Baraka Movie

Baraka knows this. This movie for me was a real visual discovery and a pleasure to watch, of course these kinds of films usually are. They sit and wait to be discovered like a long lost forgotten Aladdin's lamp, collecting dust and forgotten for all time.

Watch this breathtaking movie today! Baraka [Blu-ray]

What makes Baraka so poignant is its visual power, no words no script no plot - this is a film that works on a minimal documentary structure, or more accurately a collective view of the world within a montage framework. The cinematography is pure magic, and the idea that this film breaks the 4th Dimension between Audience and Film is truly mesmerising. When we see people stare at us from the other side of the screen/world how do we feel? What do we look at within ourselves?

Tron Legacy - the lacking sequel DVD

Tron Legacy - why?

I am becoming concerned with Hollywood remakes - the use of CGI and an attraction back to the legends of the past make me wonder if Hollywood is purely re-raking the past for profit or if this style of film-making serves an insipid vision of new ideas.

Now the original Tron arrived at a time when it was necessary to examine the relationship between new game media, in the format of games, and the players. This was not World-of-Warcraft time of course but it was based on the old legacy of Pin-Ball!

Dark Tower and the rumours continue.... who has news?

Been reading about this.... could be amazing this awesome 7 book series will be a film?

I have always been a fan of Stephen King - his work is mainstream. His work always strikes a chord into the subconcious, I remember reading Cujo all the way through in one sitting, it was Impossible to put down. Moving on though, his work never really adapts so well to TV or Cinema - save The Shining (Jack Nicholson, Shelly Duvall with Stanley Kubrick directing)

Blade Runner

Well to look deeper at better films may well be an option Blade Runner It's a very deep film with stunning cinematography and a film-noir feel, one of the best Sci-Fi investigation films 
around..

With the release of the 30th Anniversary edition the real fan base has something to celebrate!

Buy it Now - Blade Runner 30th Anniversary Edition

 

Salo or 120 Days of Sodom

Well after hearing about the Salò film for several years I finally got a chance to watch it and was surprised not only by the content but the underlying themse about the Director's stance against facism.

Of course the film does strike a morally disturbing balance between scenes that are physicall and emotionally shocking, and why we as viewers must take as tance against this barbarism.

The film has often been cited as by the BFi as a key film, and I would say that I agree - of course for most people it will appear very slow. The cinematography is nothing special to be honest, rather flat in comparison to some of the wonders of the Italian Neo-Realism masters...