posts tagged ‘cinema’
92 Films I Like in Alphabetical Order
31 January 2012 • watchings
tags: cinema, comedy, comics, death, desire, drugs, dystopia, fantasy, fiction, killers, love, murder, sex, suicide
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
tags: cinema, control, death, dystopia, fantasy, fiction, humour, love, politics, television, tv series
• 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)
Watchings
3 November 2011 • watchings
tags: cinema, comedy, documentaries, love, minimal, music, sound
• 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
Watchings
8 October 2011 • watchings
tags: capitalism, cinema, comedy, documentaries, drugs, economy, humour, love, music, noise, perception, politics, sound, television, tv series, vampires
• 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
Retroactive continuity
18 August 2011 • out of context
tags: books, cinema, fiction, quotes, television
Retroactive continuity (often shortened to retcon) is an oxymoron that refers to the alteration of previously established facts in a fictional work.
Another thing to learn about tears
24 July 2011 • out of context
tags: cinema, death, love, quotes, religion
“I’m supposed to cry and all that junk, but I’m pretty sure I’ve cried all the tears I had out of me by now. The last time I cried was at grandma’s funeral (…) and that’s when I figured out that tears couldn’t make someone who was dead alive again. There’s another thing to learn about tears: they can’t make somebody who doesn’t love you anymore love you again. It’s the same thing with prayers, I wonder how much of their lives people waste crying and praying to God, trying to make things that happened unhappen. If you ask me, the devil makes more sense than God does, I can at least see why people would want him around: It’s good to have somebody to blame for the bad stuff they do.”
The Discipline of DE
17 April 2011 • watchings
tags: cinema, conscience, control, fiction, patterns
This short film by Gus Van Sant is so absurd in a sort of [search for proper adjective] way that it reminds me to Peter Greenaway.
The script is based on The Discipline of DE, a short story by William S. Burroughs from the book Exterminator!
Lo Sublime
29 March 2011 • out of context
tags: books, cinema, mathematics, perception, pleasure, quotes
“Kant distinguía dos especies de Sublime, matemático y dinámico, lo inmenso y lo poderoso, lo desmesurado y lo informe. Ambas tenían la propiedad de deshacer la composición orgánica, una desbordándola, la otra quebrándola. En lo sublime matemático, la unidad de medida extensiva cambia tanto que la imaginación ya no logra comprenderla, choca con su propio límite, se anonada, pero da lugar a una facultad pensante que nos fuerza a concebir lo inmenso o lo desmesurado como todo. En lo sublime dinámico, es la intensidad la que se eleva a una potencia tal que ciega o aniquila nuestro ser orgánico, lo deja aterrorizado, pero suscita una facultad pensante por la cual nos sentimos superiores a aquello que nos aniquila, para descubrir en nosotros un espíritu supraorgánico que domina toda la vida inorgánica de las cosas: entonces ya no tenemos miedo, pues sabemos que nuestra «destinación» espiritual es lisa y llanamente invencible”.
La imagen-movimiento
Gilles Deleuze
Ediciones Paidós