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Some films I saw:
(October’s been a busy film month so far. More than September, anyways).
新宿泥棒日記 (大島 渚, 1968)
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (Nagisa Oshima, 1968)
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On 35mm with Lucía and John at the Walter Reade Theater on 8 October at 19:00.
There were no subtitles on the print for Diary of a Shinjuku Thief, […]

In addition to the other two already mentioned, we saw these since coming to NY (details to come? maybe?):
300 (Zack Snyder, 2007)
On Blu-Ray at Snee&Andy’s house with Lucía on 7 September 2008 at around 22:30.
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I simply cannot believe how terrible 300 was. What a waste of… everything.
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Panic (Henry Bromell, 2000)
On DVD […]

Two movies I saw recently:
1. Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller, 2008)
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On 35mm at the AMC Loews Lincoln Center with Lucía, Lorin, Heidi, and Chris on 22 August 2008 late in the evening.
1. めがね (荻上直子, 2007)
Megane (Naoko Ogigami, 2007)
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On DVD at Snee & Andy’s in Port Washington with Lucía on 23 […]

Five movies I saw recently:
1. WALL·E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
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On 35mm at the Balboa Theater with Lucía, Grampa, Ben, Barb, and Sunny in early July 2008.
WALL·E carries on the Pixar tradition by having an extremely imaginative premise and an intricately detailed setting, but a fairly formulaic set of plot devices. What really […]

Mongol (Sergei Bodrov, 2007)
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On 35mm at the Piedmont Cinema with Lucía and Ben on 29 June, 2008, at 21:55.
The story of Mongol is interesting (and I was lucky enough to come into the film with no knowledge of the legends of Genghis Khan), although I got a little bored of the mystical aspects […]

Supermarket Woman (Itami Juzo, 2006)
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On DVD at home with Lucía on 25 June 2008 around 23:00.
Juzo Itami likes to make movies about self-improvement. About learning how to do something right, and about staying on the straight and narrow despite what obstacles you might find thrown at you. While much more focused […]

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On DVD with Lucía at home on 20 June 2008, quite late at night. We paused three quarters of the way through the film and continued the next night.
Not a whole lot to say about the film. One gets a sense of what people probably thought San Francisco was like at […]

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On DVD at home with Lucía on 23 June 2008 at around 22:30.
Manipulative? Maybe, but not in a way I really minded. You can certainly see the principles of neorealism sounding strong in this film, and in some ways I liked this better than Bicycle Thieves even if it was a […]

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On DVD with Lucía at home on 22 June 2008, fairly late at night.
An early femme fatale. Barbara Stanwyck is in peak form as the man-destroying seductress Lily Powers, hell-bent in making her way to the top (quite literally). Once there (and really, it takes her now time at all to […]

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On DVD with Lucía at home on 20 June 2008 pretty late in the evening.
A little rough around the edges, this gritty thriller has the visual flair, attention to detail, and rather bizarre acting I’ve come to expect from Jules Dassin. I haven’t really loved any of the Dassin films I’ve seen […]