Back in the 90s Steve Jobs complained most poignantly about Microsoft’s absolute lack of appreciation for the world’s need for beauty and then wagered that style must be content at a value of $324 billion and counting. dg

(via worlds best films)

25 movies that taught me how to live

rebel without a cause

fallen angels

taxi driver

samurai spy

irma vep

california split 

scarface

forty guns

the eclipse

citizen kane

city lights

punch-drunk love

do the right thing

they all laughed

the wild bunch

masculine feminine

in a year with 13 moons

a woman under the influence

sweet smell of success

odds against tomorrow

lawrence of arabia

bad timing

buffalo 66

annie hall

the fury

dg

my favorite records tapes CDs of 2011

Wit’s End

Badlands

We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves

James Blake

Zonoscope

He Gets Me High

Kaputt

Bad as Me

Coastal Grooves

Hurry Up, I’m Dreaming

My Sofia Vergara Vanity Fair video just launched. 

Sofia’s resemblance to Sophia Loren inspired the video’s heightened cinematic style. The video moves between black-and-white and color to evoke both classic and modern style, the iconic and the here and now. 

The track in the video is ”Eclisse Twist” by Mina. Antonioni used the song in the 1962 film L’eclisse with Monica Vitti and Alain Delon. In Italy, Mina was known as the Queen of Screamers, and the Tiger of Cremona. There is so much drama and desire in the raw power of her voice. Perfect soundtrack for Sofia. dg

The Runner (d. Ana Lazarevic) is a 2012 Student Academy Award nominee, and an official selection of the 2011 New York Film Festival. The film premiered at a sold out screening at the IFC Center in April, screened at the DGA Theater on May 6, at an industry panel at Creative Arts Agency in Los Angeles on June 8, and at 20th Century Fox on June 9.

The Runner is a Serbian language film. I edited the picture without reading script and without subtitles, which was a challenge considering I don’t speak Serbian. The process of cutting a movie without being able to understand the dialogue was a revelation. It forced me to focus on what was really happening between people, to listen to what the characters say with their eyes, faces and body language, and to prioritize the energy of the images and emotions on screen. The Runner taught me once and for all that a movie is something that happens between the lines. 

dg

I remember thinking how I had never seen a film like Edward Scissorhands when I first watched it in 1990. It was unique cinema that felt like pure magic. The bizarre beauty of the film and the gentle hero with his lethally sharp scissorhands stayed with me through out the years. Looking back, after almost 20 years, I now understand better the fierce longing and intense loneliness that the film had stirred in me. -Joan Chen, the Elizabeth Taylor of China/the Josie Packard of my dreams

(via burning flame)

There was never any more inception than there is now, nor any more youth or age than there is now, and will never be any more perfection than there is now. -Walt Whitman a.k.a. the man

11 songs

I fell in love with 

in 2011:

James Blake “I Never Learnt to Share” - non narrative

Blood Orange “Dinner” - revenge fantasy

Cass McCombs “County Line” - love story

Cults “You Know What I Mean” - teen melodrama

Cut Copy “Need You Now” - period piece

Death Grips “Takyon (Death Yon)” - horror

Deerhoof “Super Rescue Heads!” - superhero

Destroyer “Chinatown” - b movie

Dirty Beaches “Lord Knows Best” - noir

Light Asylum “Dark Allies - sci fi

Tyler, the Creator “Yonkers” - neo realism

-dg

I have eyes like those of a dead pig. marlon brando

via radiocentraal

 

via cup of jo