Friday was an exciting day for me as I could take the time to ONLY watch movies from morning till night.
The two italian movies I saw resulted in me dreaming in italian, and as my knowledge of italian is extremely limited my dreaming consisted of this sentence in many different tones of voice said by everyone in the dream: "el treno per Roma e pertito" (the train for Rome has left). I was quite tired in my ears wen I woke up as this mantra had been going on in what seemed like forever. Well, here are the movies I watched anyway:
A very sweet movie. Would recommend it, but other Kurosawa-movies are higher up on my list, such as his Dreams, Rashomon or Dersu Uzala for instance. I liked the scenes set in court (as I always like scenes set in court) and the story was very nice and highly relatable to still as it concerns untruthful journalists/media and their hunt for selling a good story at all costs.
Then I watched my very first Luis Bunuel movie that definetely made me want more: That Obscure Object of Desire. Quite interesting how the movie has two different actresses play the same part - something that I did not notice until after the movie was over. I though that she was quite versatile (also look-wise) and found it strange how I liked her more in some scenes. Both women are dropdeadgorgeous, and the movie itself is outstanding and defenitely recommendable. Many film adaptations have been made of the book about the tretrechous and deceitful Conchita and a rich old man's love/desire/lust for her. I will for sure check out both the novel and especially one of the other film adaptations; a french silent from the 20s that looks quite brilliant too: La Femme et la Pantin by Jacques de Baroncelli. Here is the trailer for Luis Bunuel's That Obscure Object of Desire from 1977:
After this I continued in the lustful/erotic corner and watched my first Passolini film. Arabian Nights from 1974. Would I recommend it? Well.. It consists of many interwoven tales that are truly wonderful. But how they are interwoven is so confusing that you often wonder whose story is being told and how these relate to the main story. However, I liked its imageworld so much that I think I will go for a recommendation. Here is the trailer (in italian):
After this I continued with even harder stuff and watched the last half hour that I had left of The Piano Teacher. The last time I watched it I saw it with someone not used to such hardcore-movies and we chose to stop it when it got incestual. I finished it, and was quite happy that I had divided this movie into two sittings as one whole watch might have been a bit much (even for me). A great movie, but not something I will ever want to watch again. Isabelle Huppert must be one of the greatest actresses ever. Any aspiring actress should watch this movie just for its showcase of acting at its absolute best. Here is the trailer for Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher from 2001:
To be able to get a good night's sleep I finished this moviemarathon day off with Robert Redford's beautiful movie from 1990; Il Postino. I am now much more interested in the poet Pablo Neruda than I was before I watched it. And I am even more eager (if that is actually possible to get more eager than I already was) on going to Italy. A very sweet movie indeed. But out of all the ones I watched today, perhaps the easiest one to forget.
One other movie that I started watching, but didn't finish (for the second time) was the Rumanian movie The Death of Mr. Lazarescu from 2005. A movie that feels like something I will definetely love, but have fallen asleep from every time I have tried watching it. An extremely long movie that I put on way too late in the evening. Here is the great trailer:
This was my friday in movies. Hope you got inspired to watch one or more of them!
Julia Fjelddalen is a girl I randomly stumbled upon on Flickr or maybe Phiary some time back. I think she resides in Bergen, Norway and attends art school there. Her pictures fascinates me, especially these ones with their slørete easy breazyness. Elsker hennes estetiske sans! (I love her sense of beauty)
I am gonna start a "series" on the blog where I focus on talented norwegian girls. if you think I am forgetting someone, please let me know!
anne-stine bae is a norwegian 24 year old girl living in Copenhagen. she has been a student of fashion design at BEC school of fashion. now she works as a (freelance) stylist and a coffee barista at one of my favourite cafés; the coffee collective in jægersborgsgade.
I really like what she is doing. hope she gets to work lots for norwegian magazines too.
these pictures are from the editorial: beauty of silence. Photographed by Oliver Stalmans | Styled by Anne-Stine Bae Hair by Nicolas Eldin | Make Up by Helene Vasnier | Model Sophie Vlaming, Viva Paris check out more work of hers on her website.
read a couple of his plays a few weeks ago when I was in sweden, and I cant wait to read more. too bad that not everything he wrote has been translated from french. I guess I just have to learn french (again). one of the plays I read was this one: the human voice. here acted by ingrid bergman
this is a different documentary than the one I posted before.. this one is called jean cocteau - autobiography of an unknown artist. it is very very good. I love this guy.
the main reasons to learn french: to read christophe honorés books to read antonin artaud to read jean cocteau
main reasons to learn german: to be able to listen to thepodcast Im Sumpf from FM4 (subscribe in itunes) to read the michael ende things that hasnt been translated to listen to german rapgroup: blumentopf to read christian kracht to watch top notch theaterperfomances to listen to poet/musician/greatnessguy: peter licht
(most of these german tips come from my good friend leander)
feel free to make similar lists in the comments-field. more reasons to learn french/german/another language?
leander adds the following reasons to learn german: Thomas Bernhard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Einstürzende Neubauten, Texta, Werner Herzog, Ulrich Seidl, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Burg Theater Wien, Volksbühne Berlin, Die Sendung ohne Namen, Element of Crime. (however; Herzog, Fassbinder and Seidl are possible to get translated)
jens at style.dk made this compilation of where the designers probably got their inspirations. very nice! I love the outfit of the guy in the soliedo-hat (the guy himself is also totally hot). the angry warversion of a charlie chaplin lookalike at the bottom is great too.
har takket ja til en studieplass ved nordland kunst og filmskole. mamma sier: "men jannicke. kommer alle andre til å være 17-18 år da?" "nei.. det vet jeg ikke. men det er jo ikke en folkehøyskole da." "ok. men du vet hva som er viktigst?" "nei...?" "det er den utdannelsen du har tatt nå. det er derfor du har kommet inn." "men tror du ikke jeg har kommet inn fordi de kanskje liker mitt kunstneriske uttrykk? eller potensiale? jeg har jo sendt inn 4 sider med tekst, en bildeserie og to kortfilmer.." "jo, men de som jobber der har sikkert studert økonomi på cbs." "nei, mamma. det tror jeg ikke." "ok, men uansett. det der er bare en viderebygning på økonomien" "men mamma. det henger ikke sammen." "jo alt henger sammen." "nei, ikke dette.." "jo." "og økonomien er det viktigste." "nå har jeg studert noe du og pappa ville at jeg skulle i 3 år. er det ikke på tide at jeg nå velger selv? uten at du skal fortelle meg hva som er "viktigst"..?" "joda.." "dessuten skal jeg bare reise opp og teste. hvis ikke jeg trives drar jeg jo igjen. jeg er ferdig med å gå ferdig ting bare for å gå ferdig." "ja.. jannicke." (med en plutselig innsikt) "hver gang du slår på tv, så er det noen som har laget det du ser på." "hahahaha. ja.. og...?" "ja, nei, da er det kanskje en del jobbmuligheter etterpå da." "ja.. det er nok det." "du vet.. jeg er jo så inne i helsearbeid jeg." "men mamma. man kan gjøre en forskjell med film også. politiske dokumentarer f.eks kan faktisk endre på ting. og det er vel viktig med kunst også, kanskje det kan gjøre folk glade." "jo."
I don't know how to do this so I'll be upfront. I'm kind of worthless right now, due to circumstance, As anything more than a person just to sleep with. I can't be a boyfriend but I promise to be a considerate one-night stand. Well, I said that once and it really didn't work Even though I meant it but I guess I don't really know anyone who wants to hear that. Well, maybe, I don't really mean it 'Cause I like people too much Even if what I have to offer is not really enough or anything more than You say you don't care Your needs are pretty much the same. You really don't want to date. You really just want to hang out. You two don't get attached And I just can't either. Okay great but it seems too good and I feel a need to reassert that the, uh, you know, my batteries are drained And goods are damaged, mine, I'm in need of that and that. Maybe this whole thing I did was naive and hurtful to approach you but It really seems like you're not tripping but then I start seeing stuff that's kind of not even there. I'm bugging out, like, Hey, what's up? Um, I know it's casual but, uh, Are you screwing my friend? Um, wait, I guess it's all okay, we're all friends and, so, uh, you know, We're all just friends But if you two are doing it, I wonder, like, Is he asking the same? I'm sorry, though. It's really none of my business. You could d- oh, you're not even doing that? Okay, no, you wouldn't. I'm sorry. Nevermind. Um, okay, uh.