#Jason Swartzman

[gumtub]

i watched one episode of a show I've never heard of called bored to death staring jason swartzman and i like the idea of a delusional guy becoming an unlicensed PI but on the whole the show was unlikeable. the main characters name is jonathan and the show creators name is jonathan um yeah.

[iliketowatchmovies]

Asteroid City (2023) .

A solid 75/100

I didn't feel satisfied with the ending. It was quite funny and beautiful cinema. Always centre and aligned shots.

Wes Anderson directed. Jason Swartzman and the Bella Scarlet Johansen were the stars of the many stars in the movie - including tom hanks and Edward Norton and the father from Malcolm in the middle.

It’s super quirky and fun.

A play within a play.

Bye for now. I’d watch again

[ahhpacino]

[mysharona1987]

The point about Marie Antoinette (2006). You will never get over how hypnotically beautiful this film is. But you will also never get over how hypnotically vapid this film is.

It has to be good, right? It’s visually gorgeous, won a deserved Oscar for its sublimely amazing costumes and the acting is, eh, perfectly fine? 

I can’t argue that Sofia did an incredible directing job here. Technical-wise, anyway. 

But something about it...is just missing. 

It stops it being a classic movie, which it easily could have been. 

It’s almost tragic.  

[mattkeepsrambling]

Random Rambling: Klaus

I saved Kalus as one of the last because it is one of my favorites. I watched it for the first time last year and fell in love with it. As I watched the movie for the first time, it felt like something special. I love everything about it. "Klaus" is a beautiful film and will be one I watch every year right alongside "How The Grinch Stole Christmas."

The movie gets at one of the overarching themes of the holiday season; kindness. It is a theme that I have seen in a few other movies I have watched in the past 11 days. The town that Jasper (Jason Swartzman) ends up in is at war; one side hates the other for very unspecific reasons. When Klaus (J.K Simmons) and Jesper start delivering toys to the children, things begin to change. In the movie Klaus says, "A true act of goodwill always sparks another," and if I were the tattoo type, I would probably have those words on me somewhere. It's a beautiful line that we can all learn a lesson from.

"Klaus" is set in a world where Christmas doesn't exist. We get to see how many of the classic Christmas imagery could have started. Klaus getting letters from kids, the chimney being the safest way to enter a house guarded by dogs, the reindeer-led sleigh because there were too many toys for a horse and cart to pull, the red suit and we even see the image of him flying through the air.

I love the character of Klaus. When we first meet him, he is a large, imposing man who seems content to live alone in the When Klaus sees that first child play with the toy, you see a whole different side of him. You see the man he used to be before loss and grief overtook him. As the movie continues, you see him heal and become a better man because of what they are doing.

I love this movie and if you haven't seen it, you really should.

[greengreen-blueblue]

i feel like i’m the teacher in rushmore and my unneutered male kitten is jason swartzman, why he stare at me like that

[onhbomax]

Rushmore

Rated R || 93m || 1998 

Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) is Rushmore Academy's true Renaissance youth--editor of the school paper, founder and president of everything from Trap & Skeet Club to the Bombardment Society. He's also the school's worst student. When he falls for a pretty teacher, Max finds himself in a war with local tycoon Bill Murray in this Wes Anderson comedy.

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[mysharona1987]

Not that I think Marie Antoinette (2006) is a particularly great movie or even historically accurate, but, damn, is it astoundingly beautiful to look at. Which is more than many films accomplish.

Is there something really wrong with a film that is, just, well, nice-looking?

[architectureandfilmblog]

RUSHMORE (1998) THE WHO: A QUICK ONE WHILE HE’S AWAY.

The revenge sequence.

[thatkellikat]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_KJnwDZFBw)

What I have learnt??

I have come to a place in this project when it’s time to reflect on what it is I have learnt, gained and surmised from this project. The trouble is it’s so much I cannot possibly put it in to words. Instead I have made the above video to attempt to capture just some of my thoughts and feelings. 

I guess, my aim in this project was to prove that A) Skateboarding is an art form and B) that it supports self expression, resilience and autonomy in young people and I think that I have done so through my research and artifacts in ‘Practice 1′. I have discovered a multitude of academics who have written about skateboarding’s behavioral impacts, cultural identities and use of space, body and time. From these theories, I have developed a real sense of skateboarding ideology and how this is creatively reflected in a range of artifacts and modes of self expression. 

I have drawn on my own experience  working as a teacher with  learners who many underestimate because of their preposition with skate culture to support and justify my findings. 

I have struggled to an extent to produce visual representations of my findings and have found the Zine that I have produced to be a solution to this issue. I have created a series of digital images, video and sounds to represent how skateboarding can literally be a work of art within multi media platforms (music, performance, film and photography) and hope that this captures to an extent what I intended to prove. 

The video above merges some of my own work (from the Skate/fire shoot, which my students helped with) which I hope encapsulates the sense of how I have brought my teaching practice into this project with various ‘found footage’ which I feel represents skateboarding as an art form. Included in the video is Gonz’s Skateboarding performance at the Abteiberg Museum, Monchengladbach, Germany on Dec. 13th 1998 with D*Face’s Ridiculous Pool (2011), The Dyan Reider “Huf” advert, Jackson Pollock painting in 1901 and a video of some drip action art. Combined and layered I hope that this video explains and represents what I have learnt in this project.

Sources 

Mark Gonzales Skateboarding performance at the Abtieberg  Museum Mönchengladbach (Germany) on Dec. 13th 1998 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTzEp4CeWT8 [accessed 7-4-16] 

D*face Ridiculous Pool (2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScW5kWzSaSI&nohtml5=False [accessed 7-4-16]

Jackson Pollock Painting 1901 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSjY4e7NqTo [accessed 7-4-16]

Abstract Art Action Painting Dripping IDYLLIC DISASTER by Lepolsk Matuszewski https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTZoxfBcgfA&list=PLHNUl2q82zDxvwljsBVP6Jj7yrvaG3qXU&index=1 [accesed 7-4-16]

Dylan Reider/Huf Advert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWiLWuSeiOw [accessed 7-4-16]

Music J, Swartzman, Coconut Records (2006) West Coast YoungBabyRecords www.itunes.com/coconutrecords [accessed 7-6-16]

[theo-erable]

Nous devions faire un documentaire sur le dernier spécimen vivant de calamar albinos géant Japonais. Malheureusement le tournage a été annulé pour cause de décès prématuré de l'animal. Nous avons tourné ce Vidéogramme à la place avec l'argent de la production.

"Vidéogramme" c'est Théo et Brieuc qui se posent des questions. (NB: cette vidéo contient aussi les réponses)

[filmap]

I ♥ Huckabees David O. Russell. 2004

Open Spaces Coalition 1121 Aviation Blvd, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254, USA See in map

See in imdb

[mysharona1987]

After watching Marie Antoinette again, I think Coppola was making quite a clever, subtle and historically accurate point, but she may not have realized it.

The movie does a decent enough job of making it clear Marie was not the cruel and evil queen history has made her out to be. If you study the French Revolution, this is absolutely true. 

But there’s an interesting line from Steve Coogan in one of the making-of-features: “She was slandered. With lies. But, well, some of the stories were true.” 

Marie was far too extravagant, self-absorbed and completely oblivious. 

In the movie, everyone keeps warning her to stop spending so much and think more about her image and her increasing unpopularity. She doesn’t listen. She isn’t bothered about politics. She just wants to think about shoes, food and her lover. 

It’s only by the opera scene that she realizes how hated she is. But by then it’s too late.   

Basically Marie was the victim of bad PR, sure. But how damn easy she made it for them. 

She is sympathetic, to an extent. But perhaps not as much as Coppola wants her to be. 

[theanxiouschild]

marie antoinette (2006)