I have posted on him before, but today I discovered this very interesting talk by Edward Burtynsky – why don’t you have a look? ©Edward Burtynsky I think the environmental movement has failed in that it’s used the stick too much; it’s used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn’t sold the positive aspects of…
Category: film
Less is more
Pablo Giorgelli’s film Las Acacias has the simplest imaginable plot: a man, a woman & a baby, sharing a drive from Paraguay to Buenos Aires. The man, a truck driver, has done the trip many times before, the woman are going to Buenos Aires to get a job. This is the first time they meet,…
Moonrise Kingdom
I went to the cinema to see Moonrise Kingdom not knowing what to expect. Here is my judgement: Moonrise Kingdom – directed by Wes Anderson – is a gorgeous, wonderful, moving, sweet & funny film. It jumps right to the top of my personal 2012 film canon … Moonrise Kingdom is set on an island off the coast of New England in…
gigantic human footprints
Today I have spend time with ED BURTYNSKY: MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES, A FILM BY JENNIFER BAICHWAL Shipbreaking # 50, Chittagong, Bangladesh 2001 * * * MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is a film about Edward Burtynsky; showing us how and where he get his images. Burtynsky present us for a world destroyed by human activities, but also an unexpected and…
The Galapagos Affair
I’m doing some research on Galapagos related to a text I’m writing. My text is about deserted places & solitude. But what I discovered today was quite the opposite. It is all very entertaining. Here are some bits and pieces cut and pasted from the web. If you find this stuff interesting, you can find…
Das Lied in mir
I pre-started my GLM today with a German film at the movies. Das Lied in mir (The Day I Was Not Born) A German swimmer, 30-year-old Maria (Jessica Schwarz) is en route to Chile when something overheard at the Buenos Aires airport unsettles her so much — striking a deep chord even though she barely understands…
Le Havre
I went to the movies yesterday to see Aki Kaurismäki‘s Le Havre. And believe me, I haven’t had such a great cinematic experience since … well; in a very-very long time -. To those of you who are not hooked on Hollywood drama: Try Le Havre! It is, believe it or not, a commedy about…
Virginia Woolf’s Nose
A week a go, or so, I read Hermione Lee’s essay “Virginia Woolf’s Nose”, from her book Body Parts. In this essay Lee gives us a clever examination of Mrs Dalloway, and also a comparative analysis of Mrs Dalloway, Michael Cunningham’s novel The Hours and Stephen Daldry’s film adaption of Cunningham’s book. Lee is reading…
Midnight in Paris
I guess Woody Allen is the kind of director one tends to love or hate. I belong to the first category, even if I have to admit he made some poor films too. But Midnight in Paris is amongst the fine ones. The film has a sci-fi fairy tale quality. The protagonist Gil (Owen Wilson)…
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