Wednesday, 7 July 2010

Eesti kunsti

I left London to move in with my parents, in the heart of the rudest part of Finland one will ever visit.

Working for a factory that produces steel and having not much to do, I've developed a numbness I've never felt before.

A welcome change to this monotonous summer, came when my parents decided to take a family trip to Tallinn. 

A brief visit to KUMU, (Eesti Kunstimuuseum, Estonian art museum), to see the exhibition on Estonian art, worked like a big bucket of cold water being thrown on me, waking me up from a month-long coma.


Having seen this, it makes the visit to most art museums seem like a walk through a busy motorway with trash thrown to the sides from cars passing by.


(See for example Johannes Saal's Metropolis)

Saturday, 3 July 2010

Dorian Gray

Dorian Gray (2009) ★★

One of my favourite novels raped, again.



Duncan Roy's 2007 modern adaptation version was even worse.

Sunday, 27 June 2010

Monday, 21 June 2010

Peeping Tom

Peeping Tom (1960) ★★★★

"I have always felt that Peeping Tom and 8½ say everything that can be said about film-making, about the process of dealing with film, the objectivity and subjectivity of it and the confusion between the two. 8½ captures the glamour and enjoyment of film-making, while Peeping Tom shows the aggression of it, how the camera violates... From studying them you can discover everything about people who make films, or at least people who express themselves through films." -Martin Scorsese



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