Nagisa Oshima

In the realm of the senses
Empire of passion

My photoblog

http://elephile.tumblr.com
(more improvements to come)

Berkeley Botanical Garden

...Green...

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Kubrick exhibition at LACMA, must see

Mary and Max

2009 Cute Australian Animation

completely cultured

Korean rice wine, Sierra Nevada, red wine, lamb skewers, panini, nutella and strawberry and banana, vegetables, pasta, spaghetti, dances, birthdays, films, plants, pictures, conversations, music, love-making and kisses, life complete. 

Kubrick

The American genius filmmaker who started out his career as a photographer in New York and continued
his movie making as an expatriate in London. He used lenses from Zeiss made for NASA to
capture natural candlelight scenes in Barry Lyndon (1975), the story of an Irish Adventurer and William Makepeace Thackeray's novel.
Beautifully made...and perhaps inspired by Napolean Bonaparte, although there are accounts that Thackeray made it
as a twisted version of his own life story.
Some quotes from the movie:
“And by these wonderful circumstances I was once more free again: and I kept my resolution then made, never to fall more into the hands of any recruiter, and henceforth and for ever to be a gentleman.”
“Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.”

sleuth

The word sleuth, can literally mean a detective or a tracker and pursuer, but a play written by Anthony Shaffer and played by Sir Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine.  Beautifully tailored, scripted, played, 

directed, and acted by a man who loves games and invites his wife's lover to the battle of death. Brilliant and thrilling 1972 mystery...I am grateful to have found it, watched it, and share it.

Trainspotting

Trainspotting, literally speaking, could be referred to the action of trying to find intact veins without 

dark marks of previous linear heroin vein tracks in order to inject heroin or other drugs. 

Made in 1996 by the same director as Slumdog Millionaire, and based on Scottish novel of Irvine Welsh,

on life of a drug addict in Edinburgh told in the language of British black comedy. 

Themes of repetition of dialogues and ideas are very pleasing and humorous and intelligent.

Trainspotting 2 will be out 2016!

Will say more...

Citizen Kane and Trial by Oscar Welles 

Biutiful

By Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu
Enough said.

Synecdoche, New York, 2008

A theatre director who directs a new play based on his life and the actors in an experimental warehouse in New York City. Great script and synchronicities. 

03-13-2013

Happy 13th of March
Happy chaharshanbe soori
I had a great time, did you?

Side-by-Side

This documentary investigates the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation. I recommend! 

I hope one day, I get to have a film collection of my own...

Marching on...

Just watched Fritz Lang's 'Spies' silent film from 1928 on a 8mm reel. It's the story of a mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and an agent from the government’s secret service. Fritz is an Austrian filmmaker, nick named as master of darkness, and whom most of his film reels are lost and banished unfortunately.

Watching this gives an aura of the time where horrendous events take place and the spy, later the clown could signify the time where Hitler was raised and the circumstances leading to it. 

(December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976, also the maker of Metropolis!)