Posts Tagged ‘Movies’
April 19, 2011

Baraka (means blessing) is a non-narrative film directed by Ron Fricke, who was a cinematographer for Koyaanisqatsi by Godfrey Reggio. Baraka has no plot, no storyline, no actor, no dialogues nor any voice-over. Instead, the film uses themes to present new perspectives and evoke emotion through pure cinema. Baraka is a kaleidoscopic, global compilation of both natural events and by fate, life and activities of man on Earth.
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Posted in Art | Tagged Baraka, Baraka Film, Films, Godfrey Reggio, Koyaanisqatsi, Movies, Ron Fricke, Samsara Film | 10 Comments »
March 1, 2009

Departures (おくりびと ,Okuribito) is a 2008 Japanese film directed by Yōjirō Takita that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2009 Oscars.
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Posted in Films, Japan | Tagged Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 2009, おくりびと, Books, Coffinman: The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician, Culture, Departures Film, Films, Japan, Life, Masahiro Motoki, Movies, Okuribito, Oscars 2009, Shinmon Aoki, Yōjirō Takita | 2 Comments »
February 23, 2009
Posted in Films, Japan | Tagged Academy Award Winners 2009, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2009, Culture, Departures by Yojiro Takita, Films, Heath Ledger, House of Blocks, Japan, Japanese Film Departures, Japanese Films, Japanese Movies, Kunio Katō, La Maison en Petits Cubes, Life, Movies, News, Oscar Winners 2009, Oscars, Oscars 2009, Sean Penn Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, The Dark Knight, Tsumiki no Ie | 19 Comments »
July 28, 2008

Somewhere, in a country similar to ours
There are children who do not became adult
They are very similar to us
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Posted in Anime | Tagged Animation, Art, スカイ・クロラ, Films, Ghost in the Shell, Hiroshi Mori, Interview, Japan, Kenji Kawai, Kildren, Mamoru Oshii, Movies, Sky Crawlers, Trailer | 3 Comments »