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Donald Sutherland & Jeanne Moreau Alex in Wonderland (1970) dir. Paul Mazursky

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Silhouettes in The Proposition (2005)

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Józef Mehoffer, Génies II 1901

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It has been one year

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What I like most about this film: Rosow's dream of lost love took the form of an Edward Hopper painting. And the diner scene.

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Walter Beyer, View to Castle Tarasp, 1915

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I have some ideas involving hands and cigarettes,we will see...

omg know what i’d love to see? a true detective tattoo flash sheet. just a bunch of lil mini designs inspired by it 😍

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Meme

Rules: Repost and tag 10 people you want to get to know better paintedfences tagged me! Name: You won't be able to pronounce it in English. Nicknames: Blackcat. Birthday: January Gender: Female Height: short Sexual Orientation: straight. Favourite Colour: Christmas red + green. Time & Date at the current moment: 12/02/ 2015 10:30 p.m. Average hours of sleep: 7 Lucky Number: None. Last thing I Googled: Mishima Yukio, to check out his book's title in English. First word that comes to mind: WOW. One place that makes me happy: Fountain. How many blankets I sleep under: 1. Favourite Fictional Character: Can't decide, but I can reveal this - other than Marty Hart/Rust Cohle, another significant pairing I am into for life is Aubrey/Maturin from Patrick O'Brian's naval fictions, after poring through first several volumes I have decided to read one book per year so hopefully this fixation will last at least ten years. Favourite Books/Anime/TV Show Books: Too many, just name a few: The Brothers Karamazov. Beneath the Wheel. The Sea of Fertility tetralogy by Yukio Mishima. Ficciones & The Aleph by Borges. Anime: YuYu Hakusho (more specifically, its original manga). Revolutionary Girl Utena. Ghost in The Shell 1&2. TV show: 永遠の仔. Twin Peaks. True Detective. Favorite Food: Lamb chops. Potato. Last Movie I’ve seen in cinema: The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1. Dream Holiday: Wondering around all kinds of temples and shrines in Kyoto and Nara (which can be done) / sailing across Mediterranean Sea in tall ships (pure dream). Dream Wedding: I don't like weddings. Dream Job: Working in auction house dealing with paintings, maybe. What are you wearing right now: Cotten pyjamas. Last book you read: The Way of the Masks by Caude Lévi-Strauss. Tagged: beechwoodpark iv-xxxiii If you have leisure for this (*^^*)

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Max Ernst 

Une semaine de bonté (1934)

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paintedfences said: I think I need to watch Rampart now.

Go watch it~ I think it's one of Harrelson's best performance, though I am not a big fan of the image of Oren Moverman's films (a bit unpolished & some camera movement seems too smartass). Also it's necessary to learn some facts of Rampart scandal to understand this film better, compare to these real rogue cops, Dave Brown's evil is kinda trivial, which makes him more pathetic.

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The thing about Rampart is that Woody Harrelson is in EVERY scene. I can understand many find Dave Brown so despicable that there’s no way to relate to, but to me, he feels familiar. James Ellroy has a special place in my heart. I am thrilled to see such full realization of a James Ellroy man on screen, with all the weakness and paradox, yet unlike other detectives in his crime novels, here is a cop deprived of a case, thus deprived of any hope of redemption. (I heard there is a case for Brown to work on in the original script, not surprised, JE really is an ally of LAPD.)

In some way, Marty Hart is a Dave Brown who finds redemption in the end. They both fucked up their family blindly, the elder daughter despise him, the little one too young to learn to hate her father. Contract to Brown, ultimately it is through case that Marty redeems himself, not, say, through his feelings towards Rust. In other words, his loyalty to Rust is many things but the most important thing is this loyalty equals dedication to the unsolved case.

Try picture Marty and Rust as buddy engineers, one cheating husband, one lone wolf, they fell out after working together seven years then Marty painfully realizes his errors blah blah blah and ten years later he reconciles with Rust and wins forgiveness from ex wife and daughters. See? It really isn’t the same thing without a case.

I think that’s one reason people love traditional crime fictions, cos those detectives get to have a mission, a meaning in life or die trying. They are privileged to face a far greater darkness.

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THE LONELINESS OF A POLICEMAN

Woody Harrelson in Rampart by Oren Moverman (2011)

"Bear in mind that I am not a racist. Fact is, I hate all people equally"

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Walter Crane: The Mower, 1891.

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Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, The Revelation of the Alpha and Omega 1898

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Yeah I know the design is a bit ugly and translation too blunt: Fugitives in Mediterranean. But IT'S IN CHINESE and nowadays they rarely import this kind of low key film (with nothing fancy nor action sequence) to show in theater, so I'm glad.

I appreciate this film even more upon second viewing, very subtle, it's about illusions, about an intriguing pseudo father-son relationship, the son used seemingly innocent wife as an excuse to delude himself so he could stay with that older man he saw as the father he had long lost even before his death yet still craving for, kinda love at first sight with a different twist. So I consider it's proper to use tragic Greek Myth as an intro. Viggo and Oscar are both terrific plus gorgeous to boot in a messed up way, play off each other well, have authentic chemistry on screen makes you think maybe there's more, which never confirmed by film or by characters to themselves. 

I applaud Viggo's career choice over last several years, all indie films, some wonderful, some not  (like Todos tenemos un plan or On The Road), yet every role is different from each other and they all have room for acting, like we can see as many aspects of him as possible. A bliss for his fan. 

Chinese poster for “The Two Faces of January” (亡命地中海)

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Edtv (1999) bloopers, gag reel & outtakes [x]