I thought I would do this update every week and I already fell behind! What a shame. But I was very busy. I will nevertheless note a bit of what I've been doing.
毎週、記事を書こうとしても、もうサボってしまいました(笑)。でも諦めていなません！ただ忙しかったです…今月の出来事について書きましょう。
My dwarf sunflowers haven't been blooming, so I moved them to a windowsill that gets more sun.
ミニひまわりがなかなか咲かなかったので日光をよく受ける窓の桟に移動しました。
Do you see it?
見えるのかな？
The first bud! I felt such an overwhelming joy when I saw it. Hopefully I can nurture it well...
新芽が出てきました！見た瞬間に圧倒的な喜びを感じました。よく育てられるといいですね…
The most important thing I did in the past month was attend the Nagano Onbashira-sai. Due to Corona Virus restrictions, some of the early rituals were not public unfortunately, but I still got a pretty wonderful experience of it.
今月、最も大事な出来事は長野県の御柱祭でした。コロナの施策として公共になっていない儀式も多かったんだけど、それにしても素晴らしい経験でした。
--Upper Shrine--
The weather was nice and sunny. It wasn't terribly hot, but I did get a very light sunburn on my face since I spent so much time outside during the whole festival!
--上社--
天気は晴れました！そんなに暑くはなかったが、三日間ずっと外で歩き回ったので顔がちょっとだけ日焼けてしまいました～
--Lower Shrine--
I wasn't able to make it to the final day of erecting the pillars, but got to see the procession and movement. The area looked a lot more like a typical festival and I ate a lot of unhealthy food...
--下社--
最終日の御柱建立に行けなかったけど、だいたい行事と柱の動かすことが見えました！下社の行事は上社より祭りっぽい雰囲気がありました。不健康なお菓子をいっぱい食べてしまいました…
This ritual is of very ancient origin and many believe it has
connections to the most ancient kind of religion in the Japanese
archipelago. It truly made me feel in touch with a kind of faith that
has not changed since the Joumon era. ZUN captured this very well in Touhou Fuujinroku ～ Mountain of Faith. Speaking of which, I've been slacking on that game...
この古来の祭りは日本列島の最も原初的な道教や仏教に触れていない信仰と関係があると言われています。縄文時代からずっと変わっていない神と自然との交流を経験している…という感じでした。ZUNが正に東方風神録 ～ Mountain of Faithにそれを忠実に表現できました。風神録と言えば、最近サボっていますね…
I also went to the gokaichou ceremony at Zenkouji in Nagano. There was a Joudo and Tendai procession and I went to the Tendai one because I believe that sect is closer to my philosophical beliefs (and because it was more convenient, lol). During this event, what is said to be the first Buddhist image ever brought to Japan is displayed. Of course, photography is forbidden. I offered a prayer to it, but it was relatively small and set far away, so I didn't get a great look at it. I was still very happy for the experience!
そして、長野市の善光寺にある御開帳に行きました！浄土宗と天台宗の行列がありました。浄土宗より自分の哲学的な思想に近いし、タイミングは便利だし（笑）、天台宗の行列を観に行きました。この行事で、最初に日本列島に持たされた仏像が出されるらしいです。もちろん、撮影は禁止です。その仏像に祈っても、とても小さくて遠く置かれた物でした。それにしても経験できたのは感謝しています！
I'm still just monkeying away my round illustrating my picture and don't really know what I'm doing but I guess the more I work on it the better it will be? Who knows. In any case I find it fun and relaxing to draw cute and sexy girls no matter how bad the drawings are. The hand looks kind of ET-like but hands are always a problem. I'll get back to it and improve later.
またイラストで頑張っています。本当に何をやっているか全く分からないのでただふざけています。これから書き続けば良くなると信じたいです。どうでしょうか。とにかく、下手くそな絵でも可愛くてセクシーな女の子を描くのは楽しい安心です。手はいつもややこしいですね。現在の手はETっぽいけどまた描き直すつもりです。
Also I've been slacking on it, but decided to finally get off my ass and make another "Games That I Want to Be More Known in Japan" video! I finished recording footage so now I'm writing the script. I'm going to keep the game a secret so I can't get too into the nitty-gritty but I really love doing this stuff.
それで、ずっと怠けていたけどまた「日本人に最も知られて欲しいゲーム」動画を作成することにしました！映像の録画が今完了なので脚本を書いています。公開するまでにゲームは秘密なので細部までは言えないけど、洋ゲーです。日本のゲームの中で最も日本人に知られて欲しいものはあるのかな…？
Game-wise, ESP.Ra.De attempts and StarCraft: Brood War campaign continue on... Once I found out how easy of a cheese there was to beat the mission "Emperor's Fall (Ground Zero)" I was pissed because of how much time I spent getting fucked over by those nukes! So it goes. I love how cheesy and over-the-top the Valkyrie voice lines are.
自分のゲーム進行にしては、いつも通りのエスプレイドの1cc目指しとStarCraft: Brood Warのキャンペーンですね！「Emperor's Fall (Ground Zero)」を汚い方法でクリアしました(笑)。そんなに原爆に虐げられた後で恥は全くないです！ヴァルキリーの台詞が受けすぎます！
I'll be watching Galaxy Express 999 for a while but it is still solid. I don't know if the entire show is just going to be stopping on different weird planets without much continuing story, but if it is I really wouldn't mind. All of them have beautiful, beguiling imagery.
これから銀河鉄道999の第40話まで進みました。見終えるのはまだ遠い未来にあるが、面白いのでそれでいいと思います！また続いているストーリー編より話ずつが「今週の変な惑星に留まる」形ですね。それでも好きですけど！きれいで艶やかなイメージに満ちています。
Two rewatches, not in a theater this time unfortunately:
映画二本をもう一度観ました！今回は残念ながら映画館じゃありませんでしたけど…
Journal d'un curé de campagne (1951) by Robert Bresson
Diary of a Country Priest
田舎司祭の日記 (1951) - ロベール・ブレッソン
After watching The Devil, Probably again in the theater, I became curious about these early Bresson films which I haven't seen in a long time. This film is absolutely beautiful and moving, but it's also a lot less of the archetypal Bresson film than I remembered. The content is perfect for his austere, bleak, and reserved style, but this film is very clearly transitional. It doesn't have as many extreme ellipses in narrative, even if it is not a rigidly constructed plot. Its actors have a bit more emotion in their performances, even if they are far from traditional. And its imagery is far more picturesque, "constructed," and glossy in that old French style, even if no shot in it feels excessive. It will never be my favorite Bresson, but I really appreciate this film for many good points that are different from his others.
先、たぶん悪魔がを映画館で観て以来、長い間観ていない初期のブレッソン映画に気になり始めました。この映画が本当にきれいで感動的なんだけど、覚えていたより典型的なブレッソン映画じゃありませんでした。内容はブレッソンの厳めしく、殺風景で質素なスタイルに向いているが、この映画が明らかに過渡的であります。ストーリーはそれほど理解しにくくはないが、物語風ではありません。演技が後期ブレッソンより芝居じみだが、結局とても控えめです。そして、後期ブレッソンより絵画的で、作為的で、詩的リアリズムなりの艶艶とした撮影だが、余計なショットは一つもないです。これは私の一番好きなブレッソン映画にならないと思うが、後期ブレッソン映画にないいい点がたくさんあります！
Иди и смотри (1985) by Элем Климов
Come and See
炎628 (1985) - エレム・クリモフ
I hadn't seen this movie since 2009, but in my reading about Hitler and also certain current events I started remembering this movie and becoming curious. I went back and forth on this movie for a while. When I first saw it, I thought the ending was brilliant and amazingly haunting, but the rest of it seemed bland compared to all the Sokurov films I was watching at the time. Now I realize that I was very wrong on that end! I was too biased to wanting movies with beautiful "still" images at that time. And this film certainly has many of those, but the real brilliance of it is its frenetic, disorienting camera shots that lurch and lunge around. Watching this movie as I first did in bad 2009-era-YouTube quality did not help matters.
There are wonderful WWII movies made by all the countries involved in the conflict, but there are marked differences in their depictions, even outside of the idea of who "won" versus who "lost." I think the main reason for this difference comes in the difference of how the war was experienced. For example, the USA did not experience fighting on its home front (minus Pearl Harbor), so the WWII movies they make are often more broadly heroic and I suppose we could say "sanitized" than others, but the best of them are of course marked by a recognition of the horrors of war and a commitment to peace. In contrast to this are Japanese WWII movies. Japan experienced such massive bombings that the home front was gutted and scarred by the remnants of war. However, the act of being bombed still allows the enemy to be very anonymized. The direct fighting with Americans usually occurred in the South Pacific for the Japanese. As such, Japanese WWII movies are usually marked by strong humanist themes, focusing on widows and orphans in bombed-out cities at the home front and their attempts to live on normally.
But to me, the most fascinating WWII movies are those from Eastern Europe and Russia, because their experience of the war was so unique. This was an area that, over the entire course of the war, received bombardment of Nazi troops and as such got to see the enemy up-close, personally, and in their most filthy humanity. And the result we see of this are that the WWII movies from this part of the world are fierce, merciless, and brutal in their depictions, but also mixed with all the feverish, surreal parts of warfare that someone away from the front could never know about. They are the most dark, warped, and unnerving films about the war, and for that reason I love them the most. And this one undoubtedly deserves its legacy up there with Diamonds of the Night, Ivan's Childhood, The Cranes Are Flying, and The Ascent.
2009年にこの映画を初めて観ました。ヒトラーの伝記を読んでいるし、現在にこの地域が揉め続いているし、もう一度観てみたいなあと思いました。この映画に対してどんな意見をもつか、長い間決められませんでした。初めて観た時、最後の場面が優秀でこれからずっと僕の頭に残っていた。しかし、あの時ソクーロフの映画ばかり観ていたので、ソクーロフと比べれば画像がそんなに特別じゃないなあと思いました。その評価は大間違いでした！！あの時、きれいで静かで絵画みたいな撮影のある映画が好きすぎて、偏見がありました。炎628にもきれいな「スチル」がたくさんあるが、やはりこの映画の醍醐味はスチルだけで伝わらないカメラの眩ませる必死な動き方です。2009年YouTubeで初めて観たので、評価できなかったに違いないと思います。やはりあのクオリティで評価できるわけないでしょう。
第二次世界大戦を中心する映画なら、その紛争に参加した国はいちいちその戦争を題材とした名作を生みました。しかし、その戦争の表現が「勝った」と「負けた」という違いよりも複雑なところに異なります。アメリカだけで銃後が直接に戦争の襲撃を受けなかった（パールハーバーを除けば）ので、アメリカのWW2映画が比較的に楽天的で明るい未来を暗示させる。その意味でアメリカのWW2映画が他の国より「明るい」かもしれないが、やはりその中の名作が戦争の悲劇を恭しい態度で把握します。それに引き替えて、日本の銃後はそれほど恵まれませんでした。しかし、日本の銃後が受けた襲撃はほとんど爆撃になっているので、日本のWW2映画に敵の匿名性が強いです。ほとんどの日本のWW2映画が素晴らしいヒューマニズムのある作品です。例えば、東南アジアの戦域の実戦より、爆撃で破壊された町に住んでいる未亡人や孤児の破られていた日常とその正常を取り戻そうとする話の方が多いです。戦争の恐ろしい人間の費用はいつも重点的です。
でも僕が一番好きなWW2映画はロシアや東ヨーロッパの作品です。なぜなら、この地域はずっとナチスの攻めの矢面に立ったので、歩兵だけではなく、文民も敵の汚らわしい人間性を直接に経験できました。従って、ロシアや東ヨーロッパのWW2映画の表現は猛烈で凄まじいと共に、普段銃後から隠された熱に浮かされるみたいなシュール的な戦争の部分に満ちています。この地域の作品は世界の最も暗くて、歪んだ、怖いWW2映画だからこそ、大好きです。炎628は夜のダイヤモンド、僕の村は戦場だった、戦争と貞操、処刑の丘と一緒に並べるほどの名作だと断然に言えます。
Some nice albums I've been liking...
最近ハマっているアルバムは…
I luoghi del potere (1980) by Art Fleury
Strappado (1987) by Slaughter
The Maztür Nation (1995) by Red Harvest
Lastly, I've been slowly going through one of the big philosophical works of the 20th century:
Sein und Zeit (1927) by Martin Heidegger
Being and Time
And it would be almost incomprehensible to me without Hubert L. Dreyfus's indispensable commentary on it. It is difficult and fascinating stuff. I think, however, that the late Heidegger will be more agreeable to me on the whole from what I've read of it. I hope to read some of his essays on art and poetry after this.
最後に、20世紀哲学の手ごわいジャイアントを克服してみたいと思いました：
存在と時間 (1927) - マルティン・ハイデッガー
Hubert L. Dreyfusの不可欠な解説がなければ分かるのは本当に無理です(笑)。非常にそそられる論文です。しかし、些細な程度の後期ハイデッガーだけ読んだことありますが、後期ハイデッガーの方が僕の思想に近いと思います。存在と時間を読み終えた後でハイデッガーの美学論を読みたいですね。ハイデッガーは「美学」という概念自体を反抗したので、「ハイデッガーの詩や美術についての論文」と言うべきかもしれません(笑)。
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Archives of Others' Lists, Part 8: Zachary Stacy
I have made a lot of lists on this blog, but in the words of Confucius I am not an originator but a transmitter. All my lists are nothing more than a compilation of interesting stuff I've found by perusing other lists on various forums and sites. When lists are of particular value to me, I tend to save them on a document, and I'd like to share them here as an extension of my archive, since the originals of these lists are long, long gone at this point. Most of the originals had great images along with them, but oh well. Sacrifices will have to be made. Unless stated otherwise, the lists are one-film-per-director, as was tradition.
List 1: Zachary Stacy’s 100 Favorite Films, Ver. 1
1. L'Argent (Marcel L’Herbier, 1928)
2. Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks, 1941)
3. Poto and Cabengo (Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1980)
4. Pour la suite du monde (Pierre Perrault & Michel Brault, 1963)
5. Cœur fidèle (Jean Epstein, 1923)
6. Hitler, a Film from Germany (Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, 1977)
7. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952)
8. Loulou (Maurice Pialat, 1980)
9. Our Century (Artavazd Peleshian, 1983)
10. Christmas in July (Preston Sturges, 1940)
11. Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (Slátan Dudow, 1932)
12. Other Men's Women (William A. Wellman, 1931)
13. A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964)
14. Little Man, What Now? (Frank Borzage, 1934)
15. Elle a passé tant d'heures sous les sunlights... (Philippe Garrel, 1985)
16. Napoléon (Abel Gance, 1927)
17. Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo, 2006)
18. Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955)
19. City Girl (F.W. Murnau, 1930)
20. Parpaillon (Luc Moullet, 1993)
21. Asphalt (Joe May, 1929)
22. The Tall Target (Anthony Mann, 1951)
23. The Red and the White (Miklós Jancsó, 1967)
24. The Young One (Luis Buñuel, 1960)
25. Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1930)
Madame DuBarry (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919)
Victory (Maurice Tourneur, 1919)
Orphans of the Storm (D.W. Griffith, 1921)
The Navigator (Buster Keaton, 1924)
The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg, 1928)
Lonesome (Pál Fejős, 1928)
Maldone (Jean Grémillon, 1928)
Storm Over Asia (Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1928)
Pandora's Box (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929)
The Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
The Woman for Whom Men Yearn (Curtis Bernhardt, 1929)
The New Babylon (Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1929)
People on Sunday (Robert Siodmak & Edgar G. Ulmer, 1930)
Prix de beauté (Augusto Genina, 1930)
Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon, 1933)
Happiness (Aleksandr Medvedkin, 1935)
L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
Liliom (Fritz Lang, 1934)
Adventure in Manhattan (Edward Ludwig, 1936)
Mr. Thank You (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1936)
By the Bluest of Seas (Boris Barnet, 1936)
Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka, 1937)
Frontier Marshall (Allan Dwan, 1939)
Stranger on the Third Floor (Boris Ingster, 1940)
Hellzapoppin' (H.C. Potter, 1941)
Hangover Square (John Brahm, 1945)
The Southerner (Jean Renoir, 1945)
The Mask of Diijon (Lew Landers, 1946)
The Pirate (Vincente Minnelli, 1948)
Pitfall (André De Toth, 1948)
Portrait of Jennie (William Dieterle, 1948)
Colorado Territory (Raoul Walsh, 1949)
Little Big Horn (Charles Marquis Warren, 1951)
The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray, 1952)
The Sun Shines Bright (John Ford, 1953)
Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk, 1954)
Voyage in Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)
My Sister Eileen (Richard Quine, 1955)
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
Wichita (Jacques Tourneur, 1955)
Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher, 1959)
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)
Lola (Jacques Demy, 1961)
L'Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1963)
The House Is Black (Forough Farrokhzad, 1963)
The Sadist (Joseph Losey, 1963)
Le Chat dans la sac (Gilles Groulx, 1964)
Fists in the Pocket (Marco Bellocchio, 1965)
Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
Trans-Europ-Express (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1966)
The Cow (Dariush Mehrjui, 1969)
Venus in Furs (Jesús Franco, 1969)
Boy (Nagisa Ooshima, 1969)
Go, Go Second Time Virgin (Kouji Wakamatsu, 1969)
Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970)
Daughters of Darkness (Harry Kümel, 1971)
Mon oncle Antoine (Claude Jutra, 1971)
Messiah of Evil (Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz, 1973)
The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, 1973)
Still Life (Sohrab Shahid Saless, 1974)
That Most Important Thing: Love (Andrzej Żuławski, 1975)
La Marge (Walerian Borowczyk, 1976)
A Grin Without a Cat (Chris Marker, 1977)
The Grapes of Death (Jean Renoir, 1978)
Zoo Zero (Alain Fleischer, 1979)
Les Années 80 (Chantal Akerman, 1983)
Manoel and the Island of Marvels (Raúl Ruiz, 1984)
Vagabond (Agnès Varda, 1985)
La Captive du désert (Raymond Depardon, 1990)
Young Werther (Jacques Doillon, 1993)
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (Martin Arnold, 1998)
Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky, 1999)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003)
Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
List 2: Zachary Stacy’s 25 Favorite Films
1. Cœur fidèle (Jean Epstein, 1923)
2. Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks, 1941)
3. Poto and Cabengo (Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1980)
4. Pour la suite du monde (Pierre Perrault & Michel Brault, 1963)
5. The New Babylon (Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1929)
6. La Maison des bois (Maurice Pialat, 1971)
7. La Vie nouvelle (Philippe Grandrieux, 2002)
8. Hitler, a Film from Germany (Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, 1977)
9. Our Century (Artavazd Peleshian, 1983)
10. Parpaillon (Luc Moullet, 1993)
11. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952)
12. Ivan (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1932)
13. Christmas in July (Preston Sturges, 1940)
14. Napoléon (Abel Gance, 1927)
15. Other Men's Women (William A. Wellman, 1931)
16. A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964)
17. Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo, 2006)
18. Little Man, What Now? (Frank Borzage, 1934)
19. Elle a passé tant d'heures sous les sunlights… (Philippe Garrel, 1985)
20. Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955)
21. Boy (Nagisa Ooshima, 1969)
22. City Girl (F.W. Murnau, 1930)
23. La Marge (Walerian Borowczyk, 1976)
24. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (H.C. Potter, 1948)
25. Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (Slátan Dudow, 1932)
List 3: Zachary Stacy’s 50 Favorite Films
1. Yoyo (Pierre Étaix, 1965)
2. A Likely Story (H.C. Potter, 1947)
3. Le Lion des Mogols (Jean Epstein, 1924)
4. The Devil and Daniel Webster (William Dieterle, 1941)
5. Pour la suite du monde (Pierre Perrault & Michel Brault, 1963)
6. Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)
7. The New Babylon (Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1929)
8. Poto and Cabengo (Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1980)
9. La Maison des bois (Maurice Pialat, 1971)
10. Ekstase (Gustav Machatý, 1933)
11. Affair Within Walls (Kouji Wakamatsu, 1965)
12. Ma première brasse (Luc Moullet, 1981)
13. L’Argent (Marcel L’Herbier, 1928)
14. Sombre (Philippe Grandrieux, 1998)
15. Our Century (Artavazd Peleshian, 1983)
16. Deserter (Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1933)
17. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
18. Le Brasier ardent (Ivan Mosjoukine, 1923)
19. Messiah of Evil (Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz, 1973)
20. Boy (Nagisa Ooshima, 1969)
21. Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970)
22. The Bribe (Robert Z. Leonard, 1949)
23. Ivan (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1932)
24. Prix de beauté (Augusto Genina, 1930)
25. Elle a passé tant d'heures sous les sunlights… (Philippe Garrel, 1985)
26. L’Eau chaude, l'eau frette (André Forcier, 1976)
27. Comrade X (King Vidor, 1940)
28. A Grin Without a Cat (Chris Marker, 1977)
29. Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955)
30. The Sadist (Joseph Losey, 1963)
31. La Marge (Walerian Borowczyk, 1976)
32. Little Man, What Now? (Frank Borzage, 1934)
33. Mixed Blood (Paul Morrissey, 1984)
34. Venus in Furs (Jesús Franco, 1969)
35. Story of G.I. Joe (William A. Wellman, 1945)
36. Zoo Zero (Alain Fleischer, 1979)
37. Mediterranée (Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1963)
38. Cagliostro (Richard Oswald, 1929)
39. Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo, 2006)
40. Red-Headed Woman (Jack Conway, 1932)
41. Le Chat dans le sac (Gilles Groulx, 1964)
42. La Fête à Jules (Benoît Lamy, 1973)
43. Madame DuBarry (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919)
44. Lola (Jacques Demy, 1961)
45. Arcana (Giulio Questi, 1972)
46. La Région centrale (Michael Snow, 1971)
47. Dance Party, U.S.A. (Aaron Katz, 2006)
48. La Nuit claire (Marcel Hanoun, 1979)
49. Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (Slátan Dudow, 1932)
List 4: Zachary Stacy’s 20 Favorite Films
1. Balançoires (Noël Renard, 1928)
2. Come Live With Me (Clarence Brown, 1941)
3. Yoyo (Pierre Étaix, 1965)
4. Birth of an Island (Ósvaldur Knudsen, 1964)
5. The Devil and Daniel Webster (William Dieterle, 1941)
6. Le Lion des Mogols (Jean Epstein, 1924)
7. Poto and Cabengo (Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1980)
8. Deserter (Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1933)
9. Les sièges de l'Alcazar (Luc Moullet, 1989)
10. La Maison des bois (Maurice Pialat, 1971)
11. Affair Within Walls (Kouji Wakamatsu, 1965)
12. Pour la suite du monde (Pierre Perrault & Michel Brault, 1963)
13. Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks, 1941)
14. The New Babylon (Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1929)
15. Our Century (Artavazd Peleshian, 1983)
16. Prix de beauté (Augusto Genina, 1930)
17. The Bribe (Robert Z. Leonard, 1949)
18. Ekstase (Gustav Machatý, 1933)
19. A Likely Story (H.C. Potter, 1947)
20. L’Argent (Marcel L’Herbier, 1928)
List 5: Zachary Stacy’s 100 Favorite Films, Ver. 2
1. Feu Mathias Pascal (Marcel L’Herbier, 1926)
2. Air Force (Howard Hawks, 1943)
3. Pour la suite du monde (Pierre Perrault & Michel Brault, 1963)
4. Poto and Cabengo (Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1980)
5. Yoyo (Pierre Étaix, 1965)
6. Les sièges de l'Alcazar (Luc Moullet, 1989)
7. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Max Reinhardt & William Dieterle, 1935)
8. Finis terræ (Jean Epstein, 1929)
9. Innerspace (Joe Dante, 1987)
10. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (H.C. Potter, 1948)
11. Elle a passé tant d'heures sous les sunlights… (Philippe Garrel, 1985)
12. Man of the West (Anthony Mann, 1958)
13. The New Babylon (Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1929)
14. Ekstase (Gustav Machatý, 1933)
15. Other Men's Women (William A. Wellman, 1931)
16. Our Century (Artavazd Peleshian, 1983)
17. Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide (Vittorio Cottafavi, 1961)
18. La Maison des bois (Maurice Pialat, 1971)
19. Affair Within Walls (Kouji Wakamatsu, 1965)
20. Prix de beauté (Augusto Genina, 1930)
21. Wake of the Red Witch (Edward Ludwig, 1948)
22. Le Brasier ardent (Ivan Mosjoukine, 1923)
23. Valparaiso, Valparaiso (Pascal Aubier, 1971)
24. Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955)
25. The Story of Sin (Walerian Borowczyk, 1975)
Sir Arne's Treasure (Mauritz Stiller, 1919)
Madame DuBarry (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919)
Seven Years Bad Luck (Max Linder, 1921)
The Navigator (Buster Keaton, 1924)
The Strong Man (Frank Capra, 1926)
Seventh Heaven (Frank Borzage, 1927)
The Chess Player (Raymond Bernard, 1927)
Napoléon (Abel Gance, 1927)
Balançoires (Noël Renard, 1928)
Asphalt (Joe May, 1929)
Pandora's Box (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929)
Cagliostro (Richard Oswald, 1929)
City Girl (F.W. Murnau, 1930)
Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1930)
The Murderer Dimitri Karamosoff (Feder Ozep, 1931)
Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (Slátan Dudow, 1932)
Deserter (Vsevolod Pudovkin, 1933)
Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon, 1933)
The Wedding Night (King Vidor, 1935)
By the Bluest of Seas (Boris Barnet, 1936)
La Bête humaine (Jean Renoir, 1938)
Holiday (George Cukor, 1938)
You and Me (Fritz Lang, 1938)
Frontier Marshall (Allan Dwan, 1939)
Christmas in July (Preston Sturges, 1940)
Come Live With Me (Clarence Brown, 1941)
Hangover Square (John Brahm, 1945)
The Bribe (Robert Z. Leonard, 1949)
Little Big Horn (Charles Marquis Warren, 1951)
The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray, 1952)
Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952)
Mogambo (John Ford, 1953)
Crime Wave (André De Toth, 1953)
Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk, 1954)
Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)
Wichita (Jacques Tourneur, 1955)
Bottom of the Bottle (Henry Hathaway, 1956)
What's Opera Doc? (Chuck Jones, 1957)
The Young One (Luis Buñuel, 1961)
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)
Le temps perdu: Notes d’une fin de vacanes (Michel Brault, 1964)
A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964)
Planet of the Vampires (Mario Bava, 1965)
Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966)
Trans-Europ-Express (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1966)
The Red and the White (Miklós Jancsó, 1967)
Django Kill! If You Live, Shoot… (Giulio Questi, 1967)
Boy (Nagisa Ooshima, 1969)
Deep End (Jerzy Skomilowski, 1970)
La Région centrale (Michael Snow, 1971)
What's the Matter With Helen? (Curtis Harrington, 1971)
Delirium (Renato Polselli, 1972)
L.A. Plays Itself (Fred Alsted, 1972)
Payday (Daryl Duke, 1973)
That Most Important Thing: Love (Andrzej Żuławski, 1975)
L'Eau chaude, l'eau frette (André Forcier, 1976)
Je t'aime… moi non plus (Serge Gainsbourg, 1976)
A Grin Without a Cat (Chris Marker, 1977)
Hitler, a Film from Germany (Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, 1977)
China 9, Liberty 37 (Monte Hellman, 1978)
La Morte vivante (Jean Rollin, 1982)
Les Années 80 (Chantal Akerman, 1983)
Mixed Blood (Paul Morrissey, 1984)
Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (Lau Kar-leung, 1984)
Gymtaka (Robert Clouse, 1985)
Clueless (Amy Heckerling, 1995)
Ponette (Jacques Doillon, 1996)
Josie and the Pussycats (Deborah Kaplan & Harry Elfont, 2001)
La Vie nouvelle (Philippe Grandrieux, 2002)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003)
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (Stephen Quay & Timothy Quay, 2005)
Dance Party, U.S.A. (Aaron Katz, 2006)
Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo, 2006)
Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006)
Cloverfield (Matt Reeves, 2008)
List 6: Zachary Stacy’s 20 Favorite Directors
1. Jean Epstein
2. Maurice Pialat
3. William A. Wellman
4. Philippe Garrel
5. Artavazd Peleshian
6. Howard Hawks
7. Aleksandr Dovzhenko
8. Jean-Luc Godard
9. Philippe Grandrieux
10. Frank Borzage
11. Alain Robbe-Grillet
12. Frank Tashlin
13. F.W. Murnau
14. Luc Moullet
15. Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
16. Jacques Tourneur
17. Jean Renoir
18. Anthony Mann
19. Hong Sang-soo
20. Nicholas Ray
List 7: Zachary Stacy’s 50 Favorite Directors
1. Walerian Borowczyk
2. Jean Epstein
3. Philippe Garrel
4. Howard Hawks
5. Luc Moullet
6. Maurice Pialat
7. Artavazd Peleshian
8. Jean Rollin
9. Frank Tashlin
10. Kouji Wakamatsu
11. Pascal Aubier
12. Frank Borzage
13. Aleksandr Dovzhenko
14. H.C. Potter
15. Pierre Étaix
16. Jean-Luc Godard
17. F.W. Murnau
18. Pierre Perrault
19. Alain Robbe-Grillet
20. William A. Wellman
21. Vittorio Cottafavi
22. Jean-Pierre Gorin
23. Philippe Grandrieux
24. Marcel L'Herbier
25. Hong Sang-soo
26. Anthony Mann
27. Paul Morrissey
28. Jean Renoir
29. Jacques Tourneur
30. King Vidor
31. André De Toth
32. John Ford
33. Monte Hellman
34. Fritz Lang
35. Ernst Lubitsch
36. Giullio Questi
37. Nicholas Ray
38. Raúl Ruiz
39. Preston Sturges
40. Raoul Walsh
41. Chantal Akerman
42. Allan Dwan
43. W.S. Van Dyke
44. Nagisa Ooshima
45. Michel Brault
46. Jean-Daniel Pollet
47. Jacques Rivette
48. Douglas Sirk
49. Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
50. Josef von Sternberg
List 8: Zachary Stacy’s 20 Favorite Albums
1. Dark Side of the White Christmas Thriller (1987) by Freshly Wrapped Candies
2. The Multiple Hallucinations of an Assassin (1989) by Sun City Girls
3. Never Creak (1987) by Steaming Coils
4. At the Medieval Castle Nineteen 100-Year Lifetimes Since, D.S. (1984) by Departmentstore Santas
5. Suburban Lawns (1981) by Suburban Lawns
6. More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978) by Talking Heads
7. Arabic Yodeling (1983) by Renaldo and the Loaf
8. Ha! Ha! Tarachine (1985) by Picky Picnic
9. Batelages (1977) by Etron fou leloublan
10. Not Available (1978) by The Residents
11. Des êtres au cerveau apparent (1980) by Gutura
12. Music to Eat (1971) by Hampton Grease Band
13. The Hired Hand OST (1971/2004) by Bruce Langhorne
14. Beauty and the Beast (1984) by Cassiber
15. 666 (1972) by Aphrodite's Child
16. The Seaside (1984) by Cardiacs
17. Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (1974) by Brian Eno
18. Archaïa (1977) by Archaïa
19. Sov gott Rose-Marie (1968) by International Harvester
20. That Man, Robert Mitchum Sings (1967) by Robert Mitchum
List 8: Zachary Stacy’s 25 Favorite Albums
1. Torch of the Mystics (1990) by Sun City Girls
2. Are You Serious? (2009) by Mean Jeans
3. Daytrotter Sessions (2011) by Quiet Hooves
4. Rise of the Common Wood Pile (1991) by Caroliner
5. Book of Songs for Anne Marie (2004) by Baby Dee
6. Holland (1973) by The Beach Boys
7. Western Swing Memories (1936-1941) (2007) by Light Crust Doughboys
8. Sings the Browns (2009) by Bird Names
9. Dude Ranch (1997) by Blink 182
10. DNA on DNA (2004) by DNA
11. La Rage qui vit (1991) by Lucrate Milk
12. Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox & Ass (1993) by Trumans Water
13. Arabic Yodeling (1983) by Renaldo and the Loaf
14. Ghosts (2009) by The Marked Men
15. Tell Me How to Live (1981) by Wazmo Nariz
16. Blind Baby Has its Mother's Eyes (2003) by Les Rallizes Dénudés
17. West Coast No Wave (2007) by Various Artists
18. All That Glitters Is a Mare's Nest (1995) by Cardiacs
19. At Last (1999) by Wayne Pereira
20. 666 (1972) by Aphrodite's Child
21. The B-52s (1979) by The B-52s
22. The Third Reich ’n Roll (1976) by The Residents
23. Project Success (1993) by Dogbowl
24. Plunderphonics 69/96 (2001) by John Oswald
25. Pregnant Babies Pregnant with Pregnant Babies (2006) by Fat Worm of Error
Archives of Others' Lists, Part 7: sidehacker
I have made a lot of lists on this blog, but in the words of Confucius I am not an originator but a transmitter. All my lists are nothing more than a compilation of interesting stuff I've found by perusing other lists on various forums and sites. When lists are of particular value to me, I tend to save them on a document, and I'd like to share them here as an extension of my archive, since the originals of these lists are long, long gone at this point. Most of the originals had great images along with them, but oh well. Sacrifices will have to be made. Unless stated otherwise, the lists are one-film-per-director, as was tradition.
1. I Was Born, But... (Yasujirou Ozu, 1932)
2. Passing Summer (Angela Schanelec, 2001)
3. Ornamental Hairpin (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)
4. Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)
5. Tobacco Road (John Ford, 1941)
6. Yellow Sky (William A. Wellman, 1941)
7. Le Pont du Nord (Jacques Rivette, 1981)
8. Gummo (Harmony Korine, 1997)
9. The Wayward Cloud (Tsai Ming-liang, 2005)
10. Boy Meets Girl (Leos Carax, 1984)
Arsenal (Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1929)
Maldone (Jean Grémillon, 1929)
The Champ (King Vidor, 1931)
Man’s Castle (Frank Borzage, 1933)
Humanity and Paper Balloons (Sadao Yamanaka, 1937)
They Drive by Night (Raoul Walsh, 1940)
Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini, 1948)
Bellissima (Luchino Visconti, 1951)
The Lusty Men (Nicholas Ray, 1952)
Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1955)
Wichita (Jacques Tourneur, 1955)
God’s Little Acre (Anthony Mann, 1958)
Fires on the Plain (Kon Ichikawa, 1959)
Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)
Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher, 1959)
The Insect Woman (Shouhei Imamura, 1963)
Before the Revolution (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1964)
Diamonds of the Night (Jan Němec, 1964)
Under Your Skin (Mikko Niskanen, 1966)
L’Enfance nue (Maurice Pialat, 1968)
Days and Nights in the Forest (Satyajit Ray, 1970)
If I Had a Gun (Štefan Uher, 1971)
Home from the Sea (Youji Yamada, 1972)
My Little Loves (Jean Eustache, 1974)
Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (Alain Tanner, 1976)
Kings of the Road (Wim Wenders, 1976)
Mikey and Nicky (Elaine May, 1976)
Abigail’s Party (Mike Leigh, 1977)
The Third Generation (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979)
The Beekeeper (Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1986)
Dust in the Wind (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1988)
Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994)
Nowhere (Gregg Araki, 1997)
Ossos (Pedro Costa, 1997)
L'Amour, l'Argent, l'Amour (Philip Gröning, 2000)
Bungalow (Ulrich Köhler, 2002)
Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay, 2002)
Unknown Pleasures (Jia Zhangke, 2002)
Quiet City (Aaron Katz, 2007)
Yumurta (Semih Kaplanoğlu, 2007)
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant, 2007)
Finally, Lillian and Dan (Mike Gibisser, 2008)