watch it: “Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Film Test”
I love the painterly luminosity to the color here, especially to the skin tones. Just beautiful.
Year: 2010
color photos of a black-and-white world, part 3
I love coming across color images from the eras when black-and-white photography and film were so dominant. But what about going further back into the past? How does a sudden look at a time that we’ve only ever seen as monochrome change how you think about it?
color photos of a black-and-white world, part 2
Isn’t it amazing to see color photos from a time when we hardly ever see such imagery?
color photos of a black-and-white world, part 1
Our ideas about the past have been so shaped by black-and-white imagery that it almost doesn’t seem real when we’re suddenly confronted by rare color pictures from those era.
trailer break: ‘Buried’
That’s the international trailer. It’s a helluva lot more gripping than the domestic one…
question of the day: Will the Great Recession force Hollywood to be more creative?
I wonder if this terrible summer has been a blip or if, perhaps, it’s a state of affairs we should expect to continue for the next several years..
reasons to subscribe at $1 per month: Part IV
‘In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.’ –Pauline Kael
cinematic roots of: ‘Going the Distance’
In Going the Distance, the adorable couple of Drew Barrymore and Justin Long attempt to maintain a relationship while one of them is in New York and the other in San Francisco. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
cinematic roots of: ‘Machete’
In Machete, a former Mexican federale (Danny Trejo) hiding out in Texas takes on The Man who wants to bring down his Hispanic brothers and The System that perpetuates social injustice. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
cinematic roots of: ‘The American’
In *The American,* George Clooney’s murder-weary professional assassin mopes around rural mountain Italy while doing one last job before he’s out, out, he tells ya. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
