Film Recommendation: Last Train Home by Lixin Fan
ShareI saw this tonight with the director doing a Q&A afterward. Beautifully shot, touching on a lot of topics.. grim reality leaves you feeling a bit unsettled. Showing until Thursday September 9th at IFC! http://www.ifccenter.com/films/last-train-home/ Trailer: Synopsis: Every spring in China, 130 million workers return home for New Year’s–the world’s largest migration, an epic spectacle [...]
The *MUST SEE* Movie Series of the Summer!!
ShareANTHOLOGY’S ANTI-BIOPIC SERIES There’s something to watch everyday this month at Anthology Film Archives. I saw Fellini’s Casanova (1976) this past evening– an excellent print on short loan from Universal, The Color of Pomegranates a few evenings before. I’ve missed Derek Jarman’s Wittgenstein. I saw Straub’s Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach. I will see Cavalier’s [...]
Film Recommendation: The Color of Pomegranates
Share Still from Parajanov’s The Color of Pomegranates (Sayat Nova), 1968. Welcome to the dream world. One of my best friends turned me onto Sergei Parajanov. We had watched The Legend of Suram Fortress & Ashik Kerib. I was completely speechless and in shock on the first viewing. It hit really far inside my sub/unconscious. [...]
Film Recommendation: Stonewall Uprising
Share I saw this tonight and I think that if you’re a New Yorker, this is an important film. For school education, I think it’s not enough to just talk about the civil rights movement, the women’s rights movement; this should be included alongside the others. The current and upcoming generations of gay teenagers have [...]
Watch Online: Zeitgeist – how astrology and the zodiac explain religion
Share (ie. Christianity, and other astrotheological stories throughout history.) It starts about 8 minutes in, after the intro. It’s quite fascinating!