Artistic Consumption Log, Sept. 5, 2011 - Sept. 11, 2011

TORONTO—I'm knee deep in Toronto International Film Festival screenings, so I haven't much of a chance to add my usual commentaries to this latest artistic consumption log. But I didn't want to neglect this weekly feature altogether...so here you all are.

In skeleton, all the art I've consumed in the past week (commentaries to come later...maybe):

Seven Chances (1925)

Films

★ Seven Chances (1925, Buster Keaton), screened at Film Forum in New York
★ The Navigator (1924, Buster Keaton), screened at Film Forum in New York

★ The Wrong Man (1956, Alfred Hitchcock), screened at Film Forum in New York

Toronto International Film Festival 2011:
★ The Artist (2011, Michel Hazanavicius), screened at Elgin Theater
★ Into the Abyss (2011, Werner Herzog), screened at AMC Yonge & Dundas 24
★ Goodbye First Love (2011, Mia Hansen-Løve), screened at AMC Yonge & Dundas 24
Gerhard Richter - Painting (2011, Corinna Belz), screened at TIFF Bell Lightbox
Chicken With Plums (2011, Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud), screened at AMC Yonge & Dundas 24)
Take This Waltz (2011, Sarah Polley), screened at Ryerson Theatre
★ Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011, Sean Durkin), screened at Ryerson Theatre
★ Crazy Horse (2011, Frederick Wiseman), screened at AMC Yonge & Dudnas 24
★ UFO in Her Eyes (2011, Xiaolu Guo), screened at Isabel Bader Theatre

Music

★ Young Americans (1975, David Bowie)
★ Station to Station (1976, David Bowie)

★ 親愛的小孩 (1985, 蘇芮) [second listen]