there are scenes, there are blues, there are boots, there are shoes, there are turks....
recently I have watched....
Keep in mind I have only watch La jetée of that dvd and not watched (but I will!) of Sans Soleil, but La jetée. What a film! I feel I need to watch it again, to fully digest it.. it's 28 minutes of pure bliss. A foreign film you don't need to have the subtitles on because it's told in stills, so you can just use the english narration making it just as effective. It's a film made entirely out of stills, from 1962. it's very avant-garde, but I love it! Apparently 12 Monkeys is a remake of this, yet in a more hollywood fashion. I have not seen it, but now that I know this I want to very badly...
Andrei Rublev is an epic film, which I am surprised I enjoyed as much as I did. Switching gears from the previous film, this is a 3 1/2 hours of Russian tranquil film making that I was overwhelmed with... I only made it two hours through Solaris, but I rented that completely unaware the director/film was Russian and so experimental- with Andrei I knew what to expect. The thing I love most about the movie is that the scenes seem endless... either they go on and on landscape wise or just seem to drag across the scene while everything is in action, making it that much more realistic as if it was filmed when these events from 14th century were actually happening. I must watch more films by Andrei Tarkovsky and give Solaris another shot.
And of recent films...
I must say, this is one intense film. Incredibly realistic depiction of two stories: One, a family ready to immigrate to the United States from Honduras via hitching train rides. Two, a boy named Casper involved in the extremely powerful and violent gang Mara Salvatrucha who has just introduced a new recruit has his girlfriend killed by the gang's leader. He becomes upset but is still with the gang, and as the man who killed his girl friend is about to kill the girl from the immigrating family, Casper kills him. Thus Casper is on the run from the gang and befriends the girl, against much of her family's dismay. Was that a hard to follow description? Either way, this is one gripping film, perhaps more interesting if you are familiar with the gang (youtube them or something: MS-13), yet with stunning visuals of poverty in Mexico and some amazing acting, Sin Nombre is perhaps the best film I have seen all year...
Oh, and I am also slowly making my way through this...
some 15 hour epic about pre-nazi Germany, set in Berlin. It's takes a while to get started let me tell you, but Rainer Werner Fassbinder is amazing, who I must say lived an interesting life on top of his tremendous, yet short, film career.
I really want to see these...
Pier Paolo Pasolini apparently did not want this title for the English/U.S. release of the film, as the italian title Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo does not title him a Saint. Yet the english title of The Gospel According to St. Matthew without the Saint part sounds very funny to me. Who would we identify with just Matthew?
I need to work on finishing
so I can start on
and as of lately I am listening to nothing...
having absolute bullshit to do is painful, I wake up every day feeling numb.
it's too cold to enjoy life
oh and I have bought my parents and sister absolutely nothing for christmas, which only makes the approaching day that much more horrendous.