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Happy New 2012 with La Mer and Mr. Bean
What better way to salute the new year than with a blog post? And what better than celebrating it with the beautiful “La Mer” song by Charles Trenet? A song which has been played all over the world and is … Continue reading
The Skin I Live In
The doctor watches the woman in a wide-screen TV, as it were a movie. The doctor has assembled and directed the woman’s life as a film director would with his actor. We have already seen this many times, also from … Continue reading
Storytelling (Or, Why I loved Forbrydelsen – The Killing)
Making remakes of successful movies is certainly an art. Some are even better than the original, many are not. It is nevertheless a treat and a hazardous business at the same time for the newer version’s director and crew. Sometimes, … Continue reading
Amours Imaginaires – Bang Bang
Tonight I happened to watch the movie Heartbeats (Les Amours Imaginaires), a Canadian film by Xavier Dolan (2010). I was immediately taken by the use of slow motion, color and interview dialogues. Then, the song “Bang Bang”, over a slow … Continue reading
Cinemagraphs
Brian Lamb‘s tweet of today opened up a full load of awesome animated GIFs. I cannot restrain myself to celebrate a few of them, and make myself a great stealer… So, enjoy the coming weekend with some Classic Films from … Continue reading