Showing posts with label cinema. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cinema. Show all posts
bobbie peers | sniffer
in a society where everyone has the ability to fly, the citizens anchor themselves to the ground via "gravitation boots". devoid of sunlight and the open sky, the members of society go about their routine without any hope of personal gratification. one day, however, a man decides he has had enough attempt to challenge the status quo. he quits his job, loosens his bindings, and literally takes off.
charles & ray eames | powers of ten
a film dealing with the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero.
remy belvaux, andré bonzel & benoît poelvoorde | man bites dog
documentary filmmakers andré and rémy have found an ideal subject in ben. he is witty, sophisticated, intelligent, well liked—and a serial killer. as andré and rémy document ben’s routines, they become increasingly entwined in his vicious program, sacrificing their objectivity and their morality.
yakov protazanov | aelita : queen of mars
the first big budget film from soviet russia, it tells a rather simple story of an engineer who dreams of aelita, the queen of mars. unable to bear life without her, he builds a spaceship to take him to mars, and into the arms of his beloved. fortunately for him, queen aelita has coincidentally been using her new telescope to check him out on earth. upon arrival, he naturally gets caught up in a martian proletarian uprising, started by the queen herself. the revolution is a success and the M-USSR is born. though the film was intended as piece of propaganda, protazanov was attacked for creating a work of "western-style escapism, commercialism and ideological compromise." still, any film that depicts how love and a workers' revolution can save the day is all right. a must see for sci-fi marxists.
cornel wilde | the naked prey
glamorous leading man turned idiosyncratic auteur cornel wilde created in the sixties and seventies a handful of gritty, violent explorations of the nature of man, none more memorable than the naked prey. in the early nineteenth century, after an ivory-hunting safari offends an african tribe, the colonialists are captured and hideously tortured. only wilde's marksman is released, without clothes or weapons, to be hunted for sport, and he embarks on a harrowing journey through savanna and jungle, back to a primitive state. distinguished by vivid widescreen camera work and the unflinching depiction of savagery, the naked prey is both a propulsive, stripped-to-the-bone narrative and a meditation on the notion of civilization.
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