John Lurie + Friends

Willem Dafoe + John Lurie

 

 John Lurie + Tom Waits

 John Lurie + Dennis Hopper

 John + Tom

Fishing with John.

Fishing with John was a 1991 television series written and starring John Lurie (Stranger Than Paradise, Down By Law). It's a kind of mockumentary fishing show where John Lurie, an untrained fisherman, takes various friends (Jim Jarmusch, Matt Dillon, Tom Waits, Willem Dafoe, Dennis Hopper) out on fishing excursions, while they chat and bicker,  the narrator voices over bizarre, dramatised and irrelevant information regarding the nature of the fishing trip. It's one of the most brilliant things on television (computer screen?) I've seen in a while and it made me fall in love with John all over again (he's so cute and giggly!) It probably doesn't help that the amazingness of Jim is involved (lately have been attempting to re-watch all of his back catalog). He even sings the theme song, fiiiishing with johnnnnn.

Heathers.

  Heathers (1988) is such a great 80s high school classic - I love Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. Such a dream team!

Actually, the film's pretty dark, but it's also rather comical and has some great lighting and one liners.

Day for Night

Another delightfully perfect video with Lou Doillon for Vanessa Bruno. It makes me sad, then it makes me smile, I like the juxtaposition. Also, Lou singing is a tad amazing.

WAR PAINT

This has been one of my favourite images of late. Its from the new Neil Marshall film, Centurion (this is Olga Kurylenko) and I think she looks beautiful. Needless to say that war paint is by far one of my most prized adorning features, I also love the harsh snowy terrain + Native warrior princess + loads of wolf and rabbit fur. Perfect.

The Rip

One of my favourite songs / videos / band

Portishead - The Rip - Third

Stones in Caves

More amazingness from Vanessa Bruno + Lou Doillon

Autonme hiver 2009-2010

French Life

Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo

I like this image - 1960s Paris in a wee city apartment, lovers with books and soft hair, cigars and white tee-shirts, lace and heavy black eyeliner. Amazing. 

Dance with Flour

Oh wow, this short film / video is amazing. Vanessa Bruno (fashion designer) Le bel ete feat. Lou Dillon

A N N A

   

Anna Karina is possibly the most beautiful woman Ive ever encountered. She was Jean Luc-Godards muse (and wife) during the French Nouveau film movement in the 1960s. She stars in many of his films, the most well known being Bande a Part (Band of Outsiders). Adorable. 

D E A D M A N

The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from Hell.

For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at the tree of life, and when he does, the whole creation will be consumed and appear infinite and holy whereas it now appears finite & corrupt.

This will come to pass by an improvement of sensual enjoyment.

But first the notion that man has a body distinct from his soul is to be expunged; this I shall do, by printing in the infernal method, by corrosives, which in Hell are salutary and medicinal, melting apparent surfaces away, and displaying the infinite which was hid.

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.

For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narow chinks of his cavern.

  - William Blake, A Memorable Fancy, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 

Monkey Ghost

I watched a crazy Thai film the other day as one of the last film festival screenings. It was called - Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives - the poster depicts the strangeness of the films plot quite accurately. Also, I quite liked the simple line drawings of the poster. You can see the trailer for it here...http://twitchfilm.net/news/2010/05/cannes-2010-apichatpong-weerasethakuls-uncle-boonmee-trailer.php

E S C A R G O T S

A little wee French video by Joseph Gordon-Levitt - OH! He is amazing. Especially in Inception (mind blowing), Brick and The Lookout are also great indie films hes starred in.

Welcome to Florida

Another great film by Jim Jarmusch. One of his first in fact. Stranger than Paradise (1984) helped to define the independent American cinema movement in the mid to late 80s. Before the term indie was used to describe any offbeat or quirky film, these directors were true independent artists who were not funded by massive corporations with Hollywood money, but nevertheless created intelligent, self-reflective films on a small budget as their little babies. Also, the woman Eva has this amazing nonchalant attitude while she travels across Florida with two hipsters from New York, its great.

Margot

 

Margot from the Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson) is just one of the greatest characters. She has so much style. I want to be her, bar the depressive nature. Camel coats, black eyeliner, a constant cigarette, a mousy blonde bob and a secret love affair. Her character is apparently based on 60s icon, Nico, who is also amazing. So that fits.

Images unknown, I wish I had of gotten the name of this artist   

Daisies

   

Daisies is a spectacular 1966 Czech film, which follows Marie and Marie as they create chaos, cause ruckus and rebel against the world they live in.

The film is saturated in glorious shots and cinematography, each frame immersed in colour and lovely decor and the complete oddness of surrealism

I strongly recommend it.

HOWL

I saw the film HOWL the other day at the 2010 Film Festival...

The film covers the trial surrounding the charge of obscenity (due to sexual content) of Allen Ginsbergs 1956 poem, Howl. The poem was eventually ruled as not being obscene, of having literally merit and went on to become one of the seminal works of the Beat Generation (along with work by Kerouac and Burroughs)

The above image is of Ginbergs and his love partner, Peter Orlovsky, the second image is a replication from the film

Nouvelle Vague

LE PHILOSOPHE ET LE CINEASTE ONT EN COMMUM UNE CERTIANE MANIERE D’ETRE, UNE CERTAINE VUE DU MONDE, QUI EST CELLE D’UNE GENERATION.

      - JEAN-LUC GODARD

(The vision of the philosopher and the director is the same, and that is the vision of a generation)

This is from one of Jean-Luc Godards later French new-wave films, Masculin Feminin, by far my favourite of his (next to A bout de souffle perhaps)

I first came across this quote when I studied philosophy and film.. so it seemed rather appropriate that the vision of the two had some similarity (Godard often cites existential and Marxist philosophy and political ideals in his work.. as well as an avid knowledge of film history).  

Hoppipolla - Heima version

Sigur Ros - who knew Iceland could produce such magic?