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The top left is Korean Pumpkin.
Stephen Bowers, “Explorers’ Skulls” 2010, ceramic, underglaze, stains, 5.25″.
David Shrigley –
Previous post, see the Philosopher here.
Bathroom, Guns and Hitler in Blue and White here.
Syria, Refugees series – more Quin Fua here.
Nise da Silveira was a Brazilian psychiatrist, student of Carl Jung.
She devoted her life to psychiatry and never was in agreement with the aggressive forms of treatment of her time such as commitment to psychiatric hospitals, electroshock, insulin therapy and lobotomy.In 1952 she founded the Museum of Images of the Unconscious, in Rio de Janeiro, a study and research center that collected the works produced in painting and modeling studios. Through her work, Nise da Silveira introduced Jungian psychology in Brazil.
Nise “The Matter of Heart” trailer here.
Gloria Pires was actually Berliner’s second choice for the lead, even though her performance turned out to be exactly what he wanted. Pires is one of the most famous actresses in Brazil and is the only big name in the film, because, said Berliner, the filmmaking team went to great lengths to cast actors who were mostly unknown.
The movie, full of characters behaving erratically, could easily have taken on the aura of a freak show, but the director, Roberto Berliner, somehow stays respectful of the subject matter even while depicting extreme psychiatric conditions. It’s a study of courageous innovation against an entrenched medical orthodoxy.
“Our job is to cure patients, not comfort them,” one colleague chastises.
“My instrument is a brush,” Dr. Silveira replies curtly. “Yours is an ice pick.”
Nise: The Heart of Madness
Gloria Pires played a Brazilian architect and a lover of Elizabeth Bishop in Reaching for the Moon. (Previous post – see the trailer)
Lisa Yang and Chang Chen
A Brighter Summer Day a 4 hours film directed by Edward Yang
(Chen Chang born on born 14 October 1976)
Chang Kuo-Chu, and his son Chang Chen (in his debut) are both cast in this film playing father and son.
(Three Times)
Winners at Cannes 2015 – Hou Hsiao Hsien for directing the Aassassin.
Eros -Wong Kar Wai (Gong Li and Chen Chang)
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Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon directed by Ang Lee. (Chan Cheng and Zhang Zheyi have made many films together including The Grandmasters since then.)
Chen was directed by Kim Ki Duk in Breath (his only Korean film)
More photos of him at Pinterest.
Jean Rochefort with Delphine Seyrig and Simone Signoret
Lost in La Mancha’s Jean Rochefort, veteran French actor, dies at 87
Rochefort, who scored a major international success in The Hairdresser’s Husband, was also cast as Don Quixote in Terry Gilliam’s ill-fated Cervantes adaptation
On his return to Paris, he started performing in cabaret and in plays, on stage and on television. In 1960, with Delphine Seyrig, Rochefort appeared in a number of plays primarily by British playwrights, including Harold Pinter, James Saunders and Peter Nichols, but from 1970 he devoted himself almost entirely to films.
Man on the Train (with Johnny Hallyday) directed by Patrice Leconte.
Ridicule was also directed by Patrice Leconte.
Jean Rochefort – who loved horses complained how Terry Gillium starved the horse when he was filming.. from here.
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Andrew Garfield and Kazuo Ishiguro
See an excerpt from Never Let Me Go (Previous post – scroll down)
Congratulations! Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel Prize.
The Inevitable sadness of Kazuo Ishiguro’s fiction from the Conversation.
The New Yorker (James Wood) Wood loves “Never Let Me Go” and his early novels – saying Ishiguro has supremely done
his own kind of thing.
“The author’s subtlety and coolness are fascinating,” wrote Patricia Highsmith
Ishiguro attended British boarding schools and took time off, in 1973, to hitchhike across the U.S. with his guitar. He studied philosophy and literature at the University of Kent, when he sang and played in a band, and then got a master’s in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Steeped in the idealistic social movements of the 1960s and ’70s, he worked for several years helping the homeless and on housing rights.
The Remains of the Day 
Toyota brake pad talk show. (My old web art from Post Mutant Eggplant)
Kazuo Ishiguro, a Nobel Winner Whose Characters Are Caught Between Worlds
Anne with 
Donkey
Anne Wiazemsky
(14 May 1947 – 5 October 2017)
Through her mother, she was the granddaughter of François Mauriac.
She and Godard were married from 1967 to 1979
Anne W worked with Pasolini in Theorema.
As Godard’s wife and star, she went on to share with him the turbulent adventure of France’s political self-questioning in the late 60s, but it would be a disservice to portray her merely as a key supporting player in the convoluted epic that was Godard’s life. As well as chalking up several important screen roles over three decades, Wiazemsky triumphantly created a new career, becoming a successful novelist – her 1993 work Canines won the prestigious Prix Goncourt.
Anne Wiazemsky co- scripted US Go Home with Claire Denis – see the film here.
Anne’s relationship with Bresson was complicated.
Anne Wiazemsky was 18 when Robert Bresson entered her life. She was cast as Marie in his 1966 movie, Au Hasard Balthazar, and the director promptly became obsessed with his teenage leading lady. “Bresson always had a very close relationship with his actresses during filming. But in my case, he pushed the experience to the extreme,” she says. “For a month and a half, we lived under the same roof with adjoining bedrooms and he never let me out of his sight.”
Tulip Fever receiving bad reviews.
Alicia Vikander won the best actress first in Sweden in “Pure” (previous post)
Alicia Vikander – birthday Oct 3, 1988
Christoph Waltz – birthday Oct 4, 1956
Christoph Waltz interviewed by Colbert (Hilarious)
Playboyinterview – Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz called Tarantino movies “operas without singing…”
QUESTION :What’s the most memorable experience Tarantino has shared with you recently?
Apart from movies I otherwise wouldn’t have seen, one of the most interesting things he showed me was a compilation of trailers he put together of teenage-rebel movies of the 1950s. It was like a cultural history of teenage rebellion and rock-and-roll culture. It was fascinating. It was probably better than watching the entire movies because you get the big highlights without having to experience the scenes in between—in which nothing happens anyway.
On Roman Polanski
I spent three fabulous months with Roman. I like his directness and sharp, sarcastic sense of humor. His precision in moviemaking is beyond words. He’s a grand master, even though he is one of the short guys. My view of him is tolerant and understanding of the man he is today.
On therapy
A perfect argument for therapy is Einstein’s quote “You can’t solve a problem by the same thinking that produced it.”
On studying under Stella Adler
with Stella Adler, which was the one crucial, eye-opening, pivotal experience in all my training. With Stella a world opened up for me.
Christopher Waltz is directing himself and Vanessa Redgrave in Georgetown.
