Jodorowsky’s Dune: The greatest sci-fi movie never made
What is the goal of the life? It’s to create yourself a soul. For me, movies are an art, more than an industry. And it’s the search of the human soul, as painting, as literature, as poetry. Movies are...
View ArticleThe Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq
I know it’s risky to recommend a movie I haven’t seen yet, but since I’m a Houellebecq fan, I should at least mention that The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq is coming out this week. Peter Bradshaw...
View ArticleThe Cutting Edge
“Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you’re always looking at.” – Anthony Minghella “For a writer it’s the word. For a composer or a musician,...
View Article‘Ultimate movie villain’ RIP
“One day, I hope somebody will sum up my career thus: “He was different.” That would satisfy me.” – Christopher Lee (17 March 1961 – 7 June 2015). as Saruman in Lord of The Rings (Peter Jackson) Photo...
View Article“Gaze upon me mortal Queen”
I don’t think Clash of the Titans / Wrath of the Titans are particularly good movies, but Ralph Fiennes does a cool performance as Hades, god of the underworld (oldest son of Chronos and Rhea, brother...
View Article‘Go on mortals, fill yourselves with dreams’
Encolpio: Ascilto… what does the poet say? Each moment presented may be your last, so fill it up until you vomit… or something such? – Fellini – Satyricon (1969) “I’m a poet. You might ask, “Why are...
View ArticleEndless Poetry
I just spent my last savings on this crowdfunding-project to help Alejandro Jodorowsky, aged 87, finish his latest movie Endless Poetry, as backer number 4693. One of my dreams has been to meet this...
View Article‘Headlights of society’
Movie director Francis Ford Coppola and Marlon Brando as Colonel Walter E. Kurtz on the set of Apocalypse Now (1979). “I think the goal of [my] work is to help illuminate contemporary life, so that...
View Article‘Connected to something…I’m not’
“Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket.” – BatÙ in Ghost in the Shell (Momoru Oshii, 1995) (1) The trailer for Ghost in the...
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