De Rouille et d’Os (aka Rust & Bones), Jacques Audiard (2012)

This film was brilliant. Now I just need to find somewhere where I can listen to the soundtrack which was perfect. Also I guess I just had to see Marion Cotillard in the right role to start liking her.

I have no idea what show this is from but I actually have accidentally dropped my phone into my soup. So yeah.

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Favorite artists: J. M. W. Turner (1775 - 1851)

Turner is amazing, I mean look at Colour Beginning, it’s like abstract expressionism over a hundred years early. The way he uses colors is unique. Whenever I see his work it seems to shine and sadly it’s once again the kind of painting that doesn’t transfer well on screen. He’s an artist you have to experience. He’s proving once again that I have an undeniable attraction to impressionism, one that I have no difficulty in admitting to.

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Actress Ruth Negga joins a now officially confirmed Adepero Oduye (Pariah), as well as newly-cast Paul Dano and Scoot McNairy, to the cast list of Steve McQueen’s slave narrative on film, Twelve Years A Slave. 

Based on Solomon Northrup’s non-fictioner, who will be played by star Chiwetel Ejiofor, a once free man, kidnapped and sold into slavery on a Louisiana plantation, in 19th century USA.

Brad Pitt’s Plan B is producing the film, which co-stars Pitt himself, as well as Michael Fassbender, both cast early.

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Yes to all of this. 

This is just getting better and better.

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Bill Murray Leads a Guided Tour of the MOONRISE KINGDOM Set

“But here I am in a cardigan sweater, sitting here in Newport, Rhode Island… living la vida loca.” 

it is what it sounds like, and it is glorious. a bedraggled Bill Murray walks around the house which serves as one of the key locations in Moonrise Kingdom, providing an annotated rundown of the actors involved in the film (re: Tilda Swinton: “she’s tall, she’s Scottish, she’s pretty… she can do whatever she likes”), and… screw it, just watch the thing. also, the movie itself is terrific. it opens friday. see it with your favorite childhood crush.

The cast is as awesome as the film.

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Baisers volés, 1968  (dir. François Truffaut)

Favorite Artists: Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)

I’m drawn to artists who do not shy away from showing the more graphic part of their work. This probably has to do with the fact that I draw as well, I’m the kind of person who loves to look at an artist’s sketchings (and it’s not unusual that I prefer them to the final product cf. Leonardo Da Vinci). What I like about Toulouse-Lautrec is that his art is always in an in between, the lines are strong and present but they still leave plenty of room to the power of color. His work always seems caught in the movement of its making. Each piece is a moment that is finished and yet waiting to be continued.