WALKING DEAD - tv series from the American Movie Channel

WALKING DEAD, or: EPIPHANY ON DEATH: A SIMPLE REQUEST

In NYC, lots of infrastructure
already looks abandonned.
It's not hard to imagine
the zombie apocalypse
envisioned on so many channels--

But the apocolypse
comes quickly, so there is actually
less time for rot and decay;
Things will still be shiny.

However I go, however I die,
let me lie down first
and look at the sky.

That's all I want
it's all I ask
a simple request.


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From Wikipedia:

The Walking Dead is an American television drama series developed by Frank Darabont. It is based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. The series stars Andrew Lincoln as sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes, who awakens from a coma to find the world dominated by flesh-eating "walkers", resembling the zombies of George A. Romero's horror movies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.

The Walking Dead premiered on October 31, 2010 on the cable television channel AMC in the United States.^[Based on its reception, AMC renewed the series for a second season of 13 episodes, which premiered on October 16, 2011. Two episodes into the second season, AMC announced that the show would return for a third season, which began airing on October 14, 2012.

AGUIRRE, WRATH OF GOD

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Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972)
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (original title)
German
Director: Werner Herzog


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AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD

Rain that is
not rain
is not rain.

An arrow that is
not an arrow
can kill you.

A ship that is not
a ship
is actually a ship

adrift in a tall tree.

A bible is
the words of God
but does not speak.

Malaria and enemies
unseen, destroy
from without

and from within
all but Aguirre:
A horror film.

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Welcome to my first attempts to add MOVIE TRIVIA.

Quote from the film: Don Lope de Aguirre: "That man is a head taller than me. That may change."

Using minimalist story and dialogue, the story of Aguirre, the Wrath of God follows Lope de Aguirre, who leads a group of conquistadores down the Amazon River in search of the legendary city of gold, El Dorado. Some of the people and situations may have been inspired by Gaspar de Carvajal's account of an Amazonian expedition, but it is mostly a work of imagination and improvisation.

Aguirre was the first of five collaborations between Herzog and the volatile Kinski. The director and the actor clashed throughout the film. Kinski's tantrums terrorized both the crew and the natives.The production was shot entirely on location and was fraught with difficulties. Filming took place in the Peruvian rainforest and on the Amazon River during an arduous five-week period. Cast and crew climbed mountains, cut through jungle and rode treacherous river rapids on rafts.

Aguirre opened to widespread critical acclaim, and quickly developed a large international cult film following. It was given an extensive arthouse theatrical release in the United States in 1977, and remains one of the director's best known films. Several critics have declared the film a masterpiece, and it has appeared on Time magazine's list of "All Time 100 Best Films".

 

The film was made for US$370,000, on a stolen 35 mm camera, with one-third of the budget paying for Kinski's salary.^[

MELANCHOLIA (2011)

 Director: Lars von Trier;  Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kiefer Sutherland
 
 
 
MELANCHOLIA
 
If Tarkovsky
made a chick-flik
this would be it

"Hugo," 2011, directed by Martin Scorsese, in 3D

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HUGO


Scorcese's "Hugo"
was a mess, took forever to get to
the point. I went there to see
Georges Méliès, but the film
kept me waiting and waiting.
Why were the British so French?
Why was that urchin so sweaty?
Call me old-school,

but I really do not like 3D
unless people are vomiting on-screen.

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Fanny and Alexander: (1984) Director Ingmar Bergman

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FANNY AND ALEXANDER

A vacuum formed in the core
of an actress
is too hastily filled
by a spiritual smile
attached

to a monstrous man.
Magic and the everyday,
finery and brocade,
nestled all together
like one big happy family
in a huge house, until the monster

had his way, and seduced
the actress away, along with
her hapless offspring
and tortured them.


In the end
family happiness is restored,
and very much in the family way,
when--with the aid of
smoke and mirrors,
and belief,
and theater--
the sinister smiler is slayed, yet

he does not die completely.
For he leaves behind
on the greasy underside
of reality

an unshakeable film


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Red Desert (Il Deserto Rosso), 1964, dir. Michelangelo Antonioni

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RED DESERT




He sees a red door and he wants to paint it black.
He sees a green field and he has to paint it grey.
What are the colors of the
spaces in between?
What is the texture of the pain
that is unseen?

He points out something that is not quite yet a fact.
He does it openly and yet behind your back.
Can you really tell a caress
from an attack? At random, people
circle, interact.


Cool colors fight with warm,
opening a crack.
Poison plumes of yellow smoke
roil up to scorch the sky; little birdies
have to learn to
fly the other way.


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