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Hansel and Gretel (2007) | dir. Pil-sung Yim | South Korea
Cinematography by Ji-yong Kim
Hansel and Gretel (2007) | dir. Pil-sung Yim | South Korea
Hansel and Gretel (2007) | dir. Pil-sung Yim | South Korea
Shim Eun-Kyung, Jin Ji-Hee & Eun Won-Jae
Hansel and Gretel (2007) | dir. Pil-sung Yim | South Korea
Cinematography by Ji-yong Kim
Hansel and Gretel (2007) | dir. Pil-sung Yim | South Korea
Cinematography by Ji-yong Kim
Hansel and Gretel (2007) | dir. Pil-sung Yim | South Korea
Cinematography by Ji-yong Kim
Everything... started in this deep dense forest.
The internet could change next week, and not in a good way
You may have heard about the efforts in Europe to reform copyright law. The debate has been ongoing in the European Parliament for months. If approved next week, these new regulations would require us to automatically filter and block content that you upload without meaningful consideration of your right to free expression.
We respect the copyrights and trademarks of others, and we take all reports seriously to ensure that your creative expression is protected. We make this clear in our Community Guidelines. There’s already a legal framework that works and is fair: Today we take down posts and media that contain allegedly infringing content when we receive a valid DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown request. We also provide clear-cut ways for people to fight back if they believe their removed content was not a true violation. These instances are monitored and reported and live in our biannual transparency report.
The suggestion to use automated filters for issues of copyright is short-sighted at best and harmful at worst. Automated filters are unable to determine whether a use should be considered “fair use” under the law and are unable to determine whether a use is authorized by a license agreement. They are unable to distinguish legitimate parody, satire, or even your own personal pictures that could be matched with similar photographs that have been protected by someone else. We don’t believe that technology should replace human judgment. Tumblr is and always has been a place for creative expression, and these new regulations would only make it harder for you to express yourself with the freedom and clarity you do so now.
If you access Tumblr from Europe and want to act, you can find more information on saveyourinternet.eu.
For someone who was never meant for this world, I must confess I’m suddenly having a hard time leaving it. Of course, they say every atom in our bodies was once part of a star. Maybe I’m not leaving… maybe I’m going home.
Gattaca (1997)
There is no answer. It’s okay. But even if it wasn’t okay, what am I supposed to do?
Raymond Carver, Cathedral (via quotespile)
Brat (Brother) | 1997 | dir. Alexei Balabanov | Russia
Cinematography by Sergey Astakhov
Brat (Brother) | 1997 | dir. Aleksei Balabanov | Russia
Writer: Aleksey Balabanov Cinematography by Sergey Astakhov
Brat (Brother) | 1997 | dir. Aleksei Balabanov | Russia
Writer: Aleksey Balabanov Cinematography by Sergey Astakhov
Brat (Brother) | 1997 | dir. Aleksey Balabanov | Russia
Writer: Aleksey Balabanov Cinematography by Sergey Astakhov
susurrus
(sʊˈsɜr əs, noun) As one of the most beautiful words in the English language, susurrus is defined as a soft, murmuring sound. It resembles the rustling symphony of the fallen leaves moving across the pavement or the whispers created by the branches of the trees on a windy, autumn day. Uttering susurrus also simulates the acoustics of nature’s effect; this is one of those rare words where its aesthetic, sound and feel coincide beautifully. (via wordsnquotes)
Kaidan aka Kwaidan (1964)
Director: Masaki Kobayashi Cinematography by Yoshio Miyajima
Kaidan aka Kwaidan (1964)
Director: Masaki Kobayashi Cinematography by Yoshio Miyajima
Kaidan aka Kwaidan (1964)
Director: Masaki Kobayashi Cinematography by Yoshio Miyajima
Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire (via thequotejournals)
I’m attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I’m interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I’m interested in the things people try to hide.
Johnny Depp (via wordsnquotes)
Of Freaks and Men (1998) | dir. Alexei Balabanov
When evil triumphs, humour turns black. Glimpses of turn-of-the-century porn has an uncomfortable, humiliating look to it. Balabanov massages human nature's ugly heart. The film is so original and startling, it appears playful, when really it concerns an abuse of power that feeds off trust and decency, perverting both.
The film is shot as a pastiche of silent cinema, without Chaplin's famous fast motion. In old St Petersburg the bourgeoisie live innocent and privileged lives, while in the basement of an abandoned building tight-lipped Johan (Sergei Makovetsky), with his smirking, sinister sidekick (Victor Sukhorukov), organises nude spanking sessions
which are photographed and sold to sado-masochistic postcard collectors, when not purloined by their naughty maids.
There are moments in this deliciously subversive film when you suspect Alexei Balabanov is being satirical and those scenes of pornographers taking over the grand houses, only to corrupt them with their nasty habits, refer to organised crime's stranglehold on the Russian economy, not to mention the state of the nation.
3 Films by Jonathan Glazer
Under The Skin, Sexy Beast, Birth
Day Dreams.
Un Chien Andalou, Meshes of the Afternoon
Masaki Kobayashi’s career coincides with the so-called Golden Age of Japanese cinema in the 1950s and 1960s. Despite the fact that some of his films such as the war trilogy Ningen no jōken (The Human Condition, 1959-1961) and Seppuku (Harakiri, 1962) had won international critical acclaim, the centenary of his birth in February 2016 passed almost unnoticed in the Western media. Kobayashi has been largely forgotten by the average Japanese filmgoer, and outside Japan interest in his work is much lower than it is for the films of his contemporaries, such as Akira Kurosawa...