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October 10, 2006
Fall Viewing Day
I've had the same three films out from Netflix since the end of May. A great sense of relief accompanied the realization last night that, for a few days at least, I had no pressing editing deadlines or early morning call times and that I could sit down and watch one of them - I picked Tarr's Werkmeister Harmonies - at two in the morning.
Speaking of Tarr (and sidestepping any atempts at actually writing about Harmonies), I think I'm going to drive up to Chicago in early November to see Satantango at the Gene Siskel Film Center. Facets just released it on DVD, but this is one of those films I wouldn't, couldn't watch on a television screen, and it's exhibited theatrically so infrequently that I'm almost afraid to miss this engagement; the eight hundred miles between it and me seem pretty inconsequential.
It's October, I've sort of just this morning realized. Halloween decorations are going up, and I've frontloaded my queue with all sorts of celebratory horror films, many of which are ones I've always meant to see but somehow never got around to, like Re-Animator and The Dead Zone (pretty much the only Cronenberg film I've never seen). I'm also looking forward to Miike's Imprint and, for good measure, De Palma's Sisters, but I don't think any seasonal viewing this year wil top going to see Nightmare Before Christmas, as we always do - but this time in 3D.
Posted by David Lowery at October 10, 2006 03:01 PM
Comments
Is it the Criterion edition of "sisters"? If so, you'll be a happy camper.
Posted by: r at October 10, 2006 06:15 PM
btw "Dead Zone" is my FAVORITE Cronenberg film next to "Naked Lunch" and "Videodrome"... Damn good stuff.
Posted by: r at October 10, 2006 06:17 PM
forget chicago. you should instead come to new york and go watch it w/ me on long island. oct 29th.
i'm pumped! i missed it earlier this year at the moma, simply b/c of ignorance on my part...
Posted by: brad at October 11, 2006 02:21 PM