Year 2004

Ordered alphabeticaly

• 3-iron - Kim Ki-duk/South Korea
• 2046 - Wong Kar-wai/Hong-Kong
• La Blessure / The Wound - Nicolas Klotz/France
• Café Lumière - Hou Hsiao-hsien/Taiwan)
• Comme une Image / Look At Me - Agnès Jaoui/France
• L'esquive - Abdel Kechiche/France)
• Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind - Michel Gondry/USA
• Hotel - Jessica Hausner/Austria
• Le Moindre Geste - Fernand Deligny/France
• Los Muertos - Lisandro Alonso/Argentina
• La Niña Santa - Lucrecia Martel/Argentina
• Nobody Knows - Hirokazu Koreeda/Japan
• S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine - Rithy Panh/Cambodia
• Tiexi Qu : West of tracks - Wang Bing/China
• Tropical Malady - Weerasethakul/Thailand
• Whisky - Rebella/Stoll/Uruguay
• The World - Jia Zhang-Ke/China)

Blog Index

Articles Index

FILM CRITICISM

• unslow criticism
  
• Typologie des montages
• Backstabbing French Commission
  
• Where the Sun doesn't shine
  
• Branding Abu Dhabi, Israel and the USA
  
• Objets et Substance
  
• Truffaut on Bazin
  
• The Root of Anti-Intellectualism
  
• Burdeau sur la critique web française
• Light Speed Zero
  
• Journalists vs Academics
  
• Bordwell on cliché in criticism
  
• Seeds for wider diversity in American Culture?
  
• Peary on American-centric criticism
• NYT with mini-balls
  
• Film Theory Branding
  
• Neo-Neo
• CNN Hologram at Obama's election [French] and in English
• Epilogue '08
• 2008 Film Crit Summits
  
• Silo Survey : HarryTuttle
  
• 2008 crisis in links
• Survey : Where is Film Criticism heading to ?
• Dargis High on Blissful Optimism
• Ouvrir Bazin 3 : Marc Vernet
  
• Reading Should Be A Respite From Watching
• Decline of Hollywood Press
• Ouvrir Bazin 3 : Antoine de Baecque
• Ouvrir Bazin 3 : Steven Ungar
• Ouvrir Bazin : Day 2
• Ouvrir Bazin : Day 1
• Long Tail consumers
  
• Burdeau: film saviour?
• Abolish locale
  
• Mushroom festivals
  
• Collaboration v. Institution
  
• Online Cultural Credibility
• Nomad cinephilia (Adrian Martin)
• Europe is too different
  
• Mitry and filmic language
  
• Où va la critique française?
• Cultural relativism
• Hoberman's 30 years sentence
• Film Criticism blogathon 2006 (backup)
• A French perspective (Responsibilities)
  
• Responsibilities of Criticism in NYC
  
• La productivité du savoir théorique
• Deleuze on Singular Frames
  
• When do images turn into cinema?
• Deep focus and realism
• Bordwell online
• Rosenbaum v. Bergman (1 2 3 4 5)
• Blind spots in film history
• Digital filmotheque of Alexandria
• Painting and Cinema
• Outlandish Dargis Empire (blogathon)
• Gus Van Sant on Bela Tarr
• La Condition Critique
• Defining a critic (blogathon)
• Another Counter-Canon
• Consensual criteria for a good critic
• Criticism/Creation at Cahiers
• Bazin on Criticism - 1958
• Bazin on Criticism - 1943
• Il vento del cinema
• Criticism On Air

CRITICAL FALLACY

1. Deception
2. Manipulation
3. Simplification
4. Burden of Proof
5. Complacency
6. Mannerism
7. Synopsizing /capsule reviewing
   
8. Prejudice
9. Conflict of Interest
10. Insularity
11. Egocentrism
    
12. Name Dropping
13. Digression
14. Populism
15. Conservatism
16. Spoilers
17. Ratings
18. Labels
19. Cleverness / Humour
    
20. Bickering
21. Credentials
22. Arrogance
23. Equivalence / Short Sightedness
24. Gullibility

CRIT 4 N00BS

• Forgotten Obsolete English Words #2 : Critic
  
• Citations sur la critique
  
• Anti-Curriculum Vitae
  
• Forgotten Obsolete English Word #1 - Dialectics
  
• Tshirt sales
• Deficient Subjectivity
• Random Factoid 1 : decade
• Ironic Toys
  
• Eire to Iran
• Indie Film parody
  

AUDIO WEBCAST

• French pronunciation 1 (auteur) MP3
  

INTERVIEW

• Kiarostami Interview
• Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Climates)
• Haneke on Hidden
• Bruno Dumont

COLLECTIVE PROJECT

• Seeking World Film Bloggers Desperately
  
• New Indian Auteur website
  
• Unspoken Cinema Journal (Participations)
  
• Spectres du cinéma
  
• The Belgrade Manifesto
  
• Opening Shot Project (Scanners)
• Leonard Cohen Tribute
• Avant Garde blogathon
• Contemplative Cinema blogathon update

ONLINE REPORT

• Eire to Iran
  
• The blog war will not take place
• Fasel's memoir on Paris

PHOTOGRAMMES

• 1 - 2 -
  

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FEATURE FILM

• 2:37 (2006/Thalluri/Australia)
• 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006/Porumboiu/Romania)
• A travers la foret (2005/Civeyrac/FR)
• Afternoon Times (2005/Boonsinsukh/Thailand)
• Ballad of Narayama (1983/Imamura/Japan)
• Los Bastardos (2008/Escalante/Mexico) [FRENCH]
  
• The Brown Bunny (2003/Gallo/USA)
• The Climates (2006/Ceylan/Turkey)
• Conversations with other women (2005/Canosa/UK)
• Devdas (2002/Bhansali/India)
  
• Dossier 51 (1978/Deville/FR)
• El Perro (2004/Sorin/Argentina)
• Fantasma (2006/Alonso/Argentina)
• Foolish Wives (1922/Von Stroheim/USA)
• Funny Games (1997-2007/Haneke/Austria-USA)
• I Graduated But... (1929/Ozu/Japan)
• Keane (2004/Kerrigan/USA)
• Kilometre Zero (2005/Saleem/Irak)
• Knitting (2008/Yin/China)
  
• The Lady and the Beard (1931/Ozu/Japan)
• The Mahabharata (1989/Peter Brook/UK)
• Le Moindre Geste (1970/Deligny/FR)
• Marie-Antoinette (2006/S.Coppola/USA)
• Mary (2005/Ferrara/USA)
• Now Showing (2008/Martin/Philippines)
  
• L'oeil de l'autre (1977/Queysanne/FR)
• Pan's Labyrinth (2006/Guillermo del Toro/Spain)
• Paradise Now (2005/Abu-Assad/Palestine)
• Pasazerka (1963/Munk/Poland)
• Renaissance (2006/Volkman/FR)
• La Salamandra (2008/Aguero/Argentina)
  
• Vampyr (1932/Dreyer/Germany/FR)
• The Wayward Cloud (2005/Tsai/Taiwan)
• What Did the Lady Forget? (1937/Ozu/Japan)

EXPERIMENTAL

• L'Ange (1982/Bokanowski/FR)
• Drawing Restraint 9 (2005/Barney/USA)
• Impressions de Haute Mongolie (1976/Dali/Germany)
• The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005/Quay/Germany/UK/FR)
• Pièce Touché (Martin Arnold/Austria)
• Secondary Currents (1983/Peter Rose/USA)
• Songs From the Second Floor (2000/Andersson/Sweden)

DOCUMENTARY

• La-bas (2006/Akerman) + part 2 (blogathon)
• Grizzly Man (2005/Herzog/USA)
• Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003/Andersen/USA)

SHORT FILM

• Ironic Toys
• "One of the Best Music Video of All Time" 1
  
• Enfantillages (Eisenstein, Welles, Serra, Korine)
  
• Star Suburb, La Banlieue des étoiles (1983/Drouot/FR)

ANALYSIS

• Devdas
  
• Now Showing (1 2 3) unfinished
  
• Funny Games (1 2) unfinished
  
• La-bas (1 2)
• Pan's Labyrinth (1 2 3)
• Drawing Restraint 9 (1 2 3 4) unfinished
• The Wayward Cloud (1 2 3 4 5)
• Coffee & Cigarettes unfinished

FILM EVENTS

• Indie Film Parody
  
• Où va le cinéma ?
  
• Cycle Bazin 2008-09
  
• The fate of Cannes 2007 films...
  
• Top5 world BO 2007
  
• 2008 World Stats
  
• Erice-Kiarostami Video-Lettres 2007 (1)(2)
  
• Erice-Kiarostami - Paris exhibition
• Deauville 2007 - Asian cinema festival
• The Air Is On Fire!
• Directors Lounge 2007 (Berlinale)
• CANNES 2006 : Competition
  Un Certain Regard / Director's Fortnight / Critics Week
• 14th Etrange Festival (Aug 30-Sept12 2006)
• NYFF 2005 NYFF 2006
• ParisCinema 2006
• Toronto TIFF 2005 TIFF 2006
• Venice 2005 Venice 2006

YEARLY ASSESS

• 2004
• 2005 2005 Top10 Tuttle Awards 2005
• TOP 2006 Another Counter-Canon
• Tuttle Awards 2007
• The Notebook's Writers poll 2008
  

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Film Ratings

Rating System

• (s) : subject
• (w) : writing
• (m) : mise-en-scène
• (i) : inspiration
• (c) : craft

Rating Scale

++++ : FLARE (Masterwork)
+++ : FLAWED (Inspired)
++ : FAIR (Skillful)
+ : FLIMSY (Lazy)
0 : FORMAL (Average)
- : FAULTY (Dismissed)