blanco y negro

My favorite film genre would have to be Drama and more specifically Film Noir and New Wave Cinema. These films usually have fantastic stories, the most interesting plot twists, creative camera angles, dramatic lighting, best dialog, most complex characters, and the styling is usually so fantastic it could play the starring role. Here are some shots for dramatic inspiration:

can you feel how volatile life is?

Daisies {Sedmikrasky} is another movie that I have been waiting years and years to see. It is also another movie that sparked my interest based on a single still. It was the following picture:

This 1966 Czech film is directed by Vera Chytilová and the amazing, experimental camera work is by the talented Jaroslav Kucera. If I thought Polly Maggoo was a psychedelic kaleidoscoped collage than Daisies is that on ten! On overdrive! On acid! There are a lot of reviews of this film that like to get deep and speak of feminist undertones or anti-war messages. For me, this film was mostly a visual pleasure. There is a simple plot-two young ladies find themselves in a world that has gone bad and in turn decide to be bad themselves. This results in a colorful, fast paced piece of art house cinema where the two main characters (played by Jitka Cerhová & Ivana Karbanová) dance, flirt, and eat their way through their days & nights. I have never seen anything quite like this movie and was really impressed by the special effects and the mixed use of color & black and white film. Stunning & surreal.
One of my favorite clips--especially for the dialog:


































I also came across a montage of some of the best scenes that someone put together to a Sigur Ros track: