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Monday, June 25, 2007

The people of Belgrade

This post is an homage to the resilient, courageous, friendly, fun, strong, beautiful people of Belgrade. I hope that the worst times for this city belong to the past. I will come back to visit soon.

Great films I've seen...

"A separation" (Asghar Farhadi), "Mysteries of Lisbon" (Raul Ruiz), "Weekend" (Andrew Haigh), "Beyond the Hills" (Christian Mungiu), "Amour" (Michael Haneke), "Camille redouble" (Noemie Lvovsky), "Les amours imaginaires" (Xavier Dolan), "la fille du puisatier (the well-digger's daughter)" (Daniel Auteuil), "Les neiges du Kilimandjaro" (Robert Guédiguian), "Police, Adjective" (Corneliu Porumboiu), "Le Havre" (Aki Kaurismäki), "Tamo i ovde" (Here and there) by Darko Lungulov, "Saša" (Sasha) by Dennis Todorovic, "Cinema Komunisto" (Mila Turajlic), "Europa" (Lars von Trier), "Potiche" (Ozon), "Les femmes du 6ème étage" (Philippe le Guay), "I fidanzati (The Fiances)" (Ermanno Olmi), "Kaos" (Taviani brothers), "Séraphine" (Martin Provost), "Dialogue avec mon jardinier" (Jean Becker), "First of all, Felicia" (Razvan Radulescu, Melissa de Raaf), "Francesca" (Bobby Paunescu), "The Ghost Writer" (Roman Polanski), "Avatar" (James Cameron), "The Hurt Locker" (Kathryn Bigelow), "Summer Hours" (L'heure d’été, Olivier Assayas), "Un Conte de Noël" (A Christmas Tale, Arnaud Desplechin), "Des hommes et des dieux" (Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois), "Tuesday, after christmas" (Radu Muntean), "The National Parks - America's Best Idea" (Ken Burns), "Lust, Caution" (Ang Lee), "Honeymoons" (Goran Paskaljevic), "The Black Balloon" (Elissa Down), "Milk" (Gus Van Sant), "Le refuge" (François Ozon), "Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante" (Claude Miller, Nathan Miller), "Non ma fille, tu n'iras pas danser (Making plans for Lena)" (Christophe Honoré), "Rapt" (Lucas Belvaux), "Eyes wide open (Eynayim Pekuhot)" (Haim Tabakman), "Mary and Max" (Adam Elliot), "Im Juli (In July)" (Fatih Akim), "Vicky Christina Barcelona" (Woody Allen), "Gran Torino" (Clint Eastwood), "Un Conte de Noël (A Christmas Tale" (Arnaud Desplechin), "Up" (Pixar), "The Wrestler" (Darren Aronofski), "The Assassination of Jessie James by the Coward Robert Ford" (Andrew Dominik), "La siciliana ribelle (the sicilian girl)" (Marco Amenta), "Walz with Bashir" (Ari Folman), "Sur mes levres (Read my Lips)" (Jacques Audiard), "Still Walking" (Hirokazu Kore-eda), "Un héro très discret (A self-made hero)" (Jacques Audiard), "Le voyage du ballon rouge" (Hsiao-Hsien Hou), "La haine" (Mathieu Kassovitz), "Les plages d'Agnès" (Agnès Varda), "Conte d'été - A summer's tale" (Eric Rohmer), "Adam's apples" (Danish film by Anders Thomas Jensen), "The edukators" (Hans Weingartner), "L'enfant" (Dardenne brothers) "Les chansons d'amour" ("Love Songs'" Christophe Honoré), "La duchesse de Langeais" (Rivette), "Optimisti," "The dog who loved trains" (Goran Paskaljevic), "Do you remember Dolly Bell" (Emir Kusturica), "Lights in the dusk" (Aki Kaurismaki), "The edge of heaven" (Fatih Akim), "La vie en rose - la môme" (Olivier Dahan), "Brokeback mountain" (Ang Lee), “The Queen” (Stephen Frears), “Indigènes” (“Days of glory,” Rachid Bouchareb), “The history boys” (Nicholas Hytner), “Cavale” “Après la vie” “Un couple épatant” (Lucas Belvaux’s trilogy), "Four months, three weeks and two days" (Christian Mungiu), "The death of Mr. Lazarescu" (Christi Puiu).

Great books I've read...

"Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe," by Simon Winder
"Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950," by Mark Mazower
"The Orientalist" by Tom Reiss
"Fun Home - A Family Tragicomic" by Alison Bechdel
"In Europe - Travels through the twentieth Century" by Geert Mak"
"Travels in Siberia" by Ian Frazier
"Open City" by Teju Cole
"Sous un ciel qui s' écaille" by Goran Petrović
"Chronicle in Stone" by Ismail Kadare
"On the Shores of the Mediterranean" by Eric Newby
"The Houses of Belgrade" by Borislav Pekić
"Fifty Days of Solitude" by Doris Grumbach
"Les livres de mon père," "Le temps des chèvres," "Le chemin des anguilles," de Luan Starova (traduit du macédonien)
"Balkans-Transit," de François Maspéro, photographies de Klavdij Sluban
"L'usage du monde" by Nicolas Bouvier
"Dans le noir" ("Lagum") by Svetlana Velmar-Janković
"Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
"call me by your name" by André Aciman
"La clôture" by Jean Rolin
"Homecoming" by Natasha Radojcic-Kane
"How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone" by Saša Stanišić
"The Limits of Power: The End of Americam Exceptionalism" by Andrew Bacevich

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Monday, June 25, 2007

The people of Belgrade

"Travels" (Excerpt of song by the French singer Barbara)

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