Glass tears (1932)

Glass tears (1932)
Les Larmes
Artist: Man Ray
Gallery: Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA
Looking almost like a film still, this cropped photograph demonstrates Man Ray's interest in cinematic narrative. The model's eyes and mascara-coated lashes are looking upward, invoking the viewers to wonder where she's looking and what is the source of her distress. The piece was created soon after the artist's break-up with his assistant and lover, Lee Miller. Ray created multiple works in an attempt to "break her up" as a revenge on a lover who left him (similar to Indestructible Object).
The model is in fact not a real woman but a fashion mannequin with glass bead tears on the cheeks. Here, again, Man Ray is exploring his interest in the real and unreal by challenging the meaning of still-life photography.

Warning Shadows (1923)

Warning Shadows (1923)
Schatten - Eine nächtliche Halluzination (original title)
90 min



Director: Arthur Robison
Writers: Arthur Robison, Rudolf Schneider
Stars: Alexander Granach, Max Gülstorff, Lilli Herder

Country: Germany
Silent

During a dinner, given by a wealthy baron and his wive, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the marriage by giving all the guests a vision what might happen tonight if the baron stays jealous and the suitors do not reduce their advances towards his beautiful wife. Or was it a vision ? Written by Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>

Ivan's Childhood (1962)

Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Ivanovo detstvo (original title)
84 min

Director: Andrey Tarkovskiy
Writers: Vladimir Bogomolov (story), Mikhail Papava, Vladimir Bogomolov (screenplay)
Stars: Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov

Country: Soviet Union
Language: Russian




Ivan's Childhood (Russian: Ива́ново де́тство, Ivanovo detstvo), sometimes released as My Name Is Ivan in the US, is a 1962 Soviet film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. It is based on the 1957 short story Ivan (Russian: Иван) by Vladimir Bogomolov, with the screenplay written by Mikhail Papava and an uncredited Andrei Tarkovsky. The film features child actor Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov, Stepan Krylov, Nikolai Grinko and Tarkovsky's wife Irma Raush.
The film tells the story of orphan boy Ivan and his experiences during World War II. Ivan's Childhood was one of several Soviet films of its period, such as The Cranes Are Flying and Ballad of a Soldier, that looked at the human cost of war and did not glorify the war experience as did films produced before the Khrushchev Thaw.
Ivan's Childhood was Tarkovsky's first feature film. It won him critical acclaim and made him internationally known. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1962 and the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 1962. The film was also selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 36th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Famous filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman, Sergei Parajanov and Krzysztof Kieślowski praised the film and cited it as an influence on their work.(Wikipedia)

Rating: 100% (Rotten Tomatoes)

Turkish Delight (1973)

Turkish Delight (1973)
Turks fruit
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Writers: Gerard Soeteman, Jan Wolkers (novel)
Stars: Monique van de Ven, Rutger Hauer, Tonny Huurdeman
Country: Netherlands
Language: Dutch  | English

Sort of a cross between "Love Story" and an earthy Rembrandt painting, this movie stars Rutger Hauer as a gifted Dutch sculptor who has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young girl. The story follows the arc of their relationship and his interaction with her family. Told in flashback form, initially Hauer is seen as a libertine lothario collector, taking trophies from his sexual conquests and pasting them in a book. He sees a sculpture he made of his lost lover and goes into a flashback of his relationship with his wife. He meets the girl, falls in love with/marries her, and we meet her parents: a charming, well meaning, bumbling father, and his shrew of a wife, who's convinced Hauer's too much of a bohemian to make a good mate for her daughter. Eventually, the petty jealousies, the sexual hijinks, and the climactic vomit scene prove too much for the marriage, and sculptor and his lady fair separate. Flash forward several months, and Hauer finds the girl back... Written by <cfidalgo@intrex.net>

Trans-Europ-Express (1967)

Trans-Europ-Express (1967)
105 min


Director: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Writer: Alain Robbe-Grillet
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marie-France Pisier, Nadine Verdier


Country: France | Belgium
Language: French


Trans-Europ-Express is a 1966 film written and directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Marie-France Pisier. The title refers to the Trans Europ Express, a former international rail network in Europe.
The film has been variously described as an erotic thriller, a mystery, and a film-within-a-film. Also in the cast were Nadine Verdier, Christian Barbier, Charles Millot, Catherine Robbe-Grillet, and the director. The protagonist is Elias (Trintignant) who is on a dope running errand from Paris to Antwerp by the train which gives the film its title. The director appears as himself in some sequences which are intercut with the action in which Elias is involved. The relationship between Elias and Eva (Marie-France Pisier) involves elements of erotic fantasy.
Screenwriter Robert McKee classifies Trans-Europ-Express as a "nonplot" film, that is, a film that does not tell a story.(Wikipedia)

Full Beauty Project

Full Beauty Project
Photographer: Yossi Loloi

Artist's Statement:

In my work I portray what larger women represent to me. I focus on their fullness and femininity, as a form of protest against discrimination set by media and by today’s society.
What larger women embody to me is simply a different form of beauty. I believe we own ‘freedom of taste’ and one shouldn’t be reluctant of expressing his inclination towards it. Limiting this freedom is living in a dictatorship of aesthetics.
I believe there are several ways to what is perceived as beauty, it is not measurable and has not got a standard size.
I photograph my models nude and serene, to create a comfortable, proud and constructive representation of themselves in front of the viewer.

To My Betrothed (1911)

To My Betrothed (1911)
Artist: Marc Chagall
Russia
Place of Creation: Paris, France

In 'To my Betrothed', painted at the same time (time he painted Interior II), Chagall evolved a more contemporary approach to the same subject, though in the treatment of sexuality this painting is once again archetypal. Here, the full vitality of the subject is developed (albeit the compositional structure is distinguished by its total tranquillity within the terms of the visual medium): the woman twines about the shoulders of the bull-headed man like a snake, spitting into his face, while the man, with every appearance of calmness, grasps at her leg with a gesture that suggests desire rather than defence. The tale and its symbolic content are inseparable. They have become this way not only through the unity of human and animal, but particularly through the woman's radial movement, a demonstration of power which seems impossible for the man to escape from. If 'Interior II' could still be viewed as a harmless genre scene, that was no longer feasible now. Indeed, it was only after protracted argument that Chagall was allowed to exhibit this painting at the 1912 spring salon at all. He was accused of painting pornography. What gave this picture its bold suggestiveness was the simple compositional variation of arranging the motifs in circular form about a centre rather than stringing them in one linear direction. It was a procedure Chagall had learnt from Cubism. In fact, Cubism was to solve many of Chagall's early technical problems.(Chagall By Ingo F. Walther, Rainer Metzger)

The Slut (2011)

The Slut (2011)
87 min

Director: Hagar Ben-Asher
Writer: Hagar Ben-Asher (screenplay)
Stars: Hagar Ben-Asher, Ishai Golan, Icho Avital

Country: Israel | Germany
Language: Hebrew

Tamar, 35, a beautiful young woman, lives alone with her two daughters. She can't restrain her sexual appetite and gives herself to several men of the village. Shai, a young veterinary, just moved in the region and soon falls under the spell of Tamar. They quickly become lovers but will Tamar be satisfied with only one partner? (IMDB)

Peruvannapurathe Visheshangal (1989)

Peruvannapurathe Visheshangal (1989)

Director: Kamal
Writers: Kamal (story), Renjith (screenplay)
Stars: Jayaram, Parvathi, Jagathi Sreekumar
Music, BGM: Johnson


Country: India
Language: Malayalam

Peruvannapurathe Visheshangal (Malayalam: പെരുവണ്ണാപുരത്തെ വിശേഷങ്ങള്‍) is a 1989 Malayalam film directed by Kamal and written by Ranjith. The film starred Jayaram and Parvathi. Mohanlal makes a cameo role.(Wikipedia)

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Kisses

Kisses

Woman kissing a soldier returning from World War II, London, 1940

Last Kiss, California, 1950

Last Kiss in Seattle, 1948

British soldiers say goodbye to their loved ones at Feltham Station in London, going to Egypt, 1935 

Millard Dean Boyett kisses his wife 
Irene with fervor as their 10-month-old daughter Rita Sue

PFC Millard Dean Boyett kisses his wife Irene with fervor as their 10-month-old daughter Rita Sue hugs his leg as he leaves to fight in the Korean War in 1950.

Times photo by Langston McEachern

New York, 1945 - Actress Marlene Dietrich is hoisted up to kiss a GI as he arrives home from World War II.

Sailor kissing girl during blackout, Seattle, 1941

Departure of the Amerigo Vespucci, Egypt (1963)

Departure of the Amerigo Vespucci, Egypt (1963)

The Amerigo Vespucci is a tall ship of the Marina Militare, named after the explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Its home port is Livorno, Italy, and it is in use as a school ship.(Wikipedia)

Flagpole Wedding (1946)

Flagpole Wedding (1946)
Photographer: Allan Grant

Vous n'avez encore rien vu (2012)

Vous n'avez encore rien vu (2012)

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!

115 min


Director: Alain Resnais
Writers: Alain Resnais, Laurent Herbiet, and
Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma,Anne Consigny

Country: France | Germany
Language: French


You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet! (French: Vous n'avez encore rien vu) is a 2012 French-German film directed by Alain Resnais, and loosely based on two plays by Jean Anouilh. The film was shown in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d’Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play “Eurydice.” These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. During the screening, Antoine’s friends are so overwhelmed by their memories of the play that they start performing it together, despite no longer being the appropriate age for their various roles.(Wikipedia)

The Blind (1913)

The Blind (1913)
Artist: Egon Schiele
Completion Date: 1913
Place of Creation: Vienna, Austria
Style: Expressionism
Genre: portrait
Technique: oil

Farewell, My Queen (2012)

Farewell, My Queen (2012)
Les adieux à la reine (original title)
100 min

Director: Benoît Jacquot
Writers: Benoît Jacquot (scenario), Gilles Taurand (scenario), Chantal Thomas (novel)
Stars: Diane Kruger, Léa Seydoux, Virginie Ledoyen Country: France | Spain
Country: France | Spain
Language: French  | English  | German  | Italian


Farewell, My Queen (French: Les Adieux à la reine) is a 2012 French drama film directed by Benoît Jacquot and based on the novel of the same name by Chantal Thomas, who won the Prix Femina in 2002. It gives a fictional account of the last days of Marie Antoinette in power seen through the eyes of Sidonie Laborde, a young servant who reads aloud to the queen. The film stars Diane Kruger as the Queen, Léa Seydoux, and Virginie Ledoyen.
It opened the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012 and has subsequently been screened at other festivals. Its release date was 21 March 2012 in France.(Wikipedia)

Rating: 94% (Rotten Tomatoes)

The Shining (1980)

The Shining (1980)
146 min

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writers: Stephen King (novel), Stanley Kubrick (screenplay)
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd

Country: UK | USA
Language: English

A man, his son and wife become the winter caretakers of an isolated hotel where Danny, the son, sees disturbing visions of the hotel's past using a telepathic gift known as "The Shining". The father, Jack Torrance, is underway in a writing project when he slowly slips into insanity as a result of cabin fever and former guests of the hotel's ghosts. After being convinced by a waiter's ghost to "correct" the family, Jack goes completely insane. The only thing that can save Danny and his mother is "The Shining". Written by ipreach4ever(IMDB)

Amour (2012)

Amour (2012)
127 min

Director: Michael Haneke
Writer: Michael Haneke (screenplay)
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert

Country: France | Germany | Austria
Language: French  | English

Amour is a 2012 French-language drama film written and directed by the Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert. The narrative focuses on an elderly couple, Anne and Georges, who are retired music teachers with a daughter who lives abroad. Anne suffers a stroke which paralyses her on one side of her body.(Wikipedia)

Rating: 93% (Rotten Tomatoes)

AWARDS

Palme d'Or: Cannes 2012
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