Jerry

Au Bonheur des Dames (Duvivier, 1930)

My first Dita Parlo silent film, and of course she was a great silent actor.

5 authors from whom I have read at least 5 books (actually, these are the authors I have read the most books by)

1. Balzac
2. Shakespeare
3. Faulkner
4. Tony Hillerman
5. Louise Erdrich

The new Warner Archives Blu-ray of Walsh’s Manpower is gorgeous.

It’s raining two inches in LA today. We’re all going to die.

Wuthering Heights Also known as Hurlevent.

As the latest in a long line of WUTHERING HEIGHTS adaptations hits theaters, Tony turns to HURLEVENT, Jacques Rivette’s 1985 take on the novel, for this week’s review. inplainsightcinema.substack.com/p/wuthering-...

Last 4 Friday

Discovered my new favorite Griffith short this week.

I’ll be watching my first Moretti movie this week. Have zero idea what to expect.

I’m boycotting the NFL until they stop making my LA Rams play in the rain.

We don’t care.

Found my dog’s doppelgänger in 1952 France (Manon of the Spring)

Have good time

1. Wagon Master
2. The Naked Dawn
3. Way of a Gaucho
4. Run of the Arrow
5. Stranger on Horseback
6. Two Rode Together
7. The Gun Hawk
8. Canyon Passage
9. The Tall T
10. China 9, Liberty 37

I mean Nais.

I’ve watched nine Pagnol’s over the past three weeks. Regain is also my favorite, and I’ll be watching Anais tomorrow.

Latinas front and center leading that whoop-ass.

I used to be a project manager, which is code for “we’re dumping your ass as soon as you successfully complete the project.”

Yeah, start with the most basic elements.

I learned this when I taught Intro to Film at a junior college. Total disaster!

I’ll try to track it down. Thanks!

I want to see a film education curriculum designed for 5-year-olds. What would that look like?

I’d be afraid reading him would spoil the movie stardom.

My favorite was Cornelius Castoriadis, who is a movie star.

That was about as sexy as a talking heads documentary gets.

Favorite January first watches

You were taught how to read a book since the age of five. Nobody has taught these students how to watch a movie.

You teach someone how to watch films the same way you teach them how to read books: by starting in kindergarten. But our education institutions don’t value audiovisual literacy.

The Treasure of Pancho Villa (Sherman, 1955)

I found the best gun in movie history.

Godard was a strong believer in information. He called it “evidence.”

Still Life (Jia, 2006)

The number of sentences Tom Brady utters in the broadcast booth where I have no idea what he’s saying is insane.