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Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir writes of Iranian writer-director-actor Rafi Pitts:

[He] has clearly absorbed both European and American influences; although the spare, alienated, almost wordless style of “The Hunter” recalls ’70s art-house cinema, it’s also a movie about a lonely guy in the big city with a car, a hunting rifle and nothing to lose.

The film looks great.

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Pioneering feminist answers questions

Gloria Steinem gave a press conference to promote the documentary Gloria: In Her Own Words. Alex Strachan, writing for Postmedia News, recounts what happened:

The first question was a fireball. The bloggers in the room may not have understood it, but it certainly got their attention. A lot of women in the room owe their positions to Steinem, the questioner said. Steinem broke down barriers for women. But looking at today’s generation, did she break down those barriers “so young women today can dress like hookers and be OK with being treated like a piece of meat, whether it’s in a music video or in social situations?” Isn’t it ironic, Steinem was asked, that what she fought so hard for has been rejected by the generation that came later?

Steinem was candid in her reply, and perhaps surprising.

‘No,” she said simply. “This generation of young women is actually much more feminist than we ever were. If you look at the public opinion polls, they’re actually much more supportive of all the issues of equality. And my question to the young woman who is dressing as you describe is: Is she doing it because she wants to? Is she body-proud? Is she sexuality-proud? Because then, I say, great. Is she doing it because she feels she has to? That she won’t be popular otherwise? Then, that’s wrong.

“Reese Witherspoon, whom I don’t know very well, told me she did Legally Blonde because of me. I said, ‘No kidding. How come?’ And she said, ‘Because I heard you say you should be able to dress any way you f-ing well please and be safe.’ “

Make sure to click through for her thoughts on “Pan Am” and “Mad Men” — an interesting take.

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Ratatoing is a Brazilian computer graphics cartoon film from Vídeo Brinquedo and distributed in North America by Branscome International. The film is similar to the 2007 Pixar film Ratatouille. The 44 minute-long film, originally produced in Portuguese, involves Marcell Toing, a mouse who is the most gifted chef in Rio de Janeiro. He owns the famed restaurant “Ratatoing” along with his crew, consisting of fellow mice Carol and Greg. They plan out weekly raids on human kitchens to acquire fresh ingredients for use in their dishes. However, rivaling restaurant owners are desperate to discover Marcell’s secrets and are willing to risk putting their own restaurants out of business to unearth them. (Wikipedia) Here is the trailer for this, let’s go with “thing.” I would have embedded it instead of the cover, but Vídeo Brinquedo disallowed embedding for some reason or another. Pro tip fellows: this doesn’t make you immune to mockery.

Ratatoing is a Brazilian computer graphics cartoon film from Vídeo Brinquedo and distributed in North America by Branscome International. The film is similar to the 2007 Pixar film Ratatouille. The 44 minute-long film, originally produced in Portuguese, involves Marcell Toing, a mouse who is the most gifted chef in Rio de Janeiro. He owns the famed restaurant “Ratatoing” along with his crew, consisting of fellow mice Carol and Greg. They plan out weekly raids on human kitchens to acquire fresh ingredients for use in their dishes. However, rivaling restaurant owners are desperate to discover Marcell’s secrets and are willing to risk putting their own restaurants out of business to unearth them. (Wikipedia)

Here is the trailer for this, let’s go with “thing.” I would have embedded it instead of the cover, but Vídeo Brinquedo disallowed embedding for some reason or another. Pro tip fellows: this doesn’t make you immune to mockery.

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One of the most brilliant trailers ever made. “Lucky Star”, directed by Michael Mann, starring Benicio del Toro.

You may be wondering: Why haven’t I heard of this movie? Well that’s because the movie never existed. And it never was intended to exist. The whole thing is, in fact, a very clever ad for Mercedes. This sort of “viral marketing” is pretty common nowadays but in 2002 it was unheard of.

Enjoy.

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Last week Monday would have been Andrei Tarkovsky’s 79th birthday, so in belated celebration check this shit out: It appears that in the late 70’s, Michelangelo Antonioni gave Tarkovsky a Polariod camera and Tarkovsky went nuts over the thing, taking hundreds and hundreds of photos. Unsurprisingly, they’re gorgeous. I really recommend taking a look through the galleries linked below. (Imagine what Tarkovsky would have done on Instagram.) Poemas del río Wang’s gallery from June 2010 is the biggest cache I could find. Also has some nice anecdotes.The website of the book Bright, bright day, about Tarkovsky’s photography, has a small gallery. All of this via Toxico Cultura which has a few more photographs as well.

Last week Monday would have been Andrei Tarkovsky’s 79th birthday, so in belated celebration check this shit out:

It appears that in the late 70’s, Michelangelo Antonioni gave Tarkovsky a Polariod camera and Tarkovsky went nuts over the thing, taking hundreds and hundreds of photos. Unsurprisingly, they’re gorgeous. I really recommend taking a look through the galleries linked below.

(Imagine what Tarkovsky would have done on Instagram.)

Poemas del río Wang’s gallery from June 2010 is the biggest cache I could find. Also has some nice anecdotes.
The website of the book Bright, bright day, about Tarkovsky’s photography, has a small gallery.
All of this via Toxico Cultura which has a few more photographs as well.

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(poster image from JoBlo’s Pimpin’ Poster Palace) Chuck Norris wearing a sweater woven from the universe? Check. A woman with a giant gun leaning through an interdimensional portal? Check. The bust of a ninja with no skin, with a hand that can’t possibly be his brandishing a sai in front of him? Check and check. And that tagline: “In a world of choices, for one man there is no choice….” Which world is this? Are there worlds without choices? The poster doesn’t appear to be depicting Earth, is ours one of those worlds? Is this subtle social commentary? An alternate poster for the same movie has a different and yet still amazing tagline, “The Ninja, unholy masters of terror. No one will admit they still exist,” but this one is the complete package. I’m just going to go ahead and call this the greatest movie poster from 1980. Here’s the film’s trailer:

(poster image from JoBlo’s Pimpin’ Poster Palace)

Chuck Norris wearing a sweater woven from the universe? Check. A woman with a giant gun leaning through an interdimensional portal? Check. The bust of a ninja with no skin, with a hand that can’t possibly be his brandishing a sai in front of him? Check and check.

And that tagline: “In a world of choices, for one man there is no choice….” Which world is this? Are there worlds without choices? The poster doesn’t appear to be depicting Earth, is ours one of those worlds? Is this subtle social commentary?

An alternate poster for the same movie has a different and yet still amazing tagline, “The Ninja, unholy masters of terror. No one will admit they still exist,” but this one is the complete package. I’m just going to go ahead and call this the greatest movie poster from 1980.

Here’s the film’s trailer: