Firstly, I hate people who reblog things on tumblr and then don't give me credit. I have never been one to care about how many friends I had on my myspace, or facebook or twitter or live journal or even this blog in all honestly or any other social networking site that is more a popularity contest than anything else. Tumblr however is different. I really really care how many followers I have. I think it is because I want as many people to see my "art" or as it be, screencaps. I work hard on there them screencaps, much like art I would imagine.... Really in all seriousness I just want other people to acknowledge that what I find ascetically pleasing, or amusing or beautiful or grossly disturbing makes them feel the same way. This is my tumblr anyway in case you are really intrigued or feel sorry for me and my blatant plug to look and reblog stuff from it.
My screencap now reblogged 13 times without its proper recognision, repsect my art people!
As my boyfriend is a film philistine, I have found myself been re watching the films that I think everyone should watch, cult classics, and some actual best films of all time, al over the past 18 months or so. There are too many to mention, but in the last two weeks we have watched Goodfellas, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Ringu, and Amelie/Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain Amelie is such a cliche to write about but when I first saw it I was so taken aback it was amazing. The running round gay Paris looking for the love of my life wasn't what got me really, it was the amazing cinematography, and the magical feeling the film gave off. As I like to do, I will then watch everything a director has ever made, produced or written. I wasn't aware that my favourite Alien film - Alien Resurrection was made by the same director. It kind of made sense, he manages to capture a lost world, apocalypse, but with all these amazing new gadgets, and technology but utter darkness and this desolate feeling. Everything has this green tinge to it. There is a bit in the film where the spaceship commander gets a cube and has this little thing that melts it into a perfect measure of whiskey. Fuck me first time I saw that I thought it was the coolest thing ever. They all wore new rocks and Ron Perlman and Winona Ryder just being superbly cool in it. After that I watched Delicatessen which is an amazing film about a post apocalyptic world and a landlord and delicacies he makes his tenants and all the lives of the tenants. Then I watched the best, all time Marc Caro/Jean-Pierre Jeunet Marc film, La Cité des enfants perdus or The City of Lost Children.
Steampunk-esque bad guys with mechanical eyes I can only assume created by the child catcher
There is nothing like this film. It has bits of Amelie, Alien and Delicatessen in but just a million times better. Also the CGI and special effects that was used when the film was made in 1995, has not aged at all. All of the costumes were made by Jean Paul Gaultier, Ron Perlman speaks french and wears the most amazing waist clinching sailor trousers and stripey grungey jumper looking elegant and fitting of the world where blind totalitarianist's with mechanical child searching eyes and countless other quirky gadgets rule. All for the purpose of an old oil rig which is the home of a talking brain, tiny midget princess, countless narcoleptic clones and an evil bald headed leader who is incapable of dreaming. The girl, oh god the girl who I assume is still by far prettier than Audrey Tautou would ever be. The relationship between Ron Perlmans character "One" and the little girl called "Miette" or Crumb as it translates, is utterly romantic and at the same time disturbing, reminiscent of Luc Bessons Leon. The cinematography alone is worth watching, I am unable to get the green colour of the water of the docks out of my head.
One and Miette being slightly paedo, bloody awesome french film directors always make you feel uncomfortable with things like this
I recommend this film to anyone. Well I did recommend this film to people but the apparent issue of "subtitles" made the people refrain from watching it. Really, in this day and age where people text, browse the Internet and whatever else at the same time as watching TV, not watching a film because "you cannot be bothered to read the subtitles" or "i can't read and watch a film at the same time" is BULLSHIT. I was totally flummoxed when I heard this recently, the amount of amazing films you are missing out on because of subtitles?! My town is a very very scary place.
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