Thursday, July 21, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Vincent and Monica.
“Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn’t be one of them.”
I want you to punish me.
Ohhh I am looking forward to this one. A Dangerous Mind is David Cronenberg's latest film. It is based on the true story of the deteriorating relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.
Aside from 'old pouty' lips the cast are amazing: Michael Fassbender, Viggo Mortensen and Vincent Cassel! Eeeeeeeeee. Excited.
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3449592857/
Friday, June 24, 2011
Sunday, June 19, 2011
It had to start somewhere.
I can't wait any longer for the new version of Jane Eyre to come out. I just can not wait. It isn't out until August 20 and I'm fed up. I've posted twice about this film.
Next to Steppenwolf, Jane Eyre is quite easily one of my favourite literary characters.
Before I fell in love with Pride and Prejudice and Mr Darcy my Mum introduced me to Jane Eyre. She owned the BBC series on video and we watched it together many times. I used to come home from school and watch it again and again.
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre portrays the development of a thinking and passionate young woman who's desire for a full life conflicts with her conventionally high morals. Jane suffers much in her younger years. She eventually finds herself working for the incredibly wealthy and incredibly cruel Mr Edward Fairfax Rochester. While Jane is plain and poor, something in her ignites a passion in Mr Rochester that forces him to bury his households secrets. He does not succumb to his passion and instead torments Jane and forces her to flee.
I won't tell you any more but I highly recommend you see it or even better, read it.
Timothy Dalton played Mr Rochester and I clearly remember being both completely terrified of him and completely in love with him.
Like many many girls my first love was Johnny Depp. I remember saving up and buying 2 copies of the TV hits Johnny Depp poster book so I could put up both sides of each page on my wall.
I wallpapered my entire room with his face. I had deeply overwhelming feelings of love (and perhaps even lust) for him. I remember being astounded by his beauty and imagined kissing him over and over.
I would lie in my bed and just imagine him talking to me or smiling at me. I felt a pain in my heart knowing he would never be mine.
In my early teens I experienced an incredibly intense love for a real person, but someone that to this day I have never actually met. My Mum took me to a play. It was Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. The Character Malvolio was played by a teenage actor from a neighbouring high school called Thomas La Hood. It was the first time I had seen Shakespeare done well. I was absolutely smitten.
Shortly after seeing this play I went to stay with my Grandparents on their farm. I would spend my days walking around the garden imagining Thomas La Hood there with me. I would imagine him rescuing me from a storm (ala Jane Austen) and I used to have this recurring vision of him and I kissing in a cave while we sheltered from the rain! Ha! What an absolute goose I am.
Thomas La Hood is actually a good friend of my pal Charlotte's. Only a few years ago she told me that she'd been to Thomas' wedding. I couldn't help but feel like I'd lost my first love. HA!
My obsessions moved to musicians in later years. I was infatuated with Damon Albarn and was so happy when my amazing Mum told me that if I wanted Damon Albarn, I could have him.
Thanks Mum.
In my later years my obsession with film and also with actors is far more professional and far less whimsical.
It is always a lovely feeling to see someone in a film and be carried away by their beauty and talent though isn't it.
Today's teenagers are smitten with the likes of Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautiner and Zac Efron. I don't think these boys are a patch on my Johnny or my Rochestor or even my Malvolio.
But I understand your hearts you lovely young things.
I hope those boys are hiding in caves with you in your dreams.
xxx
Next to Steppenwolf, Jane Eyre is quite easily one of my favourite literary characters.
Before I fell in love with Pride and Prejudice and Mr Darcy my Mum introduced me to Jane Eyre. She owned the BBC series on video and we watched it together many times. I used to come home from school and watch it again and again.
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre portrays the development of a thinking and passionate young woman who's desire for a full life conflicts with her conventionally high morals. Jane suffers much in her younger years. She eventually finds herself working for the incredibly wealthy and incredibly cruel Mr Edward Fairfax Rochester. While Jane is plain and poor, something in her ignites a passion in Mr Rochester that forces him to bury his households secrets. He does not succumb to his passion and instead torments Jane and forces her to flee.
I won't tell you any more but I highly recommend you see it or even better, read it.
Timothy Dalton played Mr Rochester and I clearly remember being both completely terrified of him and completely in love with him.
It got me thinking: Isn't is amazing how young you can convince yourself that you are in LOVE with a character or a movie star. I have such vivid memories of loving Mr Rochester with all my heart. He was so cruel, so sinister, and so utterly confounding and yet I was mesmerised by his unattainably.
I felt Jane's pain and desperately wanted him to love her (and me).
I felt Jane's pain and desperately wanted him to love her (and me).
I would have only been about 10-12 when I watched this show but I truly felt I knew what love was. There's something so lovely in that youthful naivety.
Like many many girls my first love was Johnny Depp. I remember saving up and buying 2 copies of the TV hits Johnny Depp poster book so I could put up both sides of each page on my wall.
I wallpapered my entire room with his face. I had deeply overwhelming feelings of love (and perhaps even lust) for him. I remember being astounded by his beauty and imagined kissing him over and over.
I would lie in my bed and just imagine him talking to me or smiling at me. I felt a pain in my heart knowing he would never be mine.
In my early teens I experienced an incredibly intense love for a real person, but someone that to this day I have never actually met. My Mum took me to a play. It was Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. The Character Malvolio was played by a teenage actor from a neighbouring high school called Thomas La Hood. It was the first time I had seen Shakespeare done well. I was absolutely smitten.
Shortly after seeing this play I went to stay with my Grandparents on their farm. I would spend my days walking around the garden imagining Thomas La Hood there with me. I would imagine him rescuing me from a storm (ala Jane Austen) and I used to have this recurring vision of him and I kissing in a cave while we sheltered from the rain! Ha! What an absolute goose I am.
Thomas La Hood is actually a good friend of my pal Charlotte's. Only a few years ago she told me that she'd been to Thomas' wedding. I couldn't help but feel like I'd lost my first love. HA!
My obsessions moved to musicians in later years. I was infatuated with Damon Albarn and was so happy when my amazing Mum told me that if I wanted Damon Albarn, I could have him.
Thanks Mum.
In my later years my obsession with film and also with actors is far more professional and far less whimsical.
It is always a lovely feeling to see someone in a film and be carried away by their beauty and talent though isn't it.
Today's teenagers are smitten with the likes of Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautiner and Zac Efron. I don't think these boys are a patch on my Johnny or my Rochestor or even my Malvolio.
But I understand your hearts you lovely young things.
I hope those boys are hiding in caves with you in your dreams.
xxx
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
BREAKING DAWN TRAILER.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uycOpnYnd5g&feature=share
"No Measure of time with you will be long enough but we'll start with forever".
A Picture Says 1000 Words.
Sometimes when I'm too busy to see many films, I try and think about old ones that I could write about.
As my brain races through the film library in my head, I often just see seminal images from all the classics.
It made me think how so many films are now remembered by one image. One incredible shot sticks in people's minds and takes them right back to when they saw it. Whenever someone mentions a scary movie I often think about Jaws and the POV shot of the shark looking up at the girl in the water. Similarly if someone mentions kids films, I see Elliot and E.T riding across the sky, silhouetted by the moon. I have a distinct memory of the first shot in Jurassic park when Sam Neill sees a dinosaur for the first time and realising movies weren't going to be the same anymore.
Here are a few of my favourite shots in films that have, in later years, come to define them:
As my brain races through the film library in my head, I often just see seminal images from all the classics.
It made me think how so many films are now remembered by one image. One incredible shot sticks in people's minds and takes them right back to when they saw it. Whenever someone mentions a scary movie I often think about Jaws and the POV shot of the shark looking up at the girl in the water. Similarly if someone mentions kids films, I see Elliot and E.T riding across the sky, silhouetted by the moon. I have a distinct memory of the first shot in Jurassic park when Sam Neill sees a dinosaur for the first time and realising movies weren't going to be the same anymore.
Here are a few of my favourite shots in films that have, in later years, come to define them:
Saturday, May 28, 2011
I just found this on my fav site REMEMO. I'm going to answer it really quickly without too much thought.
Your All-Time Favorite Film
I'm already stumped. Ahhhh. I'd have to say the stock standard: Batman, Star Wars. I hate this question.
Your Least Favorite Film
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button.
A Film You Watch to Feel Good
The Sea Inside. It makes me feel lucky and also silly for worrying about trivial shit. Also It's A Wonderful Life always works.
A Film You Watch to Feel Down
The Killing Fields. Never forget how upset that made me. A film I watch to have a good cry is prob Beaches. SORRY!
A Film That Reminds You of Someone
Irreversible. The first film I watched with Anthony. Vivid memories of having to look away and sobbing into his shoulder. The actual film content doesn't remind me of him though...that would be awful!
A Film That Reminds You of Somewhere
Boy. Reminds me of my home NZ. It also takes me back to being a kid and sitting on rainbow stripy carpet and singing Maori nursery rhymes.
A Film That Reminds You of Your Past
Back To The Future. My first real obsession with a film and a person. I used to make boys at school say "I'm Marty Mcfly" and I would chase them and try to kiss them.
The Film You Can Quote Best
Step Brothers. Pam. Pamb. Pand. Pand. Pamm.
A Film With Your Favorite Actor (Male)
Boring answer sorry: Biutiful, Javier Bardem. Also maybe Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast. Ooh and Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler. I can't give one answer!!!
A Film With Your Favorite Actor (Female)
Sophie's Choice with Meryl Streep or Kramer Vs Kramer. Or Deer hunter. Or Adaptation. She's the best.
A Film By Your Favorite Director
All About My Mother by my reason for living and breathing film: Pedro Almodovar.
A Film By Your Least Favorite Director
The Happening by M Night Shyamalan
A Guilty Pleasure
The Notebook
The Film That No One Expected You To Like
Bloodsport and Predator
The Film That Depicts Your Life
Not so much my life but how I see life most days: Ponyo
Your Favorite Drama Film
Hard question. Ugh...The Sea Inside again and maybe Ten Empty because it was the first feature film I designed and it meant a lot to me at the time as I had lost a few very special people to suicide.
Your Favorite Comedy Film
Step Brothers. It reminds me of my friends.
Your Favorite Adventure / Action Film
Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom.
Your Favorite Romantic Film
Interview With A Vampire. Drink From Me and Live Forever.
Your Favorite Sci-Fi Film
STAR WARS (The Empire Strikes Back)
Your Favorite Horror Film
The scariest: Candyman. The best: The Exorcist.
Your Favorite Thriller Film
Silence Of The Lambs
Your Favorite Animated or Children’s Film
Ponyo and Monsters Inc and Spongebob Squarepants.
Your Favorite Documentary Film
Touching The Void.
Your Favorite Foreign Language Film
Volver or La Reine Margot or Jean De Florette or Mala Education.
Your Favorite Independent Film
The Prophet (France)
The Most Obscure Film You’ve Ever Seen
Mmm that's tricky... Maybe Kika, one of Almodovars that I saw when I was very young and I wrote about it at school. It is very very weird.
Your Favorite Film As a Kid
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Your Favorite Film This Time Last Year
Probably one of the Harry Potters.
A Film That Hasn’t Been Mentioned Yet But Deserves To Be Included
The Dark Knight
I would LOVE to read your answers. Please send me your list.xxxx
I would LOVE to read your answers. Please send me your list.xxxx
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