<p>gawk
I got it from the library. saw Oklahoma bit and all.
I just went to B&N and looked at the book with recent translation.
Author’s note said “there was no taboo” in writing this book. no wonder.
Now I have to revisit every films I saw when I was 20s when we had no idea what is what beyond like, awww!! artsy!!! deep!!! beeaautiful!!!
this means all visconti godard wenders bunch. scary…
I guess best lesson I got is becoming a parent and now do care about kid’s well-being, not only mine but any kids. even the drummer boy actor. sure, he’s fine as is born in theater family and all that but yet but yet…
I won’t ever pull Oklahoma but was disturbing to say the least.
When I saw it first time, I had no idea being young and stupid. Plus lots had to be lost in translation.
And to think that I was so excited about finding the link to the artwork…how shallow.</p>
<p>I needed some antidote or whatnot
took out two more twilight (1 and 2. I’ve seen 3) from the library, now un wanted /untoutched for weeks.
watched it one per day and now feel somewhat better
It was fun. I mean, so much better than the books. actors are actually better than book characters, they got dimentions, 3D.
little bits like, key chains on Bella (heroine)‘s backpack or a juice bottle in cafetelia tells subtle stories that book version failed to show.
people who made these movies really spend lots of (money) and effort.
Edward (the vampire) boy is creepy-er than ever. white faced but there are few birthmarks on his left back neck that seems so human-y and his arms are hairy. just seen Harry Potter 4 and how young, naive, dorky he looked in it makes me wonder what he might be thinking sorounded by million screaming girls at film events (footage was in the bonus disc)
digi-wolves are cute, well made. vampires fighting scenes are Matrix or I don’t know those things, but 300?sh, mortal combat (what? how old ARE you?) -those things with whoosh!! sounds. pretty modern. contemp conceptu digital fighting.
music too, esp, new moon (2) I don’t deal with girls much. don’t know how teens out of cities live. I can see it (sort of) so this is how they might feel things!
assuming every movie going girls have read books already, visual aide with few nice tweaking and massive edditing helps to concentrate like frozen juice in the cardboard tubes and reafirm those girlly feelings. (and everything is now got dimention!!!) how nice.
so
this is girls’ Lord of the Rings, or step up from HPs tweendom.
In the bonus disc, the director said
“this(film)will outlive you” or something like that. I might agree. It sure made fang mark on the generation. could be in Criterion Collection circa 2050!?!?!?!?!</p>
<p>Watched a documentary about:Jean-Michel Basquiat (forgot the name). D likes his painting. I said he is a contemporary artist and D said no, he is old, born in 1960, His art is a history. Feel funny about this. 60 for me is so different from her view.
I feel this film helped me a lot to understand “art”. Art is an expression of an individual with his/her voice to express his/her perspective of the world. Basquiat didn’t have a lot education and we can see that from his art, but that doesn’t mean deep education will hurt you as a artist. </p>
<p>There is a saying about art education: Institution only can teach old, out of date stuff and it is useless. This is not right from my opinion. You need to stand on something solid and high to move on and art education will help.</p>
<p>Basquiat’s work show his voice, of course, his lack of education reflected there. That doesn’t mean an educated artist can not have a unique voice expressed in his/her work.</p>
<p>gawk!! so… he is their dad’s age!!!
coincidentally I just took out and saw Julian Schnabel’s Basquiat (the one we talked on page 1)again. it is raw but now I can see that nice Diving Bell-thing was starting here already. </p>
<p>love
was it this one you saw?
<a href=“http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568335/[/url]”>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568335/</a>
sooo do you think he is cute?
I see what you mean
it was different kind of education. he learned on the street, by the time, in the history when things happen to happened in NY, at one of the best (weired-est) alternative high school (but had it enough and quit right before graduating).
It is not something any parents would wish on their kids.
thou I can’t help it, if only I can paint like that. or my kid could. the way his arms go!!
am I wrong to think that if he ever went LaGuardia HS or heaven forbid RISD MICA Pratt, he wouldn’t have been what he was, means HUGE loss.
I don’t know about Cooper back then, must have been very different place.
Basquiat was in vicinity (near by parks sleeping or hanging out or buying drugs. died in his studio only few blocks away from Cooper)
something tells me he never would have give a **** anyway.</p>
<p>bears:
you are right. He is cute, but very sad he die at a yang age.</p>
<p>I’ve recovered bit after (or because of) skimming thru “Pink Flamingos”
“the Spirit of the Beehive” is another one of revisiting from young and stupid art student days of mine.
poetic cinema. another Vermeer visual, with few words but images after images are beautiful art after artworks.
in bonus disc, actors tells experience of not getting script at all nor what are they supposed to be making. they did it anyway because director knew what he wanted.
in the interview, the director looks back and says some parts, how it was like filming documentary, that ability film has- or had to record reality as it happens- had been lost in today’s film. hear!! hear!!!
film about 40s post civil war that made in 1970s, Franco was still alive but barely. the timing was critical.
miracle, almost.
all I remembered from my student day viewing was how cute those girls were in matching spread collar linen school coats with red cardboard lunch boxes.
history, actual goings on the world at the time, or of referenced to other films, I had no idea.
but hey, at least we knew when we saw something good.</p>
<p>well as a parent here now, it was bit alarming how kids are totally left unattended.
she(six year old)'d strike match to light the candle and threw it on the floor.
kids take turns jumping over bonfire with bellowing skirt
playing around on open train track
dad calls after the daughter but won’t bother run to catch her<br>
I don’t want be be bothered, I know it’s different time different place… but can’t help it.</p>
<p>Digressing from art in films for a bit. Just watched Inside Job, this year’s academy award winning documentary on the financial crisis. Man, was it good! Eye opening.</p>
<p>I don’t meant to hijack(really???) but here are revisiting art/film again
Peter Falk (Colombo) died few days ago
<a href=“http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/25/ap/celebrities/main20074385.shtml[/url]”>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/25/ap/celebrities/main20074385.shtml</a>
he was in the film “Wings of Desire”
its director Wim Wenders is this.
studied all brain stuff but quit, move to Paris, failed to get in film school.
<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Wenders[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Wenders</a>
my then film-police friend was obsessed over the actress Nastassia Kinski.
this brought us to go see Wenders festival, which meant tiny tatami mat room of the edge of downtown Tokyo theater’s all nighters. I think it costed 3-5 dollars back then. all you can watch and repeat.
“Wings of Desire” was however, deferent story. man, was this huge commercial hit (because of Colombo fame?) in big real venues.
To watch foreign films in the theater, art-house or Hollywood, common Japanese must read subtitles and don’t mind doing that being almost 100% literacy rate there was. which sort of evens out playing field for any films, Italian, german, US, British, Latin American, all the same unlike here in US.</p>
<p>It is about Berlin, before the wall came down. Peter Falk was acting himself (with no script) many takes that did not made final cut were in the Criterion bonus disc and the director’s commentary was full of love. He can pick and choose whom to put in his film and don’t have to make then do things they don’t want but they’d do something even better. the talent magnet, conjurer. </p>
<p>It’s sequel is “Faraway, So Close!”
Which came out 6 years later because there were untold stories and the wall did came down by then. (there is bit with Gorbachev in it. I thought, wow!! that’s a good make-up arts, then it was himself cameo role-ing!! wonder if he had a script!?)
it was sort of a disappointment overall since our expectation was sky hi.
now that the main actress (was also Wenders’ grilfriend-who died young) and great Peter Falk gone, the story ends for good.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t have even cared if I did not happened to see the #7 part 1 free as pet sitting reward from friend of mine. since it was fun fun fun, wanted to do it again.
It is sort of like Yankee game. everyone is going there for one sole purpose. cheer and boo at the same time. make human wave. chant " Deee rekk Jeetteer !!!" buy hotdogs and beer on hiway robbery price because, it is for the special occasions.
My hiway robbery HP experience came out as 3D version!!
around the corner form us there were three theaters playing HP within the same place. two out of three are 3D but the word “3D” is ever so tiny, camouflaging with background graphics and hard to see for someone needing reading glass.
so I just ask for 3 tickets for the most convenient time slot and of course can’t hear what the clerk is saying behind Plexiglas window. give her 40 bucks and she demands whatever the amount. puzzled, give her another 20, count change and puzzled more.
gawk!!! I ordered 3D show time / theater without knowing!!!
all purchase final, no refund no exchange. fine fine fine so I lost what, 15 or so bucks!?!?!
I wonder its hi hi gross is caused by dumb half blind parents like me, or simply they have put up lots more 3D shows than cheap ordinary versions.</p>
<p>it is my rare date opp with my pre-launch kid and his friend who is a girl who happened to treat me as a human, not a stuffed bear like all other girls do.
there is a HP thread in the parents form, and that would say what is what.
non-significant details and characters are cut out, very concise, entertaining, action packed. you’d forget once the film starts that how we were too cold in blasting AC and wanting sweater while commercial and previews were up.(Happy Feet Two. fuzzy flabby penguin chicks’ tummy!!! awww)</p>
<p>two and half hours later and $52.50 poorer, goes out of the theater and actually feeling great in the heat (our bodies thawing ahhhh)
wait for the cross town buss for the girl, she is here for the summer seminar and living in the dorm uptown.
kids were talking about when they did camp the summer HP6 was up and everyone went together as mandatory group activity.
the buss comes and I volunteered to take her back to the dorm this time.
kids say good night. no hugs like Hermione and Harry (they used to hug, I know they did!!!) my kid stood waving hand till the bus leaves and was gone.
I felt it’s like, over. all ended. HS thing, summer fun. parents coordinated movie nights.</p>
<p>This is a call of arms to live and love and sleep together
We could flood the streets with love or light or heat whatever
Lock the parents out, cut a rug, twist and shout
Wave your hands
Make it rain
For stars will rise again</p>
<p>The youth is starting to change
Are you starting to change?
Are you?
Together</p>
<p>In a couple of years
Tides have turned from booze to tears
And in spite of the weather
We could learn to make it together</p>
<p>The youth is starting to change
Are you starting to change?
Are you?
Together</p>
<p>eh, it^ should better be in the “launch” thread. sorry folks</p>
<p>We saw HP too. Not as eventful as your experience though! I think I missed the last 2 movies and couldn’t be bothered to read the books, so asked the kids which of them wanted to sit next to mom to be the interpreter when I asked questions. It was their second time seeing it, so D1 gladly volunteered.</p>
<p>yay mom4
how do you like MGMT lyrics?</p>
<p>i like them. What is MGMT? …I am afraid to ask and amplify my ignorance.</p>
<p>mom4
do me a favor and ask your kids if they know them.
I hoped they (the band) won’t fly too hi but if young ones don’t know them, I guess I am bit upset.
I was hocked during my LACs search. (the band was formed at Wesleyan)
I mean boys can’t play nor sing but these lyrics are killers. (and their Frodo/Sam visuals)
<a href=“http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=MGMT&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi[/url]”>http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=MGMT&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi</a></p>
<p>Forget about our mothers and our friends
We’re fated to pretend
To pretend
We’re fated to pretend
To pretend </p>
<p>I’ll miss the playgrounds and the animals and digging up worms
I’ll miss the comfort of my mother and the weight of the world
I’ll miss my sister, miss my father, miss my dog and my home
Yeah, I’ll miss the boredom and the freedom and the time spent alone.</p>
<p>Love the lyrics. Kids don’t know them, but please don’t use that to extrapolate out what other kids know and like. </p>
<p>Will be a bit behind on the movie watching until D launches next month. I promise to catch up. Will probably sign up for netflix finally too so I can have access to the indie movies I missed when they came to the art house.</p>
<p>my kid read Pride and Prejudice for the class and pushed me to read it, too, saying many female characters I’d love to identify with (wonder who??)
I don’t much read old “women” books and it was a surprise!!! hilarious!!! I can see that why twilight series author said (shamelessly) she modeled it after this.
thou I gotten bored around 1/4 way and cheated, took DVD.</p>
<p>OMG!! totally now I understand why Dave Egger’s “Zeitoun” girls are crazy about this film talking Brit dancing and curtsying together. (there are five girls in Bennet family, three in Zeitouns. both headed by chatty moms)
<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitoun_(book[/url])”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitoun_(book)</a></p>
<p>some films are made to just entertain. to dream. to act silly and be happy.</p>
<p>no worry mom4.
I have been doing hijack art-house marathon to half annoy certain know-it-all filmschool poster just in case that poster is spying this side of the land.
everyone
please post whatever you saw and why, what made you cry.</p>
<p>how did it sunk to page 3? I thought the thread was a goner.
[SENNA</a> : In Cinemas 3 June 2011](<a href=“http://www.sennamovie.co.uk/]SENNA”>http://www.sennamovie.co.uk/)
as usual, the filmmaker came to the radio show and I just had to go see it on the opening night with Q and A by the writer.
it was my hometown, where Japanese grandprix footage were filmed. I knew people’d come from all over the world when races are on but never cared other than we’d sometimes visit amusement park adjunct to the race circuit. whole development was byproduct of Honda building its factory and labs in then nowhere city where I was born and raised.
I have never heard of the guy’s name nor what was what. at all.
We can learn something new, anything, any time of our life.
I went to see the film with a friend from Brazil and it was bit too much for her.
he was the shining hope of the country when everything else were real bad there.
genius, cute, success, controversy, dies young.
I can never get enuff of this golden formula.
OK
now go back to my ordinary boring life.</p>
<p>PS
it is a documentary made out from footage that filmmaker pieced together from miles and miles of recordings thru Senna’s career and from his family videos. how fortunate to have all those gotten saved from pre-Youtube era.
the way the theater was packed, it might go out to wider audiences.
hope you can see it, too. will break any parents’ heart.</p>