Recent Posts Tagged With 'directors'

• THE LAST EMPEROR [1987]

  Posted on Sunday June 28th, 2009 at 06:36 in Film, directors, benardo bertolluci

  mise-en-scene pro!I call Mr. Bernardo Bertolluci's The Last Emperor the most detailed and well-filmed mainstream cinema i have ever seen. His attention to detail and his sense of space is so much of an eye candy. I admire every bit of detail it exude...

• FREE DOWNLOAD Andrei Rublev [1966] and The Mirror [1975]

  Posted on Thursday June 25th, 2009 at 10:33 in Film, directors, andrei tarkovsky

  super quick post...[photos from here, here, here, and here]A smile often leads to contemplation. (whatever Adrian!)Because I am intensely connected with Andrei Tarkovsky oeuvre, I found out recently that Andrei Rublev, probably Tarkovsky's masterpiec...

• Saturation of Colors on THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE [1991]

  Posted on Tuesday June 23rd, 2009 at 11:33 in Film, directors, experimental cinema

  photo post...Cinematography is at its finest at Kieslowski's The Double Life of Veronique (1991).Kieslowski has a different approach to mood. He uses an extensive variety of coloration and filters, sometimes to pull out green hues or to highlight the...

• ANDREI TARKOVSKY: My Weekly Contemplation

  Posted on Saturday June 20th, 2009 at 03:31 in Film, directors, andrei tarkovsky, experimental cinema, abbas kiarostami, psysc, up sorsogueÑos

  snapshot post[images from here, here and here]Andrei Tarkovsky.By reading an auteur study on Tarkovsky, it is, in a way, my method of opening my heart to contemplative cinema. The breadth of Tarkovsky's work is as absorbing as the book entitled Film...

• Teeth Smile [1957]

  Posted on Monday March 2nd, 2009 at 21:03 in Film, s, directors

  TEETH SMILE (1957)Roman PolanskiPoland2 MINBlack and WhitePolishPolanski is draped with a certain Hitchcockian influence. What more could i say?MORE Screen Shots Posts...MEMENTO (2000) by Christopher NolanUGETSU (1954) by Kenji MizoguchiA Man Asleep ...

• COPOLLA, is that you?

  Posted on Saturday February 28th, 2009 at 09:56 in Film, directors, research and commentaries

  a commentaryI couldn't believe it's happening.Francis Ford Coppola, a cinema giant known for his greatest contribution to cinema The Godfather (1972) , posted a video on YouTube.I didn't see it coming. And i am still laughing now.For some reason the ...

• UGETSU

  Posted on Thursday February 5th, 2009 at 20:29 in Film, directors, research and commentaries

  UGETSU Monogatari (1953)Kenji MizoguchiJapan circa 195397 minutesBlack and White1.33:1Japanese"It is a formal style, but not a formalist one, and the astonishing visual beauty of Mizoguchi's images never deadens the power of his human drama, or his s...

• 2 Solutions to 1 Problem: A Case of Minimalism

  Posted on Wednesday January 21st, 2009 at 09:38 in Film, directors, research and commentaries

  2 Solutions to 1 Problem:A Case of Minimalisma commentaryStrike a pose! Abbas Kiarostami, according to Scorsese (courtesy of Stuart Jeffrie's article on the Guardian), "represents the highest level of artistry in the cinema." This claim of superiorit...

• MIKHAIL RED: Unimaginably Brilliant

  Posted on Sunday November 30th, 2008 at 01:45 in Film, reflections, directors, research and commentaries

  MIKHAIL RED: Unimaginably Brillianta commentaryMikhail's father, Raymond Red. photocredit to his site.November 29, 2008 -ATANG and CoffeeMcCafe, Quezon Ave. I groped my pencil and write my accounts of the day inside a coffee shop. I waited for 6 o'c...