
- The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What it Is.
Errol Morris takes you through the literal and metaphorical ins and outs and whathaveyous of the strange condition of Anosognosia: From Donald Rumsfeld to Woodrow Wilson, to Lemon Juice induced ‘invisibility’ in bank robbers: “If Wheeler was too stupid to be a bank robber, perhaps he was also too stupid to know that he was too stupid to be a bank robber — that is, his stupidity protected him from an awareness of his own stupidity.” A wonderful Mega-Morris post to rival the Crimean War Cannon Ball Photos, In FIVE Parts! - Agora: the “Reel” vs. the “Real” Hypatia
A look at how history was molded into narrative with Amenebar’s AGORA – “Bravo! The movie managed to get both versions of the story as told by Damascius in his Life of Isadore. The student wasn’t Orestes (I’ll talk about all the characters in a later post), but the sentiment was real. Damascius reports that after a student professed his love for her, Hypatia showed him her bloody menstrual rag and said, “This is what you really love, my young man, but you do not love beauty for its own sake.”” – In THREE Parts. - The Great Directors: David Lynch Segment
In a snippet of video interview with Angela Ismailos, David Lynch talks about the perceived failure of his blockbuster version of Dune, and how it liberated him to do Blue Velvet. - The Carleton Cinema Reborn!
“For fans of art-house cinema and independent film, the Carlton was often the one venue at which to catch an extended run of a first-run feature that might otherwise be out of theatres in a week. Canadian filmmakers such as Ron Mann and Atom Egoyan claimed it as the birthplace of their careers with an attempt to save the theatre several years ago, though the facilities had already fallen into disrepair. Members of Toronto’s cinema community expressed their outrage at the closing via social media, though critics like The Toronto Star’s Peter Howell bemoaned their “crocodile tears.” It seemed that the Carlton’s closure was just another example of Toronto’s cultural gentrification and the hypocrisy of its supporters in a year that had also seen the loss of another beloved yet unprofitable institution, Pages Bookstore. “ - Writer Details the SUPERMAN Movie That Never Came To Be
“The intent was to leapfrog over Superman III and especially IV, and return the series to the high mark achieved in 1 and 2,” Bates told Newsarama. “[It was] our desire to do a fully developed, balls-out science fiction story pitting Superman and Brainiac against each other mano a mano.” - Chris Doyle Used to Expose Himself from the Set of Chungking Express, According to Bill Murray“Wait, really? Doyle did indeed live in an apartment looking out over Hong Kong’s Central-Mid-Levels escalator—famously, it was his apartment that Wong used as the abode of the depressed cop played by Tony Leung in Chungking Express. You get a great view of Doyle’s/Cop 663′s apartment, and a bit of the escalator…”
- Entrance Romance – NOWNESS (Video)
A short and wonderful fashion video that showcases the super-slow motion used in both The Fall and Antichrist. Here, dog licking, flaming hairspray and smashing beer bottles over models head.
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I saw that Great Directors documentary a few weeks ago; some pretty interesting stuff. The Lynch stuff was especially entertaining, because, well, Lynch is kind of unique individual.