PHILLY PHILMS

fuckyeahdirectors:

“I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way” - Sydney Pollack

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Martin Scorsese photographed by Xavier Lambours at Cannes, 1983.

Marty.

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manbartlett:

Michael Mandiberg
OMG LOL
Sculpture
“OMG LOL” laser cut into a dictionary.
2009*

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*On the artist’s site this work seems to be dated 2011, however I saw it in a show at Eyebeam in the fall of 2009. I guess it left an imprint on me as I still think about it from time to time. So simple, yet so good.

richardrushfield:

TOP TEN DEATH SCENES IN DICKENS
(In no particular order)

1. Fagin tormented awaiting execution.
2. Nancy murdered by Bill Sykes
3. Smike dies of consumption
4. Sidney Carton’s far, far better thing
5. Little Nell dies of exhaustion and her grandfather sits on her grave waiting for her to return.
6. Little Paul Dombey dies and leaves the house of Dombey sonless.
7. David Copperfield’s spendthrift first wife Dora dies leaving him free to marry a more sensible woman.
8. James Steerforth and Ham Peggoty drown in a shipwreck.
9. Lady Dedlock believing herself disgraced, takes herself to a graveyard to die alone.
10. Dennis the hangman is himself hanged

Happy 200th birthday Boz! 

newyorker:

Here’s a list of the Best Picture nominees, with links to reviews and other coverage from The New Yorker.

“The Artist”

Read Anthony Lane’s review. Tad Friend talks with writer-director Michel Hazanavicius on the challenges of getting audiences to watch a black-and-white silent French film. Richard Brody on how the film reflects our economic moment.

“The Descendants”

“The latest exhibit in Payne’s careful dissection of the beached male,” Anthony Lane writes in his review. Richard Brody traces the diverse lineage of Alexander Payne’s films and George Clooney’s cool acting style.

“Moneyball”

David Denby calls “Moneyball” “one of the most soulful of baseball movies.” Richard Brody anticipates European reviewers’ interpretations of the American pastime.

“Midnight in Paris”

“People just blurt out their identifying traits; the dialogue is so blunt that it’s a little embarrassing. But Allen is moving fast with a purpose: he’s setting up a fable of longing and satisfaction.” Read David Denby’s review of “Midnight in Paris.” Paul Goldberger writes that the film’s interpretations Paris’s present and past are “products of Allen’s imagination.” Richard Brody reviews PBS’s “American Masters” special on Woody Allen, with an exclusive clip of Allen and his trusty typewriter.

“The Tree of Life”

Anthony Lane’s review of “Tree of Life.” David Denby calls the film “insufferable” and “a considerable enlargement of the rhetoric of cinema.” Richard Brody surveys Malick’s career.

“The Help”

“‘The Help’… is, in some ways, crude and obvious, but it opens up a broad new swath of experience on the screen.” Read David Denby’s review.

“Hugo”

“In a flashback, Scorsese re-creates Méliès’s glass-walled studio and his films, with their exuberance of creatures, ‘natives’ with spears, nymphs hanging from the stars—sheer exultant zaniness, part magic show, part burlesque, and all cinema.” More from David Denby’s review of “Hugo.” Richard Brody discusses the film’s clockwork mechanisms and Scorsese’s approach to filmmaking.

“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”

David Denby’s review of “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” which is based on Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel about a young boy whose father died on 9/11. On the tenth anniversary of the attacks, Safran Foer writes about discussing 9/11 with his children.

“War Horse”

David Denby reviews “War Horse.” Susan Orlean comments on the spectacle and experience of the theatrical version of “War Horse.” Richard Brody writes, “The movie is—by design—a pile of clichés.”

Here’s the complete list of Academy Award nominees from the official Oscars site.

fuckyeahcondiments:

Chocolate-Sriracha Shortbread Cookies (via erinwyso). Recipe here.

Once the sriracha-chocolate has cooled, it can be rolled into a small ball and sandwiched in between two layers of rich and buttery shortbread cookies. A liberal sprinkle of large crystal salt at the end balances all of the flavors perfectly.

szymon:

Volkswagen parking lot towers at Autostadt in in Wolfsburg, Germany

youngstupidnreckless:

Inspiration

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The ketchup of my household.