January 24, 2010

The Movie Mashup: Wild Literary Adaptations

Adaptation (dir. Spike Jonze, 2002)
Prospero's Books (dir. Peter Greenaway, 1991)
Forbidden Planet (dir. Fred Wilcox, 1956)
I Walked with a Zombie (dir. Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
Spirits of the Dead/Toby Dammit (dir. Federico Fellini, 1968)
Beau Travail (dir. Claire Denis, 1999)
Shoot the Piano Player (dir. Francois Truffaut, 1960)
Contempt (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (dir. Coen brothers, 2000)
The Long Goodbye (dir. Robert Altman, 1973)
There Will Be Blood (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)

November 15, 2009

The Beats on Film

Pull My Daisy (dir. Alfred Leslie, Robert Frank, 1959)
Towers Open Fire (dir. Antony Balch, William S. Burroughs, 1963)
The Cut Ups (dir. Antony Balch, 1966)
The Discipline of D.E. (dir. Gus Van Sant, 1982)
Desistfilm (dir. Stan Brakhage, 1954)
Aleph (dir. Wallace Berman, 1959-66)
Odds and Ends (dir. Jane Conger Belson Shimane, 1959)
Shadows (dir. John Cassavetes, 1959)
Funny Face (dir. Stanley Donen, 1957)
The Beatniks (dir. Paul Frees, 1960)
The Bloody Brood (dir. Julian Roffman, 1959)
A Bucket of Blood (dir. Roger Corman, 1959)
High School Confidential (dir. Jack Arnold, 1958)
The Man with the Golden Arm (dir. Otto Preminger, 1955)
Dutchman (dir. Anthony Harvey, 1967)
Heart Beat (dir. John Byrum, 1980)
Naked Lunch (dir. David Cronenberg, 1991)

October 18, 2009

Dead Man (dir. Jim Jarmusch, 1995)

September 13, 2009

Cinema at the Stake: Movie Martyrs

The Passion of Joan of Arc (dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
The Trial of Joan of Arc (dir. Robert Bresson, 1962)
Au hasard, Balthazar (dir. Robert Bresson, 1966)
The Passion of the Christ (dir. Mel Gibson, 2004)
The Last Temptation of Christ (dir. Martin Scorsese, 1988)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (dir. Max Ophuls, 1948)
Breaking the Waves (dir. Lars von Trier, 1996)
La Strada (dir. Federico Fellini, 1954)
Hunger (dir. Steve McQueen, 2008)
Milk (dir. Gus Van Sant, 2008)

August 16, 2009

The Music of Regret (dir. Laurie Simmons, 2006)

May 17, 2009

Hello Dollface: The Inanimate Object as Actor

Dead of Night (dir. Alberto Cavalcanti, 1945)
Team America: World Police (dir. Trey Parker, 2004)
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (dir. Todd Haynes, 1987)
2001: A Space Odyssey (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
A.I. (dir. Steven Spielberg, 2001)
The Navigator (dir. Buster Keaton/Donald Crisp, 1924)
Queen Christina (dir. Rouben Mamoulian, 1933)
Safe (dir. Todd Haynes, 1995)
Jeanne Dielman (dir. Chantal Akerman, 1975)

April 22, 2009

Monster Road (dir. Brett Ingram, 2004)
Special Guest: Bruce Bickford

March 22, 2009

Caligari's Children: The Great Age of German Cinema

Part Three: Retreat

Pandora's Box (dir. G.W. Pabst, 1929)
Diary of a Lost Girl (dir. G.W. Pabst, 1929)
The Holy Mountain (dir. Arnold Fanck, 1926)
The White Hell of Pitz Palu (dir. Arnold Fanck, G.W. Pabst, 1930)
Asphalt (dir. Joe May, 1929)
The Blue Angel (dir. Josef von Sternberg, 1930)
People on Sunday (dir. Robert Siodmak, 1930)
The Threepenny Opera (dir. G.W. Pabst, 1931)
Kuhle Wampe (dir. Slatan Dudow, Bertolt Brecht, 1932)
Liebelei (dir. Max Ophuls, 1933)
M (dir. Fritz Lang, 1931)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (dir. Fritz Lang, 1933)
The Blue Light (dir. Leni Riefenstahl, 1932)
Triumph of the Will (dir. Leni Riefenstahl, 1935)

February 22, 2009

Caligari's Children: The Great Age of German Cinema

Part Two: Summit

Phantom (dir. F.W. Murnau, 1922)
Nosferatu (dir. F.W. Murnau, 1922)
The Last Laugh (dir. F.W. Murnau, 1924)
Faust (dir. F.W. Murnau, 1926)
Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler (dir. Fritz Lang, 1922)
Die Nibelungen (dir. Fritz Lang, 1924)
Metropolis (dir. Fritz Lang,1927)
Spies (dir. Fritz Lang, 1928)
The Joyless Street (dir. G.W. Pabst, 1925)
The Loves of Jeanne Ney (dir. G.W. Pabst, 1927)
Variety (dir. E.A. Dupont, 1925)

January 25, 2009

Caligari's Children: The Great Age of German Cinema

Part One: Birth

The Student of Prague (dir. Stellan Rye, 1913)
Madame Dubarry (dir. Ernst Lubitsch, 1919)
The Oyster Princess (dir. Ernst Lubitsch, 1919)
The Wild Cat (dir. Ernst Lubitsch, 1921)
Different From the Others (dir. Richard Oswald, 1919)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (dir. Robert Wiene, 1919)
Backstairs (dir. Leopold Jessner/Paul Leni, 1921)
Warning Shadows (dir. Arthur Robison, 1922)
The Golem (dir. Paul Wegener, 1920)

Books

From Caligari to Hitler by Siegfried Kracauer
The Haunted Screen by Lotte Eisner
The UFA Story by Klaus Kreimeier
Weimar Cinema and After by Thomas Elsaesser

November 16, 2008

David Lean's Arabia Campaign: The Enduring Lawrence

Lawrence of Arabia (dir. David Lean, 1962)

October 19, 2008

Alexandria…Why? (dir. Youssef Chahine, 1978)

September 21, 2008

The Cinematic Emporer: Images of Napoleon on Film with guest J. David Markham

Napoleon (dir. Abel Gance, 1927)
Conquest (dir. Clarence Brown, 1937)
Napoleon (dir. Sacha Guitry, 1955)
Waterloo (dir. Sergei Bondarchuk, 1970)
Love and Death (dir. Woody Allen, 1975)
The Emperor's New Clothes (dir. Alan Taylor, 2001)

August 10, 2008

Forever (dir. Heddy Honigmann, 2006)

May 18, 2008

After Life (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1998)

April 20, 2008

Classically Composed Hollywood: Film Scores by the European Emigres with guest Dave Beck, KUOW host and cellist

A Midsummer Night's Dream (dir. Max Reinhart, William Dieterle; 1935)
The Prince and the Pauper (dir. William Keighley, 1937)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (dir. Michael Curtiz, William Keighley; 1938)
Kings Row (dir. Sam Wood, 1942)
Spellbound (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1945)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (dir. Billy Wilder, 1970)
The Bride of Frankenstein (dir. James Whale, 1935)
Sunset Boulevard (dir. Billy Wilder, 1950)

March 16, 2008

American Splendor (dir. Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini; 2003)

February 28, 2008

Comic Book Style on Film with critic Mark Rahner

Alphaville (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
Modesty Blaise (dir. Joseph Losey, 1966)
Superman II (dir. Richard Lester, 1980)
Batman (dir. Tim Burton, 1989)
Sin City (dir. Richard Rodriguez/Frank Miller, 2005)
300 (dir. Zack Snyder, 2007)

January 27, 2008

Crumb (dir. Terry Zwigoff, 1994)

January 20, 2008

West Germany's Big Three: Herzog, Wenders, and Fassbinder

Even Dwarfs Started Small (dir. Werner Herzog, 1970)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (dir. Werner Herzog, 1972)
The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser (dir. Werner Herzog, 1974)
Kings of the Road (dir. Wim Wenders, 1976)
The American Friend (dir. Wim Wenders, 1977)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978)

2007

December 7, 2007

Critics Wrap

November 18, 2007

The Surreal Shorts of Jan Svankmajer

Darkness-Light-Darkness (1989, dir. Jan Svankmajer)
Jabberwocky, (1971, Jan Svankmajer)
Dimensions of Dialogue (1982, Jan Svankmajer)
Food (1992, Jan Svankmajer)

October 21, 2007

Long Live the New Flesh: A Dialogue on Cronenberg With critic Jim Emerson

The Brood (1979 , dir. David Cronenberg)
Scanners (1981, David Cronenberg))
The Fly (1986, David Cronenberg)
Dead Ringers (1988, David Cronenberg)
Naked Lunch (1991, David Cronenberg)
A History of Violence (2005, David Cronenberg)
Eastern Promises (2007, David Cronenberg)

September 16, 2007

They Came from Outer Space: 1950s Sci-fi on Film

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, dir. Robert Wise)
The Thing from Another World (1951, dir. Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks)
Invaders from Mars (1953, dir. William Cameron Menzies)
The War of the Worlds (1953, dir. Byron Haskin)
It Came from Outer Space (1953, dir. Jack Arnold)
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956, dir. Fred F. Sears)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, dir. Don Siegel)
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959, dir. Edward D. Wood, Jr.)

August 19, 2007

Mandabi (dir. Ousmane Sembene, 1968)
Xala (dir. Ousmane Sembene, 1975)
Faat Kine (dir. Ousmane Sembene, 2000)
Moolaade (dir. Ousmane Sembene, 2004)
Hyenas (dir. Djibril Diop Mambety, 1992)
The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (dir. Djibril Diop Mambety, 1998)
Life on Earth (dir. Abderrahmane Sissako, 1998)
Waiting for Happiness (dir. Abderrahmane Sissako, 2002)
Bamako (dir. Abderrahmane Sissako, 2006)
Yeelen (Brightness) (dir. Souleymane Cisse, 1987)
Daratt (dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2006)

May 20, 2007

A Fool There Was (dir. Frank Powell, 1915)
Sunrise (dir. F.W. Murnau, 1927)
Double Indemnity (dir. Billy Wilder, 1944)
The Maltese Falcon (dir. John Huston, 1941)
Scarlet Street (dir. Fritz Lang, 1945)
The Lady from Shanghai (dir. Orson Welles, 1947)
Out of the Past (dir. Jacques Tourneur, 1947)
Detour (dir. Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945)

April 22, 2007

Carbide and Sorrel (1963, dir. Frank Beyer)

March 18, 2007

Good Bye, Lenin! (2003, dir. Wolfgang Becker)

February 18, 2007

In from the Cold: Films of the Iron Curtain and After

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965, dir. Martin Ritt)
One, Two, Three (1961, dir. Billy Wilder)
The Gleiwitz Case (1961, dir. Gerhard Klein)
The Second Track (1962, dir. Joachim Kunert)
Carbide and Sorrel (1963, dir. Frank Beyer)
The Rabbit is Me (1965, dir. Kurt Maetzig)
Born in '45 (1965, dir. Jurgen Bottcher)
The Legend of Paul and Paula (1973, dir. Heiner Carow)
Sons of the Great Bear (1966, dir. Josef Mach)
Good Bye, Lenin! (2003, dir. Wolfgang Becker)
The Lives of Others (2006, dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)

January 21, 2007

Masters of Sound in Cinema

Diary of a Country Priest (1951, dir. Robert Bresson)
A Man Escaped (1956, dir. Robert Bresson)
Pickpocket (1959, dir. Robert Bresson)
Seven Samurai (1953, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
Throne of Blood (1957, dir. Akira Kurosawa)
Ran (1985, dir. Akira Kurosawa)

2006

November 19, 2006

Querelle enfantine (dir. Louis and August Lumiere, 1895)
The River (dir. Jean Renoir, 1951)
Pather Panchali (dir. Satyajit Ray, 1955)
Streetwise (dir. Martin Bell, 1984)
Los Olvidados (dir. Luis Bunuel, 1951)
Pixote (dir. Hector Babenco, 1981)
Landscape in the Mist (dir. Theo Angelopolous, 1988)
Ponette (dir. Jacques Doillon, 1996)

October 15, 2006

Within Our Gates (1920, dir. Oscar Micheaux)
The Blood of Jesus (1941, dir. Spencer Williams, Jr.)
Glen or Glenda? (1954, dir. Edward D. Wood, Jr.)
Shadows (1959, dir. John Cassavetes)

September 10, 2006

The Seventh Seal (1957, dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Winter Light (1961, dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Persona (1966, dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Scenes from a Marriage (1973, dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Fanny and Alexander (1982, dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Faithless (2001, dir. Liv Ullmann)

August 20, 2006

Ball of Fire (1941, dir. Howard Hawks)
Double Indemnity (1944, dir. Billy Wilder)
Sunset Boulevard (1950, dir. Billy Wilder)
Some Like it Hot (1959, dir. Billy Wilder)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970, dir. Billy Wilder)

May 21, 2006

The Night of the Hunter (1955, dir. Charles Laughton)
Psycho (1960, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Detour (1945, dir. Edgar G. Ulmer)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, dir. Tobe Hooper)
Blue Velvet (1986, dir. David Lynch)
Twin Peaks (1990, dir. David Lynch)

April 23, 2006

Citizen Kane (1941, dir. Orson Welles)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, dir. Orson Welles)
Chimes at Midnight (1966, dir. Orson Welles)
L'Avventura (1960, dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
Blowup (1966, dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
The Passenger (1975, dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)

March 19, 2006

Last Year at Marienbad (1961, dir. Alain Resnais)

March 3, 2006

It Happened at the World's Fair (1963, dir. Norman Taurog)
The Parallax View (1974, dir. Alan J. Pakula)
James Cameron's Dark Angel (2002, dir. David Nutter)
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999, dir. Jay Roach)
The Night Strangler (1973, dir. Dan Curtis)
Trouble in Mind (1985, dir. Alan Rudolph)
The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989, dir. Steve Kloves)
Bad Company (1995, dir. Damian Harris)
Money Buys Happiness (1999, dir. Gregg Lachow)
Police Beat (2005, dir. Robinson Devor)
Scorchy (1976, dir. Howard Avedis)

February 19, 2006

The 39 Steps (1935, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
The Shining (1980, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Rosemary's Baby (1968, dir. Roman Polanski)
The Man Without a Past (2002, dir. Aki Kaurismaki)

January 22, 2006

Atlanta (1996, dir. Miranda July--featured on tape Peripheral Produce #1)
The Amateurist (1998, dir. Miranda July--featured on tape Joanie 4 Jackie 4Ever)
For more on Miranda July: http://www.mirandajuly.com
The Tango Lesson (1997, dir. Sally Potter)
Scarlet Diva (2000, dir. Asia Argento)
Savage Nights (1992, dir. Cyril Collard)
God Said, Ha! (1998, dir. Julia Sweeney)
Real Life (1979, dir. Albert Brooks)
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2006, dir. Albert Brooks)

December 18, 2006

Les Mysteres du chateau de De (1929, dir. Man Ray)
Rose Hobart (1936, dir. Joseph Cornell)
Un Chien Andalou (1928, dir. Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali)
L'Age d'or (1930, dir. Luis Bunuel)
Morocco (1930, dir. Josef von Sternberg)
Blonde Venus (1932, dir. Josef von Sternberg)
The Devil is a Woman (1935, dir. Josef von Sternberg)
Freaks (1932, dir. Tod Browning)

2005

November 20, 2005

Sullivan's Travels (1941, dir. Preston Sturges)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932, dir. Mervyn LeRoy)
Wild Boys of the Road (1933, dir. William Wellman)
Heroes for Sale (1933, dir. William Wellman)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933, dir. Mervyn LeRoy/Busby Berkeley)
Our Daily Bread (1934, dir. King Vidor)
Modern Times (1936, dir. Charles Chaplin)

October 16, 2005

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939, dir. John Ford)
Notorious (1946, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Million Dollar Baby (2004, dir. Clint Eastwood)

September 18, 2005

Day for Night (1973, dir. François Truffaut)

August 21, 2005

Day for Night (1973, dir. François Truffaut)
The Wild Child (1970, dir. François Truffaut)
Jules and Jim (1962, dir. François Truffaut)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003, dir. Quentin Tarantino)
Pulp Fiction (1994, dir. Quentin Tarantino)

July 17, 2005

Days of Being Wild (1991, dir. Wong Kar-Wai)
Chungking Express (1994, dir. Wong Kar-Wai)
Fallen Angels (1996, dir. Wong Kar-Wai)
In the Mood For Love (2000, dir. Wong Kar-Wai)

June 26, 2005

Predictions of Fire (1996, dir. Michael Benson)

May 15, 2005

The Great Dictator (1940, dir. by Charlie Chaplin)
To Be or Not to Be (1942, dir. Ernst Lubitsch)
Duck Soup (1933, dir. Leo McCarey)
M*A*S*H (1970, dir. Robert Altman)
Catch-22 (1970, dir. Mike Nichols)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962, dir. John Frankenheimer)
Dr. Strangelove (1963, dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Dick (1999, dir, Andrew Fleming)
Bananas (1971, dir. Woody Allen)
Network (1976, dir. Sidney Lumet)
Bamboozled (2000, dir. Spike Lee)
Citizen Ruth (1996, dir. Alexander Payne)
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979, dir. Terry Jones)

April 10, 2005

Madame De... (1953, dir. Max Ophuls)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948, dir. Max Ophuls)
La Ronde (1950, dir. Max Ophuls)
Effi Briest (1973, dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

March 13, 2005

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod (1938, Disney)
Gee Whiz-z-z (1956, dir. Chuck Jones)
Metropolis (2001, dir. Rintaro, based on Osamu Tezuka's comic)
What's Opera, Doc? (1957, dir. Chuck Jones)
The Professional (1994, dir. Luc Besson)
Thunderbirds (1964, dir. Gerry Anderson)
Equinox Flower (1958, dir. Yasujiro Ozu)
Tokyo Drifter (1966, dir. Seijun Suzuki)

February 6, 2005

The Birds (1963, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Last Tango in Paris (1973, dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)
Romance (1999, dir. Catherine Breillat)