Battle Royale by Adam Rabalais
La Jeteé, dir. Chris Marker, 1963
This typical new wave image, is just one of many stills to appear, in a film made of many stills. La Jeteé with its seemingly nostalgic style, is a film about time travel. Another sci-fi pic, one I have to add to my top two list, making it a top three list. Chris Marker is a masterful storyteller, yet this film with the narrators voice, orchestration, and incredible models, would never work as a storybook, or rather picture book. I have just watched the nearly thirty minute film, and have had little time to reflect upon it, however one thing struck me quickly, and that is the influence this film has had on films ranging from Twelve Monkeys, to of course the Matrix. Also it has begun my thinking of something I heard in passing, “infinite moment.”
Jean-Luc Godard’s “Alphaville” and the films of Lemmy Caution
This is one of my top two science fiction films, in that it accurately portrays the future, the time between the movies release in the present. Godard predicted an ambivalent world on the brink of losing all emotional connection and connotation. That is the world I believe we live in. His Orwellian distopia, is one of a drastic nature of course, with new dictionaries being released every morning, and people being executed in entertaining fashions for speaking of love, or even romantic words like twilight. Our non-fiction present is quite different, yes emotionally void, and a place where every crime and war is less justified, and more extreme than the previous, however the void in our society is created by a combination of fear of our neighbors and or intolerance to their petty flaws. Substituting reality for handheld cyber reality is of course the subject of the other film that fills my top two sci-fi list, Fassbinder’s World on a Wire, to give you a better idea of it’s subject matter, substitute wire with ethernet cable. This film had to have been viewed by the makers of the matrix, btw.
Mysterious Skin
Submitted by Maria
His best movie, his latest however was a wonderful film as well. So damn entertaining, it’s called Kaboom, and lives up to his title. Similar in style, in my eyes anyways, to Gasper Noe’s Enter the Void, but far less cerebral. Kaboom is different than his earlier films because it focuses on far more than angst, and isolated youth, similar in a way to Mysterious Skin which focused more on the vulnerability of youth, and how tragic events live in you forever.
Director Darren Aronofsky and Natalie Portman filming Black Swan (2010)
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Martin Scorsese Eats A Cookie - Directed by George Clooney
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John C Reilly, Roman Polanski, Jodie Foster and Kate Winslet on-set of Carnage (2011)
How many more amazing ones can you add?
