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Brand Upon The Brain! formspring
I was wondering if you could perhaps see to it to send me a Karagarga invite. Thank you. P.S, I simply love your tumblr.
Sorry hotmail addresses aren’t allowed. Do you have another email address I could send it to?
invite for karagarga please! i love your tumblr.
sent…enjoy.
fuck you.
send photo plz.
i asked you where you got Love Exposure from but you never replied. my heart was broken. PS - i got it now tho…will watch it soon
Sorry I didn’t notice, or I would have responded. Glad you found it though. Your tumblr is one of my favorites.
Hi. I love your tumblr. I always look forward to your posts and I hated it when you went on a bit of hiatus there because I didn’t really know of any other film tumblr’s quite as good. You’re the only other person I know of that has seen The Klass (the estonian bully film). How did you get to see it? I do pretty much the same thing as you said netflix dvds. It’s a good system.
Thanks, I enjoyed the break though. I think it was for the best. I actually came across The Klass while looking for the French film The Class and downloaded it on Karagarga. I noticed you have both on your countdown. Haven’t seen the French film still; I’ll have to check it out. I love the system…it’s even more satisfying since I bought 300 DVD-Rs for only $10 when Circuit City went out of business.
What was the inspiration for “brand upon the brain”?
I like cinema and I like Guy Maddin…Brand Upon The Brain seems like an appropriate title for tumblr and the staying power of images. I used to have a cineblog where I’d post reviews and usually one screenshot per film. No one really paid attention to it much so I started incorporating it into my tumblr which I initially used for a broader of a variety of things.
You’re like this tumblr mystery man I admire a lot. You’re almost spartan in the way you post almost only screencaps of great movies. Do you actually see all the films you post screencaps of? Where do you get them/how do you do them?
When I first started posting on tumblr I was kind of all over the place, although cinema was always a dominating theme. I used to be less mysterious, and even posted photos of myself, but I prefer my current format. My screencaps are of the film I’ve watched most recently. I rent via Netflix, go to the theaters, or revival houses, and download torrents for films I can’t find otherwise. If anyone is interesting in foreign/arthouse/hard to find film torrents drop your email on my formspring and I’ll send you an invite to Karagarga. I make my screencaps usually by ripping my Netflix DVDs with Mac the Ripper, then I convert them into mp4 files with Handbreak. That way I can consolidate 2 or 3 mp4s on a DVD-R and re-watch them on my TV through my PS3 at my leisure.
If you haven’t yet, you should post a top *insert number* list of your favorite films sometime
The only film list I’ve done so far is a Top 25 films from 2008. I intend to do another list for 2009 and sort of a best of the decade list next month. Maybe in the future I will do an all-time list. I’d like to post stills from some of my favorites that I’ve seen before, but there are still so many films I want to see.
i still fucking hate you.
I love you though <3. Let’s ride bikes some time.
What is your favorite movie ever?
Stalker or Mirror maybe. Tarkovsky is my favorite filmmaker, closely followed by Kurosawa.Dr. Strangelove probably has the most rewatchability for me though. Auteurasaurus is my work in progress list of films I’ve seen organized by director. Ratings aren’t filled out for all of them, but I plan on getting to it whenever I’m in the mood, although I think ratings are somewhat arbitrary, it’s still kind of fun.
any tumblr evoking the spirit of guy maddin is one thousand miles of OKAY with me :)
TY, love your tumblr.
Avatar (James Cameron, 2009)
At this point, everyone has heard Jame’s Cameron’s “cinema changing,” billion dollar (if you include the cost of the technological innovations developed for the film) new epic, Avatar has incredible visuals unlike anything you’ve seen before, but a cliché story with plenty of poorly developed characters and a good ole fashioned deus ex machina or two. Let’s face reality; a 500 million dollar non-sequel that isn’t adapted from anything or derived from something the public is already familiar with, most likely doesn’t get made unless it promises to throw elements from Star Wars, Braveheart, Lord of the Rings, and every other profitable sci-fi nerd-fest into a blender. This sort of grimace inducing formula is probably the only logical choice for a movie of this magnitude, but in the film’s defense, at least it wasn’t dumbed down to the extent a lot of other recent blockbusters such as Transformers, which seems more fit for illiterates, racists, and guys that wear Ed Hardy apparel. Although Cameron’s political stances are pretty overt and his ecological message hypocritical when you think about all the places the money spent on making this movie could have gone, it’s better than having nothing to say at all.
Personally I’m not a big fan of the sci-fi/fantasy epic, but I do enjoy seeing new things, so I was curious to see what a movie with such a massive budget would produce. Despite the unoriginal script, the visuals balance things out, delivering some ridiculous special effects I never could have imagined and don’t really even want to attempt to fathom how they did it. When you begin to study film, and learn how things are done, it takes away some of the awe of cinema, so it’s refreshing to see the limits being constantly challenged. It’s hard to believe movies have gotten to a point where this sort of technology is possible, but it’s also exciting. I was also impressed with Cameron’s use of 3-D throughout. I don’t consider myself a connoisseur of 3-D cinema, but this film seemed to really understand how the format could be incorporated into a film to enhance the experience and create an atmosphere rather than just use the technology as a gimmick. Even though I don’t have a desire to ever create anything remotely similar and I’ll always prefer more traditional and realistic photography over blue tiger people, I enjoyed Avatar as a historical experience. I find myself mentally placing images from Avatar side by side with the old silent Edison films in my mind and being amazed at the progress accomplished in such a short amount of time, yet it’s also discouraging to see the continuing trend of the degradation of filmic storytelling in favor of regurgitated financial successes.
Avatar (James Cameron, 2009)
Avatar (James Cameron, 2009)
Avatar (James Cameron, 2009)
Avatar (James Cameron, 2009)
Avatar (James Cameron, 2009)
