Category Archives: cinema
baesan – gobun (ii) streets, night, tombstones
baesan – cemetery hill – gobun (i)
location scouting
death, sex, love, and treasure in cemetery hill.
the thing
john carpenter’s the thing (1982)
defibrillator chest chomp and other creature effects in the thing.
special makeup and creature effects creator rob bottin (total recall, robocop, se7en, fear and loathing in las vegas, fight club)
special makeup effects creator stan winston (the terminator, predator, edward scissorhands, jurassic park, the island of doctor moreau, avatar, shutter island)
43,000 feet
43,000 Feet from Campbell Hooper on Vimeo.
simple graphics and facts like in beginners (2010).
details/cus, repetition, road to airport with voice over. symmetry, rain. story within a story.
directed by campbell hooper. written by matthew harris. new zealand film commission.
see soundtrack list.
shadows in sao paulo, the dakota and madness
shadows in sao paulo.
photo by rené burri. nyt article.
plane crashes
…with a happy end. the atlantic photo essay. dietmar eckell.
the dakota from central park. 1890s (wikimedia)
the dakota
site of john lennon’s death and real location of the bramford, rosemary’s apartment (rosemary’s baby. polanski. 1968). the dakota wikipedia article.
madness in the island of dr. moreau (1996)
“New Line forgot about Richard Stanley… Around a month after his disappearance, a group of extras found him living rough in the jungle: he’d fled from the airport to a fruit plantation, where he’d been subsiding on yams, cassava and coconuts, along with his substantial personal stash of marijuana. Sensing an opportunity for mischief, Stanley concocted a plan with the extras to get back on set…” telegraph article.
to see
lost soul: the doomed journey of richard stanley’s island of dr. moreau (2015)
films to see II
misplaced nostalgia for movies like the graduate article in the new yorker
see coppola’s one from the heart (1981)
men go to battle (2015) by Zachary Treitz,
josephine decker’s first feature butter on the latch (2013)
invisible split-screen
fine-tuning performances. david fincher. editing.
jornada del muerto
read about jornada del muerto, old conquistador trail in the virreinato de nueva españa and the site of the trinity atomic bomb test.
(bandera del virreinato de nueva españa / wikimedia)
santa fe to mexico city: camino real de tierra adentro.
(wikimedia)
watched foxcatcher (2014) bennett miller
to see
i walked with a zombie (1943) jacques tourneur
