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MY MOST DESIRED FILMS TO SEE

What follows is a list of those films which I most desire to watch. Now this isn't just a mere list of films yet to see, those I just havn't caught up with yet. This is a list of those films which are unavailable, or at least exxxtremely hard to come by, on any sort of home watching device (ie. DVD, VHS, LaserDisc, DVD-R, personal 16mm print stashed away in the attic somewhere). These films are the Holy Grail of my cinematic desires. Sure, some of these films will get the occasional screening at MoMa or Anthology Archives or The Museum of the Moving Image, which is where I saw many films that have been "knocked off" this list, such as Tarr's Satantango, Snow's Wavelength, Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma series and the films of Peter Kubelka, but considering I live three hours away from New York City, I am only able to make such a trip about every two weeks, and many of those trips are filled with press screenings and such, so, here we are at this list. The films are in no particular order. If anyone has any information on showings, screenings, availablity of any of these films, please let me know at kevynknox@thecinematheque.com. Tih Minh (Louis Feuillade, 1918) Still + Side/Walk/Shuttle (Ernie Gehr, 1969/92) Khrustalyov, My Car! (Aleksei German, 1998) L'Amour fou (Jacques Rivette, 1969) Too Early, Too Late (Huillet & Straub, 1981) Macbeth [TV version] (Béla Tarr, 1982) This list could also easily include the more obscure films of Kiarostami, Phillipe Garrel, Warhol, Ken Jacobs, Jonas Mekas, Pasolini, Feuillade and others ad infinitum. How about the short documentary films of Béla Tarr (WOW, would I like to see those!!). I would especially like to thank Joel Webb for his wonderful (and indispensable) help in leading to viewings of so many of the films (formerly) on this list - aka, over half of those listed below. Thanx a lot, you're the best. One more thing. Here is a second list of those films (some mentioned above) that were once upon this very list but have since been taken off due to my finally seeing them, either at screenings or upon long-awaited (and long overdue) DVD releases or in some other manner: Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette), Out 1, noli me tangere (Rivette), Histoire(s) du cinéma (Godard), Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman), Wavelength (Snow), Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (Jacobs), Dog Star Man (Brakhage), Mothlight (Brakhage), Window Water Baby Moving (Brakhage), Unsere Afrikareise (Kubelka), Schwechater (Kubelka), Adebar (Kubelka), Sátántangó (Tarr), Nostalghia (Tarkovsky), Make Way For Tomorrow (McCarey), Viaggio in Italia (Rossellini), Johnny Guitar (Ray), Fly (Ono), Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman), The Cremaster Series (Barney), Star Spangled to Death (Jacobs), Hellzapoppin' (Potter), La Région centrale (Snow), Red Desert (Antonioni), Mickey One (Penn), The Text of Light (Brakhage), Vinyl (Warhol), Chelsea Girls (Warhol), Los Angeles Plays Itself (Andersen), Death by Hanging (Oshima), The Phenix City Story (Karlson), Je t'aime, je t'aime (Resnais), Scorpio Rising (Anger), A Brighter Summer Day (Yang), Humanity and Paper Balloons (Yamanaka), Husbands (Cassavetes), Love Streams (Cassavetes), The Traveller (Kiarostami), Homework (Kiarostami), Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pasolini). A RELATED ARTICLE FROM MASTERS OF CINEMA

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