Monday, September 14, 2015

Werner Herzog: 24 Life Lessons for Filmmakers

1. Always take the initiative.

2. There is nothing wrong with spending a night in jail if it means getting the shot you need.

3. Send out all your dogs and one might return with prey.

4. Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief.

5. Learn to live with your mistakes.

6. Expand your knowledge and understanding of music and literature, old and modern.

7. That roll of unexposed celluloid you have in your hand might be the last in existence, so do something impressive with it.

8. There is never an excuse not to finish a film.

9. Carry bolt cutters everywhere.

10. Thwart institutional cowardice.

11. Ask for forgiveness, not permission.

12. Take your fate into your own hands.

13. Learn to read the inner essence of a landscape.

14. Ignite the fire within and explore unknown territory.

15. Walk straight ahead, never detour.

16. Manoeuvre and mislead, but always deliver.

17. Don't be fearful of rejection.

18. Develop your own voice.

19. Day one is the point of no return.

20. A badge of honor is to fail a film theory class.

21. Chance is the lifeblood of cinema.

22. Guerrilla tactics are best.

23. Take revenge if need be.

24. Get used to the bear behind you.


Hat-Tip: Phawker.com

Monday, September 7, 2015

FLP Dvds Checked Out

Movies Viewed 8/1 - 9/6

(*) Michael Clayton

(*) Boyhood

(*) American Hustle

(*) The American

(*) Brazil

(*) Zero Dark Thirty

(*) The Hangover

(*) Full Metal Jacket

(*) Drive

(*) The Ice Storm

(*) Moon

(*) Trading Places

(*) Frost/Nixon

(*) Repo Man

(*) The Diving Bell & The Butterfly

(*) Amadeus

(*) Whiplash

(*) St. Vincent

(*) The Imitation Game

(*) The Monuments Men

(*) A Late Quartet

(*) Nightcrawler

(*) The Master

(*) Dallas Buyers Club

(*) Lincoln

(*) Gone Girl

(*) Lone Survivor

(*) Fury

(*) The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

(*) The Wolf of Wall Street

(*) Sudden Impact

(*) Nebraska

(*) Slaughterhouse-Five

(*) Once

(*) The Informant!

(*) Schindler’s List

(*) Frank Miller’s Sin City

(*) Gran Torino

(*) High & Low by Akira Kurosawa

(*) David Lynch’s Inland Empire

(*) Midnight Cowboy

(*) Pan’s Labyrinth

(*) Paradise Now

(*) This Is The End

(*) Walk The Line

(*) Rosewater

(*) Argo

(*) 3:10 To Yuma

(*) Edge Of Tomorrow

(*) What’s In A Name?

(*) Lost In Translation

(*) Gravity

(*) What We Do In The Shadows

(*) The King’s Speech

(*) Our Idiot Brother

(*) The Equalizer

(*) Inside Llewyn Davis

(*) Django Unchained

(*) Inglourious Basterds

(*) Dracula Untold

(*) Cloverfield

(*) Lost Highway

(*) The Reader

(*) The Darjeeling Limited

(*) The Theory Of Everything

(*) Broken Flowers

(*) Being There

(*) Apocalypse Now - Redux

(*) Blade Runner - The Final Cut

(*) Exit Through the Gift Shop

(*) Citizen Four

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Current Bedside Books

(*) Conversations with David Foster Wallace, edited by Stephen Burn

(*) A Cultural Dictionary Of Punk 1974-1982, edited by Nicholas Rombes

Monday, August 3, 2015

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

CDs Stored @Sister's Home Circa Year 2004
& Recently Rediscovered



...Also In Storage - Assisted Ready-Made of Marcel Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q. (Playing Card Version)...


Sunday, July 19, 2015

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Backporch: Butterfly & Fan


Tuesday, July 14th, 3:30pm

Saturday, July 4, 2015

e pluribus unum


Recording

Wikipedia: Bob Dylan began to record the Blonde on Blonde album in New York in October 1965. Frustrated by the slow progress in the studio, Dylan agreed to the suggestion of his producer Bob Johnston and moved to Columbia's A Studio on Music Row, Nashville, Tennessee, in February 1966. Bringing with him Robbie Robertson on guitar and Al Kooper on keyboards, Dylan commenced recording with the cream of Nashville session players.

On February 15, the session began at 6 p.m., but Dylan simply sat in the studio working on his lyrics,while the musicians played cards, napped, and chatted. Finally, at 4 a.m., Dylan called the musicians in and outlined the structure of the song.Dylan counted off and the musicians fell in, as he attempted his epic composition, "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands". Drummer Kenny Buttrey recalled, "If you notice that record, that thing after like the second chorus starts building and building like crazy, and everybody's just peaking it up 'cause we thought, Man, this is it...This is gonna be the last chorus and we've gotta put everything into it we can. And he played another harmonica solo and went back down to another verse and the dynamics had to drop back down to a verse kind of feel...After about ten minutes of this thing we're cracking up at each other, at what we were doing. I mean, we peaked five minutes ago. Where do we go from here?" The finished song clocked in at 11 minutes, 23 seconds, and would occupy the entire fourth side of the album. Four takes of the song were completed, but were mainly rehearsals; take 2 is also interrupted.

Monday, June 29, 2015

Atlantic Ocean Trek


Turtle hatchling making it's way to Atlantic Ocean. Filmed at Indialantic Beach, Fla on Monday, June 29, 2015 at 7:30 pm

Hat-Tip: Kathryn Ballett & Charlton Labelle