Site Updates: 2002
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- 12-31-02: some more reviews
- Shôkyûki: An Account of the Shôkyû War of 1221 (Anonymous, Tr. William H. McCullough, 1964)
- Kagemusha (Kurosawa Akira, Japan, 1980, 7)
- Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong, 1990, 7)
- Whiteout (Wakamatsu Setsurou, Japan, 2000, 5)
- Getting Any? (Kitano Takeshi, Japan, 1995, 1)
- Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta (Gore Vidal, 2002)
- Hôgen monogatari: Tale of the Disorder in Hôgen (Anonymous, Tr. William R. Wilson, 1971)
- Warriors of Japan as Portrayed in the War Tales (Paul Varley, 1994)
- The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan (Ivan Morris, 1975)
- The Taiheiki: A Chronicle of Medieval Japan (Anonymous, Tr. Helen Craig McCullough, 1959)
- The Persian Expedition (Xenophon, Tr. Rex Warner, 1972)
- 12-14-02: two reviews of the "same" film
- Khan Asparukh (Ludmil Staikov, Bulgaria, 1981, 8)
- 681 A.D.: The Glory of Khan (Ludmil Staikov, Bulgaria, 1984, 3)
- 12-11-02: a film review, My Wife Is a Gangster (Cho Jin-Kyu, Korea, 2001, 6)
- 12-10-02: a film review, Battle Royale (Fukasaku Kinji, Japan, 2000, 9)
- 12-09-02: a film review, The Princess and the Warrior (Tom Tykwer, Germany, 2000, 4)
- 12-08-02: a film review, Scandal (Kurosawa Akira, Japan, 1950, 5)
- 11-08-02: several book reviews also make it online
- Sharing the Promised Land : A Tale of the Israelis and Palestinians (Dilip Hiro, 1999)
- Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated (Gore Vidal, 2002)
- 10-28-02: several film reviews finally make it online
- Zipang (Hayashi Kaizo, Japan, 1992, 4)
- Y tu mamá también (Alfonso Cuarón, Mexico, 2001, 8)
- Utamaro and His Five Women (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan, 1946, 7)
- Street of Shame (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan, 1956, 7)
- Stray Dog (Kurosawa Akira, Japan, 1949, 7)
- Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones (George Lucas, USA, 2002, 6)
- Spider-Man (Sam Raimi, USA, 2002, 3)
- The Scorpion King (Chuck Russell, USA, 2002, 1)
- Panic Room (David Fincher, USA, 2002, 3)
- Onibaba (Shindô Kaneto, Japan, 1964, 6)
- Naked Killer (Clarence Fok, Hong Kong, 1992, 5)
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel, France & Italy & Spain, 1972, 6)
- Harakiri (Kobayashi Masaki, Japan, 1962, 8)
- A Geisha (Mizoguchi Kenji, Japan, 1953, 8)
- 09-06-02: I have made far too many promises about updates that I have miserably failed to keep. Therefore, I no longer promise anything. In fact, I probably won't be able to update anything in the next month or so (relocation, etc.) I have a HUGE backlong of reviews to write, both book and film, and my database project is 2/3 done, so I should be able to update the collections pretty easy. For now, I only offer some new poems and some new lyrical episodes.
- 05-29-02: film reviews
- Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1963, 6)
- Black Tight Killers (Hasebe Yasuharu, Japan, 1966, 4)
- Ballad of Narayama (Imamura Shohei, Japan, 1982, 8)
- Blueberry Hill (Aleksandur Morfov, Bulgaria, 2001, 2)
- City Hunter (Wong Jing, Hong Kong, 1992, 8)
- 03-21-02: a bunch of pictures to go with these films:
- 03-20-02: I have been rather negligent (again) but this dissertation thing is taking a huge toll on my time. I have been reading, watching, and listening, but unfortunately not writing too much about it. I bought some really cool new DVDs, such as Jean Rollin's The Rape of the Vampire, and The Grapes of Death, several Bergman films, and even (finally) Lang's classic M. Watch out for reviews coming up shortly. I also bought new CDs---it has been a while---but I will soon have the new Blind Guardian album (waited four years for that one!).
- 03-15-02: Joëlle Cœur is now in the Female Beauty Gallery #6
- 01-15-02: added several new DVDs to my DVD collection, and two films
- Foxy Spirits (Wu Ma, Hong Kong, 1991, 5)
- Pretty Ghost (Teddy Chan Tak-Sum, Hong Kong, 1991, 6)
- 01-14-02: film, Paradox Lake (Przemyslaw Shemie Reut, USA, 2001, 6)
- 01-13-02: film, Lubov and Other Nightmares (Andrei Nekrasov, Russia, 2001, 5)
- 01-12-02: site news; The 2002 Sundance Film Festival is underway, and yours truly spent an undisclosed (but ungodly) amount of money on tickets to various films, almost all of them foreign. I am sure I will regret 75% of my choices, but if the other 25% make it worthwhile, I will be quite happy. Wish me luck and safe driving, I will be shuttling back and forth between SLC, Park City, and Sundance Village more than a few times.
- 01-10-02: site news; It has been almost four weeks without update, and not because I've been customarily lazy, although that I have, but because I moved to SLC from Rochester, to escape the sunny upstate New York and try living amidst the Mormons... not really. In any case, it has been cold, messy, and not much fun, at least not until very recently. I will be putting up some more things on the site, but it will take at least a few weeks to clear the backlog of reviews. And now that Sundance is coming... it will only get longer.