Wednesday, May 07, 2008

SOME RELATED TOPICS ON URBAN LANDSCAPES (PART 3)

My eighteenth poll ended with three votes, including one vote from me for ROUGH NIGHT. Thank you very much for everyone who participated in it. Here is the result:

I LIKE THE PRESENTATION OF HOUSES, BUILDINGS, ALLEYS, OR URBAN LANDSCAPES IN THESE FILMS. WHICH FILM DO YOU LIKE?

1. RETRIBUTION (2006, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan)
It got 2 votes or 66 %.

2. LA NOTTE (1961, Michelangelo Antonioni, Italy)
+ROUGH NIGHT (2001, Samart Imkham, Thailand)
+WONDERLAND (1999, Michael Winterbottom, UK)

Each of them got 1 vote or 33 %.


5.ANAT(T)A (2006, Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr, Koichi Shimizu, Thailand)
+BANGKOK AT 21.42 HRS (2001, Thanes Maneejak, Thailand)
+BANGKOK: CITY OF ANGELS (2007, Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa, Thailand)
+THE BEST OF TIMES (2002, Chang Tso-chi, Taiwan)
+THE BET COLLECTOR (2006, Jeffrey Jeturian, Philippines)
+ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (1958, Louis Malle, France)
+FRONTIER (2003, Jun Miyazaki, Japan)
+GHOSTTRANSMISSIONS (2005, Building Transmission, Thailand)
+ISABELLA (2006, Pang Ho-cheung, Hong Kong)
+MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES (2007, Jennifer Baichwal, Canada/China)
+OBRAS (2004, Hendrick Dusollier, France)
+LE PONT DU NORD (1981, Jacques Rivette, France)
+SHADOWS (1959, John Cassavetes, USA)
+SKETCHES OF FRANK GEHRY (2005, Sydney Pollack, USA)
+SOMETHING MORE THAN NIGHT (2003, Daniel Eisenberg, USA)
+VACANCY (1998, Matthias Mueller, Germany/Brazil)

Each of them got 0 vote.

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Some related topics on urban landscapes (part 3):

part 1 is here:
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2008/04/images-of-films-about-urban-landscapes.html

part 2 is here:
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2008/04/some-related-topics-on-urban-landscapes.html


6.ANDREAS GURSKY, a great photographer
http://nymag.com/arts/art/reviews/31785/
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2162/2473898658_e14e9df2c8_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2260/2473898656_04c8a80613_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2056/2473898652_8cf199d8d0_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2235/2473898650_44b67bf4f2_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3009/2473898648_7127476522_o.jpg


7.THOMAS STRUTH, a great photographer
http://www.masters-of-fine-art-photography.com/02/artphotogallery/photographers/thomas_struth_01.html
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2320/2473094129_1cfc82c8d4_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3092/2473094131_fcf2627089_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3111/2473094135_724afd5224_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2062/2473094137_a8cc776915_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2012/2473094145_24af13ce1c_o.jpg


I first heard about Thomas Struth and Andreas Gursky from an article on HIDDEN (2005, Michael Haneke), written by Paul Arthur in FILM COMMENT magazine, NOV-DEC 2005.
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2005/12/music-man-2003-jeff-bleckner.html










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