Le Ballon Rouge

April 5th, 2008 · comment or link to (permalink)

Le Ballon Rouge (Albert Lamorisse 1965)

Albert Lamorisse’s simple and beautiful film from 1956 is the only short film to ever win an Oscar outside of the short film category. Its about a magical balloon that travels with a young boy through Paris, and creates a unique historical record of the city in the 50’s.

Update: Film Freaks Club points out that the director of this movie invented the board game ‘Risk’.
32 min 38 sec Oct 15, 2007

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BLOOD OF THE POET 1930

December 29th, 2007 · comment or link to (permalink)

This was Jean Cocteau’s first feature film. A surrealist film style that is interesting today primarily because of its continuing influence on people like David Lynch.
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Derek Jarman’s Wittgenstein

October 5th, 2007 · 1 comment or link to (permalink)

This is an odd but fascinating movie. Derek Jarman was often self indulgent as a film maker, but he innovated, and some of what he did was great. He directed the seminal punk movie, Jubilee, many of the Smiths’ pop promos and a beautifully filmed portrait of the painter Caravaggio. The self indulgent stuff included the simultaneously hyper camp and mind numbingly dull Sebastiane, which was entirely in Latin.

Wittgenstein is an interesting subject, being one of the few philosophers that wasn’t entirely self indulgent.

BBC 1 hr 11 min 53 sec Sep 21, 2007
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Dracula

July 26th, 2007 · comment or link to (permalink)

Dracula
1 hr 14 min 21 sec - Oct 30, 2006

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Today’s second Dracula movie is the 1931 camp and cozy romp that smacks of Mel Brooks’ ‘Young Frankenstein’.

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Nosferatu

July 26th, 2007 · comment or link to (permalink)

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1 hr 24 min 19 sec - Jan 10, 2006

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Two versions of Dracula today! This one is the classic German expressionist silent film from 1922: ‘Nosferatu’.

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