Film
an oldy but a goody posted on March 2nd, 2010
Sounds Like Silence (teaser)
$plit $creen posted on February 12th, 2010
It is everywhere!
The year was 1967 and the Universal exhibition in Montreal, commonly referred to as Expo 67, was where multi-screen highlights like In the Labyrinth premiered. It was hailed by Time magazine as a “stunning visual display,” their review concluding: “such visual delights as Labyrinth … suggest that cinema—the most typical of 20th century arts—has just begun to explore its boundaries and possibilities.” Directors Norman Jewison and Richard Fleischer conceived their ambitious split-screen films of 1968 after visiting Expo ‘67.
Just look at the possibilities. I wanna explore this way more! (for some reason I could only find a clip of Brain DePalma’s Sisters in french)
Orgesticulanismus & Ophthalmology posted on February 2nd, 2010
Mathieu Labaye created the short film ‘Orgesticulanismus‘ as a tribute to his father, a man who’d been confined to a wheelchair for the last 15 years of his life.
This is one of my favourite sequences from Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007); also about a man confined by the malfunction of his body.
3 iron posted on January 19th, 2010
This is a photo I took of a sculpture in the George Pompidou.
I think it is a representation of one of my favourite movies but I didn’t know that at the time.
The Mirror posted on December 10th, 2009
Poetry, film, and intense visions of destruction and beauty are all constructed like a symphony by the brilliant Tarkovsky….and needless to say are absolutely mesmerizing. Like a godly meditation about the impermanence and misery of the human condition, the pace of his films draws into an inner world that is densely populated by the images from the past and quickly disappearing present. Long steady shots and a poem read over top of the calmly disturbing imagery is quite breath taking in these scene from The Mirror.
This is a short article, on some of the most poignant symbols in Tarkovsky’s films (more clips included).
the damndest thing i ever saw! posted on December 8th, 2009
Saw the world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and it’s a MASTERPIECE!
