
2005.05.28 • 00:34 • 1 com
A Brazilian Suna no Onna (Woman in the Dunes, 1964), with very similar thematics of sand, eroticism, time and the meaninglessness of samsara. The Japanese is more of a Twilight Zone episode, which makes it better (lets not meddle with my anti-ufanism...), but Casa de Areia also is a quite good weird slow movie.Oh, I was right about Suna no Onna, Andrucha said to The New York Times:
“(...)Initially, though, Mr. Waddington had reservations about accepting Mr. Barreto's birthday gift, since he had other projects in mind, including documentaries about Brazilian music as well as feature films. But Mr. Waddington had seen the 1964 Japanese film adaptation of Kobo Abe's novel 'Woman in the Dunes' a couple of weeks earlier, and when he went to sleep that night, his mind went to work.
'I had a dream, and in it I mixed images from 'Woman in the Dunes' and what Barreto had told me', Mr. Waddington recalled. 'When I awoke the next morning, the first thing I did was call him and tell him, 'I have to do this'. We spent six hours together at his house that first day developing the idea, and over the next year we wrote a script' with Elena Soarez, Mr. Waddington's collaborator on 'Me, You, Them. (...) ”New York Times
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Shares tags with: Tanin no kao (Suna no Onna, Woman in the Dunes); Mulholland Dr • Brazil • Dharma, Ice Cold (samsara); The Trial (Twilight Zone); Rikyu (Suna no Onna);
05.05.29 • 18:37
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Funniest mindless movie of the last few years. McLovin is the best, and the other guys grew on me.
In his job he needs to undervalue the suffering of others in order to make more money. Then there’s the smell, the ass and the eye. The degree of objectification of desire is in direct proportion to the self-debasement of the indulger. By degrading the other, he nullifies himself. The very indifference to the overjealous ones, the suppressed recalcitrant losers of the world, is what causes their victims to exist. Great disturbing movie.
A lost science fiction PBS movie with Taoist undertones is a real find, right? A guy discovers his dreams change reality—when he wakes up he finds himself in a world where the content of his dreams have actually happened. He of course gets scared after a couple of nightmares, seeks relief in drugs, and then, because of them, is lead to a psychiatrist. 
Here's for all the sissy Apple lovers out there... This is the ultimate design for my old Duron, which faithfully downloaded well over one terabyte (mostly movies, 1300+) always on 24/7/365 over the last four years. It also runs Apache and is a file and printer server, as well as a router for my home network (with four, also damn old and beautiful computers). Sometimes I dust it off with a vacuum cleaner.
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In imdb a user commented: "Annoying little transition into some sort of regurgitated independent film values finds this shallow project from Brad Silberling offering little and providing less in this embarrassingly exploitive work." I agree, yet it is still watchable — even more so if you understand how clichê is the fabricated spontaneity in it. It is as if independent movie has aquired its own hollywood-like formulaicism. So it kind of becomes an interestingly consumated aesthetic portrail of so many cult-status fabricated stylishness examples we see around. Many people liked 





