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Favorite Screenings of the 2010s

The Middle of the World (Alain Tanner/35mm) 04/2010 - Anthology Film Archives, NY

World on a Wire (R.W. Fassbinder/35mm)  04/2010 - Museum of Modern Art, NY

The River (Jean Renoir/35mm)  05/2010 - Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY

Catherine de Heilbronn (Éric Rohmer/Digital)  08/2010 - Film at Lincoln Center, NY

The Student Nurses/Terminal Island (Stephanie Rothman/35mm)  11/2010 - Anthology Film Archives/Light Industry, NY (Rothman present)

The Clock (Christian Marclay/Digital)  02/2011 - Paula Cooper Gallery, NY

Smoking/No Smoking (Alain Resnais/35mm) 03/2011 - Museum of the Moving Image, NY

“Ryan Trecartin: Any Ever” (mixed media) (Trecartin/Digital) 07/2011 - MoMA PS1, NY

Margaret (Kenneth Lonergan/35mm) 10/2011 - Landmark Sunshine, NY

The Movie Orgy (Joe Dante/Digital)  10/2011 - Museum of Modern Art, NY (Dante present)

Seeking the Monkey King (Ken Jacobs/Digital) 10/2011 - Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park, NY (Jacobs present)

The Heartbreak Kid (Elaine May/35mm) 11/2011 - Film at Lincoln Center, NY (Charles Grodin, Jeannie Berlin Q&A, May in audience)

L'Amour Fou (Jacques Rivette/35mm) 12/2011 - Film at Lincoln Center, NY (Chantal Akerman present)

Four Nights of a Dreamer (Robert Bresson/35mm) 01/2012 - Film Forum, NY

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch/35mm) 02/2012 - 92Y Tribeca, NY (Catherine Colson via Skype)

Sleepwalk (Sara Driver/35mm) 03/2012 - Anthology Film Archives, NY (Driver present)

“Rare Los Angeles Films” (curated by Thom Andersen) (various/16mm) 04/2012 - Whitney Museum, NY Holy Motors (Leos Carax/DCP) 08/2012 - Magno Screening Room, NY

The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson/70mm) 09/2012 - AMC Lincoln Square 13, NY

Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami/DCP) 09/2012 - Broadway Screening Room, NY

San Diego Surf (Andy Warhol/DCP) 01/2013 - Museum of Modern Art, NY (Taylor Mead present)  

Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie/DCP)  09/2013 - TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto, Canada

The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese/DCP) 12/2013 - Ziegfeld Theater, NY (world premiere - cast/crew present)

Secret Defense (Jacques Rivette/35mm) 02/2014 - Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY

Tortured Dust (Stan Brakhage/16mm) 03/2014 - Anthology Film Archives, NY

Company: Original Cast Album (D.A. Pennebaker/Digital) 10/2014 - IFC Center, NY (Pennebaker present)

Life of Riley (Alain Resnais/Digital) 10/2014 - Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, NY

Chilly Scenes of Winter (Joan Micklin Silver/35mm) 11/2014 - IFC Center, NY (Micklin Silver & cast present)

Property (Penny Allen/Digital) 11/2014 - Light Industry, NY (Kelly Reichardt present)

To Sleep with Anger (Charles Burnett/35mm) 06/2015 - Museum of Modern Art, NY (Burnett present)  

Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs/DCP) 07/2015 - Regal UA Court Street, NY

Road House (Jean Negulesco/35mm nitrate) 04/2016 - Eastman House, Rochester, NY

Toute une nuit (Chantal Akerman/35mm) 04/2016 - Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY

Opening Night (John Cassavetes/35mm)  07/2016 - Metrograph, NY (Gena Rowlands present)

Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai/35mm) 10/2016 - Metrograph, NY

Platform (festival cut) (Jia Zhangke/35mm)  11/2016 - Metrograph, NY

Twin Peaks: The Return (final two episodes) (David Lynch/Digital) 09/2017 - Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn, NY

Love is the Message, the Message is Death (Arthur Jafa/Digital) 10/2017 - The Store X, London, UK

Galaxie (Gregory Markopoulos/16mm) 03/2018 - Metrograph, NY (Robert Beavers present)

Afterglow (Alan Rudloph/35mm) 05/2018 - Quad Cinema, NY (Rudolph present)

Gone to Earth (Powell/Pressburger/35mm nitrate) 11/2019 - Egyptian Theater, Los Angeles

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2015 in repertory cinema & premieres

The best repertory films I saw this year:

BRIGADOON (Vincente Minnelli) (35mm) TROUBLE IN MIND (Alan Rudolph) (35mm)

PORTRAIT OF JENNIE (William Dieterle) (35mm)

ROUTE ONE USA (Robert Kramer) (35mm) SOFT FICTION (Chick Strand) (16mm)

ASHES AND EMBERS (Haile Gerima) (16mm) MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN (John Carpenter) (35mm) WILL (Jessie Maple) (16mm)

THE GARDEN (Derek Jarman) (home video) LORENZO’S OIL (George Miller) (home video)

The best world premieres I saw this year:

CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) CAROL (Todd Haynes) MAGIC MIKE XXL (Gregory Jacobs)

THE ASSASSIN (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

NO HOME MOVIE (Chantal Akerman) MISTRESS AMERICA (Noah Baumbach)

MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART (Jia Zhangke) IN JACKSON HEIGHTS (Frederick Wiseman)

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (George Miller) 88:88 (Isiah Medina) BRIDGE OF SPIES (Steven Spielberg) EXPERIMENTER (Michael Almereyda) CREED (Ryan Coogler) BITTER LAKE (Adam Curtis)

TANGERINE (Sean Baker)

and the best cinematic not-films I saw this year:

“Alright” (song by Kendrick Lamar) “When she say she got a cute friend for you” (Vine by Nicholas Fraser)

“Koi” (song by Le1f) “Cats scared of cucumbers” “Famous” (song by Charli XCX)  

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BULWORTH (Warren Beatty, 1998)

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from DA SWEET BLOOD OF JESUS (Spike Lee, 2014)

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2014 in repertory cinema & premieres

The best repertory films I saw on screen this year:

THE BAND WAGON (Vincente Minnelli)*

TORTURED DUST (Stan Brakhage)

THE YOUNG ONE (Luis Bunuel)*

REMEMBER MY NAME (Alan Rudolph)*

SECRET DEFENSE (Jacques Rivette)

EL (Luis Bunuel)

HEAT (Michael Mann)*

CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER (Joan Micklin Silver)

I DOOD IT (Vincente Minnelli)

PROPERTY (Penny Allen)

STATIONS OF THE ELEVATED (Manfred Kirchheimer)

THAT OLD DREAM THAT MOVES (Alain Guiraudie)*

THE THIRD GENERATION (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

*Had seen previously, but first time on big screen.

The best world premieres I saw this year:

HORSE MONEY (Pedro Costa)

SAINT LAURENT (Bertrand Bonello)

BOYHOOD (Richard Linklater)

GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE (Jean-Luc Godard)

BEYOND THE LIGHTS (Gina Prince-Blythewood)

CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (Olivier Assayas)

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson)

ACTRESS (Robert Greene)

LIFE OF RILEY (Alain Resnais)

NATIONAL GALLERY (Frederick Wiseman)

APPROACHING THE ELEPHANT (Amanda Rose Wilder)

INHERENT VICE (Paul Thomas Anderson)

THE MEND (John Magary)

TIMBUKTU (Abderrahmane Sissako)

THE LOOK OF SILENCE (Joshua Oppenheimer)

CITIZENFOUR (Laura Poitras)

NYMPHOMANIAC VOL. I (Lars Von Trier)

LOVE IS STRANGE (Ira Sachs)

LAND HO! (Aaron Katz & Martha Stephens)

22 JUMP STREET (Chris Miller and Phil Lord)

LISTEN UP PHILIP (Alex Ross Perry)

HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT (Joshua and Ben Safdie)

and the best cinematic non-films I saw this year:

Nicki Minaj, "Anaconda"

"Camera falls from airplane and lands in pig pen"

"Brah no way, in SF rn! Lol #RP"

Ariel Pink, "Put Your Number In My Phone"

"Michigan Man Hosts Party of the Century"

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"You said: "I’ll go to another country, go to another shore,

find another city better than this one.

Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong

and my heart lies buried like something dead.

How long can I let my mind moulder in this place?

Wherever I turn, wherever...

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TEOREMA (Pasolini, 1968)

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TWO LOVERS (Gray, 2008)

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ELOGE DE L'AMOUR (JLG)

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lyrics from Bo Harwood's "Almost," featured in John Cassavetes' THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE and LOVE STREAMS

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2013 in repertory cinema & premieres

The best repertory films I saw on screen this year:

GETRUD (Carl Dreyer)*

THE LAST WAGON (Delmer Daves)

MAN TO MAN (Allan Dwan)

EMILY DIED (Anne Charlotte Robertson)

HÉLAS POUR MOI (Jean-Luc Godard)

TALKING TO STRANGERS (Rob Tregenza) (1/2 video tape)

CLASS RELATIONS (Straub/Huillet)*

LE JOLI MAI (Chris Marker) (DCP)

A BREAKDOWN AND AFTER THE MENTAL HOSPITAL (Anne Charlotte Robertson)

THE BIRTH OF LOVE (Philippe Garrel)*

OPENING NIGHT (John Cassavetes)

BINGHAMTON, MY INDIA (Ken Jacobs)

*Had seen previously, but first time viewing on 35mm)

The 16 best world premieres I saw on screen this year:

THE IMMIGRANT (James Gray)

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (Martin Scorsese)

WHAT NOW? REMIND ME (Joaquim Pinto)

MISPLACEMENT (Jerome Hiler)

SPRING (Nathaniel Dorsky)

STRANGER BY THE LAKE (Alain Guiraudie)

UTSKOR: EITHER/OR (Laida Lertxundi)

THE BLING RING (Sofia Coppola)

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (Joel and Ethan Coen)

JOYS OF WAITING FOR THE BROADWAY BUS 4 (Ken Jacobs)

ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (Jim Jarmusch)

A TOUCH OF SIN (Jia Zhangke)

PALO ALTO (Gia Coppola)

BASTARDS (Claire Denis)

FAST 6 (Justin Lin)

PAIN & GAIN (Michael Bay)

and the best cinematic non-films I saw all year:

Laura Poitras' interviews with Edward Snowden

Slava, "Girl Like Me"

Kanye West - "Yeezus" Projections, Brooklyn

A$AP Rocky, "Fashion Killa"

KING BRITT X ROLEX X MICHAEL MANN 

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Forthcoming (to here knows when)

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On TRAVELING LIGHT

In February of 2010, I was privileged to be a part of Gina Telaroli's TRAVELING LIGHT, a then semi-narrative film, structured by incidences shot on an Amtrak train moving west from New York to Cleveland. I wish I took more pictures, but the cost of feeding myself at the time was a struggle; 35mm film was too expensive. Despite the exhaustion from unexpected events that happened while making this film, namely a blizzard that stranded us overnight in a Pittsburgh train station, followed by an in-limbo 24 hour respite in Mentor, OH, I look back to this period of time poignantly. The shoot was four long years ago and I barely remember things about myself from that time.

TRAVELING LIGHT is screening this coming week in NY at Anthology Film Archives, schedule here, presented alongside train-themed films chosen by Gina. Starting Friday, it will also be available streaming online via Lumiere (additional screenings listed in that link). 

I love this film, possibly because I see so much of myself in it, or because I've watched it move from a narrative to a sort-of-non-narrative film, halved in length, properly butchered into something miraculous. It's a film removed from city life, but only features city dwellers; it functions on non-city time, but there's a sense of anxiousness in idle time that New Yorkers will pick up on immediately. It's a film that takes its time, unfolding like an afternoon spent with friends. Its formal rigor, sensitive to sunlight and shadows, is often challenged by long takes that explode with energy and ones that at first seem to exist as time-based records. It's impossible to distance myself from this film, which I'm fine with, and wish I could be a lucky soul seeing it blindly for the first time.

Images by the lake were taken in Mentor, OH, close to Gina's parents' house. The top image, along with the black and white indoor shots, were taken at the Pittsburgh Amtrak station. The last picture was taken at a train station in Pennsylvania on our way back to New York.

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