The Color of the Pomegranate by Sergei Parajnov (1969)
I follow a very nice YouTube channel called Kino Domain which posts very diverse movies from Horror to Film Noir or Italian Neorealism. While looking for the film that would make my evening, I came upon one that has been in my watchlist for a very long time : The Color of the Pomegranates.
Created as a surrealist biopic of Sayat Nova, the film tells the story of the Armenian poet’s life through his poems and the images. No need for long dialogues when every shot is carefully composed to reflect the beauty of Nova’s words. You dive into the world of poetry and catch a glimpse of Armenian and Georgian culture in the meantime.
i say i like tragedies and everyone’s all like ‘why do you like sad stories? are you depressed?’ and never ‘how was the catharsis? was the catharsis fun?’
Les Félins (René Clément), Days of Being Wild (Wong Kar Wai), Malcolm T. Liepke, Gustav Vigeland (Eros and Psyche), Stephan Sinding (Adoration), Soul Eom (kiss, hug and die)
I think what I love most about current day tumblr and it’s obsession with things like Dracula daily and Goncharov is that it’s a reminder that the internet and social media can be fun. It’s not all algorithms and selling things to you based on data the company got from tracking all your movements. Sometimes it’s about coming together to have fun over something completely superfluous and stupid but ultimately meaningful because we gave it meaning.
if i had a penny for everytime star trek wrote an incredibly autistic coded character, who happened to also be gay for the most bisexual character imaginable, id have 5 pennies, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that its happened 5 times, right?