Green Porno

Who can resist Isabella Rossellini dressed as an assortment of insects and aquatic life and talking about sex?!

Check out her two seasons of short films on the Sundance Channel

The little film that could. . .

Win for Best Picture at the Oscars!

If you have not seen Slumdog Millionaire, GO SEE IT! It is a great story and told really well. And at the end there is a big ole Bollywood number!

Soundtrack is really cool too!

Dreams

I just came across a postcard of this painting I bought at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and it got me to thinking ho much I really love this painting. The color, energy, and life in it! Which then got me thinking of the movie Dreams.

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Van Gogh's painting Wheat Field with Crows is an important element in the fifth dream in Akira Kurosawa's "Dreams." This fifth dream a brilliantly-colored vignette featuring director Martin Scorsese as Vincent Van Gogh. An art student (a character wearing Kurosawa's trademark hat who provides the POV for the rest of the film) finds himself inside the vibrant and sometimes chaotic world inside Van Gogh's artwork, where he meets the artist in a field and converses with him. The student loses track of the artist (who is missing an ear and nearing the end of his life) and travels through other works trying to find him.

Across The Universe

Another piece of brilliance from the mind of Julie Taymor!

Now, I am not, NOT a fan of the Beatles. I just aint. But the arrangements of the music in Across The Universe made me download the album! The story weaves the music into narrative dialogue, while showing us stories here and there; London and Ohio, New York and Viet Nam, Detroit and Ohio. All the while the lyrics act as the dialogue and give new meaning to the words that are brought to life.

As with most of Taymor's projects, this one too is a visual and inventive delight. There are a couple scenes which appear to be gratuitous or too long and more of a showcase for what Taymor can do. And what is Bono doing there? But I can look past the extra eye candy.

Across The Universe opens wide this Friday.