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Due to unforeseen circumstances the screening of Love Streams has been postponed to a later date. Will announce once it is scheduled.
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Screened February 3 2010 on YouTube in Brooklyn, NY
TSPDT rank #784 IMDb Wiki
Be sure to also check out Ritwik Ghatak: An Online Primer
After watching the rigorously choreographed long-take mastery of Berlanga’s Placido , my encounter with Ritwik Ghatak was a jolt. His ...
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You might have been a bit more indulgent towards us if you only knew how many fences we have to cross to make a film. […] Filmmakers like us will be gratified if people just accept the fact that we are fenced in. […] You are a fence yourselves, the most ominous, perhaps.
- Ghatak, quoted ...
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eat,” Luke said, “at the speed of your hair.” “What does that mean?” said Nicole. It took an effort of will not to say, “It means I want to spend the ...
A Pre-Valentines Treat: Cassavetes’ LOVE STREAMS ...
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Petition (dir. Zhao Liang)
This entry is mostly lifted from an announcement posted at dGenerate Films .
In the recent Top Ten Chinese Films of the 2000s poll , one of the top-ranked documentaries was Zhao Liang’s Petition: The Court of the Complainants . A pretty impressive showing, ...
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Screened January 30 2010 on .avi downloaded from the website that dare not speak its name in Brooklyn, NY
TSPDT rank #763 IMDb Wiki
As with my previous entry on Douce , the only print of this film that I could access has no subtitles. My original plan was to enlist a Spanish-speaking ...
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Screened January 27 2010 on DVR downloaded from the website that dare not speak its name in Brooklyn NY
TSPDT rank #839 IMDb
As I mentioned in an earlier post, the one film on the TSPDT 1000 that I hadn’t been able to locate in any form was this one, which had just been ...
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Love Story
Screened January 19 2010 on BFI DVD rip downloaded from the website that dare not speak its name in Los Angeles, CA
TSPDT Rank #984 IMDb Wiki
“A film without actors” reads the subtitle of this title card. You have to think about what a concept like that meant back in 1930 ...
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Screened December 17 2009 on .avi format downloaded from the website that dare not speak its name in Brooklyn NY
TSPDT Rank # 938 IMDb Wiki
This post is dedicated to Matthew Dessem, proprietor of The Criterion Contraption . I’m going to co-opt his lengthy, conversational approach ...
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Since my last entry had some less-than-flattering commentary on the TSP1000 list, here’s a post that highlights some of the best movies I saw last year, all thanks to the TSP1000 . You can click on the respective titles to see what I wrote about each. Unfortunately it seems that each ...
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First off, I want to commend Bill Georgaris on another monumental round of collecting, compiling and computating in delivering the latest update to the 1000 Greatest Films on They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? The January 2010 edition incorporates 216 more films than the previous update ...
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Running on Karma (dir. Johnnie To and Wa Ka Fai)
Over on the dGenerate Films website , the results of weeks of emailing Chinese film experts and tabulating of ballots to determined the top Chinese language films of the last 10 years. I’m kind of whateverz about the top pick, which ...

