omg that looks amazing. Cheers for this info.Apologies for the clanging semi-spam, but Wojciech Has needs your attention here (I just wrote this article about him).
The Hour-Glass Sanatorium is, hands down, the most mind-blowing experience I've ever had in a cinema (you can still catch it in the Manchester Cornerhouse on December 3rd if that's your patch). The Saragossa Mansuscript is great fun too, but Hour-Glass is really the one. You'll never want to leave.
Anyone make it down to this?"Apologies for the clanging semi-spam, but Wojciech Has needs your attention here (I just wrote this article about him).
The Hour-Glass Sanatorium is, hands down, the most mind-blowing experience I've ever had in a cinema (you can still catch it in the Manchester Cornerhouse on December 3rd if that's your patch). The Saragossa Mansuscript is great fun too, but Hour-Glass is really the one. You'll never want to leave."
Apologies for the clanging semi-spam, but Wojciech Has needs your attention here (I just wrote this article about him).
The Hour-Glass Sanatorium is, hands down, the most mind-blowing experience I've ever had in a cinema (you can still catch it in the Manchester Cornerhouse on December 3rd if that's your patch). The Saragossa Mansuscript is great fun too, but Hour-Glass is really the one. You'll never want to leave.
^ i watched WR: Mysteries of the Organism earlier this month. fascinating!
have you read his surviving texts? i can't imagine it would have been easy to completely wipe out his body of work----someone surely has reprinted it. (i know, google is my friend...)
thanks for your recommendation, your backing swung it for me. i went down, and it was amazing. (that's an understatement, but will have to suffice.)
nice write-up btw.
Well it certainly scared the shit out of me."Jacob's Ladder. Seriously."
I watched that Narcissus and Psyche thing and it may just be the best film I've ever seen. Kind of like War and Peace crossed with Satyricon (I mention this because of the gaps that are left in both films) directed by Zulawksi (or Has perhaps), it's a four and half hour epic (in three parts) love story set against a backdrop of war and politics in Europe but with a dreamlike sensibility that informs the colours and the feel of every scene. Odd touches such as a flying pig or the semi-humans powering a water-wheel are seen in the background but left unexplained and unmentioned and just add to the atmosphere generated by the occasional stabs of electronic music and the constant changing colours. It's not just formally interesting though, I found myself engaging with the character(s) and also with the general sensation of changing time, ending of empires, redrawing of boundaries etc The guy who gave it to me described it as a masterpiece and, although that word is overused, on this occasion he's not at all wrong.
A guy I know translated it for me. I'll lend you my copy when I get it back off DannyL (hint hint). nb There are several versions of the film, the one I've got is the extended version in three parts and I guess it's the most complete version of the director's vision."i'd like to see this, any ideas where one might find a copy? i did spend time looking for it but the only copy i found was a non-english version direct from budapest."