the essential cinema, condensed

top 30 from the essential cinema list1. robert bresson: pickpocket 19592. andrei tarkovsky: andrei rublev 19693. akira kurosawa: seven samurai 19544. michael snow: la région centrale 19715. ernie gehr: signal-germany on the air 1982-856. jean-pierre melville: le samouraï 19677. john ford: my darling clementine 19468. william wellman: the ox-bow incident 19439. bela tarr: satantango 199410. howard

abstractions, monochromes and minimalism, part 2

a small list of considerations for a chronicle of abstraction, with examples from music, photography, painting, film, video, and literature, part 2. (see part 1)including minimalism and the monochrome.mainly documenting books in my collection.1. john virtueblack and white paintings of a barely perceivable london skyline.books:-john virtue: london paintings, national gallery2. hans danuserswiss