Sons and lovers (Jack Cardiff)
Master American style photography
Interesting dilogue
The crucified lovers (A Story from Chikamatsu) Kenji Mizoguchi
Blissfully yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
The piece before Tropical Malady
Monday, April 10, 2017
Friday, April 07, 2017
Friday night black/white asian films
Sisters of the Gion 1936 Kenji Mizoguchi
Masterpiece! and 1936!!!!!!
He lived 58 years and directed 90 films!
And he is a TAURUS!
I saw his movie "Ugetsu" many years ago - somehow not so impressed, probably I didn't like the style of fable story.
Spring in a small town 1948 Fei Mu
Chinese masterpiece!
Masterpiece! and 1936!!!!!!
He lived 58 years and directed 90 films!
And he is a TAURUS!
I saw his movie "Ugetsu" many years ago - somehow not so impressed, probably I didn't like the style of fable story.
Spring in a small town 1948 Fei Mu
Chinese masterpiece!
Thursday, April 06, 2017
The great loneliness, the special loneliness
La epidemia de la soledad gay / The Epidemic of
Gay Loneliness
Gay Loneliness
and this --
Gay Loneliness Is Real—but “Bitchy, Toxic” Culture Isn’t the Full Story - http://www.slate.com/…/gay_loneliness_is_real_but_toxic_gay…
QUOTES:
Whether we recognize it or not, our bodies bring the closet with us into adulthood.
This is how I spent my adolescence, too: being careful, slipping up, stressing out, overcompensating. Once, at a water park, one of my middle-school friends caught me staring at him as we waited for a slide. “Dude, did you just check me out?” he said. I managed to deflect—something like “Sorry, you’re not my type”—then I spent weeks afterward worried about what he was thinking about me. But he never brought it up. All the bullying took place in my head.
QUOTES:
Whether we recognize it or not, our bodies bring the closet with us into adulthood.
This is how I spent my adolescence, too: being careful, slipping up, stressing out, overcompensating. Once, at a water park, one of my middle-school friends caught me staring at him as we waited for a slide. “Dude, did you just check me out?” he said. I managed to deflect—something like “Sorry, you’re not my type”—then I spent weeks afterward worried about what he was thinking about me. But he never brought it up. All the bullying took place in my head.
Sao paulo sao paulo
Stormy in Sao Paulo tonight
US bombing Syria
what a night..
Good man good woman 1993 Hou Hsiao Hsian
THe use of silhouette of the villain figure (dark) + protagonist under the light (bright) dominating the frame, at the end move to edge of the frame, blocking the woman, while the child /baby walks to the middle of the frame. for a while.
A landscape wide shot (two trees), long at least 10 seconds, with non symmetrical, image, left side blank, one smaller tree in the middle but not exactly in the middle, a bigger tree on the right side, only 2/3 in the frame.
watching him film, is a feeling, a feeling of mass, a group of people, walking back and forth, running around, chasing this that belongs or doesn't belong to them
coldly express how Haodong executed, cremation bureau asks for money, they borrow money all over the place, the she asked her sister, did she see him, she said, yes, three bullets in the chest, head injury, etc - quite cold feeling
A comparison of 1950s and 1990s - both meetings, the dean of middle school is talking about how the classes conflicting problem, farmers, landlords, how to sell their house to make a newspaper so people know more, while in 1990s, the gang member meeting is all talking about to make networks, getting more money, killing other group of gang
as Hou use long wide shot, he has his own method for blocking in his long shot, , make it un-symmetrical, make it realistic but unusual, to make extra points
In the heat of sun 1994 Jiang Wen
The use of music
slow tracking shot of the young men sing "ka qiu sha"
Reality and fantasy
US bombing Syria
what a night..
Good man good woman 1993 Hou Hsiao Hsian
THe use of silhouette of the villain figure (dark) + protagonist under the light (bright) dominating the frame, at the end move to edge of the frame, blocking the woman, while the child /baby walks to the middle of the frame. for a while.
A landscape wide shot (two trees), long at least 10 seconds, with non symmetrical, image, left side blank, one smaller tree in the middle but not exactly in the middle, a bigger tree on the right side, only 2/3 in the frame.
watching him film, is a feeling, a feeling of mass, a group of people, walking back and forth, running around, chasing this that belongs or doesn't belong to them
coldly express how Haodong executed, cremation bureau asks for money, they borrow money all over the place, the she asked her sister, did she see him, she said, yes, three bullets in the chest, head injury, etc - quite cold feeling
A comparison of 1950s and 1990s - both meetings, the dean of middle school is talking about how the classes conflicting problem, farmers, landlords, how to sell their house to make a newspaper so people know more, while in 1990s, the gang member meeting is all talking about to make networks, getting more money, killing other group of gang
as Hou use long wide shot, he has his own method for blocking in his long shot, , make it un-symmetrical, make it realistic but unusual, to make extra points
In the heat of sun 1994 Jiang Wen
The use of music
slow tracking shot of the young men sing "ka qiu sha"
Reality and fantasy
Monday, April 03, 2017
More movies in brasilia
Three dancing slaves ( the third piece about the younger brother is very appealing, and the interesting dialogue of them after landing with umbrella (reminding me the dialogure of tropical melody, when adong wants to lay his head on abing), and motocycle scene, as well as the voiceover explaining briefly what happened,etc, oh and use of music, and not overly use of music0
Y tu mama tambien(Alfonso Cuaron)
Wild reeds (Andre Techine) (such a good multi character story)
(not crazy about some camera work)
Last scene of the girl running is incredible (original, unforgetable, realitic)
scene of motorcycle, the use of music and not overly use of the music - unforgetabble.
Slightly overuse of fable of Oak tree vs reeds on the fascist boy, but not as bad as Mengiu's graduate,
a bit too many dialogue
great blocking)
Rhapsody in August (Kurosawa) what a disappointing movie. (images of ants climbing on a rose?)
What I like of some of these movies is there is no clear 3-act and 5 act, just fragments of life, no climax, no organsm, plain/truthful/touching.
Y tu mama tambien(Alfonso Cuaron)
Wild reeds (Andre Techine) (such a good multi character story)
(not crazy about some camera work)
Last scene of the girl running is incredible (original, unforgetable, realitic)
scene of motorcycle, the use of music and not overly use of the music - unforgetabble.
Slightly overuse of fable of Oak tree vs reeds on the fascist boy, but not as bad as Mengiu's graduate,
a bit too many dialogue
great blocking)
Rhapsody in August (Kurosawa) what a disappointing movie. (images of ants climbing on a rose?)
What I like of some of these movies is there is no clear 3-act and 5 act, just fragments of life, no climax, no organsm, plain/truthful/touching.
Sunday, March 26, 2017
More movies
Goodbye south goodbye (1996, Hou Hsiao Hsian)
Four moons (2014)
Heartbeats (2010 Xavier Dolan)
Four moons (2014)
Heartbeats (2010 Xavier Dolan)
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Movies and last few days of Lima trip
Watched
I, Daniel Blake (2016) Ken Roach
Cemetery of Splendor (2015) (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
The second mother (2015) (Anna Muylaert) (Brazil)
Ciao (2008)
The puppetmaster (1993) (Hou Hsiao Hsian)
Leslo (Jean Claude Lauzon) 1992
Undertow (Contra Corriente) (Javier Fuentes Leon) 2009
Last few days in Lima -we visited Boranco neighborhood last day and walked to the beach. The beach looks similar to Miraflores while boranco neighborhood does appear to have more people in the parks. I was having either allergy attack or cold, was not feeling well.
I, Daniel Blake (2016) Ken Roach
Cemetery of Splendor (2015) (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
The second mother (2015) (Anna Muylaert) (Brazil)
Ciao (2008)
The puppetmaster (1993) (Hou Hsiao Hsian)
Leslo (Jean Claude Lauzon) 1992
Undertow (Contra Corriente) (Javier Fuentes Leon) 2009
Last few days in Lima -we visited Boranco neighborhood last day and walked to the beach. The beach looks similar to Miraflores while boranco neighborhood does appear to have more people in the parks. I was having either allergy attack or cold, was not feeling well.
Thursday, March 09, 2017
Movies
Tropical Malady (2004) by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The name of the movie in Thai is Sud Pralad，meaning the devil in your heart, or the entangled in your mind?
Mamma Roma (1960) by Pier Paolo Pasolini
The name of the movie in Thai is Sud Pralad，meaning the devil in your heart, or the entangled in your mind?
Mamma Roma (1960) by Pier Paolo Pasolini
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