Night shoot right now. Wild Club music video!
POLISSE, dir. Maiwen.
Here’s a Good Things Monday recommendation. Go see Polisse at IFC. It’s a provocative, emotionally charged examination of the French Police Child Protection Unit. The director’s choice in actors (working class, multi-ethnic, believable) heightened the realism - here we would’ve had to cast Colin Firth and Charlize Theron. Like The Wire, the effect work has on the officers, their need for humor/humiliation, and their camaraderie was riveting. So French, so good.
Happy Memorial Day. Bike ride, Prospect Park, Coca Cola, perfect. When’s the alien invasion?
Alien (1979) - Prometheus (2012)
No new movie watching news. We wrapped KILL YOUR DARLINGS and half of Killer is now in Chile (Patagonia!) shooting MAGIC MAGIC w/d by Sebastian Silva. Meanwhile, I got to spend all of a sunny Brooklyn sat w/ this wonderful man - illustrator and creator of the best bag (Chester Wallace!) in the galaxies - Patrick Longgggggg.
Rie in front of gigantic Matthew Brandt, facing the wrong way!
Tribble and Mancenido, photographers/mr&mrs/rising superstars! At IPF @ the Armory. Love them.
Burroughs by Avedon. Seen at Int’l Photography Fair @ the Armory today.
Long days long nights. Talented peeps. Stay tuned. KILL YOUR DARLINGS.
Attack the Block
Derpin around with some screen caps. Fantastic movie. Herp derp.
Fantastic. For a fun time, watch ATB.
Hunger Games (the movie) sucked.
Thanks a lot Gary Ross.
the ones who are mad to live,
mad to talk,
mad to be saved,
desirous of everything at the same time,
the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing,
but burn,
burn,
burn,
like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars
and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop
and everybody goes “Awww! -
Jack Kerouac
this has a permanent place on my desk. not to believe, but to write.
ON THE ROAD, dir. Walter Salles.
On the eve of our KILL YOUR DARLINGS shoot - will this be the year of the Beats?
Two of my favorite actors - watch out, rising sun.
Hipsters are gonna hate it and then they’re gonna emulate it.
THE KILL LIST, dir. Ben Wheatley, 2011
Tonight’s my sister’s birthday and we watched this after a great day, thanks to IFC. I’d describe it ineloquently as a naturalistic supernatural hit men drama. BW is a serious talent. Without the hoopla of $$ special effects or gratuitous gun battles, he tightens the wire of tension (domestic and homicidal). My recommendation is watch this with close captioning on. That way you won’t miss all the subtle and smartly written English mate dialog. My sis was worried about my black imagination when I called the dark and twisted ending. An indie film state of mind, I guess.
