I'd certainly say so, I think his use of split screen was a perfect and essential aspect in conveying the feeling of reading the book visually; it's a wonderful flipping of forms where Franco makes the visuals more important than the words while the images are so informed by the original text.

Well luckily with the latter he came out with one of the best things of all time

Yesss, VK is great for a lot of obscure films, there's a ton of my main man James Benning on there as well

hmmmmmm I didn't mean to reply 23 days after the fact but yeah! It's definitely best to start with his first film, SPACY, which gives you the basic idea of how Ito uses movement in his 80's work. After that you're pretty much free to go anywhere though his experiments with projection in particular (THUNDER and the…

If we're including stop-motion with animation then early Takashi Ito wins. I also need to see Millennium Actress (and the films of the actress it is an homage to) but Paprika and Paranoia Agent are two of the best things I've seen.

Jacques Rivette is no more (though his art will always be with us).

I probably know the most about Japanese culture but I have always loved Greece and it felt like home when I was there for some reason, so those are in the top three. I am also 1/4 Yugoslavian (both of my parents were adopted and that is the only ancestry we actually know of so it is a rough estimate but my mother and…

Any list with Glenn Branca has my approval

Happy Dave, birthday. I mean it.

I mean, it's always been one of the greatest films of all time, easily…

Naturally? They weren't manmade?

Fairly high or highly fair, amirite?

I personally had stated to become annoyed with the show and felt Season 2 was a whole lot weaker than an astronomical first season and the third worst than the second. The replacement of Watts with Cudi is genius and in my opinion completely saved the show; I had started to feel that though his music is intermittently…

What about films that were released online (i.e. Manoel de Oliveira's UM SECULO DE ENERGIA)? Is the only requirement in that case that it have been released between January 1 and December 31 in 2015?

My first recommendation MUST be The Tulse Luper Suitcases films by Peter Greenaway, the films of Takashi Ito, Euridice BA 2037 (dir. Nikos Nikolaidis), Alain Resnais' MURIEL, and Hiroshi Teshigahara's MAN WITHOUT A MAP (Moetsukita chizu) (if you haven't seen Teshigahara's first three films they are also necessary for…

DUDE I MISSED THIS BY AN HOUR AND SIXTEEN MINUTES IN MY TIMEZONE PLEASE STILL BE MY FRIEND (also happy birthday)

I don't think so, really. Most of it I could gather from early and consistent exposure to Japanese media and some of it is obvious to a lot of people because of that ("sugoi" roughly means "awesome") but Ito is able to translate all of the meaning visually from what I know (I'm going to look up the translation of the…

Can be gotten here because I can't find it streaming anywhere and you guys should watch it if what I said interested you (on the 2-disc set of Ito's films this is the first film on the second disc (proof I'm not just making shit up)).

(let me know if this is the wrong day or too early/late or whatever because it has been a crazy month on my end)

CZ Advent Calendar: Takashi Ito's December Hide-and-Go-Seek