Category: Film

Film – Sketches of Frank Gehry

Posted on by boj Posted in Engineering Princess, Film

Watching documentaries about people in my line of business (producing functional art) is always fascinating if for no other reason then to gloat about the eternal struggle for the beauty of the world*. Sometimes I get tangled up in details and hassles of the day that I forget that I have an opportunity to create something beautiful. I loved how the film showed the combination of requirements to conform and the 10% space for creativity. There is a crack, a crack in everything – That’s how the light gets in. **

In any case, even if the film did not inspire reflection (which it did), the bits with Julian Schnabel made me giggle like a schoolgirl. That alone is worth the price of admission.

* In The New Light – Laibach
** Anthem – Leonard Cohen

Film – The Proposition – revisited

Posted on by boj Posted in Film

A couple of years ago I went to see “Le Goût des autres”. I was so bored by the film that it is only due to my laziness and disinclination to inconvenience other moviegoers that I did not leave the cinema half way though the film. Yet, looking back, I think about this film more often than about many films that I thoroughly enjoyed. I felt the same about “The Man Without a Past” by Aki Kaurismäki.

There are films that I enjoy right away, and some that have moments that make it worth the trouble regardless of how good or bad the rest of the film is. The Proposition (like much of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds music) falls into the third category with “Le Goût des autres” and “The Man Without a Past”. These are the films that I do not like while watching them, give them credit for insight when I leave the theatre and think they’re brilliant several weeks later.

Film – The Proposition

Posted on by boj Posted in Film

I haven’t made up my mind about this film yet. It is exactly what I would expect from Nick Cave though. I did not sense the brilliance found in “Henry’s Dream”, but it was captivating.

Film – X-Men: The Last Stand

Posted on by boj Posted in Film

This film is the finest piece of crotchsploitation since “They live”. The climax goes something like this:

SPOILER ALERT!

Jean is using her mutant powers to vaporize the ocean and create eye of the tiger around her. Everyone is running for their lives but Logan knows that he is the only one who can stop her from destroying the world. He reaches Jean at the centre. Jean is fighting her power but Phoenix (her alter ego) is more powerful.

Destruction is all around them and Logan’s clothes and flesh start falling off in little pieces. He heals fast and draws to her.

Jean: You must stop me before I destroy everything…
Logan: I love you…

He stabs her from below with his amazing retractable claws. Jean’s head and shoulders arch back. Ocean returns to liquid form and the world is a happy place.

Oh yeah, there was plot too but who cares?