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> Doug, I can't say that I was too impressed with Donald > Kirihara's book on Kenji Mizoguchi (Patterns of Time: > Mizoguchi and the 1930s); I suspect that the book was > springboarded from his graduate thesis because he seemed > to be pandering quite a bit to David Bordwell's >...

Just a quick heads up to anyone in the L.A. area that the LA County Museum of Art is offering rare screenings of "Ugetsu Monogatari" and "The Life of Oharu" on August 23 and 24. http://www.lacma.org/art/film/7jul2002/mizoguchi.htm I saw "The Life of Oharu" in a Japanese Cinema class taught by...

There's also the Image disc of Dovzhenko's "Earth," which I watched last weekend, and it comes bundled with a reconstruction of Eisenstein's lost film "Bezhin Meadow." I've only seen the former, but found it very moving and watchable despite a scratchy source print -- perhaps the best they...

Naw... it just seems like online cineastes tend to flock together unawares. :) Thanks Don! I'm happy to be here. I guess I've got 22 titles left to reach 100. Can I be added to the list too?

Thanks! Now I've got to see what these lists are all about... :)

For the longest time, Parker Tyler's book, Underground Film, was a favorite book on the subject but it was recently supplemented by Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-Garde 1919-1945 edited by Jan-Christopher Horak. Based on Horak's book, Bruce Posner recently curated a...