VIEW >> Polaroid diary from The Shining
A series of Polaroid images taken by Kubrick himself,
his longterm assistant Emilio D’Alessandro
and continuity supervisor June Randall.
WATCH >> Scoring Uncut Gems
“Josh would jump on the keyboard, doing all types of panning on the fly. We’re essentially riding this spaceship, that’s sort of how it gets done, you have to be so shameless, unabashed, childlike, studio tomfoolery is the only way to really get to this magical level.”
GO TO >> David Lynch Art Expo @ Sperone Westwater
Lynch’s work balances at the porous divide between the body and the world it inhabits.
His five-decade career includes an extensive range of art-making—painting,
drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, music and film.
LISTEN >> Chinatown commentary by David Fincher
“The ultimate would be to never have to go to Chinatown,
Chinatown is not a place that you could actually go to
because it’s a state of mind.”
READ >> 3 Reasons To Watch ‘Picnic At Hanging Rock’
There’s a deep appreciation for beauty in its many forms, from the costumes to the attention
Weir pays to the school’s ornate architecture, to paintings, to poetry.
READ >> Werner Herzog Cannot Stop Talking About WrestleMania
“Why do I watch Wrestlemania? My answer is the poet must not avert his eyes from what’s
going on in the world. In order to understand what’s going on, you have to face it.”
READ >> Scorsese: Cinema is about revelation — aesthetic, emotional and spiritual
They are everything that the films of Paul Thomas Anderson or Claire Denis or Spike Lee or
Ari Aster or Kathryn Bigelow or Wes Anderson are not. When I watch a movie by any
of those filmmakers, I know I’m going to see something absolutely new and
be taken to unexpected and maybe even unnameable areas of experience.
GO TO >> Dial M For Murder @ The Metrograph
Catch Alfred Hitchcock’s DIAL M FOR MURDER at The Metrograph, presented in 3D.
10pm, Friday November 1st
WATCH >> Peter Jackson: Good Taste made Bad Taste
“Being an only child does make you more imaginative, you have to create your own games by yourself with whatever props come to hand. You don’t have anybody else to bounce off of, so you’re creating everything in your own head, all the time.”
BUY >> Häxan
“During a break in shooting, the actor playing the role of the doomed beggar raised her tired face to me and said: The devil is real. I have seen him sitting by my bedside.” – Benjamin Christensen