i had a dream that the world was ending again last night. everyone was dying, there were fires in the hill, and the sky was perpetual twilight. i was with my family, mother, father, brothers, uncles, aunts, best friends and others. the dead were walking and we watched them high above in some tall building in the woods. below was an elementary school. there was a decision for mass suicide, and i cried as everyone decided it was the best choice, for we were soon to run out of food, and no one wanted to resort to killing each other for the sake of living another day. i watched as my family stood in a circle. the sky was sparkling with fire and it was blurry from tears. they died together but i couldn’t go along with them. their bodies disappeared and i was all alone. i decided to climb down from the building and scavenge the school’s cafeteria for supples and maybe a meal. below was hell. the dead people walked faster than i expected but they didn’t bite or anything like in a movie. they wanted to hold me, grab me, not let me go. i ran, but there were so many in the school that i turned around. up the building i went back, hands grabbing for a living friend, one in need of friendship but a dead one. i found myself back on some high over looking porch, skeletons of my family lie in the circle, above vaporish spirits loitered, communicating with me, understand their fear, but not their actual message. that was the end of the world in the dream i had last night.
Laszlo Kovacs/Ingmar Bergman R.I.P
two amazing individuals who did wonders for film recently passed away. Laszlo who was the cinematographer for such films as Easy Rider, Paper Moon, Ghostbusters and Radio Flyer. Ingmar who is responsible for Wild Strawberries, one of my fave’s, and The Seventh Seal among many others.
Last year at the Mendocino Film Festival i was fortunate enough to talk to Laszlo, and i asked him a couple questions about his fantastic work on Paper Moon which is shot in B&W, with tremendous deep focus cinematography. What a glorious Hungarian that man is.
I suggest watching a couple of each of their movies, it’s the least you can do to appreciate the wonderful art they created.
no bueno
laszlo kovacs passed away over the weekend. i met laszlo at the mendocino film festival in the spring of 2006. he was a genuinely nice and extremely knowledgeable man. i feel honored to have had the opportunity to have spent a few minutes with him over the span of the weekend, especially at a festival where my own film was screening. laszlo is one of the golden god’s of cinematography, and he will always be remembered for a life’s beautiful work.
laszlo shot many great films including:
easy rider
ghostbusters
five easy pieces
paper moon
say anything
“No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.”
legendary swedish director ingmar bergman has left the earth. to myself and many, one of the greatest filmakers of all time.
On Godard from imdb
“I’ve never gotten anything out of his movies. They have felt constructed, faux intellectual and completely dead. Cinematographically uninteresting and infinitely boring. Godard is a fucking bore. He’s made his films for the critics. One of the movies, Masculin, féminin, was shot here in Sweden. It was mind-numbingly boring.”
select films:
the seventh seal
wild strawberries
hour of the wolf
persona
cool documentary coming out based on stoner rockers. dead meadow, nebula, sunn, etc… i don’t need to name them.
if dodgers are smart, they will nab salomon torres and shawn chacon from the pirates.
anyone who has info on either of these town bands should contact me. very interested in directing videos for both.
1. the black pine
2. xu xu fang
hook me up please.
coming soon…. subtitle, thavius beck and camerin kelly all meeting up for the grand parade soon.
i weighed you all out, and for some reason i turned out bueno. sorry suckers.
bryan singer is directing tom cruise’s new film. need i say anything else at all?
i guess dave imes was right. george w. is truly reptilian, and under downtown la survives a great race of reptile-men.
The R-complex is named for the most advanced part of the brain higher mammals share with reptiles. It is responsible for rage[1], xenophobia[1], basic survival fight-or-flight responses[1], territoriality[citation needed] and social hierarchy[citation needed], along with the desire to submit to stronger (Alpha Type) members of one’s own species[citation needed]. Often, the R-Complex can override the more rational function of the brain and result in unpredictable, primitive behavior in even the most sentient of creatures, humans included. A well developed and healthy neo-cortex can monitor R-Complex activity in sentient beings. The Reptilian complex is the most ancient part of a very successful brain scheme, evolutionarily speaking.
