JERRY LEWIS.. THE LAST AMERICAN CLOWN

The House on Trubnaya Square (Boris Barnet, 1928)

In the Year of the Pig (Emile de Antonio, 1968)

Double-bill (Lewis e Lupino)

Soul Mining & Infected

Soul Mining is the debut album by British alternative rock/synthpop band The The. The 1981 album Burning Blue Soul was originally credited to the band's frontman Matt Johnson as a solo album, but later reissues now credit it to The The. Soul Mining was released in October 1983 and included versions of the UK singles "Uncertain Smile" which reached no. 68 in December 1982, Perfect which made no. 79 in February 1983, and This Is the Day which reached no. 71 in September 1983. Although the album peaked at number 27 in the UK album chart it has subsequently been hailed as one of the best albums of the 1980s. (YouTube)

Infected was The The's second album (if one excludes Burning Blue Soul and The Pornography Of Despair, which was never officially released), released in 1986. It is reputed that the album used 67 different musicians and 3 producers. The money lavished on it and its companion full-length video seemed at the time to be extravagant for an obscure band. Many of the tracks carried on with Johnson's main topics of his feeling of alienation from society as all whole and the melancholy that this generates in young males. However around this time Johnson was becoming aware of World Issues or the culture clash between the West and Islam. The song Sweet Bird of Truth is about a pilot trying to save his plane whilst flying over Arabia and was released just prior to Reagan's 1986 Bombing of Libya. (YouTube)

Infected's sound still suggests dance-pop, especially on the title track. But don't get the impression that it's made for dancing. Instead of the light fare displayed on Soul Mining, Infected's songs seethe instead of preen, and Matt Johnson's lyrics are laced with tension. Thematically, he plunges a lance into the exposed midsection of Great Britain, analyzing the state of modern urban life in the country. "This is the land where nothing changes," Johnson sings on the World Party-ish Heartland. "A land of red buses and blue bloody babies/This is the place where the hearts are being cut from the welfare state." Angels of Deception matches rain-slicked verses to a powerful chorus flavored with gospel backup singers and enormous reverb percussion. With production tricks like this, Infected aligns itself with the dance-pop sound of its predecessor (and the prevailing sound of British pop music at the time). But there's no denying the record's acerbic lyricism or dark-toned instrumentation. Sweet Bird of Truth is gritty pop tinged with wartime radio chatter and muscular horns that somehow manage to be apocalyptic, and the sweaty finale Mercy Beat has a drink with the devil while dance-pop burns brightly in the background, sending embers into the London night sky. Synthesized horns and crashing drums converge around a mirthful Johnson lyric before the song finally fades to the weird tones of a looped guitar. Infected was the first true indication of Johnson's mercurial nature, and established the dissonance and reinvention of his later work. (AllMusic)

THE LEGEND OF THE SURAM FORTRESS

Ambavi Suramis Tsikhitsa, de SERGEI PARADJANOV (URSS, 1984)

Oratorio for Prague (Jan Nemec, 1968)

Torre Bela (Thomas Harlan, 1977)

KRAPP'S LAST TAPE - Samuel Beckett + Harold Pinter

http://www.ubu.com/film/beckett_krapp.html

A Caça (Manoel de Oliveira, 1964)

Os Verdes Anos (Paulo Rocha, 1963)

V.A.L.I.S. - Vast Active Living Intelligence System

Episode 1 - Ballad os Shadows by Ben McKinnon


Episode 2 - Foodsploitation by Adam Bagatavicius


Episode 3 - Only Human (2009) directed by Caroline De Koninck

BRITISH SOUNDS

Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Henri Roger (1970)

http://www.ubu.com/film/godard_british.html

Finis Terrae (Jean Epstein, 1929)

Sol Svanetii (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1930)

Tempo de contemplação

Harvest time in the islands of the Caspian Sea

Implacável

Bois ton cafe, il va être froid

Letra

CENAS DA LUTA DE CLASSES EM PORTUGAL

SCENES FROM THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN PORTUGAL
ROBERT KRAMER (1977)

LES CHEMINS PERDUS- Garrel

http://www.ubu.com/film/garrel_chemins.html

Violin Phase

RABID DOGS (1974)

1/10

SALT OF THE EARTH

Herbert J. Biberman (1954)


1/10

Classicismo experimental:

The Gang's All here, de Busby Berkeley

LARKS ON A STRING

LARKS ON A STRING, de Jiří Menzel (Checoslováquia, 1969)

A fé na 'mise en scène'

2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9

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GOING THROUGH THE ROOF

2 / 3 / 4

DAS BLAUE LICHT

by Leni Riefenstahl and Béla Balázs
1932



1/8

THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH (1970)

2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6

WHO IS THE MASTER (WHO MAKES THE GRASS GREEN) ?

MARKETA LAZAROVÁ

MARKETA LAZAROVÁ, de František Vláčil (Checoslováquia, 1967)

curtas de

Michel Chion

Le Grand Nettoyage - 1975

Chant de Nuit - 1994

MATERIALIDADE : O FILME NO QUAL...

FILM IN WHICH THERE APPEAR

EDGE LETTERING, SPROCKET HOLES,

DIRT PARTICLES,

ETC...
OWEN LAND, 1965

Regresso de uma pista.

RETOUR D'UN REPÈRE | Unhas follas de árbores a contraluz, en picado, cun fondo de agua, tremen. Nalgún fotograma cóase o vermello do solpor reflectido na agua. Nalgúns planos a rama está máis cargada de follas que noutros. Cada fotograma é distinto, a pesar de que o que acabamos por ver sexa a ilusión dunha e a mesma rama tremendo sobre a agua. O punto de enfoque cambia continuamente de fotograma en fotograma: cando as follas están desenfocadas o lago tras elas enfócase, facéndose presente. Se o foco se centra nas follas a agua vólvese un fondo branco indistinto, con algún toque de vermello de vez en cando, que contrasta coa escuridade das follas (algunhas follas están na sombra, outras receben a luz do sol). Ben polo enfoque cambiante, ben polo movemento real das follas ao vendo, non hai dous fotogramas iguais (no rolo base, como veremos). Dentro desta variedade de enfoques apreciamos secuencias nas que distinguimos as mesmas follas como pixiladas ("animadas", ou cámara movéndose a saltos: imposíbel de dicir). Todo é unha construción fotograma a fotograma: a cámara perde protagonismo, non se move, non treme, porque a brevidade do fotograma non llo permite. (A. Pagán)| ROSE LOWDERwder)

GIU LA TESTA (OST)

Inquérito a um cidadão acima de qualquer suspeita.

Indagine Su Un Cittadino Al Di Sopra Di Ogni Sospetto
ELIO PETRI (1970)

Man from the South

In a Las Vegas casino, an unpleasant little man hopes to use a young man's wish to impress the young woman he has just met to pressure the young fellow into accepting a macabre bet.

ROSAS DANST ROSAS (1997)

White Dog (1982)

Só porque o cinema por vezes é tão incompreendido, e o racismo manisfesta-se de tão variadas formas. Mas o culpado é sempre o mesmo: o HOMEM.