March 7, 2012
Wow. I don’t know how people can even give “experimental” filmmakers like Harmonie Korine the time of day when artists like Guy Maddin exist. The fact they both won prizes at the Toronto International Film Festival is baffling. homeofthevain: Guy Maddin, My Winnipeg (film still) “During 1926 cold winter, all the horses from the hippodrome fled away after the stables went on fire. Their only scape-way was the river. But they all froze before managing to reach the opposite side. Their sculptural heads with terror still in their eyes served as a leisure park that season. I wonder in which moment the following spring carried them out into the sea, without anyone noticing.” Via deconcrete. Buy My Winnipeg. More film stills.

Wow. I don’t know how people can even give “experimental” filmmakers like Harmonie Korine the time of day when artists like Guy Maddin exist. The fact they both won prizes at the Toronto International Film Festival is baffling.

homeofthevain:

Guy Maddin, My Winnipeg (film still)

“During 1926 cold winter, all the horses from the hippodrome fled away after the stables went on fire. Their only scape-way was the river. But they all froze before managing to reach the opposite side. Their sculptural heads with terror still in their eyes served as a leisure park that season. I wonder in which moment the following spring carried them out into the sea, without anyone noticing.”

Via deconcrete. Buy My Winnipeg. More film stills.

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Filed under: Film Art Guy Maddin 
January 23, 2012
Cleo from 5 to 7 was one of those Sarah Lawrence film class inclusions I just never understood - something about its feminist self-obsession irks me, a common problem for me with “gorgeous women acting crazy” films to this day. I always want to tell those characters to get their shit together and move on with life. Crazy is a luxury I can’t abide. thisrecording: Cléo from 5 to 7 shows the act of watching as directing the self inward, rather than outward. Like hypochondria, it allows for the illusion that everything is about you.

Cleo from 5 to 7 was one of those Sarah Lawrence film class inclusions I just never understood - something about its feminist self-obsession irks me, a common problem for me with “gorgeous women acting crazy” films to this day. I always want to tell those characters to get their shit together and move on with life. Crazy is a luxury I can’t abide.

thisrecording:

Cléo from 5 to 7 shows the act of watching as directing the self inward, rather than outward. Like hypochondria, it allows for the illusion that everything is about you.

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Filed under: Cleo from 5 to 7 Film 
August 12, 2011

To the part of this quote I bolded: no shit. The apocalypse has been my most favorite daily fantasy since I was 12. Does that mean the world isn’t working for me?

bbook:

Have you always been fascinated by this idea of the apocalypse? 

When I saw Mad Max when I was a kid, me and my best friend were completely obsessed with it for a period of time. I don’t know how much I thought about it after that, but when the idea came up that that was a big part of the characters in the movie, it became a part of my life. I mean, I have a theory that people obsess over the apocalypse because the world has become such an unchangeable machine that’s bigger than all of us, and the only thing that could ever come and reset it would be if there was an apocalypse. And I think that’s probably an even more interesting idea for people who think the world isn’t working for them. So if you’re in a bad place in your life, the world is not going to change for you, you have to change for it, unless of course the apocalypse comes.

 Evan Glodell on Bellflower, Breakups, and the Apocalypse

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Filed under: hw film bellflower 
April 19, 2011

Animal Kingdom - Official Full Length Trailer (by AnimalKingdomFilm)

Animal Kingdom, 2010 Sundance Winner, a must-see psychological crime drama set in Melbourne. The family interactions were amazingly written and I believe Jacki Weaver should have gotten that Supporting Actress Oscar.

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Filed under: Animal Kingdom Film 
April 16, 2011

Say what you will about Lars Von Trier, but when he does apocalypse, I’m going to watch.

From HUH magazine:

“According to Danish director Lars Von Trier, who we all know from provocative films like Antichrist, The Idiots and Manderlay, his new science-fiction drama Melancholica is “a beautiful movie about the end of the world”. In the past Von Trier has said he won’t be doing any more happy endings, so this story about two sisters who find their relationship challenged by a nearby planet threatening to collide with the Earth seems to fit perfectly into that. The film, which stars Kirsten Dunst, Alexander Skarsgård, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kiefer Sutherland, is set to premiere at this year’s Cannes and will be on general release from 1 July in the UK”

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Filed under: Film Lars Von Trier Melancholia HUH magazine