A History of Violence
Febrero 8, 2010昨日、友達から借りた映画を見た。デイビット・クロネンベルッグのヒストリーオフバイオレンスは普通の映画ですけど、けっこう面白い。あの監督は珍しい映画を作ったんですが、もっと変な映画だと思った。
I am quite anal about movies recommended by friends. Yesterday, I watched David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence which is a totally normal film, but still quite enjoyable. Since that director is famous for his strange movies, I expected something weirder.
Almost busted…
Febrero 7, 2010廃墟の趣味はけっこう危ない。今度、場所の管理来て、友達のことを見つけて。。。逃げれたけど。。。ぎりぎり。
Visiting ruins can be dangerous. Not only because the ruins itself, but also because the psychos you might find there. This time, the caretaker of the place made his appearance, and found my friend. The guy was very pissed and wouldn’t attend to any reasons… however we could made our escape.
This made me think into writing some kind of personal motto about haikyo:
1. It’s not about destroying.
2. It’s not about stealth.
3. It’s not about taking cool pictures to post them on the net.
4. It’s about visiting witness of the past.
5. It’s about learning to use my camera on a subject I like.
Jean-Pierre Melville / ジャン＝ピエール・メルヴィル
Febrero 3, 2010最近、ジャーンピーエーメルビルアンフリックという映画を見た。昔、メルヴィルのサムライとかサムライも見て、それであんまり驚かない。メルヴィルの映画ゆっくりで続いてるし、キャラクターあんまり喋れないし、詳細がいっぱい出てるし,けっこ重いけど、色いろんな意味がある。メルヴィルの映画で、照明と撮影は唾は重要のことですが、いつも変なカメラの 角度使っている。
Recently, I watched Melville’s Un Flic. Long time ago, I had already seen Le Circle Rouge and Le Samurai so I was quite ready for whatever the movie had to deliver me. As always, Melville’s movies progress in a slow way, with characters that don’t talk a lot and with tons of details appearing. This makes them quite heavy but at the same time very interesting and with lots of meanings. Illumination and photography are also quite important to Melville, always using weird camera angles.
The Ipcress file
Enero 29, 2010ザ・イプコレス・ファイルは六十年代のイギリス映画。ジェームスボンドのプロぢゅサー、ハーリーサルズマン、もっとリアルの台本が欲しかったけど、レン・デイトンのノーベルを使った。ザ・イプコレス・ファイルはけっこ面白いスパイ映画ですけど、写真とか音楽も良いよ。
The Ipcress file is a 1965 English movie produced by Harry Saltzman. Seeking somewhat of a more real plot than the one present in Fleming’s Bond adventures, he went with Len Deighton’s Harry Palmer books. Nice plot, but both photography and soundtrack (John Barry) are as well on par.
Cristopher Doyle
Enero 27, 2010Today’s post is like some kind of personal tribute to who IMHO is one of the coolest professionals in cinema. I am talking Cristopher Doyle: actor, director, director of photography, photographer and lover of colors and weird camera angles. Doyle is best-known thanks to his colabs with HK director Wong Kar Wai but the truth is that he has also worked with famous directors like Gus Van Sant, Zhang Yimou or more recently (see previous post) Jim Jarmusch.
Colors. In any of the films where he has taken a role as cameraman-director of photography, the first thing one immediately realizes is how important colors are for him. Strong contrasts, vivid colors, over-saturated backgrounds… Everything goes to another dimension, like if everything was really 3D on the screen.
Compositions. Using the most weird camera angles, WKW manages to create almost-pictoric representations of the scenes the director pretends to shoot. Recently, while watching The Limits of Control, I had to refrain myself from thinking I was seeing a succession of photographs rather than a full feature film.
I love this approach to cinema.
tHe liMitS oF cOnTroL
Enero 25, 2010
Easily the best 2009 movie.
Frankly I didn’t expect a lot from this movie, but it was turning the TV on and being completely wowed. The Limits of Control consists in a succession of images, sounds and sentences linked together thanks to the awesome Isaach de Bankolé. The images come from Cristopher Doyle (WKW’s inseparable director of photography); the sounds from Boris, the japanese rock band; and some of the sentences from Borroughs, the beatnik poet.
All in all, watching The Limits of Control consists in an hypnothic exercise in which the viewer will have trouble to distinguish between reality and fiction. Isaach de Bankolé, a classic in Jarmusch’s films, slides into a spiral of mistery, games and temtations… Only his control over all of them, will lead him to the a succesful end.
Best. f*****g. 2009. movie.
２００９の一番面白い映画。
Just for dogs
Enero 24, 2010
Never in my life I could have possibly imagine a theme park for dogs. Japan, again, proved me wrong and invited me to one of the most bizarre places I’ve ever seen.
犬のシームパーック？無理だよ！昔、そのことを思ったけど、日本でいつも驚くよ。
