Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes - it looks there's a trip to the video store for me - tho' I wonder if they would even have these films as they're not your obvious Hollywood Blockbusters. ernie On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 11:55 AM, Tim Atherton wrote: > Wings of Desire and Far Away So Close - if you can cope with a bit of > existential angst... great photography. And with the former you can do > a > comparison and watch City of Angels and see what happens when Hollywood > tries to re-make a decent movie and put Meg Ryan in it - the is no > comparison... The one will make you puke, the other won't! > > > tim > > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Ernest >> Nitka >> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 7:24 AM >> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re. On Topic - Wim Wenders >> >> >> Carl- Well it's actually Barnes and Noble on Erie but it could have >> been Borders - some of his other books look even more interesting. He >> has rubbed elbows with many in the Hollywood Circles when they were >> all >> young and experimenting. A similar Offshoot of this book is the >> recent >> retrospective of Dennis Hopper as Artist/Photographer. I had no idea >> about his committment to the arts - stronger than his acting. I >> haven't decided what I think of Hopper's photography but I admire his >> passion along with Wenders. >> >> ernie >> On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 08:53 AM, Carl Pultz wrote: >> >>> Ernie wrote: >>> >>> Just picked up his book 'ONCE' - suitably impressed and it's On Topic >>> because he has photos of Xmas time in Australia where it was so hot >>> he >>> burned his hands on his Leica! ---- may not be eveyone's cup of tea >>> but >>> i like the book. don't know much about him as a film maker and have >>> never seen any of his movies - may have to explore that further. >>> _____________________________________________________________ >>> >>> I think I was looking at that book last fall. At Borders on Erie >>> Blvd, >>> right? (Sorry for the regionalism - Ernie and I live in neighboring >>> cities.) I was going to buy it next time I was there, because while I >>> wasn't very impressed at first, the mood and spirit of his stuff >>> stayed with me. >>> >>> If I remember, he shot a lot of the stuff while scouting locations >>> for >>> filming. Made me think of Robert Frank's "The Americans." While it's >>> not that dark, they both capture the vast emptiness of the west, and >>> what must be a particularly American isolation and impermanence. It's >>> hard to put into words. >>> >>> One film you should be able to get easily is "Buena Vista Social >>> Club," the documentary about some great, almost forgotten Cuban >>> musicians. The music gets under your skin just like Wenders' photos. >>> He also did "Paris, Texas," which I haven't seen, but again the music >>> (Ry Cooder) is very moody and dreamlike. And - Nastassja Kinski! >>> >>> Carl >>> >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe, see >>> http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >>> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see >> http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html