump the last couple of weeks' worth into this blog.

Maybe I'll start doing this on a regular basis.

3-8 Shaolin Soccer (Chow)
3-8 God of Cookery (Chow)
3-9 15 (Tan)
3-9 A Good Lawyer's Wife (Im)
3-10 Dolls (Kitano)
3-11 S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (Panh)
3-16 American Stories (Akerman)
3-19 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry)
3-21 Chantal Akerman on Chantal Akerman (Akerman)
3-21 The Man With the Suitcase (Akerman)
3-21 Moving In (Akerman)
3-21 Portrait of a Young Girl in the Late Sixties in Brussels (Akerman)
3-22 Small Soldiers (Dante) [DVD]

(Note: I don't log video viewings of movies I've seen before.)