Inherent Vice (90 percent close-ups)

Journey Through the Past

Shawshank (behind-the-scenes)

Roger Deakins at work 

Logging: Isle of Dogs

Wes Anderson knows & loves dogs. Their distinct expressions, and personalities. (maybe more than people)

It's a nice little art piece (moreso than a fully captivating film) to add to the Wes museum.

Coming in from the Cold (Midwest)

Atlantic City (Artist: Gerard Huerta, 1980)

Roma (behind-the-scenes)

ASC article. Tracking shot from the beach into the ocean and back was built on a wooden pier and used a Technocrane. Ahh (thumbs up).

Logging: The Mars Room (finished)

by Rachel Kushner

Slow burn new fiction from 2018. Tears you up a little. It will last.

Split (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)

Not as holyfuckingshit as I was hoping. Treaded water almost the whole time. Then the end came and went quickly.

Shyamalan can definitely direct. Nearly all his films have a tension, strangeness in their existence. He knows where to put the camera.

Happy 99th Fellini

"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life."

Tarkovsky (Polaroids)

Talking Boogie Nights

I saw the Valley the way David Lean saw the desert in LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
-- Paul Thomas Anderson

Destroyer

Karyn Kusama is badass

Update:
Top 10 films from Criterion

Another Peckinpah Quote

"I'm nothing if not a romantic and I've got this weakness for losers on a grand scale, as well as a kind of sneaky affection for all the misfits and drifters in the world."

Logging : Atlanta

Season 2, Episode 10 "FUBU"

Full of pathos.

(Glover's (90s) version of Louie's (70s) school day remembrances)

VICE (dir. Adam McKay)

Shapeless. Vomit writing. Empty storytelling.

On the nose agenda with an in your face, all on the surface style. No interest at all in exploring behavior, psychology, relationships, and the grays of life.

Who is the audience for this jerk-off fest? Other than McKay and his Hollywood friends who love to pat themselves on the back and believe that this $60 million garbage is a deep revelation for everyone  else.

The Continuing Saga of Louis C.K.

"I like to jerk off, and I don't like being alone."

New Orleans Jazz Fest 50th

Thoughts on ROMA from Guillermo

I love hearing him talk cinema (more than any of his own films). Enthusiasm in contagious.

Bird Box (dir. Susanne Bier)

Took me the course of three nights to get to the end. Probably would've been better served as mini-series, way too long, shot like a tv movie, yet storylines crammed in and unanswered. Watchable (I guess)?? Wish it was truly holyfuckingshit like M. Night Shamylan's The Happening.

Sunday Snow

morning magic music (Halicarnassus by Circles Around the Sound)

One Week Ago (Sunday night) (Post-Game Bears/Eagles)

Michael Mann -- Thief/Chicago/L.A.

Chantix

Hereditary (dir. Ari Aster)

One of the more affecting, dark and unpleasant experiences at the cinema this past year. Can't get rid of it. It remains and doesn't disappear.

"When it came to make feature directorial debut, filmmaker Ari Aster knew that he wanted to make a film that took suffering seriously, to make something that served as a meditation on grief. Specifically, he wanted to examine how that type of trauma can have a corrosive effect on the entire family unit. The problem for Aster was that, while there are plenty of American films about the messy side of loss, in many of those features, characters ultimately end up stronger, their familial bonds tighter, for having navigated their way through adversity.

That's not what he wanted to make, however.

'There's nothing inherently false about that, we need hope to get out of bed in the morning, but there are some people who don't recover from certain blows - sometimes people go down with the people that they are closest to, said Aster.

I wanted to make a film about that, but if I did make that as a bleak drama that ends on something of a hopeless note, first good luck finding the financing - and then if I do find the financing, I'm not going to have the resources that I had for this film - but then good luck finding an audience for it.' "

Atlantis (behind the scenes)

ASC Cinematography of the 20th Century

The King

Soderbergh's Annual Seen/Read 2018 List

http://extension765.com/soderblogh/33-seen-read-2018

Monday

It’s like waking from a bad dream. But realizing it wasn’t a dream at all. It really happened. And there's nothing you can do. I’ve watched the replay of the kick, and each time I think it’s going to hit the post and go in! Fandom is completely irrational. Onwards!

Dinner at Leo's

savannah. early january, 2014.
(a dream)

Day 7

NFC Playoff: Bears/Eagles @ Soldier Field

Parkey.

It was written.

NFL Wildcard Weekend

On the eve of the Bears/Eagles at Soldier Field, I'm reminded of Dec 31st, 1988.
Final score: Bears 20, Eagles 12.

Death From Above (Duvall 88th)

Logging: Atlanta

Season 2, Episode 1 "Alligator Man"

Only Lovers Left Alive (Best of the Decade, 2010-2019)

Dir. Jim Jarmusch, 2014
the cinema of cool/atmosphere

Errant Path w/ Jonathan Fishman (jan 2nd)

Wednesday night listening:
Abner Jay - I'm So Depressed
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Coming in from the Cold
Chet Baker - Everything Happens to Me
B.B. King - See That My Grave is Kept Clean (One Kind Favor Bonus Track Version)
Wes Montgomery - Besame Mucho
Bobby Darin - Beyond the Sea
Jimmy Smith - Sagg' Shooting his Arrow (Root Down Jimmy Smith Live)
Chet Baker - It Could Happen to You

Day 1

Unforgiven (New Year's Day)

Woke up in a half-panic and a clear realization that UNFORGIVEN (dir. Eastwood, ‘91) is so much about addiction and the unrelenting struggle to forgive yourself. Wow, it’s 2019. #cinema #rebirth