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3.30.2007

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thinking about films

  • Reds (1981)
  • Shampoo (1975)
  • Raw Deal (1986)
  • The End of Suburbia (2004)
  • Our Brand Is Crisis (2005)
  • Tokyo Story (1953)
  • Le Doulos (1962)
  • The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
  • Amazing Grace (2006)
  • The Professional (1994)
  • Close Up (1990)
  • The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
  • Ten (2002)
  • Baran (2001)
  • Monsoon Wedding (2001)
  • Pather Panchali (1955)
  • C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004)
  • Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)
  • Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
  • Chunhyang (2000)
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
  • Transformers (2007)
  • The One-Armed Swordsman (1967)
  • A Better Tomorrow (1986)
  • Sicko (2007)
  • Stand and Deliver (1988)
  • This is Spinal Tap (1984)
  • Good Morning! (1959)
  • Rashomon (1950)
  • Fireworks (1997)
  • Escape from New York (1981)
  • The Andromeda Strain (1971)
  • Time to Leave (2005)
  • Witness (1985)
  • Knocked Up (2007)
  • Children of Men (2006)
  • Chinatown (1974)
  • The Godfather (1972)
  • All the President's Men (1976)
  • 12 Angry Men (1957)
  • Vertigo (1958)
  • Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
  • On the Waterfront (1954)
  • Army of Shadows (1969)
  • The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  • The Twilight Samurai (2002)
  • Cafe Lumiere (2003)
  • I Shot Jesse James (1949)
  • 5x2 (2004)
  • Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
  • 61* (2001)
  • Citizen Kane (1941)
  • Footlight Parade (1933)
  • Deewar (1975)
  • The Birth of a Nation (1915)
  • Grindhouse (2007)
  • Caché (2005)
  • Killer of Sheep (1977)
  • Singin' in the Rain (1952)
  • Alphaville (1965)
  • Chungking Express (1994)
  • Provoked: A True Story (2006)

books supposedly reading

  • The In-Between World of Vikram Lall - M.G. Vassanji
  • The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul - Phil Jackson
  • Playback - Raymond Chandler
  • Redeeming the Wasteland: Television Documentary and Cold War Politics - Michael Curtin
  • Radio, Television and Modern Life: A Phenomenological Approach - Paddy Scannell
  • The Selling of the President - Joe McGinniss
  • Fearless Jones - Walter Mosley
  • Falling Man - Don DeLillo
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley - Malcolm X
  • Persepolis 2 - Marjane Satrapi
  • Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
  • Hard News - Seth Mnookin
  • Movie-Made America - Robert Sklar
  • Walkin' the Dog - Walter Mosley

Wikipedia reading

  • Cinéma Vérité
  • Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
  • Saraswati
  • Ashwin Sood
  • Charles de Gaulle
  • French Fifth Republic
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  • Propaganda Due
  • Banco Ambrosiano
  • George P. Burdell
  • Physical attractiveness
  • Edward James Olmos
  • Gold glossary
  • Black Friday (1978)
  • Bob Hill
  • Cat Power
  • School System of The Wire
  • B. F. Skinner
  • Edwin Stanton Porter
  • Adrienne Shelly
  • Eadweard Muybridge
  • Sally Quinn
  • Wii
  • Charles Coughlin
  • Loyalty Day
  • Kinetograph
  • Deepti Naval
  • Luis Posada Carriles
  • Don Imus
  • Retcon
  • Perfect Storm
  • Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
  • Little Armenia, Los Angeles, California
  • Overton window

sites to rock out to

  • Chron of Higher Ed - News Blog
  • Crooks and Liars
  • Daily Howler
  • Deadspin
  • Defamer
  • Eat The Press
  • Eschaton
  • Free Darko
  • Glenn Greenwald
  • IFFLA
  • Ken Burns Hates Mexicans
  • LA Murals
  • LA Observed
  • Lostpedia
  • Media Channel
  • NBA.com Blogs
  • Newshounds
  • NPR Check
  • Orcinus
  • Passion for Cinema
  • Piled Higher & Deeper
  • Rate Your Students
  • Rude Pundit
  • Sepia Mutiny
  • Simpsons Archive
  • Slaves of Academe
  • TAPPED
  • TBogg
  • Television Without Pity
  • The Big Lead
  • The Rude Pundit
  • Tim Goodman
  • True Hoop
  • TVNewser
  • University Diaries
  • you-are-here

history (is what hurts)

  • ▼  2007 (75)
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  July (8)
    • ►  June (12)
    • ►  May (15)
    • ►  April (15)
    • ▼  March (24)
      • Focusing on the real problems: keeping steroids ou...
      • Back from hiatus
      • Watching the "Making of the Island"
      • Hong Kong in your face!
      • Leaving on a jet plane
      • What part of "you lost" do you not understand?
      • Let the conversation BEGIN!
      • This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Regio...
      • Fuck this illegal war
      • Saddam Hussein down, next...Gandhi!
      • Internet actualy is television, maybe
      • Wikiworld
      • My brackets are busted...screw the NCAA!
      • Quick, before they put Friedman's incredibly wrong...
      • Smush was probably updating his myspace
      • Willing to sell out
      • Stampy to get new, severly depressed friend
      • Why the Dems won't debate on Fox News
      • "We got broads out there who keep your kids from b...
      • Daylight Saving Time's blues
      • I hear you, Flea.
      • Iraq's children + basketball in the Holy Land = I ...
      • CBS convering the NBA....in 1975!
      • Dick Cheney Resigns
  • ►  2006 (24)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  November (2)
    • ►  October (11)
    • ►  September (9)
    • ►  July (1)