| A list of movies I really really really really want to see.. PART TWELVE! |
[Mar. 17th, 2012|10:43 pm] |
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I've been meaning to do another list now for months but haven't really had time. My list of amazing upcoming movies just keeps on growing. There's some seriously cool stuff being made these days. Globalization rocks! :D
Anyway. I'm currently doing an internship on an actual filmshoot now for an upcoming swedish philosophical drama which very well might turn out amazing. I'm not sure I can speak about it more than that but I'll try to give an update when the movie is closer to completion.
Internships is an interesting concept by the way. I don't think I've ever worked this hard on any job before and I'm not even getting paid now. I'm actually paying for this with loans and stuff. Boggles the mind! :S Hopefully this will lead to some great connections and stuff.
But usual to celebrate stuff I've made another list of upcoming movies.
Enjoy!
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L
L is the debut movie by Greek writer Babis Makridis who was the screenwriter for the really unique and quite awesome movie Dogtooth. And this movie seems to share the same bizarre awkward mood as that movie. I'm not sure what the plot is but it seems to be about people living in cars and weird biker gangs or something. Surreal absurdism to the max! I really like this short and vague teaser trailer that doesn't tell you anything.
Trailer.
Kuky Se Vrací
Kuky Se Vraci is a wonderfully original puppet movie from the Czech Republic. The animation or whatever you should call it is so simple but creates an amazing and effective mood. There's some truly beautiful imagery here and the atmosphere is just so thick and pleasant. I've never seen anything like it. Lovely stuff!
Trailer.
Beyond The Black Rainbow
This movie is getting some seriously mixed reviews which makes me a bit wary but still interested. The trailer is amazing with fantastic 80's retro visuals and music. It's sort of a mix of old record covers and the Dharma Initiative orientation videos from the tv-show Lost. As I said a lot of people seem to hate the movie but I have a feeling I will love it.
Trailer.
Alter Egos
A movie about the regular life of c-list superheroes might not seem that original (Mystery Men and The Tick did it ages ago) but Alter Egos wins me over on the pure indie feel of it all. It sort of feels like CLERKS or something only the main characters just happens to be wear tights and have superpowers.
Trailer.
How to Build a Time Machine
Now here's a really interesting documentary in the making. I'm not sure if the trailer I've linked to below is from what will be in the eventual movie or just some sort of promo but the footage is gorgeous and seriously captivating. The documentary is about a true mystery where people claim to have met a time traveler called John Titor who traveled back to the year 1975 to retrieve an old IBM computer. With this as the framework the movie explores different aspects of time travel. The movie looks beautiful with some amazing cinematography and I really hope it will managed to get the funds it needs.
Trailer.
Upside Down
Upside Down is a love story set in a world very similar to ours only that it consists of two worlds above and below each other. Apparently one of the worlds are considered below while the other is above and is of course seen as the upper class. Two people from each world falls in love and, well I guess a sort of Romeo and Juliet story unfolds. While a story like that is seriously overused in hollywod the actual world of the movie looks really interesting with some quite surreal imagery.
Trailer.
God Bless America
This movie is basically just a list of things and people the director hates. It's about a guy who finds out he's terminally ill but instead of giving up on life entirely he decides to go around killing people that irritates him. While the whole thing sort of makes me a tiny bit uncomfortable I'm really interested in where the movie will lead. There's some pitch black humor here and if it's done right it could be hilarious.
Trailer.
Gyo
Now here's some serious japanese insanity. It's an anime based on a manga comic about some sort of parasite or plague or something which gives all the sea animals legs and (apparently) the ability to survive on land. What follows is some insane carnage of sharks running around eating people, all drawn in amazingly detailed and well made animation. I really do love the japanese.
Trailer.
Moonrise Kingdom
And Wes Anderson is back! I'm a really big fan of his and has pretty much loved every movie he's done. Life Aquatic is on my top 5 favourite comedies and this movie looks like it might be his best movie yet. His style seems to have reached perfection and every shot is just gorgeous to the tiniest detail.
Trailer.
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
And here's another sci-fi-ish documentary about a real life mystery. Apparently someone has been plastering weird and cryptic messages on the ground all over america and the world for the last twenty years and no one has been able to figure who or why. The documentary follows the directors's obsession with researching the thing. I can't really describe it better than that so just watch the trailer.
Trailer.
Bugs And Heroes
It's movies like these that make me so happy I grew up in sweden where I got used to watching things with subtitles. I can't really describe the plot but it seems to be about the lives about a wide arrange of strange characters. These characters includes some gorgeously animated insects who's somehow connected to the story. The visuals are amazing and the whole thing kind of reminds me of the movies Jean-Pierre Jeunet used to make with Marc Caro.
Trailer.
Wrong
And now finally here's the latest movie by musician and absurdist filmmaker Quentin Dupieux. The last time I mentioned him was on a list here where I was looking forward to his movie Rubber about a killer car tire. Rubber was so much more than some sort of b-horror film and I count it as one of my all-time favorite movies. In the movie Wrong he follows his desire to make movies where things happen for no reason. All made with some beautiful cinematography and music of course. It's getting a great buzz and if it's even better than Rubber we'll have a masterpiece here.
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| A list of movies I really really really really want to see.. PART ELEVEN! |
[Dec. 29th, 2011|11:36 pm] |
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It's been a while and I'm on my winter break so here's another list of movies I'm looking forward to! On saturday I'm off to Paris to celebrate New Years Eve with most of my classmates. It's going to be awesome!
But list ahoy!
(also on http://blindekillen.wordpress.com/)
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Prometheus
Let's start of with the single most anticipated movie ever. Well to me anyway. Ridley "Alien & Blade Runner" Scott returns to sci-fi, and the Alien universe with this futuristic space movie about humanity's search for our origins. I'm not much for the whole ancient astronaut theories about aliens visiting us in the past and genetically modifying us. But by god I need some more grown up serious space movies. Let's hope this isn't as stupid as Avatar. It looks gah-gorgeeouuss! I love how they've been so hesitant connecting this to the Alien franchise and then just, bam! They release a trailer that is pretty much built exactly like the original trailer for Alien.
Trailer.
Alois Nebel
With Prometheus out of the way let's move on to more obscure movies. This Czech animated movie uses the same technique as A Scanner Darkly or Waltz With Bashir. I don't now the details but I'm guessing it's some kind of technique to animate over real filmed footage. Some might think it's a bit off but I really like it. I have no idea what this movie is about but I'm getting kafka-vibes.
Trailer.
Baikonur
I'm pretty sure this movie won't be that great. But it's hopefully charming and entertaining enough. I just really like the concept. A young Kazak nomad dreams of becoming a Cosmonaut and spends his time collecting falling scrap from the nearby russian space launches at Baikonur. One day a beautiful french female space tourist falls down with amnesia and he convinces her she's his wife. This could turn real creepy real fast but they'll probably keep it pretty harmless.
Trailer.
The Ghastly Love of Johnny X
And here's a movie which is pretty much guaranteed cult fame. It's got it all. Black and white visuals, retro settings, aliens, cool clothes and haircuts, music, dancing and general geeky madness. I love stuff like this. It's hopefully up there with Six String Samurai and American Astronaut in quality.
Trailer.
The Warped Forest
This japanese movie defies explanatation. It's by a japanese advertisment director that decided to make a really strange effects filled fairytale on his spare time. I really have no idea what it's about. But just the initial clip of the trailer put this movie on my must watch list. I won't say more. Just watch the trailer.
Trailer.
Hell
And here's something you don't see every day. A german post-apocalyptic movie. And it looks pretty great. The filmmakers has used a pretty simple grading and over exposure effect to give the feel of the end of the world, and it works. It's simple but it looks really good. Apparantly it's produced by Roland Emmerich which makes sense I guess. There seems to be surfacing quite a lot of genre movies from Germany now. I like it.
Trailer.
The Woman In Black
I like ghost movies. I used to like those ghost investigation shows but the more I watched those the more sceptical I got. Now they just look ridiculous (and made me seriously hate mediums). But ghost movies are cool. Especially gothic victorian ghost stories. And this movie is all that while looking real moody and gorgeous. Throw in a grown-up Harry Potter actor with ambitions for serious stuff makes this movie look real interesting.
Trailer.
MS ONE Security Maximum
This movie used to be called Lock Out. And when I say "used to" I mean for a couple of days after they released the first trailer but then all of a sudden decided to rename it to the muddled title above. I prefer Lock Out. But I digress. This is the latest sci-fi movie by french filmmaker Luc Besson and ever since the Fifth Element I've been waiting and wishing for another sci-fi movie by him. Sadly this is only written by him but I feel there's a clear Besson-feel over it. I'm hoping for quirky violent action awesomness. In space.
Trailer.
Doppelgänger Paul (or a film about how much I hate myself)
And here's a surreal quirky toned down drama about a man being followed by another man claiming they look exactly the same. Which they don't. But they're both real lonely and some sort of bizarre relationship unfolds. I love small surreal low-budget movies like these and this seems hilarious.
Trailer.
Mars et Avril
Just like Lock Ou.. I mean.. *big breath* MS ONE Security Maximum.. *sigh* This non-american space sci-fi just popped up out of nowhere. It's a Québécoise french language film about an old musician falling in love with a young woman and deciding to follow her to Mars. It's nowhere near the budget of american movies but they've managed to create a pretty great setting using cgi and greenscreen. This looks quirky as hell and hopefully the story is as interesting as the visuals.
Trailer.
Extraterrestrial
This is the latest movie by spanish filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo. Before this he made the amazing time travel movie Los Cronocrimenes (or TimeCrimes in english). It's one of few time travel movies that makes sense in a time travel logic way. And it's riveting as hell. Luckily the success of that movie didn't drag him over to Hollywood and instead he's doing another sci-fi movie in his native Spain. From the trailer Extraterrestrial looks like it will be some sort of romantic drama set during Earths first visit by aliens. But I considering the director I wouldn't be surprised if this turns way weirder than that.
Trailer.
Chicken With Plums
And now lastly the latest movie adaptation of one of Marjane Satrapis graphic novels. The previous movie Persepolis was pretty much perfect with gorgeous hand drawn animation. This latest movie is live action but there seems to be a lot of surreal handcrafted effects. It's about a musician that cares more for his musical instrument than his wife and after said wife destroys his violin he decides to kill himself. This looks like one of those beautiful hilarious surreal comedy dramas only the french can do.
Trailer.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!! :D |
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| A list of movies I really really really really want to see.. PART TEN! |
[Oct. 8th, 2011|03:31 pm] |
Woo mama it's been a long time now haven't it? I've been eextreemely busy at film & tv school. We've done music videos, a live internet broadcast, writing scripts and whole bunch of other stuff. Working pretty much non-stop and over the weekends. But I'm having a blast so it's all good!
Now yesterday I finally had some time over so I decided to finish a long overdue film list and here it is!
As usual it can also be found here:
http://blindekillen.wordpress.com
Enjoy!
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Contagion
Let's start off with a movie that seems to be trying it's best to make you paaaraaanoid about germs and frankly just being around other filthy people. It stars Matt Damon with a whole bunch of other big stars. I think he plays some sort of journalist which is trying to do, uh, something, while a deadly plague spreads around the world. He's either trying to get the truth out or stopping the plague, I'm not sure. But the movie looks solid and serious enough. I'm a sucker for plague movies so this is high on the list.
Trailer.
In Time
And here's the latest sci-fi movie by Gattaca writer/director Andrew Niccol. Besides Gattaca (which I love) he's the writer of the Truman Show and the guy behind Lord of War so he's steadily becoming one of my favourite filmmakers. In Time takes place in a future where humanity has reached immortality. Instead of money the currency of this world is more years on your life. If you run out years you die but if you're rich you can in theory live forever. It looks a bit more like an action unlike his other movies but that could just be the trailer.
Trailer.
Carre Blanc
I'm not sure what this movie is about but it looks amazing! It's from France and it seems to be some sort of surreal dystopia with touches of absurdism. The music and the visual are gorgeous and it's getting great reviews. There's so many memorable shots in the trailer making me all giddy for this movie.
Trailer.
Skull World
I've started to get more and more into documentaries recently and here's one that looks pretty entertaining. It seems to be equally about this really creative and interesting person aswell as this sort of hilarious event he's created called box wars. People dress up in homemade armour made out of carton and fight eachother with carton weapons until one of contestants suit is destroyed. The documentary seems to have some great humour and the main guy they follow seems hilariously eccentric.
Trailer.
Le Magasin Des Suicides
Another french movie here only this one is animated so it might be dubbed to english (the trailer is in english). It's about this city where everyone is so depressed and suicidal that business is booming for the local suicide shop where you can buy weapons and whatnot to kill yourself with. Everything seems to be going well for the shop until an annoyingly happy and cute baby is born in the city.
Trailer.
Die Kommenden Tage (The Coming Days)
Here's a really interesting german near future dystopia. Society seems to be disintegrating with violence spreading. As I don't know german I'm not sure what the actual status is with the world but everything looks suitably futuristic and bleak. It all reminds me of Children of Men which is always good.
Trailer.
Portable Life
I'm not sure what the exact plot is of this movie but the practically dialogue-less trailer manages to catch your interest with great use of music and interesting visuals. It all just seems to have this great mood about it. Also it's always nice to see Rutger Hauer in stuff.
Trailer.
John Carter
And now something a bit less deep but still great! It's the movie adaptation of the classic sci-fi/fantasy books series John Carter of Mars. It's Wall-E director Andrew Stantons first live action movie and while the Mars in the movie might not really look Mars-y enough it still looks solid and fun. There's some talented people behind this so let's hope they don't dissapoint.
Trailer.
Restless
I've only seen a handfull of Gus Van Sants movies but they've all been interesting and worth watching. This latest one seems to be a kind of offbeat humorous romantic tragedy about death. It follows the growing relationship between a dying girl and a death-obsessed guy whose only friend is the ghost of a dead japanese kamikaze pilot. This movie will probably break your heart but it will hopefully break it gloriously.
Trailer.
The Ambassador
Another documentary here and this one looks insane. It's from Denmark and follows the director who has managed to buy himself a diplomatic title in some African state and tries to see what he can get away with it. It looks hilarious but also kind of depressing showing how terrible deep the corruption runs in certain parts of Africa.
Trailer.
The Avengers
But here's something entirely different! Grown men and women in colorful spandex beating the crap out of bad guys. It's what all the most recent Marvel superhero movies has been building up to these past years. The ultimate team-up of the Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America and a bunch of others. All directed with the steady hand by living god/Buffy creator Joss Whedon. If there's one person able to make this work it's him. I'm not much of a superhero fan but I really want to see this.
Trailer.
The Future
And now finally here's another low-key comedy drama by quirky artist Miranda July. I absolutely loved her previous debut movie Me and You and Everyone We Know and this looks similar but still different enough to be interesting. It seems to be having quite a lot of fantastical and surreal stuff with it all being narrated by a cat for example. If it's just half as good as her previous movie this will be fantastic!
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| The end... |
[Aug. 10th, 2011|09:38 pm] |
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And that was the last photo post from my time in Berlin I'll do now. All of these last five photos were taken on the actual last day I spent in Berlin and just hours before we had to head to the airport and fly back home to Sweden.
All of these photos were taken way back on June 10th so it’s about time I got around to uploading them I guess.
After Berlin I spent some time in Stockholm after which I bought a European Interrail card and traveled around europe by train for a bit over 3 weeks. I got back from that last week or so and had an amazing time.
I’ll try to continue my photo tumblr with photos from that trip (and future ones) as I took loads. But in about a week I’ll move all the way up to Kalix (google it, it’s insanely north) and study film and tv production so we’ll have to see how much time I’ll have for that.
In conclusion I’ll add that my time in Berlin was fantastic and I got to know a crapload of amazing and extremely talented bunch of people. I started missing all you people and the entire city like crazy now while looking through the last photos here.
http://blindekillen.tumblr.com/
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| Second to last Berlin photo post! |
[Jul. 3rd, 2011|06:06 pm] |
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Getting closer and closer to the end of my Berlin photo blog now. Just one more batch after this one and then atleast the Berlin portion of my photo life should be done.
On wednesday I'm off on a trip around europe and I'll bring my camera so it's not the end of the actual blog though. I will not bring my computer so I probably won't get around to posting anything until I get back to sweden in august.
Here's the latest photos!
http://blindekillen.tumblr.com/
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| Those last few days of Berlin.. |
[Jun. 29th, 2011|01:21 pm] |
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Been back in sweden a couple of weeks so I'll try to cram out all my last Berlin photos. "Thankfully" towards the end there I weren't taking too many photos so I should be able to finish my Berlin blog by next week.
After that I'm off to London and then hopefully off through europe with one of those nifty interrail cards. All of these plans pretty much just came about the last week. I'm going to London to meet my sister and some friends and then off to Venice to meet up two friends and then travel up by train back to sweden.
I'll bring my camera and probably upload all the photos on tumblr either during the trip or afterwards. I'm not sure what to rename the blog to though. Europe Schmeurope doesn't roll of the tongue like Berlin Schmerlin..
Anyway, the latest photos..
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