L'Arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat (Louis Lumière, 1896). In AI upscaled 4K, 60fps ?
🎥 Socrates (1971) ★★★½.
Probably not the best work of Rossellini, but certainly an impressive depiction of the last days of Socrates. More than the visual story, I was most impressed by the haunting soundtrack by Mario Nascimbene.
🎥 Currently watching A message from Akira Kurosawa (2000) ★★★
Pretty informative documentary on his life and an insightful look into his practice as a film director.
📺 The Crown (Season 3) ★★★★
Loved reading the trivia on IMDb:
Changing her eye color in postproduction was also tested, but (…) “it didn’t feel like her. CGI-ing her eyes seemed to diminish what she was doing.” Eventually it was decided to accept the continuity error.
🎥 Rashomon (1950) by Akira Kurosawa ★★★★★
4 contradictory accounts of one incident: a classic in cinematic storytelling. Mesmerising cinematography. Can’t believe this was made in 1950.
🎵🎥 Monterey Pop (1968) ★ ★ ★ ★
The documentary ends with a classic raga performance by Ravi Shankar. Perfectly captured on film and edited by D. A. Pennebaker, we see the audience slowly getting ecstatic by hearing these otherworldly sounds. A true 60s time capsule.
🎥 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) ★ ★ ★ ½
We watched the final chapter yesterday to finish our (re)watch of the ‘complete’ series. (We started with Rogue One and skipped The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones.) Despite many issues storywise, it’s a well made film.
🎥 Star Wars: The last Jedi (2017) ★ ★ ★ ½
🎥 La Jetée (1962) ★ ★ ★ ★ ½.
🎥 Kansas City Confidential (1952) ★ ★ ★
🎥 Andrey Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer (2019) ★ ★ ★ ½.
A carefully made documentary by his own son, with a lot of familiar behind the scenes footage but also never before published audio recordings of Tarkovsky speaking about the main themes in his work.
🎥 Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith (2005) ★ ★
🎥 Finally had a chance to visit Andrei Tarkovsky: the exhibition in Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam. The multi screen setup didn’t do his films justice in my opinion. But there were a lot of interesting handwritten manuscripts and beautiful Polaroids of dreamy landscapes.
🎥 Avengers: Endgame (2019) ★ ★ ★ ½
🎥 Return of the Jedi (1980) ★ ★ ★
This is not the best Hitchcock film, but I loved the monumental murder scene on the steps in the pouring rain. And hearing the actors trying to speak dutch phonetically made me laugh out loud.
🎥 Foreign Correspondent (1940) ★ ★ ★ ½
🎥 The Empire Strikes Back (1980) ★ ★ ★ ★
🎥 Star Wars (1977)
★ ★ ★ ½
🎥 Spider-man - Into the Spider-verse (2018) ★ ★ ★ ½
🎥 El Camino (2019).
★ ★ ★ ★ ½
🎥 El Camino was everything I had hoped for. It ended on a hopeful note, and the brief flashback with Walter White sure must have made all Breaking Bad fans grinning in their chairs.
🎥 Rogue One (2016) ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
🎥 It’s been a long time since I’ve been so eagerly waiting for an upcoming movie premiere. The trailer of El Camino sure looks promising!
Great news for Utrecht’s creative industry.
Utrecht wil investeren in innovatieve locatie voor film- en beeldcultuur ‘De Machinerie’
A short visit with my daughter to the Abstractionpark 7090 at Gaudeamus Muziekweek
