Violence
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Woodstock & Cinema: Scrapbook Thoughts (Vol. 3) – ‘Now & Then’
/// These are the highlighted scraps from my Woodstock series concerning the festivals following the original 1969 festival. Celebration events happened in ’79, 89, ’94 and ’99. Some people think that the festival spirit needs to stop, with the final death knell in a cancelled 50th anniversary during 2019. Michael Lang passed away; the Japanese…
Cinema, Documentary, Festival (1967), Film Pravda, Franc Roddam, Garrett Price, History, Jamie Crawford, Message to Love (1970), MTV, Murray Lerner, Nineties, Quadrophenia (1979), Tobe Carey, Trainwreck: Woodstock 99 (2022), Truth, Violence, Woodsock '99, Woodstock, Woodstock '94, Woodstock '94…Not the Music…Just the Scene (2017), Woodstock '99: Peace Love and Rage (2021)
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War and Peace (Voyna i Mir – 1966-7)
A titanic grappling with Sergei Bondarchuk’s masterpiece of 431 minutes, War and Peace.
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City of God (2003)
A reckoning with the eyes and heart of Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund’s City of God.
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Irreversible (2002)
A reckoning with the void created by Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible.
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You Were Never Really Here (2018)
A dark and reflective look at Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here.
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
A look at the dark and the light in Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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Possession (1985)
A manic insanic (satanic) stare into Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession.
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The Human Condition (3/3) – Escaping Death/Wandering in the Wilderness
A final confronting look with Masaki Kobayashi’s The Human Condition.
A.O Scott, Chuji Kinoshita, Cinema, Death, Epic, Existentialism, Faith, Film, Film Pravda, Francis Ford Coppola, Grappling with ideas, History, Ideas, Japan, Junpei Gomikawa, Masaki Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratama, Ningen No Joken, No Greater Love, Road to Eternity, Sam Raimi, Spiderman, Stories, Survival, Tatsuya Nakadai, The Godfather, Truth, Violence, Women, Yoshio Miyajima
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The Human Condition (2/3) : Nostalgia/The Fog of War
A continuing look at Masaki Kobayashi’s monumental 9 hour trilogy, and its second part.
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Hard Boiled – Violent Extravagance and Extravagant Violence
A look into the stylised sheen of John Woo’s cop thriller, Hard Boiled.
Film Pravda 