From season one of The Wire,
Fresh Air interviewed Simon and Pelecanos, 2004 (around the release of season three on dvd).
Category: film
Big Deal on Madonna Street
The Grandmasters
call for entries
Call for entries for videos & films from Centre Pompidou. Hors Pistes is akin to MoCA’s Optic Nerve.
“Hors Pistes”
Call for Entries for Videos & Films
Location: Centre Pompidou – Paris
Dates: Deadline October 10, 2011
Info: www.centrepompidou.frCentre Pompidou is pleased to announce its open call for entries for films and videso in two sections:
Section 1: a program of more than 30 screenings exploring the new tendencies of contemporary image.
Section 2: an exhibition around themes closely related to image – this year = ANIMALS
SUBMISSIONS
This call for entries is only for films and videos.
Section 1 (screenings): any international work of 20 to 65 minutes completed after January 2010 is eligible for entry. Selected works will be screened in 16 and 35 mm film, in Beta, mini DV video, or files.
Section 2 (exhibition): any international work shorter than 20 minutes produced in any year is eligible for entry. Selected works will be screened in Beta, mini DV video, or files.
For both sections : No submission fee is required. Non-french and non-english works must be subtitled in English.
DVD of the work must be sent accompanied by the sender’s contacts, to: CENTRE POMPIDOU, HORS PISTES, 75191 Paris CEDEX 04, France.
rififi
A Criterion Collection film directed by Jules Dassin, borrowed from the library. Heist, gangster, noir, adapted from the novel, Du Rififi chez les Hommes by Auguste le Breton. France. 1955.
And an image of a poster by Robert Hossein snatched from ebay.
l’illusionniste
This film is from 2007 by Sylvain Chomet, based on a Jacques Tati script.
Jean-Luc fonts
Atelier Carvalho Bernau pays homage to Jean-Luc Godard, via a typeface. They designed JeanLuc based on Plaque Découpée Universelle, a set of stencil letters from the 1870s.
Godard’s 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle is a/probably my favorite.
internet item of the day
So after we saw “la Science des Reves“, the director’s commentary and the extra stuff on the dvd, we made favorable remarks about the actors and the director. It was pleasant to see Gael GarcÃa Bernal, since Amores Perros and Charlotte Gainsbourg, whom I have never seen act but enjoyed her music.
Michel Gondry was especially funny and endearing. Revisit the extra footages on the dvd, it’s worth it.
His upcoming movie is called “Be Kind Rewind“, with Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover et al. The official trailer.
Here is Michel Gondry’s trailer.