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Chai

Walla

Boston, Massachusetts

About Me

An homage to Pashto cinema, seen as moving folk-art.

Jahangir Khan

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THE BOOK OF JADE (1901)

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Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museo do Cinema's film-to-film transfer is absolutely magnificent. It's like watching an oil painting through the lens of a dream.

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The Night of Counting the Years

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12May12

No prob, you have awesome taste in films, I like your reviews.

Chai Walla

14May12

Thanks! You've got cool taste too. And I'm glad you like the reviews :)

Really interested in Ottinger as well as Sohrab Sahid Salles and his work in Germany at that time that new german cinema period seems to be filled with hidden masters Hans Jurgen Syberberg somes to mind. The dvd of Ticket of No Return comes from ioffer.com from an excellent seller of great hard to find films for instance they also got Sohrab Sahid Salles's Still Life on dvd. The dvd's are only 5 bucks and come in a sleeve. All of them have a menu with access to english subs most are in good condition with a few vhs ripped exceptions. How expensive are her dvd's on her site? I'll pay a pretty penny if its worth it.* Thanks..I'm really intrigued by your favorites as well I'll go through and pick things to watch and look for.* I was lucky enough to see a Dorsky retro with him present. He is great incredibly refined incredibly well informed and incredibly non narrative cinema outside of a self involved ethos(Maya Deren for example) His Kodachrome films are than able to express colors, plants, seasons, or places as absolutely present for example Sarabande seems to display a harmony between plants, sunlight, and artificial settings by letting them exist his style is refined enough to do so like an incredible piece of music complete symphony.

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Chai Walla

27Apr12

Saless is one director whose work I'd love to get into. (I don't think I've seen any of his films yet). Thanks for the heads-up on the ioffer store. That seller has a really nice selection of interesting DVDs. Ottinger's website sells copies of several of her movies for between 30 and 180 euros. ulrikeottinger.com, if you're wondering. You really make Dorsky's work sound fantastic. I like your description of it being "outside a self involved ethos" - that's very much how I'd describe Deren's work, even though I still quite adore her. Well, with those tantalizing details in mind, I'll have to go forth and check out some of his films - if I can manage to track them down!
David Grillo

28Apr12

http://mubi.com/films/sarabande The comments on the sarabande page is the best I know of. I do wonder if he has a website where you can buy them like some other filmmakers although his films have been making there way around.* Those prices are pretty crazy no wonder she's so unkown you'd imagine at least the shorts would be a little bit cheaper.. anyway def. get Ticket of No Return from that seller.
Chai Walla

29Apr12

Thanks for pointing me to that film, David. Very intriguing stuff from Dorsky. Let me know if you see 'Ticket of No Return'/your thoughts on it. Always good to find people interested in Ottinger - she's great but, yeah, quite far under the radar.

Cedric

24Apr12

No worries! Glad to see you're also a fan of Gosho. :)

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Chai Walla

25Apr12

Indeed, although I see you don't like 'Banka' as much as I do ;)
Cedric

27Apr12

Hehe, "Banka" is good, but sometimes a bit too sentimental if compared to the other Gosho's I've seen made before it. You should really check out "An Inn at Osaka" and "Dispersed Clouds" in case you haven't already. Those two, and "Where Chimneys Are Seen" are the three great works by this underrated master. :)
Chai Walla

27Apr12

I agree that 'Banka' is a very different sort of film from 'Where Chimneys Are Seen' (which bristles with details of daily life, and is really something special). But I thought it was its non-realism - the strange psychological and visual atmospheres that, to me, call to mind 'Woman in the Mist' - that give it a not-easily-definable charm. I'm afraid we differ again when it comes to 'Dispersed Clouds', a film during which I found it hard to move through the heavy and overwrought sentimentality. Next I'll have to watch 'Inn at Osaka'. That and 'Growing Up' are two of Gosho's I've been dying to see. Thanks for the suggestion!