Tagged with: Cinema
This time, on the Double MacGuffin podcast, we talk about ‘The Tree of Wooden Clogs’(Olmi,1978) and ‘The Last Mistress’ (Breillat, 2007). These are two excellent, fascinating, and unusual films that will really get you away from the pandemic and saturation in corona journalism.
More information and the audio is available here…
Nolascape is hosting and producing film heavy conversations by Professor Henry Griffin and the author of this site. This one on a great movie by the singular director- Wong Kar Wai. The film is just beautiful to look at, and there is far more beneath the surface...
Nolascape says-
In this episode Henry and Jonathan discuss In the Mood for Love. If you don’t know this film or the work of Chinese director Wong Kar-Wei, I would suggest diving in. In the Mood for Love is a visual and auditory feast that you can watch over and over, like you look at a great painting or statue again and again. Color, sound, image, movement, quiet passion, powerful emotion powerfully restrained – it’s special.
Suggestion from the amateur (me): think about the title again after you watch the film.
Some intro facts:
Written and directed by Wong Kar-Wai (sometimes Kar-Wai Wong)
Main actors: Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Maggie Cheung,
Locations: Hong Kong, Cambodia, Singapore.
Release date: 2000
Available on Filmstruck
Wong Kar Wai
Last week the great blog, Nolascape, starting putting up the first in a series of conversations on films with Professor Henry Griffin and the author of this site. The first is about Francis Ford Coppola's film, Tetro, starring Vincent Gallo. A great movie filmed in, and featuring Buenos Aires. The photography is striking as is the subject.
The relationship between film and sound is right in line with the fascinations that drive this website. Loving film, we hope you will take a listen. The conversations cover a lot of territory and contain much reflection on sound. The podcasts are in a more focused than the meandering and exploratory conversations with musicians that are hosted here at Jonathan Freilich Presents, and suits the nature of the silver screened subject. We have already recorded a few for nolascape, and there are many more to come. We will let you know as they go up.
As usual ours are also on iTunes. The conversations on film are as well.