A Metaphor: King Kong (2005)

Peter Jackson's metaphor for what it's like making movies for a mass audience.  Expectations/demands.

Jean-Luc Goddard

Jean-Luc Goddard

09.09.2009

A girl and

A rocket

Meet and run

From the police

Reading aloud pages

From A Method of

Reaching Extreme Attitudes

The stolen car

Is violently smashed

By way of Breton.

Fin.

Cinema Haikus #001-#004

Burden of Dreams (Les Blank, 1982)

Pull a ship though the

Jungle and you can swallow

Indigenous spit

[cinema haiku #001]

Exiting the Factory (Louis Lumière, 1895)

As subjects pass by

Are documentary film's

Questions still looming?

[cinema haiku #002]

Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford, 1939)
Fonda is tall and
Can carry a speech like Abe's
American myth

[cinema haiku #003]

Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)
Celebrity crazed
Country of musicians sell
Ideals for records

[cinema haiku #004]

The Living Beast (198?)

The Living Beast (John Carpenter, c. 1985?, lost)

11.12.2011

John Carpenter’s lost film

had a 100 foot tall

Natasha Kinski and

tiny models of Toronto.

the terror was large

but sought to be small

in the real story of a giant.

           army involvement

finds her living out on a hill

bathing in the great lakes

getting smaller at the end

and she goes up the fire escape

through the open window

and then that famous shot

of the statue head looking out

as she kisses the man

a werewolf hand reaching up

            and she stabs.

                                                                                      cut to credits.

Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend

Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend
09.10.2009

where did you go
Edwin S. Porter
when they made
your dreams
into the dreams of America?