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Wiki: Phantom of the Paradise is a 1974 musical film written and directed by Brian De Palma. The story is a loosely adapted mixture of The Phantom of the Opera, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Faust, and also briefly references Frankenstein, Psycho, and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Initially, it was a box office failure and was panned by some critics, but it was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe and has since acquired a significant cult following.
Check out the stunning trailer for Carre Blanc! I was going to post the poster but it was so ugly that it didn’t do the film justice, these are a few key shots that i liked.
Lincoln Center: If George Orwell and Andrei Tarkovsky had a love child, it would look something like French writer-director Jean-Baptiste Léonetti’s bracing debut feature, set in a dystopian future where childbirth rates are low, suicides high, and that hamburger you’re munching on just might be made from human ground round.
The breathtaking opening shot from Mikhail Kalatozov’s Letter Never Sent
Talk about life imitating art imitating life. What a pair of rulers!
NY Times ArtsBeat:
Two Cuban Actors in Tribeca Film Missing After Flight to Florida
Una Noche, or One Night, a film showing at the Tribeca Film Festival, tells the story of three young Cubans who decide to defect to the United States, and last week the three main actors were scheduled to join the film’s director, Lucy Mulloy, at the New York premiere. But a funny thing happened when the plane landed in Miami last Wednesday: two of the actors promptly disappeared.
Six days later, the whereabouts of Javier Núñez Florián and Anailín de la Rúa de la Torre remain unknown. They missed the film’s opening on Thursday night, and the Spanish-language press in Miami, sensing another opportunity to score points at the expense of the dictatorship that has ruled Cuba for more than 50 years, is now crowing that the pair, imitating the characters they played, has defected — though, in contrast to the film, without having to risk their lives by traveling by sea.
Hillman Curtis RIP
Brooklyn based designer, author and filmmaker Hillman Curtis passed away on April 18th.
Visit his website to see his wonderful work, especially the artist short films.
Ignore that last one, here’s the ‘official’ trailer for Cosmopolis!
ANOTHER Prometheus viral video. I’m sick of all the hype, just release it.
Chins up Dave! it’s your birthday.
It’s still good, Fassbender does a pretty good android. Seems everything he does is good.
Surely they could have come up with a less creepy haircut.
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Pressure - An Early Short by Lena Dunham. You should watch her new Judd Apatow produced HBO show Girls that premiered yesterday and her debut feature film Tiny Furniture from 2010.
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Marion Cotillard does it tough in Jacques Audiard’s follow up to A Prophet in Rust and Bone. There’s no subtitles but you can still get the gist.
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