Celluloid Psithurism

By: Cripple Nation

In Texas (where I live) we don’t get a “real” winter…instead, a prolonged fall…parentheses of muted autumn. So in the tradition of the New England transcendeltalists…I take this opportunity to reflect on the films I’ve seen over these past months—this past year…to a soundtrack of a breeze in the trees…les feuilles mortes…

• 01
  Prelude: Dog Star Man
  Stan Brakhage
• 02
  Lola Montès
  Max Ophüls
• 03
  In a Lonely Place
  Nicholas Ray
• 04
  Orpheus
  Jean Cocteau
• 05
  Johnny Guitar
  Nicholas Ray
• 06
  Only Angels Have Wings
  Howard Hawks
• 07
  Mothlight
  Stan Brakhage
• 08
  8½
  Federico Fellini
• 09
  Les dames du Bois de Boulogne
  Robert Bresson
• 10
  Le petit soldat
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 11
  La Marseillaise
  Jean Renoir
• 12
  The Earrings of Madame de...
  Max Ophüls
• 13
  People Will Talk
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• 14
  The Stranger
  Orson Welles
• 15
  The Testament of Dr. Cordelier
  Jean Renoir
• 16
  The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
  Stan Brakhage
• 17
  Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
  Wallace McCutcheon
• 18
  Rio Lobo
  Howard Hawks