Thank you Mr. Kusturica.

I woke up today because a band was playing in front of my house, waiting for people to open their windows and give them something for the music.
Since I liked what they played a lot, that's exactly what I did, not realising that
I was still in my pyjamas and had very messed up hair.



The whole scenery reminded me a lot of the Emir Kusturica films. Also the fact that they played balkan music. So I thought I'd make a top 5 list of Kusturica movies. The problem is, I have only seen four of his movies so far and I loved them all: Time of the Gypsies, Arizona Dream, Underground and Black Cat, White Cat.

I guess if I had to pick a favourite it would be Black Cat, White Cat. Who wouldn't like a movie where you see a pig eating a car? Anyways, the music is good in all of his movies, which probably has a lot to do with the fact that he's a musician as well as a director.


Here is a video of his band The No Smoking Orchestra, who made the music for Black Cat, White Cat:

I want to talk to you about ducts.

Telegram Girl: [dancing wildly, while singing in an absurdly high soprano] A-a-a-a-a-a-A-a-a-a-a-a-a-A-a-a-a-a-a-a-A-A! Mrs Ida Lowry requests the pleasure of your COMPANYYYY! At her APARTMENT TONIIIIGHTT! For eight thirtee-EE-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-EE, to MIDNIGHTTT! To celebrate the completion of her recent cosmetic SURGERYYY! E-e-e-e-e-e-E-e-e-e-e-e-E! wwwWWAAAAAAIIIIIIIII!
[very long pause, Sam glances around nervously]
Sam Lowry: ummm... Thanks.
Telegram Girl: It's reply paid.
Sam Lowry: Is it?
[telegram girl nods]
Sam Lowry: oh... um... two, three,
Sam Lowry: [singing] Mother, I am sorry that I am unable to come to your parrrttty...
Telegram Girl: You DON'T have to sing it!
Sam Lowry: I don't?

^^this is from the movie Brazil by Terry Gilliam.

Some points I want to make about Brazil:

Number one: Brazil is a pretty good movie for a rainy Sunday afternoon. Get some ice cream, too.

Number two: This might seem like it has aged a little in the past 22 years. There’s a truck-driving girl with short spikey hair and coveralls(supposedly not gay), a guy flying around with a golden costume in a purple sky(supposedly not gay either), also there’s a lot(!) of artificial fog. I like the look of the computers and magnified screens though.

Number three: Use the following words to write a one-sentence-review about Brazil: [“dystopia”, “retro-future”, "duct", “bureaucrate”,"breakfast machine", “1984”/”orwellesque”, “allegory”, “cellophane”]

Number four: Apparently this is one of the movies teenage girls hate. They give it 4/10 stars. The imdb community is appalled.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0088846/board/nest/67420309?p=1

Number five: The allegory of a totalitarian dystopia works well in this, eventhough it is neither very new nor very subtle (originally Brazil was supposed to be called 1984 ½).

Number six: When I first watched this film I imagined how some stoner computer game programmer saw it and then invented Super Mario by copying the character of Harry Tuttle. That's probably not true but I like the idea so much that I won’t try to find out anytime soon.

Number seven: If you like Brazil, you might enjoy some of the earlier Jean-Pierre Jeunet films like Delicatessen and La Cité des Enfants Perdu.

Number eight: I dreamed a gang of girl ninjas flew through the window in my room after I watched this movie. Please don’t try to interpret this dream for me.

(I probably should also either say something meaningful about plastic surgery or make a witty reference to Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment and silly old people, but this is long enough already. And I hated 10th grade english.)

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Good luck to the frenchies for their elections today!

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hello.

 Meet my brand new blog. I more or less stole the title from a very good documentary about David Lynch**. Which leads me to the subject of this: Movies!! It will be full of movie reviews, my favourite movie quotes and discussions about adorable actresses and their eyebrows (yeah, thats one of my obsessions- you will learn about the others later).

 The first quote I got for you is from the original Sabrina movie from 1954 (don't forget to imagine a heavy french accent here).

"And now, mes dames et messieurs,
soon we will see how you have learnt
the lesson of the souffle.
The souffle, it must be gay.
Gay.
Like two butterflies dancing
the waltz in the summer breeze.
Very well. You have five seconds!"

 If you want me to review a certain film or you want your favourite movie quote posted here, email me:
matildas_flugzeug@gmx.de

 Of course I can't promise to always stay on topic. It might for example just happen that I post some pictures of a concert I saw. Simply because it amuses me to see Lovefoxxx pointing at her pussy. 

bisous,
matilda.

P.S. I'm hoping to get Persona and Paradroid to post here some time. Don't tell them yet. ;)

** http://imdb.com/title/tt0192470/