April 08, 2008
Re: Terrence Malick
Malick's first film Badlands (1973) is ostensibly a semi-factual account of a mass-murderer and his girlfriend, set in the 1950s. What's immediately unusual about the film is its lack of interest in trying to explain the causes of its protagonists' violent behaviors, and furthermore, its lack of moral judgment of these individuals or the culture that produced them. Instead the film's focus is concentrated on their experience of alienation from the world that they inhabit and its values
Although notoriously withdrawn from public life, friends have always remarked that Terrence Malick is a very warm and humble man who prefers to work without media intrusion. His contracts stipulate that no current photographs of him are to be taken, and he routinely declines requests for interviews. His only known public appearance was in October of 2007 for a conversation with film historians Antonio Monda and Mario Sesti as part of the Rome Film Festival...
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January 31, 2008
"Manos" The Hands of Fate
Richard Beymer's Twin Peaks Gallery
"Manos" The Hands of Fate is a 1966 American horror film written, directed and produced by El Paso fertilizer salesman Harold P. Warren. Warren also starred in the film, alongside El Paso theater actors Tom Neyman and John Reynolds. The film is best known for having been featured in a 1993 episode of the television comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000, a show based on the premise of mocking B-movies, which gave the film cult status…
Upon its theatrical debut, the film was poorly received, and remained obscure until its Mystery Science Theater appearance. It has since gained infamy as one of the worst films ever made
The seafarers, (1953) Kubrick's first feature made in color
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January 24, 2008
A relationship is like a shark
In psychology, anhedonia is an inability to experience pleasure from normally pleasurable life events such as eating, exercise and social or sexual interaction. It was also supposed to be the original title of Woody Allen's 1977 film Annie Hall, but it was considered unmarketable.
Annie Hall with Getty Stock Video. An excerpt by Aleksandra Domanovic
MOTHER
(To the doctor)
He's been depressed. All off a sudden,
he can't do anything.
DOCTOR
(Nodding)
Why are you depressed, Alvy?
MOTHER
(Nudging Alvy)
Tell Dr. Flicker.
(Young Alvy sits, his head down. His
mother answers for him)
It's something he read.
DOCTOR
(Puffing on his cigarette and
nodding)
Something he read, huh?
ALVY
(His head still down)
The universe is expanding.
DOCTOR
The universe is expanding?
ALVY
(Looking up at the doctor)
Well, the universe is everything, and if
it's expanding, someday it will break apart
and that would be the end of everything!
Disgusted, his mother looks at him.
MOTHER
(shouting)
What is that your business?
(she turns back to the doctor)
He stopped doing his homework.
ALVY
What's the point?
MOTHER
(Excited, gesturing with her hands)
What has the universe got to do with it?
You're here in Brooklyn! Brooklyn is not
expanding!
DOCTOR
(Heartily, looking down at Alvy)
It won't be expanding for billions of years
yet, Alvy. And we've gotta try to enjoy
ourselves while we're here. Uh?
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January 19, 2008
Grand Hotel, Rimini
A series of (mostly obscure) photographs of 50 great directors at work. (Among the other miniseries at the wonderful Charlie Parker / Gunslinger – The Post-War Paradise of William Gottlieb (Episode One: Love, Order and Consumption)
He directed that? Out of character movies by 14 directors known for a different style & themes
The Grand Hotel in Rimini, known from Fellini’s Amarcord. One of Top 10 hotels from the movies
How 3 graphic designers created D-Day on a shoe string budget for the TV program "Bloody Omaha". (Why do people think that a distracting & loud music track is always necessary? YT)
(Photo above from David Bordwell)
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October 22, 2007
The fool looks at a finger that points at the sky
“On September 3rd 1973, at 6:28pm and 32 seconds, a bluebottle fly capable of 14,670 wing beats a minute landed on Rue St Vincent, Montmartre. At the same moment, on a restaurant terrace nearby, the wind magically made two glasses dance unseen on a tablecloth. Meanwhile, in a 5th-floor flat, 28 Avenue Trudaine, Paris 9, returning from his best friend's funeral, Eugène Colère erased his name from his address book. At the same moment, a sperm with one X chromosome, belonging to Raphaël Poulain, made a dash for an egg in his wife Amandine. Nine months later, Amélie Poulain was born…”
This weekend I was watching Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain again. I enjoyed it a lot, again.
The story behind Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party
Re-post: An earlier short by Jean-Pierre Jeunet & also with Dominique Pinon - “Things I like, things I hate”
More YouTube by Jeunet: Trailer for Delicatessen
Elsewhere: My Gollum
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September 01, 2007
I remember Fellini
I just saw again one of my favorite films of all time, Fellini’s Amarcord. The clip above is of poor quality, and doesn’t do justice to the poetics & drama of this flawless masterpiece
The Turkish Exorcist
Star Wars silk screen by Eelus
Red is the color of doomed comedy
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August 20, 2007
Dali on "What's My Line?"
Also, the complete Un Chien Andalou. (From Dali at the movies)
Re-post from 2003: Un Chien Andalou Frame Enlargements
Ingmar Bergman's Persona posters
Brendan Dawes’ distilled films
A big collection of Two O’clock Trailers at Cynical-C
A big collection of odd movie stills at Musselsoppans Vänner
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July 03, 2007
He ain't pretty no more
(From The art of Scorsese)
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April 03, 2007
"...At the age of seventy-six, I feel that I'm much too old to lie to myself..."
My Dinner with De Niro. (From TickleBooth)
David Lynch on Product Placement
(Clip above from a Q&A on Ask Mefi. Many more wonderful Bergman clips on the same YouTube page, including the beginning of Wild Strawberries)
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February 17, 2007
Bill Murray stepped here
John Waters announces: No smoking is allowed in this theatre
A collection of monthly calendars. Each calendar contains visual elements sourced from and inspired by the work of Wong Kar-Wai
Phil Connors? Watch Out For That First Step, It's A Doozey! (From Tom Mcmahon). Groundhog Day’s trivia: The film was not inspired by Ouspensky’s "Strange Life of Ivan Osokin"
…As an homage to Howard Hawks' Scarface, Scorsese scattered Xs throughout “The Departed”, using them as a symbol of impending doom…
Terry Gilliam’s installation Past People of Potsdamer Platz
“If you turn on a Nicolas Cage movie and you notice Rosie Perez’s name is in the credits, you should probably watch something else. Otherwise you’re just gonna sit through a bad Nicolas Cage movie.” Other Signs Indicating That You Are Watching A Bad Nicolas Cage Movie
Postcards of Cinema Houses from around the world. (From Martin Klasch)
“I find your lack of pants disturbing” and 2656 other Star Wars Lines Improved By Replacing A Word With "Pants"
Star Wars in ASCIImation. This movie may be rated PG-45
Don’t fool around with recombinant DNA technology unless you’re sure you know what you are doing. How To Survive a Horror Movie
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June 29, 2006
Here's Johnny
Day of the fight, Stanley Kubrick's first short film from 1951. (Thank you, Jamie!)
Visiting the Timberline Lodge, Mount Hood, Oregon. Other pretty location reviews at “Cinema Astoria”
“Shining” Redux. Some Shining Trvia
Music from The Shining. (From White Man Stew)
Treehouse of Horror V, The Simpsons spoof of The Shining
Elsewhere: A public service commercial to "clean up new york", directed by David Lynch and photographed by Frederick Elmes
A difficult Opening Shots Quiz. How many can you guess?
“Not worth the crayons it took to write the script". 4 years worth of Defective Yeti’s Bad Review Revue
Tupac Shakur in Forrest Gump? Top 25 Rejected Movie Roles
Woodenhead, the movie
How to Write Screenplays. Badly
“Simply Scripts” - Read scripts online
Cien de Cine. (From Monkeys for helping)
I viddied it on the screen, Alex Jack’s in-depth reviews of films he likes
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March 05, 2006
Oscar Watch
How can I get in touch with John Waters? You can write the indie bookstore Atomic Books in Baltimore. They collect snail mail for him. (No emails. From ‘Dreamland’, the ultimate online guide to John Waters)
The David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace
What's the longest time separating a movie from its sequel? (A Metafilter thread)
6 Degrees of Samuel L. Jackson
Gift certificate for one day of service of Mr. Handyman. Part of the The Official Academy Awards Gift Bag (aka Oscar goody/goodie/gift bag/basket), worth this year more than $100,000
Welcome to the first and only website dedicated exclusively to old movie star trading cards. This site contains illustrated checklists and sales lists for thousands of movie star cigarette cards and other movie star trading cards from about 1910-1965
FW Murnau’s classic movie Nosferatu (1922) as seen in its entirety on Google Video
1-World Festival of Foreign Films on video & DVD. (Thank you, C.)
Update: Academy Awards Preview with Melissa Rivers & what's is name
Yesterday, there were 13,528 page views on this blog. How come (nearly) nobody leaves any comments here?
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December 07, 2005
"A spider the size of a Buick"
Woody Allen turned 70, and the weakness of his recent films obscures the fact this is one of the great American filmmakers. We take him for granted, think of him as a cottage industry producing little boutique films, one a year, like clockwork. But since 1969, he has racked up so many masterpieces, so many near-masterpieces and so many just plain good movies that there's no denying his place among the great writer-directors: Sturges, Welles, Keaton, Chaplin.
Woody Allen mask by Canadian artist Patrick Lundeen
The complete script to Annie Hall
Anemic Cinema by Marcel Duchamp (1926, 26.1 mb AVI)
A comprehensive listing of all the locations which John Hughes filmed at
1950's Sci-Fi Vintage Lobby Cards
“250” helps you manage the movies you've seen from the IMDb Top 250
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Online Adventure
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September 07, 2005
My Brunch With Andre
The German-Hollywood Connection
I didn’t realize at the time that the cartoon 'The Angriest Dog in The World' was written by David Lynch. Actually, I didn’t like it even then. From The Universe of David Lynch
Napoleon Dynamite ASCII Animation
Locations used by Stanley Kubrick in his films. The Kubrick Site!
Fassbinder's complete film credits
The Saga of Brazil - interview with Terry Gilliam
Images from Blow Up
Lesser-Known Movie Prequels, from "Ocean's Three" to "There Are Plenty of Mohicans"
Dennis Hopper's The Last Movie. (From ”Pimpadelic Wonderland”)
Cahiers du cinema (en français)
Katrina Tetris, one of the worst disasters to hit the US
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June 21, 2005
Lucas VS. Spielberg
The new Ingmar Bergman Face To Face
Stanley Kubrick's Chicago. Few people know that before he started making movies, Stanley Kubrick was a star photojournalist. In the summer of 1949, Look magazine sent him to Chicago to shoot pictures for a story called "Chicago City of Contrasts."
Lucas VS. Spielberg. Two young men, carving out movie empires for themselves as they build sandcastles on the beach
Midnight Eye - Reviews and interviews with contemporary Japanese directors
Stan Brakhage on the Web
Interview with Darren Aronofsky about “The Fountain”
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February 13, 2005
Pierrot Le Fou
A new, wonderful trailer to Jean-Luc Godard’s Masculine Feminine. How we were young. (From ”Screenhead”). Selected filmography. Godard Timeline 1930-1970
Rare Luis Buñuel Posters. (From ”Rashomon”)
From 1969 to 1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder directed over 40 productions, most of them feature films, a few TV specials and one huge 931-minute TV mini-series Berlin Alexanderplatz. (From ”Great directors”)
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Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is “Photodude” by photographer Reid Stott in Atlanta. If you wish to have your blog considered as “Blog Of The Day”, or if you know of a blog that should get same recognition, please email me at realhanan (at) yahoo (dot) com, or post a comment at the bottom of this post.
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December 31, 2004
Bruckheimer, Riefenstahl, Bunuel
Leni Riefenstahl . (See bio page for photos with Siegfried & Roy, Mick & Bianca Jagger)
Guide to Determine If You Are in a Jerry Bruckheimer Movie:
1. Your girlfriend is a waitress, but could be a model.
2. A bus explodes.
3. A psychopathic millionaire devises an elaborate plan to murder you or someone you know ...
4. ... and you feel compelled to stop it.
5. You are Nicholas Cage…
(Much more)
"All Stanley Kubricks please be quiet and eat their lunch"
Four Unproduced Screenplays, including “One Saliva Bubble” by David Lynch and “Avatar” by James Cameron
Some Buñuel Quotes: "Thank God I'm an atheist", being one of the famous ones. Strictly Film School: Analysis of The Exterminating Angel, Belle de Jour, and That Obscure Object of Desire
Also, End of year summery from Dave Berry: No Thanks for the Memories
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October 17, 2004
El Topo
Trailers for all of Charlie Kaufman movies, from “Being John Malkovich” to “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”
Lucas’s THX 1138
Frederick Wiseman's made his documentary debut with "Titicut Follies", a survey of conditions that existed during the mid-'60s at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Made in 1967, the film was subjected to a worldwide ban until 1992 because the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that it was an invasion of inmate privacy. The film goes behind the walls to show stark and graphic images exposing the treatment of inmates by guards, social workers, and psychiatrists. The title refers to a musical revue staged by inmates and guards
If ever there was a movie made entirely out of nostalgia and joy, by a filmmaker at the heedless height of his powers, that movie is Federico Fellini's "Amarcord." A good review from Roger Ebert’s Great Films
Photo above of Alejandro Jodorowsky. Our Extensive Collections of Best Film Directors and other Unusual Film Stories Here
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August 12, 2004
Perfect Movies
5 great unfinished films by Eisenstein, Orson Welles & others. Another Kubrick item that is making the rounds now: Five Things You Probably Didn't Notice in “The Shining”
According to a new mathematical formula, “The Shining” has been named the perfect scary movie
The Konformist, An Interpretation of Kubrick's “Eyes Wide Shut”. (From “Invisible College”)
Primary themes of some famous film directors. For example: Fellini - Characters attempt to escape their loneliness, their madness and societies obligations through the pursuit of dreams…
Alan J. Pakula’s 16 movies.
I’m reliving my movie watching days of the seventies by finding old favorites on the net. Do you remember Dusan Makavejev's anarchist manifesto sweet movie ? When I studied cinema, I watched 500 movies a year. Now I hardly watch 10
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July 10, 2004
Surrealist directors
Tim Burton’s Stain Boy shorts and Poetry
Also, Tim Burton’s Melancholy Stories
A short Homage to Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick’s script “Napoleon” (PDF-file. From the rich archives of Coudal’s Kubrick Stuff)
Ron Burrage, Alfred Hitchcock Lookalike
In 1973, Two years after “El Topo”, Alexandro Jodorowsky made The Holy Mountain, an even more surreal film, which includes some of the most bizarre, grotesque and extraordinary imagery ever put on to celluloid… See some strange clips from The Holy Mountain
Great Directors - a critical database
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April 11, 2004
“That name sounds like royalty – Are you royalty?”
Gunny Hartman welcomes you to this website! Also, “Do you think I’m cute, Private Pyle, do you think I’m funny?!” “Full Metal Jacket” Soundboard from “Ebaumsworld”.
Steadicam work on “The Shining” (From the Italian Archivio Kubrick)
Citizen Kubrick: Stanley Kubrick's films were landmark events - majestic, memorable and richly researched. But, as the years went by, the time between films grew longer and longer, and less and less was seen of the director. What on earth was he doing? Two years after his death, Jon Ronson was invited to the Kubrick estate and let loose among the fabled archive. He was looking for a solution to the mystery - this is what he found.
Bergman 'depressed' by own films
From director Wim Wenders and his wife, Donata The Buena Vista Social Club Companion Book
The John Cassavetes Pages, dedicated to the spiritual father of American Independent filmmaking
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March 16, 2004
Dancer In The Dark
The film about Carlos Castañeda that Fellini never started
Thoughts on Lars von Trier’s “Dancer In The Dark”. The opening scene in this movie is exceptional.
The Von Piglet Sisters wrote, directed, edited, acted in, composed songs for, and executive produced “Gory Gory Hallelujah”…
Wim Wenders, The Official website
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January 31, 2004
Next, I'd Like to Direct - Film Directors from the old "Grow-a-Brain"
All films of Merchant Ivory Productions
Belle De Jour and posters of the most beautiful actress in the world - 11/30/03
Bresson (From "Senses of Cinema")
Busby Berkeley's dance clip from "42nd Street" (From Lynn's tribute to Busby Berkeley) Here is the 2003 Broadway version of 42nd Street
Cigarettes & Coffee, Greg Mariotti's site about PT Anderson & his films - 1/6/04
Citizen Kane Snowdome - 5" tall. $33.50 - 12/4/03
Clark & Kubrik , (From "Underview" 2001 ASCII Odyssey - 10/11/03). Unwrapping the Slit Scan sequences in "2001 A Space Odyssey", and how it was done. (From March Design) - 11/24/03. Other Stanley Kubrick Links. For example: Kubrick's Posters and a site dedicated to the locations used by Stanley Kubrick in his films
Commercials, ads & promos by David Lynch. (From Linkdump). Lynch Posters. (From Incoming Signals) - 9/1/03
Film Critic Henry Sheehan interviews Clint Eastwood about his love of jazz and use of music in his movies - 12/19/03
Forty top film directors in the world today, acording to "The Guardian" - 11/15/03
Godard's 1965 "Alphaville" script - 1/3/04. Godard's early movies, for rent as DVD's
"In the Heart of the Universe" , a new LA Weekly interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky. His cultish underground status
Shooting Stories with Soderbergh - 10/18/03
Test your knowledge of Coen brothers movies - 10/23/03
That's all, folks - "Big movies now cost $100m and that figure is going up. How can the studios afford it? They can't." Filmmaker John Boorman on an industry facing meltdown (A Guardian article) - 9/13/03
The John Carpenter Website
Un Chien Andalou Frame Enlargements, A film by Luis Buñuel, and other Surreal Films (From "Vigna-maru") - 7/28/03
Woody Allen Typefaces -9/04/03
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