non films

04/26/2020

Know The Score: Nicholas Britell on Chariots of Fire

"For Nicholas Britell, who in recent years has established himself as one of Hollywood’s most dynamic and sought after composers, the Chariots of Fire is the reason he wanted to become a musician. “It was very special and formative for me. I saw the film when I was five and just became obsessed with the theme.” (via Little White Lies)

The Moonlight and Succession composer reveals how Vangelis’ score made him want to become a musician.

04/26/2020

Catherine Deneuve in Repulsion (1965, d. Roman Polanski)

04/26/2020

Bande à Part - Madison Cafe Dance Scene - Jean-Luc Godard

iconic scene from Bande à Part aka Band of Outsiders (1964, d. Jean-Luc Godard) 💃

The 'Madison' café dance that was so inspirational for Hal Hartley and Quentin Tarantino. Watch it now on iTunes http://mad.mn/bandeapart Two young hoodlums,...

04/26/2020

Twin Peaks 🔥

04/26/2020

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L'eclisse (aka "The Eclipse) (1962, d. Michelangelo Antonioni)

Antonioni on alienation.

04/26/2020

DarioArgento and John Carpenter - The Master of Horror at the Turin Film Festival in 1999 😈

" È la prima volta che ci incontriamo in pubblico insieme"

John Carpenter e Dario Argento
▪TFF -Torino Film Festival • 1999▪

" Avevano trascorso insieme un paio di piacevoli giorni, visitando il Museo Egizio e chiacchierando amabilmente" (da "Paura" autobiografia di Dario Argento • 2014)

04/26/2020

ALAN VEGA + MARTIN REV = SUICIDE forever 🔥 https://youtu.be/VFa9wSgG5p8

“YOU F**KERS HAVE TO LIVE THROUGH US TO GET TO THE MAIN BAND.”
- ALAN VEGA, 1978
#alanvega #alanvegavault

04/25/2020

My Quarantine: The Calm of Collaging

"Much like writing, collage-making is a series of narrowing decisions. The ground can be big or small, square or oblong, blank or patterned—and the choice restricts the pool of possible figures, by color and size and grain."

I’ve been making collages in consecutive series determined by physical constraint: a ledger, a stenographer’s notebook, mounted industrial photographs, a deck of lotto cards. I have a vast trove of imagery to draw upon: the disbound and damaged books I collected, the New York Post headlines I ho...

04/25/2020

quarantine is getting to us all

"The Best" ✨

Martin Scorsese

04/25/2020

Jane B. par Agnès V. - Agnès Varda: Dreams, Myths & Fairy Tales

Jane Birkin & Agnès Varda Officiel

« What I'd like is to make a feature film about how I really am: jeans, old sweaters, messy hair, barefoot in my garden. Just once, I'd like to forget wigs a...

04/25/2020

The Criterion Collection

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Our 26-film celebration of Toshiro Mifune is now playing on
the Criterion Channel! https://www.criterionchannel.com/toshiro-mifune-turns-100

04/25/2020

Slamdance TV

You can still watch the brilliant film A Great Lamp (2019, d. Saad Qureshi) courtesy of Slamdance Film Festival 🖤

A Great Lamp Directed by Saad Qureshi. Created with Max Wilde, Donald R. Monroe, Alison Donohue, Jake Bellew, Spencer Bang, and Steven Maier. In the fal

04/25/2020

Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse

Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (1922) Fritz Lang

04/25/2020

Oxford Film Festival

The fantastic Oxford Film Festival has moved online this year and the line-up is stellar. Stream a film and support independent cinema! 🎟

WE ARE BRINGING THE FILM FESTIVAL TO YOU!

Get excited because starting TODAY through the end of summer we will highlighting films that were set to play at the festival, virtually!

We want you to get your passes today and join us in the virtual film festival experience!
https://2020oxff.eventive.org/welcome

04/25/2020

Junkopia - A Short Film by Chris Marker

Junkopia (1981, d. Chris Marker)

Codirected by Frank Simeone and John Chapman, JUNKOPIA was filmed at the Emeryville Mudflats outside of San Francisco while Chris Marker was also shooting th...

04/25/2020

Gavin Bryars - Jesus Blood never failed me yet (full, audio only, no visual)

I revisit this every so often and remain convinced that it is one of the greatest recordings ever made. (Best on headphones in the dark.)

Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet is a 1971 composition by Gavin Bryars. It is formed on a loop of an unknown homeless man singing a brief stanza. Rich harmon...

04/25/2020

Streaming options from Re:Voir 📺

𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐕𝐎𝐃 𝐀𝐕𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄

𝙃𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙡𝙪𝙟𝙖𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙨!, Adolfas Mekas - free until Sunday (promo code STAYHOME)
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/hills/

𝙃𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙡 𝙏𝙪𝙗𝙪, Buharov Brothers- free until the end of the month
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/buharov/

𝙁𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙍𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙨, Pip Chodorov - one day free on April 27
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/freeradicals (promo code STAYHOME)

𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙥𝙚𝙨, Dominic Angerame - one day free on April 29 https://vimeo.com/ondemand/cityscapes (promo code STAYHOME)

04/25/2020

The Tarkovsky legacy | Deep focus | Sight & Sound

Andrei Tarkovsky: "The image is not a certain meaning, expressed by the director, but an entire world reflected in a drop of water."

In the course of just seven feature films – Ivan’s Childhood (1962), Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1972), Mirror (1974), Stalker (1979), Nostalgia (1983) and The Sacrifice (1986) – Andrei Tarkovsky changed what cinema as an artform could achieve. Despite the lack of canonical consensus today ...

04/25/2020

Bad Seed TeeVee - Nick Cave

So much love for Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

24 hour Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds videos, interviews, live performances and more.

04/25/2020

Bright Wall/Dark Room

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"By the end of THE FALL, I am left with a lingering feeling. I wonder if Tarsem ever exorcised what he set out to by making a film that took him four years to complete. Then again, I wonder if such supposed catharsis applies. Maybe it’s enough that The Fall got made at all, that it exists to be visited and revisited, that we are still talking about it, and that there is still nothing else like it."

04/25/2020

Videodrome (1983) Original Theatrical Trailer

"Love live the new flesh" 📼

Original theatrical trailer from David Cronenberg's 1983 sci-fi/horror film ''Videodrome''. I DO NOT OWN THIS CONTENT. ''VIDEODROME'' AND IT'S CHARACTERS RIG...

04/24/2020

Tin Cup, Picnic at Hanging Rock and Mikey and Nicky: Jim Hemphill’s Home Viewing Recommendations | Filmmaker Magazine

some viewing recommendations from Filmmaker Magazine

One of the best American comedies of the 1990s hits Blu-ray this week with Warner Archive’s release of Tin Cup, director Ron Shelton’s deliriously romantic and sharply observed meditation on the blurry line between self-sabotage and greatness. Kevin Costner, in the loosest and most engaging perf...

04/24/2020

Museums reveal their creepiest objects in Twitter battle

"With their doors closed due to the pandemic, museums in the UK and beyond have been taking to Twitter to showcase the most terrifying items in their collections, and it might be enough to make you glad to be safe at home."

Their doors may be shut due to the pandemic, but museums have taken to Twitter to showcase the scariest items in their collections

04/24/2020

The Quietus | Film | Film Features | Lost in Translation: Coppola's 'The Conversation' In The Age Of Social Distancing

"There’s surely some tragedy in the fact that the claustrophobic bleakness of Francis Ford Coppola’s small-scale marvel has become the order of the day, its prediction of private information as valuable currency strikingly accurate."

A claustrophobic yet deeply stylish depiction of a weary, wary surveillance expert, The Conversation in its solitary Hitchcockian eeriness is the ultimate cautionary tale for these lonely weeks and months, finds Adam Solomons

04/24/2020

The Projection Booth Podcast: Episode 461: Knife in the Water (1962)

The Projection Booth Podcast discusses Knife in the Water (movie) (1962)

On this episode we’re looking at a pair of films from Roman Polanski. First up we’re discussing the 1962 film Knife in the Water. It’s about a couple, Andrej and Krystyna, who run across a young man without a name. After that we discuss another film with a trio of characters, 1994's Death and ...

04/24/2020

Hou Hsiao-hsien on the Films That Changed His Life

"Over the past three decades, Hou Hsiao-Hsien has carved out a unique path as an artist, but he readily acknowledges his debt to filmmakers of earlier generations."

Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien is back with an awe-inspiring martial-arts epic.

04/24/2020

wise words from Abbas kiarostami 💔

Taste of Cherry (1997, Abbas Kiarostami)

04/24/2020

Charlie Kaufman Explains Why Star-Studded ‘Frank Or Francis’ Fell Apart, Says It Could Still Happen

The story behind Charlie Kaufman's ill-fated FRANK OR FRANCIS

Charlie Kaufman Explains Why Star-Studded 'Frank Or Francis' Fell Apart, Says It Could Still Happen

04/24/2020

You are the greatest film-maker at work today

Stanley Kubrick's letter to Ingmar Bergman.

Stanley Kubrick wrote the following gushing letter of praise in 1960 to the man he considered to be "the greatest film-maker at work toda...

04/24/2020

Punk Hybrids: Wham! Bam! Glam-Punk!

✨ G L A M ✨

Glam Punk is "Rock 'n' roll with lipstick on," sneered John Lennon.

04/24/2020

Shirley Knight, Tony- and Emmy-Winning Actress, Dies at 83

R.I.P. Shirley Knight. 🥀 From an 1982interview with Tennessee Williams: "There are talented people--brilliant people--who have courage, and those you want to keep around you....Shirley Knight has incredible courage: She'll take her talent wherever it needs to go to get the job done well, and she has no fear about sharing it with anyone ready for it. I like daring people, bold people. Shirley is daring and bold."

She burst onto the scene with an Oscar-nominated performance in the 1960 film “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs” and went on to a long career in film, on television and on the stage.

04/23/2020

Only the dead know Brooklyn.

04/23/2020

Books on Film: A guide to digital books for cinema lovers | Current Magazine

Digital books on cinema 📚

Cinema lovers now have time to catch up on the cinematic memoirs, movie history, and/or processes of auteurs through these digital books

04/23/2020

David Bowie - Heroes (Official Video)

as though nothing could fall 🔥

Official video for Heroes by David Bowie. Stream David Bowie's greatest hits here ▶ https://RhinoUK.lnk.to/ThisIsDavidBowieAY Subscribe here ▶ http://bit.ly/...

04/23/2020

Someone We Watched: How the Elevated Horror of Larry Fessenden Inspired a Generation - Film Independent

"Fessenden is clearly more interested in more specific, psychological allegories of indulging in compulsive behaviors and fixations as a means of not coping with emotional distress."

Each year, the Film Independent Spirit Awards give the Someone to Watch Award to an emerging filmmaker of singular vision. In this column, film critic

04/23/2020

Ryuichi Sakamoto shares improvised home concert

"Across the 30-minute recording, Ryuichi Sakamoto 坂本龍一 uses guitar feedback, piano, analogue synthesizers and various sound objects to craft experimental, healing sonics." 🌺 (h/t Roy)

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04/23/2020

Noel Marshall’s “Roar”: Humans Were Harmed in the Making of This Film

The completely insane film ROAR (1981, d. Noah Marshall), in which the actual cast and crew are mauled by wild animals, is now streaming through Alamo Drafthouse Cinema 🦁

Despite all the real blood, Marshall’s sole directorial endeavor, from 1981, plays like warmhearted, often antic comedy.

04/23/2020

Netflix to Add More Classic Films With Charlie Chaplin, François Truffaut, and More Set to Stream

"The deal begins with select Netflix international platforms such as in French-speaking territories."

A new deal with M2K Films is for French-speaking territories, but will the U.S. follow?

04/23/2020

Anna Karina, the painter 🖤

04/23/2020

Paris is Burning (1990, d. Jennie Livingston) 🔥

PARIS IS BURNING (1990) http://bit.ly/33TkxMp

04/23/2020

Nine of Tilda Swinton’s favourite films | Sight & Sound

You know she has great taste: 9 of Tilda Swinton's favorite films (via BFI)

As well as sitting down with us for a career interview and special cover shoot, and writing us a poem, new BFI Fellow Tilda Swinton also gave us her notes on nine of her favourite films.

04/23/2020

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Earth (1930, d. Alexander Dovzhenko) 🌻

A film that captures the beauty of nature like nothing before.

04/22/2020

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth Podcast

Some great stuff coming to Prime on ?May 1 including Daughters of Darkness and Mike Malloy's Eurocrime https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-everything-coming-to-amazon-prime-video-in-may-2020-2020-04-22

04/22/2020

What I Miss Most About Movie Theatres

A: everything 📽

With film festivals closing down and the entire industry at risk, the obscurity of the undiscovered grows ever deeper.

04/22/2020

Watch: 3 Short Films from Theodore Collatos Available for Free | Film Pulse

Watch 3 films from filmmaker Theodore Collatos 📽

With the ongoing interruption of film festivals across the world, a number of filmmakers have taken it upon themselves to release a variety of their films on th