Saturday, June 1, 2013

Margaryta Senchylo


ph: Filippo Fortis

Window faces


Regensburg, May 2013

Beth Ogden


ph: Claire Pepper

A day in the life, May 30


A day in the life, May 30, Little Annie with Larsen, Feierwerk, Munich

Camellia Clouse


Tae-poong (2005)





A modern-day pirate plans a massive attack on North and South Korea.


An actioner with a political stance, muddled by its confusing message and an overloaded plot.


Alena Blohm


ph: Fabrizio Rainone

New Stuff: Eyes Wide Shut


I must admit, so far I've never watched this one, and now that I have finally decided to do so, I realized I didn't have it on DVD (though I thought so).


Sasha Pivovarova


ph: Craig McDean

Faster (2010)


An ex-con sets out to avenge his brother's death after they were double-crossed during a heist years ago.

Standard actioner, but straightforward and efficient and with a surprising twist ending.

Maltin **: "Saguinary revenger...Overpumped oil slick of a movie wallows in homage (clue: check out the assassin's ringtone), and looks as if it were edited with a strobe. Stirring perforances, though, by Chevelle SS, GTO, and Ferrari."


Who's That Girl?


Art: Emilia Dziubak


Find more at:

http://www.behance.net/emiliadziubak

Friday, May 31, 2013

Kasia Struss


ph: Greg Kadel

Window faces


Regensburg, May 2013

Jenna Pietersen


A day in the life, May 29


A day in the life, May 29, present-day phone booth

Natalia Vodianova


From my vaults: Jody Chastain


(with Charlie Feathers and Jerry Huffman)

Bio:

http://www.chastaincentral.com/content/music.html#Jody


Jane Birkin


New York


New York 2008, Coney Island

Lily Donaldson


ph: Paola Kudacki

First Lines: Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook


Anna meets her friend Molly in the summer of 1957 after a separation...

Clara Alonso


ph: Felix Valiente

Window faces


Regensburg, May 2013

Klara Boscic


ph: PeppeTortora

A day in the life, May 28


A day in the life, May 28, snail

Lucie De La Falaise


ph: Steven Meisel

New Stuff: Ruth Crawford Seeger


Ruth Crawford Seeger, mother of Pete Seeger, was a composer in her own right. Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise: "This earnest, self-deprecating woman went on to write some of the most fabulously byzantine music of her time."


Helena McKelvie


La Pianiste (2001)


A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.

Adaptation of Elfriede Jellinek's novel is a harrowing study of a despicable character, staged in a hieratic style with an amazing central performance, but without any irony supposedly present in the novel.

Halliwell (no star): "A gifted director and actress go astray in this intense, unlovely drama; if it has a point, it is that sex and music make unreasonable demands on those who take them seriously."

Maltin ***1/2: "Magnificent, and decidedly adult study...Huppert has the role of her career as a woman with unusual views on intimacy and sex; costar Magimel matches her intensity. Harrowing and haunting, but not entirely humorless."

[ Nota bene: I really didn't see any humor in it.]






Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Jefimija Jokic


ph: Dusan Jaukovic

Window faces


Regensburg, May 2013

Aline Weber


ph: Christian Anwander

A day in the life, May 27


A day in the life, May 27, Regensburg

Kate Moss irrégulière


From my vaults: Ilka Chase


Bio:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilka_Chase

Anna Wasacz-Carter


New York


New York 2008

Claire Campbell


ph: Fabien Montique

First Lines: Orhan Pamuk - My Name is Red


I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.

Carla Campbell


Mannequin


Regensburg, May 2013

An Oost


ph: Mikael Jansson

A day in the life, May 26


A day in the life, May 26, standing outside looking inside

Susan Holmes


ph: Ellen von Unwerth

New Stuff: The New Yorker


art: Ana Juan

Ramona Chmura


ph: Stefania Paparelli

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

New Stuff: Hans G Helms


According to The Wire: "Alongside Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge and Ligeti's Requiem, Fa:m' Ahniesgwow is revealed as one of the great post Secod World War pieces, only a historical footnote because no one quite knew hot to deal with Helms's demands; the version by Sprechbohrer was five years in the making."