An exemplar of film posters by significant German designer Hans Hillman (via The Auteurs Notebook). The posters for Pickpocket and A Woman is a Woman are particularly great.
Charlie’s (Charles Aznavour) thoughts as he walks Lena (Marie Dubois) home are conveyed to the viewer through voice-over…
…She’s laughs…
…He reacts…
… and she states the obvious…
The preceding series of frames is only a part, albeit a sizable chunk, of what is one of my favourite sequences in a film in (my) recent memory. The sequence comes from François Truffaut’s Shoot the Piano Player, which is actually the follow-up to his seminal film The 400 Blows. Anyway, even though I cut off the beginning and end of the sequence, I’m pretty sure I captured enough frames from the film to demonstrate what I enjoyed about it.
Okay so here’s where I’m supposed to eloquently explain just what is so memorable about this sequence but once I started to do so, I realized the Herculean effort it would require of myself to do it with any measure of clarity or succinctness, and so I quit.
What I will say is that the sequence is a perfect example of the “movie magic” which Truffaut was able create -something that I can’t really explain, that you’ll have to see for yourself - and is present in surfeit in Shoot the Piano Player.
Jake One ft. Elzhi and Royce da 5’9” - Glow
“The cool thing about Jake’s album is that it IS backpacker rap sometimes. It’s everything though. It makes shit like Slug rapping alongside Posdnous, Buck atop “Triggerman” and Keak rasping on boom bap all seem like it comes from the same place. Which it does.
You know, this little thing called hip hop.”
- Noz, from the comments section of a post on his blog featuring a video for the song Home which is included alongside Glow on Jake One’s very good 2008 release White Van Music.
The trailer for the film Revanche, a Janus films release. Armond White reviews it here.
The El Michaels Affair - Can it all be so simple
