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A re movies made to be seen once, at the core of design? I personally think movies, as an art from, usually have a lot embedded in them. Movie makers such as Stanley Kubrick, Fellini or Tarantino like to reveal that they put a lot of things on their movies. They would like you to go find them out. And this is the author's right to have his viewers look for things that have referential value. It is pretty much like when you go back to a certain dialogue or description in Tolostoi's War and Peace or in Hemingway short story. The author's right to think of an eternal value to his work! Indeed some works like The Shining or Death Proof  merit several revisiting. Before the rise of the movie maker or director as an author, there was that seemingly secondary element of the feature film that kept movies so memorable and likely seen more than twice. The music. The score. The sound track, the "music that accompanies and helps in understanding the visual". Music wa...

A Brush With Intertextuality "Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing." Salvadore Dali “Creativity is just connecting things” Steve Jobs.   (RIP Jobs this is what I am doing in this post!) "There’s no such thing as originality anyway, just authenticity.” Helene Hegemann-Pictured above. I wanted to share with you a 'horizon shot' that I like to watch from time to time. But two things came up! First I lost sound in my laptop for a while now. The music in that shot is part of the lyrics. I think it was a brief bass note synchronized with the leap over the horizon of three UN SUVs followed by low-flying Helicopters. The lack of sound will not help me help you appreciate the shot. Second, some 'what not' came up in the aftermath of the outrageous literary theft committed by a 17 year old German author who copycatted into a book another person's blog and went viral, selling 100,000 copies of the book in 3 weeks. Issues of ...

Slideshow at The O.K. Corral* The paintings and the music, The smell of East Africa, the clay of the river Nile, of distant cultures. The costumes and aroma. The scent of a primordial home.. The Artist at Work * When it comes to art, you are always near and never at. <>

I Stand Alone Review by: Sarah Salah The exoticness of Gaspar Noe 's movies is revealed to the world through scratches in their realism that make it hateful to film critics and only tolerated by a few of them. Carne , the 1991 short movie by Gaspar Noe about a French butcher who owned a slaughterhouse that sold horse meat- which was not unusual in France, was based on what Gaspar's father, an Argentinian by origin, had told his son about eating horse meat in France. Soon enough, the idea of a movie on a butcher selling horse meat came to Gaspar's mind. In Carne , the butcher's partner abandons him and the baby girl she has just given birth to. The butcher takes responsibility for his autistic daughter, and attends to her stages of growth until her adulthood. Gaspar Noe comes back in I Stand Alone to complete the story of this small family. The butcher has a relationship with a woman who is a barmaid and owner of a place. They have a ...

What awaits a movie after its making? Critical acclaim? Commercial success? Which of these is more important for a movie? Could these two criteria be equal? A point at which a movie is at half way between hit and miss? I was thinking philosophical movies were doomed. Candidates for failure but the stunning fact is most of them were a success in both ways. For a list of philosophical movies go here Philosophical Films I am still looking for an Anthony Quinn movie of the sixties which was extremely unintelligable! And another one with Charlton Heston starring in it. Anyhow the statistics on "Pink Floyd The Wall" are not encouraging. So was it one of those "Flop for philosophy" movies or....what? Pink Floyd The Wall UK, 1982. 95 Min, Color, Genre: Psychedelic Drama Cast:  Bob Geldof* and others. Edited by Gerry Hambling Screenplay by Roger Waters Animation: Gerald Sc...

Article by Taha Elkhalifa Dogtooth , the Greek film is a drama about how dictatorship could affect human behavior and psychology. Re-framing of people, for example, was the mere goal of the Islamist rulers of Sudan from 30th of June 1989 until now. The same process is taking place in many Arab Gulf countries with a continuum of human products that reflect the complete submission to the quiet and negative rejection of the re-framing process. In Dogtooth words are given different meanings for example zombie means yellow flower, telephone means table salt and pussy (the female genitalia) means lamp and the cat is an extremely dangerous animal. The three adolescents who have no names in the film were taught these meanings by their parents as the plot of the film says. An example of this same naming type was lived in Sudan during the civil war (1989-2007). The directed and controlled media of the Sudanese Islamic rulers practiced some sort of open deception as they named genocide an...

"How a movie ends must be a condensation of the director's attitude towards its events." Tawfik Saleh. Explaining realism, the late Egyptian filmmaker Tawfik Saleh said: "It is the picking up of details and personalities from real life and linking them with a certain 'concern' and presenting this in form and filmic presentation that will raise the awareness of the recipient of that concern." With only six or seven feature films, Saleh was able to rank high in the list of pioneers of realism in Egyptian cinema, along with Youssif Chahine , Salah Abuseif, etc. But Saleh was not a very happy filmmaker, not because of his own belief that he was hated 'in and out and for no obvious reason', but because of his trials and tribulations with authorities and bureaucracies of the Arab world in the late sixties and early seventies when the best production finances had to come from the 'public sector'- read the government! When he wrote the...