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From Dune (1965) to Dune (2021)
From Dune (1965) to Dune (2021) : From Visions to Villeneuve – a look at journey of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi masterpiece onto cinema.
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Cinema, Cryo Entertainment, David Lynch, Denis Villeneuve, Documentary, Dune, Dune (1965), Dune (1984), Dune (2021), Film, Film Pravda, Frank Herbert, Frank Pavich, History, Ideas, Location, Michel Séydoux, Paul Atreides, Philosophy, Raefaella Di Laurentiis, Ridley Scott, Terrain, Truth
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Friday (1995)
A comfortable view from the porch of lockdown and F. Gary Gray’s seminal 1995 debut Friday.
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Kino-Pravda Docs: #10 – Close Up
A look at Abbas Kiarostami’s dizzying docufiction masterpiece of truths and lies.
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La Vie Nouvelle (2002)
A shadowed, searching look at Philippe Grandieux’s experimental film, La Vie Nouvelle.
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Eros + Massacre (1969)
A look at Yoshishige (Kiju) Yoshida’s swirling vortex of human love and it’s consequences, his 1969 radical epic Eros + Massacre.
Art, Cinema, Cinematography, Daijirō Harada, Eros + Massacre, Etsushi Takahashi, Film, Film as a political medium, Hasegawa Genkichi, History, Itō Noe, Japan, Japanese New Wave, Kamichika Ichiko, Kiju Yoshida, Love, Mariko Okada, Nouvelle Vague, Politics, Revolution, Temporal relations, Time, Toshiko Ii, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Tsuji Jun, Yûko Kusunoki, Yoshishige Yoshida, Ōsugi Sakae
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Grit/Motion: Dogtown and Z Boys (2001) & Lords of Dogtown (2005)
A look through the sand scratched lens of the birth of modern skateboarding, in Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001)
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Studio Ghibli (2/2)
The second and final part to looking through the eyes of the filmmakers at Studio Ghibli.
Akira Miki, Animation, Arietty, Castle in the Sky, Film, From Up on Poppy Hill, Gorō Miyazaki, Grave of the Fireflies, Hayao Miyazaki, Hidekazu Sato, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Hiroyuki Morita, Howl’s Moving Castle, Isao Takahata, Isao Takahata and His Tale of Princess Kaguya, Kiki’s Delivery Service, My Neighbor Totoro, My Neighbors the Yamadas, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Ocean Waves, Only Yesterday, Pom Poko, Ponyo, Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Studio Ghibli, Tales of Earthsea, The Cat Returns, The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, The Story of Yanagawa’s Canals, The Tale of Princess Kaguya, The Wind Rises, Tomomi Mochizuki, When Marnie was There
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Studio Ghibli (1/2)
The first part of a journey into the filmmaking forest of Studio Ghibli.
Akira Miki, Animation, Arietty, Castle in the Sky, Film, From Up on Poppy Hill, Gorō Miyazaki, Grave of the Fireflies, Hayao Miyazaki, Hidekazu Sato, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Hiroyuki Morita, Howl’s Moving Castle, Isao Takahata, Isao Takahata and His Tale of Princess Kaguya, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Mami Sunada, Mathieu Kassovitz, My Neighbor Totoro, My Neighbors the Yamadas, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Ocean Waves, Only Yesterday, Pom Poko, Ponyo, Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Studio Ghibli, Tales of Earthsea, The Cat Returns, The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, The Story of Yanagawa’s Canals, The Tale of Princess Kaguya, The Wind Rises, Tomomi Mochizuki, When Marnie was There, Whisper of the Heart, Yoshifumi Kondō
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Honey Boy (2019)
A look at the hard truths about childhood in Alma Har’el’s Honey Boy.
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