Oct 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

  • Duke Ellington & His World Famous Orchestra - The "Collection": '46-47 Recordings (Hindsight)

Listening

  • Rob Mazurek, Gene Coleman, Michael Cameron trio; Michael Cameron solo performing compositions by James Dillon & Giacinto Scelsi @ Chicago Cultural Center (part of Sound Field 2001)
         
  • Fred Anderson Quartet - Dark Day + Live in Verona (Unheard Music Series/Atavistic)
  • Peter Brötzmann - Fuck de Boere (Unheard Music Series/Atavistic)
  • John Coltrane - The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording (Impulse!)
  • Pandelis Karayorgis/Mat Maneri - Lift & Poise (Leo Lab)
  • John Oswald - 69 Plunderphonics 96 (Seeland/Fony)
  • John Patton - Blue John (Blue Note)
  • Django Reinhardt - Volume 1: The First QHCF Recordings 1934-35 (JSP)
  • The Upsetters & Friends - The Upsetter Collection (Trojan)
  • Phil Woods et al - Bird's Night: The Music of Charlie Parker (Savoy)

Reading

  • From Dawn To Decadence (cont'd) - Jacques Barzun
  • Film Noir Reader - Alain Silver & James Ursini, ed.

Watching

  • Mirror Image - Hsiao Ya-chuan (Chicago International Film Festival @ Landmark Century Centre)
  • Address Unknown - Kim Ki-duk (Chicago International Film Festival @ Music Box)
  • Man Walking On Snow [Aruku-Hito] - Masahiro Kobayashi (Chicago International Film Festival @ Landmark Century Centre)
  • Waking Life - Richard Linklater (Chicago International Film Festival @ Music Box)
  • Mulholland Drive - David Lynch (Landmark Century Centre)
  • Baran - Majid Majidi (Chicago International Film Festival @ Music Box)
  • Unloved - Kunitoshi Manda (Chicago International Film Festival @ Landmark Century Centre)
  • What Time Is It There? - Tsai Ming-liang (Chicago International Film Festival @ Landmark Century Centre)
  • "Reel Shorts 2: Mondo Insane-o" (Chicago International Film Festival @ Landmark Century Centre)
    • Sugar - Lisa Barnstone
    • Reveille - Bruce Bennett
    • Eat - Bill Blympton
    • Walk - Jeff Drew
    • The Art Piece - Nick Gibbons
    • Tokyo Breakfast - Mike Maguire & Tom Kuntz
    • Met State - Bryan Papciak
    • Sweet - James A Pilkington
    • Good - Doug Seay & Paul Gordon
    • Everybody's Got Problems - Hilary Wilder
    • Stop - Lutz Winde
  • "Reel Shorts 3: New Voices, New Visions" (Chicago International Film Festival @ Music Box)
    • Member - David Brooks
    • Here - Brendan Donovan
    • Crow Stone - Alicia Duffy
    • Gina, An Actress, Age 29 - Paul Harrill
    • Delusions In Modern Primitivism - Daniel Loflin
    • Bike Ride - Tom Schroeder
    • Island To Island - Soopum Sohn
    • Remote - Ethan Tobman
  • "Picturing a Metropolis: NYC Unveiled" (Doc Films; part of "Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Filmmaking 1893-1941")
    • Star Theatre - Frederick S. Armitage
    • Coney Island at Night - Edwin S. Porter
    • Interior N.Y. Subway, 14th St. to 42nd St. - G.W. "Billy" Bitzer
    • ["Split Skyscrapers"] Looney Lens - Al Brick
    • Twenty-Four Dollar Island: A Camera Impression of New York - Robert Flaherty
    • Manhattan Medley - Bonney Powell
    • Seeing the World, Part One: A Visit to New York - Rudy Burckhardt
    • Footnote to Fact ["As I Walk"] - Lewis Jacobs
    • Ghost Town: The Story of Fort Lee - Theodore Huff & Mark Borgatte
    • A Bronx Morning - Jay Leyda
    • The Pursuit of Happiness - Rudy Burckhardt
    • ["Lullaby of Broadway"] Gold Diggers of 1935 - Busby Berkeley
         
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  • Gun Crazy (aka Deadly Is The Female) - Joseph H. Lewis (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • The Reckless Moment - Max Ophuls (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • The Scarlet Empress - Josef von Sternberg (Music Box)
  • Track Of The Cat - William Wellman (Chicago International Film Festival @ Music Box)
  • Iron Monkey - Yuen Woo-ping (Pipers Alley)
        
  • Love and Death - Woody Allen (CATV)
  • The Man On The Flying Trapeze - Clyde Bruckman (CATV)
  • Never Give A Sucker An Even Break - Edward F. Cline (CATV)
  • If I Had A Million - James Cruze et al (CATV)
  • Adam's Rib - George Cukor (CATV)
  • The Decalogue: V-VI - Krzysztof Kieslowski (DVD)
  • Slacker - Richard Linklater (CATV)
  • The Lady Eve - Preston Sturges (CATV)
  • Brakhage - Jim Shedden (CATV)