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Okay, #13 for me is Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday by Ivone Margulies. Despite the author's cardinal writing sin of transposing affect and effect, the book is rather well written and shows depth and clarity. However, I do want to caution that the book evolved from...

Film Book #12 for me is DEFA East German Cinema, 1946-1992 edited by Sean Allan and John Sandford. All in all, I found the book to be extremely informative (especially since I knew next to nothing about GDR cinema :b). What I especially appreciated about the book is the authors' use of...

I just finished re-reading Satyajit Ray's My Years With Apu, A Memoir, which is the first time that I had read it in about five years. Needless to say, I find Ray's work and personality extremely inspiring, intelligent, humble, and compassionate. Here is a short write-up on the book; hopefully...

I finished reading Audie Bock's Japanese Film Directors, a book that I had been looking for a long time and is considered essential reading to all Japanese film scholars. The second printing of the book was in 1980, but has been out of print for some time. Bock subdivides the most influential...

I decided to discontinue reading Tag Gallagher's The Adventures of Roberto Rossellini after struggling with Gallagher's disorganized, rambling, stream of consciousness style of writing for three weeks. The book itself is over 800 pages but with good (or even some) editing, the material could...

Okay, I finished Reframing Japanese Cinema: Authorship, Genre, History this past weekend, but only finished my synopsis last night. According to the preface, the editors' intent was to provide a comprehensive, academic based study guide to Japanese cinema. The first section on Authorship...

I finished Fassbinder's The Anarchy of the Imagination: Interviews, Essays, and Notes over the weekend. Here are my notes: The Anarchy of the Imagination: Interviews, Essays, and Notes by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. All in all, it was a fascinating book in observing Fassbinder's sheer...

I finished reading The Films of Theo Angelopoulos, and it was an exceedingly fascinating book - even by my jaded standards. :) Here, we have a filmmaker who grew up during wartime, and watched his country tear itself apart with a devastating civil war, only to encounter, in his later years...

Just to keep my reading progress account consistent on this thread, I followed the Mizoguchi book with: [b]http://www.filmref.com/journal.html#dreyer ------------------ Strictly Film School

Okay, I have completed Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s. In hindsight, it really was not as bad as I had indicated; in fact, it was very informative. However, if I had to read it again, I would probably have been better off skipping the introductory material and go straight through...

Off topic, but this amusing Senses of Cinema http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/00/8/academic.html ------------------ Strictly Film School

I briefly referred to the book on the German cinema thread, but I am adding this book on my reading list: DEFA : East German Cinema, 1946-1992 by Sean Allan and John Sandford On a more infuriating note, my reading has slowed down to snail's pace with Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s...

Professor Insdorf (author of Double Lives, Second Chances) struck me as being very personable and articulate. I haven't read her book either, but I'm thinking that she's probably better suited as a Q&A panel member, where she has the discretion to go into greater depth. I reached a similar...

Without getting into too much of a non sequitur, I'm always interested in hearing the perspective of people in the Arts and Humanities fields react to the films that have great significance for me. As a scientist, what draws me to Tarkovsky's cinema is that beyond the surface aesthetics of his...

Darren, I commend you on your inspired and deeply personal review of Sculpting in Time. I cannot provide any additional words of encouragement, except to say that Sculpting in Time is an illuminating window into the soul of a contemplative, and profoundly spiritual visionary...

Ah, Aaron! My fellow under-achiever. I knew that I couldn't be the only one who fainted at the thought of reading ten books in one year! Darren, you forgot to add Satyajit Ray's Childhood Days: A Memoir under "Books by Directors." I'll be tackling this first as a companion piece to his...

Good heavens! First, Jung Woo looks like Anna Karina, now Darren H. looks like Margarita Terekhova. I'm confused. Okay, I'll sheepishly ask. Is there a Mascot Status/Underachiever Reading Challenge for those of us who are reading impaired and will probably not be able to get through ten...