non films

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Wardrobe test for Andrei Tarkovsky's "Stalker" (1979):

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Excited for this one. 📖

Roger Deakins Shows His Work in New Book ‘Reflections: On Cinematography’

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One of the best albums ever made.
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Brian Eno's Another Green World turns 50 today. Revisit our Perfect 10 review of his definitive album here: https://pitchfork.visitlink.me/N3llch

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The Killing (1956), directed by Stanley Kubrick, is a taut, precise, and morally haunting noir that redefined the heist genre. With its fractured timeline, cold logic, and tragic irony, it tells the story of a perfect crime meticulously planned — and doomed from the start.

At the center stands Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden), a hardened ex-con ready for one last job. His plan? To rob a racetrack on the day of a big race. Every move is calculated: the timing, the disguises, the distractions — nothing is left to chance. “In this business,” Johnny says coolly, “you take what you can get, and you don’t look back.”

Kubrick builds the tension like a chess game, moving his characters — a corrupt cop, a desperate cashier, a jealous husband — into place with merciless precision. Each man believes he’s part of something clean, controlled, almost noble. But fate, and human weakness, seep through every frame. One nervous wife (Marie Windsor, deliciously conniving) and one misplaced suitcase of cash are enough to bring the entire scheme crashing down.

The film’s signature moment comes at the end, as Johnny watches his fortune scatter into the wind — literally — on an airport tarmac. Defeated, he mutters, “What’s the difference?” It’s not just the loss of money; it’s the shattering of belief in control, in reason, in luck itself.

Shot with harsh lighting and brutal realism, The Killing captures the cold machinery of crime — and the chaos that inevitably corrupts it. Kubrick, at just 28, directs with startling authority, turning pulp into poetry.

🎬 “The Killing” isn’t just about a heist gone wrong. It’s about the illusion of order in a world ruled by chance — and how, in the end, even the smartest men can’t outsmart fate.

14/11/2025

“Jack Smith was a visionary performance artist and underground filmmaker who produced and directed a series of no-budget films during the 1950s and 1960s, the most famous being Flaming Creatures and Normal Love both from 1963. Smith peopled his camp b-movie melodramas with friends and often shot them on out-of-date film stock. As a filmmaker he seemed often careless about the fate of his movies, but their success and influence were far greater than the size of the audience that saw them. John Waters hailed Smith as “the only true underground filmmaker.” Susan Sontag described the controversial and allegedly pornographic Flaming Creatures as “a rare modern work of art; about joy and innocence.” While Andy Warhol said Smith was the only filmmaker he would steal from.”

/ From the article “Flaming Creatures: Icon of Perversion Jack Smith’s Fabulous Photographs” on the Dangerous Minds website, 2014 /

“Born in 1932, Smith came of age with other cultural rebels, but he wasn’t so much unwilling as genuinely unable to conform. What interested him was that state of mind one enters while creating, and that’s what he wanted to show on stage or screen. He didn’t care about finished products. He made the most important avant-garde film in America, then never completed any of his other films. He was known for actually re-editing during screenings. As for performances, no two were alike. He did not believe in acting, which was “hoodwinking,” or in memorizing lines, which rendered one “a mynah bird.””

/ From the article “Flaming Intrigue” by Cynthia Carr in the 2 March 2004 edition of The Village Voice /

Born on this day: pioneering American performance artist, photographer, one of the architects of underground q***r cinema and all-round twisted prophet, that flaming creature Jack Smith (14 November 1932 – 18 September 1989). A “filth elder” to be mentioned in the same breath as Jean Genet, Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger, the Kuchar brothers and James Bidgood and a role model for the ages, Smith is an integral figure in the aesthetic we now call “camp” or “kitsch.”

14/11/2025

Remembering Chantal Akerman 🌹

Chantal Akerman and Delphine Seyrig on the set of her feature Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)

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The great William Basinski 💙

The composer’s ambient masterwork, created from disintegrating magnetic tape, became synonymous with 9/11. When he made it, his own life was falling apart.

13/11/2025