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PINNLAND EMPIRE: BALLAST: BORING MASTERPIECE
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Monday, December 3, 2012. Smith's performance in Ballast is a response to bullshit like The Green Mile. Ballast may not have dreamy voice-over (which is an easy route that Hammer coulda taken given the film's tone) but the use of natural sunlight and shots of the southern American landscapes are very reminiscent of Terrence Malick's early work. Not since Isaiah Washington's performance in Clockers has the "angry frustrated black male" been dissected. Based on true events. Brooklyn academy of music. ILLUS...
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PINNLAND EMPIRE: BORING MASTERPIECE: OLD JOY
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013. BORING MASTERPIECE: OLD JOY. Man, Mark, you really hold on to shit. Living in New York City can makes things even worse sometimes. Everything from buying a pack of gum to taking the subway feels like some grind or a hustle. It’s difficult to relax, it’s expensive so you don't always have the money to get away from the craziness for the weekend (partially what Old Joy. Although there is tension this is a peaceful story full nature, silence and meditation. Old Joy. Has a sooth...
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PINNLAND EMPIRE: THE CINEMA OF TODD SOLONDZ TOLD THROUGH IMAGES & STILLS...
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Monday, June 2, 2014. THE CINEMA OF TODD SOLONDZ TOLD THROUGH IMAGES and STILLS. I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work. It's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore. But the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation. Welcome To The Dollhouse. Emotional abuse and neglect ( Welcome To the Dollhouse. Bullying ( Welcome To The Dollhouse. Welcome To The Dollhouse. There`s good laugh...
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PINNLAND EMPIRE: THE CINEMA OF HAL HARTLEY TOLD THROUGH IMAGES & STILLS...AND VIDEO
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Monday, March 3, 2014. THE CINEMA OF HAL HARTLEY TOLD THROUGH IMAGES and STILLS.AND VIDEO. For me the fun in making motion pictures is in trying to make the invisible tensions and connections between people visible through activity. When the boy places his hand on the table and the girl removes hers and returns it to her lap – what’s that mean? And directed Karen Silas in her second greatest performance ( Simple Men. Then go watch something by Miranda July ( Me and You and Everyone We Know. This cinema o...
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PINNLAND EMPIRE: BORING MASTERPIECE: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015. BORING MASTERPIECE: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST. Portrait Of The Artist. Is everything I’ve been looking for in a movie. It’s beautiful, problematic, boring, alienating, dryly comical, up its own ass at times (and fully aware of it) and thought provoking all at once. It's an ode to modern French cinema in the same way that Olivier Assayas’ Irma Vep. Was (there’s even an Irma Vep. Reference in the film). Not only does Portrait Of The Artist. Involve the characters strolling through F...
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PINNLAND EMPIRE: THE CINEMA OF MICHAEL HANEKE PART TWO: RACISM & RACIAL TENSION (CODE UNKNOWN & CACHE)
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Friday, February 1, 2013. THE CINEMA OF MICHAEL HANEKE PART TWO: RACISM and RACIAL TENSION (CODE UNKNOWN and CACHE). Since the beginning of Haneke's career he’s hinted at issues like white privilege and the theory of white guilt. The families in all his early films ( Seventh Continent, Benny's Video. Were upper class white people who essentially suffer or pay for being wealthy, white and privileged. In Benny's Video. That explored that. But there's one profound scene in Code Unknown. Which we'll get in t...
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PINNLAND EMPIRE: FISHING WITH JOHN: SEASON THREE
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011. FISHING WITH JOHN: SEASON THREE. We're going to keep within the time period that season 3 would have taken place (probably around 1994). EPISODE 301: Arto Lindsay. Arto Linday (far left) w/ John Lurie (middle) in The Lounge Lizards. 1 The Lounge Lizards. 2 Both make appearances in 'Downtown 81' and 'Desperatley Seeking Susan'. EPISODE 302: Harvey Keitel. Keitel and Lurie in 'The Last Temptation'. 2 John Lurie did the soundtrack for a movie Keitel was in (Get Shorty). THE CINEMA...
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PINNLAND EMPIRE: THE CINEMA OF CARLOS REYGADAS TOLD THROUGH IMAGES & STILLS...
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013. THE CINEMA OF CARLOS REYGADAS TOLD THROUGH IMAGES and STILLS. When cinema is true, it is a language in itself - that is why it is an art. I hate the idea that a good film is a good story, as Hollywood people say. That's not letting cinema be totally free. Men In Search Of. Nudity and the human body. Tarkovsky, Dryer, Bresson and other Inspirations. L-R) Au Hazard Balthazard (Bresson) Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky) This Is My Kingdom (Reygadas). Ordet (Dreyer) Silent Light (Reygadas).
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PINNLAND EMPIRE: FISHING WITH JOHN: SEASON TWO (what if...)
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Monday, July 25, 2011. FISHING WITH JOHN: SEASON TWO (what if.). EPISODE 201: Roberto Benigni. Lurie and Beningi @ Cannes in '86. 1 Lurie and Begnini acted together in 'Down By Law',. 2 Lurie did the soundtrack for a film Benigni's wife acted in ('Mystery Train'). EPISODE 202: Wim Wenders. John Lurie in Wenders' 'Paris, Texas'. 1 Wender's "silently co-produced" a film John Lurie starred in ('Stranger Than Paradise'). 2 Lurie acted in Wender's 'Paris, Texas'. EPISODE 203: David Lynch. Around this time Ste...
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PINNLAND EMPIRE: THE CINEMA OF KELLY REICHARDT TOLD THROUGH IMAGES & STILLS...
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Friday, August 1, 2014. THE CINEMA OF KELLY REICHARDT TOLD THROUGH IMAGES and STILLS. I don't know if I could come up with my own personal list of today's top American filmmakers right now (too many of them are too inconsistent, inactive or new these days), but if Kelly Reichardt were one of the names on someone else’s list, I wouldn't be mad at that. These days when I think of “American Cinema”, I think of stuff like. In the last 8 years, Kelly Reichardt has explored everything from poverty (. Wendy is ...
