you really confuse me. i saw grease on tv today and i have to admit i have a total wide on for danny zuko. he could be the perfect man, and if not he certainly dresses like him. why did you have to ruin that legacy with your closeted homosexuality, scientology, and growing a really fat neck/ head. pulp fiction was fantastic. i thought you were on the right track for a while there. stop disappointing everyone, it's selfish.
It's funny that unicorn jones posted about classic cinema because i've been watching Hitchcock films (the 39 steps and the lady vanishes last night)when mr. fantasy is at work since my computer is broken. Now I am becoming a little bit obsessed with transatlantic accents. I want to have a transatlantic accent more than anything and i think i'm a perfect candidate because i am an american living in london!
I've never met a real life person who talks like that but i think they exist. I imagine that dita von teese speaks with a transatlantic accent. I don't think she really does, but she should.
I'm afraid i'll end up just sounding like a douche who is trying to put on an english accent though.
did you know alfred hitchcock had a phobia of eggs?
"I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes … have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it"
This is Indian surf music from the 1965 in the film Gumnaam. This is clip is also in the movie Ghostworld.
Apparently the movie, Gumnaam, is about a group of dance contest winners that go to a remote island with a mansion and a crazy butler, only to be killed one by one. I especially like this dancing because it's amazing but i think i could do it without screwing it up really badly or looking autistic. but it's sort of a dance a downy might do, so maybe not.
This movie is also amazing:
it's called Tears of the Black Tiger in English, or Fah talai jone "heaven strike the thief" in thai. It's a thai western. It's very retro looking and until just now i thought it was. Turns out it was made in 2000. The colors are really amazing and everything is over the top and stylized and beautiful.
It kind of makes me sad that it's modern and intentionally over the top and not just another culture over-interpreting an american thing.
This post + the japabillies teaches us that anything america can do (surf music, rockabilly style, westerns) the far east can take it and make it 5 times more amazing.
Debwa loves lists. The observer recently published a list of the top 5 most disturbing villains in film. I haven't heard of night of the hunter so i will definitely check it out.
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
Dennis Hopper is the idiopathic entity who tries to crawl inside a deathly Isabella Rossellini.
Nosferatu (Werner Herzog, 1979)
Klaus Kinski was even more revolting than Max Schreck in the 1922 original.
The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
Robert Mitchum is fabulous as the murderous preacherman, with 'love' and 'hate' tattooed on his fists.
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
Nurse Ratched is disturbing precisely because she isn't actually malevolent; she's following the rules.
Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
Why is Cassavetes so unnerving here? Is it because he sells his wife to the Devil for advancement at work, or because he's the godfather of US independent film?
i also found a similar article in Time but none of the characters occur on both lists. I think the time ones are more villains that are really fucking bad ass and you sort of like (aka hannibal lecter) where as the above are just creepy.
well, i don't really know what to say about heath ledger's death other than it's a shame.
but, i did just find out that before his death, ledger filmed a movie with the director of Time Bandits. For anyone unfamiliar with this classic, it's an amazing movie about midgets that are jumping around through time, treasure-hunting with the use of a map that they've stolen from god. Reread that last sentence; JUMPING THROUGH TIME WITH A TREASURE MAP STOLEN FROM GOD. Needless to say, Terry Gilliam's new film about "the leader of a traveling theater troupe who, through a deal with the Devil, takes audience members through a magical mirror to explore their imaginations," should be equally fantasy-tastic.
