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Friday, June 24, 2022

Plaisir d'amour en Iran

"A Sensual People"


It is difficult to love a girl in Iran

Families mill about moorish entrances.

Those naughty Iranian poets!







Agnès recorded an intro to the film in 2007. •


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Other writing on Agnès Varda at Cinemasparagus:


La Pointe-Courte [1955]

Ô saisons ô châteaux [O Seasons, O Châteaux, 1957]

L'Opéra-Mouffe, carnet de notes filmées rue Mouffetard par une femme enceinte en 1958 [The Opéra-Mouffe: Diary Filmed on the rue Mouffetard in Paris by a Pregnant Woman in 1958, 1958]

Du côté de la Côte [Around the Côte, 1958]

Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald, ou (Méfiez-vous des lunettes noires) [The Fiancés of the Pont Mac Donald, or: (Beware of Dark Glasses), 1961]

Cléo de 5 à 7 [Cléo from 5 to 7, 1962]

Le bonheur [Happiness, 1964]

Elsa la Rose [Elsa the Rose, 1966]

Les créatures [The Creatures, 1966]

Uncle Yanco [1967]

Black Panthers [1968]

Lions Love... and Lies / Lions Love [1969]

Réponse de femmes à une question produite par Antenne 2 pour le magazine 'F. comme Femme' [Women's Response to a Question Put Forth by Antenne 2 for the Magazine-Show 'F. comme Femme', 1975]

Daguerréotypes [1976]

Plaisir d'amour en Iran [Giddiness of Love in Iran] [1976]

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index of posts: 2022 forward (chronological from top to bottom)

  • Ancestral Teacher of a Generation (aka The Grandmaster) (Wong)
  • Vitalina Varela - A Text by Yannick Haenel
  • "Rolex Laxative" - by Craig Keller
  • Licorice Pizza in the Cahiers du cinéma
  • Three Women (Lubitsch)
  • Vera Cruz (Aldrich)
  • The Last Sunset (Aldrich)
  • The Flight of the Phoenix (Aldrich)
  • The Choirboys (Aldrich)
  • Le joli mai (Marker and Lhomme)
  • "My Father Told Me My Good Mood Was Artificial" - by Craig Keller
  • Dragnet (Webb)
  • The Girl Can't Help It (Tashlin)
  • La dolce vita (Fellini)
  • Julee Cruise, 1956-2022
  • 8-1/2 (Fellini)
  • Plaisir d'amour en Iran (Varda)
  • The One Sings the Other Doesn't (Varda)
  • Nausicaa (Varda)
  • Giulietta of the Spirits (Fellini)
  • Toby Dammit (Fellini)
  • Jean-Luc Godard. 1930-2022.
  • Jean en a marre: On Jean-Luc Godard for A PALA DE WALSH / WALSH'S EYEPATCH
  • The Cinemasparagus Film Poll of 2022
  • Jean-Marie Straub. 1933-2022.
  • Fellini: A Director's Notebook (Fellini)
  • Mur murs (Varda)
  • Documenteur: An Emotion Picture (Varda)
  • Through a Glass Darkly (Bergman)
  • The Communicants (aka Winter Light) (Bergman)
  • The Silence (Bergman)
  • Angelo Badalamenti. 1937-2022.
  • Not to Mention All These Women (Bergman)
  • Poemquotes 22: From Baudelaire's "Spleen and Ideal"
  • Persona (Bergman)
  • Books I Read in 2022
  • The Movies I Watched in 2022
  • Van Gogh (Resnais)
  • Paul Gauguin (Resnais)
  • Guernica (Resnais and Hessens)
  • Toute la mémoire du monde (Resnais)
  • Le chant du styrène (Resnais) - Jan 5 2023 Update/Expanded
  • A Tale of Grief (aka A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness) (Suzuki)
  • The Hour of the Wolf (Bergman)
  • Shame (Bergman)
  • Poemquotes 23: From Baudelaire's "Spleen and Ideal"
  • The Rite (Bergman)
  • L 182 (A Passion) (aka The Passion of Anna) (Bergman)
  • Fårö Document (Bergman)
  • The Touch (Bergman)
  • Whispers and Cry (aka Cries and Whispers) (Bergman)
  • Zigeunerweisen (Suzuki)
  • Kagerō-za (aka Heat-Shimmer Theater) (Suzuki)
  • Yumeji (Suzuki)
  • Marcos Uzal's First Impression of Jean-Luc Godard's TRAILER OF THE FILM THAT WILL NEVER EXIST: "PHONY WARS" at Cannes 2023
  • Hannah Gadsby and Pablo Picasso
  • Censorship on the Part of Disney, Apple, and Others' Streaming Services
  • In Memoria: Michael Snow. Christine Laurent. Paul Vecchiali. Andy Rourke. Tina Turner. Kenneth Anger. Cynthia Weil. Jacques Rozier. Françoise Gilot. The Iron Sheik.
  • Jean-Pierre Gorin in 2023: Two Times
  • Excerpts from Cahiers du cinéma - Hors-série Nº 1 - Cinéastes - François Truffaut
  • Have a Nice Life (Kamalakanthan)
  • The Image Notebook: Preview of FILM ANNONCE DU FILM QUI N'EXISTERA PAS "DRÔLES DE GUERRES" by Jean-Luc Godard
  • Showgirls (Verhoeven)
  • Spring Breakers (Korine)
  • The Deflowering of Ariella Von (Ellenberg and Zuckerman)
  • Pedro Costa in Bucharest + Rinaldo Censi
  • The Beach Bum (Korine)
  • Pier Paolo Pasolini - Agnès Varda - New York - 1967 (Varda)
  • Halloween Party (Skowronski)
  • Invaders from Venus! (Mosley)
  • Circus Maximus (Korine et al)
  • Christmas Carole (Varda)
  • Hong Kong Solitude (Nicolas Saada)
  • New Strains (Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan)
  • Taylor Swift's Landscape
  • Hugo (Martin Scorsese)
  • Dogleg (Al Warren)
  • There There (Andrew Bujalski)
  • The End of 2023
  • The Films I Saw in 2023
  • The Books I Read in 2023
  • In Memoria: July to December 2023
  • Fantômas (Louis Feuillade)
  • Nana (Jean Renoir)
  • L'amore (Roberto Rossellini)
  • Stromboli (Roberto Rossellini)
  • Poemquotes: Charles Baudelaire, "Spleen and Ideal": XLVI and XLVII
  • Mank (David Fincher)
  • The Poet of Castelo (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade)
  • The Master of Apipucos (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade)
  • Cat Skin (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade)
  • Rabbit (Carson Culver and Jamie Granato)
  • Boom (Joseph Losey)
  • "Mens sana in corpore sano" (Juliano Dornelles)
  • The Priest and the Girl (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade)
  • Orange You Glad I Said Banana (Nicky Otis Smith)
  • Cinema Novo (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade)
  • Chop My Money (Theo Anthony) + In Memoriam January to July 2024
  • Brasilia: Contradictions of a New City (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade)
  • Macunaíma (Joaquim Pedro de Andrade)
  • Elvis (John Carpenter)
  • Peace in the Absence of War (Theo Anthony)
  • Rat Film (Theo Anthony)
  • Cabin in the Sky (Vincente Minnelli)
  • Madame Bovary (Version by Vincente Minnelli)
  • L'important c'est d'aimer (Andrzej Źuławski)
  • L'amour braque (Andrzej Źuławski)
  • Why? (Nadav Lapid)
  • The Security Guard from Hell (aka "The Guard from Underground") (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
  • Haganenet (aka "The Kindergarten Teaher") (Nadav Lapid)
  • Synonyms (Nadav Lapid)
  • Dance Party, USA (Aaron Katz)
  • Blue Skies (Stuart Heisler)
  • Million Dollar Mystery (Richard Fleischer)

index of posts: 2021 to 2022

  • My Top 10 Films of 2006
  • My Top 10 Films of 1987
  • My Top 10 Films of 1976
  • My Top 10 Films of 1963
  • My Top 10 Films of 1978
  • The Hand (Wong)
  • 2046 (Wong)
  • Hua yang de nian hua (Wong)
  • The Age of Flowers / Those Wonderful Varied Years (aka In the Mood for Love) (Wong)
  • Spring Light Bursts Forth (aka Happy Together) (Wong)
  • Fallen Angels (Wong)
  • Norm Macdonald (1959-1921)
  • Chungking Jungle (aka Chungking Express) (Wong)
  • La fille de l'eau (Renoir)
  • Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933-2021)
  • The Nights of Cabiria (Fellini)
  • Daguerréotypes (Varda)
  • Réponse de femmes (Varda)
  • The Devil's Eye (Bergman)
  • La Jetée (Marker)
  • Who Was Stavros Tornes?

index of posts: 2021 to 2012

  • The Virgin Spring (Bergman)
  • True Story of a Hooligan / Days of Being Wild (Wong)
  • Il bidone (Fellini)
  • Bob Dylan at 80
  • Poemquotes 21: "A Phantom" from Baudelaire's "Spleen and Ideal"
  • Doctor X (Curtiz) - Reprint
  • In Memoriam: Monte Hellman. Hermine Karagheuz. Willy Kurant.
  • Lions Love... and Lies / Lions Love (Varda)
  • Poemquotes 20: Baudelaire x 2
  • Louis Skorecki vs. the Power Rangers
  • The Face (aka The Magician) (Bergman)
  • On the Brink of Life (Bergman)
  • Mong Kok Carmen / As Tears Go By (Wong)
  • La strada (Fellini)
  • Black Panthers (Varda)
  • Uncle Yanco (Varda)
  • The Wild Strawberry Patch (aka Wild Strawberries) (Bergman)
  • The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
  • Les créatures (Varda)
  • Elsa la Rose (Varda)
  • Smile of the Summer Night (Bergman)
  • Le bonheur (Varda)
  • I vitelloni (Fellini)
  • The White Sheik (Fellini)
  • Variety Lights (Fellini)
  • Salut les Cubains (Varda)
  • The Films I Watched in 2020
  • The Books I Read in 2020
  • Cléo from 5 to 7 (Varda)
  • The Fiancés of the Pont Mac Donald (Varda)
  • Jean-Luc Godard Is 90
  • Women's Dream (aka Dreams) (Bergman)
  • A Lesson in Love (Bergman)
  • Carnies' Twilight (aka Sawdust and Tinsel) (Bergman)
  • Branded to Kill (Suzuki)
  • Bar Snakes (Warren) - Interview with Alex Warren and Kate Adams
  • Fighting Elegy (Suzuki)
  • Tokyo Drifter (Suzuki)
  • Du côté de la Côte (Varda)
  • L'Opéra-Mouffe (Varda)
  • Ô saisons ô châteaux (Varda)
  • La Pointe-Courte (Varda)
  • Story of a Prostitute (Suzuki)
  • Gate of Flesh (Suzuki)
  • Summer with Monika (Bergman)
  • Death in This Garden (Buñuel)
  • Women's Waiting (Bergman)
  • Summer Interlude (Bergman)
  • To Joy (Bergman)
  • Go to Hell, Bastards: Detective Bureau 2 3 (Suzuki)
  • Thirst (Bergman)
  • Port of Call (Bergman)
  • Ship to India (Bergman)
  • Crisis (Bergman)
  • Film Socialisme (Godard)
  • Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Linklater)
  • Lloydie: The Boy from St. Thomas (Keifer Nyron Taylor)
  • Sous le soleil de Satan - 2nd Post (Pialat)
  • Un flic (Melville)
  • Anna Karina, 1940-2019
  • A Woman of Tokyo (Ozu)
  • Knives Out (Rian Johnson)
  • Thunder Bay (Anthony Mann)
  • Bend of the River (Anthony Mann)
  • Corkscrew Alley / Raw Deal (Anthony Mann)
  • T-Men (Anthony Mann)
  • The Long Goodbye (Altman)
  • Daisy Kenyon (Preminger)
  • Napoli Napoli Napoli (Ferrara)
  • Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble (Pialat) - 2nd Post
  • La madre (3rd Version) (Straub)
  • The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp (Straub and Huillet)
  • April and May 2019: Best Disc Supplements
  • Battle Cry (Walsh)
  • Home from the Hill (Minnelli)
  • Ludwig (Visconti)
  • The Thing from Another World (Hawks)
  • So Dark the Night (Joseph H. Lewis)
  • My Name Is Julia Ross (Joseph H. Lewis)
  • While the City Sleeps (Fritz Lang)
  • March 2019: Best Disc Supplements
  • February 2019: Best Disc Supplements
  • January 2019: Best Disc Supplements
  • What I Saw in 2018
  • December 2018: Best Disc Supplements
  • Best Films of 2018
  • Roma (Cuarón)
  • November 2018: Best Disc Supplements
  • The Man with a Shotgun (Suzuki)
  • Tokyo Knights (Suzuki)
  • 0-Line Stowaway (Suzuki)
  • 8 Hours' Terror (Suzuki)
  • The Sleep of the Beast (Suzuki)
  • Stories of Bastards: Even Under a Bad Star (Suzuki)
  • Top Films of 2017
  • Underworld Beauty (Suzuki)
  • The Bastard (Suzuki)
  • Late-Teen Yakuza (Suzuki)
  • Youthful Wind Crossing the Mountain Pass (Suzuki)
  • Voice Without a Shadow (Suzuki)
  • Trampled Springtime (Suzuki)
  • What I Saw in 2017
  • Jean-Luc Godard: Archeological Morality: Excerpts from an Interview from 2016
  • The Exterminating Angel (Buñuel)
  • Late Chrysanthemums (Naruse)
  • Mother (Naruse)
  • A Straightforward Brat (Ozu) - UPDATE 2017
  • Farpões baldios (Mateus)
  • Youth of the Beast (Suzuki)
  • Muriel, or: The Time of a Return (Resnais)
  • Letter from Siberia {American-Language Version} (Marker)
  • Floating Clouds (Naruse)
  • The Sound of the Mountain (Naruse)
  • Everything Goes Wrong (Suzuki)
  • "Sidetrack No. Thirteen," or: Take Aim at That Police Van (Suzuki) + R.I.P. Suzuki
  • Sunday in Peking {American-Language Version} (Marker)
  • Wife (Naruse)
  • Le chant du styrène (Resnais)
  • Night and Fog (Resnais)
  • Repast (Naruse)
  • Face aux fantômes (Comolli and Lindeperg)
  • Ginza Makeup [aka "Ginza Cosmetics"] (Naruse)
  • End of Year 2016: Best-Of and What-I-Saw List
  • Elaine's: My Short Film
  • Computer Chess (Bujalski)
  • Portrait of Madame Yuki (Mizoguchi)
  • Manhatta (Strand and Sheeler)
  • ASMR Charlie Rose Barbershop Role Play: My New Short
  • Jean-Luc Godard Pays Homage to Jacques Rivette: March 2016
  • Bob Dylan on John Ford
  • FAS - New Global One-Sheet (Front and Back) + French Translation of Scenario by Martial Pisani
  • Indigo (Stephen Simon) (In the Series "Cinemasparagus Turns 10")
  • Free of Thought (Barillaro)
  • Sabbatical (Colvin)
  • The Death of Jacques Rivette as Cinemasparagus Turns 10
  • I Origins (Cahill)
  • Cool Apocalypse (Michael Glover Smith) + RIP David Bowie Forever
  • All the Cinema I Watched in 2015
  • Her Wilderness (Mosley)
  • Au revoir Chantal: Philippe Garrel Remembers Chantal Akerman
  • The Winds That Scatter (Christopher Jason Bell)
  • FAS: My New Short
  • Eisenstein and the Graphic Question
  • In Memoriam: Ron Benson (17 October 1943 – 19 October 2015)
  • Van Gogh (Pialat) - Essay by Sabrina Marques + Words from Pialat + Godard's Letter to Pialat About the Film
  • L'enfance-nue (Pialat) - Essay by Kent Jones + Interview with Maurice Pialat
  • Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble (Pialat) - Essay by Emmanuel Burdeau + Interviews with Maurice Pialat
  • Sous le soleil de Satan (Pialat) - Essay by Gabe Klinger + Excerpts of Interviews with Maurice Pialat and Sandrine Bonnaire
  • La gueule ouverte (Pialat) - Essay by Adrian Martin + A Brief Interview with Maurice Pialat
  • Notes on Pialat's Short Films
  • Hernia (Giampietro)
  • Police (Pialat) - Dossier: The Zebra's Stripes
  • À nos amours. (Pialat) - Dossier: The Pialat Code + Pialat/Godard
  • Sequence: Four Short Stories (Yazoo Women / Dreamscaping / The Temperature of Father John Martin / It's Never Cold in Vegas) (Warren)
  • Passe ton bac d'abord... (Pialat) - Dossier
  • Passe ton bac d'abord... (Pialat)
  • Monica: Season 1 (Hagay)
  • Message de salutations: Prix suisse / remerciements / mort ou vif (Godard)
  • Bad at Dancing: Interview with Joanna Arnow
  • Actress (Robert Greene)
  • 2014 Films Seen
  • The Best American Movies of 2014
  • The Best Films of 2014
  • Feu Mathias Pascal (L'Herbier)
  • Ms. Turner on "Private Dancer"
  • Adieu au langage (Godard) - The Dog, the Territory, the Television Screen
  • A Comprehensive Introduction to Aphex Twin on the Release-Day of SYRO
  • For the Plasma (Bryant and Molzan)
  • #HipsterComicBooks
  • Adieu au langage (Godard) - "Now what's all this?"
  • See You Next Tuesday (Tobia)
  • Adieu au langage (Godard) - The Form of the Interview
  • Approaching the Elephant (Amanda Rose Wilder)
  • syro2eznzea2xbpi
  • Hellaware (Bilandic)
  • The Heart Machine (Wigon)
  • The Mend (Magary)
  • Dipso (Collatos)
  • Memphis (Sutton)
  • L for Leisure (Kalman and Horn)
  • World Premiere of Jean-Luc Godard's ADIEU AU LANGAGE on May 21st 2014
  • Pedro Costa on Nirvana: 20 Years Since
  • i hate myself :) (Arnow)
  • Travel Plans (Fendt)
  • Broken Specs (Fendt)
  • Fait Accompli: Episode 1: Caused (Reduxpost)
  • My Top 13 of 1955
  • My Top 10 of 1928
  • My Top 14 of 2004
  • My Top 14 of 1953
  • My Top 15 of 1938
  • My Top 10 of 1946
  • My Top 12 of 1985
  • My Top 10 of 1993
  • My Top 14 of 1977
  • Fait Accompli: Episode 1: Caused (a film by Craig Keller, 2013)
  • Cannes 2013 Best-Of
  • Les trois désastres (Godard)
  • Top 12 Movies of 2012
  • Mark Tween (a film by Craig Keller, 2012)
  • The Unspeakable Act (Sallitt)
  • Like Someone in Love (Kiarostami)
  • High School (Wiseman)
  • A Dangerous Method (Cronenberg)

index of posts: 2012 to 2007

  • The Tempest (Shakespeare)
  • Jean-Luc Godard, On Authors' Rights (2012)
  • Bob Dylan Interview with John Elderfield, 2012: In the Films of the '40s and '50s, "Individuals Overcame Problems Instead of Merely Surviving Them"
  • Marriage Material (Swanberg) + Joe Swanberg: Collected Films 2011
  • Scattered Junk (Morton)
  • The Winter's Tale (Shakespeare)
  • Cymbeline (Shakespeare)
  • André Bazin's 4th-Favorite Film
  • The Godfather: Parts I & II
  • Chapter Seventeen: Icarus
  • The Prague Orgy (Roth)
  • The Anatomy Lesson (Roth)
  • Occupy Wall Street: 2
  • Occupy Wall Street: 1
  • The Rink (Chaplin)
  • He Who Awaits Dead Men's Shoes Dies Barefoot: A Cinematographic Proverb (Monteiro)
  • Zuckerman Unbound (Roth)
  • Titicut Follies (Wiseman)
  • Endless Pavement (Naruse)
  • Godard on ADIEU AU LANGAGE / 5 x 45-Minute Interview with Laure Adler on France Culture, September 2011
  • Every-Night Dreams (Naruse)
  • Apart from You (Naruse)
  • I Shot Jesse James (Fuller)
  • "Vanessa" (Grimes aka Claire Boucher)
  • The Ghost Writer (Roth)
  • No Blood Relation (Naruse)
  • Finding the Criminal (Keller)
  • Raúl Ruiz: 1941-2011
  • The Bowery (Walsh)
  • Flunky, Work Hard (Naruse)
  • Happy 90th Birthday, Chris Marker
  • Blonde Venus (von Sternberg)
  • Letter from a Friend
  • Touch of Evil (Welles) - The Masters of Cinema Series
  • Cassavetes in 1978
  • Twin Peaks (Lynch, et al.)
  • Tillie's Punctured Romance (Sennett)
  • His Prehistoric Past (Chaplin)
  • Getting Acquainted (Chaplin)
  • His Trysting Places (Chaplin)
  • His Musical Career (Chaplin)
  • Gentlemen of Nerve (Chaplin)
  • Dough and Dynamite (Chaplin)
  • Those Love Pangs (Chaplin)
  • The New Janitor (Chaplin)
  • The Rounders (Chaplin and Arbuckle)
  • His New Profession (Chaplin)
  • The Masquerader (Chaplin)
  • Recreation (Chaplin)
  • The Face on the Barroom Floor (Chaplin)
  • The Property Man (Chaplin)
  • Laughing Gas (Chaplin)
  • There Was a Father (Ozu)
  • Sam Wells
  • Breitbart
  • Flowers Thrown in Memory of Mladic's Victims
  • Pylon (Faulkner)
  • Bruno Dumont on Stanley Kubrick
  • Final Cut Pro X
  • Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
  • BRANIGAN/CHAPLIN/SELFCONTROL
  • Art History (Swanberg)
  • Silver Bullets (Swanberg)
  • Black Narcissus (Powell and Pressburger)
  • Mabel's Married Life (Sennett)
  • Mabel's Busy Day (Sennett)
  • The Knockout (Sennett)
  • A Radiohead Exercise
  • Radiohead's New Album THE KING OF LIMBS Is Revealed
  • Cleopatra (DeMille)
  • Army of Shadows (Melville) + Abel Ferrara
  • The Fatal Mallet (Sennett)
  • A Busy Day (Sennett)
  • Caught in the Rain (Chaplin)
  • Caught in a Cabaret (Chaplin and Normand)
  • Twenty Minutes of Love (Chaplin and Maddern)
  • Mabel at the Wheel (Normand and Sennett)
  • Vengeance (To)
  • The Star Boarder (George Nichols)
  • Uncle Kent (Swanberg)
  • Gabi on the Roof in July (Levine)
  • R.I.P. Trish Keenan
  • Bordwell on Johnnie To, Stephen Chow, and the Mainland
  • The Only Son (Ozu)
  • The Face (Bergman)
  • Le Coup du berger (Rivette)
  • Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray)
  • Kagamijishi (Ozu)
  • A Tale of Floating Weeds (Ozu)
  • Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur)
  • Quadrille (Guitry)
  • Cruel, Cruel Love (George Nichols)
  • His Favorite Pastime (George Nichols)
  • Tango Tangles (Sennett)
  • A Film Johnnie (George Nichols)
  • Between Showers (Lehrman)
  • Today's Alphabet (Godard Turns 80)
  • Human Desire (Lang)
  • Passing Fancy (Ozu)
  • Mabel's Strange Predicament (Normand)
  • The Phantom Light (Powell)
  • Red Ensign (Powell)
  • Paths of Glory (Kubrick)
  • Kid Auto Races at Venice, Cal. (Lehrman)
  • Making a Living (Lehrman)
  • Dé-si-ré! (Guitry)
  • Where Have the Dreams of Youth All Gone? (Ozu)
  • King Kong (Cooper and Schoedsack)
  • The Pearls of the Crown (Guitry)
  • A Picture-Book for Grown-Ups: I Was Born, But... (Ozu)
  • OPEN FIVE by Kentucker Audley: Free Online Stream
  • Renoir Said This
  • Jenny Slate / Gabe Liedman / Dean Fleischer-Camp
  • A Dry Heat (CK)
  • "Les Choses sérieuses" / "Serious Things": Claude Chabrol 1930-2010
  • Open Five (Audley)
  • Tokyo Chorus (Ozu)
  • Friends Fighting Japanese-Style (Ozu)
  • A Straightforward Brat (Ozu)
  • Card XIII — (Major Arcana) — Death
  • STATE OF PLAY by B. Kite + Marina Abramović, Marco Anelli, and THE ARTIST IS PRESENT
  • Chris Marker in 1984 / 2010 / 2084 + JLG Bonus
  • Jean-Luc Godard Interviewed by Jean-Marc Lalanne in LES INROCKS: "The Right of the Author? An Author Has Only Duties"
  • Jean-Luc Godard Speaks with Daniel Cohn-Bendit: A Smile That Dismisses the Universe
  • FILM SOCIALISME Press-Book: Interview with JLG by Renaud Deflins
  • Two-Hour Interview with Jean-Luc Godard on FILM SOCIALISME
  • Lubtchansky
  • FILM SOCIALISME: Explication par la bande (annonce)
  • Kentucker Audley
  • Holy Land (Audley)
  • Family Tree (Audley)
  • Ginger Sand (Audley)
  • And He Just Comes Around and Dances with You (Audley)
  • Team Picture (Audley)
  • SOCIALISME by Jean-Luc Godard: Trailers No. 2 and 6
  • HOMMAGE À ERIC ROHMER by Jean-Luc Godard [2010]
  • Gall by Gainsbourg: An Anthology
  • Never Mind the Leno Here's Pavement
  • Notes on Obayashi – Lubitsch – Godard – Murnau – Lang – Sirk
  • Godard on the Death of Rohmer
  • The 'Dragnet' / Cinemasparagus Convergence
  • Vishnevetsky/Bujalski
  • iPad
  • Eléna et les hommes — Versus Entertainment DVD in Spain
  • Jerry
  • Lewis
  • Skorecki and Mourlet on Eric Rohmer
  • Alexandra Duguay
  • Pedro Costa at INDEPENDENCIA
  • Haiti
  • "Haydée... écoute, HAYDÉE..." : Eric Rohmer 1920-2010
  • Van Gogh's Ear, etc.
  • MoC Year-End (December 2009)
  • The Christmas Spirit (Ferrara/Ciccone '95)
  • "The Volume"
  • Pedro Costa Interview in LITTLE WHITE LIES
  • Rejection
  • Days Are Numbered
  • New MoC Releases - October 2009
  • Canary (Alejandro Adams) - #2
  • Manifesto by Jean Douchet
  • An Independencia Sampler
  • A Short Response to Jonathan Rosenbaum's Recent CINEMA SCOPE Column
  • Passion Flower (Whaley)
  • LOL (Swanberg)
  • Hissy Fits (Swanberg)
  • Young American Bodies: Season 1 (Swanberg)
  • Social Olympics: Small-Movie by CK
  • Une femme mariée, fragments d'un film tourné en 1964 en noir et blanc (Godard)
  • Ten Films by Maurice Pialat / Interview with Pialat from 1974 about "La Gueule ouverte"
  • Canary (Alejandro Adams) - #1
  • "Kinbrody and the Ceejays": Bill Krohn v. "Everything Is Cinema"
  • Late Acknowledgments - Premio Dardos, etc.
  • Kissing on the Mouth (Swanberg)
  • The Paroxysms of Mourning
  • ENTR'ACTE - 7 (Feb. '09 Housekeeping/Syllabus)
  • About Money: A Documentary on 'L'Argent', Marcel L'Herbier's Film (Dréville)
  • AK (Marker)
  • Allons enfants de la Patrie... — On Nina Hagen and Salvia Divinorum (with Two Old Record Reviews Inbetween)
  • Robert Altman: 1926-2006
  • L'Amour fou (Rivette)
  • Après les grèves / Avant la lutte : Godard and Gorin and Jerry Lewis
  • Badlands (Malick)
  • Godard v. Nuytten on the Set of 'Détective'
  • Before Bergman and Antonioni...
  • La Belle noiseuse (Rivette)
  • Ingmar Bergman Taught Us Pragmatism Was No Virtue
  • The Big Steal (Siegel)
  • The Bullying Turkey (Rossellini)
  • Cahiers du cinéma: At a Crossroads
  • Une catastrophe (Godard)
  • Christmas 2009
  • CinderFella (Tashlin)
  • Correspondences, and Other Notes -- On Kite v. Petit on the R. Brody Book; The Cinéaste Questionnaire; etc.
  • The Dangerous Thread of Things (Antonioni)
  • Guillaume Depardieu Is Dead at 37
  • Divides: Women and Men at the Movies
  • Doctor X (Curtiz)
  • The Drift (LP by Scott Walker)
  • Eléna et les hommes (Renoir) - A Conversation Between CK and Andy Rector Around Jean Renoir and His Film
  • The Emperor Waltz (Wilder)
  • L'Enfance-nue (Pialat)
  • A Few Remarks on the Direction and Production of the Film 'Sauve qui peut (la vie)' (Godard)
  • Das fidele Gefängnis (Lubitsch)
  • Gego / Gertrud Goldschmidt
  • Happy 80th, Agnès V.
  • Hiroshima mon amour (Resnais)
  • In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
  • Indigo (Stephen Simon)
  • In Praise of Jalal Toufic
  • Judex (Feuillade)
  • A King in New York (Chaplin)
  • Leila Attacks (Marker)
  • Lively Teresa (Rossellini)
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford)
  • Der müde Tod (Lang)
  • Munich (Spielberg)
  • Die Nibelungen: Siegfrieds Tod (Lang)
  • Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache (Lang)
  • The New World [2h 15m Version] (Malick)
  • New Year 2009
  • Nuits rouges (Franju) + David Foster Wallace
  • On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray)
  • Office Killer (Sherman)
  • Radiohead: In Rainbows
  • Radiohead.tv: Thumbs Down
  • Jacques Rivette: March 2007
  • Philip Roth
  • Shanghai Express (von Sternberg)
  • Shoot the Piano Player (Truffaut)
  • Shrooms (Breathnach)
  • Socialisme (Godard)
  • Song o' My Heart [Music/Effects Long-Form Version] (Borzage)
  • Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (Monteiro)
  • The Sopranos: Episode 86 (Chase)
  • Spies (Lang)
  • Street Angel (Borzage)
  • There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
  • They Had to See Paris (Borzage)
  • They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray)
  • To Catch a Thief (Hitchcock)
  • Undersea Fantasy (Rossellini)
  • La Vie de Jésus (Dumont)
  • Woman in the Moon (Lang)
  • 8/13/07: Rivette/Duncan
  • Entr'acte - 1 (Gainsbourg, etc.)
  • Entr'acte - 2 (Ford, Preminger, Welles, Gorin, Godard, Hawks, etc.)
  • Entr'acte - 3 (Radiohead.tv Testcast 11/8/2007)
  • Entr'acte - 4 (Four American Masters)
  • Entr'acte - 5 (Halloween 2008)
  • Entr'acte - 6 ('Out 1' Stills)

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Little Lexicon of Anglophone Cliché: A Work in Progress c. 2007

  • "2 or 3 things"
  • "A Novel"
  • "At once _________ and _________, ..."
  • "For [so-and-so, in dedication]" (exception: the Histoire(s) du cinéma, which invented the practice in cinemaville)
  • "I found myself unprepared for the emotional wallop"
  • "Love it or hate it, ... "
  • "Unfortunately, compared with Rohmer's earlier work, in particular the series known as 'Six Moral Tales,' The Romance of Astrea and Celadon has little to say about eros that's still relevant. It's a film so embarrassingly quaint it's crying out for a parody called Not Another Medieval Movie."
  • "_________ is dead. Long live _________."
  • "_______istan"
  • "a meditation upon [artwork x]" (for Dan Sallitt)
  • "a worthy undertaking"
  • "achingly beautiful"
  • "an unflinching look"
  • "at the height of his/her artistic powers"
  • "bracing"
  • "canny" (also: "cannily," e.g., "cannily predicts")
  • "darkly comedic"
  • "deeply affecting"
  • "didn't really appreciate that..."
  • "disappointing"
  • "doe-eyed Tatsuya Nakadai"
  • "droll"
  • "erstwhile [anything]"
  • "fiercely emotional"
  • "film-buff"
  • "from the likes of Pauline Kael"
  • "fun"
  • "gaily caparisoned"
  • "goofy charm"
  • "heart-rending climax"
  • "heart-rending final scene"
  • "heart-rending final sequence"
  • "heterosexual love"
  • "homosexual love"
  • "in the history of the cinema"
  • "invigorating"
  • "is to be commended for"
  • "jansenist"
  • "lively"
  • "my star-clotted majesty"
  • "one of the most beloved"
  • "played by the incomparable [so-and-so]"
  • "playfully"
  • "political"
  • "powerfully affecting"
  • "reading of the film"
  • "rich array"
  • "staggering beauty"
  • "staggeringly beautiful"
  • "strikingly bereft"
  • "that would change cinema forever"
  • "that would change the movies forever"
  • "the greatest ____________ of his/her generation"
  • "there's nothing else like it" (also: "there's absolutely nothing else like it")
  • "tissue of lies"
  • "titular [anything]"
  • "two or three things"
  • "unforgettable"
  • "visually inventive"
  • "well-made"
  • "well-shot" / "shot well"
  • "willfully eccentric"
  • "winningly"
  • "would never be the same"