I Lie

what makes us human

I could post these all day! You can check out the film in full on youtube (all 3 hours!) but I recommend going to see a version on the big screen. It's incredible and you can see it for free. The sheer indivisible weight of experience in the stories told by people from across the world have left me feeling connected and inspired to do more in my little corner of this planet. It's also interspersed with some breathtaking landscapes to remind us, If we've forgotten, about the importance of the land. And, in my interpretation, how much peoples freedom is tied to it.
Oohhh and the movement! Movement most definitely matters.

what about second breakfast?

In no particular order some of THE BEST film food scenes that are food positive, greedy and good. Inspired by Ruby Tandoh.

My particular favorite is Matilda. Feisty little mite with marvelous cooking skills.  

we aren't here to make things perfect

Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either - but love don't make things nice. It ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves, and to break our hearts, and love the wrong people, and die. The storybooks are bullshit! Now I want you to come upstairs with me and get in my bed!

Ronny Cammareri, talking to Loretta Castorini in Moonstruck (1987)
(found via evencleveland)

grit

Geoffrey Jones, Snow. 1963. Found via evencleveland.

This is mesmerising! Manual labor and tweed jackets.  Talk about grit.

stills from 'Volleyball (Foot Film) 1967', 10:00 b&w, silent, 16mm

Wild Women

I went to the Banff Mountain Film Festival at the Union Chapel this weekend and loved this film! For California-based Faith Dickey mastering the fine art of slacklining and highlining is a passion.

She set the women’s world record for highlining length (a full 345 feet of pure balance and fear mastery) in Moab, Utah. She also set a record for highlining height at 4,000 feet up from the valley bottom in the Swiss Alps. Faith also has accomplished 30 free solos (highlining without an attached safety leash), the longest of which was just over 91 feet.
Can you imagine?

I've been dabbling with this (at very low heights!) and it has to be one of the best balance tools i've ever tried.  Balance is so dynamic and there is no getting away from that on one of these. I like this one...gibbon-slacklines

Here's a clip of Faith in action from polishedproject.

Saturday Cartoon

The Nose

Padmini in Raj Tilak (1958)

the hand movements!

Sunday Tune

'well, are you gonna go for it?'

talk to her

It has been said (many times) that the most beautiful ballets are the ones that makes us forget the weight of the dancers’ bodies. With Pina Bausch, on the contrary, dance becomes a vehicle of celebration of this weight in its interaction with itself, the others’ and the environment. Her work is used beautifully in Hable con Ella by Pedro Almodóvar with that idea in mind, the dance segments in the film really reflect the musical rhythm and language of the story. I really recommend watching it and if it is of interest this essay is a good read.

I want...

"I want this one moment. It’s - it’s what I want in a relationship… which might explain why I am single now. Ha, ha. It’s, uh - It’s kind of hard to - it’s that thing when you’re with someone… and you love them and they know it… and they love you and you know it… but it’s a party… and you’re both talking to other people… and you’re laughing and shining… and you look across the room… and catch each other’s eyes… but - but not because you’re possessive… or it’s precisely sexual… but because… that is your person in this life. And it’s funny and sad, but only because this life will end, and it’s this secret world… that exists right there… in public, unnoticed, that no one else knows about. It’s sort of like how they say that other dimensions exist all around us, but we don’t have the ability to perceive them. That’s - That’s what I want out of a relationship. Or just life, I guess. Love. — I sound stoned. I’m not stoned. — Thanks for dinner. Bye.”

Frances Ha (2012)
dir: Noah Baumbach

(Source: yeahmoviesandsongs via thatkindofwoman)

“If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.” 

― Leonard Cohen.

  Image by me.

Gifs from the Film: “La Noire de…” Also known as “Black Girl” is a 1966 film by the Senegalese writer and director Ousmane Sembène, starring Mbissine Thérèse Diop.

You can watch the whole film via DynamicAfrica

(Source: masembe, via dreamhampton)

Making Shapes

Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo making shapes in Jean-Luc Godard's Une Femme est une femme.

"I want this one moment. It’s - it’s what I want in a relationship… which might explain why I am single now. Ha, ha. It’s, uh - It’s kind of hard to - it’s that thing when you’re with someone… and you love them and they know it… and they love you and you know it… but it’s a party… and you’re both talking to other people… and you’re laughing and shining… and you look across the room… and catch each other’s eyes… but - but not because you’re possessive… or it’s precisely sexual… but because… that is your person in this life. And it’s funny and sad, but only because this life will end, and it’s this secret world… that exists right there… in public, unnoticed, that no one else knows about. It’s sort of like how they say that other dimensions exist all around us, but we don’t have the ability to perceive them. That’s - That’s what I want out of a relationship. Or just life, I guess. Love. — I sound stoned. I’m not stoned. — Thanks for dinner. Bye.”

Frances Ha (2012)
dir: Noah Baumbach

(Source: yeahmoviesandsongs via thatkindofwoman)

Film

Une Femme est une femme

Hidden YOGA in a film alert!! Yes, i watch for this shit...luckily others do too so I have stills evidence. Thank you Staywiththebreath.

Godard’s Une Femme est une femme is brilliant. I love love love the shapes Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo pull throughout and the book scene where they wipe their feet before getting into bed. I especially love that bit.