Saturday, June 10, 2006


(Updated: winter 2007)


  • Strangers in Good Company~Cynthia Scott
  • Downtown 81~New York Art scene in the 1980's.
  • The Color of Pomegranates~Sergei Paradjanova...this film could pass as contemporary work now and includes many images that have been repeated by current artists
  • The Penalty~Lon Chaney as Blizzard
  • Decameron~1970~Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Dust to Glory~Dana Brown Documentary about the Baja 1000
  • F for fake~Orson Welles with Oja Kodar
  • The films of Kenneth Anger
  • El Topo~1970 film from Alejandro Jodorowsky...often (overly?) discussed but worth watching
  • Peter Beard Scrapbook~1998 film about Beard's photography and sketchbooks
  • Jandek on Corwood~Do you know about Jandek?
  • Be Here To Love Me~Margaret Brown's film on Townes Van Zandt
  • Let it come down: The life of Paul Bowles~1998
  • Graffiti Verite(1995) Infamy(2005): good to watch together
  • The Marriage of Maria Braun (BRD Trilogy)~Rainer W. Fassbinder
  • Martin Scorsese's My Voyage to Italy~Italian Cinema
  • L'Avventura~Michelangelo Antonioni
  • The films of Bela Tarr including Werckmeister Harmonies & Damnation
  • The Dreams of Sparrows~Hayder Mousta Daffar~"Art-find only beauty and truth."
  • Daughters of Darkness~Harry Kumel
  • Lumiere and Company~40 Directors
  • Z Channel
  • The Same River Twice~2003
  • Arakimentari~Nobuyoshi Araki~"As you know, I shoot a variety from art to porn. Shooting erotic housewives is part of my life's work."