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AKERMAN, Chantal essay; essay; essay
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai de commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975, 198m) essay
Golden Eighties [aka Window Shopping] (Chantal Akerman, 1986, 92m)
A Couch in New York [Un divan à New York] (Chantal Akerman, 1996, 105m) essay
Tomorrow We Move [Demain on déménage] (Chantal Akerman, 2004, 110m) essay
ALDRICH, Robert essay; essay; essay; essay; essay
The Big Knife (Robert Aldrich, 1955, 111m)
Attack! (Robert Aldrich, 1956, 107m) essay; essay
Autumn Leaves (Robert Aldrich, 1956, 107m)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962, 132m) essay
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (Robert Aldrich, 1964, 134m)
ALLEN, Woody essay
Take the Money and Run (Woody Allen, 1968, 85m)
Bananas (Woody Allen, 1971, 82m)
Sleeper (Woody Allen, 1973, 89m)
Interiors (Woody Allen, 1978, 93m)
Stardust Memories (Woody Allen, 1980, 91m)
Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen, 1985, 103m) essay [pdf]
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 1989, 104m)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (Woody Allen, 1993, 104m)
Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen, 1996, 101m) essay; essay
Sweet and Lowdown (Woody Allen, 1999, 95m) essay; essay
ALMODÓVAR, Pedro essay; website
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Pedro Almodóvar, 1984, 101m)
Matador (Pedro Almodóvar, 1986, 110m)
Law of Desire [La Ley del deseo] (Pedro Almodóvar, 1987, 102m)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodóvar, 1988, 90m)
High Heels (Pedro Almodóvar, 1991, 112m)
The Flower of My Secret [La Flor de mi secreto] (Pedro Almodóvar, 1995, 103m) essay
Live Flesh [Carne trémula] (Pedro Almodóvar, 1997, 103m)
All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999, 101m)
Talk to Her (Pedro Almodóvar, 2002, 112m)
Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar, 2004, 106m)
ALTMAN, Robert essay; obituary; interview; website
M*A*S*H (Robert Altman, 1970, 111m)
Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman, 1970, 105m)
Thieves Like Us (Robert Altman, 1974, 123m) essay
Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975, 159m)
3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977, 124m) essay
A Wedding (Robert Altman, 1978, 125m) essay
Popeye (Robert Altman, 1980, 114m) essay; essay
Secret Honor (Robert Altman, 1984, 90m) essay
Tanner '88 (Robert Altman, 1988, 353m in 11 parts)
The Player (Robert Altman, 1992, 124m) essay
Short Cuts (Robert Altman, 1993, 187m) essay
Dr. T and the Women (Robert Altman, 2000, 122m) essay
Gosford Park (Robert Altman, 2001, 137m)
Red Hollywood (Thom Andersen & Noël Burch, 1995, 90m, video)
ANDERSON, Paul Thomas essay
Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002, 95m) essay; essay
ANDERSON, Wes essay
Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson, 1996, 92m)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001, 110m) essay; essay; essay; essay; essay
ANGER, Kenneth book chapter; essay; essay; article; interview; webpage
Puce Moment (Kenneth Anger, 1949, 6m)
Rabbit's Moon (Kenneth Anger, 1950-79, 7m)
Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1970-81, 29m) essay
The Man We Want to Hang (Kenneth Anger, 2002, 12m)
ANTONIONI, Michelangelo essay; essay; interview; interview
People of the Po (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1947, 10m) capsule
N.U. [aka Street Cleaners] (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1948, 9m) capsule
Lies of Love (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1949, 10m) capsule
Superstition (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1949, 9m) capsule
Seven Reeds, One Suit (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1949, 10m)
The Villa of Monsters (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1950, 10m) capsule
Vertigine (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1950, ??m)
The Lady Without Camellias (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1953, 105m) capsule
I Vinti [The Vanquished] (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1953, 110m) capsule
Le amiche [The Girlfriends] (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1955, 105m)
Il Grido [The Cry] (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1957, 102m) essay; essay
La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961, 122m)
Chung Kuo China (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1972, 217m)
The Passenger [Professione: reporter] (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975, 119m) essay; essay; essay; essay; essay
The Mystery of Oberwald (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1980, 128m, video) essay; essay; capsule
Identification of a Woman (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1982, 129m) essay
Return to Lisca Bianca (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1983, 9m, video)
Fotoromanza (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1984, 4m, video)
Kumbha Mela (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1989, 18m, video)
"Roma '90" from 12 registi per 12 città (1990, video)
Noto Mandorli Vulcano Stromboli Carnevale (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1993, 8m, video)
Beyond the Clouds (Michelangelo Antonioni with Wim Wenders, 1995, 109m) essay; essay; essay
Sicilia (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1997, 9m, video)
Eros (2004, 104m: "The Dangerous Thread of Things" by Michelangelo Antonioni; "Equilibrium" by Steven Soderbergh; & "The Hand" by Wong Kar Wai) essay; essay; essay; essay; capsule
Antonioni on Antonioni (Lino Miccichè, 1978, 28m)
Making a Film For Me is Life (Enrica Antonioni, 1995, 52m)
Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema (Sandro Lai, 2001, 56m, video) capsule
ASSAYAS, Olivier essay; interview & symposium; favorite films
Late August, Early September (Olivier Assayas, 1998, 112m) interview
Les Destinées (Olivier Assayas, 2000, 180m) essay; essay
demonlover (Olivier Assayas, 2002, 129m) article; essay; essay; essay
Clean (Olivier Assayas, 2004, 111m)
Porky's Preview (Tex Avery, 1941, 6m)
Red Hot Riding Hood (Tex Avery, 1943, 7m) essay; YouTube video
Screwball Squirrel (Tex Avery, 1944, 7m) feat. Screwy Squirrel
Symphony in Slang (Tex Avery, 1951)
Billy Boy (Tex Avery, 1954, 6m) YouTube video
BARNEY, Matthew documentary
The Cremaster Cycle: website; review; review; article; interview; video interview; documentary;
Cremaster 4 (Matthew Barney, 1994, 42m)
Cremaster 1 (Matthew Barney, 1995, 41m) essay
Cremaster 5 (Matthew Barney, 1998, 51m)
Cremaster 2 (Matthew Barney, 1998, 79m) essay
Cremaster 3 (Matthew Barney, 2002, 182m) essay
Drawing Restraint 9 (Matthew Barney, 2005, 135m) website; webpage; essay; essay; essay; essay; essay; trailerMatthew Barney: No Restraint (Alison Chernick, 2006, 70m, DigiBeta video) essay; essay; essay
BECKER, Jacques essay
Goupi mains rouges [It Happened at the Inn] (Jacques Becker, 1943, 100m)
Casque d'or (Jacques Becker, 1952, 94m)
BENNING, James essay
Chicago Loop (James Benning, 1976, 8m)
Deseret (James Benning, 1995, 82m) essay
BERGMAN, Ingmar essay; essay; essay; essay; essay-pdf (pp.4-9 of 64); more essays; website
Summer with Monika [aka Monika, the Story of a Bad Girl] (Ingmar Bergman, 1953, 96m) essay
Sawdust and Tinsel (Ingmar Bergman, 1953, 93m)
Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman, 1955, 108m) essay
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957, 91m) essay
The Magician [Ansiktet] (Ingmar Bergman, 1958, 100m) essay
The Devil's Eye (Ingmar Bergman, 1960, 87m)
The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman, 1960, 89m) essay
Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman, 1961, 89m) essay
Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1962, 80m) essay
The Silence (Ingmar Bergman, 1963, 95m) essay
The Magic Flute (Ingmar Bergman, 1975, 135m) essay; essay
Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman, 1978, 92m) essay; essay; essay
Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982, 188m) essay; essay
BERTOLUCCI, Bernardo favorite films
The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci, 2004, 116m) essay; essay; essay; essay; essay; essay; interview; essay
BOETTICHER, BUDD essay
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (Budd Boetticher, 1960, 101m)
BOORMAN, John favorite films
Hell in the Pacific (John Boorman, 1968, 101m)
BORZAGE, Frank
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Nugget Jim's Pardner (Frank Borzage, 1916)
Seventh Heaven (Frank Borzage, 1927, 120m)
Flirtation Walk (Frank Borzage, 1934, 97m)
Little Man, What Now? (Frank Borzage, 1934, 91m)
No Greater Glory (Frank Borzage, 1934, 74m)
Three Comrades (Frank Borzage, 1938, 100m) essay
The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage, 1940, 100m) essay
BRAKHAGE, Stan book chapter; essay; essay; interview; lecture; quotes; see Fred Camper's Brakhage page for links, filmography & frame enlargements
NOTE: almost all of Brakhage's films are recommended, so add a
Interim (Stan Brakhage, 1952, 25½m)
Desistfilm (Stan Brakhage, 1954, 7m) essay
In Between (Stan Brakhage, 1955, 10m)
The Wonder Ring (Joseph Cornell & Stan Brakhage, 1955, 6m) capsule
Centuries of June ( Joseph Cornell & Stan Brakhage, c.1955-56, 10m) capsule
Flesh of Morning (Stan Brakhage, 1956, 22m)
Cat's Cradle (Stan Brakhage, 1959, 6m)
Sirius Remembered (Stan Brakhage, 1959, 11m)
The Dead (Stan Brakhage, 1960, 11m) frame enlargements
Thigh Line Lyre Triangular (Stan Brakhage, 1961, 5m)
Dog Star Man [incl. Prelude & Parts 1-4] (Stan Brakhage, 1961-64, 75m)
The Art of Vision (Stan Brakhage, 1961-65, 270m) essay
Songs 28-29 (Stan Brakhage, 1969, 6m)
Scenes from Under Childhood (Section One) (Stan Brakhage, 1967, 24½m) *NOTE: "Released with a sound track originally, Section One was later also made available in a silent version, and both are available today." [per Camper filmography]
Scenes from Under Childhood (Section Two) (Stan Brakhage, 1969, 40m)
Scenes from Under Childhood (Section Three) (Stan Brakhage, 1969, 25m)
Scenes from Under Childhood (Section Four) (Stan Brakhage, 1970, 45m)
The Animals of Eden and After (Stan Brakhage, 1970, 35m)
Door (Stan Brakhage, 1971, 2m)
The Peaceable Kingdom (Stan Brakhage, 1971, 8m)
Sexual Meditation: Open Field (Stan Brakhage, 1972, 6m)
The Wold Shadow (Stan Brakhage, 1972, 2½m) essay
The Shores of Phos: A Fable (Stan Brakhage, 1972, 10m)
The Riddle of Lumen (Stan Brakhage, 1972, 14m) essay; frame enlargements
Dominion (Stan Brakhage, 1974, 4m)
Skein (Stan Brakhage, 1974, 4m)
Burial Path (Stan Brakhage, 1978, 15m)
Romans III (Stan Brakhage, 1979, 2m)
Romans IV (Stan Brakhage, 1979, 2m)
Romans VI (Stan Brakhage, 1980, 10m)
Romans VIII (Stan Brakhage, 1981, 4m)
Nodes (Stan Brakhage, 1981, 3m)
Murder Psalm (Stan Brakhage, 1980, 18m) frame enlargements
Egyptian Series (Stan Brakhage, 1984, 17m)
I... Dreaming (Stan Brakhage, 1988, 7m)
Visions in Meditation #1 (Stan Brakhage, 1989, 17½m)
Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde (Stan Brakhage, 1989, 17m)
Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave (Stan Brakhage, 1990, 18m)
Glaze of Cathexis (Stan Brakhage, 1990, 3m)
Christ Mass Sex Dance (Stan Brakhage, 1991, 4m) capsule
The Mammals of Victoria (Stan Brakhage, 1994, 35½m) frame enlargements
I Take These Truths [part 1 of Trilogy] (Stan Brakhage, 1995, 18m) essay & frame enlargements
We Hold These [part 2 of Trilogy] (Stan Brakhage, 1995, 12m) essay & frame enlargements
I... [part 3 of Trilogy] (Stan Brakhage, 1995, 27m) essay & frame enlargements
Last Hymn to the Night - Novalis (Stan Brakhage, 1997, 19m)
Divertimento (Stan Brakhage, 1997, 2½m)
Self Song & Death Song (Stan Brakhage, 1997, 4½m)
Coupling (Stan Brakhage, 1999, 5m) essay; frame enlargements
The Lion and the Zebra Make God's Raw Jewels (Stan Brakhage, 1999, 8½m) essay
Dance (Stan Brakhage, 2000, 6½m)
The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him (Stan Brakhage, 2000, 49m) essay
The Jesus Trilogy and Coda (Stan Brakhage, 2000, 17m) essay
Lovesong (Stan Brakhage, 2001, 11m)
Lovesong 2 (Stan Brakhage, 2001, 3m)
Micro Garden (Stan Brakhage, 2001, 4m)
Night Mulch (Stan Brakhage, 2001, 2m)
Very (Stan Brakhage, 2001, 4m)
Ascension (Stan Brakhage, 2002, 2½m)
Max (Stan Brakhage, 2002, 3m) essay with frame enlargements
Resurrectus Est (Stan Brakhage, 2002, 8m) essay with frame enlargements
Chinese Series (Stan Brakhage, 2003, 2½m) frame enlargementsThe Eyes Have It (Stan Brakhage, ??)
NOTE: Below are works I've seen only on DVD:
Wedlock House: An Intercourse (Stan Brakhage, 1959, 11m)
Eye Myth (Stan Brakhage, 1967, 9sec)
The Stars Are Beautiful (Stan Brakhage, 1974, 19m)
The Garden of Earthly Delights (Stan Brakhage, 1981, 1½m)
Kindering (Stan Brakhage, 1987, 3m)
Rage Net (Stan Brakhage, 1988, 1m)
Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse (Stan Brakhage, 1991, 8m)
Untitled (For Marilyn) (Stan Brakhage, 1991, 11m)
Crack Glass Eulogy (Stan Brakhage, 1992, 6m)
Stellar (Stan Brakhage, 1993, 2½m)
Study in Color and Black and White (Stan Brakhage, 1993, 2m)
Black Ice (Stan Brakhage, 1994, 2m)
BREER, Robert essay; essay with video copies; webpage; website with partial filmography; webpage
Form Phase I (Robert Breer, 1952)
Form Phases II (Robert Breer, 1953)
Form Phases IV (Robert Breer, 1954, 3½m)
Un Miracle (Robert Breer, 1954, 30sec)
Jamestown Baloos (Robert Breer, 1957, 6m)
Homage to Jean Tinguely's "Homage to New York" (Robert Breer, 1960, 9½m)
Inner and Outer Space (Robert Breer, 1960, 4m)
Blazes (Robert Breer, 1961, 3m)
Pat's Birthday (Robert Breer, 1962, 13m)
Fist Fight (Robert Breer, 1964, 11m)
Two Films (Robert Breer, 1968, 5m)
PBL (Robert Breer, 1968, 1m)
77 (Robert Breer, 1977, 10m)
T.Z. (Robert Breer, 1979, 8½m)
Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons (Robert Breer, 1980, 6m)
Sparkill Ave! (Robert Breer, 1992, 5m)
Time Flies (Robert Breer, 1997, 5m)
ATOZ (Robert Breer, 2000, 6m)
BRESSON, Robert essay with links and more links; essay; essay; essay; essay; essay; essay; links; website; essay; essay; essay; essay; essay; essay
Le Dames du Bois de Boulogne (Robert Bresson, 1945, 85m) essay; essay
Un femme douce (Robert Bresson, 1969, 88m) essay
Le Diable probablement [The Devil, Probably] (Robert Bresson, 1977, 95m) essay p.1 & p.2;
BUÑUEL, Luis essay; essay; essay; essay
Mexican Bus Ride [Subida al cielo] (Luis Buñuel, 1952, 85m) essay
Ensayo de un Crimen [The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz] (Luis Buñuel, 1955, 89m) essay; essay (see "Film Reviews")
Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Buñuel, 1964, 98m) essay; essay
Belle de jour (Luis Buñuel, 1967, 101m) essay
The Milky Way (Luis Buñuel, 1968, 105m) essay
BURNETT, Charles essay; interview
Several Friends (Charles Burnett, 1969, 45m) essay
The Final Insult (Charles Burnett, 1997, 55m, video) essay
The Annihilation of Fish (Charles Burnett, 1999, 108m)
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (Charles Burnett, 2007, 161m) essay; interview
CANTERBURY, Kyle essay with stills
Platinum Blonde (Frank Capra, 1931, 103m)
American Madness (Frank Capra, 1932, 75m)
Forbidden (Frank Capra, 1932, 83m)
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (Frank Capra, 1933, 98m)
It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934, 105m) essay
State of the Union (Frank Capra, 1948, 124m)
CASSAVETES, John essay; essay; essay; essay; essay; essay; essay; essay; essay; essay; essay; filmography; website
Too Late Blues (John Cassavetes, 1961, 103m)
A Child is Waiting (John Cassavetes, 1963, 102m)
Gloria (John Cassavetes, 1980, 123m) essay
Big Trouble (John Cassavetes, 1986, 93m)
CHABROL, Claude essay
Le Beau Serge (Claude Chabrol, 1958, 97m) essay
Les Cousins (Claude Chabrol, 1959, 105m) essay
Les Biches (Claude Chabrol, 1968, 99m) essay
Que la bête meure [This Man Must Die] (Claude Chabrol, 1969, 113m) essay
Une affaire de femmes [Story of Women] (Claude Chabrol, 1988, 110m)
Madame Bovary (Claude Chabrol, 1991, 140m)
The Bridesmaid (Claude Chabrol, 2004, 111m) essay; essay
Comedy of Power [L'Ivresse du pouvoir] (Claude Chabrol, 2006, 110m)
CHAPLIN, Charles essay; essay; essay
Between Showers (Henry Lehrman, 1914, 15m) feat. Charlie Chaplin
Tillie's Punctured Romance (Mack Sennett, 1914, 82m) feat. Charlie Chaplin
Tango Tangles (Mack Sennett, 1914, 12m) feat. Charlie Chaplin
The Face on the Bar-Room Floor (Charles Chaplin, 1914, 14m) feat. Charlie Chaplin
The Rounders (Charles Chaplin, 1914, 16m) feat. Charlie Chaplin
His Prehistoric Past (Charles Chaplin, 1914, 10m) feat. Charlie Chaplin
The Knockout (Charles Avery, 1914, 27m) feat. Charlie Chaplin
The Rink (Charles Chaplin, 1916, 24m)
The Fireman (Charles Chaplin, 1916, 32m)
The Immigrant (Charles Chaplin, 1917, 20m) essay-pdf
The Idle Class (Charles Chaplin, 1921, 32m) essay
A Woman of Paris (Charles Chaplin, 1923, 93m) essay
Chytilová, Věra website
Ceiling [Strop] (Věra Chytilová, 1962, 42m)
Fruit of Paradise [Ovoce stromů rajských jíme] (Věra Chytilová, 1969, 99m)
Prefab Story [Panelstory] (Věra Chytilová, 1976, 96m)
Wolf Chalet [Vlci Bouda] (Věra Chytilová, 1985, 92m)
Tainted Horseplay [Kopytem sem, kopytem tam] (Věra Chytilová, 1988, 133m)
Pleasant Memories (Věra Chytilová, 2006, 108m)
CLOUZOT, Henri-Georges essay; essay
Le Corbeau (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1943, 91m) essay; capsule
The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953, 148m) essay
Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1954, 116m) essay
Les Parents terrible (Jean Cocteau, 1948, 105m)
Testament of Orpheus [Le Testament d'Orphée, ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi!] (Jean Cocteau, 1960, 79m) essay; essay
CONNER, Bruce essay; essay; essay; interview; webpage; webpage with film descriptions
Breakaway (Bruce Conner, 1966, 5m) essay
Luke (Bruce Conner, 1966/2004, 22m, 8mm)
Crossroads (Bruce Conner, 1976, 36m) info
Take the 5:10 to Dreamland (Bruce Conner, 1977, 5m)
Valse Triste (Bruce Conner, 1979, 5m)
Easter Morning (Bruce Conner, 2008, 10m, video)
Coming Attractions (Tony Conrad & Beverly Conrad, 1970, 77m)
COPPOLA, Francis Ford essay
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972, 175m) essay
The Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974, 200m) essay
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992, 130m) capsule
John Grisham's The Rainmaker (Francis Ford Coppola, 1997, 135m) essay
Youth Without Yousth (Francis Ford Coppola, 2007, 124m) essay; essay
COSTA, Pedro essay
The Blood (Pedro Costa, 1989, 95m)
Bones (Pedro Costa, 1997, 96m)
In Vanda's Room (Pedro Costa, 2000, 178m) essay
The Rabbit Hunters (Pedro Costa, 2007, 23m, video)
CRONENBERG, David es