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After Hillary Clinton's logo broke the Internet, Moving Brands considered a new, logo-less approach in a five-day design sprint.

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The making of Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon. Still photographer: Keith Hamshere.

What is now considered one of Stanley Kubrick’s most accomplished films, as well as an example of innovative, audacious filmmaking at its best, was almost given birth to by accident. After Kubrick’s dream of making Napoleon crumbled into pieces, he used this studious research and shifted his ambitions and talent into William Makepeace Thackeray’s 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon. The story of an unscrupulous Irish scoundrel who marries into high society and advances in the aristocratic society of 18th century England proved an ideal ground for the master to exhibit his storytelling powers. With the significant help of his director of photography John Alcott, Kubrick created a cinematic world that could be most easily described as a moving 18th century painting. Giving its best to avoid using electric sources of artificial light, relying on the illuminating power of candles and natural lighting, investing enormous effort into costume design, Barry Lyndon looks genuine through and through. Moreover, it leaves the impression of actually being comprised of works of art taken down from the walls of some filthily rich British nobleman.

The colors, shading and atmosphere aren’t the only things Barry Lyndon has in common with two-dimensional works of art—the film also appropriates a certain quality of unresponsiveness. It’s somehow distanced from the viewers, it masterfully puts them into the position of an observer in an art gallery, not someone who actively interacts with the screen. Barry Lyndon is detached, cold and to a degree unburdened with the pressure of entertaining an audience. Kubrick, who not only directed but also adapted Thackeray’s satiric novel to produce a sharp, narration-driven script, created a technically breath-taking, arrogantly and recklessly fearless, monumental film over three hours long. The first reactions to it, unfortunately for Kubrick’s peace of mind, perhaps failed to be as enthusiastic as the piece deserved, but decades that followed certainly did Barry justice. All hail Barry Lyndon, an exceptional piece of filmmaking, a masterclass in bringing a unique filmmaker’s vision to life, a work of art only a few others have the quality to measure up to.

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Possibly my favourite Kubrick and one of my all time favourite films.

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Bob Rafelson directs Jack Nicholson and Karen Black in Five Easy Pieces. Still photographer: Bernie Abramson. Arthur Schatz—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images.

The film that turned Bob Rafelson into the leader of the so-called American New Wave, a demonstration of talent and power that established Jack Nicholson as the prime actor of his generation and a beautiful lesson in cinematography that confirmed László Kovács as one of the best directors of photography in the business, Five Easy Pieces is considered to be the quintessential film of the beginning of the seventies. This thoughtful character study offers a thorough portrayal of the alienation and restlessness of the American middle classes, rocked into instability by the shifting, unpredictable political situation and leaders like Nixon who proved to be everything but trustworthy. It was a period of American history when the psychological stability of the nation shifted uncomfortably, when the tension and turbulence gave birth to a social movement of sorts, when the cinematic world capably mirrored these changes with a wave of refreshing, thought-provoking movies that shaped the period’s culture. Rafelson’s film is completely in the spirit of this change: it is a complex, enthralling exploration of American society given shape and substance by perfect performances from both Nicholson and the supporting crew—Karen Black, Sally Ann Struthers, Lois Smith, among others.

The screenplay, devised by Rafelson and Carole Eastman, does a brilliant job at sculpting the personalities that capture our attention and imagination, characters that are so believable and familiar to us, who share our own fears, insecurities and panic, that it’s painlessly easy to become attached to them. The writing is so good it’s surprisingly difficult to shake the story off once the end credits start rolling. Nicholson was, admittedly, excellent in his prior works—Easy Rider, for instance—but it is here that he fully demonstrates his capabilities. Five Easy Pieces is a vital part of an extremely prolific filmmaking decade that is regarded as one of the highest quality, but critical recognition and film theorists’ approval aside, it’s a film with a soul that touches your heart because of its warmth, sincerity and the omnipresent feeling of humanity that glows from the screen from the first scene to the very last.

Bob Rafelson’s ‘Five Easy Pieces’ is the quintessential film of the so-called American New Wave

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Love this film.

A Rare High Altitude Night Flight Above NYC

#nyc #new york city #new york #photography #aerial #helicopter #flight #night #laforet #vincent laforet #altitude

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Satyajit Ray designing, rehearsing, shooting, editing, and scoring his films from the late 1960s through the 1980s as captured by photographer Nemai Ghosh.

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Demo of Beat It composed using only Michael Jackson’s voice

As Jackson couldn’t fluently play any instruments, he would sing and beatbox out how he wanted his songs to sound by himself on tape, layering the vocals, harmonies and rhythm before having instrumentalists come in to complete the songs.

One of his engineers Robmix on how Jackson worked: “One morning MJ came in with a new song he had written overnight. We called in a guitar player, and Michael sang every note of every chord to him. “here’s the first chord first note, second note, third note. Here’s the second chord first note, second note, third note”, etc., etc. We then witnessed him giving the most heartfelt and profound vocal performance, live in the control room through an SM57. He would sing us an entire string arrangement, every part. Steve Porcaro once told me he witnessed MJ doing that with the string section in the room. Had it all in his head, harmony and everything. Not just little eight bar loop ideas. he would actually sing the entire arrangement into a micro-cassette recorder complete with stops and fills.”

Reasons why I laugh when people say he wasn’t a real musician.

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Breathless

#movie #film #jean-luc godard #breathless #jean seberg

Pegleg turned 1 today!

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La Pointe Courte (dir. Agnès Varda - 1955) Persona (dir. Ingmar Bergman - 1966) Love and Death (dir. Woody Allen - 1975) Mulholland Dr. (dir. David Lynch - 2001)

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So cool.

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See the complete list on MUBI

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Adrian Curry's best movie posters of the year

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Gorgeous poster for Krzysztof Kieslowski's A Short Film About Love (Part VI of The Decalogue) I think it was five or six years ago I asked polishposter.com to let me know when they got an original of this poster in stock and they finally emailed me back yesterday. Guess this means I have to buy it?