Jul 2001 Doings
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2001: A Ducal Odyssey
      an aural/autodidactic journey into Ellingtonia, supplemented by readings in 
        The Duke Ellington Reader - Mark Tucker, ed.;
         Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide - Eddie Lambert; and
         The Centennial Edition: Complete RCA Victor Recordings ["RCA Box"] liner notes

  • [nothing this month]

Listening

  • Anthony Braxton - 10 [solo bagpipe] compositions 2000 performed by Matthew Welch (Parallactic)
  • James Brown - Live at the Apollo Vol. II (Deluxe Edition) (Polydor)
  • Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein (Def Jux)
  • Ornette Coleman - Love Call (Blue Note)
  • Miles Davis/Gil Evans - The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings (Columbia)
  • Gilberto Gil - Gilberto Gil (1968) (Mercury)
  • Julius Hemphill - Blue Boyé (Screwgun)
  • Martin Klapper/Roger Turner - Recent Croaks (Acta)
  • Herbie Nichols Trio - Love, Gloom, Cash, Love (Bethlehem)
  • Lee 'Scratch' Perry - Born in the Sky: Upsetter at the Controls 1969-75 (Motion)
  • Radiohead - Kid A (EMI)
  • Masahiko Togashi Trio - Voices (Transheart)
  • Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso (1967) (Philips)
  • Yosuke Yamashita Trio - Chiasma (MPS)

Reading

  • A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American Movies - Martin Scorsese & Michael Henry Wilson
  • Sam Fuller: Film Is a Battleground - Lee Server
  • More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts - James Naremore

Watching

  • A Constant Forge - Charles Kiselyak (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Moulin Rouge - Baz Luhrmann (Esquire)
  • A.I. Artificial Intelligence - Steven Spielberg (McClurg Court)
       
  • That Obscure Object of Desire - Luis Buñuel (Lincoln Plaza Cinema, NYC)
  • Shadows - John Cassavetes (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • A Woman Under The Influence - John Cassavetes (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Opening Night - John Cassavetes (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Love Streams - John Cassavetes (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Intolerance - D.W. Griffith (LaSalle Theatre)
  • Way Down East - D.W. Griffith (LaSalle Theatre)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire - Elia Kazan (Chicago Outdoor Film Festival @ Grant Park)
  • Secrets and Lies - Mike Leigh (Doc Films)
  • Archangel; The Heart of the World - Guy Maddin (Music Box)
  • Twilight of the Ice Nymphs; The Heart of the World - Guy Maddin (Music Box)
  • My Night At Maud's - Eric Rohmer (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Claire's Knee - Eric Rohmer (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • The Blue Angel - Josef von Sternberg (Film Forum, NYC)
  • My New Friends; The Youngsters - Tsai Ming-liang (Walter Reade Theater, NYC)
  • "Light Rhythms: Melodies and Montages" (Whitney Museum, NYC); part of "Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Filmmaking 1893-1941"
    • Allegretto - Oskar Fischinger, 1936
    • Moods of the Sea - Slavko Vorkapich & John Hoffman, 1940-42
    • Night on Bald Mountain - Alexander Alexeieff & Claire Parker, 1933
    • Object Lesson - Christopher Young, 1941
    • Light Rhythms - Francis Bruguiere & Oswell Blakeston, 1930
    • "Artist's Ball" sequence from So This Is Paris - Ernst Lubitsch, 1926
    • "Skyline Dance" sequence from Manhattan Cocktail - Slavko Vorkapich, 1928
    • "The Money Machine" sequence from The Wolf of Wall Street - Slavko Vorkapich, 1929
    • "Prohibition" sequence from Sins of the Fathers - Slavko Vorkapich, 1929
    • "The Furies" sequence from Crime Without Passion - Slavko Vorkapich, 1934
    • "Battle of Vitoria" sequence (Vorkapich cut) from Firefly - Slavko Vorkapich, 1937
    • "Battle of Vitoria" sequence (final cut) from Firefly - Slavko Vorkapich, 1937
    • "Romance" & "Opera Singer's Career" sequences from Maytime - Slavko Vorkapich, 1937
    • Melody on Parade - unknown, 1936
    • title sequence from Hollywood Boulevard - Robert Florey, 1936
    • "Manhattan" sequence from The City - Ralph Steiner & Willard Van Dyke, 1939
    • "Lincoln Memorial" sequence from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - Slavko Vorkapich, 1939
    • An American March - Oskar Fischinger, 1941
          
  • "Post-Modern Pulp Friction: A Look at the Films of Seijun Suzuki & Sam Fuller (A Comparative Analysis)" class (Facets Cinémathèque)
    • Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street - Samuel Fuller
    • The Typewriter, the Rifle, and the Movie Camera - Adam Simon
    • Tokyo Drifter - Seijun Suzuki (DVD)
    • Branded To Kill - Seijun Suzuki (DVD)
  • Shock Corridor - Samuel Fuller (DVD)
  • The Wrong Man - Alfred Hitchcock (CATV)
  • The Decalogue: III-IV - Krzysztof Kieslowski (DVD)
  • Clash By Night - Fritz Lang (CATV)
  • Bamboozled - Spike Lee (DVD)
  • Incubus - Leslie Stevens (DVD)
  • Out of the Past - Jacques Tourneur (CATV)
  • The Trial - Orson Welles (CATV)
  • Double Indemnity - Billy Wilder (DVD)