November 29, 2013

The Last Ten Movies I Saw

By michaelgloversmith

1. Bastards (Denis)
2. One Way Boogie Woogie (Benning)
3. I Married a Witch (Clair)
4. Close-Up (Kiarostami)
5. Tokyo Story (Ozu)
6. A Touch of Sin (Jia)
7. Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen/Coen)
8. City Lights (Chaplin)
9. Oldboy (Park)
10. A Scanner Darkly (Linklater)

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About michaelgloversmith

Filmmaker, author and Film Studies instructor. View all posts by michaelgloversmith

This entry was posted on Friday, November 29th, 2013 at 6:51 pm and posted in The Last Ten Movies I Saw. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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8 responses to “The Last Ten Movies I Saw”

• Omar Pineda
  November 30th, 2013 at 1:07 pm

  Hey, Mike what was the latest on your book?

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  • michaelgloversmith
    November 30th, 2013 at 1:37 pm

    Thanks for asking. It’s been pushed back to 2014. I’m hoping it won’t be too much longer but it’s out of my hands.

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    • Omar Pineda
      November 30th, 2013 at 2:05 pm

      Hopefully not. Been wondering about that for a while now.
• Mitchell
  November 30th, 2013 at 1:27 pm

  Ah, Tokyo Story! Did you show it in a class are was is for home consumption pleasure? I showed it to my movie group and got a terrible reaction to it. I found that devastating! I tried reading Paul Schrader’s Ozu/Bresson/Dreyer book on the Transcendental in Cinema and found it impenetrable and insufferable. His pretentious over-intellectualization of Ozu actually becomes funny when you realize how hard he is working to explain the ineffable in Ozu’s work.

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  • michaelgloversmith
    November 30th, 2013 at 1:38 pm

    I watched Tokyo Story for pleasure (via the gorgeous new Criterion Blu-ray). Agree whole-heartedly about Schrader’s book. He does an even greater disservice to Dreyer.

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    • Mitchell
      November 30th, 2013 at 2:34 pm

      My reading of the book broke down halfway through the Bresson chapter and never got to the Dreyer part. You’ve probably read it already, but if you haven’t I strongly recommend Donald Richie’s study of Ozu. It’s tremendous.
• John Charet
  December 1st, 2013 at 5:05 pm

  I have seen numbers 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 10 and I am on my way now to see number 6. Sorry, I did not respond to your other posts in the past few days, it is just that I have been so busy. Did you have a great Thanksgiving:)

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  • michaelgloversmith
    December 2nd, 2013 at 9:53 am

    The tofurkey in the Smith household was delicious. Hope you enjoyed Touch of Sin and hope you had a great Thanksgiving as well.

    Reply

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