The Grand Master: Wong Kar Wai Film Trailer

The magnificent Hong Kong film director, Wong Kar Wai, is nearing completion of a new film called ‘The Grand Master.’ It’s a kung fu flick! The film was rumored to have been in a production halt, but now it looks as if things are coming together. It’s hard to find accurate information about this director’s work so I’ll just leave you with this very wet trailer.

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Throws Idiot Texter Out of Theater

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Oh yeah! Go Alamo Drafthouse Cinema! I’m totally with ya! Listen to this nattering twit with snot for brains as she expresses her outrage over being tossed out of a movie theater minus refund for texting. Sometimes, don’t you wish you could drive a coat hanger through the head of one of these people? I recommend throwing these boneheads out onto the sidewalk face-first. Who gives a fart about a jackoff who needs to text in a movie theater? I’ve actually heard a-holes sitting in movies while engaging in loud telephone conversations. They can become very belligerent and downright dangerous if confronted about their rudeness. It would be nice to see mob reactions in these cases where cell phone users in movie theaters are actually ejected by the audience. They should be thrown into traffic so they can be run over. Cell phones are the great IQ test of our time. To loosely quote an old movie: The more you text, the stupider you are.

Solaris: 1972 Science Fiction Classic by Andrei Tarkovsky

Have you ever watched Andrei Tarkovsky’s brilliant 1972 Russian science fiction film, Solaris? Well, you should. It’s long and it moves at its own leisure, but you’ll be richly rewarded with an unforgettable cinematic experience. When I was a kid I was a huge fan of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. So when I went to see this film I was very cranky about it because it just didn’t have the same look as 2001. But Tarkovsky was not interested in spaceships or realistic zero gravity. He was looking for the soul. Solaris is a deeply emotional film that points the way toward a science fiction that does not rely on science or technology for its visuals.  If you have seen the recent version of Solaris by Steven Soderbergh, you really should consider watching this one.  Tarkovsky was not afraid to dismantle the normal narrative drive and pacing of the majority of Hollywood films.  He allowed time to play itself out in his films.  No scene was ever cut to spare an audience’s attention span.  Soderbergh, for all his efforts to look independent, is completely at the mercy of the prevailing winds of Hollywood and makes every film to suit the intellectual capacities of a thirteen year old audience. This is usually apparent in the editing, not the writing. Hollywood filmmakers edit films as if they are flashcards for the slow learners.  You can’t call yourself an independent filmmaker if you are really just a prostitute.  Tarkovsky was, in spite of the constant oversight by the authoritarian Soviet government, a true unbending independent.

The film is an adaptation of the novel by the great Polish science fiction writer, Stanislaw Lem.

It has been made available by Mosfilm for free viewing on their new YouTube channel.

 

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Blinky – Science Fiction Film by Ruairi Robinson

This short science fiction film about a robot playmate/servant by Ruairi Robinson is disturbing because it forces the viewer to be shocked by what happens to a repellent leading character. Personally, I cannot watch the film without silently cheering the little robot on.  In fact, more robots should be programmed just like him.