BARAKA
So, I saw BARAKA last night at one of the venues of the Dubai International Film Festival. It was an out-of-this-world experience, a film without words. Visuals and music. Stripped of everything, down to reality. Tribes, chants, traffic, people, nations, clouds, mountains, animals, sacrifice, death and so many more things beautifully shot on 70mm. I sat there on a bean bag in a pretty lawn with a fantastic large screen overdosing my senses. Gorgeousness. Go soak.
posted by 100hands at Tuesday, December 13, 2005
10 Comments:
eliot fan??
Not really, why? More Plath I guess.
'I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.'
100hands-ur comment about coffeespoons and afternoons somehow reminded me of an eliot poem--"the love song of J.alfred prufrock"...i wondered if the connection was intentional :)
. isnt that the poem with the refrain that goes...i think i made you up inside my head???or something along those lines???
Mad girls lovesong. :(
Too bad I'm missing it this year...current ETA is 03-01.
yes...thats the name :(
i havent read plath in a while. when i was in college, they nicknamed me sylvia. and i so hate my college self :(
with hindsight, i can say that sylvia....sigh...i don't want to say poor sylvia but i do wish they'd invented something better than lithium tabs for bipolar disorder :( :(
was her mental agony worth it simply cos she has given us some poems to read...? if i met her...i'd ask her that. has your pain been worth it? has fame gained cos of pain been worth it??
you figure she'd have written such brilliant stuff if she hadnt been sick?
and hey...for curiosity's sake, do u hate ted hughes too?
Know of him cos of his relationship with Plath, dont know his work. I'm open. Did you ever read the book "Letters home". It contained most of the letters Plath wrote to her mom when she was going through the worst times of her life. Its heartbreaking. :(
no i havent...but having read some of her works, i can well imagine that it was heart rending....and intense.
really disappointed at missing that. ron fricke has to be one of the most calm men ive ever met. 5 minutes in his presence and i felt at ease, at peace...
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