PROMETHEUS' GARDEN (Bruce Bickford)

And a video he did for Frank Zappa. In 1979 (!)


City of Tiny Lights - Frank Zappa

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LIBERTY'S BOOTY (extracts from Vivienne Dick movie, 1980)

GUERILLERE TALKS (Vivienne Dick, 1978)

Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967)

Instructions for a Light & Sound Machine (Peter Tscherkassky, 2005)

CHE (Steven Soderberg, USA, 2008)

Quite calm meditation by Soderberg on Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara - out of 4 hours of screen time we stuck 85 percents in Cuban and Bolivian woods in guerilla mode, and most of the times director chooses to look at Che from rather unconventional angle: he's almost in spectator's mode, observing deeds and mistakes of his troops. Maybe it's to do with little filming period - Soderberg shot each part of 'Che' in 40 days. Neverthless, if you read the Guevara's diaries on which the films were based (I most certainly did), you wouldn't expect action bonanza. But Del Toro's acting and presence lifted film's power, and after watching this you may feel as blessed as some Bolivian peasants after meeting Comandante - "Was it really Che Guevara? Did I really shook his hand?"

MONKEY BUSINESS (Howard Hawks, 1952, USA)

As Jaques Rivette wrote for Cahiers du Cinema: "The evidence on the screen is the proof of Hawks's genius: you only have to watch Monkey Business to know that it is a brilliant film. Some people refuse to admit this, however; they refuse to be satisfied by proof. There can't be any other reason why they don't recognize it." There's nothing more you can say, actually.



The funniest scenes (not involving naked baby Cary Grant or chimpanzee performing some chemical experiments) are when Ginger Rogers discovers her juvenile passion for dance, of course, she's got such a wonderful physicality. I wouldn't be jealous of young Marylin Monroe in her place.