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February 17, 2005 Doug Cummings Commentary, Site news

Although I’ve seen Robert Bresson’s films numerous times over, I never miss the opportunity to attend the rare local screening or event that pertains to his work, partly to find material for the Masters of Cinema site I co-admin with Trond Trondsen, www.robert-bresson.com, and partly out of personal interest. (Okay, fanaticism.)

Last night, I attended a lecture at a California university that was both an accredited class for students as well as a public event. It was to include a screening of Bresson’s Diary of a Country Priest (1951). As I arrived, I grabbed a copy of the professor’s …

Updates…

January 24, 2005 Doug Cummings Site news

Gearing back up for some blogging this week after the PSIFF and an enjoyable offline project, writing the DVD liner notes for Tartan Video’s upcoming second Ozu boxset in the UK containing The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) and The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952).

I attended a couple fun screenings last week, including a showing of Jacques Tourneur’s superlative Night of the Demon (1957) in a small art venue, the Sponto Gallery, a few feet from the sands of Venice Beach. About 30 people crowded into the increasingly stuffy gallery (renamed the Seven Dudley Cinema for …

PSIFF catalogue, end-of-year

December 16, 2004 Doug Cummings Site news

I haven’t been blogging much this week because I’ve been tapped to furiously write catalogue entries for the Palm Springs International Film Festival (January 6-17), my favorite festival in the Los Angeles vicinity because it intentionally screens all 50-odd international films submitted to AMPAS that are invariably and clumsily reduced to five random nominees in the Foreign Language category on Oscar night. And it screens much more than that: the past few years have allowed me to see such films as The Son, To Be and To Have, Goodbye Dragon Inn, Distant, and The Story of …