Thomas Logoreci

Filmmaker and writer living in Tirana, Albania.
Could be in your neighborhood tomorrow.

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Will I ever get an opportunity to finally see Richard Lester's THE THREE MUSKETEERS (1973)? Why does this movie continually elude me?

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Wish I could give up all responsibility, obligations and just rest my weary bones, sit on my Tirana balcony and read, underline and be quietly amazed by Nadezhda Mandelstam's 'Hope Against Hope'.

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Very sad to hear about the death of musician, screenwriter and all around lifeforce Geoffrey Knoop.

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Truly fantastic Albanian Cinematheque screening of JAZZ ON A SUMMER'S DAY (1959). Applause after every song. Thanks Ehsan Khoshbakht for introducing us to this incredible doc. Is there anything more magnificent than Mahalia Jackson? How did this masterpiece elude me?

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Resolve to start watching Arthur Lipsett's 21-87 (1963) every day. Maybe for eternity. Is this really the short that made George Lucas want to become a filmmaker? Yes.
https://t.co/iC1PfwJicl

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Last night's @dokufest screenings of FIUME O MORTE! and THE CORIOLIS EFFECT. When the volume rises in the Dokukino theater, the heating ducts rattle, the theater rumbles. Just what a cinema experience should be. It's thrilling.

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Still thinking about first night @DokuFest with Errol Morris' tough, complex, rigorous SHATTERED. Wind blowing the screen so hard, it took nearly a dozen volunteers to hold it down like a sail on a stormy sea.

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Always thought that Fritz Lang's American work was cold, detached, angular. Gloria Grahame shatters this equation in HUMAN DESIRE (1954). I was riveted. Why does THE BIG HEAT (1953) get all the glory?

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Whoops. It's actually 'Escape'.

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3:10 am. Trying to fall asleep listening to 1947 old-time radio adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 'Typhoon'. The show: 'Suspense'. https://t.co/Y4aZZ6CO8n

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I don't even know this existed! Eric Rohmer did a one- hour doc about Lumiere with two interview subjects discussing all things cinema: Henri Langlois and Jean Renoir. Renoir's 1968 summation actually reversed a foolish notion I had on the movies. https://t.co/1SgooflpYg

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@BohemiaStable No, but looks fascinating. Can you e-mail me a PDF? Please.

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I predict in a 100 years that Rebecca Solnit's 'River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West' will be the defining work in understanding the birth of the movies. Every time I revisit this book I discover something new to consider.

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Can't believe for 39 years I thought the last thing Jack Nicholson says in CHINATOWN is 'It's not possible.' and not 'As little as possible.' the callback line from the earlier part of the film. Wouldn't have realized this if I wasn't reading Sam Wasson's 'The Big Goodbye'. Wow.

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Sometimes I find it hard to believe this never makes the top ten lists of best films of the 1970s. The brief shot of the dwarf children on the playground tire swing still scares the absolute hell out of me.

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Having spent many months working on adapting then perfecting English subtitles for this film, I'm beyond pleased that LUNA PARK was selected today for the Thessaloniki Film Fest. If there is such a thing movie justice, Adriana Matoshi will win the top actress award.

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ALBANIA/ITALY/GREECE/CROATIA/KOSOVO : First look at Florenc Papas’ coming-of-age drama film Luna Park https://t.co/r8lOpCXQ2p

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Am becoming more convinced that my life might have turned out very differently if I had discovered Harold Brodkey's short story collection "First Love and Other Sorrows" when I was nineteen years old.

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Blazing Tirana summer reading, savoring, re-reading, underlining and even copying out breathtaking sentences on bits of paper from this book: Geoffrey O' Brien's sprawling, poetic history of the movies 'The Phantom Empire' (1993). Slowly it changed my understanding of the movies.

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Still can't shake vital @DokuFest selection HAIYU: REBEL SINGER MARRIEM HASSAN AND THE STRUGGLE FOR A FREE WESTERN SAHARA. A music non-fiction opus that forever shifted my consciousness about a place and it's history I knew very little about. Just what a documentary should do.

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One week later and am still dazed by everything I experienced @DokuFest in Prizren, Kosovo. Even re-evaluating my lifelong attitude of opening night offering DR. STRANGELOVE. Thinking now that designer Ken Adam is the real hero of the 1964 production.