Tag Archives: cinema

cinema

the thing

john carpenter’s the thing (1982)

defibrillator chest chomp and other creature effects in the thing.
special makeup and creature effects creator rob bottin (total recall, robocop, se7en, fear and loathing in las vegas, fight club)

special makeup effects creator stan winston (the terminator, predator, edward scissorhands, jurassic park, the island of doctor moreau, avatar, shutter island)

books, cinema, memoria

shorts (ii)

tierra y pan
continuous zooming out and dissolves as it tells a simple story of death. no dialogue. landscape and tragedy. carlos armella. mexico. golden lion. 2008.

sniffer
conceptual. art department-intensive. no dialogue. bobbie peers. norway. palme d’or. 2006.

perhaps inspired by

with a little jean-pierre jeunet in there.

donkey
city landscape and reflective narration. b&w. for the first part of the film, each quick shot slowly zooms in. keir burrows. uk. tribeca selection. 2012.

hemingway to read
dateline: toronto
a moveable feast

books, cinema, history, memoria

monsters, communists, kidnappings, the koreas

podcast, movies and books.

kidnapped by n. korea to make films: act one of this american life 556: same bed, different dreams.

film director shin sang-ok  신상옥 and wive, ex-wife and re-wife, actor choi eun-hee 최은희

“pulgasari” japanese poster via wikipedia.

full movie with subtitles
pulgasari. 1985. north korea. godzilla-type film directed by mr. shin.

capitalist/feudal lord-crushing proletarian monsta.

mother and a guest. south korea. 1961. starring mrs. choi.

A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator’s Rise to Power by paul fischer
on amazon kindle

shin’s and choi’s memoir: either called kingdom of kim or i am a movie or Chogugŭn Chŏhanŭl Chŏmŏlli (My Motherland is Faraway) published in 1988/2001.

take a look at on the art of cinema (published in 1973) by the late kim jong-il.