Film Still Tuesday

From the upcoming Lars Von Trier movie, "Nymphomaniac"

Film Still Tuesday

Lost Highway, by David Lynch

2001: A Space Odyssey, by Stanley Kubrick

Magnolia, by Paul Thomas Anderson

Careful

My most recent painting (see below) has been compared to Guy Maddin films - here are a few stills from his film Careful made in 1992.

Simulacra

Still from Andrey Rublyov

Daphne Wright, Stallion, 2009, Marble dust and resin
160 H x 380 L x 140 W cm

small drawing I did called "After Andrei Rublyov" (obviously)

Suspiria

I don't watch many horror movies, but it is October and that means it is time to watch Suspiria (1977) by Dario Argento again. The sets, the lighting, the soundtrack, and the overall stylization of the movie makes this horror movie more watchable than most. Photos here by OfScotland.

Captain Scarlet still

Captain Black -video still taken by me from the 1960s British science fiction tv show.

the end of Marie Antoinette

Relaxation Room

Another still from the "Avalanche" episode of Captain Scarlet.

Might Makes Right

Stills from one of my favorite shows, Captian Scarlet.

There has to be something mysterious.

Still from My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done - an upcoming film by Herzog and David Lynch (source).

There's a interview with filmmaker Werner Herzog on Slate today (thanks for the tip C-Monster). One particularly interesting part of the interview reads,

Jacob Weisberg: I've seen you quoted as saying that you'd rather die than see an analyst. Can you elaborate?

Werner Herzog.: I think it's a mistake of the 20^th century. You could not live in a house that was illuminated to every last single corner. And human beings become uninhabitable when they are scrutinized and illuminated into their last little dark abysses. Just leave people as they are and don't touch it. I think psychoanalysis is one of the great mistakes of the 20^th century. It's one of the reasons why I would dismiss the 20^th century as a mistake. I think the 20^th century in its entirety was a mistake. Psychoanalysis is just a small brick in my argument, that I could build up.

J.W.: Filmmaking developed in the 20^th century.

W.H.: Yes, yes, some good sides as well. No doubt.

J.W.: But I'm interested in what you say about psychoanalysis. Is the concern that self-understanding would make one less of an artist, or make people less interesting in general?

W.H.: I think people become uninhabitable, as I say, and less interesting. There has to be something mysterious. Just think about being with a woman who had not, no mystery left at all. If everything was explained about a woman, it wouldn't fascinate me anymore. If I could be explained like an encyclopedia, it would be awful.

(my emphasis added)

Nothing appears as it should

film still from Lord of the Flies

"Nothing appears as it should in a world where nothing is certain. The only thing certain is the existence of a secret violence that makes everything uncertain."

~Lucretius (source)

Art and Film Friday; Vol. 13 - Punch Drunk Love

Still from Punch Drunk Love - more here.
Ross Bleckner, Hands and Faces, 1994, Oil on Linen, 96x120"

Still from Punch Drunk Love
Dan Flavin, The Diagonal of May 25, 1963, 1963, blue fluorescent light

Still from Punch Drunk Love - by Jeremy Blake
Gene Davis, Royal Canoe, 1977, Screenprint
Paper Size: 37 1/2 x 43 inches, Edition of 100
Published by Pace Editions, Inc

Still from Punch Drunk Love

Brice Marden, "Grove IV". 1976, Oil and Wax on Canvas, two panels, 72x108" overall
Still from Punch Drunk Love
Edvard Munch, Kiss by the Window, 1892

Still from Punch Drunk Love
Brice Marden

Art and Film Friday; Vol. 12 - Paris, Texas

This clip is the opening scene from Wim Wender's Paris, Texas. I saw the 1984 movie for the first time last week and loved it. It's a rich and beautifully composed film - it was really fantastic and a visual inspiration.

Still from Paris, Texas
Still from Paris, Texas
Mark Tansey, Robbe-Grillet Cleansing Every Object in Sight, 1981, 72x72"

Still from Paris, Texas
Luke Barber-Smith, Grace, 2009, 43x34 inches, c-print

Still from Paris, Texas

Still from Paris, Texas
Jason Stopa, Untitled (Mirror Series) Oil on Canvas. 2009

Still from Paris, Texas
Robert Adams- from What We Bought - The New World, Denver, 1970-74 - from flickr user Jodan TateStill from Paris, Texas - this one already looks like a painting.
Still from Paris, Texas
Vija Celmins, Untitled Portfolio: Desert, Lithograph, 16x20", 1975

Still from Paris, Texas

Edward Hopper, Nightwawks, 1942 - photo of the piece in Chicago by flickr user Jing a Ling. I think a lot of the google photos of this work don't show the color accurately - this one is pretty close.Still from Paris, Texas
Phil Sims, Green Navigator, 2008

Still from Paris, Texas
Damien Loeb, Lolita, 2005, Oil on Linen, 36x84"