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caught 'margaret' the other day. a terrific mess.

works by Ford, Kuchar, Chaplin, Hawks, Pixar and the Nicholas Bros added to the National Film Registry:

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/daily-briefing-25-titles-added-to-the-national-film-registry

I love the Kuchar short ('I, An Actress'), a fitting epitaph to throw in there. Short of his whole part at the end of 'Thundercrack!' I can't think of a better dialogue heavy bit to introduce someone to the spirit of Kuchar.

watched Sans Soleil last night

George Kuchar retro in NYC, Feb 10-12 (PDF, page 7):

http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/AFA123_2012CalCompletes.pdf

man, i've only seen a handful of those! jealous that y'all will see an actual print of 'eclipse of the sun virgin'

Tanaki - did u like Sans Soleil? It was my first Marker after La Jetee and I was really underwhelmed. Was a few years ago so I want to revisit.

Been screening a few African/Third world cinema films: Mambety's Hyenes and Cisse's Yeelen are really great, as is Pereira dos Santos' Rio, 40 Degrees.

Loved it — even more than La jetée

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEWir5844nE

I guess this is the most applicable thread, although I'm not sure how cineaste it is: I finally found some time to finish posting a Facebook countdown of my favourite movies I did a few months ago onto my homepage.

http://phildellio.tripod.com/movies.html

(Be forewarned: James L. Brooks places more films than Carl T. Dreyer and Rainer W. Fassbinder combined.)

Clemenza, you're dead to me now. When you go over to our mother's house for New Year's Eve let me know ahead of time so I don't have to see you

I was just being strong for all of us the way Papa was.

Or watch Dinner For One with you

j/jk I just narrowly renewed my own Film Snob bona fides by going to see Marienbad and The Gold Rush at the FF last week

I've always felt like I've had a foot in both worlds. (Last two films at home: Prince of the City and L'Avventura. I think they're both overrated.) We had a lot of back and forth in the comments about the relationship between these kinds of lists and the official canon 9or whatever you want to call it0.

Shift up, shift down...

Which means that 2012 will be the Year of Apatow and Rogen for me

I've got Dreyer but no Fassbender or Brooks in my canon, as per Mubi:

ELECTROCUTING AN ELEPHANT (Edison, 1903)
M (Lang, 1931)
GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (LeRoy, 1933)
THE SCARLET EMPRESS (von Sternberg, 1934)
MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW (McCarey, 1937)
HELLZAPOPPIN' (Potter, 1941)
FIREWORKS (Anger, 1947)
UN CHANT D'AMOUR (Genet, 1950)
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Hawks, 1953)
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Laughton, 1955)
GERTRUD (Dreyer, 1964)
SIMON OF THE DESERT (Buñuel, 1965)
BREAKAWAY (Conner, 1966)
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (Nichols, 1966)
WEEKEND (Godard, 1967)
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (Romero, 1968)
BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (Meyer, 1970)
PINK NARCISSUS (Bidgood, 1971)
WOMEN IN REVOLT (Morrissey, 1971)
THE WICKER MAN (Hardy, 1973)
FEMALE TROUBLE (Waters, 1974)
SCORE (Metzger, 1974)
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (Hooper, 1974)
BARRY LYNDON (Kubrick, 1975)
NASHVILLE (Altman, 1975)
CARRIE (De Palma, 1976)
GREY GARDENS (Maysles, Mayles, Hovde, 1976)
THE TENANT (Polanski, 1976)
ALL THAT JAZZ (Fosse, 1979)
THE WARRIORS (Hill, 1979)
MOMMIE DEAREST (Perry, 1981)
MS. 45 (Ferrara, 1981)
TANGO (Rybczynski, 1981)
TENEBRAE (Argento, 1982)
SANS SOLEIL (Marker, 1983)
SLEEPAWAY CAMP (Hiltzik, 1983)
CRIME WAVE (Paizs, 1985)
DO THE RIGHT THING (Lee, 1989)
PARIS IS BURNING (Livingston, 1990)
SÁTÁNTANGÓ (Tarr, 1994)
SHOWGIRLS (Verhoeven, 1995)
DOGVILLE (von Trier, 2003)
MUNICH (Spielberg, 2005)
INLAND EMPIRE (Lynch, 2006)
THE TREE OF LIFE (Malick, 2011)

Criterion shared part of their New Year's cartoon today on fb. Look forward to Weekend, Quadrophenia, and Harold & Maude amongst others.

Have you ever read Hoberman & Rosenbaum's Midnight Movies, Eric? Excellent book--it came to mind when I looked at your list. A friend of mine once listed Crime Wave as one of his ten favourite films. Haven't seen it.

Yep. Pretty great tho could've benefitted from a more humorous approach.