Category Archives: cinema

books, cinema, memoria

shorts (ii)

tierra y pan
continuous zooming out and dissolves as it tells a simple story of death. no dialogue. landscape and tragedy. carlos armella. mexico. golden lion. 2008.

sniffer
conceptual. art department-intensive. no dialogue. bobbie peers. norway. palme d’or. 2006.

perhaps inspired by

with a little jean-pierre jeunet in there.

donkey
city landscape and reflective narration. b&w. for the first part of the film, each quick shot slowly zooms in. keir burrows. uk. tribeca selection. 2012.

hemingway to read
dateline: toronto
a moveable feast

books, cinema, memoria, silk road, viajes

baikonur, amy and child 44

amy (2015)

 baikonur

baikonur cosmodrome, kazakhstan

buran program and baikonur photos

buran’s large, abandoned hangar photos

baikonur cosmodrome photos

books

child 44 by tom rob smith. serial killer/thriller.

trash, children’s literature (book, 2010; film 2014).

kids solving a mystery in rio. not quite a cidade de deus (paulo lins novel, 1997).

languages

vietnamese language

austroasiatic languages

cinema, memoria

martian

to see. maybe.

another movie in a possible new stream of space related films.
uses actors from other recent space-related films

matt damon: elysium (2013) interstellar (2014)

jessica chastain: interstellar

reminds me of gary sinese and the wave of space related films that appeared in the mid 1990s and early 2000s.

while writing a space related script, i realized that there are very few plots that can happen in space outside space opera. i’m guessing they are mostly rescue mission, dying spaceship, and the monster/crazy person plots.
list of outer space films