Sunday, June 23, 2013

Johnnie To

"Most of the films are made for the industry, and to sustain my company. I can count on one hand the films I really enjoyed making:  The Mission, PTU, Exiled, Sparrow and Life Without Principle. That’s  just five! And the rest are, shall I say, business projects."

— Johnnie To


via The Hollywood Reporter

Sunday, June 16, 2013

La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser (Davide Manuli, 2012)

Silvia Calderoni in La leggenda di Kasper Hauser

Silvia Calderoni cuts an astonishing figure in Davide Manuli's La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser, her body constantly bouncing to a silent beat, as if her heart was a drum machine, a kinetic energy that is both awkward and awe-inspiring. A true messiah.

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Addicted to Love (Griffin Dunne, 1997)




A stunning moment in Griffin Dunne's Addicted to Love, a camera obscura projection of a window across the street, an ex-girlfriend turned object of desire, magically "lit up" by virtue of a brokenhearted man's misguided (but oh so earnest) fixation.

All romantic comedies should be this perverse.