This is (was??) 13 years before Becky Sharp, the first color film to be released. And these girls are hotties.
Archive for the ‘film’ Category
Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Color Film Test
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
RIP Bruno S.
Monday, August 16th, 2010
Henry Miller Asleep and Awake (1975)
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Bad idea……Pretty, pretty, pretty bad.
Sunday, June 27th, 2010From this article on Larry David (which didn’t have the stones or the critical acumen to say that Woody Allen’s Whatever Works was probably one of the worst movies ever made):
In the US, reruns of Curb Your Enthusiasm are about to begin airing for the first time on a mainstream cable channel, requiring the cast to record new dialogue to be dubbed in over the show’s copious swearing. (“You say ‘freak’ for ‘fuck’ and ‘shoot’ for ‘shit’ and ‘baloney’ for ‘bullshit’, or whatever fits the movement of your lips,” David says.) Perhaps in an effort to convey the David world-view to a wider audience, each episode will be followed by a 10-minute panel discussion to contemplate the “issues” raised by the show.
The issues? That makes it all sound rather studious. “Just the issues,” David says. “Like, finding out your doctor is gay and then going up to him and saying, ‘I didn’t know you were gay!’ – is that a bad thing to do? Why is it bad? Is it OK to tell a blind person his girlfriend is unattractive, or should you pretend she’s attractive?” For a moment, he looks almost entirely serious – deadpan bordering on dead earnest – as though we have finally penetrated through to the questions in life that really matter. “You know. Things like that.”
Tom McCarthy discussion on the relation of literature & film
Monday, May 10th, 2010I haven’t watched it yet, and won’t be until next week perhaps, as this week is my finals week. Bill sent it to me two weeks ago, but i’ve been distracted.
Update: Have it running in background as i mess with Tech Writing assignment. It’s mostly readings from Remainder. Carry on.
Milestones—Lynn Redgrave
Monday, May 3rd, 2010
Destino—Salvador Dali & Walt Disney
Monday, January 25th, 2010
Milestones—Eric Rohmer
Monday, January 11th, 2010
Herzog on Herzog
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Interview with Herzog here. This bit was most interesting:
J.W.: I’ve just been reading your new book, Conquest of the Useless, which is your diary from the making of Fitzcarraldo. Why do you keep coming back to the incredible difficulty of making that film? You’ve had difficulties, perhaps not on that scale, but tremendous difficulties, in many of the other films you’ve made.
W.H.: Well, I ignored the text, I couldn’t read it for a long, long time. So 25 years later, I was finally able to even read it and decipher it. I published it because I thought that was the element that was stronger than everything else I have made in my life. It probably will outlive my films, all of them, and it has more direct substance. It’s probably the piece of work I will be remembered for.
J.W.: Fitzcarraldo?
W.H.: No, Conquest of the Useless, the book. I’m probably a better writer than filmmaker.
I admire Werner Herzog. I have the box sets. I’ve watched most of his films. I think that in many ways he’s the most provocative filmmaker I know of. I cannot shake, though, the nagging sense of disappointment that I feel after seeing one of his films, as if he had somehow just missed the mark. I’m not sure I can even explain this sense, so I won’t try. This admission by Herzog, likely to be read by most as bluster or false modesty, seems quite significant.
Dead Souls (2007)
Sunday, November 15th, 2009