"I was one of the insatiables. The ones you'd always find sitting closest to the screen. Why do we sit so close? Maybe it was because we wanted to receive the images first. When they were still new, still fresh."
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo- David Fincher
*Editor’s note: Fuck. This fucking film… how is it possible that I found a film that features so much rape so beautiful? Oh, yeah, David Fincher directed it. Believe the hype surrounding Rooney Mara. Wow. I can’t begin to explain how incredible she was in this role.
Today, in beautiful movie posters…
Shame- Steve McQueen
This Hungarian poster for Shame was banned.
via:slippinghusband
*Editor’s note: Really? The Hungarians wanted to be that obvious?
I know somewhere in the world Fassbender and McQueen are chortling away together saying, “FUCK, EVERYONE.”
via: bbook
*Editor’s note: But really…what in the fuck is wrong with the Academy? Did they just not watch Shame?
Paris, Texas- Wim Wenders
*Editor’s note: From the barrage of stills, Tumblr seems to be in love with this film, in particular, this image. Never having seen the film, it immediately struck me as iconic. Yes, Nastassja Kinski is beautiful and you can’t help but stare in her eyes, but I had nothing else to go on. I would sometimes amuse myself and think of several different scenarios that would eventually lead her to just sit and stare directly at the camera. When I finally got around to watching Paris, Texas, I was incredibly moved by this scene. Without giving anything away, it’s just two people having the most frank and honest conversation they can muster. It’s crushing in how simple it is and how much information is conveyed in these relatively short scenes.
Today, in beautiful movie posters…
Possession- Andrzej Żuławski
*Editor’s note: Cannot wait to watch this!
The mention of Three String Samurai might instantly evoke the cult action/comedy Six-String Samurai (1998). However, instead of a post-apocalyptic film set in an odd alternate reality and starring a Buddy Holly lookalike with sword and…er, axe in hand battling the forces of heavy metal led by none other than a Slash lookalike. Three String Samurai, however, is less about battling with contemporary musical instruments than doing so with traditional ones. Shamisens at ten paces anyone?
via: Vcinema *Editor’s note: This sounds absolutely terrible, but I need to watch it.
FILM GHOUL #1 (“2011 IN REVIEW”) IS PRINTED!
Launch party Saturday January 21st @ Blue Sunshine (3660 Boul. St-Laurent, 3rd floor) following the 16mm screening of Hideo Gosha’s Three Outlaw Samurai I curated for my birthday. 8pm, 8$, doors 7h15pm.
Limited printing of 30 — come get some!
via: filmghoul
Today, in stunning and beautiful movie posters…
The Bird With the Crystal Plumage- Dario Argento
via: Malleus
Godard +Karina 4-ever
The director first saw her in a soap ad and tried to cast her in a minor role in Breathless, but she refused to take her clothes off and turned him down. She was eventually offered a big role in Le Petit Soldat (1960). “I said to him, ‘Do I have to take my clothes off?’ He said, ‘No, no, it’s a political film. I said, ‘Politics? I don’t know anything about politics. I am too young.’ He said, ‘You just have to do what I tell you to.’”
At the time, Karina had a boyfriend. Nonetheless, the attraction between director and star was evident. “We fell in love but nobody would take the first step.” One night, during a dinner party in Lausanne, a message was passed to her under the table. She opened up the piece of paper. It was from Godard. “It said: ‘I love you. Shall we meet at midnight at the Café de la Paix in Geneva?’” Karina says she felt hypnotised. When she arrived at the assignation, Godard’s head was buried in a newspaper. She stood in front of him for what seemed like a small eternity. Eventually, he lowered the paper. “I thought it took hours but probably it only took about 30 seconds. He looked at me and said, ‘Shall we go?’ That’s how it all started.”
Godard then set out to educate her. No, he told her, she wasn’t ready yet for Céline, but soon had her reading Georges Bernanos’s Mouchette. He would take his young wife to the Cinemathèque, where she would hover on the edges, listening to the high-blown chat about movies from Godard and his cronies (Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Agnès Varda, Henri Langlois and the like.) “I was the little one, always listening and learning.”
However, Godard proved to be an unreliable husband. He would say he was off to buy a packet of cigarettes - and disappear for weeks. Without telling her, he would head off to Sweden to see Ingmar Bergman or to the US to see William Faulkner. “I’d sit and wait in front of the phone. At that time, there were no answering machines.” When he came home, Karina was able to tell where he had been only by the expensive presents he brought her, presumably out of guilt.
Ironically, it was when they were working that they were closest. During the shooting of their movies, Godard would never go awol and they achieved an intimacy that they struggled to match in the other parts of life together.
via: The Guardian
