http://www.bipedsmonitor.com C.E.D. Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:50:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While I generally prefer films which are messy, with loose ends and imperfections that show that the filmmaker is trying to do more than he dare, occasionally I see one whose conception from start to finish could not posssibly be improved on. Tonight I put Carlos Saura's Flamenco on the wide ... http://www.bipedsmonitor.com/archives/2008/09/total-art-saura-and-storaro/ The New York Times Magazine today published a reflection on the road movie genre by Walter Salles, who has directed three of the best. He mentions Hopper, Kiarostami, Antonioni, Wenders, Winterbottom, John Ford and others as masters who have pushed the genre to explore the movements of culture as ... http://www.bipedsmonitor.com/archives/2007/11/road-movies-the-salles-view/ If you go to the movies today, you are usually looking to have to endure 150 minutes of flashy, overbudget, effects-heavy gimmicks produced by the Hollywood machine. This unpleasant experience extends even to "groundbreaking" movies, like those made by the Mexican new-wavers Inarritu, Cuaron and Del Toro, all vying for ... http://www.bipedsmonitor.com/archives/2007/02/reality-bites/ Still under construction, this will be an extremely interesting building for a number of reasons: the architecture, the concept (hey, this IS the 21st century), and what it will do to a very backwater neighborhood of Rome. There will now be an axis between MAXXI and Parco della ... http://www.bipedsmonitor.com/archives/2006/07/zaha-a-roma/ Sometimes, even comfortable Brits can shake us out of our complacency. I just got around to seeing Michael Winterbottom's Code 46, which was first screened at the Venice Film Festival in 2003. The screenplay, a cooperation between Winterbottom and his longtime writer associate, Frank Cottrell Boyce, hits on all the ... http://www.bipedsmonitor.com/archives/2006/04/the-pay-as-you-go-future/   It was the best of times, even though, or possibly due to the fact that, life itself (as well as all the trains, boats and planes) was running at half speed. The only depressing note in this otherwise strange world (strange in that it was almost identical to the ... http://www.bipedsmonitor.com/archives/2006/02/the-mother-of-all-snowstorms/ The fiddler, he now steps to the road He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed On the back of the fish truck that loads While my conscience explodes The more you hear Highway 61 Revisited the more it resonates with the feeling of angst and doom anyone born in 1951 feels today. ... http://www.bipedsmonitor.com/archives/2005/10/no-direction-home/ 30 years in the making. Apparently the money and design (by New York architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro) have been found to create a new vision for reusing the elevated tracks on New York's lower west side: The High Line. Every city in America with an industrial past could use ... http://www.bipedsmonitor.com/archives/2005/05/archigram-2005/ New York, 3 weeks ago. When corporate greed meets Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, look out. This building (the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle) is from some angles a futurist dream, from others just a hulking mass overshadowing the kitschily lovable 1960's ex-Huntington Hartford Museum of Art by ... http://www.bipedsmonitor.com/archives/2005/05/metropolis/     We'll be on the right coast this week, with a new content grabber, the Canon PowerShot S70, wide enough for architectural photography. If the weather smiles on us, there may be things to discuss. Hopefully, the author will find that the transition from emulsion (and a 10-pound SLR ... http://www.bipedsmonitor.com/archives/2005/03/goin-digital/