92 Films I Like in Alphabetical Order
31 January 2012 • watchings • no comments
This afternoon I wrote this list with 92 films that I like to make a short video.
01. A History of Violence
02. A Simple Plan
03. A Zed & Two Noughts
04. After Hours
05. Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution
06. Arrebato
07. Back to the Future
08. Barton Fink
09. Blow-Up
10. Body Heat
11. Bubble
12. Buffalo 66
13. Cotton Club
14. Crash
15. Crimes and Misdemeanors
16. Cry Baby
17. Charade
18. Dangerous Liaisons
19. Dead Man
20. Dersu Uzala
21. Die Hard
22. Down by Law
23. Dracula
24. Drive
25. Drowning by Numbers
26. Ed Wood
27. Everyone Says I Love You
28. Exotica
29. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
30. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
31. Fight Club
32. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
33. Godfellas
34. Half Nelson
35. Heathers
36. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
37. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
38. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
39. Kick-Ass
40. L’année dernière à Marienbad
41. L’atalante
42. La pianiste
43. Lars and the Real Girl
44. Leningrad Cowboys Go America
45. Looking for Mr. Goodbar
46. Lost Highway
47. M. Butterfly
48. Manhattan Murder Mystery
49. Match Point
50. My Beautiful Laundrette
51. My Own Private Idaho
52. Mystery Train
53. Night on Earth
54. North by Northwest
55. On connaît la chanson
56. Paris, Texas
57. Peeping Tom
58. Persona
59. Point Break
60. Raiders of the Lost Ark
61. Rashomon
62. Schizopolis
63. Secretary
64. Seven
65. Sex, Lies and Videotapes
66. Simple Men
67. Singing in the Rain
68. Some Like it Hot
69. Splendor In The Grass
70. Star Wars
71. The Adjuster
72. The Age of Innocence
73. The Belly of an Architect
74. The Brown Bunny
75. The Conversation
76. The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover
77. The Empire Strikes Back
78. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
79. The Last Seduction
80. The Living End
81. The Matrix
82. The Moderns
83. The Pillow Book
84. The Princess Bride
85. The Social Network
86. The Usual Suspects
87. Three Colors: Red
88. Underworld
89. V for Vendetta
90. Velvet Goldmine
91. Walkabout
92. Zodiac
Watchings
20 January 2012 • watchings • no comments
• Drive (2011)
Nicolas Winding Refn
• Sherlock, Season 2 (2012)
Mark Gatiss & Steven Moffat
• Black Mirror (2011)
Charlie Brooker
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
Billy Wilder
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
Edgar Wright
• The Pillow Book (1996)
Peter Greenaway
• Point Blank (1967)
John Boorman
• Kick-Ass (2010)
Matthew Vaughn
• The Last Enemy (2008)
Noises can tell you everything
7 January 2012 • out of context • no comments
Sherlock Holmes: There’s going to be a loud noise.
The Woman (Irene Adler): So what?
Sherlock Holmes: Oh, noises are important. Noises can tell you everything.
Sherlock, A Scandal in Belgravia (season 2, episode 1)
Immersion Into Noise
27 November 2011 • out of context • 1 comment
“If anything is representative of the art of noise, it is ambivalence.”
“Art must indict—or at the very least play the role of the noisy jester who unmasks the quietly persistent lies of the powerful.”
“Noise may break some connections, but connections will always continue to grow in other directions, creating new thoughts and new affects.”
“In one respect, all sounds and images are already a kind of noise: data without meaning.”
“An art of noise can also be postulated as a realm of anti-social cultural purpose directed toward the revolutionary transformation of an irrational social reality that insists on calling itself rational.”
“If we agree to combine this thought of noise art as a vacuole of noncommunication with an insistence on signal-to-noise psychological circuit breaking, we gain a more complicated image of noise—as vacuoles that re-route and break-up the pathways of control. Let us therefore entertain a noncommunicating art of noise as an aesthetic act that nevertheless communicates intricately.”
“I hypothesize that an art (or culture) of noise produced in our milieu of image superabundance and information proliferation can problematize culture and hence enliven us to the privacy of the human condition in lieu of the fabulously constructed social spectacle that engulfs and (supposedly) controls us.”
“What the art of noise does is to take the meaninglessness of noise and convert it into the meaningful.”
“I shall establish my fundamental contention that all art is fundamentally conceptual and imaginative because art only exists conceptually and its goal is to change our consciousness.”
“What was once noise (unacceptable) has now become noise music (acceptable and even desirable).”
“For noise to be first noise, it must destabilize us. It must initially jar. It must challenge. It must initiate a glitch of psychic crumbling.”
“Noise art theory, then, involves the exaltation of the void and the melting of unstable frontiers as it expands definitions both inwardly and outwardly to envelope from both sides a felt understanding of the unfettered immensity and myrrh of our universe (where noise of one sort or another is everywhere).”
“Ideally, communication must be separated from noise. Noise is what is not communicated; it is just there as a kind of chaos, as the empirical third element of the message, the accidental part, the part of difference that is excluded.”
“Normal noise, as opposed to art noise, doesn’t mean anything and isn’t about anything; it just is annoyingly so.”
“Torben Sangild points out in his essay “The Aesthetics of Noise” that in Genèse, French philosopher Michel Serres sketched out the idea that the ultimate being-in-itself is noise. Behind the phenomenal world (the world we perceive)—he proposes—is an infinite complexity, an incomprehensible multitude analogous to white noise. What Serres initially finds intriguing about noise (rather than the message) is that it opens up a fertile avenue of reflection. Instead of remaining pure noise, it becomes a means of transport.”
“Noise vs. music, non-intended sounds vs. intended sounds, life vs. art; the oppositional pairs resonating along with the first opposition form an ever-extending thread.”
“hyper-chaos (…) a form of absolutization where nothing is impossible or unthinkable.”
Listenings
17 November 2011 • listenings • no comments
• Radius episode 16: My Hard Drive Is Experiencing Some Strange Noises [listen]
Gregory Chatonsky
• El tren fantasma
Chris Watson
• Worship The Glitch
ELpH vs Coil
• Symeta
Byetone
• Playlist for Noise and Syrup with Jeff M – November 16, 2011 [listen]
The Luddite panic of the nascent punks
16 November 2011 • out of context • no comments
“Several key differences between the two movements {industrial music and punk} should also be noted, in spite of occasional efforts to link the two in their ultimate goals. Chiefly among these differences is the reactionary, Luddite panic that the nascent punks sometimes espoused in the face of new technology. Sound artist Francisco López noted the pitfalls inherent in this attitude when he stated:
“I once read an interview with [Clash guitarist] Joe Strummer, in which he was criticizing technology in music. He said something like ‘I am a musician, I don’t want to be a fucking computer operator’. Surprising to see he didn’t realize about the fucking guitar operator in front of him.”
Microbionic: Radical Electronic Music and Sound Art in the 21st Century
Thomas Bey William Bailey
Watchings
3 November 2011 • watchings • no comments
• The Breakfast Club (1985)
John Hughes
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1987)
John Hughes
• They Call It Acid (2009)
Gordon Mason
• Steve Reich – Phase to Face (2009)
Eric Darmon, Franck Mallet
• The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2011)
Marie Losier
Readings
1 November 2011 • readings • no comments
• Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard [read]
Tom McCarthy, The Guardian, Saturday 24 July 2010
• El elogio de la sombra [leer]
Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
• Lenore #1-13
Roman Dirge
• Psychogeography [read]
Merlin Coverley
• Words Made Flesh. Code, Culture, Imagination [read]
Florian Cramer
• Jacques Attali, author of Noise (1977). Speaking at the ICA, London, May 2001 [read]
Watchings
8 October 2011 • watchings • no comments
• Half Nelson (2006)
Ryan Fleck
• Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Craig Gillespie
• Sound of Noise (2010)
Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson
• The Shock Doctrine (2009)
Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom
• How I Met Your Mother, Seasons 1-6 (2005-2011)
Carter Bays, Craig Thomas
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Nicholas Stoller
• True Blood, Season 4 (2011)
Allan Ball
• The IT Crowd, Seasons 1-4 (2006-2010)
Graham Linehan
• Drive (2011)
Nicolas Winding Refn