bogie / kathy / africa

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Searching for John 1

The Gate

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Redacted Brian De Palma

hate hate hate
colonization
media
journalism
war war war
the united states
of america
america

(via chained and perfumed)

JLG:3-D

If you can't beat 'em, problematize 'em: Jean-Luc Godard's next movie, Goodbye to Language 3D, is shooting this summer.  Has the great one embraced the technology of the multiplex? Sort of-à sa façon: Godard is jerry-rigging his own 3-D camera out of two mobile phones fitted with lenses.  That's par for the course given the filmmaker's curiosity about image innovation, from Raoul Coutard's night photography in Breathless to the slow-motion studies of Sauve qui peut. As for the plot, you know better than that.  Production summary excerpt: "A married woman and a single man meet.  They love, they argue, fists fly...  From the human race we pass to metaphor."  Film Socialisme DP Fabrice Aragno returns to shoot.

From Film Comment July/August 2012 Volume 48/Number 4

Sight & Sound Top Ten

While this sort of list is kind of ridiculous and could change at anytime I believe if I would've been asked by Sight & Sound this year to give my submission for the ten greatest films it would've looked something like this: 

City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)

Melancholia (Lav Diaz, 2008)

N:O:T:H:I:N:G (Paul Sharits, 1968)

L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)

Oxhide II (Liu Jiayin, 2009)

Le vent d'est (Groupe Dziga Vertov, 1970)

L'enfant secret (Philippe Garrel, 1979)

L'humanité (Bruno Dumont, 1999)

Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967)

Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975)