July 2012
41 posts
totally over-rated film directors
Tarantino. I mean, he’s just the worst. Not an original thought in his fat head.
Darren Aronofsky. About as subtle as a brick in a sock. And all the depth of a puddle of piss.
Takashi Miike. Grow up. Just grow up.
Park-Chan Wook. carnage does not equal character or depth.
Steven Spielburg. we get it, you have daddy issues. now go away.
Lars Von Trier. How much more can one man hate women?
Zack Snyder. I doubt he is rated in order to be classed as over-rated, but rarely has one director made so much money out of so much offensively stupid and stupidly offensive shite, and a slow-mo control.
Chris Nolan. Yeah, I went there. Terrible case of more money, more crap. From Memento and Insomnia it’s just been flat, toneless, dull, characterless and didactic.
Miranda July. Oh god she’s soo KOOKY and KERAZY!! no. you’re not. stop now.
wonderment
I would write or post something about “The Double Life Of Veronique”,
which I watched this evening.
But I’m somewhat speechless over it, as usual.
It’s just achingly beautiful.
“Commercial films tell you that the most important information is the story, so they’re always forcing, forcing you towards the story. For me, the information is everything, it’s how we sit at this table together, how you pick up the bottle of water. I’m saying to the audience: please watch this and you’ll begin to understand things in a different way.”
—Béla Tarr on how he adopted his style (via forgottencityiram)
reading on
big question now of course - what to read next?
Crime & Punishment (Dostoyevsky)
The Magic Lantern - Bergman’s autobiography. (Bergman)
Moby Dick. (Melville)
Don Quixote. (Cervantes)
Lolita. (Nabokov)
finished
It is with some awe,
and pride,
that I can now say
I have read Ulysses.
I DONT HAVE MISSING E INSTALLED!!!
STOP TELLING ME I HAVE AND NOT LETTING ME GET AWAY FROM YOUR POPUP!!!
anyone else having issues with tumblr? specifically on chrome?
Play
“The boy dies. The bell rings. The dacha is in the middle of the ocean. The coin moves. The dacha is inside a church. The house burns down. These are perhaps the most astonishing endings in the history of cinema…”
—
Zona,
Geoff Dyer.
violence.
“It was horrible. gunshot wounds, blood… I never wanna see that sort of thing again.”
Apart from on cinema screens in endless rehashes of the same
“violence solves everything” “one man has the power to impact the world - through violence”
message that is hammered home in bigger and brasher and crasser spectacle.
friday
might watch an Ozu marathon friday night.
