looking forward to it!

YOUNG MAN FALLING TRAILER from martin de thurah on Vimeo.

and I am looking forward to this shortfilm called slitage by patrick eklund that won in cannes.

what makes pistachio nuts?*

these guys showed up in the mail today.
ordered them from nieves some weeks ago.
could actually nearly be a month since I ordered
but worth the wait!



it is the harmony korines book of photographies called pigxote
and the manuscript for mister lonely (that I needed for my assignment I am handing in on monday morning) one tiny issue though. the manuscript doesnt resemble the film that much. I havent read that many scripts and I know Harmony works a lot with improvisation, problem is, can the script then be basis for my analysis or do I only have to use what he used in the film? tricky question. I am guessing what is inside the movie is the most important.

*the title of this blogpost is the name of a script that got lost in one of Korines housefires. Pistachio is the name of a pig that can walk on walls and in ceilings. but the script got lost.

I RECOMMEND U-CARMEN

I saw this movie with my mama a few years back and I remember thinking it was absolutely fantastic. Tomorrow I will watch it again and you should too!

Directed by Mark Dornford-May

NEW WAVE HOOKERS

AND I STILL HAVEN'T SEEN THIS MOVIE!



directed by Gregory Dark

ANTICHRIST

It's a known fact that Lars Von Trier is manio-depressive and pops antidepressants. And after watching several clips of his new movie, Antichrist, it's pretty clear that they're not working and Thank God for that because If they did; we wouldn't be watching the brutal, harsh and powerful movies that he makes.

Either you love Lars Von Trier's movies or you hate them. I'm a lover. And I can't wait to see his new movie; Anti-Christ.

CANNES PALME D'OR WINNER

Austrian director Michael Haneke's black and white somber drama "The White Ribbon" claimed the top prize Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival, where Quentin Tarantino and Lars von Trier entries earned the acting honors.

Haneke addressed his wife as he accepted his award, noting that "happiness is very rare."

watch the trailer here

SUNDAY MOVIE - LES CHORISTES

"Les choristes" directed by Christophe Barratier.

beautiful film. I was stunned. I am stunned.

gummo

the amazingness of harmony korine









writing an assignment on mister lonely these days has got my head all filled with harmony korine.

what an inspiring artist he is.

8045 lookbook

one of my absolutely dearest friends, bóas kristjánsson, will soon start selling the following beautiful stuff:

8045 HypoKnitriak from Bóas Kristjánsson on Vimeo.

between hickups

BETWEEN HICKUPS

is now out and about / up and running




I am quite proud, cause I never would have thought I could figure it out myself (dreamweaver + getting it up there),
but in the end it worked out fine!

I feel like I can take on the world now!

mister lonely

ikke bare er dette den vakreste filmen jeg har sett på lenge
jeg kunne godt tenke meg å gifte meg med diego luna også
det hadde vært helt greit for meg det





filmscript available from nieves

the science of sleep or this dream people call human life

Nowadays we are making a short movie in class. We have a whole month for it, or at least until the 20. april if we want to enter it to a filmfestival that has its deadline then.

It has to be about dreams or sleep. I kind of came up with that idea. An idea that I now curse (well, not really). It is an okey theme, because it gives all 9 of us the oppurtunity to make something that will be completely personal. But I find it quite hard to make something that wont be too abstract / over the top or even under the top. I thought writing my own story would be fairly easy, since I love writing so much, but it turns out to be quite the nut.

I have always shown a perticular interest in dreams, and I believe that they are of a very high significance for who we are or who we are subconsciously deep deep down. I do not believe that dreams are attempts to conceal your true/suppressed feelings from the waking mind like Freud advocates, but rather that they are windows to your unconscious in more of a spiritual way, like Jung talks about.

I am reading alot about dreams and watching documentaries about them and also regular films on the topic these days, to kind of dig in to the depths of dreams and see if I can find inspiration (for my little short film) there. I therefore thought that a list of the -in my opinion- best movies on the theme of dreams were in place.

1. Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
One of the dreams, The Tunnel:


Most of the other dreams in the movie can be found as shorts on youtube.

2. The Quay Brothers - Institute Benjamenta or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995)

The classroom dance:


3. Michel Gondry - The Science of Sleep (2006)


- Not sure which placement to give this. It is probably in a class of its own.
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali - Le Chien Andalou (1929)


and I havent seen these yet (or too long ago to remember)

-joseph rubens dreamscape (1984)
-richard linkletters waking life (2001)
-alfred hitcocks spellbound (1945)
-wes cravens nightmare on elm street (1984)
-stanley kubricks eyes wide shut (not sure if this really is about dreams)
-cameron crows vanilla sky (not sure if this one is either..?)
-vincent wards what dreams may come (1998)

dans paris

I am liking Christophe Honorés movies more and more. yesterday I watched the movie called Dans Paris. I must admit I liked Chansons d'amour a little bit more. but just a little bit.

here is the trailer:


and one tiny part of it. the last part of this clip is so good.

strangely interesting : Les Chansons d'Amour (2007)

basically you should just watch it without knowing too much. thats what I did.
I was laughing out loud of surprisement when they suddenly started singing. I am normally not that into musicals in realistic settings, but this one is just simply so great. it touches on several different filmmakingtricks that one doesnt see all that often in movies nowadays. extremely experimental in more than one sense. me and my flatmate were wondering how it must have felt during filming. because the strangeness of all the different parts could not always have made the actors sure of the greatness that were to come out of it.

a couple of pictures that might want to make you watch it.






right now I am listening to the soundtrack, singing along.

and then to give you a sense of the surrealistic beauty of it have a look at these two (music)videos. singing + gay sex will always, always intrigue me.


oh. the whole movie is actually on youtube, but not embeddable. here is the link to the first part of it.

allinonetake

no storyboard, no manuscript. only synopsis.

shot all in one take. short movie Ukraine 2005.
Kenyeres Bálint : Before Dawn

just saw this

awe/dumbstruck.





Samuel Beckett's Film (1965) with Buster Keaton.

The Ice Storm

I NEED TO SEE THIS MOVIE AGAIN!

La Jetée

Chris Marker made this beautiful short film in 1962, based on still pictures. It is what later inspired Terry Gilliam into making his Twelve Monkies.

In the movie, the survivors of a destroyed Paris in the aftermath of World War III live underground in the Palais de Chaillot galleries. They research time travel, hoping to send someone back before the devastating war to recover food, medicine, or energy for the present, "to summon the past and future to the aid of the present." The traveler is a male prisoner; his vague but obsessive childhood memory of witnessing a woman (Hélène Chatelain) during a violent incident on the boarding platform ("The Jetty") at Orly Airport is used as the key to his journey back in time.
He is thrown back to the past again and again. He repeatedly meets and speaks to the woman who was present at the terminal. After his successful passages to the past, the experimenters attempt to send him into the deep future. In a brief meeting with the technologically advanced people of the future, he is given a power unit sufficient to regenerate his own destroyed society. On his return, he is cast aside by his jailers to die. Before he can be executed, he is contacted by the people of the future, who offer to help him escape to their time, but he asks to be returned to the time of his childhood. He is returned, only to find the violent incident he partially witnessed as a child was his own death as an adult.

-wikipedia

I WAN'T YOU TO GET MAD

I love this scene in the movie Network. It's so fucking good. This was 1976 and it's still true today.

paris je t'aime

YES! I do.

1. I need to go to paris
2. I need to be in love
3. I need to make movies
4. I need to learn french

this movie, paris je t'aime consists of 16 shortfilms made by and with some of the very best filmpeople around.

what a good movie. see the whole thing.

preferably with someone. I watched it alone. :/