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Alle sombere berichten ten spijt, de wereld is ook in 2008 niet vergaan. Ditmaal naar verluid vanwege elektronische problemen. (BigPicture)

Gespeeld en genoten in 2008:
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Tarantino’s Mind:

“A film buff tells a friend that he’s finally broken “the code” – the mystery behind the character & story threads that bleed from one Quentin Tarantino movie or screenplay into the next. His friend is less than impressed. Starring Seu Jorge (The Life Aquatic) and Selton Mello (Tarja Preta). A short film by Brazilian directing duo 300ml.”

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Todd McEwen in Granta, Cary Grant’s Suit:

“North by Northwest isn’t a film about what happens to Cary Grant, it’s about what happens to his suit. The suit has the adventures, a gorgeous New York suit threading its way through America. The title sequence in which the stark lines of a Madison Avenue office building are ‘woven’ together could be the construction of Cary in his suit right there — he gets knitted into his suit, into his job, before our very eyes. Indeed some of the popular ‘suitings’ of that time (‘windowpane’ or ‘glen plaid’) perfectly complemented office buildings. Cary’s suit reflects New York, identifies him as a thrusting exec, but also arms him, protects him: what else is a suit for? Reflects and Protects: a slogan Cary’s character, Roger Thornhill, might have come up with himself.

But, as Thoreau wrote, ‘A man who has at length found something to do will not need to get a new suit to do it in.’ Cary may cut quite a figure but as a person he is meaningless, so far. We find him in the Suit, but certainly he has not found himself, or ‘what to do’.”

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Martijn Hendriks, Give Us Today Our Daily Terror. Still. (2008 – ongoing).

Martijn Hendriks, Give Us Today Our Daily Terror:

“Exact copy of Hitchcock’s 1963 film The Birds from which all birds have been removed. Single channel video, color, 119 minutes.”

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Tarkovsky, by Nathan Dunne (editor)

Creative Review Blog, Andrei Tarkovsky: Film and Painting:

“Over a 25 year period, Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky made just seven feature films and three student shorts, yet his cinematic work stands out as one of the most significant contributions to moving image history. In films such as Solaris, Mirror and Andrei Rublev, Tarkovsky dealt thematically with the notion of memory, childhood and dreams and became a master of the long, unedited shot and distinct formalistic approach to filmmaking. Many studies of his work have also observed the links between his films and the visual arts. Black Dog Publishing is behind a new, comprehensive volume dedicated to his life’s work and we have an exclusive extract to present here on the CR blog. The following essay, by Mikhail Romadin (the art director on Solaris), looks at the relationship between Tarkovsky’s films and painting”

(Via Coudal.)

Update 26 jan: De video van de complete film is niet meer beschikbaar, dan moeten we ons maar behelpen met de oorspronkelijke trailers van Helvetica aaneengeplakt tot één YouTube video:

‘Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture.’ (Helvetica Film)

Via Milo.

Timewatch’ Omaha Beach in CGI. (YouTube – via)

Timewatch:

“One of the most fun parts of filming is for the computer graphics (CGI) sequences. Timewatch has its own team dedicated to CGI (Neil Wilson, Steve Flynn and Colin Thornton) who have come out to Normandy with a car laden with Rangers’ uniforms and fake plastic guns.”

Lust, Caution / Se, jie (2007) – Tony Leung Chiu Wai and Wei Tang.

Sight & Sound, Cruel Intentions: Ang Lee:

“Ang Lee is talking pleasantries and holding the palm of his right hand flat against his cheek. I’m concerned he may be in pain (dental? hangover?), but with interview time ticking by I say nothing. It’s a milky-grey Monday morning at the Soho Hotel in London. The first weekend of the Times BFI 51st London Film Festival has perhaps taken its toll. Ang Lee’s superb new film Lust, Caution (Se, jie) has just had its gala premiere to much acclaim – and some surprise at the realistic erotic scenes between the leads Tony Leung and Tang Wei.”

The Key to Reserva: Martin Scorsese does Alfred Hitchcock.

1000 Frames of Hitchcock:

“”1000 Frames of Hitchcock” is an attempt to reduce each of the 52 available major Hitchcock films down to just 1000 frames.”

Ars Technica, It’s like AllOfMP3 for movies: hands-on with ZML’s DRM-free flicks:

“The MPAA won’t be happy, but fans of rogue digital music site AllOfMP3 (and its many new iterations since the shutdown of the original) will be pleased over news of a movie site mirroring the cheap, DRM-free model of its musical cousin. ZML has made a quiet debut over the last couple of months, but boasts over a thousand movies thus far, ranging from old classics to recent releases. We took a look at the service and found that, while it doesn’t have everything, it’s certainly good for stocking up on cheap (and not-very-legal) movies.”

ZML

Matt Damon. Photo: Bourne Comes Home… to Astor Place, by jenifernyc1

Lee Siegel, The Method and Its Madness:

“In the past few years, however, the Method blew itself out. Perhaps magnified by all the other self-centric trends in the culture — emoting, expressing, outpouring selves everywhere — the Method’s intense focus on personality has created a backlash. You see it in all the nasty commentary on celebrated actors. You see it in clowns of Dostoevskian self-disgust such as Will Ferrell and Adam Sandler. But most of all, you see it in the displacement of the star by the character actor.”

Bovenstaande naar aanleiding van David Denby’s Fallen Idols.

Claus von Stauffenberg à la scientology Hollywood. Arme Carice van Houten.

Valkyrie – Trailer. (Trailer in HD. – Wikipedia)

442nd: Storming the Vosges. Japanese-American soldiers of the 442nd RCT advance up a steep hillside in France. November 4, 1944.

The War is een 7-delige oorlogsdocumentaire van Ken Burns in september en oktober 2007 uitgezonden door PBS. (Metacritic – 8.2.)

THE WAR | Extended Preview op YouTube.

Waarschijnlijk zijn deze 14 uur aan oorspronkelijke beelden en verhalen over de impact van de Tweede Wereldoorlog op 4 Amerikaanse steden en hun bevolking alleen op een Nederlands televisietoestel te zien als je de documentaire downloadt via bittorrent. Wat is aanbevolen.

Slate: My Kid Could Paint That

“Marla Olmstead made her first abstract painting while still diapers, crouching on her parents’ dining-room table. She was not yet 2. Her big break came when she was 3, and a family friend hung her paintings in a coffee shop in her hometown of Binghamton, N.Y. By the time she was 4, she was scarfing down cookies at the packed opening of her first solo gallery show. A local reporter covered the story, and the New York Times picked it up. Soon, news crews from all over were rushing to report on the adorable blond moppet and her colorful canvases, calling her a “budding Picasso,” a “pint-sized Pollock.” Within a few months, she sold more than $300,000 worth of paintings. And then, just short of her 5th birthday, the bubble burst. In February 2005, 60 Minutes aired a report by Charlie Rose implying that Marla’s father, a night-shift manager at a Frito-Lay plant and an amateur painter himself, was guiding her compositions. Sales of the paintings quickly dried up, the family was barraged with hate mail, and the New York Post gleefully piled on the puns, reporting that “the juvenile Jackson Pollock may actually be a full-fledged Willem de Frauding.”

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“In his new documentary, My Kid Could Paint That, director Amir Bar-Lev traces Marla’s sensational rise and fall, focusing on the media feeding frenzy and on the Olmsteads’ efforts to prove that Marla created her paintings unaided. Whatever the degree of parental coaching, Bar-Lev’s footage reveals a child who clearly enjoys painting. We see her squeezing gobs of thick acrylic paint directly from the tube onto the canvas, smooshing it around with brushes, fingers, and spatulas, and using plastic squeeze bottles to add delicate squiggles and swirls. Yet, when Bar-Lev tries to film her creating a single work from start to finish, the camera-shy toddler grows silly and restless, and in one incriminating scene, begs her father to draw a smiley face on her picture. (He declines, grinning nervously.)”

Zie ook marlaolmstead.com en de Charlie Rose’ 60 minutes.

The Ray Memorial 100, the 100 Best Non-English Films Ever Made. (Zie ook: Choosing the best non-English language films). (via)

Afbeelding: Ill Conformista van Bertoluci

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