Kirsanoff:
I watched a truly great film yesterday. It's the 1926 French silent picture Ménilmontant by Russian director Dimitri Kirsanoff. I had never heard of the movie or its director before seeing it, but I feel like I should have.
If you're looking for a point of reference I'd compare it to David Lynch or Luis Bunuel.
It belongs in the pantheon. As soon as it was over I knew I needed to see it again.
Unfortunately, as is often the case with silent films, the distributors inserted a mediocre soundtrack over the image. Oh well.
Buy it here.
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Friedlander:
In New York last year I went to a bunch of art galleries. The big ones everybody goes to. At one of them I saw a photograph that haunted me. But I forgot what it was called or who took it, so I've spent the last half year longing to see the image, to no avail.
Yesterday I found it by accident, while doing research again. The photographer is Lee Friedlander, and it's called 'Self-Portrait'. I like Friedlander a lot more than Elliott Erwitt. A lot a lot.
Here's the image (click on it to enlarge it):
Incredible, right?! Check out more here.
3 comments:
quite a choice for a self-portrait.
my word verifications have been pseudo-words lately. yesterday somewhere, crazily enough, it was "slipshot". my word here is "fregra".
Quite a choice indeed.
I've been getting my share of pseudo-words lately too. I wonder if the verification technology is evolving? I know some word verifiers get you to type in words scanned from really old books -thus saving people the effort of having to retype the books themselves.
I feel honoured - I started an unlikely conversation
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