
2007.04.29 • 11:36 • 0 com
How could I not know about this? — A follow-up to Rikyu, one of my favorite movies ever. Again we have the forces of art (in this case the aesthetic ideal of wabi-sabi, sad contemplative beauty resting on openness and the profundity of peculiarity — the ephemeral revealing timelessness by contrast) against the lunacy of kitsch authoritarianism and politics.
Oribo, the new tea-ceremony master, is not quite as strong as Rikyu, yet he also seems to bother politicians. At one point he talks about the compulsion of making new things which drives him. Novelty and freshness can coexist with nostalgia, and "nostalgia is such a powerful thing"1. It can open many doors, since we, again, learn to dwell in timelessness while appreciating whatever flower is offered to us.
Almost on par with its predecessor, which is to say a lot. (By the way, Criterion must make an edition of this one. The english subtitles I got are terrible).
After this eye-candy I went and watched another one from Teshigahara, "Antonio Gaudi", a mesmerizing japanese eye on the many wonderful things Gaudi gave us.
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1. ^ Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche.

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 






