Dystopian sci-fi vibes in Logan's Run (1976)
Showing posts with label FILM CLUB. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FILM CLUB. Show all posts
Saturday, 4 May 2013
Sunday, 7 April 2013
THE MASTER
Within the first five minutes there are some truly beautiful shots, the relentless yet hypnotic soundtrack by jonny greenwood is pretty amazing too // The Master, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Sunday, 24 March 2013
BREATHLESS
Jean Seberg + Jean-Paul Belmondo looking amazing in Jean-Luc Godard's breathless (À bout de souffle)
// jean jean jean \\
BOOK OF THE DAY
Jules et Jim // Henri-Pierre Roché
((The film adaptation by françois truffaut is pretty awesome too, nothing like a bit of French new wave cinema on a chilly Sunday afternoon...))
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
WEDNESDAY: SONG OF THE DAY: AN EDUCATION
BETH ROWLEY
YOU'VE GOT ME WRAPPED AROUND YOUR LITTLE FINGER
FROM 'AN EDUCATION' OST
Sunday, 17 February 2013
WES ANDERSON'S LEADING LADIES
GWENYTH PALTROW
IRENE GOROVAIA
ANJELICA HUSTON
NATALIE PORTMAN
AMARA KARAN
CATE BLANCHETT
KARA HAYWARD
TILDA SWINTON
MERYL STREEP
Margot Tenenbaum - The Royal Tenenbaums
Young Margot Tenenbaum - The Royal Tenenbaums
Etheline Tenenbaum - The Royal Tenenbaums
Eleanor Zissou - The Life Aquatic
Sister Patricia Whitman - The Darjeeling Limited
'Jack's Ex' - Hotel Chevalier
Rita - The Darjeeling Limited
Jane Winslett-Richardson - The Life Aquatic
Suzy Bishop - Moonrise Kingdom
'Social Services' - Moonrise Kingdom
Mrs Felicity Fox - Fantastic Mr Fox
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Saturday, 12 January 2013
Friday, 11 January 2013
FRIDAY FILM CLUB: LA LECTRICE
La Lectrice is a french film directed by Michel Deville in 1988. Fascinated by the protagonist in a novel that she's reading, Constance (played by Miou Miou) decides to become a reader, reading to those who are lonely, in need of company or cannot read from themselves. She places an ad in the paper and soon has a whole list of clients, ranging from a child obsessed with 'Alice in Wonderland', infatuated teenager Eric who is wheelchair bound + embracers her reading as an important form of escapism, a general's widow who is also a marxist and others too. The film explores the different relationships made between the reader and her clients, with each client visually having a distinct colour scheme + environment that Constance adapts to like a chameleon. La Lectrice is funny, enlightening + visually delicious, the perfect film for a lazy afternoon.
Saturday, 5 January 2013
SLEEPING BEAUTY
Today I went to see Matthew Bourne's latest offering, a re-telling of the classic tale of 'Sleeping Beauty'. For such a small cast the production was amazing, the dancers incredible and the performance as a whole was really fun and enjoyable. There was also some pretty skilled puppeteering involving a puppet of the baby Princess Aurora and some cleverly concealed puppeteers. Below are some candid shots from rehearsals...(the third is my fave!)
Parts of it were pretty dark. There was a scene where the son of the evil fairy, who had basically kidnapped Aurora (this re-telling is more true to the original than the disney version, no cutesy animals doing the washing up here) was about to sacrifice her with some kind of fairy axe and before that came an amazing yet slightly freaky scene where the whole cast were blindfolded, roaming through the woods while the prince (a gardener in this version) tried to find his princess. He'd had a bit of a rough day of it, when the princess fell under the curse a supposedly 'good' fairy came along and bit him in the neck to turn him into a fairy so that he could live long enough to wake her up again. Bless.
Anyway, it reminded me of this film I saw a while back, also called Sleeping Beauty and also equally dark. An Australian directional debut and original screenplay from Julia Leigh, chosen for the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Sleeping Beauty tells the story of an undergraduate student who holds down many an odd job in order to pay her fees. She finds herself working in a particularly strange household where she is paid to be asleep in a giant bed while clients can have their way with her. Dark, saucy but also beautifully filmed.
Thinking of this film with its muted tones, saucy glances and silk dresses also reminded me of the miu miu campaign for s/s 2013, sleeping beauties all round.
L U S H
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