Orange Hong Kong

Found: the colour orange in Hong Kong. 2013.

Fear eats the soul.

Ali: Fear Eats The Soul, Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1974

"The shot.....shows the two framed so symmetrically in the doorway that, on the one hand, the isolation they feel becomes obvious, and on the other, this frame-within-a-frame reveals the relationship in which we stand to the characters. 

At the same time, through the same stylistic device, we are made aware that the couple is lonely and vulnerable, but that they are also prototypes of ourselves." 

 - Wilfried Wiegand, The Doll in the Doll: Observations on Fassbinder's Films

Reflections from 5 to 7

Cleo from 5 to 7, Agnes Varda 1961

Rad dance moves.

Bande a part (Band of Outsiders) Jean-Luc Godard 1964
Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino 1994
Rock'n'Rolla Guy Ritchie 2008

A stellar start to 2014.

Five brilliant cinema releases to kick off 2014:

Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel & Ethan Coen 2013

12 Years A Slave, Steve McQueen 2013

Her, Spike Jonze 2013

The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza), Paolo Sorrentino 2013

Blue Is The Warmest Colour (La Vie d'Adele - Chapitres 1 & 2), Abdellatif Kechiche 2013

An Oscar-worthy performance by Chiwetel Ejiofor