According to art critic Jonathan Jones, James Cameron’s new 3D film Avatar has something to teach us about the Renaissance: “In the 15th century, artists discovered how to paint bodies and landscapes as if they had depth and solidity. Painting triumphed over the flat surface to create the illusion of a real scene glimpsed through the square enclosure of the wooden panel or canvas, as if you were watching a play on a stage. The effect ...
“Isle of the Dead has a pretty simple plot line: the credit crisis kills the art world and its players, who reemerge as zombies in an alternative movement inspired only by art from the past. The film begins with sweeping shots of dead bodies splayed out in front of the Met, Guggenheim, and Whitney museums, plus a strip of galleries in Chelsea, and ends with a zombie uprising on Governors Island, where the zombies congregate ...
Qualcuno ha lavorato di Photoshop su questa foto che ritrae George Lucas e JJ Abrams mentre conversano amabilmente…
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David Lynch ha le idee piuttosto chiare sulla faccenda del cinema visto sul (fottuto) telefonino…
“Sweeney Todd” is a fable about a world from which the possibility of justice has vanished, replaced on one hand by vain and arbitrary power, on the other by a righteous fury that quickly spirals into madness. There may be a suggestion of hopefulness near the end, but you don’t see hope on the screen. What you see is as dark as the grave. What you hear — some of the finest stage music of ...
“In a nameless city deluged by a continuous rain… three rabbits live with a fearful mystery”.Rabbits, di David Lynch. Per chi è stufo delle solite sitcom…
Il primo episodio è su YouTube
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Il nuovo videoclip del sempre più visionario Chris Cunningham. La canzone è di un gruppo punkeggiante londinese dal significativo nome: The Horrors. Quindi niente elettronica stavolta. Ma pare che Cunnigham abbia dichiarato in proposito: “I’d find it hard to make a video for a track which sounded completely retro. It would just make me think of old things. To me, ‘Sheena is a Parasite’ sounds very special and futuristic.”
Leggendo tra le pagine di Director’s File ...
Due robot che vogliono diventare umani. Detto così sembra un po’ la storia di Pinocchio in versione cyber. Invece è la trama di Electroma, il film firmato dal duo musicale parigino Daft Punk. Il tema umano vs tecnologico era già centrale nella loro poetica musicale e nei loro videoclip. Aspettiamo il film godendoci il trailer; l’atmosfera è kubrickiana…
Buy it, use it, break it, fix it,Trash it, change it, mail- upgrade it,Charge it, point it, zoom ...
