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Old 08-14-2006, 08:40 PM   #1 of 10
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MORE DIRECTORS CHECKLIST SERIES - Volume #412 - Le Cinema du OLIVIER ASSAYAS


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Volume #412 - Olivier Assayas


Boarding Gate (2007)
To Each His Cinema (2007) (segment "Recrudescence")
Noise (2006)
Paris, je t'aime (2006) (segment "Quartier des Enfants Rouges")
Clean (2004)
Demonlover (2002)
Les Destinées Sentimentales (2000)
Late August, Early September (1998)
Irma Vep (1996)
Cold Water (1994)
A New Life (1993)
Paris Awakens (1991)
Winter's Child (1989)
Disorder (1986)
Winston Tong en studio (1984)
Laissé inachevé à Tokyo (1982)
Rectangle - Deux chansons de Jacno (1980)
Copyright (1979)




My DVD Collection Film Lists: 2001 (416), 2002 (412), 2003 (374), 2004 (346), 2005 (302), 2006 (221) Film Tracking 2005 (862), 2006 (852) Last 15 Watched: Pretty Boy (1993,Carsten Sønder) 3/5, From the Edge of the City (1998,Constantine Giannaris) 3/5, The Holy Child (2001,Stéphane Clavier) 3/5, Boy's Choir (2000,Akira Ogata) 3/5, The Fire That Burns (1997,Christophe Malavoy) 4/5, Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008,Nicholas Stoller) 3/5, Ong-bak (2003,Prachya Pinkaew) 3/5, I Want to Live! (1958,Robert Wise) 2/5, Nancy Drew (2007,Andrew Fleming) 3/5, But Forever in My Mind (1999,Gabriele Muccino) 3/5, Death at a Funeral (2007,Frank Oz) 3/5, Pumpkinhead (1988,Stan Winston) 4/5, Beach Cafe (2001,Benoît Graffin) 2/5, 15 (2003,Royston Tan) 3/5, Lonely Boy (1962,Wolf Koenig, Roman Kroitor) 3/5

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Old 08-14-2006, 08:41 PM   #2 of 10
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Re: MORE DIRECTORS CHECKLIST SERIES - Volume #412 - Le Cinema du OLIVIER ASSAYAS


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Olivier Assayas
Jan 25, 1955 -

Boarding Gate (2007)
To Each His Cinema (2007) (segment "Recrudescence")
Noise (2006)
Paris, je t'aime (2006) (segment "Quartier des Enfants Rouges")
Clean (2004)
Demonlover (2002)
Les Destinées Sentimentales (2000)
Late August, Early September (1998)
Irma Vep (1996) (Own the DVD)
Cold Water (1994)
A New Life (1993)
Paris Awakens (1991)
Winter's Child (1989)
Disorder (1986)
Winston Tong en studio (1984)
Laissé inachevé à Tokyo (1982)
Rectangle - Deux chansons de Jacno (1980)
Copyright (1979)

Seen 5
Own 1


Olivier Assayas is the 48th director in this series that I've seen/met in person.




My DVD Collection Film Lists: 2001 (416), 2002 (412), 2003 (374), 2004 (346), 2005 (302), 2006 (221) Film Tracking 2005 (862), 2006 (852) Last 15 Watched: Pretty Boy (1993,Carsten Sønder) 3/5, From the Edge of the City (1998,Constantine Giannaris) 3/5, The Holy Child (2001,Stéphane Clavier) 3/5, Boy's Choir (2000,Akira Ogata) 3/5, The Fire That Burns (1997,Christophe Malavoy) 4/5, Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008,Nicholas Stoller) 3/5, Ong-bak (2003,Prachya Pinkaew) 3/5, I Want to Live! (1958,Robert Wise) 2/5, Nancy Drew (2007,Andrew Fleming) 3/5, But Forever in My Mind (1999,Gabriele Muccino) 3/5, Death at a Funeral (2007,Frank Oz) 3/5, Pumpkinhead (1988,Stan Winston) 4/5, Beach Cafe (2001,Benoît Graffin) 2/5, 15 (2003,Royston Tan) 3/5, Lonely Boy (1962,Wolf Koenig, Roman Kroitor) 3/5

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Old 08-15-2006, 08:48 AM   #3 of 10
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Re: MORE DIRECTORS CHECKLIST SERIES - Volume #412 - Le Cinema du OLIVIER ASSAYAS


Clean ***1/2
Les Destinees ***


I have Irma Vep in the ol' Netflix queue.



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Old 08-15-2006, 09:41 PM   #4 of 10
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Re: MORE DIRECTORS CHECKLIST SERIES - Volume #412 - Le Cinema du OLIVIER ASSAYAS


Unimpressed with what I've seen so not in a big hurry to see more.

1. Irma Vep - C+
2. Paris Je t'aime (Segment "Quartier des Enfants Rouges") - C
3. Demonlover - C


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Retribution - B / Frontiers - C
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Diary of the Dead - B+ / The Invisible Man - B+
Inside - B / The Crazies - B


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Old 09-06-2006, 11:06 AM   #5 of 10
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Re: MORE DIRECTORS CHECKLIST SERIES - Volume #412 - Le Cinema du OLIVIER ASSAYAS


Clean (2004) - 7/10
Irma Vep (1996) - 8/10

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Old 04-04-2007, 12:32 AM   #6 of 10
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added Clean (2004) - 7/10
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Old 09-01-2007, 04:33 PM   #7 of 10
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Re: MORE DIRECTORS CHECKLIST SERIES - Volume #412 - Le Cinema du OLIVIER ASSAYAS


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Paris, je t'aime (2006) (segment "Quartier des Enfants Rouges")

Seen 4
Own 1