♥ Xavier Dolan

Recently fell in love with this talented young guy...

And also with the music from this movie - Dalida, Isabelle Pierre...

Dear New York

Black and white old city
build of books, furniture, shadows and glass - so inspiring!

Luis Úrculo film "Dear New York" for Zara

Spirit of Spring

Smells like Spring, finally!

frames from "The Skin I Live In" a film by Pedro Almodovar

illustrations by Juan Gatti

1. Rosanna Bowles Inc botanical garden collection at gilt.com | 2. lost source | 3. Stradivarius floral print skinny leg trousers (39.95 €) | 4. Bosque Estudio (Buenos Aires, Argentina) card design for La Rebelion de las Masas catering company

La Chamade (1968)

Catherine Denueve in a movie La Chamade (1968), which has also been released under the title Heartbeat, based on Françoise Sagan's novel, enchanting with her elegance and beauty, at some point has a line:

- Listen, Etienne. I discovered the truth with a capital "T".

- No fooling?

- Listen to me.

- Hold it.

- I'm in no hurry.

- All right, let's hear it.

- "Respectability, that's what did it. I found out a long time ago that it's idleness which breeds all our virtues that are most bearable - contemplation, equitableness, laziness, letting other people alone. Plus good digestion, mental and physical - the intelligence to concentrate our attention on the pleasure of the flesh - eating and evacuating and fornicating and sitting in the sun than which nothing is better, nothing to match, nothing else in all this world, but to live for the short time which you are alone on this earth to breathe, to be alive, and to know it." - William Faulkner, my friends.

There you are. I've made my decision about it. I've leave you to make of it what you will. Good-bye. Good-bye.

- I'll meditate on what you said.

Synopsis

Lucile enjoys a life of leisure and comfort, thanks to her rich sugar daddy, Charles. Despite the difference in their ages – Lucile is 25, Charles is in his forties – they appear to be the perfect couple, sharing a large house, socialising with friends. Then, one day, Lucile meets a man of her own age, Antoine, towards whom she is instantly attracted. They hurl themselves into a passionate love affair, and Lucile soon realises that she must leaves Charles and move in with Antoine – even though the latter hasn’t enough money to support both of them. Antoine finds his lover a job, but Lucile soon realises she is not cut out for work. Then she discovers that she is pregnant, and the painful reality of the life she has chosen suddenly hits home...

It’s a pessimistic, even cynical, view of human relationships, but in contrast to the conventional cinematic approach, it is one that is far nearer reality. The sadness in the film’s final, tacitly understated sequence is so keenly felt because it is so close to our own experiences.

2 Days in Paris

2 Days in Paris (2007) movie by Julie Delpy

Julie Delpy wrote, directed, edited, produced, composed music for it, sings and stars in this less romantic, more wicked and very personal movie. (NY Times article)

Cast & Set

Ms. Delpy cast her own parents, the actors Albert Delpy and Marie Pillet, to play her on-screen parents. Her ex-boyfriend Adam Goldberg plays her character’s boyfriend. Even her real-life cat, Max, plays Marion’s pet, Jean-Luc. Scenes from the film were shot on the family compound in Paris where Ms. Delpy keeps a studio above her parents’ apartment.

“Meeting someone you love is so rare,” Ms. Delpy said, “and finding someone you can communicate with — even if sometimes it’s uncomfortable — that you have to make an effort to make it work. I personally have had a life of going from one man to another, and I just don’t want to do that anymore. So this film is — well, my friend called it ‘The Last Temptation of Julie.’ ”

Quotes

“It always fascinated me how people go from loving you madly to nothing at all, nothing. It hurts so much. When I feel someone is going to leave me, I have a tendency to break up first before I get to hear the whole thing. Here it is. One more, one less. Another wasted love story. I really love this one. When I think that its over, that I’ll never see him again like this… well yes, I’ll bump into him, we’ll meet our new boyfriend and girlfriend, act as if we had never been together, then we’ll slowly think of each other less and less until we forget each other completely. Almost. Always the same for me. Break up, break down. Drunk up, fool around. Meet one guy, then another, fuck around. Forget the one and only. Then after a few months of total emptiness start again to look for true love, desperately look everywhere and after two years of loneliness meet a new love and swear it is the one, until that one is gone as well. There’s a moment in life where you can’t recover any more from another break-up. And even if this person bugs you sixty percent of the time, well you still can’t live without him. And even if he wakes you up every day by sneezing right in your face, well you love his sneezes more than anyone else’s kisses. ”

— Marion, 2 Days in Paris

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Movie Title Stills

A collection containing movie title stills from films and trailers
@ annyas.com

Festival de Cannes 2011

Dying to see this films:

1. MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, Woody Allen

A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.

Cast: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni
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2. LA PIEL QUE HABITO (The Skin I Live In), Pedro Almodóvar

Based on Thierry Jonquet's novel "Mygale", this revenge tale tells the story of a plastic surgeon on the hunt for the men who raped his daughter. Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault.

Cast: Antonio BANDERAS - Robert Ledgard Elena ANAYA - Vera Marisa PAREDES - Marilia Jan CORNET - Vicente Roberto ÁLAMO - Zeca Blanca SUÁREZ - Norma Eduard FERNÁNDEZ - Fulgencio

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3. MELANCHOLIA, Lars Von Trier

"A beautiful movie about the end of the world", tells the story of two sisters (Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg), who find their relationship challenged as a nearby planet threatens to collide into the Earth.

Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander Skarsgård, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt

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4. SLEEPING BEAUTY, Julia Leigh

A haunting erotic fairytale about Lucy, a young University student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of beauty and desire.

Cast: Emily Browning, Rachael Blake, Ewen Leslie
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more @ Festival de Cannes 2011

Freakonomics

must see Freakonomics documentary movie

Inception: Dream vs Reality

Razmišljanja u nizu asocijacija i pitanja koja scenarijo filma Inception postavlja, ali ih ne i nužno analizira:

Does reality realy exist? Dreaming the dream inside the dream. Reality or just the dream?

- Reality is not enough -
Stvarnost nije dovoljna

Dream Intruder
- lets share a dream – lets share a fantasy -
a ne, lets share reality, jer kome treba reality check

Dreams Stillers
- Kradljivci snova -

Arhitekte sveta sna, nalik advertising profi kreativcima koji kreiraju svet požude, kreiraju potrebu za koju postoji adekvatno rešenje, tj. proizvod
- Let Us Tell You What You Want -

Shared dreams – deljeni snovi

Autentičnost ličnog sna, limbo – samo sirova beskonačna podsvest, korporativna špijunaža oličena u akciji sađenja ideje, krivotvorenje, uz dodatak sedativa koji obezbeđuju dubok nivo sanjanja; sve to podseća malo na:

(off)

• slučaj dr Kameruna & eksperimente totalne senzorne deprivacije koje je CIA sprovodila 50-ih godina, a opisuje ih Naomi Klajn u knjizi Doktrina šoka
• hipnopediju i Hakslijev Vrli novi svet
• sindrom Klajn Levinove bolesti spavanja
• uspavanu lepoticu, Trnovu ružicu, hibernaciju
• Kišovu Enciklopediju mrtvih, gde se paralelnim sanjanjem kreira stvarnost, sinhronizovani svet sna afektuje stvarnost posledicama

San ili sećanje na san ili osećaj deja vu

Čudan, bizaran način spavanja - nova egzibicionistička praksa (sa)učestvovanja, deljenja intime – sanjanje u vidu deljenih snova, perverzna želja da se ostvari povezanost sa drugim – da se uđe u njegovu svest/podsvest, želja da snivaš zajedno sa njim u deljenom snu, zajednička avantura koju kroje nekontrolisane podsvesti svih učesnika - snevača = nalik video igrici, online gaming with multi players

Nekada netom simulirana stvarnost sada postaje oživljena realnost koja se proživljava najintenzivnije sanjajući.

Kada su želje najogoljenije, um neinhibiran svesnim delovanjem ispoljava svoje pravo obličje, dovodi u opasnost, izaziva granice, prevazilazi predvidive principe delovanja, a sve je to svojevrsno iskustvo.

Više nema ničega što u potpunosti može da ogoli drugog (telesna, duševna nagost, kao i socijalna otvorenost davno su prešle granicu u reality tv show) osim ulaženja u njegov san (njegove najskrivenije tajne, želje, misli).

Najvitalniji deo bića nije razum, nisu osećanja, to su snovi - san kao posvećivanje, cilj koji vuče napred, stremljenje ka višem.

SVI IMAJU PRAVO DA SANJAJU

Nijedan san nije samo san

Is This for Real?

U tehnologiji koja napreduje, brzini povezivanja, razvoju socijalnih mreža (fb, twitter)
key word is sharing

more @ inceptionmovie

Black Swan

BLACK SWAN by Darren Aronofsky
premijerno je juče otvorio 67 Venice Film Festival
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(danas.rs)