"STORY: a levitating timepiece that orbits around a wooden base, counting the hours, minutes or even years."
Some Friends Asked Me To Talk About Movies For Their Podcast. You Won't Believe What Happened Next!
Marcell Jankovics' "Sisyphus" Feels Particularly Relevant Today, Which Is Not A Great Place To Be. (It Is A GREAT Short, Though)
Inspired By Tom Huizenga's Post On Leontyne Price, I Found This Recording of "Amazing Grace," And It's Amazing
The Magic of BvS
Today's Film Will Come As No Surprise To Anyone Who Read Last Week's Post
So, here it is: The Graham Greene-penned, Carol Reed-helmed, Robert Krasker-lensed noir that first fueled my (ongoing) obsession with Orson Welles. It's pretty much a perfect film, including one of the greatest monologues ever delivered, one of the greatest character introductions ever made, and one of the greatest, most devastating closing frames ever shot.
John Williams Turns 85 Today, So Here Are Five Of The Maestro's Finest "Underappreciated" Cuts
Today's Animated Short Is Charmingly, Unaggressively Meta, In A "Duck Amuck-y" Kind Of Way
"The theme of ‘The Light Bulb’ is a process of creation of a short film. It is about a struggle of a student who is not able to convey his original idea to the tutors who constantly interfere in the process. As such, it is also about the transformation of a protagonist - a stickman - and his personal path towards independence and integrity."
I've Never Heard This Schubert Quartet Before. Never Even Heard OF It. It's Fantastic.
Filmmaker IQ On "The Fundamental Elements Of Film Music"
Today's Streaming Video Suggestion (SVS) Is A Movie About A Pig. And It's Great.
Need A Pick-Me-Up? This Oughta Do The Trick.
Pixar's Breadcrumbs
This isn't really a confirmation of the SPU theory; more of a "we have a ton of time on our hands because ANIMATION IS INCREDIBLY TIME-CONSUMING, so we're constantly coming up with these kinds of Easter Eggs and putting them in our huge blockbusters." ...But even though it's not an actual "confirmation" of the Unified Pixar Universe, it's still awesome.
Sometimes, You Can See A Short's Ending Coming From A Mile Away. But That Doesn't Mean It's Unsatisfying.
Here Be Waxwings!
I Don't Think I'd Even Heard The Term "Brachistochrone" Before Today, But I Think It Might Just Be My New Favorite Thing
Today's Suggestion Seemed Like A Sure-Fire "Best Documentary Feature" Nominee. Surprisingly, It Didn't Get Nominated. But You Can Watch It For Yourself.
It's an unusual film structurally, with almost no story (or even much in the way of themes) holding it together. Every now and again, a single thread can be identified between a series of mostly-disparate images, and there are a couple of different stories that keep coming to the fore. But for the most part, they come off as beautiful, self-contained (and mostly unrelated) visual snippets. There is something holding them together, of course: Johnson herself.
