The Kids of 1995
Tolles Feature auf Narrative.ly über Larry Clarks Kids, einem der essenziellen 90er-Filme und vielleicht das erste Beispiel dieser NewSchool-Authentizität, die dann Jahre später (auch durch Blogs und das Netz) Mainstream wurde und die jetzt unter dem Stichwort New Sincerity dank Lena Dunhams (hervorragender) Serie Girls mal wieder die Runde macht. War damals ein ziemlicher Kulturschock, so ein bisschen wie Amy&Pink mit Eiern. Also: R.I.P. Casper, R.I.P. Harold.
Kids came from the minds of Korine, a skate kid from Tennessee whose grandmother lived in Queens and hung out with Harold and his friends, and Clark, already known for his gritty, sexualized youth photography. (Clark had started photographing the crew in the early 1990s.) It was the first film for both, and the camera barely leaves the kids, none of whom were actors at the time; all were plucked from Harold’s skater crew and elsewhere downtown.
Those of us who watched Kids as adolescents, growing up in an era before iPhones, Facebook, and Tiger Moms, had our minds blown from wherever we were watching–whether it was the Angelika Film Center on the Lower East Side or our parents’ Midwestern basements. We were captivated by the entirely unsupervised teens smoking blunts, drinking forties, hooking up, running amok and reckless through the New York City streets. Simultaneously, the driving storyline highlighted the terror of HIV and AIDS, which was at its apex in the mid-nineties.
LEGENDS NEVER DIE by Caroline Rothstein: „Two decades after a low-budget film turned Washington Square skaters into international celebrities, the kids from “Kids” struggle with lost lives, distant friendships, and the fine art of growing up.“ (via Boing Boing)
The Empire wants you to know: May The Fourth Is A Crime!
Youtube Direktfourth, via Laughing Squid
Schöner Spoof auf die ätzenden rechtskonservativen Videos aus dem amerikanischen Republikaner-Umfeld, hier mit Jedis und dem morgigen Star Wars-Tag. May The Fourth Be With You!
The Matrix retold by Mom
Youtube Direktmutti, via 3Pew
Joe Nicolosis Mutti erzählt The Matrix. Sort Of.
Everything From Star Wars I Can Draw From Memory
Toller Print von John Hendrix für die Artshow in der Nucleus Gallery, die am Star Wars-Tag – May the 4th be with you! – eröffnet.
I can never repay George Lucas for what Star Wars gave me. Star Wars is so close to my heart, I honestly couldn’t decide what image to make for this show, it was just all too important. So I just decided to draw everything… from memory.
Being Steve Buscemi
Jim, 17, aus Wien: „So my parents were gone for 2 days and I switched most of our family photos with pictures of steve buscemi…“ (via JWZ)
Star Wars Actionfigure Card-Back-Print
Ein Print mit einer illustrierten Version der Rückseite des Star Wars-Figuren-Packagings von Christopher Lee. Nice!
This poster pays tribute to Star Wars and the iconic Kenner card back from the 80′s. This one in particular is the “92 card back” which covered the entire basic figure assortment. While Yak Face was never included in the lineup, I threw him in there for good measure.
Star Wars – Action Figure Compendium Poster
Nach dem Klick zum Vergleich das Original: Gib mir den Rest, Baby…
Rejected Movie-Posters
Der San Diego Reader hatte vor einem Jahr ein Posting über sehr frühe Filmposter-Entwürfe, die der Autor für einen Memorabilia-Sammler aufbewahrt hatte. Unverschämterweise nennen sie die Schnappschüsse dort „Scans“, die Bilder haben ‘ne echt extrem schlechte Qualität und ich blogge da auch nur drüber, weil’s echt einen ganzen Haufen bislang zumindest mir unbekannter Motive zu Filmen gibt, die ich wirklich sehr gerne mag, allen voran obiges Poster zu Jaws und ein paar Entwürfe zu Vamp, Neverending Story und Wolfen.
Die Sammlung enthält unter anderem Plakate und abgelehnte Entwürfe zu: The Fly, Fright Night, Vamp, Over the Top, Howard the Duck, Trick or Treat, Voyage of the Rock Aliens, Fatal Attraction, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Rocky V, Little Shop of Horrors, Midnight Run, Hamburger Hill, Near Dark, The Neverending Story, Supergirl, Batman und Return of the Living Dead.
Ich hab mir die Schnappschüsse der für mich relevanten Filme nach dem Klick ins Blog geklebt: Gib mir den Rest, Baby…
Pacific Rim – Neuer Trailer
Hier der neue Pacific Rim-Trailer mit jeder Menge Wums und neuem Material. „2500 Tons of Awesome.“ Holy Crap!
When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju.
On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes–a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)–who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind’s last hope against the mounting apocalypse.
Filmroll-Photography from the Kinemathek-Archives in Berlin
Großartige Fotoserie von Reiner Riedler, der Zugang zum Filmarchiv der Deutschen Kinemathek erhielt und dort die Filmrollen knippste. Ich mag ja die „Fingerabdrücke“ der einzelnen Filmrollen sehr, die durch das Material, die Filmbilder selbst und die Laufzeit abgebildet werden. Sehr schön!
I got access to the film archive and museum „The Deutsche Kinemathek“ in Berlin through my friend Volkmar Ernst, who works there as a technician. I drew up a list of well-known films and those with unusual titles. I set up a little photostudio inside the cinema of the archive and backlit the film rolls by installing film lights behind the objects, lighting each roll in the same way for continuity. The result was a collection of images of a few hundred filmrolls.
Through the act of collecting and selecting the film rolls I noticed analogies between the colour and the shape of the rolls, and the content of the movies. Besides the nostalgic connotation concerning the movie itself, there is the nostalgia concerned with the loss of a tradition. This projcet also deals with this loss – „the dying of film“.
THE UNSEEN SEEN (Published with kind permission, thanx Reiner!)
Luke, I am your Bizhe’e: Star Wars to be dubbed in Navajo-Language Diné
Star Wars wird als erster (Mainstream-)Film in Diné synchronisiert, der Sprache der amerikanischen Ureinwohner der Navajo. Leider rücken die Übersetzer nicht mit Beispielen raus und einen Online-Translator habe ich nicht gefunden. Vater heisst allerdings schonmal „Bizhe’e“ und die ganze Übersetzung ist ein bisschen problematischer, als gewöhnlich:
Laura Tohe, a fluent Navajo speaker and English professor at Arizona State University said the translation process could have been similar to what Navajo Code Talkers did in coming up with communication that confounded the Japanese during World War II. The Code Talkers recruited from the Navajo Nation were unfamiliar with things like grenades, observation planes, tanks and dive-bombers. So they thought of something on the reservation that had similar qualities. Grenades became potatoes, observation planes became owls, tanks became tortoises and so on.
“May the force be with you,” might translate into “may you walk with great power,” or “may you have the power within you,” she said. It also might include a reference to mountains, which are a source of strength for the Navajo people.
Galaxies, stars and outer space are not far off concepts for Navajos, who sometimes base ceremonies on moon phases and constellations, Ms Tohe said. Those words would translate directly.“The Navajo people, like all indigenous tribes, were very observant of not only the world around them but the stars and constellations,” she said. “I associate that with science fiction in a lot of ways. I think they would be well aware of it in “Star Wars,” it takes place up in the heavens.”
Telegraph: Luke, I am your bizhe’e: Star Wars to be dubbed in Navajo language (via MeFi)
Navajo Times: ‘Star Wars’ to be dubbed into Navajo
Treasure Troves of Behind-The-Scenes-Pics
Großartiges Imgur-Set voller Behind-The-Scenes-Pics aus Empire Strikes Back (via Daring Fireball). Geht aber noch heftiger:
In den Fotoalben von The Sci-Fi Reference auf Facebook findet man hunderte Pics von Dreharbeiten und Modellbauten, nicht nur zu Star Wars, sondern auch zu Blade Runner, Alien, Aliens, Buck Rogers, Silent Running, Dark Star, E.T., Star Trek, Terminator, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Time Machine, Fantastic Voyage und und und. Ich hab’ mich da eben rund eine Stunde lang durchgeklickt und hab’ tatsächlich ziemlich viel entdeckt, das ich noch nie gesehen hatte. Marty McFlys Führerschein zum Beispiel. Großartig!
Eine kleine Galerie mit Favorites nach dem Klick: Gib mir den Rest, Baby…
Daniel Day Lewis is Barack Obama in Steven Spielbergs Obama
My Name is Daniel Day Lewis and I approve this message. Toller Clip, produziert für das 2013er White House Correspondents Dinner. Aus den Youtube-Comments: „I took this seriously up until Obama actually showed up. Now I just feel embarrassed…“ – „That’s not Obama silly, that’s Daniel Day-Lewis. It clearly states that in the video.“
Obamas Standup-Comedy in voller Länge gibt’s hier („These days, I look in the mirror and I have to admit,I’m not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be“ und „I remember when Buzzfeed was something I did in College at 2am“… presidential Stoner-Media-Humor FTW!), die Jokes von Conan O’Brien gibt’s hier („Some people say print media is dying, but I don’t believe it. And neither my blacksmith.“ und Kevin Spaceys Persiflage auf seine House of Cards-Serie gibt’s hier.
Enterprise Transformer-Toy
Netter Enterprise-Transformer von Deviant-Artist Unicron9: Star Trek/Transformers Crossovers: Autobot E. (via Marco)
Doku-Trailer: A Band Called Death
Großartiger Trailer zur Doku A Band Called Death, über die Protopunks der, nun ja, Band Death, gegründet 1971 von Bobby, David und Dannis Hackney in Detroit. Death spielten nur zwei Jahre nach den Stooges als eine der ersten Bands der Welt einen Sound, für den Jahre später Bands wie die Ramones oder die Sex Pistols weltberühmt wurden. Aber Death wollte keiner haben, die Jungs schmissen hin und ließen die Bänder auf einem Dachboden verrotten, wo sie vor ein paar Jahren entdeckt und 2009 endlich veröffentlicht wurden. Der Film kommt am 24. Mai als Video on Demand und in ein paar Kinos in den USA, hierzulande wird man wahrscheinlich mit der Piratenbucht am glücklichsten. Must Watch.
Before Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones, there was a band called Death. Punk before punk existed, three teenage brothers in the early ’70s formed a band in their spare bedroom, began playing a few local gigs and even pressed a single in the hopes of getting signed. But this was the era of Motown and emerging disco. Record companies found Death’s music — and band name— too intimidating, and the group were never given a fair shot, disbanding before they even completed one album.
Equal parts electrifying rockumentary and epic family love story, A Band Called Death chronicles the incredible fairy-tale journey of what happened almost three decades later, when a dusty 1974 demo tape made its way out of the attic and found an audience several generations younger. Playing music impossibly ahead of its time, Death is now being credited as the first black punk band (hell…the first punk band!), and are finally receiving their long overdue recognition as true rock pioneers.
Bloody Cuts: Pretty frightastic Horror-Shorts
Bloody Cuts ist eine crowdfinanzierte Kurzfilmserie mit jeder Menge Blut und Gore. Insgesamt sollen das 13 Horror-Shorts werden, acht davon wurden bislang veröffentlicht. Die ersten paar sind ganz nett, aber vor allem die letzten drei Shorts machen richtig viel Spaß und nicht zu vergessen: In ihrem Blog veröffentlichen sie wunderbar trashige Poster zu den Kurzfilmen.
Bloody Cuts is UK based horror anthology, brought to you from the creative minds of a small team of filmmakers. Over the coming months, weeks, years, we’ll be opening a vault of fear to the global internet audience, in the form of 2-3 minute self-contained tales. Think “Tales from the Crypt”, “Creepshow” and “Masters of Horror”, and you’ll know exactly what we’re going to be doing.
Nach dem Klick meine Favorites: Dead Man’s Lake, Death Scenes und Don’t Move, in den Channeln auf Youtube und Vimeo findet man neben den Kurzfilmen noch ein paar Behind-The-Scenes-Clips.
