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The Cousin's Dogs: John Beineix & Bond Forger

John Beineix is Robbie's Golden Retriever who had accompanied him since he was two years old, right after his grandfather found out that he could speak to animals. He was a newborn puppy when the Beineix adopted him. Robbie often asked him whether there were any other animals nearby who needed their help or not. In the TV show which featured them, John told Robbie about some stray kittens, whom they rescued right away.

Bond Forger is Anya's Great Pyrenees whom she adopted when she was six years old as a reward for getting her first Stella Stars. Different from John who's just an ordinary dog, Bond is a special dog who can see the future...

Alright, probably Bond's description is just like a retelling of his canon description, but in this crossover, just like Anya's ability to read minds, Bond's ability to see the future is naturally developed in his huge body, as he's a white animal who originally came from the witch world (if you watch Ojamajo Doremi, just think of him as a white animal from the witch world like Hana's white elephant, Pao). The headcanon is that all of the white animals from the witch world have various special abilities which brings luck to their caretaker. In this crossover, Bond escaped from the witch world by crossing a gate near the venue of the adoption event that Yor and Anya were attending to.

So there wasn't any bomb terror in this AU and they just casually adopted Bond. Simple as that.

Even so, he did often warn Anya about any important moment which will happen soon (I already wrote a fanfic in FFn where he told Anya that Majo Tourbillion would visit them the next day... I probably will translate it into English and upload it into AO3 later). He also let Anya ride him like a horse until she was heavy enough for him to carry, just like what happened in the series. Basically, he's still Anya's 'partner in crime' in this crossover.

In conclusion, each of the cousins have a special partnership with their own dog and it's wonderful.

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DECEMBER Quentin Oliver Lee - Dec. 1 (Stage Actor) Gaylord Perry - Dec. 1 (Baseball Player) Yoshio Kikugawa - Dec. 2 (Soccer Player) Ursula Hayden - Dec. 3 (Wrestler) Paul Broughton - Dec. 3 (Rugby Coach) Jim Kolbe - Dec. 3 (Politician) Bob McGrath - Dec. 4 (TV Actor) Pablo Puente Buces - Dec. 4 (Religious Leader) June Blair - Dec. 4 (Model) **Kirstie Alley - Dec. 5 (TV Actress) Mills Lane - Dec. 6 (Referee) Antonio D'Amico - Dec. 6 (Fashion Designer) Jet Black - Dec. 6 (Drummer) Helen Slayton-Hughes - Dec. 7 (Movie Actress) Barbara Thore - Dec. 7 (Family Member) *Whitney Way Thore's Mother* Yoshishige Yoshida - Dec. 8 (Director) Chas Newby - Dec. 8 (Movie Actor) Ronnie Turner - Dec. 8 (Movie Actor) Ruth Madoc - Dec. 9 (TV Actress) Jovit Baldivino - Dec. 9 (Pop Singer) Georgia Holt - Dec. 10 (Family Member) *Cher's Mother* Paul Silas - Dec. 10 (Basketball Player) Grant Wahl - Dec. 10 (Journalist) Angelo Badalamenti - Dec. 11 (Composer) Stuart Margolin - Dec. 12 (TV Actor) Ali Dulin aka AlidSpiceXO - Dec. 12 (TikTok Star) Mike Leach - Dec. 12 (Football Player) **Stephen "tWitch" Boss - Dec. 13 (Dancer) Grand Daddy I.U. - Dec. 13 (Rapper) Ronnie Turner - Dec. 13 (Movie Actor) Kim Simmonds - Dec. 13 (Guitarist) Dino Danelli - Dec. 15 (Drummer) Stephanie Bissonnette - Dec. 17 (Stage Actress) Phil Urban - Dec. 17 (BasketBall Player) Mike Hodges - Dec. 17 (Director) Jamie Lopez - Dec. 18 (Reality Star) Wim Henderickx - Dec. 18 (Composer) Terry Hall - Dec. 18 (Rock Singer) Lando Buzzanca - Dec. 18 (Stage Actor) Sonya Eddy - Dec. 19 (TV Actress) Tom Browning - Dec. 19 (Baseball Player) Quinn Redeker - Dec. 20 (TV Actor) Franco Harris - Dec. 20 (Football Player) Ronnie Hillman - Dec. 21 (Football Player) Diane McBain - Dec. 21 (TV Actress) Pedro Paulo Rangel - Dec. 21 (Soap Opera Actor) Stephan Bonnar - Dec. 22 (MMA Fighter) Big Scarr - Dec. 22 (Rapper) Thom Bell - Dec. 22 (Soul Singer) Ronan Vibert - Dec. 22 (TV Actor) Dax Tejera - Dec. 23 (Executive Producer) Eric Mumford - Dec. 23 (Family Member) *Lynn Toler's Husband* Maxi Jazz - Dec. 23 (Soul Singer) Philippe Streiff - Dec. 23 (Race Car Driver) Tunisha Sharma - Dec. 24 (TV Actress) John Bird - Dec. 24 (Comedian) Bob Penny - Dec. 25 (Movie Actor) Kevin Payne - Dec. 25 (Soccer Player) Joseph “Jo Mersa” Marley - Dec. 27 (Reggae Singer) Shawn Wolfe - Dec. 27 (Adult Actor) Guy East - Dec. 27 (Family Member) *Andrew East's Father* Agne Jagelaviciute - Dec. 28 (Fashion Designer) Ruggero Deodato - Dec. 29 (Director) Pele - Dec. 29 (Soccer Player) Vivienne Westwood - Dec. 29 (Fashion Designer) Keenan Cahill - Dec. 29 (YouTube Star) Jean Valentine - Dec. 29 (Poet) Edgar Savisaar - Dec. 29 (Politician) Ian Tyson - Dec. 29 (Country Singer) Edilov - Dec. 30 (Boxer) Barbara Walters - Dec. 30 (Journalist) Uche Nwaneri - Dec. 30 (Football Player) Vladimer Barkaia - Dec. 30 (Soccer Player) Anita Marie Pointer - Dec. 31 (Soul Singer) Jeremiah Green - Dec. 31 (Drummer) Pope Benedict XVI - Dec. 31 (Religious Leader) Barry Lane - Dec. 31 (Golfer)

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BEINEIX NON GIRAVA FILM DA ANNI, E NON È IL SOLO

BEINEIX NON GIRAVA FILM DA ANNI, E NON È IL SOLO

“Nel cinema di finzione, hai la possibilità di alterare, modificare, trasformare la realtà in qualcos’altro, di dare ad essa una forma e di plasmarla come vuoi. È un vecchio dibattito della storia dell’arte. Molte persone vogliono che l’arte sia al servizio della realtà. Penso però che alcuni artisti vogliano mostrare le cose per come le vedono attraverso i propri occhi. Io non ho mai fatto e mai…

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Nik Powell Dies: Influential UK Producer Of ‘The Crying Game’ Was 69.

Along with Stephen Wooley, Nik Powell headed Palace Pictures and was the one responsible for the distribution of The Evil Dead in the UK which jump started the franchise. 

Nik Powell, the respected UK producer, businessman and former director of the National Film and Television School (NFTS), has died at the age of 69.

A statement published on the NFTS’ website sad that Powell had been receiving treatment for cancer and died this morning (Nov 7) in Oxford surrounded by his family.

Powell was the co-founder of UK video label and production outfit Palace Pictures in 1982 with Stephen Woolley. Through the company, the pair released movies including The Evil Dead, and produced features including a trio of pics with director Neil Jordan: the Oscar-winning 1992 feature The Crying Game with Forest Whitaker and Miranda Richardson, the Oscar-nominated 1986 film Mona Lisa with Bob Hoskins and Cathy Tyson, and 1984 fantasy drama The Company Of Wolves with Angela Lansbury.

Speaking to us this morning, Woolley said that Powell was “a rock to so many people” and a “constant ally”.

“I’m in shock. I can’t believe he’s not around because he never took ‘no’ for an answer, that was his philosophy,” Woolley said. “He was an incredibly inspirational person who continues to inspire people.”

Woolley, who now runs Carol producer Number 9 Films, recalled that Powell first approached him with the idea to start a video label when Woolley was working at the Scala Cinema, which Powell had made a small investment in.

“He asked me, ‘Can you get those funny movies you show at the Scala and we’ll release them on video?’ I spent a year buying these Fassbinder and John Waters films, but putting subtitled videos out in 1982 was not a way of making money. Then we bought Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead and Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Diva, the combination of those films made the company.”

“He gave me unconditional support and backing throughout the entire ten years we worked together. He never once tried to creatively mess with what we wanted to acquire and produce. He was a phenomenal person to work with as a businessman because he just closed deals. Getting the enterprise off the ground, that was where Nik’s strength was.

“He applied the experience of selling records to film, and it was a great combination. The things we were doing were really quite ‘out there’, but he never questioned it for one second. He joined in in a way that was phenomenal. Palace was ahead of the times and that was Nik’s clever entrepreneurial nous,” added Woolley.

Powell’s film credits also included Charles Dance’s 2004 drama Ladies In Lavender starring Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, and more recently Martin Koolhoven’s 2016 thriller Brimstone.

In a varied career which saw him operate a small record shop and a recording studio, Powell was also one of the co-founders of the Virgin Group with Richard Branson, launching Virgin Records in 1972 and establishing it as a major force in UK recording before it was sold to EMI in 1992.

In 2003 he became the director of the UK’s National Film and Television School, a position he held until 2017.

“I spent five incredibly happy years working with Nik as his deputy. He was a good friend and I will miss him hugely. He told me recently how his work to support and develop NFTS students to reach their full potential was probably the professional achievement he was most proud of. The culmination of his work at the School was recognised in 2018 when together we collected the BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award. Nik leaves an unrivalled legacy and no one has done more than him to set the bar high. We will continue to strive for the future success of the School in his honour,” commented NFTS Director Jon Wardle.

The school said it would commemorate Powell’s life in due course.

Len Rowles, now Head of Development at UK sales and production outfit Protagonist Pictures, was a student at the NFTS during Powell’s tenure and told us he was “an incredible believer in every one of his students”.

“I feel so lucky to have had his support and mentorship from the very start of my career. He opened the door to the industry and welcomed us in. It was always a comfort to seek him out in the midst of a scary new experience; I fondly remember being at the European Film Awards with our graduation film and listening to him make the same beloved Arsenal jokes to a crowd of international stars – after which he encouraged us to mingle confidently. His impact was both personal and global and I’m sure I speak for many when I say I am so grateful. Sending condolences to his friends and family at this deeply sad time.’ Rowles said

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Eye Witness (Peter Yates, 1981)

Eye Witness («Testigo ocular») —o como se llama en Inglaterra, con más precisión, The Janitor («El conserje»)— es una película representativa de la línea de flotación del cine anglosajón —cada vez es más difícil determinar si una obra es americana, inglesa, canadiense o australiana— a comienzos de los años 80, porque padece de una enfermedad, no por frecuente y extendida menos grave, poco llamativa a primera vista, pero tan corrosiva como el cáncer. Como unas veinte de las películas de tal procedencia, con cierto interés, que he visto este año, más alguna que otra europea —por ejemplo, Diva, de J. J. Beineix—, está basada en una idea insuficiente para edificar sobre ella un largometraje; defecto que se ha procurado disimular —en lugar de corregirlo— agregando elementos heterogéneos que no tienen más función que la de rellenar los huecos y tapar las fisuras, y que, para colmo, están copiados de películas anteriores de éxito: en El ojo mentiroso no es difícil detectar huellas de Marathon Man (1976), de Schlesinger; Taxi Driver (1976), de Scorsese, y Klute (1971), de Pakula, y no me extrañaría que hubiese cosas tomadas de varias más que yo desconozca o recuerde mal.

El truco no carece de eficacia si la acumulación de factores se hace a un ritmo lo bastante trepidante como para impedir o dificultar que el espectador ponga en cuestión la coherencia del relato o de los personajes, o si estos últimos quedan reducidos a arquetipos ya conocidos; incluso puede darse una aureola de misterio o locura a la conducta contradictoria de algunos de ellos, atribuyendo a fallos de su carácter o a perturbaciones de su cerebro los errores o descuidos del guionista. Además, para lograr que un producto de estas características «funcione» como maquinaria, basta con reunir un equipo técnico eficiente a las órdenes de un director habilidoso; si, además, se contrata a un par de actores inteligentes y se cuenta con redes de distribución y presupuesto para un buen lanzamiento publicitario, la partida está ganada de antemano, así que, ¿para qué esforzarse más? Ya se sabe que, salvo algunos locos antieconómicos, todo el mundo tiende a seguir la ley del mínimo esfuerzo y sus variantes: la del mínimo coste, la del mínimo riesgo, etc. Y cuando la oferta tiene el poder necesario para determinar la demanda, no hace falta contratar a directores y guionistas responsables ni, mucho menos, perfeccionistas: que se queme la competencia. Por mucho que se empeñen y se dejen la piel a tiras intentando hacer una película, Tanner, Rivette, Rohmer, Pialat, Borau, Wenders, Manolo Gutiérrez, Bresson, Tati, Fuller, Godard, Mackendrick, Boetticher, Straub, Berlanga, Raúl Ruiz, Rozier, Demy, Chabrol... —por poner algunos ejemplos de gente interesante y más o menos exigente, a ambos lados del Atlántico, jóvenes y viejos— no van a conseguir más espectadores ni más dinero que Peter Yates o cualquiera de sus muchos equivalentes; salvo excepciones imprevisibles o irrepetibles, ni siquiera Scorsese, Mulligan, Cimino, Pollack, Pakula o Coppola van a obtener ingresos de taquilla superiores, y puede que necesiten mayor presupuesto y más tiempo de trabajo para ello, así que, realmente, ¿qué más da financiarle una película a Peter Yates, a Buzz Kulik, a Michael Mann —el de Thief/Violent Streets— o a cualquiera de los que sin duda van a malograr proyectos interesantes, adaptaciones de James M. Cain, guiones que quisieron rodar Peckinpah, Monte Hellman, Bob Rafelson o John Byrum? Stuart Rosenberg, Norman Jewison, Andrew V. McLaglen, Herbert Ross y compañía ofrecen más seguridad y no plantean problemas.

Eye Witness se sigue con cierta curiosidad, en parte por la mezcla de historias ya comentadas, en mayor y más grata medida por la presencia de una actriz inteligente, elegante, originalmente hermosa y atractiva como Sigourney Weaver y también, hasta cierto punto, por la buena voluntad de Yates, que se toma bastante en serio su trabajo y, de cuando en cuando, consigue, cuando el guión de Steve Tesich lo permite, alguna escena interesante, insólita o misteriosa, tarea en la que cuenta con el apoyo del fotógrafo Matthew F. Leonetti, que prueba, una vez más, la inagotable fotogenia de Nueva York. Con lo cual, aunque no en todo momento, la película se aparta del grueso del cine de los últimos años en su aspecto no desdeñable: en que, por lo menos, no contagia el aburrimiento y la desgana con que se rueda.

Publicado en el nº 13 de Casablanca (enero de 1982)

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Desafio 100 grandes filmes pouco conhecidos: você assistiu no máximo 4 desta lista

Ainda que estejamos atentos às maiores premiações europeias e de Hollywood, alguns dos melhores filmes ainda escapam dos holofotes. A revista britânica “Empire”, especializada em cultura e entretenimento, reuniu 100 títulos que são fundamentais para o cinema, mas não são populares. Conte e nos diga quantos deles você já assistiu.

A história do cinema é marcada por ótimos filmes, clássicos que resistiram ao tempo e obras contemporâneas que mudaram a indústria cinematográfica. Ainda que estejamos atentos às maiores premiações europeias e de Hollywood, alguns dos melhores longas ainda escapam dos holofotes. A revista britânica “Empire”, especializada em cultura e entretenimento, reuniu 100 títulos que são fundamentais para o cinema, mas não são populares. Como o desafio da Empire só abrange longas lançados até 2007, adicionamos outros cinco mais recentes. Pela análise das obras, percebe-se que, provavelmente, pouquíssimas pessoas viram mais do que quatro entre os longas selecionados. Para participar do desafio, basta contabilizar e nos contar quantos destes você já assistiu.

1 — O Abraço da Serpente (2015), Ciro Guerra

2 — Sono de Inverno (2014), Nuri Bilge Ceylan

3 — Amantes Eternos (2013), Jim Jarmusch

4 — O Garoto de Bicicleta (2011), Irmãos Dardenne

5 — Biutiful (2010), Alejandro González Iñárritu

6 — A Proposta (2005), John Hillcoat

7 — Beijos e Tiros (2005), Shane Black

8 — Hard Candy (2005), David Slade

9 — Nascidos em Bordéis (2004), Zana Briski e Ross Kauffman

10 — Primer (2004), Shane Carruth

11 — O Agente da Estação (2003), Tom McCarthy

12 — Camelos Também Choram (2003), Byambasuren Davaa

13 — Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (2003), Kenneth Bowser, Jr.

14 — Stander (2003), Bronwen Hughes

15 — Tarnation (2003), Jonathan Caouette

16 — O Americano Tranquilo (2002), Phillip Noyce

17 — The Eye: A Herança (2002), Oxide Pang Chun e Danny Pang Phat

18 — Minha Viagem à Itália (2001), Martin Scorsese

19 — American Movie (1999), Chris Smith

20 — O Estranho (1999), Steven Soderbergh

21 — Uma História Real (1999), David Lynch

22 — Carne Trêmula (1998), Pedro Almodóvar

23 — As Confissões de Henry Fool (1997), Hal Hartley

24 — Kiss or Kill (1987), Bill Bennett

25 — Na Companhia de Homens (1997), Neil LaBute

26 — Angel Baby (1995), Michael Rymer

27 — Cidadão X (1995), Chris Gerolmo

28 — Estranhos Prazeres (1995), Kathryn Bigelow

29 — Ricardo III (1995), Richard Loncraine

30 — Safe (1995), Todd Haynes

31 — Tempo de Decisão (1995), Noah Baumbach

32 — E a Vida Continua (1993), Roger Spottiswoode

33 — The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (1993), Dave Borthwick

34 — Fervura Máxima (1992), John Woo

35 — In the Soup (1992), Alexandre Rockwell

36 — Lanternas Vermelhas (1991), Zhang Yimou

37 — Alucinações do Passado (1990), Adrian Lyne

38 — Death in Brunswick (1990), John Ruane

39 — Jogo Perverso (1990), Kathryn Bigelow

40 — King of New York (1990), Abel Ferrara

41 — Um Tiro de Misericórdia (1990), Phil Joanou e Michael Lee Baron

42 — The Killer: O Matador (1989), John Woo

43 — Alice (1988), Jan Švankmajer

44 — As Aventuras do Barão de Münchausen (1988), Terry Gilliam

45 — Eles Vivem (1988), John Carpenter

46 — Miracle Mile (1988), Steve De Jarnatt

47 — O Soro do Mal (1988), Frank Henenlotter

48 — Coração Satânico (1987), Alan Parker

49 — Ground Zero (1987), Michael Pattinson e Bruce Myles

50 — Hidden: O Escondido (1987), Jack Sholder

51 — O Limite da Traição (1987), Walter Hill

52 — Travelling North (1987), Carl Schultz

53 — Apartamento Zero (1986), Martin Donovan

54 — When the Wind Blows (1986), Jimmy T. Murakami

55 — A Traição do Falcão (1985), John Schlesinger

56 — Depois de Horas (1985), Martin Scorsese

57 — Garota Sinal Verde (1985), Rob Reiner

58 — Minha Vida é um Desastre (1985), Savage Steve Holland

59 — Screamplay (1985), Rufus Butler Seder

60 — Terra Tranquila (1985), Geoff Murphy

61 — Viver e Morrer em Los Angeles (1985), William Friedkin

62 — Gosto de Sangue (1984), Ethan e Joel Cohen

63 — Repo Man: A Onda Punk (1984), Alex Cox

64 — Ruas de Fogo (1984), Walter Hill

65 — Na Hora da Zona Morta (1983), David Cronenberg

66 — O Selvagem da Motocicleta (1983), Francis Ford Coppola

67 — Strange Invaders (1983), Michael Laughlin

68 — Videodrome: A Síndrome do Vídeo (1983), David Cronenberg

69 — O Enigma de Outro Mundo (1982), John Carpenter

70 — Tron: Uma Odisseia Eletrônica (1982), Steven Lisberger

71 — Diva: Paixão Perigosa (1981), Jean-Jacques Beineix

72 — Enigma na Estrada (1981), Richard Franklin

73 — Falcões da Noite (1981), Bruce Malmuth

74 — Um Tiro na Noite (1981), Brian De Palma

75 — Colossus (Colossus: The Forbin Project) (1980), Joseph Sargent

76 — Uma Espécie em Extinção (1980), Art Linson

77 — Liberdade Condicional (1978), Dustin Hoffman e Ulu Grosbard

78 — Pumping Iron (1977), George Butler e Robert Fiore

79 — Assalto ao 13º DP (1976), John Carpenter

80 — Prelúdio Para Matar (1975), Dario Argento

81 — The Bullet Train (1975), Junya Sato

82 — Último Golpe (1974), Michael Cimino

83 — The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), Joseph Sargent

84 — Westworld: Onde Ninguém Tem Alma (1973), Michael Crichton

85 — O Círculo Vermelho (1970), Jean-Pierre Melville

86 — O Topo (1970), Alejandro Jodorowsky

87 — Andrei Rublev (1969), Andrei Tarkovsky

88 — Week End (1967), Jean-Luc Godard

89 — Alphaville (1965), Jean-Luc Godard

90 — A Batalha de Argel (1965), Gillo Pontecorvo

91 — A Décima Vítima (1965), Elio Petri

92 — O Leopardo (1963), Luchino Visconti

93 — Vendedor de Ilusões (1962), Morton DaCosta

94 — Os Inocentes (1961), Jack Clayton

95 — O Incrível Homem que Encolheu (1957), Jack Arnold

96 — O Homem Errado (1956), Alfred Hitchcock

97 — Os Cinco Mil Dedos do Dr. T (1953), Roy Rowland

98 — A Rua sem Nome (1948), William Keighley

99 — Casei-Me com uma Feiticeira (1942), René Clair

100 — O Atalante (1934), Jean Vigo

Desafio 100 grandes filmes pouco conhecidos: você assistiu no máximo 4 desta lista Publicado primeiro em https://www.revistabula.com

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Nouvelles acquisitions (Novembre 2018) Rattrapage

Samedi 03.11.18 Gibert Joseph Vladimir Nabokov - Invitation au supplice Ismail Kadaré - Le palais des rêves Leo Perutz - La nuit sous le pont de pierre Yasunari Kawabata - Le Maître ou Le tournoi de Go Yasunari Kawabata - Chroniques d'Asakusa Jean-Pierre Duprey - Oeuvres complètes

Boulinier Armand Guibert & Louis Parrot - Federico Garcia Lorca - Poètes d'aujourd'hui Seghers

Gibert Jeune - Nouvelle Braderie, place St Michel Michael McCauley & Jim Thompson - Coucher avec le diable

Dimanche 04.11.18 Boulinier Collectif - Le surréalisme au service de la révolution

Très heureux d’avoir trouvé ce livre rare à si bas prix ! 15€, je crois. Ce recueil de revues, 6 numéros, succède à la mythique Révolution surréaliste. que j’ai déjà. Ici, des textes de 1930 à 1933 de Breton, Char, Caillois, Crevel, Ernst, Giacometti, etc. Le communisme commence à prendre beaucoup trop de place. Dali hante ces pages, hélas, ainsi que Freud et Sade. Ces 6 numéros seront suivis par une autre revue : Minotaure, mais de querelles en excommunications, le groupe se disloque, c’est déjà le début de la fin... Si j’avais aimé la Révolution surréaliste, je reviens moins souvent vers ce livre-ci.

Samedi 10.11.18 Boulinier Daniel Gillès - Laurence de la nuit J’avais adoré sa biographie de Tchékhov, j’ignore ce que valent ses romans...

Jim Harrison - Nageur de rivière

Ancien livre de bibliothèque. J'ai beaucoup aimé la fiche de lecture qu'on trouvait à l'intérieur. 4 lecteurs ont laissé leur avis : 1. Moyen. Je n'ai pas aimé. S.B. 2. Nul. N'importe quoi. J.J. 3. Très bon. Oh ! On ne peut pas écrire cela ! Voici un livre attirant et poétique. 4. Moyen. Très peu d'intérêt. Sévères, les lecteurs ! J'ajouterai mon avis plus tard...

Ursula Le Guin - Le commencement de nulle part John Brunner - Au seuil de l'éternité Joyce Carol Oates - La foi d'un écrivain Guide l'Ile-de-France mystérieuse - Tchou Paris Review - Les entretiens - Anthologie volume 1

Gibert Jeune - Nouvelle Braderie, place St Michel François Taillandier - Edmond Rostand, l'homme qui voulait bien faire Jean-François Robin - La fièvre d'un tournage - 37°2 le matin

Relu ce petit livre très sympathique, écrit par le directeur de la photo du film.

17.09.1985 « Beineix doute toujours autant à la sortie des projections. (...) Quand j'aurai du génie, je ne ferai que des plans fixes, où le cadre se remplit tout seul, avec des acteurs qui se rapprochent ou qui s'éloignent. Mais là, je n'ai même pas le sens ou l'intuition de savoir où je vais couper. »

24.09.1985 Béatrice Dalle refuse de tourner nue. « J'ai déjà trop tournée nue, ça suffit. » Commentaire de J.J.B. : « Je suis sûr que c'est le mari qui lui a bourré le crâne. » Il se fâche, Dalle s'enferme dans la salle de maquillage. La stagiaire : « Elle pleure, il faut un quart d'heure pour la maquiller. » Dalle revient, muette. « On tourne la scène dans un silence de mort. J.J.B. « Une heure pour tourner un plan si simple, ça me fout ma journée en l'air. » En aparté il ajoute : « Peut-être qu'il faudrait lui filer deux baffes... » « Comme Clouzot, ajoute le chef électricien. » « D'ailleurs, ajoute Beineix, la thèse selon laquelle un acteur doit être bien pour jouer est fausse. Au contraire il faut qu'il se sente mal, qu'il se sente en danger pour se donner à fond, parce que là, il doit compenser. » Scène de dispute dans le film, Dalle réclame la maquilleuse. Beineix refuse, il veut qu'elle soit nature. Dalle est folle de rage. « Voilà, je fais du Pialat, dit Beineix. Puis : Plus on déteste son metteur en scène, mieux on joue. » Une autre fois, 30.09.1985, Dalle s'entraîne à conduire la Mercédès jaune. Elle percute une autre voiture. Phare pété, aile froissée. Beineix ne bronche pas, mais lâche :« Vous auriez pu vous tuer. » Puis une demi-heure plus tard : « Je vous avais prévenus, un film ça se prépare. »

Scène de fête, Dalle fait croire à Beineix qu'il y a de l'eau dans sa bouteille de champagne. Mais c'est du vrai. En partant, je croise Béatrice complètement éméchée. « Je suis saoule. Est-ce que je te plais ? » Ajoute-t-elle en ouvrant son corsage et en riant à gorge déployée. » On entend les « in » traînants en fin de phrases, tipiques de l’actrice : « Je suis saoule-in. je te plais-in ? »

Mardi 12.11.1985 Hier soir, un film de Bergman, son premier à la TV. Béatrice l'a regardé cinq minutes puis elle a coupé. « Ah, les films ruskofs ou polacs, moi je déteste, c'est tout pareil, chiant, chiant. »

11.10.1985, «Tournage de la scène où Betty apparaît la première fois. Zorg est assis, il aperçoit sa magnifique silhouette dans la porte. Beineix : « Attention, tu fais ton entrée dans le cinéma français, il faudra qu'on s'en souvienne ; on te jugera là-dessus. » En fait la première scène sera la fameuse scène de sexe. 22.10.1985 « On tourne deux prises, impressionnantes toutes les deux et les spéculations vont bon train. L'ont-ils fait ou pas ? Les intéressés ne démentiront que le lendemain mais qu'importe : le faux amour semble encore plus sincère que le vrai. »

Revu le film dans sa version longue, que j'avais bien aimé à sa sortie. Ensuite, beaucoup aimé le roman de Philippe Djian, qui a fait baisser le film dans mon estime. À la deuxième vision, j'ai trouvé le film un peu cruche. Niais, par moments. Très daté 1985. Anglade, quoique naturel, fait trop minet pour le rôle de l’écrivain. Et esthétiquement, c'est parfois très moche : ces filtres colorés rendent l'image vraiment dégueulasse. Restent de belles scènes, quand même (+ la musique de Gabriel Yared !), et on dira ce qu'on voudra, mais Béatrice Dalle, certes agaçante dans son jeu-in, crève l'écran. Voire l’explose. C’est la Bardot de son époque, en somme.

émission de radio de la RSR, avec quelques erreurs mais des entretiens d’époque : https://bit.ly/2Kk8NdQ

Jean-Roger Caussimon - La double vie, mémoires

Vendredi 16.11.18 Via internet Léo Malet - Tome 5 - Romans, nouvelles et poèmes (Coll. Bouquins Robert Laffont) Contient : La vie est dégueulasse, le soleil n'est pas pour nous, sueur aux tripes, contes doux, la forêt aux pendus, la louve du Bas-Craoul, le diamant du huguenot, un héros en guenilles, le capitaine coeur-en-berne, Gérard Vinbdex, la soeur du flibustier, l'évasion du masque de fer, le voilier magique, vengeance à Ciudad-Juarez, vacances sous le pavillon noir, pièces radiophoniques et téléfilm.

Samedi 17.11.18 Boulinier Christopher Brookmyre - Les canards en plastique attaquent ! Ivan Bounine - Le village Knut Hamsun - Esclaves de l'amour Saul Friedländer - Quand vient le souvenir...

Gibert Jeune - Nouvelle Braderie, place St Michel Jacques Sternberg - Les pensées

Vendredi 23.11.18 Via internet Mary Dearborn - Henry Miller, biographie

Samedi 24.11.18 Gibert Joseph Serge Valletti - Sale août, suivi de John a-dreams Robert Benchley - Les enfants, pour quoi faire ?

Boulinier Edgar Lee Masters - Spoon River

J’ai déjà la traduction bilingue de chez Phébus (Des voix sous les pierres, Trad. Patrick Reumaux). Voilà un recueil de poésies étonnnant où des épitaphes sur des tombes parlent, se répondent, racontent la vie d’une petite ville, dans une construction originale et réjouissante. Inspiré par les épigrammes de l'Anthologie grecque. Je me demande si Georges Saunders ne s’en est pas inspiré pour son roman Lincoln in the Bardo ? C’est ici une nouvelle trad. parue chez Allia en 2016, par Gaëlle Merle. Il existe une troisième trad. par Michel Pétris & Kenneth White, la première de 1976 chez  Champ Libre (merci Laurent N.) Et une quatrième par un collectif Général Instin (!?) Édition de Patrick Chatelier. http://www.lenouvelattila.fr/spoon-river/

Ivan Bounine - Tchékhov

Gibert Jeune - Nouvelle Braderie, place St Michel Robert Ferguson - Henry Miller, biographie Tom Franklin - Braconniers, nouvelles

[filmparaden-17]

Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2001)

Wings Of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987)

Sympathy For The Devil (Jean-Luc Godard, 1968)

Dekalog (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1989)

Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2002)

Tale Of Tales (Yuriy Norshteyn, 1979)

Time Regained (Raoul Ruiz, 1999)

Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Werner Herzog, 1972)

Grey Gardens (Albert & David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer; 1975)

One From The Heart (Francis Ford Coppola, 1981)

Man With A Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)

Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)

Sombre (Philippe Grandrieux, 1998)

Cul-de-sac (Roman Polanski, 1966)

The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo, 2003)

Le feu follet (Louis Malle, 1963)

The Swimmer (Frank Perry, 1968)

A Special Day (Ettore Scola, 1977)

La maman et la putain (Jean Eustache, 1973)

The Battle Of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)

The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1998)

Touch Of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)

Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)

The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)

Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003)

Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)

A Summer's Tale (Eric Rohmer, 1996)

The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky; 2011)

Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, 1956)

Daisies (Vera Chytilová, 1966)

Unsere Afrikareise (Peter Kubelka, 1966)

Thérèse (Alain Cavalier, 1986)

La jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)

Le gamin au vélo (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2011)

Les 400 coups (François Truffaut, 1959)

The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993)

I'm Not There (Todd Haynes, 2007)

Killer Of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1978)

The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, 2001)

Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)

The Women (George Cukor, 1939)

Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)

Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich, 1973)

Don't Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker, 1967)

Little Fugitive (Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin; 1953)

Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969)

The Night Of The Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)

The Ice Storm (Ang Lee, 1997)

Man On The Moon (Milos Forman, 1999)

Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)

Enter The Void (Gaspar Noé, 2009)

Snatch (Guy Ritchie, 2000)

The New Land (Jan Troell, 1972) 

Los olvidados (Luis Buñuel, 1950)

Border Radio (Allison Anders, Dean Lent, Kurt Voss; 1987)

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

The Adventures Of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger, 1926)

Les triplettes de Belleville (Sylvain Chomet, 2003)

Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)

Gare du Nord (Jean Rouch, 1965; segment of Paris vu par... )

Vagabond (Agnès Varda, 1985)

Slap Shot (George Roy Hill, 1977)

Le sang d'un poète (Jean Cocteau, 1932)

Breathless (Jim McBride, 1983)

Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 1984)

Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013)

Saturday Night And Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz, 1960)

Gadjo dilo (Tony Gatlif, 1997)

Rebel Without A Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955)

A.K.A. Serial Killer (Masao Adachi, 1969)

The King Of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, 1982)

The Hours (Stephen Daldry, 2002)

In A Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)

The Honeymoon Killers (Leonard Kastle, 1969)

Meshes Of The Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943)

When We Were Kings (Leon Gast, 1996)

Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen, 1984)

A Woman Under The Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)

To The Wonder (Terrence Malick, 2012)

Beavis And Butt-head Do America (Mike Judge, 1996)

Araya (Margot Benacerraf, 1959)

Kes (Ken Loach, 1969)

Skammen (Ingmar Bergman, 1968)

Duel (Steven Spielberg, 1971)

The Bridges Of Madison County (Clint Eastwood, 1995)

The Man Who Fell To Earth (Nicolas Roeg, 1976)

Roma città aperta (Roberto Rossellini, 1945)

Diva (Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1981)

Limite (Mario Peixoto, 1931)

The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky, 2006)

La cérémonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995)

The Draughtman's Contract (Peter Greenaway, 1982)

Amour fou (Jessica Hausner, 2014)

Happiness (Todd Solondz, 1998)

Hausu (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977)

Before The Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet, 2007)

Gomorra (Matteo Garrone, 2008)

The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo, 1997)

Låt den rätte komma in (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)

[ozu-teapot]

February 2017 / The month in teapots: 

The African Queen | John Huston | 1951

Betty Blue (AKA 37°2 le matin) | Jean-Jacques Beineix | 1986

Hangmen Also Die! | Fritz Lang | 1943

The Falling | Carol Morley | 2014

Hard to Be a God | Aleksey German | 2013

Diva | Jean-Jacques Beineix | 1981

Kes | Ken Loach | 1969

Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1979

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence | Mamoru Oshii | 2004

[shiue-crossover]

Pikkori Pikkari Babupasperi!

Now, I want to talk about this spell in my crossover, as in 'Pass the Present', I wrote that all of Majo Tourbillon's special successors (including Robbie but except Anya) needed to say this spell before they could get access to their own special abilities, but then there's a question regarding this matter...

Does Anya not really need the spell at all? At least, to control her mind reading ability?

The answer is both yes and no.

So, if she isn't in a crowded place, Anya doesn't need to say the spell, as she can clearly notice anyone who just thinks at the moment. However, in a crowded place, if she wants to use her ability to find out someone's location, the spell can help her. In other words, she just needs the spell to focus on someone's thoughts in a crowded place.

Then when did she find out about this? That was a few days after she got her third Stella Stars (the first one she got from her first term final exam), when she spent her holiday in Hungary with the Beineix. When Anya and Robbie were going to the dog park with both Bond and John, a woman asked their help to find her dog. The dog park was really crowded, so Anya wasn't sure if she could help the woman find her dog with her ability, but then Robbie encouraged her to try saying the spell as it probably could make her focus. Anya then followed Robbie's suggestion and as a result, she could easily find the woman's dog.

So that's my headcanon about the spell. I hope this headcanon makes sense enough though...

See you in the next headcanon.

[filmparaden-15]

Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2001)

Dekalog (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1989)

Sympathy For The Devil (Jean-Luc Godard, 1968)

Wings Of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987)

Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2002)

Grey Gardens (Albert & David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer; 1975)

Le feu follet (Louis Malle, 1963)

Time Regained (Raoul Ruiz, 1999)

Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Werner Herzog, 1972)

One From The Heart (Francis Ford Coppola, 1981)

Man With A Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)

Dogville (Lars von Trier, 2003)

Sombre (Philippe Grandrieux, 1998)

Cul-de-sac (Roman Polanski, 1966)

The Brown Bunny (Vincent Gallo, 2003)

The Swimmer (Frank Perry, 1968)

The Battle Of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)

Touch Of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)

La maman et la putain (Jean Eustache, 1973)

A Special Day (Ettore Scola, 1977)

Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)

Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)

Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003)

The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973)

A Summer's Tale (Eric Rohmer, 1996)

Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)

Les 400 coups (François Truffaut, 1959)

Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, 1956)

Daisies (Vera Chytilová, 1966)

The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky; 2011)

Unsere Afrikareise (Peter Kubelka, 1966)

Thérèse (Alain Cavalier, 1986)

The Women (George Cukor, 1939)

La jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)

Le gamin au vélo (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2011)

Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)

The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993)

Little Fugitive (Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin; 1953)

Killer Of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1978)

The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, 2001)

Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)

Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich, 1973)

Don't Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker, 1967)

8 femmes (François Ozon, 2002)

Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969)

The Night Of The Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)

The Ice Storm (Ang Lee, 1997)

Man On The Moon (Milos Forman, 1999)

Snatch (Guy Ritchie, 2000)

Los olvidados (Luis Buñuel, 1950)

Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)

Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)

Les triplettes de Belleville (Sylvain Chomet, 2003)

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

Saturday Night And Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz, 1960)

The New Land (Jan Troell, 1972) 

The Adventures Of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger, 1926)

Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973)

Gare du Nord (Jean Rouch, 1965; segment of Paris vu par... )

Vagabond (Agnès Varda, 1985)

Slap Shot (George Roy Hill, 1977)

Le sang d'un poète (Jean Cocteau, 1932)

Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 1984)

Breathless (Jim McBride, 1983)

Meshes Of The Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943)

When We Were Kings (Leon Gast, 1996)

Beavis And Butt-head Do America (Mike Judge, 1996)

Gadjo dilo (Tony Gatlif, 1997)

Rebel Without A Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955)

A.K.A. Serial Killer (Masao Adachi, 1975)

The King Of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, 1982)

YouTube clip from Kranked 8: Revolve (2009)

A Woman Under The Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)

The Apostle (Robert Duvall, 1997)

Araya (Margot Benacerraf, 1959)

Kes (Ken Loach, 1969)

Duel (Steven Spielberg, 1971)

Skammen (Ingmar Bergman, 1968)

The Bridges Of Madison County (Clint Eastwood, 1995)

Wendy And Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008)

Out Of The Blue (Dennis Hopper, 1980)

Roma città aperta (Roberto Rossellini, 1945)

The Hours (Stephen Daldry, 2002)

In A Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)

The Honeymoon Killers (Leonard Kastle, 1970)

Before The Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet, 2007)

Limite (Mario Peixoto, 1931)

Diva (Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1981)

The Man Who Fell To Earth (Nicolas Roeg, 1976)

Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002)

The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky, 2006)

The Draughtman's Contract (Peter Greenaway, 1982)

La cérémonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995)

Gomorra (Matteo Garrone, 2008)

Amour fou (Jessica Hausner, 2014)

Happiness (Todd Solondz, 1998)

The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, 2007)

Hausu (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977)

The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo, 1997)

Låt den rätte komma in (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)

[chicagoindiecritics]

New from Kevin Wozniak on Kevflix: What’s Streaming This Month? – September

Here are my picks for the movies coming to Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, Disney+, Criterion Channel, and HBOMax in September.  This month offers up many unique choices, from original films to Hollywood classics.

          NETFLIX

Full list of everything coming to Netflix in September can be found here.

  THE BACK TO THE FUTURE TRILOGY (Robert Zemeckis, 1984/1989/1990)

A trilogy that is full of life, fun, and originality.

  THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME (Antonio Campo, 2020)

An all-star cast of Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Riley Keough, Sebastian Stan, Mia Wasikowska, Bill Skarsgård, and Jason Clarke lead Antonio Campos’ thriller about corruption and brutality in a postwar backwoods town.

  GREASE (Randal Kleiser, 1978)

A musical classic.

  I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS (Charlie Kaufman, 2020)

The latest directorial effort from the great Charlie Kaufman looks like a haunting mind-bender.

  MAGIC MIKE (Steven Soderbergh, 2012)

One of Steven Soderbergh’s best features a scene-stealing performance from Matthew McConaughey.

  NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE (Joel Gallen, 2001)

This comedy satire of teen romcoms is still hilarious and has aged quite well.

  RATCHED (Evan Romansky, Ryan Murphy, 2020)

I don’t usually post about shows on here, but a prequel series looking at One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest villain Nurse Ratched starring Sarah Paulson in the titular role sounds too good to ignore.

  THE SOCIAL DILEMMA (Jeff Orlowski, 2020)

I heard good buzz about this documentary out of Sundance 2020, as it looks at the power of social media and the effect it can have on the world

  WILDLIFE (Paul Dano, 2018)

Paul Dano’s directorial debut is a quiet and powerful look at a crumbling family in the 1950’s.

    PRIME VIDEO

Full list of everything coming to Prime Video in September can be found here.

    THE BIRDCAGE (Mike Nichols, 1996)

Robin Williams and Nathan Lane are marvelous in this Mike Nichols comedy.

  CASINO ROYALE (Martin Campbell, 2006)

The film that introduced Daniel Craig into the Bond franchise is also the best Bond film ever made.

  GEMINI MAN (Ang Lee, 2019)

Will Smith plays an assassin who is being hunted by a clone of his younger self in Ang Lee’s technical marvel.

  THE GRADUATE (Mike Nichols, 1967)

One of the greatest films ever made.

  JUDY (Rupert Goold, 2019)

Renee Zellweger won her second Oscar for pitch-perfect portrayal of Hollywood icon Judy Garland.

  KRAMER VS KRAMER (Robert Benton, 1979)

This Best Picture family drama features stellar work from Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep.

  PATRIOT’S DAY (Peter Berg, 2016)

Peter Berg’s harrowing account of the Boston Marathon bombing.

  HULU

Full list of everything coming to Hulu in September can be found here.

    ANY GIVEN SUNDAY (Oliver Stone, 1999)

Olive Stone’s aggressive, chaotic look at professional football.

  BABYTEETH (Shannon Murphy, 2020)

An emotional relationship drama with Ben Mendolsohn and Essie Davis giving two of my favorite performances of 2020.

  HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE/HAROLD AND KUMAR ESCAPE GUANTANAMO BAY (Danny Leiner, 2004/Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, 2008)

Two-thirds of a classic stoner trilogy.

  HOOSIERS (David Anspaugh, 1986)

One of the greatest sports movies ever made.

  THE LAST BOY SCOUT (Tony Scott, 1991)

It’s directed by Tony Scott, written by Shane Black, and stars Bruce Willis.  We could call this the “90’s Trifecta”.

  PEE WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE (Tim Burton, 1985)

Tim Burton’s debut film is utterly insane, yet absolutely brilliant

  PRISONERS (Denis Villeneuve, 2013)

Denis Villeneuve’s best film to date is a dark, disturbing crime thriller featuring incredible work from Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, and cinematographer Roger Deakins.

  THE TERMINATOR (James Cameron, 1984)

One of the greatest sci-fi movies ever made.

  THE TWILIGHT SAGA (Catherine Hardwicke, 2008/Chris Weitz, 2009/David Slade, 2010/Bill Condon, 2011/Bill Condon, 2012)

I’ve only seen one of these (I think New Moon?), but want to give them a whirl at some point.  Maybe now is the time?

    DISNEY+

Full list of everything coming to Disney+ in September can be found here.

    BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM (Gurinder Chadha, 2003)

A rousing, inspiring indie sports film.

  CHRISTOPHER ROBIN (Marc Forster, 2018)

A somber, sweet look at Winnie the Pooh and the 100 Acre Woods gang.

  D2: THE MIGHT DUCKS/D3 (Sam Weisman, 1994/Robert Lieberman, 1996)

D2 is the best of the trilogy, but D3 is pretty good and bit underrated.

  MULAN (Niki Caro, 2020)

You have to pay $30 to see this one, but I have a feeling Disney’s latest live-action feature is going to be worth is.

  NEVER BEEN KISSED (Raja Gosnell, 1999)

A classic 90’s rom-com featuring a delightful Drew Barrymore.

  THE WOLVERINE (James Mangold, 2013)

One of the best X-Men films and the BEST Wolverine movie (hot take).

    CRITERION CHANNEL

Full list of everything coming to Criterion Channel in September can be found here.

*The Criterion Channel does things a little differently than every other streaming service.  The Criterion Channel, a wonderful streaming service that focuses on independent, foreign, and under-appreciates movies, doesn’t just throw a bunch of random movies to stream.  They get more creative by having categories like “DOUBLE FEATURES” or “FILMS FROM…”, giving us curated lists of films that somehow blend together or feature a specific artist.*

    BOYHOOD (Richard Linklater, 2014)

Richard Linklater’s ambitious twelve-year project is one of the finest film accomplishments of the last decade.

  THE LOVELESS (Kathryn Bigelow, Monty Montgomery, 1981)

Kathryn Bigelow’s debut is one I have been dying to see and one I am going to check out as soon as it is available.

  THE COMPLETE FILMS OF AGNES VARDA

Agnes Varda was a true artist and Criterion has put all of her work into one comprehensive collection which features all of her feature length films as well as her short films.

  SATURDAY MATINEE

DUCK SOUP (Leo McCarey, 1933)

My favorite Marx Brothers film and one of the greatest comedies ever made.

  SATURDAY MATINEE

CHARLOTTE’S WEB (Charles A. Nichols, Iwao Takamoto, 1973)

A beautiful animated film based on the classic book.

    THREE BY ROBERT GREENE

Three provocative films from a master documentarian.

Actress (2014)

Kate Plays Christine (2016)

Bisbee ’17 (2018)

  DIRECTED BY ALBERT BROOKS

Albert Brooks is one of the greatest comedic minds we’ve ever had.  This block of films looks at his genius behind the camera.

Real Life (1979)

Modern Romance (1981)

Lost in America (1985)

Defending Your Life (1991)

Mother (1996)

  DOUBLE FEATURE: TEARS OF THE CLOWN

LENNY (Bob Fosse, 1974)

JO JO DANCER, YOUR LIFE IS CALLING (Richard Pryor, 1986)

Two unflinching films delve into the self-destructive dark sides of a pair of comedy legends. Lenny features Dustin Hoffman in a jagged portrait of Lenny Bruce.  In Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling, Richard Pryor draws on his own personal demons in the only narrative feature written and directed by the comedy legend.

  BY THE BOOK

A slew of films based on legendary books, from Great Expectations to The Hours and many, many more.

The Count of Monte Cristo (Rowland V. Lee, 1934)

The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935)

La bête humaine (Jean Renoir, 1938)

Of Mice and Men (Lewis Milestone, 1939)

Great Expectations (David Lean, 1946)

The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946)

Anna Karenina (Julien Duvivier, 1948)

Oliver Twist (David Lean, 1948)

The Heiress (William Wyler, 1949)

The Passionate Friends (David Lean, 1949)

The Idiot (Akira Kurosawa, 1951)

The Life of Oharu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952)

Robinson Crusoe (Luis Buñuel, 1954)

Senso (Luchino Visconti, 1954)

Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)

Aparajito (Satyajit Ray, 1956)

The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa, 1956)

Apur Sansar (Satyajit Ray, 1959)

The Cloud-Capped Star (Ritwik Ghatak, 1960)

Purple Noon (René Clément, 1960)

Zazie dans le métro (Louis Malle, 1960)

Divorce Italian Style (Pietro Germi, 1961)

Lord of the Flies (Peter Brook, 1963)

Tom Jones (Tony Richardson, 1963)

Charulata (Satyajit Ray, 1964)

Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)

Closely Watched Trains (Jirí Menzel, 1966)

War and Peace (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1966)

Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1968)

The Angel Levine (Ján Kadár, 1970)

Dodes’ka-den (Akira Kurosawa, 1970)

The Phantom Tollbooth (Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow, and Dave Monahan, 1970)

The Little Prince (Stanley Donen, 1974)

Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975)

The American Friend (Wim Wenders, 1977)

The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko, 1977)

The Getting Of Wisdom (Bruce Beresford, 1977)

Empire of Passion (Nagisa Oshima, 1978)

Watership Down (Martin Rosen, 1978)

My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong, 1979)

Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)

The Tin Drum (Volker Schlöndorff, 1979)

Wise Blood (John Huston, 1979)

You Are Not I (Sara Driver, 1981)

Under the Volcano (John Huston, 1984)

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader, 1985)

My Life as a Dog (Lasse Hallström, 1985)

Betty Blue (Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1986)

An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion, 1990)

The Comfort of Strangers (Paul Schrader, 1990)

Europa Europa (Agnieszka Holland, 1990)

The Handmaid’s Tale (Volker Schlöndorff, 1990)

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (Peter Kosminsky, 1992)

The Castle (Michael Haneke, 1997)

The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan, 1997)

The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999)

The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, 2001)

The Hours (Stephen Daldry, 2002)

Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone, 2008)

Almayer’s Folly (Chantal Akerman, 2011)

45 Years (Andrew Haigh, 2015)

Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016)

Zama (Lucrecia Martel, 2017)

    HBOMAX

Full list of everything coming to HBOMax in August can be found here.

  CLERKS (Kevin Smith, 1994)

Kevin Smith’s indie sensation is a masterclass in microbudget cinema.

  THE CONVERSATION (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)

In-between The Godfather and The Godfather II, Francis Ford Coppola made this Palme d’Or winning thriller about a surveillance expert (a brilliant Gene Hackman) who has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

  THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (David Fincher, 2008)

David Fincher’s gorgeous film about a man who ages backwards.

  DOG DAY AFTERNOON (Sidney Lumet, 1975)

Sidney Lumet’s best film features masterful work from Al Pacino and John Cazzalle.

  THE INVISIBLE MAN (Leigh Whannel, 2020)

Elisabeth Moss gives one of the best performances of 2020 in Leigh Whannel’s chilling remake of the Universal classic.

  JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991)

Oliver Stone’s brilliant account of the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the conspiracy behind it.

  JUST MERCY (Destin Daniel Cretton, 2019)

An inspiring film with excellent performances from Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx.

  MIDNIGHT RUN (Martin Brest, 1988)

This crime-buddy-road movie is an absolute blast and features one of Robert De Niro’s most underrated performances.

  POINT BREAK (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991)

Kathryn Bigelow’s surfing-cop thriller is one of the best action movies of the 90’s.

  SNAKES ON A PLANE (David R. Ellis, 2006)

An iconic B-movie featuring a truly great Samuel L. Jackson performance.

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[symbianosgames]

The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company.

[Video Game Deep Cuts is a weekly newsletter from curator/video game industry veteran Simon Carless, rounding up the best longread & standout articles & videos about games, every weekend. This week's highlights include a GDC talk on 'the aesthetics of cute', the hidden story of TOSE, & the return to car wrecking of key Burnout developers.

Another interesting week of longer-form 'things', and I've been ruminating a bit on how these videos and articles intersect in weird but neat ways with 'breaking news' or 'hottest games'. Seems like you'll get at least _some_ bleed-through - for example, this week we have Battlegrounds, Signal From Tolva & Night In The Woods again, all of which are newish or interesting releases.

But many of these pieces are evergreen & exist separately of the 'hot reactions' grind. Which is good. Exist too close to the 24-hour hype cycle, and you'll miss trends and more thoughtful takes like some of these good folks. VGDC aims to reverse that. We hope you think we do a good job.

- Simon, curator.]

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Guild Wars 2’s art style passes from father to son (Philippa Warr / RockPaperShotgun) "Recently I had the chance to talk to ArenaNet (and thus Guild Wars 2) art director Horia Dociu about his work at the studio. One of the interesting things about his promotion to the role is that he succeeds his father, Daniel."

We’ve been missing a big part of game industry’s digital revolution (Kyle Orland / Ars Technica) "Last year, the Entertainment Software Association's annual "Essential Facts" report suggested that the US game industry generated $16.5 billion in "content" sales annually (excluding hardware and accessories). In this year's report, that number had grown to a whopping $24.5 billion, a nearly 50-percent increase in a span of 12 months. No, video games didn't actually become half again as popular with Americans over the course of 2016. Instead, tracking firm NPD simply updated the way it counts the still-shadowy world of digital game sales."

Warren Spector believes games 'need to be asking bigger questions' (Alex Wawro / Gamasutra) "Gamasutra sat down with Spector at GDC last month to catch up on how the process is going, roughly a year into his full-time gig at OtherSide. It was an interesting conversation, especially if you're at all interested in where games are at these days, where they came from, and what sorts of stories they're best at telling."

A Rare Look Inside Nintendo (Otaku / Game Escape / YouTube) "This clip is an excerpt from the French documentary film "Otaku" by director Jean-Jacques Beineix from 1994. It appeared dubbed on German TV some time later, which is the version you are seeing here. It has, to my knowledge, never been released in English. The subtitles are my own. Content is the intellectual property of the original rights holders."

An Interview With One of Those Hackers Screwing With Your 'Black Ops 2' Games(Patrick Klepek / Waypoint) "He's not there to ruin your stats. He's there to sell you software that'll let you launch a DDOS attack from your Xbox 360. [SIMON'S NOTE: this is crazy - modded Xbox 360s that find other player's IP addresses and can DDOS them?! I had no idea.]"

Put a Face on It: The Aesthetics of Cute (Jenny Jiao Hsia / GDC / YouTube) "In this 2017 GDC session, Hexecutable's Jenny Jiao Hsia explains why cuteness as an aesthetic may be worth exploring for developers who want to push against current trends in game design."

Proc. Gen. and Pleasant Land | Sir You Are Being Hunted (Robert Seddon / Heterotopias) "It was a perfect rustic idyll, in its way. Perfectly lovely, nestled between the grassy fields. Perfectly quiet, as only dead places can be. Perfectly still, because a player careless enough to create a disturbance might attract the robotic hunters. Big Robot’s Sir You Are Being Hunted had, through the digital governance of its landscape generation algorithms, somehow perfected the British countryside."

How video games were made - part 3: Marketing and Business (Strafefox / YouTube) "In this final chapter we cover the business side and marketing of 8 and 16 bit games. [SIMON'S NOTE: Lots of archival footage in here & SO much work cutting it all together - and the other entries in the 'how video games were made' series look pretty good too!]"

Video Games Are Better Without Stories (Ian Bogost / The Atlantic) "A longstanding dream: Video games will evolve into interactive stories, like the ones that play out fictionally on the Star Trek Holodeck. In this hypothetical future, players could interact with computerized characters as round as those in novels or films, making choices that would influence an ever-evolving plot. [SIMON'S NOTE: lots of responses to this all over the Internet - here's a couple of good ones from the Waypoint folks.]"

'Burnout' Series Creator Talks Remaking Crash Mode for 'Danger Zone' (John Davison / Glixel) "Spend longer than a few minutes talking with fans of driving games about which series they'd love to see revived, and invariably someone will bring up Criterion's Burnout. Unlike contemporaries that were leaning harder into realism and officially-licensed cars as a response to games like Gran Turismo, the first Burnout – released by Acclaim for PlayStation 2 in 2001 – was unapologetically action-focused."

Famitsu Special Report – The Mystery of TOSE (Famitsu / One Million Power) "This is the real story behind TOSE: The game development company that’s been making games for nearly 38 years (since 1979), but hardly any gamers know. [SIMON'S NOTE: Brandon Sheffield covered TOSE for Gamasutra back in 2006, but by and large, they've been PRETTY vague about what they work on - which is fascinating.]"

How Three Kids With No Experience Beat Square And Translated Final Fantasy V Into English (Jason Schreier / Kotaku) "One day in the late 1990s, Myria walked into the Irvine High School computer room and spotted a boy playing Final Fantasy V. There were two unusual things about this. The first was that Final Fantasy V had not actually come out in the United States."

Night in the Woods is Important (HeavyEyed / YouTube) "An analysis of the recently released game - this video contains very minimal spoilers but watch at your own discretion.."

Designing the giant battle royale maps of Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (Alan Bradley / Gamasutra) "For Brendan "Playerunknown" Greene, the creator of Battlegrounds, the vision for his game world was born from extensive experience creating and manipulating environments that direct players to play his games the way he intends them to be played."

All We Have Is Words (Matthew Burns / Magical Wasteland) "Sometimes I give the impression of knowing Japanese, but I really don’t. I have no claim to it. I never made a real study of the language, I don’t know kanji and thus can’t read at all, and even in speech I can’t exchange more than pleasantries or the most rudimentary logistical information. [SIMON'S NOTE: I believe this is a subtle 'subtweet'-style article response to the recent Persona 5 translation furore? Maybe?]"

Changing the Game: What's Next for Anita Sarkeesian (Laura A. Parker / Glixel) "Anita Sarkeesian’s talk at this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco falls at an unfortunate time: 10am on the last day of the conference – a Friday. Most attendees – a mix of indie programmers, mainstream publishing teams and media – are still bleary eyed from the night before. And yet, at five-to-ten, the small room on the third floor of the Moscone Convention Center is standing-room only."

The quest to crack and preserve vintage Apple II software (Leigh Alexander and Iain Chambers / The Guardian Podcast) "Why has the quest to hack old Apple II software become the best hope we have of preserving a part of our cultural history? How do these floppy discs – still turning up in their box-loads – shine a light on the educational philosophies of the 80s? And do a new generation of gamers risk losing whole days of their lives by playing these compelling retro games in their browsers?"

Video Games Help Model Brain’s Neurons (Nick Wingfield / New York Times) "Since November, thousands of people have played the game, “Mozak,” which uses common tricks of the medium — points, leveling up and leader boards that publicly rank the performance of players — to crowdsource the creation of three-dimensional models of neurons."

Longtime 'Star Citizen' Backers Want Its New Referral Contest to Die in a Black Hole (Leif Johnson / Motherboard) "Developers of multiplayer video games often host referral programs encouraging existing players to recruit their friends for a boost in cash flow, and in that regard, the new referral contest from Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games isn't much out of the ordinary. The same can't be said of the reactions from the players themselves."

Localization Shenanigans in the Chinese Speaking World (Jung-Sheng Lin / GDC / YouTube) "In this 2017 GDC session, IGDShare's Jung-Sheng Lin discusses a wide variety of possible issues that can arise when undertaking Chinese localization for your game. These problems include grappling simplified vs. traditional Chinese, naming problems, UI & fonts, and China-specific policies that may relate to localization, political implications, and more."

Good Game/Tech/History Youtubers (Phoe / Medium) "[SIMON'S NOTE: this got birthed after a conversation I had with Phoe in the Video Game History Foundation Discord chat - he watches a lot of good retro/interesting YouTube, and there's a number of recommendations in here I was unaware of!]

Red Bull TV - Screenland (Red Bull TV) "Plug into the fresh stories within the world of video games and game design. The personal tales, wild new developments, and unexpected genres shed new light on what gaming means in the world now and what it could mean in the future. [SIMON'S NOTE: this is an entire _season_ of gaming documentaries, including with Frank Cifaldi (Video Game History Foundation), UK cult classic Knightmare, and lots more.]"

Tim Schafer tells the story of Amnesia Fortnight (Philippa Warr / RockPaperShotgun) "“I started feeling a little bogged down by the scope of [Brutal Legend],” says Tim Schafer, founder of Double Fine. “It was really huge and I felt like the team had been doing it for a long time and had a long way to go yet. I felt like they needed a break.” That break was Amnesia Fortnight, a two week game jam during which anyone at the developer can pitch an idea and, if it’s selected, lead a team to turn it from concept to working prototype."

The Signal From Tolva: The Best Game Ever (Matt Lees / Cool Ghosts / YouTube) "New video! Matt dives into a spooky robot world, to talk about some of the cool design aspects of The Signal From Tölva. [SIMON'S NOTE: Can't emphasize enough that Cool Ghosts has some of the best game criticism on YouTube. Please patronize them! (On Patreon, not by talking down to them.)"

-------------------

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[ozu-teapot]

Films watched in February 2017

Little Red Riding Hood (Short) | David Kaplan | 1997

The Falling | Carol Morley | 2014

Hard to Be a God | Aleksey German | 2013

The Ring | Gore Verbinski | 2002

Hard to Be a God | Peter Fleischmann | 1989

The Ring Two | Hideo Nakata | 2005

Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1979

Trainspotting | Danny Boyle | 1996

Son of Saul | László Nemes | 2015

With a Little Patience (Short) | László Nemes | 2007

The African Queen | John Huston | 1951

Ley Lines | Takashi Miike | 1999

Raising Cain | Brian De Palma | 1992

P'tit Quinquin | Bruno Dumont | 2014

Varieté | Ewald André Dupont | 1925

Kes | Ken Loach | 1969

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer | Masaki Kobayashi | 1961

The Arbor | Clio Barnard | 2010

Hangmen Also Die! | Fritz Lang | 1943

Harvey (Short) | Peter McDonald | 2002

The Glass Key | Stuart Heisler | 1942

Ghost in the Shell | Mamoru Oshii | 1995

Betty Blue (AKA 37°2 le matin) | Jean-Jacques Beineix | 1986

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence | Mamoru Oshii | 2004

Diva | Jean-Jacques Beineix | 1981

A Follower for Emily | Alan Clarke | 1974

Subway | Luc Besson | 1985

Mauvais Sang | Leos Carax | 1986

Bold = Top Ten 

[symbianosgames]

The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company.

[Video Game Deep Cuts is a weekly newsletter from curator/video game industry veteran Simon Carless, rounding up the best longread & standout articles & videos about games, every weekend. This week's highlights include a GDC talk on 'the aesthetics of cute', the hidden story of TOSE, & the return to car wrecking of key Burnout developers.

Another interesting week of longer-form 'things', and I've been ruminating a bit on how these videos and articles intersect in weird but neat ways with 'breaking news' or 'hottest games'. Seems like you'll get at least _some_ bleed-through - for example, this week we have Battlegrounds, Signal From Tolva & Night In The Woods again, all of which are newish or interesting releases.

But many of these pieces are evergreen & exist separately of the 'hot reactions' grind. Which is good. Exist too close to the 24-hour hype cycle, and you'll miss trends and more thoughtful takes like some of these good folks. VGDC aims to reverse that. We hope you think we do a good job.

- Simon, curator.]

-------------------

Guild Wars 2’s art style passes from father to son (Philippa Warr / RockPaperShotgun) "Recently I had the chance to talk to ArenaNet (and thus Guild Wars 2) art director Horia Dociu about his work at the studio. One of the interesting things about his promotion to the role is that he succeeds his father, Daniel."

We’ve been missing a big part of game industry’s digital revolution (Kyle Orland / Ars Technica) "Last year, the Entertainment Software Association's annual "Essential Facts" report suggested that the US game industry generated $16.5 billion in "content" sales annually (excluding hardware and accessories). In this year's report, that number had grown to a whopping $24.5 billion, a nearly 50-percent increase in a span of 12 months. No, video games didn't actually become half again as popular with Americans over the course of 2016. Instead, tracking firm NPD simply updated the way it counts the still-shadowy world of digital game sales."

Warren Spector believes games 'need to be asking bigger questions' (Alex Wawro / Gamasutra) "Gamasutra sat down with Spector at GDC last month to catch up on how the process is going, roughly a year into his full-time gig at OtherSide. It was an interesting conversation, especially if you're at all interested in where games are at these days, where they came from, and what sorts of stories they're best at telling."

A Rare Look Inside Nintendo (Otaku / Game Escape / YouTube) "This clip is an excerpt from the French documentary film "Otaku" by director Jean-Jacques Beineix from 1994. It appeared dubbed on German TV some time later, which is the version you are seeing here. It has, to my knowledge, never been released in English. The subtitles are my own. Content is the intellectual property of the original rights holders."

An Interview With One of Those Hackers Screwing With Your 'Black Ops 2' Games(Patrick Klepek / Waypoint) "He's not there to ruin your stats. He's there to sell you software that'll let you launch a DDOS attack from your Xbox 360. [SIMON'S NOTE: this is crazy - modded Xbox 360s that find other player's IP addresses and can DDOS them?! I had no idea.]"

Put a Face on It: The Aesthetics of Cute (Jenny Jiao Hsia / GDC / YouTube) "In this 2017 GDC session, Hexecutable's Jenny Jiao Hsia explains why cuteness as an aesthetic may be worth exploring for developers who want to push against current trends in game design."

Proc. Gen. and Pleasant Land | Sir You Are Being Hunted (Robert Seddon / Heterotopias) "It was a perfect rustic idyll, in its way. Perfectly lovely, nestled between the grassy fields. Perfectly quiet, as only dead places can be. Perfectly still, because a player careless enough to create a disturbance might attract the robotic hunters. Big Robot’s Sir You Are Being Hunted had, through the digital governance of its landscape generation algorithms, somehow perfected the British countryside."

How video games were made - part 3: Marketing and Business (Strafefox / YouTube) "In this final chapter we cover the business side and marketing of 8 and 16 bit games. [SIMON'S NOTE: Lots of archival footage in here & SO much work cutting it all together - and the other entries in the 'how video games were made' series look pretty good too!]"

Video Games Are Better Without Stories (Ian Bogost / The Atlantic) "A longstanding dream: Video games will evolve into interactive stories, like the ones that play out fictionally on the Star Trek Holodeck. In this hypothetical future, players could interact with computerized characters as round as those in novels or films, making choices that would influence an ever-evolving plot. [SIMON'S NOTE: lots of responses to this all over the Internet - here's a couple of good ones from the Waypoint folks.]"

'Burnout' Series Creator Talks Remaking Crash Mode for 'Danger Zone' (John Davison / Glixel) "Spend longer than a few minutes talking with fans of driving games about which series they'd love to see revived, and invariably someone will bring up Criterion's Burnout. Unlike contemporaries that were leaning harder into realism and officially-licensed cars as a response to games like Gran Turismo, the first Burnout – released by Acclaim for PlayStation 2 in 2001 – was unapologetically action-focused."

Famitsu Special Report – The Mystery of TOSE (Famitsu / One Million Power) "This is the real story behind TOSE: The game development company that’s been making games for nearly 38 years (since 1979), but hardly any gamers know. [SIMON'S NOTE: Brandon Sheffield covered TOSE for Gamasutra back in 2006, but by and large, they've been PRETTY vague about what they work on - which is fascinating.]"

How Three Kids With No Experience Beat Square And Translated Final Fantasy V Into English (Jason Schreier / Kotaku) "One day in the late 1990s, Myria walked into the Irvine High School computer room and spotted a boy playing Final Fantasy V. There were two unusual things about this. The first was that Final Fantasy V had not actually come out in the United States."

Night in the Woods is Important (HeavyEyed / YouTube) "An analysis of the recently released game - this video contains very minimal spoilers but watch at your own discretion.."

Designing the giant battle royale maps of Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (Alan Bradley / Gamasutra) "For Brendan "Playerunknown" Greene, the creator of Battlegrounds, the vision for his game world was born from extensive experience creating and manipulating environments that direct players to play his games the way he intends them to be played."

All We Have Is Words (Matthew Burns / Magical Wasteland) "Sometimes I give the impression of knowing Japanese, but I really don’t. I have no claim to it. I never made a real study of the language, I don’t know kanji and thus can’t read at all, and even in speech I can’t exchange more than pleasantries or the most rudimentary logistical information. [SIMON'S NOTE: I believe this is a subtle 'subtweet'-style article response to the recent Persona 5 translation furore? Maybe?]"

Changing the Game: What's Next for Anita Sarkeesian (Laura A. Parker / Glixel) "Anita Sarkeesian’s talk at this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco falls at an unfortunate time: 10am on the last day of the conference – a Friday. Most attendees – a mix of indie programmers, mainstream publishing teams and media – are still bleary eyed from the night before. And yet, at five-to-ten, the small room on the third floor of the Moscone Convention Center is standing-room only."

The quest to crack and preserve vintage Apple II software (Leigh Alexander and Iain Chambers / The Guardian Podcast) "Why has the quest to hack old Apple II software become the best hope we have of preserving a part of our cultural history? How do these floppy discs – still turning up in their box-loads – shine a light on the educational philosophies of the 80s? And do a new generation of gamers risk losing whole days of their lives by playing these compelling retro games in their browsers?"

Video Games Help Model Brain’s Neurons (Nick Wingfield / New York Times) "Since November, thousands of people have played the game, “Mozak,” which uses common tricks of the medium — points, leveling up and leader boards that publicly rank the performance of players — to crowdsource the creation of three-dimensional models of neurons."

Longtime 'Star Citizen' Backers Want Its New Referral Contest to Die in a Black Hole (Leif Johnson / Motherboard) "Developers of multiplayer video games often host referral programs encouraging existing players to recruit their friends for a boost in cash flow, and in that regard, the new referral contest from Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games isn't much out of the ordinary. The same can't be said of the reactions from the players themselves."

Localization Shenanigans in the Chinese Speaking World (Jung-Sheng Lin / GDC / YouTube) "In this 2017 GDC session, IGDShare's Jung-Sheng Lin discusses a wide variety of possible issues that can arise when undertaking Chinese localization for your game. These problems include grappling simplified vs. traditional Chinese, naming problems, UI & fonts, and China-specific policies that may relate to localization, political implications, and more."

Good Game/Tech/History Youtubers (Phoe / Medium) "[SIMON'S NOTE: this got birthed after a conversation I had with Phoe in the Video Game History Foundation Discord chat - he watches a lot of good retro/interesting YouTube, and there's a number of recommendations in here I was unaware of!]

Red Bull TV - Screenland (Red Bull TV) "Plug into the fresh stories within the world of video games and game design. The personal tales, wild new developments, and unexpected genres shed new light on what gaming means in the world now and what it could mean in the future. [SIMON'S NOTE: this is an entire _season_ of gaming documentaries, including with Frank Cifaldi (Video Game History Foundation), UK cult classic Knightmare, and lots more.]"

Tim Schafer tells the story of Amnesia Fortnight (Philippa Warr / RockPaperShotgun) "“I started feeling a little bogged down by the scope of [Brutal Legend],” says Tim Schafer, founder of Double Fine. “It was really huge and I felt like the team had been doing it for a long time and had a long way to go yet. I felt like they needed a break.” That break was Amnesia Fortnight, a two week game jam during which anyone at the developer can pitch an idea and, if it’s selected, lead a team to turn it from concept to working prototype."

The Signal From Tolva: The Best Game Ever (Matt Lees / Cool Ghosts / YouTube) "New video! Matt dives into a spooky robot world, to talk about some of the cool design aspects of The Signal From Tölva. [SIMON'S NOTE: Can't emphasize enough that Cool Ghosts has some of the best game criticism on YouTube. Please patronize them! (On Patreon, not by talking down to them.)"

-------------------

[REMINDER: you can sign up to receive this newsletter every weekend at http://ift.tt/2dUXrva we crosspost to Gamasutra later on Sunday, but get it first via newsletter! Story tips and comments can be emailed to vgdeepcuts@simoncarless.com. MINI-DISCLOSURE: Simon is one of the organizers of GDC and Gamasutra, so you may sometimes see links from those entities in his picks. Or not!]

[symbianosgames]

The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company.

[Video Game Deep Cuts is a weekly newsletter from curator/video game industry veteran Simon Carless, rounding up the best longread & standout articles & videos about games, every weekend. This week's highlights include a GDC talk on 'the aesthetics of cute', the hidden story of TOSE, & the return to car wrecking of key Burnout developers.

Another interesting week of longer-form 'things', and I've been ruminating a bit on how these videos and articles intersect in weird but neat ways with 'breaking news' or 'hottest games'. Seems like you'll get at least _some_ bleed-through - for example, this week we have Battlegrounds, Signal From Tolva & Night In The Woods again, all of which are newish or interesting releases.

But many of these pieces are evergreen & exist separately of the 'hot reactions' grind. Which is good. Exist too close to the 24-hour hype cycle, and you'll miss trends and more thoughtful takes like some of these good folks. VGDC aims to reverse that. We hope you think we do a good job.

- Simon, curator.]

-------------------

Guild Wars 2’s art style passes from father to son (Philippa Warr / RockPaperShotgun) "Recently I had the chance to talk to ArenaNet (and thus Guild Wars 2) art director Horia Dociu about his work at the studio. One of the interesting things about his promotion to the role is that he succeeds his father, Daniel."

We’ve been missing a big part of game industry’s digital revolution (Kyle Orland / Ars Technica) "Last year, the Entertainment Software Association's annual "Essential Facts" report suggested that the US game industry generated $16.5 billion in "content" sales annually (excluding hardware and accessories). In this year's report, that number had grown to a whopping $24.5 billion, a nearly 50-percent increase in a span of 12 months. No, video games didn't actually become half again as popular with Americans over the course of 2016. Instead, tracking firm NPD simply updated the way it counts the still-shadowy world of digital game sales."

Warren Spector believes games 'need to be asking bigger questions' (Alex Wawro / Gamasutra) "Gamasutra sat down with Spector at GDC last month to catch up on how the process is going, roughly a year into his full-time gig at OtherSide. It was an interesting conversation, especially if you're at all interested in where games are at these days, where they came from, and what sorts of stories they're best at telling."

A Rare Look Inside Nintendo (Otaku / Game Escape / YouTube) "This clip is an excerpt from the French documentary film "Otaku" by director Jean-Jacques Beineix from 1994. It appeared dubbed on German TV some time later, which is the version you are seeing here. It has, to my knowledge, never been released in English. The subtitles are my own. Content is the intellectual property of the original rights holders."

An Interview With One of Those Hackers Screwing With Your 'Black Ops 2' Games(Patrick Klepek / Waypoint) "He's not there to ruin your stats. He's there to sell you software that'll let you launch a DDOS attack from your Xbox 360. [SIMON'S NOTE: this is crazy - modded Xbox 360s that find other player's IP addresses and can DDOS them?! I had no idea.]"

Put a Face on It: The Aesthetics of Cute (Jenny Jiao Hsia / GDC / YouTube) "In this 2017 GDC session, Hexecutable's Jenny Jiao Hsia explains why cuteness as an aesthetic may be worth exploring for developers who want to push against current trends in game design."

Proc. Gen. and Pleasant Land | Sir You Are Being Hunted (Robert Seddon / Heterotopias) "It was a perfect rustic idyll, in its way. Perfectly lovely, nestled between the grassy fields. Perfectly quiet, as only dead places can be. Perfectly still, because a player careless enough to create a disturbance might attract the robotic hunters. Big Robot’s Sir You Are Being Hunted had, through the digital governance of its landscape generation algorithms, somehow perfected the British countryside."

How video games were made - part 3: Marketing and Business (Strafefox / YouTube) "In this final chapter we cover the business side and marketing of 8 and 16 bit games. [SIMON'S NOTE: Lots of archival footage in here & SO much work cutting it all together - and the other entries in the 'how video games were made' series look pretty good too!]"

Video Games Are Better Without Stories (Ian Bogost / The Atlantic) "A longstanding dream: Video games will evolve into interactive stories, like the ones that play out fictionally on the Star Trek Holodeck. In this hypothetical future, players could interact with computerized characters as round as those in novels or films, making choices that would influence an ever-evolving plot. [SIMON'S NOTE: lots of responses to this all over the Internet - here's a couple of good ones from the Waypoint folks.]"

'Burnout' Series Creator Talks Remaking Crash Mode for 'Danger Zone' (John Davison / Glixel) "Spend longer than a few minutes talking with fans of driving games about which series they'd love to see revived, and invariably someone will bring up Criterion's Burnout. Unlike contemporaries that were leaning harder into realism and officially-licensed cars as a response to games like Gran Turismo, the first Burnout – released by Acclaim for PlayStation 2 in 2001 – was unapologetically action-focused."

Famitsu Special Report – The Mystery of TOSE (Famitsu / One Million Power) "This is the real story behind TOSE: The game development company that’s been making games for nearly 38 years (since 1979), but hardly any gamers know. [SIMON'S NOTE: Brandon Sheffield covered TOSE for Gamasutra back in 2006, but by and large, they've been PRETTY vague about what they work on - which is fascinating.]"

How Three Kids With No Experience Beat Square And Translated Final Fantasy V Into English (Jason Schreier / Kotaku) "One day in the late 1990s, Myria walked into the Irvine High School computer room and spotted a boy playing Final Fantasy V. There were two unusual things about this. The first was that Final Fantasy V had not actually come out in the United States."

Night in the Woods is Important (HeavyEyed / YouTube) "An analysis of the recently released game - this video contains very minimal spoilers but watch at your own discretion.."

Designing the giant battle royale maps of Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (Alan Bradley / Gamasutra) "For Brendan "Playerunknown" Greene, the creator of Battlegrounds, the vision for his game world was born from extensive experience creating and manipulating environments that direct players to play his games the way he intends them to be played."

All We Have Is Words (Matthew Burns / Magical Wasteland) "Sometimes I give the impression of knowing Japanese, but I really don’t. I have no claim to it. I never made a real study of the language, I don’t know kanji and thus can’t read at all, and even in speech I can’t exchange more than pleasantries or the most rudimentary logistical information. [SIMON'S NOTE: I believe this is a subtle 'subtweet'-style article response to the recent Persona 5 translation furore? Maybe?]"

Changing the Game: What's Next for Anita Sarkeesian (Laura A. Parker / Glixel) "Anita Sarkeesian’s talk at this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco falls at an unfortunate time: 10am on the last day of the conference – a Friday. Most attendees – a mix of indie programmers, mainstream publishing teams and media – are still bleary eyed from the night before. And yet, at five-to-ten, the small room on the third floor of the Moscone Convention Center is standing-room only."

The quest to crack and preserve vintage Apple II software (Leigh Alexander and Iain Chambers / The Guardian Podcast) "Why has the quest to hack old Apple II software become the best hope we have of preserving a part of our cultural history? How do these floppy discs – still turning up in their box-loads – shine a light on the educational philosophies of the 80s? And do a new generation of gamers risk losing whole days of their lives by playing these compelling retro games in their browsers?"

Video Games Help Model Brain’s Neurons (Nick Wingfield / New York Times) "Since November, thousands of people have played the game, “Mozak,” which uses common tricks of the medium — points, leveling up and leader boards that publicly rank the performance of players — to crowdsource the creation of three-dimensional models of neurons."

Longtime 'Star Citizen' Backers Want Its New Referral Contest to Die in a Black Hole (Leif Johnson / Motherboard) "Developers of multiplayer video games often host referral programs encouraging existing players to recruit their friends for a boost in cash flow, and in that regard, the new referral contest from Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games isn't much out of the ordinary. The same can't be said of the reactions from the players themselves."

Localization Shenanigans in the Chinese Speaking World (Jung-Sheng Lin / GDC / YouTube) "In this 2017 GDC session, IGDShare's Jung-Sheng Lin discusses a wide variety of possible issues that can arise when undertaking Chinese localization for your game. These problems include grappling simplified vs. traditional Chinese, naming problems, UI & fonts, and China-specific policies that may relate to localization, political implications, and more."

Good Game/Tech/History Youtubers (Phoe / Medium) "[SIMON'S NOTE: this got birthed after a conversation I had with Phoe in the Video Game History Foundation Discord chat - he watches a lot of good retro/interesting YouTube, and there's a number of recommendations in here I was unaware of!]

Red Bull TV - Screenland (Red Bull TV) "Plug into the fresh stories within the world of video games and game design. The personal tales, wild new developments, and unexpected genres shed new light on what gaming means in the world now and what it could mean in the future. [SIMON'S NOTE: this is an entire _season_ of gaming documentaries, including with Frank Cifaldi (Video Game History Foundation), UK cult classic Knightmare, and lots more.]"

Tim Schafer tells the story of Amnesia Fortnight (Philippa Warr / RockPaperShotgun) "“I started feeling a little bogged down by the scope of [Brutal Legend],” says Tim Schafer, founder of Double Fine. “It was really huge and I felt like the team had been doing it for a long time and had a long way to go yet. I felt like they needed a break.” That break was Amnesia Fortnight, a two week game jam during which anyone at the developer can pitch an idea and, if it’s selected, lead a team to turn it from concept to working prototype."

The Signal From Tolva: The Best Game Ever (Matt Lees / Cool Ghosts / YouTube) "New video! Matt dives into a spooky robot world, to talk about some of the cool design aspects of The Signal From Tölva. [SIMON'S NOTE: Can't emphasize enough that Cool Ghosts has some of the best game criticism on YouTube. Please patronize them! (On Patreon, not by talking down to them.)"

-------------------

[REMINDER: you can sign up to receive this newsletter every weekend at http://ift.tt/2dUXrva we crosspost to Gamasutra later on Sunday, but get it first via newsletter! Story tips and comments can be emailed to vgdeepcuts@simoncarless.com. MINI-DISCLOSURE: Simon is one of the organizers of GDC and Gamasutra, so you may sometimes see links from those entities in his picks. Or not!]