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I could not resist preordering this. I was never able to complete my Bela Tarr collection – some films were just impossible to find.
And now, there it is: a complete Tarr filmography, with some new remasters in there. (UK only, it seems.)
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Moscow, March 1953: in the days following the death of Joseph Stalin, countless citizens flooded the Red Square to mourn their leader’s loss and witness his burial. Though the procession was captured in detail by hundreds of cameramen, their footage has remained largely unseen until now.
Watched part of it earlier, making a note that it’s in my watchlist and I need to come back to it.
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Comments closedTHE GREEN FOG from Guy Maddin on Vimeo.
The Green Fog is an experimental film directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, that loosely revisits the plot of Alfred Hitchcock‘s 1958 film Vertigo through a collage of found footage repurposed from old movies and television shows set in San Francisco.[1] The film was commissioned by the San Francisco Film Society for the 60th San Francisco International Film Festival’s and premiered at the festival’s close on April 16, 2017.[1] It then entered limited release on January 5, 2018 and began to tour international festivals.The film features an original score by composer Jacob Garchik and Kronos Quartet.
Guy Maddin and the Johnsons. I did not know this was available online. Delighted to find it.
Previously:
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Watched on MUBI.
An entire city has lost its voice. Mr. TV, the owner of the city’s only television channel, is carrying out a sinister plan to control all of the city’s inhabitants. He kidnaps a singer, the only one who still has The Voice. An inventor witnesses the kidnapping and flees to thwart approaching doom.
Written and directed by the Argentine filmmaker Esteban Sapir in 2007. Nobody has an audible voice but their words hang in the air as typography. It has a “Guy Maddin making METROPOLIS” vibe, but with a higher speed of visual invention.
“Alimentos TV” – TV Food. Makes me think of VIDEODROME for some reason. Elsewhere it really hits like Maddin’s HEART OF THE WORLD.
2 CommentsJust fell over this. I remember watching it on tv in 1987 – Jeff Goldblum doing a BBC TV film about Watson and Crick, working opposite Tim Pigott-Smith and Juliet Stevenson? I’ve a feeling I borrowed someone’s portable TV to watch it.
Found via this page on Rarefilmm – no download available.
2 CommentsI had no idea why this thing I saw as a kid popped into my head this afternoon, but it did, and a quick search found a full copy on YouTube. It begins by the people of the US voting for the space station to be recognised as a sovereign state by turning their lights on and off at night, and a NASA orbiting module tabulating the result.
Buckminster Fuller as a consultant!
Earth II’s live electronic democracy system has built in fact- and rhetoric-checking. In the form of chyrons thrown up over live video.
Hopefully MUBI buys this in. It looks fascinating. Thanks to Steen for emailing about it.
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