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Raised in Berlin, Sao Paulo and NYC I now live in Los Angeles. I'm a rocker mom, wife, art collector, culture vulture and founder of this digital enterprise. I take pictures for a living.
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80's cinema// Subway and Manhunter
SUBWAY:
France 1985
Luc Besson's masterpiece set in the seedy Parisian Metro. Crime, Revenge and a sexy love story. Starring the enigmatic, cooler than skool Chirstopher Lambert.
I think this was Christopher Lambert's first film, if not, it put him on the map. Unfortunately he went on to do Highlander, Greystroke and ended up in action star oblivion, but he was the coolest-bluest hero here.
Subway also stars, Isabelle Adjani, Jean Reno and the French star Richard Bohringer (diva). COOL and blue.
One
of my favorite American films around this time was MANHUNTER.
Michael Mann's masterpiece that really started William Petersen's
career. (CSI) When he finally showed up 20 years later on CSI, I
thought to myself its about fucking time. He was so great in this.
Truly one of the best serial killer movies ever. When the song, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly comes on in a murder scene where he rips a girls eyes out- you just want to scream. Highly recommend.
Michael Mann stuck with that visual color(blue) for a long time and it came to define many of his films. Check out Heat with Deniro. Also for you TV fans. The old Miami Vice episodes.
I like to reference a lot of films from this period for my own work, the stylized color, moody lighting, and saturated feel are pretty compelling. I love anything about serial killers. Im working on a project with non fictional references set in southern Florida so these films and the early Miami Vice episodes are a good visual reference. All this makes me want to run out and shoot some tungsten film- oh yeah, I guess you can do it nowadays with photoshop-God I love computers.
France 1985
Luc Besson's masterpiece set in the seedy Parisian Metro. Crime, Revenge and a sexy love story. Starring the enigmatic, cooler than skool Chirstopher Lambert.
I think this was Christopher Lambert's first film, if not, it put him on the map. Unfortunately he went on to do Highlander, Greystroke and ended up in action star oblivion, but he was the coolest-bluest hero here.
Subway also stars, Isabelle Adjani, Jean Reno and the French star Richard Bohringer (diva). COOL and blue.
One
of my favorite American films around this time was MANHUNTER.
Michael Mann's masterpiece that really started William Petersen's
career. (CSI) When he finally showed up 20 years later on CSI, I
thought to myself its about fucking time. He was so great in this.
Truly one of the best serial killer movies ever. When the song, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly comes on in a murder scene where he rips a girls eyes out- you just want to scream. Highly recommend. Michael Mann stuck with that visual color(blue) for a long time and it came to define many of his films. Check out Heat with Deniro. Also for you TV fans. The old Miami Vice episodes.
I like to reference a lot of films from this period for my own work, the stylized color, moody lighting, and saturated feel are pretty compelling. I love anything about serial killers. Im working on a project with non fictional references set in southern Florida so these films and the early Miami Vice episodes are a good visual reference. All this makes me want to run out and shoot some tungsten film- oh yeah, I guess you can do it nowadays with photoshop-God I love computers.
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