MOVIE GREEN - SOPHIA TAKAL - 2011

Sophia Takal, the first-time director of Green, gets to the same dark place, deploying the flamethrower glare of actor Kate Lyn Sheil to ignite her rustic psychodrama. It concerns hip Brooklyn couple Sebastian (Lawrence Levine) and Genevieve (Sheil), whose relationship goes through a loop when they retreat to a country house where he intends to write about an adventure in sustainable living. Their solitude is soon gate-crashed by Robin (Takal), a compulsively chatty neighbor whose twangy intrusiveness gradually charms Genevieve and then Sebastian, even though her lack of urban sophistication and casual regard to boundaries make her, at first, a source of condescending amusement. Pretty quickly, though, you surmise that this isn’t some micro budget riff on Green Acres.

DIARY LYLYBYE - AGAINST NATURE - 2011

The Piano - Jane Campion 1993







W March 2011 - Against Nature -Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott




John William Waterhouse Ophelia, 1889

TIM WALKER - THE LOST EXPLORER - STORY BY PATRICK McGRATH - TENEUES - 2011

The story the adventurer then whispers to Evelyn comes not from McGrath's book but from Walker's memory. 'Ages ago someone told me how, in Victorian times, there were canary clouds over the Atlantic,' he says, referring to the days when a taste for exotic birds meant that clippers sailed back from Africa loaded with cages. Halfway home, they would release the birds, which would soar over the sea, until, too tiny to reach land, they would drop back down to the ship and a life of captivity.

This magical volume is a companion piece to the short film of the same name, which is due to be shown at film festivals worldwide. Long awaited, this is Tim Walker’s first cinematic endeavor. To this fantastical work, Walker brings all the whimsy and elaborate scene-making so integral to his renowned fashion photography.

This volume contains the original short story by Patrick McGrath as well as a facsimile of the annotated shooting script. Embark on a memorable journey with young Evelyn as she finds a lost explorer in her garden— and begins a haunting tale of dark adventure.

MOVIE THE PIANO - JANE CAMPION - 1993

A mute woman along with her young daughter, and her prized piano, are sent to 1850s New Zealand for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, and she's soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.






































Three Ladies - Mids 1870

METRONOMY - THE ENGLISH RIVIERA - 2011

JAMES FRANCO & JAMES DEAN - 2011

Roy Schatt - James Dean, NY 1954


I've always thought they looked strikingly similar to one another (it's almost errie!). Then I saw Franco's performance as Dean in the tv movie about James Dean's life. I thought Franco was perfect! He captured James Dean wonderfully, from the look to the mannerisms, it was amazing. Even now, 7 years after that role, to me it's still Franco's best to date. So, here is my little tribute to two amazing actors !

HANNAH HÖCH - ARTIST - 2011

Hannah Höch was born Anna Therese Johanne Höch] in Gotha, Germany. From 1912 to 1914 she studied at the College of Arts and Crafts in Berlin under the guidance of Harold Bergen. She chose the curriculum glass design and graphic arts, rather than fine arts, to please her father. In 1914, at the start of World War I, she left the school to work with the Red Cross. In 1915 she returned to schooling, entering the graphics class of the National Institute of the Museum of Arts and Crafts. Also in 1915, Höch began an influential friendship with Raoul Hausmann, a member of the Berlin Dada movement. Höch's involvement with the Berlin Dadists began in earnest in 1919. After her schooling, she worked in the handicrafts department for Ullstein Verlang [The Ullstein Press], designing dress and embroidery patterns for Die Dame [The Lady] and Die Praktische Berlinerin [The Practical Berlin Woman]. The influence of this early work and training can be seen in her later work involving references to dress patterns and textiles. From 1926 to 1929 she lived and worked in the Netherlands. Höch made many influential friendships over the years, with Kurt Schwitters and Piet Mondrian among others. Hausmann, along with Höch, was one of the first pioneers of the art form that would come to be known as photomontage.