I'm glad to hear it. I like dissension in the ranks, and I obviously wouldn't have posted the colour version if I didn't somewhat like it myself. Even if I think I prefer the black-and-white version. :-)
Nice to meet you, by the way. I don't think we've met before, have we?
Heh. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one around here with childish tendencies. I had a mad urge to take a picture of him wearing my sunglasses, but alas, he proved a bit too tall for that. I couldn't actually reach his eyes, and what's more, he kept averting his face. :-)
Very nice. Possibly even better than the B&W, for me.merry_beanNovember 3 2005, 23:39:57 UTC
But all attempts at serious discussion aside, I would *not* have been able to resist adding a 'AT TIMES LIKE THIS I COULD MURDER A GOOD CURRY', caption on it. :^)
I'm totally in love with the square format. It doesn't work for all images, but in the case of the close-up, it does, I think. I'm just sorry I didn't take a few pictures from different angles. There were good reasons for that (bad light, bad background, the works), but still, I would have liked to provide some different perspectives, rather than give you a detail from a picture I'd used twice already.
it's alright, i think we can forgive you for showing us the image more than once. :) it's always difficult to shoot statues in the shade on bright sunny days where there is a bright background.
You really should have come back and posted these before Halloween because these are CREEEPY! The moss and mildew and general ickiness is definitely served by the color version, but I think I still prefer the B&W's.
By the way, 3-Iron? Amazing. Partucularly the last sequence and especially the final shot. Had I seen it last year, it would have definitely given Eternal Sunshine a run for the money.
I know, I know. Halloween. I should have thought of it earlier. The problem is, I live in a country where Halloween isn't, um, observed, so it's easy to forget that you're supposed to creep people out at that time of year. Even when you have American friends who'll remind you that the holiday is on its way. :-)
So you've finally seen 3-Iron, have you? Good. Excellent! Another convert to spread the Gospel of Kim. Now go and check out his other films, because they're all good, if not as charming and enchanting as parts of 3-Iron are. Seriously, the man is a genius.
As for the conclusion to 3-Iron, I loved the final shot, as well. I wasn't sure at first what to make of the prison sequence (it seemed too much of a departure from the rest of the film, in a momentum-breaking kind of way), but the final shot put it all into perspective. Brilliant stuff. And I just loved how he kept playing Natacha Atlas in the film. I've listened to the album a lot since the RIFF. :-)
I was a convert after "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring". I just had to wait for "3-Iron" to make its way around here. I agree that the prsion sequence was originally jarring, but really, if you consider that all of his actions were sort of leading up to that, his desire to change things in only the smallest ways, and make the least amount of noticeable disturbance, it fits.
Too bad the cover of the American DVD release ruins the freaking ending!
That's right, you were a convert after Spring, Summer. I'd forgotten about that. Sorry. Shame on me. :-)
Does your rental place have any other Kim films? Because what you've seen now are his two gentlest films -- gorgeous stuff, but not wholly representative of what he is about as a filmmaker. His other films are considerably less light-hearted, and quite twisted and violent in parts. Beautiful, though, and never less than fascinating. Definitely worth tracking down.
Does the cover of the American DVD really ruin the ending to 3-Iron? Oh, man. I hate it when that happens. I'm usually pretty good about spoilers (to the point where I can put off reading the new Jordan book until the paperback comes out because by now I'm acquainted with every fucking thing that happens in the book!), but endings like that should not be given away. I have to say the RIFF handled the thing very decently. None of the press releases, reviews and blurbs revealed anything about the ending -- not a hint as to where it might be leading. Meaning I was really
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Handsome DevilhecallaghanNovember 3 2005, 17:14:59 UTC
He's awesome.
Something I saw in Vienna that always stuck with me was the skeletons underneath altars, usually beautifully dressed in decaying medieval finery. (I think they might be the relics of saints, or possibly memento mori. I have no German so I had no way of working it out.) I forget the church, but there was one there in scarlet silk slippers, reclining like a model for a Cosmopolitan shoot, with their skull resting on their hand. "Check out my bitchin' shoes."
This guy puts me in mind of that. "Being a skeletal anthropomorph of death is no reason to not be stylish, dahling."
Re: Handsome Devilmistress_elaineNovember 3 2005, 20:05:59 UTC
Thank you. Yes, I'm rather enamoured of him myself. :-)
I think you've sold me on a trip to Vienna. I've been dying to go back to the place for years (I loved it as an eleven-year-old); your description may just have tipped the scales. Skeletons underneath altars? Skeletons with their skulls resting on their hands? Say no more. I'm going, and I'll bring plenty of film.
Then again, Paris has the Catacombs, which are full of skulls, and I've never seen those, either. (Or Père Lachaise, for that matter.) So it'll be a toss-up between Paris and Vienna. And Barcelona. And Berlin. And Rome. And Venice. And Granada. And Cordoba.
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Nice to meet you, by the way. I don't think we've met before, have we?
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Oh, well. At least I got a picture of the guy, which is more than most people can say. And I live to tell the tale. :-)
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I'm totally in love with the square format. It doesn't work for all images, but in the case of the close-up, it does, I think. I'm just sorry I didn't take a few pictures from different angles. There were good reasons for that (bad light, bad background, the works), but still, I would have liked to provide some different perspectives, rather than give you a detail from a picture I'd used twice already.
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By the way, 3-Iron? Amazing. Partucularly the last sequence and especially the final shot. Had I seen it last year, it would have definitely given Eternal Sunshine a run for the money.
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So you've finally seen 3-Iron, have you? Good. Excellent! Another convert to spread the Gospel of Kim. Now go and check out his other films, because they're all good, if not as charming and enchanting as parts of 3-Iron are. Seriously, the man is a genius.
As for the conclusion to 3-Iron, I loved the final shot, as well. I wasn't sure at first what to make of the prison sequence (it seemed too much of a departure from the rest of the film, in a momentum-breaking kind of way), but the final shot put it all into perspective. Brilliant stuff. And I just loved how he kept playing Natacha Atlas in the film. I've listened to the album a lot since the RIFF. :-)
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Too bad the cover of the American DVD release ruins the freaking ending!
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Does your rental place have any other Kim films? Because what you've seen now are his two gentlest films -- gorgeous stuff, but not wholly representative of what he is about as a filmmaker. His other films are considerably less light-hearted, and quite twisted and violent in parts. Beautiful, though, and never less than fascinating. Definitely worth tracking down.
Does the cover of the American DVD really ruin the ending to 3-Iron? Oh, man. I hate it when that happens. I'm usually pretty good about spoilers (to the point where I can put off reading the new Jordan book until the paperback comes out because by now I'm acquainted with every fucking thing that happens in the book!), but endings like that should not be given away. I have to say the RIFF handled the thing very decently. None of the press releases, reviews and blurbs revealed anything about the ending -- not a hint as to where it might be leading. Meaning I was really ( ... )
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Something I saw in Vienna that always stuck with me was the skeletons underneath altars, usually beautifully dressed in decaying medieval finery. (I think they might be the relics of saints, or possibly memento mori. I have no German so I had no way of working it out.) I forget the church, but there was one there in scarlet silk slippers, reclining like a model for a Cosmopolitan shoot, with their skull resting on their hand. "Check out my bitchin' shoes."
This guy puts me in mind of that. "Being a skeletal anthropomorph of death is no reason to not be stylish, dahling."
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I think you've sold me on a trip to Vienna. I've been dying to go back to the place for years (I loved it as an eleven-year-old); your description may just have tipped the scales. Skeletons underneath altars? Skeletons with their skulls resting on their hands? Say no more. I'm going, and I'll bring plenty of film.
Then again, Paris has the Catacombs, which are full of skulls, and I've never seen those, either. (Or Père Lachaise, for that matter.) So it'll be a toss-up between Paris and Vienna. And Barcelona. And Berlin. And Rome. And Venice. And Granada. And Cordoba.
Sigh.
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