Film Exposition: 2010

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

The Examined Life (2008)

Each philosopher has 10 minutes
i dont think you have to be some pseudo intellectual to enjoy this-its just so fucking good regardless

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

oo the spiritual journey to the holy mountain...
I will never forget you
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s classic bizarre art shit
I watched it over-and over

The symbolism cannot be transcribed-watch it

*watch the extra features with Jodorowsky’s explanation of the Tarot and his obsession/collection that led him to make up his own set of cards-then the movie

Monday, February 1, 2010

Legends of the Fall (1994)

The "fall" refers to the fall from innocence.

This fuckin movie is funny. The cover really compelled me at first, along with the cast and release date.

I watched the whole thing with Lauren and it was not until the credits that I realized the justification for what I'd witnessed.

Edward Zwick.

That motherfucker.

Such a bastard. This greedy fuck actually had this movie in development for 17 years before it ever got a green light.

The whole thing is a Parmesan festival.

And I think it is decidedly a chick flick because Lauren liked it, and most of the time Brad Pitt is just jocking his boyish long hair hella hard.

To me it had a lot of potential and though it is beautiful the frivolousness with which it handles the passage of time is insulting.

Not a bad watch though.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Rivers and Tides (2001)

yep

The Work of Director Jonathan Glazer (2005)

By Jonathan Glazer & Nick Cave

This DVD is a collection of the work of the director Jonathan Glazer and includes his music videos, commercials..

I wouldnt stress out about getting ahold of this

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Sunday, January 17, 2010

Notebook On Cities and Clothes (1989)

Yohji Yamamoto & Wim Wenders

Film & Fashion

I really like Wenders
yohji is some fake fashion philos but pretty to watch

The Five Obstructions (2004)

Jorgen Leth & Lars Von Trier

Watch this

Jorgen Leth's The Perfect Human might very well prove him and at the end of this film Trier as well

The perfect human.

Leth remakes The Perfect Human 5 Times based upon

5 obstructions by Trier

Their dynamic and the outcome-

The Vodka & Caviar-

This is nature's greatest gift.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Zizek! (2005)

Director Astra Taylor documents Slovenian pop-icon/Philosopher Slavoj Zizek.

"Loves Stalin, Hates people, no surprise"

71 min you won't understand- but in an ethereal way I get him

He favors deconstructionist views like Derrida and Marxism and is obviously

extremely intelligent

I always find that the more eccentric the person the more I like them the better the film and the more moving the overall experience is because people inspire people- and I know the truly eccentric by how obnoxious their voice is-

you can barely understand him and my flat mate asked me if I could please turn it off.

Very Bad Things (1998)

Christian Slater- seems like someones done this before... he loves to murder

This movie is so fucking far fetched it was thought out in like 5 minutes

But I love the Slater and Cameron Diaz is crazy

A Certain Kind of Death (2003)

This is a documentary by Grover Babcock and Blue Hadaegh about those who die with no respective next of kin. The movie follows the sequence of events the state participates in when they discover someone dead and they either don't know who it is, or if anyone wants to know..

visually jaw dropping

so cool I would love to have this job.

Friday, January 8, 2010

Food Inc (2008)

"faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper.."

"A culture that just uses a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, to be manipulated by whatever creative design the human can foist on that critter, will probably view individuals within its community, and other cultures in the community of nations, with the same type of disdain and disrespect and controlling type mentalities."

I have stayed clear of this documentary because it will, most likely cancel out my entire diet- except for bread and water-

and it didn't exactly do that...however I am against the industrial food system. I'm not gunna lie Ralph's seems a little scary now & chickens are slaughtered-not killed but slaughtered organic or not-

but it's not like I didn't know that I just hadn't exactly seen it...

Things I learned from Food Inc:

-Corn diet in cattle causes e-coil introduction to America's nightmares

-32,000 hogs are killed each day at one cattle farm- the worker's fingernails separate from their fingers from infection because they pull out the guts of the hogs at such a rapid rate and most of the hogs have bacteria infections-

-meatpacking is one of the most dangerous jobs in the US

-we put corn farmers in Mexico (million and half) out of business because of our cheap corn tactics and fast production-

-a corn industry IBP set up a bus service in Mexico to bring immigrants into America to labor cheaply in America's own corn industry...

Now the government fucking hunts down the immigrants working for these industries and treats them as criminals stealing American Jobs

interesting...

"apparently we are willing to subsidize our food system to create the mystic of cheap food- when actually it very expensive food-when you add it all up the environmental cost, societal cost, health cost,

The Industrialized food is not honest food, they're not produced honestly, they're not priced honestly, or processed honestly-

there is nothing honest about that food.."

-"When you genetically modify a crop (GMO) you own it- we've never had this in agriculture-There virtually are no public seeds anymore"

-a Farmer can only buy 4 certified seeds non-GMO-therefore they must submit to GMO seeds in order to survive

-GMO companies like Monsanto (evil pimp of production agriculture) fines and harass farmers until they submit to them-

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Beautiful Losers (2008)

This is a good Art doc- documentaries about groups of individuals trying to create, inspire, or preserve art are my favorites because they celebrate the subculture. This one by Aaron Rose & Joshua Leonard.