The Eagleman Stag is the 2011 BAFTA award winning Royal College of Art thesis film of director/writer
Mikey Please. It's mostly made out of some strange white stuff, found in the back of a stress cushion.
posted by netbros
on May 8, 2012 -
9 comments
From 1935 to 1951, Time Magazine bridged the gap between print & radio news reporting and the new visual medium of film, with
March of Time: award-winning newsreel reports that were a combination of objective documentary, dramatized fiction and pro-American, anti-totalitarian propaganda. They “often
tackled subjects and themes that audiences weren’t used to seeing —
foreign affairs,
social trends, public-health issues — and did so with a combination of panache and subterfuge that today seems either absurd or visionary.”
(Previous two links have autoplaying video.) By 1937, the short films were being seen by as many as 26 million people every month and
may have helped steer public opinion on numerous issues,
including (
eventually) America’s
entry to WWII. Video samples are available at
Time.com, the
March of Time Facebook page and the entire collection is available online,
(free registration required) at
HBO Archives. [more inside]
posted by zarq
on Aug 22, 2011 -
8 comments
"... we are sweeping everything under the carpet, but the oddness is cropping up all over the place. And then, the carpet starts to move…".
Michael Haneke, "le manipulateur" who introduced his latest film,
Caché, at Cannes with a half-amused “
I wish you a disturbing evening”, is the proponent of a "
cinema of disturbance". A cinema of
loving self-mutilation, where
time is non-linear and everything happens in
long take shots; in Haneke's world, guilt destroys lives
decades after the original sin. All his male characters are "Georges" and his female characters are either "Evas" or "Annas", "
because I lack fantasy". Unsurprisingly, he is a
Bresson and Tarkovsky fan. He'll direct
"Don Giovanni" at the Paris Opera in early 2006: "In 20 years of working in the theater, I only staged one comedy, and that was my single failure".
posted by matteo
on Nov 18, 2005 -
19 comments
Just in time, you’ve found me just in time. Richard Linklater, like
Wong Kar-
wai, is a lyrical and elegiac filmmaker. In many of his films, as in many of Wong's (and as in
Ming-liang Tsai's
What Time Is It There?), the subject is
time -- the
romance and poetry of
moments ticking by, the wonder and anguish of living through and then remembering an hour or a day.
In 1995 Linklater made
Before Sunrise, the story of
the chance encounter of two strangers (an American young man and a French young woman) on a European train and their sleepless night in Vienna. Now ten years have passed, and they meet
again in Paris: they -- and the audience -- only have 80 minutes to make up for the time they lost,
Before Sunset. Linklater's new film,
shot in uncut Steadycam takes (the longest clocks in at 11 minutes), in a sense
is about how we create selves just by talking. But it’s also about how we become prisoners of time.
Towards the end of the movie,
Celine, sitting in the backseat of a car with
Jesse, starts to caress his head while he isn't looking, then suddenly pulls back, and that simple curtailed gesture carries in it a sense of tragedy,
the consequence of the weight of time...
(more inside, with Nina Simone)
posted by matteo
on Jul 20, 2004 -
22 comments
