Aug 2004 Doings
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Listening

  • Dragons 1976 @ Empty Bottle
       
  • Peter Brötzmann/Walter Perkins - The Ink is Gone (Bro, LP)
  • Benny Carter - 1929-1933 (Classics)
  • Greg Goodman/Mats Gustafsson/George Cremaschi - They Were Gentle and Pretty Pigs (Beak Doctor)
  • Basil Kirchin - Quantum (Trunk)
  • Albert Mangelsdorff Quintet - Abstractions (Inmus)
  • Wadada Leo Smith & Anthony Braxton - Saturn, Conjunct the Grand Canyon in a Sweet Embrace (Pi)
  • Krzysztof Penderecki / Béla Bartók [Anne-Sophie Mutter] - "Metamorphosen: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra no. 2" / "Sonata for Violin and Piano no. 2" (Deutsche Grammophon)
  • Cecil Taylor - Algonquin (Bridge)

Reading

  • Orson Welles: Interviews - ed. Mark W. Estrin
  • Freedom for the Poor: Welfare and the Foundations of Democratic Citizenship - Timothy J. Gaffaney
  • Self-Portrait of a Jazz Artist: Musical Thoughts and Realities - David Liebman

Watching

  • The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi - Takeshi Kitano (CineArts 6)
       
  • Dog Star Man - Stan Brakhage (Doc Films)
  • The Iron Horse - John Ford (Silent Film Festival @ Gateway Theater)
  • Gideon's Day - John Ford (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Fixed Bayonets - Samuel Fuller (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Men in War - Anthony Mann (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans - F.W. Murnau (Music Box)
  • Queimada [Burn!] - Gillo Pontecorvo (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Bunny Lake is Missing - Otto Preminger (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Bigger Than Life - Nicholas Ray (LaSalle Bank Cinema)
  • Playtime - Jacques Tati (Music Box) TWICE
  • The Trial - Orson Welles (Music Box)
  • Mr. Arkadin [aka Confidential Report] - Orson Welles (Music Box)
  • "Essential Cinema: Peter Kubelka" (Anthology Film Archives, NYC)
    • Mosaik Im Vertrauen
    • Adebar
    • Schwechater
    • Arnulf Rainer
    • Unsere Afrikareise
    • Pause
  • "Stan Brakhage: Films from the Vancouver Island Quartet" (Anthology Film Archives, NYC)
    • The Mammals of Victoria
    • The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him
  • "Patriot Acts" [all on video] @ Chicago Underground Film Festival (Three Penny):
    • Weapons of Mass Destruction - Lee Lanier
    • The Thief of Bagdad - Diane Nerwin
    • States of the Union - Aaron Valdez
    • Axis of Evil [L'axe du Mal] - Pascal Lievre
    • Travis - Kelly Reichardt
    • La Calavera - Jim Finn
    • 30 Seconds Hate / Suckers! - Bryan Boyce
    • Energy Country - Deborah Stratman
    • Notes From the Desk of the Dept. of Homeland Security - Paul Lloyd Sargent
  • "Work It" @ Chicago Underground Film Festival (Three Penny):
    • Lunch Break on the Xerox Machine - Marie Losier
    • Watch - Robert Todd
    • For the Record - Carolyn Faber
    • Untitled (#718) - Moira Tierney
    • Golden Daisy - Eric Ostrowski
    • Celebration of Lights - Jesse McLean
    • Daylight Moon - Lewis Klahr
    • Loudmouth Collective/Ugly Duckling Presse - Joel Shlemowitz
    • N. Judah 5:30 - Sam Green
    • Neptune's Release: Shot in the Dark - Joell Halowell & Jacalyn White
        
  • Once Upon a Time in America - Sergio Leone (DVD)
  • Before Sunrise - Richard Linklater (DVD)