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Ari

What's the rumpus?

About Me

I started this website - www.theaspectratio.net

Here's a list of the movies I'm watching this year - 2007 Film List

My Interests

Movies. Literature. Philosophy. Travel. Culture. History.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone willing to spend a couple hours discussing films, literature, eclectic music, philosophy and how Roger Federer has elevated tennis to a form of art.

Music:

Kodo. Rob Dougan. The Cranberries. Feist. Arcade Fire. Seal. Nirvana. The Beatles. The Rolling Stones. Azam Ali. Juno Reactor. July Skies. Chemical Brothers. Bat For Lashes. Editors. Faithless. Interpol. A Fine Frenzy. Zap Mama. 80s. International. Classical. And so many film composers....Philip Glass, Ennio Morricone, Joe Hisaishi, John Williams, etc.

Movies:

2007 Film List

Filmmakers:

Martin Scorsese. Woody Allen. John Cassavetes. Akira Kurosawa. Stanley Kubrick. Ingmar Bergman. Orson Welles. Luchino Visconti. Shohei Imamura. John Frankenheimer. Alfred Hitchcock. Jean-Pierre Melville. David Lean. Steven Spielberg. John Huston. Kihachi Okamoto. Zhang Yimou. Terrence Malick. Robert Siodmak. Sidney Lumet. Yasujiro Ozu. George Lucas. PT Anderson. Francis Ford Coppola. Wong Kar Wai. Ernst Lubitsch. The Coen Brothers. Federico Fellini. Sergio Leone. Fritz Lang. David Lynch. Howard Hawks. Masaki Kobayashi. Robert Altman. David Gordon Green. Michelangelo Antonioni.

Television:

No thanks.

Books:

Finished in 2007:James Joyce (Dubliners) Kenneth Turan (Never Coming to a Theater Near You) Ken Wilber (No Boundary) Arthur Schopenhauer (Suffering, Suicide, and Immortality) David Lynch (Catching The Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity)
On The Shelf: Arthur Schopenhauer (The World as Will and Idea) Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged) Graham Green (Journey Without Maps, The Heart of the Matter) Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities) Gunter Grass (My Century) Dashiell Hammett (The Glass Key) William Gibson (Mona Lisa Overdrive) Soren Kierkegaard (Fear & Trembling) Dan Simmons (Ilium) Ken Wilber (Eye to Eye: The Quest For The New Paradigm) Plato (The Republic) Jean-Paul Sartre (Nausea)
Finished in 2006: Ken Wilber (The Spectrum of Consciousness) Philip K. Dick (The Penultimate Truth, Maze of Death) Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment, The Honest Thief, White Nights - the most romantic story ever written) Pauline Kael (5001 Nights at the Movies) The Cinema of George Lucas Plato (Symposium)
Other recent favorites: Dan Simmons (Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion) Cornel West (Democracy Matters) Roger Ebert (The Great Movies) Neil Gaiman (American Gods)

My Blog

Pretentious, Elitist, Arthouse Snob

IMDB posted a link to my 10 Best Film Endings52 comments so far. Here are a few of my favorites:"thismight be a good list but it's definitely an elitist list.".....uhhhhh, thanks?"you leave gone with...
Posted by Ari on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:24:00 PST

New Music

I gave some money to KCRW recently and they sent me some cd's. The best is easily "Goodbye" by Ulrich Schnauss. If you like atmospheric music, get this thing immediately. Beautiful music.They also ...
Posted by Ari on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:02:00 PST

Lost in Translation

Four years later and it still moves me as deeply as it did on that first viewing. This has to be my favorite movie of the decade so far. It's such a small, intimate movie. So simple, so beautiful.I...
Posted by Ari on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:07:00 PST

There Will Be Blood

Have I mentioned that I'm looking forward to this movie? Our finest living actor working with the finest filmmaker to emerge in the past decade.I'll be surprised if this isn't brilliant....
Posted by Ari on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 06:12:00 PST

Insomnia (no, not the movie)

So I've been having trouble sleeping for the past few weeks and it's finally starting to really wear me down. I usually like to call it a night at around 12:00 - 12:30, but what's been happening is ...
Posted by Ari on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:18:00 PST

The Man in Black

Federer didn't play his best tennis, but he still managed to win the US Open championship against Novak Djokovic. Good match. Not as classic as the Federer/Nadal showdown at Wimbledon, but still sol...
Posted by Ari on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:02:00 PST

2007 Film List

List of everything I watch in 2007 - new and old.Latest Update: 10/1 Cineastes de notre temps - John CassavetesMasterpiece:Battleship PotemkinSansho The BailiffLawrence of ArabiaF For FakeEyes Wide Sh...
Posted by Ari on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:07:00 PST

Sansho The Bailiff

Well, this is maybe the most depressing movie I have ever seen. Pretty much a masterpiece, but, wow, few movies are that emotionally draining. See it.
Posted by Ari on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:57:00 PST

KCRW

If you're not in LA you can listen to KCRW's programs online. I highly highly recommend doing so. Morning Becomes Eclectic and Metropolis are the best ways to discover the best contemporary music. ...
Posted by Ari on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:05:00 PST

Wimbledon

Pretty amazing championship match between Federer and Nadal. But this is the man:
Posted by Ari on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:40:00 PST