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An overview of the articles and videos by Chris Fujiwara that are available online.

Films are listed by release date. See links under "notes". Below the articles are listed in chronological order.

___________________________________________________________________________________
ARTICLES
Zooming Through Space (1998)
www.hilobrow.com/2012/01/05/zooming-through-space/

Atlas Against the Czar (Boccia) (1999)
web.archive.org/web/20110719184658/http://www.hermenaut.com/a83.shtml

The Shame of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1999?)
web.archive.org/web/20110907204634/http://www.hermenaut.com/a152.shtml

Saved by Betrayal: Touch of Evil (Welles) (1999)
www.hilobrow.com/2011/12/04/saved-by-betrayal/

Castle of Blood (Margheriti, Corbucci) (1999?)
web.archive.org/web/20101125164335/http://hermenaut.com/a95.shtml

100 Years, 100 Laughs (2000)
web.archive.org/web/20101125155123/http://hermenaut.com/a116.shtml

Causes, Parallels, and Talking Horses: Arsenal (Dovzhenko) (2000?)
web.archive.org/web/20110609173852/http://www.hermenaut.com/a133.shtml

A Swimming in the Head: Vertigo (Hitchcock) (2000?)
web.archive.org/web/20110719183334/http://www.hermenaut.com/a36.shtml

Convent Erotica (2000?)
web.archive.org/web/20110719183028/http://www.hermenaut.com/a48.shtml

Le trou (Becker) (2001)
www.criterion.com/current/posts/138-the-time-it-takes-le-trou-and-jacques-becker

Ordet (Dreyer) (2001)
www.criterion.com/current/posts/128-ordet

Otto Preminger (2002)
www.sensesofcinema.com/2002/great-directors/preminger/

Love on the Run (Truffaut) (2003)
www.criterion.com/current/posts/265-love-on-the-run

Stray Dog (Kurosawa) (2004)
www.criterion.com/current/posts/604-excess-in-stray-dog

The Cardinal, Otto Preminger. The Image Issue (2005)
www.rouge.com.au/5/fujiwara.html

The Round, the Flat, and the Impossible: Tsai-Ming Liang's "The Wayward Cloud" (2006)
web.archive.org/web/20150121000639/http://www.fipresci.org/undercurrent/issue_0106/wayward_fujiwara.htm

An Acting Lesson in "Madigan" (2006)
web.archive.org/web/20141130003925/http://www.fipresci.org/undercurrent/issue_0206/fujiwara_madigan.htm

Resistance: Danièle Huillet (2006)
web.archive.org/web/20130906131509/http://fipresci.org/undercurrent/issue_0306/huillet_fujiwara.htm

Manjadikkuru - The Double Look (Menon) (2008)
fipresci.org/report/lucky-red-seeds-the-double-look-by-chris-fujiwara/

The Pressure of Time, the Look at the Camera, and the Boundary in the Films of Peter Watkins (2008)
web.archive.org/web/20130827151420/http://www.fipresci.org/undercurrent/issue_0407/fujiwara_watkins.htm

Empty Symbols: "The Dark Knight" (2008)
web.archive.org/web/20130826033955/http://www.fipresci.org/undercurrent/issue_0407/fujiwara_dark_knight.htm

A Mirror for Mama-san (2008)
movingimagesource.us/articles/a-mirror-for-mama-san-20080604

Tears Without Laughter: Douglas Sirk (2008)
movingimagesource.us/articles/tears-without-laughter-20080818

The Past Becomes Past: Jacques Tourneur (2008)
movingimagesource.us/articles/the-past-becomes-past-20080915

The Struggle to Believe (Nagisa Oshima) (2008)
movingimagesource.us/articles/the-struggle-to-believe-20080926

Mission Impossible: Vincente Minnelli (2008)
movingimagesource.us/articles/mission-impossible-20081030

The King of Comedy: Jerry Lewis (2008)
movingimagesource.us/articles/the-king-of-comedy-20081117

The Ways of Love and Politics: John Ford (2009)
web.archive.org/web/20150110040136/http://www.fipresci.org/undercurrent/issue_0509/ford_intro.htm

No Wasted Moments: Kiju Yoshida (2009)
movingimagesource.us/articles/no-wasted-moments-20090402

Pure Escapes: Jerzy Skolimowski (2009)
movingimagesource.us/articles/pure-escapes-20090710

Fleeting Glimpses: Sadao Yamanaka (2009)
movingimagesource.us/articles/fleeting-glimpses-20090911

Love Letter: Kinuyo Tanaka (2009)
movingimagesource.us/articles/love-letter-20091023

Double Feature: Changeling and Gran Torino (Eastwood) (2009)
movingimagesource.us/articles/double-feature-20091201

Intimate Intransigence: the 11th Jeonju International Film Festival (2010)
www.sensesofcinema.com/2010/festival-reports/intimate-intransigence-the-11th-jeonju-international-film-festival/

Review of "On Film Festivals" (2010)
web.archive.org/web/20130904234713/http://fipresci.org/undercurrent/issue_0609/fujiwara_festivals.htm

To Have Done with the Contemporary Cinema (2010)
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/film-review/to-have-done-with-the-contemporary-cinema

Ethics of Film Criticism (2010)
web.archive.org/web/20130906170712/http://fipresci.org/undercurrent/issue_0609/fujiwara_ethics.htm

Notes on Two Blake Edwards Films (2010)
web.archive.org/web/20130905130856/http://www.fipresci.org/undercurrent/issue_0711/fujiwara_edwards.htm

The Unseen Chabrol 1-3 (2010)
movingimagesource.us/articles/the-unseen-chabrol-pt-1-20101012

Le cercle rouge (Melville) (2011)
www.criterion.com/current/posts/1815-le-cercle-rouge-what-is-the-red-circle

Passing through the Image: Takamine Hideko (2011)
web.archive.org/web/20130903071028/http://www.fipresci.org/undercurrent/issue_0711/fujiwara_takamine.htm

Free Cell Block F, 'Tis Nazi USA: A Viennale 2010 Report (2011)
web.archive.org/web/20130908061636/http://www.fipresci.org/undercurrent/issue_0711/fujiwara_viennale2010.htm

Two documentaries by Tsuchimoto Noriaki (2011)
old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/review/6429

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. Film Critics' Workshop: Day 1-3 (2011)
mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/author/221

Finished Business: An Autumn Afternoon (Ozu) (2011)
movingimagesource.us/articles/finished-business-20110209

Obscure Objects of Desire: Nicolás Guillén Landrián (2011)
movingimagesource.us/articles/obscure-objects-of-desire-20111219

The Essential and the Unclear: Gallo vs. Clooney (2012)
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/film-review/the-essential-and-the-unclear/

Ali: Fear East the Soul (Fassbinder) (2014)
www.criterion.com/current/posts/1067-ali-fear-eats-the-soul-one-love-two-oppressions

Riot in Cell Block 11 (Siegel) (2014)
www.criterion.com/current/posts/3138-riot-in-cell-block-11-states-of-exception

In Cold Blood (Brooks) (2015)
www.criterion.com/current/posts/3801-in-cold-blood-structuring-the-real

Lewis, Jerry (2016)
www.sensesofcinema.com/2016/great-directors/lewis

Three on a Couch (Lewis) (2016)
www.sensesofcinema.com/2016/jerry-lewis/three-on-a-couch

The Critical Event of "Director Ozu Yasujiro" (2016)
lolajournal.com/7/hasumi_fujiwara.html

Häxan (Christensen) (2019)
www.criterion.com/current/posts/147-haxan-the-real-unreal

The Cranes are Flying (Kalatozov) (2020)
www.criterion.com/current/posts/200-the-cranes-are-flying-a-free-camera

Cure (Kurosawa) (2022)
www.criterion.com/current/posts/7959-cure-erasure

Two Girls on the Street (de Toth) (2022)
www.criterion.com/current/posts/7936-two-girls-on-the-street-all-is-lies

VIDEOS
Canyon Passage (Tourneur)
"https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fWYt9DlRPxk

Lucky Star (Borzage)
youtu.be/XqRVvRBzo2g

Steamboat Bill Jr. (Keaton)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsVmGFFX_ug&ab_channel=LuckyStar

CONVERSATIONS AND INTERVIEWS

It Takes a Thief to Catch a Thief ": Crime and the American genre film pt. 1-3 (2007)
www.flowerwild.net/2007/04/2007-04-02_030000.php

Pedro Costa and Chris Fujiwara on Jacques Tourneur (2010)
www.lafuriaumana.com/pedro-costa-and-chris-fujiwara-conversation-about-jacques-tourneur/

The Best Film Books (2010)
www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/polls-surveys/film-book-poll/complete#chrisfujiwara

Interview with British Council (2013)
film-directory.britishcouncil.org/comment/spotlight/2013/chris-fujiwara

Interview with Polish Film Institute (2014)
pisf.pl/en/aktualnosci/conversation-with-chris-fujiwara/

Implicit Solidarity: IT'S NOT HER SIN and CONFLIT (2016)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_RUqzIuvk4&ab_channel=HerbertH.Heebert

Inner and Outer Spaces in American Cinema (2022)
youtu.be/4pJntQEylwk?si=W4MxP3FndNr47lBq

• Häxan

  Häxan (Christensen) (2019)
  www.criterion.com/current/posts/147-haxan-the-real-unreal

• Steamboat Bill, Jr.

  Video: Steamboat Bill Jr. (Keaton)
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsVmGFFX_ug&ab_channel=LuckyStar

• Arsenal

  web.archive.org/web/20110609173852/http://www.hermenaut.com/a133.shtml

• Tide of Empire

  Zooming Through Space (1998)
  www.hilobrow.com/2012/01/05/zooming-through-space/

• Lucky Star

  Video: Lucky Star (Borzage)
  youtu.be/XqRVvRBzo2g

• Humanity and Paper Balloons

  Fleeting Glimpses: Sadao Yamanaka (2009)
  movingimagesource.us/articles/fleeting-glimpses-20090911

• Two Girls on the Street

  Two Girls on the Street (de Toth) (2022)
  www.criterion.com/current/posts/7936-two-girls-on-the-street-all-is-lies

• Stranger on the Third Floor

  It Takes a Thief to Catch a Thief ": Crime and the American genre film pt. 1-3 (2007)
  www.flowerwild.net/2007/04/2007-04-02_030000.php

• Cat People

  Pedro Costa and Chris Fujiwara on Jacques Tourneur (2010)
  www.lafuriaumana.com/pedro-costa-and-chris-fujiwara-conversation-about-jacques-tourneur/

• Canyon Passage

  Video: Canyon Passage (Tourneur)
  "https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fWYt9DlRPxk

...plus 57 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The pleasures of storytelling and passing on secrets in 80s French cinema. Plus, a few Belgian and Swiss films. One film per director.

The list is inspired by a comment made by Pascal Bonitzer in Cahiers du cinéma nr. 369: "Here, at the beginning of 1985, what strikes me most is the lack of storytelling in American cinema, and on the contrary, the extraordinary, albeit more or less unrecognized, narrative richness of a European cinema whose cornerstones and masterpieces are to be found in France."

Films from number 43-67 are on my watchlist.

1. Loulou
2. Simone Barbès or Virtue
3. Every Man for Himself
4. My American Uncle
5. The Little Mermaid
6. Snakes and Ladders
7. Nightmare
8. The Aviator's Wife
9. Dessert for Constance
10. Snow

...plus 57 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Every film mentioned in the 285-page catalogue accompanying Locarno's retrospective on Columbia Pictures.

www.editionsdeloeil.com/product-page/the-lady-with-the-torch-ehsan-khoshbakht-dir

Table of contents
Introduction (Ehsan Khoshbahkt)
A Brief History of Columbia Pictures 1924-59 (Matthew H. Bernstein)
Columbia Pictures' Harry Cohn Years (Ehsan Khoshbahkt)
The Women of Columbia (Pamela Hutchinson)
The Stars of Columbia Pictures (Christina Newland)
Frank Capra (Christopher Small)
Roy William Neill (Philippe Garnier)
Howard Hawks (Geoffrey O'Brien)
Nick Grindé (Jeremy Arnold)
Alexander Hall (Elena Lazic)
Charles Vidor (David Thompson)
William Castle (Kim Newman)
Edward Dmytryk (David Cairns)
André de Toth (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
Budd Boetticher (Imogen Sara Smith)
John Sturges (Farran Smith Nehme)
Phil Karlson (Haden Guest)
Hugo Haas (Milan Hain)
Richard Quine (Paola Cristalli)
Robert Rossen and Joseph H. Lewis (Chris Fujiwara)

• Flirting with Fate
• Fridericus Rex - 1. Teil: Sturm und Drang
• Blood and Sand
• The Fatal Mistake
• The Strong Man
• Old Ironsides
• Metropolis
• Long Pants
• The Blood Ship
• The Matinee Idol

...plus 368 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Thom Andersen's program for the Viennale '08.

Program 1: Slapstick City (film 1-7)
Program 2: Sunshine Noir (8-22)
Program 3: Loving Los Angeles (23-33
Program 4: Films by Pat O'Neill (34-37)
Program 5: Rock... and TV (38-56)
Program 6: Falling Apart (57-77)

Not on LB:
Hot Pink (Patssi Valdez, 1984)
Four TV Commercials (Chris Burden, 1973-77/2000)
I Love L.A. (Tim Newman, 1983)
La Raza (unknown, 1990)
S.W.L.A. (Rob Thompson, 1971)
Special Warning (Robert Nelson, 1974/99)
Chapbook of the Non-Eminent (Elizabeth Wiatr, 1993)
L.A. Plays Itself (Fred Halsted, 1972) - exists on lb, but not allowed to be added
Sex Garage (Fred Halsted, 1972) - exists on lb, but not allowed to be added

1. Number, Please?
2. Never Weaken
3. Lizzies of the Field
4. Big Business
5. The Salvation Hunters
6. The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra
7. Hollywood Boulevard
8. Meshes of the Afternoon
9. Fireworks
10. Puce Moment

...plus 67 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films discussed in Bertrand Tavernier's interview with Joe Dante from the book Amis américains: Entretiens avec les grands auteurs d'Hollywood (2008).

• The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
• 13 Hours by Air
• Hollywood Boulevard
• Moon Over Harlem
• The Man They Could Not Hang
• The Grapes of Wrath
• The Biscuit Eater
• The Monster and the Girl
• The Maltese Falcon
• Among the Living

...plus 58 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

"BLITZ borders on a masterpiece, with Statham even better than usual."
"LADY KILLER, One of Grémillon's finest, one of the most beautiful films in the world."

An overview of the films Paul Vecchiali saw and wrote about in 2022. He wrote short, beautiful blurbs that he shared on his Facebook page. Since his page is public, I believe it is ok to share them here in memory of him. Furthermore, if I am not mistaken, other blurbs have already been published in the book "Paul Vecchiali: Once More" (2023).

I have inserted Vecchiali's comments as notes.

1. Designing Woman

   De tous les MINNELLI (et il y en a tant que j'aime), je crois que c'est LA FEMME MODÈLE que je préfère

   29/12/2022

2. The Searchers

   Revu LA PRISONNIÈRE DU DÉSERT sans commentaire !
   28/12/2022

3. Drugstore Romance

   Un caprice : revoir CORPS À CŒUR. Pas par nostalgie : pour savoir où j'en étais avec ce film "arraché" par conviction. Je n'en dirai rien sinon que les actrices et les acteurs sont incroyables : Murillo, Bruno, Delahaye, Sonia, Bouvet, etc;, grands petits rôles et le duo Surgère/Silberg, si justes, si beaux, si bouleversants.

   23/12/2022

4. Jungle Book

   Chez les Korda, je retiens Zoltan. LE LIVRE DE LA JUNGLE dépasse le film pour enfants. C'est pourtant enfant que je l'ai vu la première fois. Je viens de le revoir et il m'a paru plus ample et plus discret à la fos.

5. Brigadoon

   Il y a si longtemps déjà, j'avais vu BRIGADOON et, malgré Kelly/Charisse, sublimes, j'avais été déçu. Je l'ai revu ce soir, éprouvant la même déception en plus grave peut-être : la légende n'excuse pas les redondances, l'utilisation du folklore, l'étirement des séquences, le jeu avec l'invraisemblance pour tâter de la poésie. Bref; ce film n'est pas pour moi.

   21/12/2022

6. Quentin Durward

   Patrick Brion a fait beaucoup pour le cinéma et plus encore pour faire connaître des films injustement ignorés. Il avait une passion pour Richard Thorpe. Las, je viens de revoir QUENTIN DUWARD où, à part le duel dans les cordes, tout est poussif et faussement malin. Dommage pour Robert Taylor toujours à son aise. Kay Kendall en revanche est inexpressive là où tant de belles comédiennes eussent pu rendre le personnage intéressant !

   18/12/2022

7. Moulin Rouge

   Renoir a piqué une des musiques de MOULIN ROUGE de Huston. Si l'on oublie la performance de Ferrer, la grandeur de Flon, le talent mal employé de Colette Marchand, la sublime, on se trouve devant un des pires films consacrés à la peinture : les tableaux ne se feuillettent pas, ils se dégustent, Zza zza Gabor n'est pas une mauvaise actrice; Ici, elle est épouvantable, etc. Enfin il nous reste le superbe FRENCH CANCAN

   17/12/2022

8. French Cancan

   Renoir a piqué une des musiques de MOULIN ROUGE de Huston. Si l'on oublie la performance de Ferrer, la grandeur de Flon, le talent mal employé de Colette Marchand, la sublime, on se trouve devant un des pires films consacrés à la peinture : les tableaux ne se feuillettent pas, ils se dégustent, Zza zza Gabor n'est pas une mauvaise actrice; Ici, elle est épouvantable, etc. Enfin il nous reste le superbe FRENCH CANCAN

   17/12/2022

9. Promises

   Hyper Isabelle, subtil Kateb. Sujet brûlant. "Téléfilm" où l'on ne comprend que deux paroles sur trois. Ça ne valait pas cet investissement. SELON MOI, un reportage aurait suffi.
   13/12/2022

10. Flic Story

    FLIC STORY, dont j'espérais un minimum est d'une fadeur extravagante. Le script est plein d'erreurs de construction. Les acteurs sont mauvais, surtout Trintignant. Delon se tien t à la hauteur mais il ne peut relever le niveau de ce film exécrable !

    12/12/2022

...plus 170 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Every film mentioned in Christophe Fourchet's book "Histoire du mac-mahonisme: Sur une certaine tendance de la cinéphilie française entre 1951 et 1967" (2022).

"But what is Mac-Mahonism? The intensive frequentation of the Mac-Mahon theatre near the Champs-Élysées? A theory of the seventh art that advocates the primacy of mise-en-scene? The cult of a handful of directors, led by Raoul Walsh, Fritz Lang, Otto Preminger, and Joseph Losey? The first challenge in writing this book was to find the unity of a remarkably multi-faceted movement. Telling the story of MacMahonism means recounting the tribulations of a group of cinephile friends, the programming of a unique cinema, a current of thought now studied at university, the critical wars of the 60s, the embryonic "Nouvelle Vague", and the history of a magazine from its ninth issue onwards. What do Pierre Rissient's activism, Michel Mourlet's theory, and Jacques Lourcelles's periodical have in common beyond any bonds of friendship? That's what I set out to discover.
(...)
Mac-mahonism continues to infuse debate, criticism and thinking about cinema. Trafic, Senses of cinema, Foco, La furia umana, Apaches and Lumière are just some of the magazines that have discussed Mac-mahonism over the last ten years".

**
The Macmahonists were hesitant about some of the listed films. I will add notes regarding these soon.

• Orchestra Rehearsal
• Amarcord
• The Immortal Story
• Scaramouche
• Fan-Fan the Tulip

  "J’entendais le bruit desplanches, la voix de freluquet, et je savais absolument que, question brasde-fer franco-américain, ça commençait mal et qu’il y avait presque de lahonte à être du pays de Fanfan la Tulipe dès qu’on avait vu Scaramouche" (Quote by Serge Daney from 'Persévérance')

• The Maltese Falcon
• Double Indemnity
• The Big Sleep
• Laura
• Gilda

...plus 211 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Every film mentioned in Frieda Grafe and Enno Patalas' book "Im Off: Filmartikel" (1974).
_____________________
"Folk culture, as we encounter it in Ford's films, is independent of the "fetish of the master" which makes it so tricky for us to understand the ups and downs of a career in Hollywood. It is more important for them to work than just make the films that suit their personality. At the beginning of their work, they are not creative individuals who wish to express their ideas about the world. That's why these films are so open. They are self-evident as soon as you are ready to leave the idealistic norms of norms of European culture. American or Irish stories and legends are the basis of Ford's films, folk songs ("for singing is in my people, like sights in the eye", from 'How Green Was My Valley'), aphorisms, laconic jokes, whose author it is pointless to ask. They are frameworks, templates to be filled in. Variations with material that comes from the pool of common imagination."

• The Last Days of Pompeii
• Quo Vadis?
• The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
• The Pride of the Firm
• The Birth of a Nation
• The Tramp
• A Night in the Show
• The Vagabond
• One A.M.
• Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

...plus 259 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films mentioned in the book "Show Us Life": Toward a History and Aesthetics of the Committed Documentary (1984), edited by Thomas Waugh.

The book references other titles that are not available on letterboxd, e.g. À vos risques et périls (Jean Gagné, Serge Gagné, 1980), Le Dur Désir de dire (Yves Billon, 1981), and
La futur intérieur (Yolame Rouleau and Jean Chabot, 1982).

• What You Take for Granted
• In the King of Prussia
• Our Land, Our Truth
• Thunder Drum
• Dark Circle
• The Atomic Cafe
• A Time To Rise
• Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography
• The Plouffe Family
• A Wives' Tale

...plus 249 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

"May '68's promise of better days to come quickly proved false. Too bad for those - filmmakers, activists - who discovered that film could be a tool, a weapon, even a little war machine. All the better for those who, by chance or by calculation, sometimes by a miracle, recorded some images and stole some sounds. The sixties had sparked an interest in direct cinema (the technique was perfected): '68 provided an opportunity to intervene, to witness, to endorse, to denounce, to complain, to mark out territories, to masquerade as Lenin, to convince, to educate, to intimidate, to organize, to raise awareness, to abuse animation, to flatter, to lie. Here is the history of direct cinema in ten images: there were others, but for Cahiers these are the ones that matter."

Cahiers du cinéma nr. 323-324, May 1981.

See notes for capaule reviews. Serge Daney wrote the captions for the first six titles, and Serge Le Péron wrote the latter four.

• The Slightest Gesture

  An erratic film. Fernand Deligny is one of the decade's great, overlooked auteurs. The idea of a "cinéma de terrain" owes a lot to him. Because in his films, in the Cévennes, Deligny has certain ideas about therapy, about releasing children (schizophrenics, autistics) into the maquis, drawing close to them in their madness or their wandering. It's already cinematic. Jean-Pierre Daniel spent a great deal of time making this film.

• Stories of A

  A forbidden film. For the first time, a film reports an important phenomenon at the right moment (the struggle of women for control over their own bodies, for abortion rights). The situation creates the film, the film's prohibition creates an audience, the audience must politically organize in order to see the film, the film creates the situation. And its authors (Charles Belmont and Marielle Issartel)? With valor, they carry their film like the firebrand that it is.

• Kashima Paradise

  An exotic film. An entire series of marvelous encounters: between the authors (Yang Le Masson, cameraman, and Benie Deswarte, sociologist), between the spontaneous and the considered, between the authors and Japan, between their French extreme-leftism and the Japanese “giri”, between the residents of Narita and the police, etc. 

• Here and Elsewhere

  A watershed film. Five years of thinking for Godard, who begins the film in the Middle East with Gorin and finishes it at Grenoble with Miéville. We are in the middle of the decade: militant cinema will win no more victories. In fact, reviewing the images that he recorded five years earlier and elsewhere, Godard discovers that what counts is the and. Shock. The OLP will never use the film as propaganda, but Cahiers will give it a world tour. 

• How Yukong Moved the Mountains

  A traveling companion-film. Despite Zhou Enlai’s support, Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan aren't sure how to assemble the sounds and images that they brought back from china. Yukong raises mountains but has very little to show for it. The directors have greatly underestimated the double, triple, quadruple play between power and the Chinese masses. Sad case of a traveling companion who ends up misunderstanding the images along the way. 

• Origins of a Meal

  A genre film. Its author, Luc Moullet, has always believed that hunger is the only real great subject, because it predates all the others. In his perverse project of illustrating every cinema genre, Moullet had to encounter the militant genre on his route. The film is all the more unstoppable because it has nothing at stake, the point of view being that of absolute knowledge. 

• Nationality: Immigrant

  Film météore. Un jeune Mauritanien réalise un film pauvre et non-misérabiliste sur la condition faite aux travailleurs immigrés en France. Sidney Sokhona, a force de ne respecter que la vérité (celle des chiffres, des paroles, de son propre réle dans toute cette histoire) croise souvent le grand cinéma.

• 1974, une partie de campagne

  50,81 % (1974). Film invisible. Un grand reporter découvre qu’il filme trés bien. Il convainc Giscard de se montrer moderne et de le laisser filmer sa campagne électorale. Giscard s’en mord encore les doigts. Nous voyons le film vers 1a fin de la décennie : le misérabilisme a lassé tout le monde, le spectacle de l’oppression déprime, les usines Wonder ont repris le travail depuis longtemps. Depardon filme les chefs, ceux qui continuent 4 nous gouverner, dans l’exercice (et dans la jouissance) du pouvoir. Coup de sonde inoubliable.

• La reprise du travail aux usines Wonder
• Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win

Carte blanche by Chris Marker at Le Fresnoy in 2003.
Frédéric Papon, 2023:
"... Chris Marker tells me about the young people who send him their films and his intense email correspondence with people worldwide. He has selected a few films that he entrusts to me. I will show them at Le Fresnoy on four consecutive Mondays from November 24 to December 15, 2003, and present them, at his request, as a Chris Marker program. He doesn’t want to write or say anything about the program, but simply to invite people to come and experience the films of these filmmakers with whom he felt a close connection. The program will bear the title he chose: 7 de coeur [Seven from the heart], symbolizing seven films and seven filmmakers."

tidsskriftbalthazar.dk/media/B9_Balthazar_FredericPapon_2023.pdf (page 73)

Not on Letterboxd:
L'Inconnu du Pacific Hôtel (Claude Ventura, 1980)
Monsieur William, les traces d'une vie possible (Denis Gaubert, 2001)

• A Beach Near Belfast
• Half-Price
• Charlotte quelque part
• L'Expérience de Nietzsche
• Memory of Berlin

Pedro Costa, 2023: "Today, if you want to read something interesting about a film, you won’t find it in the mainstream media… Today you’ll have to dig deep to find Cristina Fernandes and her blog..."

All the films mentioned in Cristina Fernandes's book, "C de C" (2022), which features her blog posts.
__________
“‘Donovan's Reef’ is a fabulous movie about the clash of bodies (the brotherly sparring of Lee Marvin and John Wayne, the stormy, comic passion of Wayne and Elizabeth Allen) and the movements of the landscape. Between these two points - one so small, the other so large, and both so immense - lies the most intoxicating vista our eyes can perceive. As if breathing were palpable, as if it were possible to understand without interpreting (the inexplicable).

And perhaps it is this feeling of air (the blue of which Cézanne speaks), rather than the indifference of nature or the daughter who goes in search of her father, that connects us to Ozu.”

• The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
• Greed
• Tokyo Chorus
• La Chienne
• Night at the Crossroads
• Vampyr
• I Was Born, But...
• Boudu Saved from Drowning
• Outskirts
• Queen Christina

...plus 189 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films mentioned in Cinemateca Portuguesa's catalog on Jorge Silva Melo, "Viver Amanhã Como Hoje" (2024). The catalog includes several texts written by Melo himself.

Not on Letterboxd: É Só Um Minuto (Pedro Caldas, 1998)
O Parque das Ilusões (Perdigão Queiroga, 1963)
O Pedido de Emprego (Pedro Caldas, 1999)

• The 400 Blows
• 7 Women
• 8½
• The Actors
• Adieu Philippine
• Always
• The American Friend
• Ana Vieira: E o que não é visto
• Angel
• Aniki-Bóbó

...plus 158 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Classical Hollywood films programmed in thematic retrospectives at La Cinémathèque française from January 2010 to December 2014.

The list is based on the information available on their website. Films are sorted according to the retrospectives to which they belong.

Director retrospectives not included

Gordon Douglas: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/gordon-douglas-54.html

Robert Siodmak: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/robert-siodmak-208.html

Ernst Lubitch: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/ernst-lubitsch-202.html

Blake Edwards: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/blake-edwards-167.html

Edgar G. Ulmer: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/edgar-g-ulmer-144.html

Otto Preminger: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/otto-preminger-131.html

Tay Garnett: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/tay-garnett-108.html

Bette Davis: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/bette-davis-64.html

Henry Hathaway: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/henry-hathaway-97.html

Charles Chaplin: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/le-musee-imaginaire-d-henri-langlois-258-679.html

Phil Karlson: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/phil-karlson-43.html

John Ford: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/john-ford-34.html

• Male and Female
• Lucky Star
• The Wedding March
• Robin Hood
• Marked Woman
• One Rainy Afternoon
• A Woman of the World
• Suzy
• You Can't Take It with You
• Foolish Wives

...plus 247 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Classical Hollywood films programmed in thematic retrospectives at La Cinémathèque française from September 2005 to December 2009.

The list is based on the information available on their website. Films are sorted according to the retrospectives to which they belong.

Director retrospectives not included

Douglas Sirk: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/douglas-sirk-35.html

Richard Fleischer: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/richard-fleischer-308.html

George Cukor: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/george-cukor-306.html

King Vidor: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/king-vidor-291.html

Hubert Cornfield: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/hommage-a-hubert-cornfield-287.html

Rouben Mamoulian: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/rouben-mamoulian-283.html

Preston Sturges: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/preston-sturges-274.html

Ida Lupino: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/ida-lupino-266.html

Howard Hawks: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/howard-hawks-44.html

Mitchell Leisen: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/mitchell-leisen-252.html

Cy Endfield: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/cy-endfield-240.html

Cecil B. De Mille: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/cecil-b-de-mille-233.html

William Castle: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/william-castle-229.html

Robert Aldrich: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/robert-aldrich-227.html

Laurel and Hardy: www.cinematheque.fr/cycle/laurel-et-hardy-218.html

• Alvarez Kelly
• Klondike Annie
• The Hangman
• The Bravados
• Jesse James
• Thunder in the Sun
• Man Without a Star
• Zulu
• Wagon Master
• Hurry Sundown

...plus 164 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Retrospective at la Cinémathèque française August 27 to December 1, 2008.

CONTINU
André Bazin, critique de cinéma né libre et égal aux autres en droit, en 1918 à Angers, est mort prématurément d’une leucémie le 11 novembre 1958, pendant la nuit qui suivit le premier jour de tournage des Quatre cent coups de son protégé François Truffaut. Le film se boucle par l’exposition rhétorique de la mort du mouvement : un arrêt sur image. Co-fondateur d’une revue libre et égale aux autres en droit, les Cahiers du cinéma, Bazin ne put assister à la réussite, à partir du festival de Cannes de mai 1959, des films de ses jeunes amis nés critiques dans la même revue, qui seraient bientôt connus comme s’ils formaient une équipe sous le nom générique de Nouvelle Vague. Il ne put pas non plus discuter de la fortune immense et alors impossible à prédire, dans une histoire des mentalités du cinéma, de la notion de politique des auteurs qu’il avait explicitement combattue dans des batailles intellectuelles avec ses propres amis, au premier rang desquels le bouillant polémiste Truffaut dont il ne partageait absolument pas le style critique agressif ad hominem ni le culte des personnalités.

Notre histoire nationale s’est chargée depuis longtemps de suturer cette coupure historique qui marque pourtant la fin d’une époque et le début d’une autre, afin de rétablir continuité et transparence dans l’Histoire de France. Elle a le plus souvent fait de Bazin, pour le défendre ou pour l’attaquer, un catholique, un essentialiste, un idéaliste, un anti-montagiste, un naïf. Sa théorie du réalisme a pourtant été reconnue et appliquée par le marxisant Barthélemy Amengual et ses intuitions matérialistes sur les formes du devenir cinématographique poussées très loin par le philosophe Gilles Deleuze. L’iconologie bazinienne a fait de lui un saint laïc capable de défendre par-delà sa mort des systèmes ou des films qu’il n’a pu connaître. Son système empirique de pensée était pourtant, bien que soutenu par une idée centrale (le « réalisme ontologique » du cinéma), fondé sur l’analyse des films au cas par cas (« tous les films naissent libres et égaux en droit »), cette casuistique active lui permettant d’admettre, à l’intérieur de sa théorie, le principe profondément politique et dangereusement hérétique de la contradiction sans compromis. Loin des amalgames qui ont longtemps rassemblé sous le prête-nom de Bazin : christianisme, rossellinisme, anti-soviétisme, modernité, classicisme (montage transparent), anti-classicisme (Nouvelle Vague comme sortie de la qualité française), idéalisme, etc., il est temps, tout simplement, en France, de lire André Bazin, de voir et revoir, comme le permet aujourd’hui cette programmation, les films sur lesquels il a fondé ses réflexions. Le temps est venu d’y regarder à deux fois.

DISCONTINU
De regarder un regard. Avec ses yeux. Avec les nôtres. Regarder non pas ce qui ne nous regarde pas (ça, c’était la télé selon Serge Daney), mais ce qui ne nous regarde plus depuis longtemps : les films tels qu’ils pouvaient être perçus par un critique qui a écrit en France entre 1943 et 1958. Pour cela, il nous faudra être capable d’admettre cette bizarrerie d’époque, merveilleusement datée, c’est-à-dire neuve face à l’académisme du quotidien et du nouveau. Oublier le bazinisme. Ouvrir Bazin. Ouvrir l’œil.

Ce que propose le présent programme, exceptionnellement thématisé, de l’Histoire Permanente du Cinéma, expression d’Henri Langlois (l’envers complice de Bazin, disait encore Daney, qui décrivait leur relation historique objective par un chiasme étrange comme un palindrome : « Langlois : il faut conserver tous les films parce que les films conservent tout : Bazin »), ce sont systématiquement des films que Bazin a pu voir et sur lesquels il a écrit (à l’exception de Hiroshima mon amour et du Mépris : par ailleurs, Les Quatre cent coups peut être vu parallèlement dans une autre programmation de la Cinémathèque).

Cannes 1959 vit aussi naître un grand film de montage poético-politique : Hiroshima mon amour d’Alain Resnais, dont rien ne dit qu’il ne soit pas plus proche des préoccupations de Bazin que celui de Truffaut. L’année qui suivit la parution du quatrième et dernier volume de Qu’est-ce que le cinéma ?, mené à terme par les soins de Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard dédicaçait très étrangement son film Le Mépris à André Bazin en lui attribuant une phrase de Michel Mourlet savamment modifiée (« Le cinéma, disait André Bazin, substitue à notre regard un monde qui s’accorde à nos désirs »).

Retenons ces deux leçons d’artistes et voyons Bazin ainsi, entre aporie et apocryphe. Aporie à la Resnais-Duras : huiler des raccords impossibles et pourtant réels entre des espaces politiques et amoureux déconnectés sans se préoccuper a priori des grands ou des petits sujets. Apocryphe à la Godard : suspendre provisoirement le sens, des mots et des événements, comme le réclamait le Roland Barthes qui fut le contemporain exact de Bazin, et son collègue à France Observateur, afin d’y réfléchir à deux fois.

Aller à la Cinémathèque avec un livre dans la poche. Aller à l’université avec un ticket de cinéma dans la poche. C’est encore possible.

« Le cinéma est une machine à retrouver le temps pour mieux le perdre. La tragédie spécifiquement cinématographique est celle du Temps deux fois perdu. » Comme dirait l’autre, c’est toujours ça de gagné.

Hervé Joubert-Laurencin, 2008

• 7 Men from Now
• Angel and Sinner
• Angels of Sin
• The Battle of the Rails
• Battleship Potemkin
• Beauties of the Night
• The Beauty of the Devil
• Before the Deluge
• Behind These Walls
• The Best Years of Our Lives

...plus 121 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Days of Wine and Roses
• The Perfect Furlough
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Panhandle
• Stampede
• Leather Gloves
• Drive a Crooked Road
• My Sister Eileen
• Operation Mad Ball
• Mister Cory

...plus 76 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1-5: Viva Macmahon (Il Cinema Ritrovato 2002)

6-11: Men of Cinema: Pierre Rissient and the Cinema Mac Mahon (New York Film Festival 2012)

12-18: Tribute to Pierre Rissient (New York Film Festival 2018)

1. The Mysterious Rider
2. The Adventures of Hajji Baba
3. The Bigamist
4. Adventure in Manhattan
5. 100 Horsemen
6. Liebelei
7. Night and the City
8. Objective, Burma!
9. The Prowler
10. Pursued

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

An overview of all the westerns produced by RKO. Home of Tim Holt, Robert Mitchum, Fred Allen, David Howard, Lesley Selander, Lew Landers, Allan Dwan...

Sourced from Richard B. Jewell's book 'The RKO Story' (1985), which lists all RKO titles.

• Beau Bandit
• The Painted Desert
• Cimarron
• Sundown Trail
• Freighters of Destiny
• Partners
• The Saddle Buster
• Ghost Valley
• Beyond the Rockies
• Come on Danger!

...plus 110 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Every film mentioned in Cahiers du cinéma nr. 8-10 (January-March 1952).

• The Great Train Robbery
• The Massacre
• The Birth of a Nation
• The Tramp
• Martyrs of the Alamo
• The Aryan
• 'Blue Blazes' Rawden
• Blind Husbands
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire

...plus 138 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Every film mentioned in Cahiers du cinéma #1, april 1951.

• The Great Train Robbery
• The Assassination of the Duke de Guise
• Onesime, Clockmaker
• Fantômas
• Cabiria
• The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris
• The Passion of Joan of Arc
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Road to Life
• À Nous la Liberté

...plus 65 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Every film mentioned in Cahiers du cinéma #2, May 1951.

• Cabiria
• Battleship Potemkin
• Un Chien Andalou
• Land Without Bread
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Citizen Kane
• The Maltese Falcon
• Sullivan's Travels
• The Heavenly Play

...plus 56 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Every film mentioned in Cahiers du cinéma nr. 3, June 1951.

Not on Letterboxd:
Le Sel de la Terre (Georges Rouquier, 1950)

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• El Dorado
• Nosferatu
• Nanook of the North
• Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
• Greed
• The Last Laugh
• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
• The Passion of Joan of Arc
• Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

...plus 56 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Every film mentioned in Cahiers du cinéma 4-7 (July-December 1951)

• Fantômas
• The Squaw Man
• Cabiria
• The Birth of a Nation
• Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
• Joan the Woman
• Broken Blossoms
• The Kid
• Destiny
• El Dorado

...plus 220 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films mentioned in the essay Counterattacks: Images of uprising in the history of class struggle (2016).

• Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War
• Douglas Bravo
• No pincha!
• Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary
• The Traitors
• Strike
• Wie baue ich einen Molotow-Cocktail ?
• Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory
• Workers Leaving the Factory
• La sortie

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Cinemateca Portuguesa, January-March 2024.

This is the first, second and third part of a year-long retrospective dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution. As the ambitious program attests to, the Cinemateca Portuguesa aims to expand its scope by connecting the images from the revolution to the entirety of film history.

The cycle is divided into four sections representing the core values of the revolution:
Liberty: 1-12 + 45-49
Revolution (13-23) + 50-54
Community (24-32) + 55-60
Future (33-44) + 61-65

Here is a bit of the program notes from January (AI translated):

Half a century after the year that gave us all hope, the Cinemateca could not fail to evoke the anniversary and, more than that, everything that, in a broader sense, a time interval like this suggests to us today in the field of cinema (...) Thinking about the spirit and values of the big bang with which April 25 awakened the country after such a long dictatorship, the challenge we set ourselves was to intersperse, over the twelve months of the year, multiple initiatives loosely associated with this, taking the entire History of Cinema as a base, which in turn will dialogue, more or less directly, with the other structuring cycles of 2024. This time, April will not be the object of "a" commemoration but the starting point for much of the year's programming (...) Kicking off in January with a robust example, this is therefore not a single cycle, but a series of cycles that will address several themes throughout our "Aprilist" programming until the end of the year.”

1. As Armas e o Povo
2. The Fatal Glass of Beer
3. Boudu Saved from Drowning
4. Cœur fidèle
5. Le Trou
6. A Man Escaped
7. Merry-Go-Round
8. Seven Chances
9. Film Socialisme
10. Themes and Variations

...plus 74 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films mentioned in Robert Bonamy's book 'Cinémas en communs' (2020), including the preface by Nicole Brenez.

Films 69-86 are not mentioned directly, but the films' directors are.

Not on Letterboxd:

*Salaud d'argent - (Que ma langue s'attache à mon palais) (Groupe Boris Barnet, 2016)
*Films by Angela Marzullo

1. The Immigrant
2. By the Bluest of Seas
3. Othon
4. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
5. Nahla
6. The Way South
7. Too Early / Too Late
8. Scénario du film Passion
9. Godard's Passion
10. The Death of Empedocles

...plus 76 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

A merging of two retrospectives:

"Chile: 1973-2013". Cinéma du réel, 2013. Curated by Federico Rossin.

"Resistance, Memory, Reinvention: Fifty years of Chilean Film". Viennale, 2023. Curated by Haden Guest.

• Valparaiso
• Le train de la victoire
• Morir un Poco
• Jackal of Nahueltoro
• Valparaiso My Love
• Escuela Santa María de Iquique 1907
• Testimony
• Reportaje a Lota
• Mijita
• Venceremos

...plus 32 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Monumental retrospective at Cinemateca Portuguesa, December 2023, curated by Andy Rector.

Update: TMDB has notified me that they have deleted most titles as they do not deem them "valid movies." I expect they will disappear from here soon?

Program in PDF:
www.cinemateca.pt/CinematecaSite/media/Documentos/dezembro-23.pdf?fbclid=IwAR12vbOSeTmT6vwd2UnJVmpk8CrvLHnkx8qQu2ny0EQktAvGN4DhUzOhT3E

• Three Comrades
• The Day I Met Caruso

  youtu.be/ZTATGmfpb80

• A Ticket for Thaddeus

  youtu.be/qaOhQQPIago

• East Side, West Side
• The Savage Innocents
• "General Electric Theater" High Green Wall

  www.dailymotion.com/video/x6c9jtt

• Not Wanted
• No. 5 Checked Out

  youtu.be/L6gjjXHEhEo

• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
• Rookie of the Year

  youtu.be/X_JWHrC_AG8

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

19-28 October 2023, curated by Doclisboa/Cinemateca Portuguesa. shorturl.at/vwIMU

Not on Letterboxd:
One Tenth of Our Nation (Felix Greene, 1940, 26 min.)
The Great Depression (Maurice Bailen, 1934, 18 min.)
The World Today: Sunnyside – The Second Battle of Long Island (1937, 7 min.)
White Flood (David Wolff, Robert Stebbins, 1940, 15 min.)

• The Passaic Textile Strike
• Manhatta
• H₂O
• A Bronx Morning
• Oil: A Symphony in Motion
• Footnote to Fact
• Hands
• Hoy ( Segodnya )
• Bonus March 1932
• Road to Life

...plus 43 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Viennale retrospective 2001.

Not on Letterboxd:
The Bridges of Diushen / Mosty Djuschena (Gerasim Degalzew, 1969)
My Home / Moj Dom (Ljudmilla Saldadse, 1971)
Sard / Serdolik (Sapar Mollanjasow, 1987)
The White Road / Belaja Doroga (Margarita Kassimowa, 1989)
Sabbath / Schabat (Golbachor Mirsojewa, 1990)
Poligon (Oras Rimschanow, Wladimir Rerich, 1990)
Dschana Arka (Jersain Abdrachmanow, 1991)
The High Shore / Vysokiy bereg (Asankodosho Ajtygejev, 1991)
A Dream in A Dream / Sergelden (Serik Aprymow, 1993)
Stranger / Strejndscher (Timur Sulejmenow, 1993)
Samanaj (Bolat Scharip, 1997)
1997 - Rustem's Notes With Drawings (Ardak Amirkulow, 1998)
Thirst / Taschnalik (Tahir Junus, 1999)

• The Place on the Tricorne
• The Adopted Son
• Brothers
• The Dove's Bell-ringer
• Bitter Berry
• The Needle
• The Road
• Kairat
• Cardiogram
• Killer

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• 3rd Degree
• Adebar
• Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
• Alphaville
• Analytical Studies I: The Film Frame
• Analytical Studies II: Un-Frame-Lines
• Analytical Studies III - Color Frame Passages
• Analytical Studies IV: Blank Color Frames

...plus 218 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Rack
• Desperate Journey
• The Fallen Sparrow
• Battle Zone
• Merrill's Marauders
• Darby's Rangers
• The Naked and the Dead
• Hell to Eternity
• The Red Badge of Courage
• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films mentioned in Grégoire Halbout's 'La Comédie screwball hollywoodienne' (2013). Translated into English in 2023.

• Woman Chases Man
• Theodora Goes Wild
• Fast Company
• Married Bachelor
• Song of the Thin Man
• It Happened One Night
• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
• You Can't Take It with You
• Arsenic and Old Lace
• I Married a Witch

...plus 126 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films mentioned in Bertrand Tavernier's book 'Post-Scriptum à Amis Américains: conversation avec Thierry Frémaux' (2019).

• The Birth of a Nation
• The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
• The Spiders: Part 2 - The Diamond Ship
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• The Last of the Mohicans
• Nosferatu
• Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
• The Covered Wagon
• Manhandled
• Butterfly

...plus 145 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Viennale retrospective 2003, curated by Ronald Domenig

• Funeral Parade of Roses
• Pastoral: To Die in the Country
• Distant Thunder
• Eros + Massacre
• The Ceremony
• The Crazy Family
• Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
• Disciples of Hippocrates
• The Living Koheiji
• Coup d'Etat

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Filmregister from Drehli Robnik's 'Ansichten und Absichten - Texte über populäres Kino und Politik' (2022), Austrian Film Museum.

• 1941
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• The Abyss
• Ace in the Hole
• After Hours
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• Airplane!
• Almost Famous
• Alphaville

...plus 315 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Viennale retrospective 2019 curated by Jurij Meden.

• Shock Troops
• Akcja pod Arsenałem
• Assassination
• Ballad About a Trumpet and a Cloud
• The Battle of the Rails
• The Battle of Neretva
• Men of the Blue Cross
• Corbari
• Through The Graveyard
• The Demolition Squad

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Viennale retrospective 1994 curated by Alexander Horwath.

• A Cold Wind in August
• Advise & Consent
• All Fall Down
• Anatomy of a Murder
• Angel Baby
• Barbarella
• The Bellboy
• The Best Man
• Billy Budd
• Blast of Silence

...plus 58 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

+All is Well on the Border (Akram Zaatari, 1997)

Films mentioned in 'Figures of Dissent' by Stoffel Debuysere (2018):
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• A Dog's Life
• A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
• Man with a Movie Camera
• The General Line
• Earth
• Enthusiasm
• Trouble in Paradise
• Our Daily Bread
• The Crime of Monsieur Lange
• Modern Times

...plus 98 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Viennale 2000 retrospective curated by Thom Andersen and Noel Burch.

• Marked Woman
• They Won't Forget
• Crisis
• Back Door to Heaven
• Way Down South
• I Stole a Million
• The Man I Married
• Three Faces West
• The Little Foxes
• Native Land

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Viennale 1996 retrospective curated by Alexander Horwath.

• Applause
• Baby Face
• Any Rags
• Dizzy Red Riding-Hood
• Bimbo's Initiation
• Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle
• Betty Boop's Ups and Downs
• Betty Boop for President
• Minnie the Moocher
• Boop-Oop-A-Doop

...plus 73 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Encontros: American Independents Now. Retrospective curated by Richard Peña (Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 1989).

• Talking to Strangers
• Plain Talk and Common Sense (uncommon senses)
• Landscape Suicide
• Sherman's March
• My Brother's Wedding
• Lived in Quotes
• Adynata
• Universal Hotel
• Universal Citizen
• Mala Noche

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All films mentioned in Balthazar #8, Summer 2022.

Articles are written by:
Dirk Lauwaert (Film 1)
Tag Gallagher (2-15)
Frieda Grafe (16-31)
Jean Douchet (32-33)
Balthazar (34-43)
Clélia Cohen (44-51)
Jean-Pierre Coursodon (52-89)
Kristoffer Grønbæk (90-94)
Other (95-101)

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1. The Misfits
2. 7 Women
3. The Quiet Man
4. The Searchers
5. She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
6. Fort Apache
7. Cheyenne Autumn
8. Broken Arrow
9. Run of the Arrow
10. Dances with Wolves

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All films mentioned in Balthazar #6+7, Spring 2021.

Articles are written by:
Annouchka de Andrade & Henda Ducados (Film 1-4)
Olivier Assayas (5-13)
Jane Jin Kaisen (14)
Mads B. Mikkelsen (15-30)
Hito Steyerl (31)
Claudia von Aleman (32)
Anders Edström & C.W. Winter (33)
Heiny Srour (34-36)
Jocelyne Saab (37-42)
Atteyat Al-Abnoudy (43-44)
Assia Djebar & Malek Alloula (45)
Selma Baccar (46-47)
Viktor Retoft (48-52)
Anna Della Subin (53-55)
Lis Rhodes
Alexander Carnera (56-58)
Gabrielė Plukaitė (59-62)
Lars Skovgaard Laursen
Frieda Grafe (63-71)

NOT ON LB:
Reiterations of Dissent (Jane Jin Kaisen, 2011-16)
Sweeping the Forest Flor (Jane Jin Kaisen, 2020)
Tale of One or Many Mountains (Jane Jin Kaisen, 2017)
Braiding and Mending (Jane Jin Kaisen, 2020)
Sept et demi (Maroun Baghdadi, 1973)

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1. The Battle of Algiers
2. Monangambeee
3. Sambizanga
4. Dessert for Constance
5. Venom and Eternity
6. Kapo
7. Shoah
8. The Sentinel
9. Wasp Network
10. The Birth of a Nation

...plus 61 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All films mentioned in Balthazar #5, Spring 2020.

Articles are written by:
Moslem Mansouri & Mahmoud Chokrollahi (Film 1-2)
Frederik Tøt Godsk (3-12)
Leslie Kaplan (13)
Metha Rais-Nordentoft (14-19)
Adam Solovej (20-27)
Balthazar (28-32)
Maria von Hauswolff (33)
Floris Paalman (34-35)
Thomas Elsaesser (36-47)
Ericka Beckman
Simon Øst Vejbæk (48-52)
Dennis Cooper (53-54)
Pedro Costa (55-72)

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1. Close-Up
2. Close-Up Long Shot
3. The Sex Thief
4. Wolfsburg
5. Yella
6. Jerichow
7. Dreileben: Beats Being Dead
8. The State I Am In
9. Crash
10. Cosmopolis

...plus 62 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All films mentioned in Balthazar #4, Fall 2019.

Articles are written by:
Lasse Winther Jensen (Film 1-5)
Jenny Chamarette (6-16)
Laida Lertxundi (17-22)
Balthazar (23-27)
Adrian Martin (28-57)
Daniel Skipper Rasmussen (58-65)
Arindam Sen (66-79)
Helge Krarup (80-92)
Roland Barthes (93-98)

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1. Liberté
2. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
3. Birdsong
4. Story of My Death
5. The Death of Louis XIV
6. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
7. Blow Up My Town
8. The Gleaners and I
9. Faces Places
10. No Home Movie

...plus 88 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All films mentioned in Balthazar #3, Spring 2019.

Articles are written by:
Heinz Emigholz (Film 1)
Martine Beugnet (2-10)
Sofie Lykke Stenstrop (11-23)
Lars Movin (24-41)
Martin Grennberger (42-53)
David Dellagi (54-57)
Balthazar (58-62)
Peter Christian Rude (63-81)

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1. Streetscapes [Dialogue]
2. El Dorado
3. Cœur fidèle
4. Persona
5. Poor Little Rich Girl
6. Every Man for Himself
7. Goodbye to Language
8. Lost Highway
9. The Captive
10. Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait

...plus 71 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All films mentioned in Balthazar #2, Fall 2018.

Articles are written by:
Ulrik Schmidt (Film 1-5)
Elena Gorfinkel (6-9)
Mattias Blicher (10-14)
Erika Balsom (15-18)
Balthazar (19)
Pernille Lystlund Matzen (20)
Daniel Skipper Rasmussen (21-28)
Mikkel Thykier (29-38)

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1. The Passion of Joan of Arc
2. Andy Warhol Screen Tests
3. What Time Is It There?
4. 13 Lakes
5. 10 Skies
6. Wanda
7. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
8. Vagabond
9. Bonnie and Clyde
10. Moloch

...plus 28 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All films mentioned in Balthazar #1, Spring 2018.

Articles are written by:
Mads B. Mikkelsen (Film 1-16)
Daniel Flendt Dressen (17-31)
Balthazar (32-37)
Peter Christian Rude (38-39)
Balthazar (40-47)
Signe Leth Gammelgaard (48-51)
Michael Sicinski (52-58)
Balthazar (59-63)

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1. Journey to the Shore
2. Tokyo Sonata
3. Bright Future
4. Cure
5. Pulse
6. Creepy
7. They Live by Night
8. Detour
9. The Day After
10. 4:44 Last Day on Earth

...plus 53 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.