Filmblog
The Hollywood Sign – or rather: its longer predecessor Hollywoodland – was erected in 1923. One hundred years later, here’s a montage of the movies that feature this…
Just look at that! The pan that opens Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend is a gorgeous and fascinating look at Manhattan’s 1945 skyline. It’s quintessential New York and…
Somehow I had never seen Brian De Palma’s The Fury (1978) until recently. Here are a few random observations, focussing on its visual wizardry. With lots of split…
That cool, futuristic-looking whiskey glass Deckard drinks from in 1982’s Blade Runner? A Cibi double old fashion whisky glass, designed by Cini Boeri for Arnolfo di Cambio. In…
Mijn verslag van de 49e editie van het IFFR, het International Film Festival Rotterdam. Met hierin waardevolle tassen, vrouwen en WOII, en films geïnspireerd door opa’s.
It’s hard to forget that scene from Oldboy (Oldeuboi, 2003). One hallway. A single take. Scores of baddies. And one man. With a hammer.
Anyone who thinks Eva Green is just a pretty face with a lax attitude towards on-screen nudity, and hasn’t yet checked out, say, the directors’ cut of Ridley…
The toilet. It took a while for it to be taken serious in cinema, but now it’s the setting for many a (classic) scene, depicting it as a…
Some observations on Werner Herzog’s version of Nosferatu. It had been on my ‘to watch’ list for a very long time. I really had no idea it was…
Visual reportage of the large exhibition featuring the work of Canadian director David Cronenberg, which could be seen from June 22nd until September 14th at EYE Amsterdam.
Always fun when two passions collide. In this case cinema and the Amsterdamse School (Amsterdam School). One of the main figures of this design/architectural movement was Piet Kramer,…
When seeing Fight Club for the first time (of many!), I noticed a similarity between a piece of score from this film and one in John Carpenter’s urban…
I loved the first season of French series Les Revenants. That undoubtedly had a lot to do with the gorgeous and very fitting soundtrack by Mogwai. The intro…
Here’s an odd shot from The Godfather: Part III. Michael Corleone sits by the open casket of his murdered friend Don Tommasino. When we get to the wide…
Towards the end of The Road, John Hillcoat’s faithful (and therefore powerful) adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece of the same name, the man pulls out some decrepit pages…
See these opening credits for Slochteren aan de Lijn, a commissioned documentary from 1964 about laying gas pipes in the Netherlands, produced by famous Dutch film maker…
Tried hard, but can’t think of a similar shot in another film: a dolly zoom AND focus pull on a different subject. Quite subtle and effective.
Here’s the horrible “death in car by pole through eye” from the end of Paul Verhoeven’s De Vierde Man / The Fourth Man (1983).
As a kid, two of my favourite television series were Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers. Lots of scenes from those series have stuck with me, like the one…
“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
Before he made his directorial debut with Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, became famous with The Deer Hunter and infamous with Heaven’s Gate, Michael Cimino co-wrote two films: Silent Running…