ochre

I really like Rodarte. They did the ballet costumes for Black Swan and they've recently collaborated with Opening Ceremony. In case you didn't know.

let the world know of my majesty

Ashik Kerib (1988), a movie I would like to see. Pinched from Mafia-Hunt. Reminds me of this.

pigs and pascal

We're going to watch the film adaptation of The Unbearable Lightness of Being soon. I have watched most of it before, but gave up, exhausted, after what felt like hours of concentrated watching. Anyway, I love the book, so figure the film is worth a second go, especially because it has Daniel Day Lewis (the man of a certain age of my dreams), Juliette Binoche (with my hair cut), and Lena Olin in the outfit pictured above. I also remember there being a funny moment with a pig which I look forward to seeing again. On an unrelated note: I just heard an interview where Francine Pascal admitted to hating high school. Then why write about it so much, Francine?? Interesting.

black swan

 

happy monday lou!

you're a pal and a confidant

Hey Lou, thanks for the chat last night, you always make me feel so much better.
After I got off the phone I watched The Man With Two Brains. We found it at JB HiFi for $6.99, which is proof that you don't have to spend a lot of money to experience something truly great.  

 

boogaloo and shake!

My exceptionally talented older sister, Francie, and our equally talented amie Christobel made a video for a Le Specs competition, to advertise their new "lenticular" frames that change colour when you move your head.

Turns out that they won! This is amazing for them, and, well, embarrassing for me because I'm in it, and I'm a bit drunk. The video also stars Jennie, Georgie and William. All I can say is: beware of older sisters armed with champagne, asking for favours. You may end up on the internet.

The plus side is, free sunglasses!

I'm getting these ones :

lo sono l'amore

Tilda Swinton is on my list of Women I want to be when I grow up, along with Anjelica Houston and quite a few others, which is part of why I really want to see this film. I hardly know anything about it, except that it's Italian and imdb says it's a 'tragic love story set at the turn of the millennium in Milan. The film follows the fall of the haute bourgeoisie due to the forces of passion and unconditional love.' But really that's enough for me, 'the fall of the haute bourgoisie'? Sounds great!

Also, it looks incredibly sexy, and the Italian title enhances that 'Lo Sono L'Amore', hot. And Tilda has a Russian accent!

I just watched the trailer twice. I love how there's almost no dialogue and also how the second half feels so much like the trailer for or opening of a movie made decades ago. I'm sorry I'm being so vague, it was really evocative while I watched it, but now I'm not entirely sure what of...

Anyway if you've seen it, or know more about it, tell me, I want to know!

bung bung bung

I'm picking up some photos I took with my Holga today.

I love the camera but it has been tricky. So often the pictures have turned out in ways I had not expected - images shot in bright light on a sunny day with the right kind of film sometimes turn out blurry and a bit nuts-o. Sometimes heads got chopped off, too. Which is fine, just unexpected. I actually quite like the blurry and bung photos. Anyway, before I put the most recent roll of film in I asked my friend Hans about it, and he said that I'd had it on the wrong setting the whole time! Doh!

So fingers crossed, todays photos will be a bit wierd but more, um, legible.

I also have an ongoing war with the guys at the camera shop I am forced to take my films to for development. They're never on time, they lose my film, they never offer a discount for messing me around. Turns out they are kind of notorious for being smug "no-customer-service-required-because-we-are-all-you-have" photography shop employees, and now I always go in prepared for the worst, brimming with pre-emptive righteous indignation. Who would have thought that getting film developed could be so unpleasant?

Speaking of photography, on Friday we're going to an exhibition at the Dry Dairy called Be Still by Cathy Marshall. Hopefully she didn't have to deal with the disgruntled arseholes at the camera shop that I patronise, ah ha ha ha.

The photos above are examples of the bung shot fruit of my camera's loins.

oh, bum

Oh bum, Lover made a little film. Its really pretty and, of course, makes me want more clothes (and I'm trying not to want too much at the moment). Go watch it on Russh's blog (or, indeed, on Lover's website.)Screencaps by yours truly.

we love jason and we love oc

So it stands to reason that we might love Non Plus One, the new fashion brand meets short film concoction by Gia Coppola* and Tracy Antonopoulos.

Don't adjust your computer there's no sound for the first little bit.

As much as Kirsten Dunst's canine teeth have always bothered me she's actually quite sweet in this and overall this film makes me feel like all of these people would be fun and awesome to hang out with, while wearing only new season Opening Ceremony.

*granddaughter of Francis Ford, neice of Sofia, taker of photographs
Oh, and I first saw it on Deb's blog which is great

the last emperor

I re-watched Bertolucci's The Last Emperor the other night - it made me really want to go back to China and explore some more...
There's an amazing moment when a despairing Joan Chen eats the petals off a poisonous orchid.

Screencaps from here.

love love love

Oh my, this video completely took my breath away.
I love Lou Doillon and not just because we share a name.

Found it here...

where the wild things are x opening ceremony

A couple of weeks ago Urban Outfitters hosted a pop up shop at their Space 15 Twenty gallery, they followed this up with an exhibition and then released a range of wtwta clothes. I quite like the leggings but what I actually wanted to tell you all about was the Where the Wild Things Are x Opening Ceremony range (could you tell by the title?).
I don't even know if I'd wear any of this, perhaps if I was in the northern hemisphere, but I got excited about it all the same and wanted to share some pictures.

look look look

Ok so these are actually from Liebemarlene's post about the new Lula magazine.

They're screen grabs from a dreamy little video that stars lots of beautiful girls...you should really go directly to Lula's website, click on the link that says "There's no place like home" and watch the whole thing. Its creepy and beautiful and Peter Weir-ish and Citizen's Band-ish and all those other things we like. It reminds me of this surrealist short by Maya Deren and her husband Alexander Hammid that I saw in London called Meshes of the Afternoon.



On a superficial note, I want to dress like these ladies everyday. And go to pre-raphaelite tea parties. In fact, having a pre-raphaelite themed party could be amazing, if a tad, um, self-indulgent (IDEA!). Also this makes me want a straw hat something chronic.

Lou,check out the tights.

lulu in hollywood

I love Louise Brooks. I will admit right away this has a lot to do with sharing a name. However I think she is beautiful and ballsy and oozes glamour in a way only silent movie stars and other people who died before I was born can.

I have a picture of her above my 'dressing table'. This exact picture in fact, in her tutu; it seems to go well with the hat boxes and vintage cosmetics and sparkly costume jewelry I have laid out but never wear.

Looking at these pictures this morning make me want to dress up in tulle and sparkles and feathers and dark lipstick and go out somewhere dark and smoky for a drink this weekend.



Also she rocks the fringe/bob better than anyone and whilst I am 'growing' my hair - a painfully slow process, I swear - she makes me feel okay about it's general inability to ever get past chin length.

Bangin'

i didn't want to wake you up, but i really wanna show you something

I have never, ever, so eagerly anticipated the release of a film as I am at the moment. Where the Wild Things are is going to be my favourite movie, whether I like it or not, I've already decided.

I can't imagine any way I won't like it though. It's a recipe for Lou's favorite movie success; 1 part favorite childhood author, 1 part excellent director, a dash of sweet Karen O music (I actually get bursting capsules, real ones Han, every time I hear the Arcade Fire, just because of these trailers), and mix it all in with what looks like some incredible production design and art direction, a cute actor kid, and beautiful cinematography. Oh, and did I mention Dave Eggers co-wrote the script? Sold.

So then there's the whole book to movie debate. Any worries about the film doing the original story justice should hopefully be quelled by listening to what Maurice Sendak has to say in this little featurette, and by reading the incredible We Love You So.

"[The blog was] established to help shed some light on many of the small influences that have converged to make this massive project a reality."

The result is a treasure trove of links and articles about music, art, skateboarding, film making, and Maurice Sendak, which you'll need a day or so to catch up on if you're not already following.

“You know I really love this movie and I hope people like it, because if not they can all go straight to hell.” Maurice Sendak

tonight or never

The Melbourne International Film Festival has just started, hot on the heels of Auckland's and Wellington's, of which I saw only one film that I hate to admit, put me to sleep.

Movies to me are the perfect Winter activity - in Summer the only films I'd see being those shown in an outdoor setting - and I'm excited about the film festival for a few reasons, not least being Anna Karina, a guest of the festival and the subject of a retrospective.

"The embodiment of the 60s French New Wave, Anna Karina possessed the kind of screen presence that both defined and wooed a generation. Former wife of iconoclast Jean-Luc Goddard, Karina starred in eight of his films, and collaborated with the likes of Agnes Varda and Rainer Warner Fassbinder. She has also directed two films and recorded music with Serge Gainsbourg and Philippe Katerine."
And she's gorgeous. Sufice to say I love her.

The timetable for the festival is here, My picks of Anna Karina's are Living Together, which she also wrote and directed, screening on Saturday August 8th at the Greater Union on Russel Street, and Pierrot Le Fou, Screening tonight at the Forum and on Thursday at the Greater Union. If you haven't already seen them, rent Alphaville and Anna on DVD, they're both amazing, she's a babe, and you've already missed them in the festival...