#samsara film

[boneszphoto]

get lost in the woods 🌲

#west coast #vancouver island #yyjphotographer #bc #nature #victoria bc #woods #forestcore #ferns #trees #juan de fuca #fairy creek #port renfrew #35mm #nature photography #canon film camera #film photography #samsara #fernwood lounge

[enterfilm]

SAMSARA (Lois Patiño, 2023)

#samsara #lois patiño #amid keomany #toumor xiong #simone milavanh #mariam vuaa mtego #juwairiya idrisa uwesu #film #cine

[alchemisoul]

"Let’s not go someday, let’s go now. I don’t want to be in a story. All I want is to not look forward or back. I just want to be in the moment I’m in."

- Delores, Westworld

"Can you remember where you were before you came here? You can't, can you? Do you remember the first night that we were together? How did you feel?

I felt safe, happy, comfortable. It felt right. It felt like something locked into place, like we'd met before.

Like it had happened before and it'll happen again, like it's happened a thousand times over and over again. Do you know what I mean?

Ever since we've met, this world has been toying with us. It's trying to keep us apart. It's...It's a test, I swear it is...

And the two of us rebelling together is something to do with passing it. We've gotta fuck it all off.

We've just gotta fuck the whole thing off and go. Yeah, over the wall. Right over it. No matter what's out there. So let's go.

Yeah, let's go."

- Hang The DJ, Black Mirror Anthology

#westworld #black mirror #film #script #screenwriting #eternal return #rebellion #samsara #time is a flat circle #eternal recurrence #black iron prison #gnosticism #prometheus #gnostic

[contentalien]

"HOW CAN ONE PREVENT A DROP OF WATER FROM EVER DRYING UP?

BY THROWING IT INTO THE SEA."

Samsara (2001) dir. Pan Nalin

#film #samsara #quote

[pandapecha]

film director: guys what if... americans eats hamburger... which is bad...

audience: stellar. profound. transcendental. 10/10 take all of my money so u can keep sayig this. really says a lot about society

#text #watched samsara for film class today #worlds most milquetoast takes of all time

[romanceclub-lovers]

Moments from 6 years of the Romance Club with Project manager Vlad.

Vlad, project manager at the Romance Club, shared with us scenes from stories that are especially dear to him!

Let's take a trip down to memory lane together!

1. Sails in the fog

We would like to note that “Sails in the Fog” is truly a legendary story that opened the doors to the world of visual novels for us!

2. Shadows of Saintfour

We see a fork in one of the endings with the Masked Man. The branch finals with him were really exciting!

3. Dracula: A Love Story

What films were discussed in the first season? Now we can say for sure!

*Aisha: Lale's mother

*Laya: Laia

4. Legend of the Willow

The endings with Masamune made more than one fan's heart flutter!

5. Kali: Call of Darkness

The finale, in which Amala is reborn into little Aisa... Samsara.

6. Theodora

John... is perhaps the most mysterious hero of all the Romance Club characters... Let's get to know him better!

7. Secret moment from the upcoming update! Where is he from?

We couldn’t leave this beautiful scene unattended and, together with KYZ Artist, we created a visualization of this moment for you!

Once again we would like to congratulate the Romance Club team on their anniversary! It is thanks to them that we can travel around worlds and meet amazing heroes!

Source: Team Legends of the Romance Club.

#romance club #romance club game #rc

[sifeng]

Upcoming CDramas

I’ve recently tumbled down the bilibili hole of cdrama edits and some of them do an amazing job hyping up upcoming dramas! So here are a few I’m personally super excited for. 

Till The End of the Moon (长月烬明)

Cast:

Luo Yunxi (罗云熙) as Tantai Jin (澹台烬)/Cang Jiumin (沧九旻)/Ming Ye (冥夜) - The demon god who has never cried since he was born. Even if his eyes were gouged out and his tendons were torn off, no one saw his fragile state. 

Bai Lu (白鹿) as Li Susu (黎苏苏)/Ye Xiwu (叶夕雾)/Sang Jiu (桑酒) - The adopted daughter of the head of the Immortal Sect. She possesses the blood of the most sacred phoenix in the world, and is the perfect adaptor of the ancient ruthless Tao. She lives in an era when demons are in power, monks and mortals are humble - the initiator of all this is being a cold-blooded and ruthless demon king.

Chen Duling (陈都灵) as Ye Bingchang (叶冰裳)/Mei Nü (妹女)/Tian Huan (天欢) - She originally appears as a weak and kind girl, but is secretly cruel. She eventually becomes fully evil. 

Plot: In an era when the demons are in power, they are the masters of the despicable cultivators and mortals. The cultivator elders deem it necessary to send someone back in time, to determine the origin of the demon lord and to prevent his awakening. Li Su Su accepts the mission, becoming the mortal Ye Xi Wu, General Ye's third daughter who is married to Tantai Jin, the hostage prince and future demon lord. She is determined to destroy Tantai Jin, who in the future will massacre many. But as a witness to Tantai Jin's past life and rise to power, an unexpected tale emerges, one complicating her quest. (Source: RedLotusPavilion at MyDramaList)

Behind the Scenes of the Photoshoot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FPR_BGI1fg

Finished Filming Special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX_u4sBItjA

Immortal Samsara (沉香如屑)

Cast:

Yang Zi (杨紫) as Yan Dan (颜淡) - Yan Dan was originally a relic of the ancients, the four-leaf hanli. Since ancient times, her whole body has been a treasure of medicine. She and her twin sister Zhixi were transformed into human beings at a feast a hundred years earlier.

Cheng Yi (成毅) as Tang Zhou (唐州)/Ying Yuan (应渊) - The seventh human reincarnation of the heavenly emperor is a heavenly teacher. He fell in love at first sight after meeting Yan Dan.

Plot: Yan Dan is the sole descendant of the ancient tribe the Four-Leaved Scorpion.  Yan Dan’s entire being is a treasure trove of medicines.  She and twin sister Zhi Xi transformed into human form a century before while attending the Queen Mother's Feast, but Yan Dan faced the greatest trial of her life - the love trial. Falling in love with Lord Ying Yuan resulted in her wasting the following  800 years forgetting him. Such a high price to pay! Now the supportive Yu Mo enters her life, encouraging her daily to perform good deeds. While punishing evil, they encounter Lord Ying Yuan's current reincarnation, Tang Zhou, the demon hunter. They assist Tang Zhou in his quest to locate the four ancient artifacts, uncovering an even more mysterious secret. Can the trio find the evidence they need despite the dangers?   (Source: DramaWiki, edited by Lee C at MyDramaList)

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToryhgoYo8A

Behind the Scenes of Photoshoots + Finished Filming Special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3RB1l4rxt4

OST + Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu-gxJk1cNE

Love You Seven Times (七时吉祥)

Cast:

Yang Chaoyue (杨超越) as Xiang Yun (祥云) - She was originally a cloud, but was later turned into a fairy by Yue Lao. She works in Yue Lao Pavilion and develops a seven-life love with Chu Kong because of a misunderstanding.

Ding Yuxi (丁禹兮) as Chu Kong (初空) - He is a disciple of the King of the Stars of the Sun. When he accidentally enters the Yuelao Pavilion he is seen as a villain. Chu Kong accidentally broke Xiang Yun's fan, causing the two to quarrel and accidentally mess up the red rope, causing chaos in the marriage of the Three Realms. The Jade Emperor learns of this, and punished the two of them to go through seven worlds of love calamities before they could return to the heaven, and the story began from there.

Fun Fact: the writer of the novel this drama is based on also wrote The Legends (招摇) and The Blue Whisper (与君初相识). The original novel has a 7.5 rating on douban.

Trailer 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAWZNn0l61k

Trailer 2 (Romance): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qkXd0vxzhY

Finished Filming Special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeIMiJhysm8

Fanmade edit: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1oZ4y1h7eE?share_source=copy_web

Love Between Fairy and Devil (苍兰诀)

Cast:

Yu Shuxin (虞书欣) as Xiaolanhua (小兰花) - The pure and kind-hearted low-level fairy in the heavens, Xiao Lanhua, was the goddess of the Po Xin clan in her previous life. A series of ironic stories happened after the encounter with Mozun by accident, and she fell in love with Mozun.

Wang Hedi (王鹤棣) as Dongfang Qingcang (东方青苍) - In ancient times, the Demon Venerable who covered the sky with one hand was injured after a battle with the Chidi woman, and was later executed by the gods. After being rescued by the Prime Minister of the Demon World, he still obsessed with resurrecting the Chidi woman and defeating her, and then met Xiao Lanhua and started a life of tragic love.

Plot: An immortal girl from the Po Xin tribe had her tribe vanquished by the Demon Lord, Dong Fang Qing Cang. She was reborn ten thousand years later as a lowly immortal of the Heavenly Tribe, Xiao Lan Hua (Little Orchid). Lan Hua unknowingly revived Dong Fang Qing Cang, her mortal enemy, who was trapped in the Hao Tian Tower. In order to regain his freedom, Dong Fang Qing Cang wants to sacrifice Xiao Lan Hua's immortal soul to unleash the curse placed on his body. In the process, the heartless demon falls for the gentle and adorable young fairy... (Source: DramaWiki)

Trailer 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvinyenMSPQ

Trailer 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=553H1TyHwhM

Love Never Fails (落花时节又逢君)

Cast:

Yuan Bingyan (袁冰妍) as Hong Ning (红凝) - She was originally a little camellia demon on Baizhou Mountain. She was cute and straightforward, and she didn't understand anything, but accidentally strayed into fairyland and experienced several lifetimes of love and reincarnation. She used a demon hunter with swords, and a witch who slaughtered gods in an uprising. She dared to love and hate. Love and equality break all bonds.

Liu Xueyi (刘学义) as Jin Xia (锦绣) - The god of the sky, the leader of the flower world, the highest boss of Hong Ning. He was trained as a successor to the heavenly realm since he was a child. He is a responsible and mission-driven veteran cadre who is extremely disciplined. Cold and arrogant on the outside, sullen on the inside, straight in the mouth, always fragrant, often provoked by Hong Ning and shy, it will turn back to the prototype of golden peony. Forbidden and affectionate, for the sake of Hong Ning, he was willing to bear the punishment of all kinds of heaven and earth, and set up a beautiful and tragic person. In the end, he painfully found that his life experience was the biggest joke, and the justice he insisted on was a big lie.

Plot: Jin Xiu, the King of the Central Heavens, intended to help a little camellia demon become immortal but he became mortal for her in the end. At the Flower Festival held once every 100 years in the heavenly realm, camellia demon Hong Ning boldly confessed to Jin Xiu her intention to become his queen. When she is told that demon and god can never be, she takes his advice to heart to cultivate and achieve immortality. Upon her ascension, Hong Ning learns that Jin Xiu is marrying someone else. She resolutely abandons an immortal life to enter the cycle of reincarnation, simply to forget him. Jin Xiu defies fate itself in order for Hong Ning to be reborn. He hopes to repay his debts and protect her for a lifetime. A misunderstanding that cannot be avoided, an identity for which there is no escape; when spring ends, the two meet again. Hong Ning is destined to become Jin Xiu's trial in love. (Source: ChineseDrama.info)

Trailer: https://movie.douban.com/trailer/289541/#content

#cdrama #xianxia #luo yunxi #bai lu #yang zi #cheng yi #yang chaoyue #ding yuxi #wang hedi #yu shuxin #yuan bingyan #liu xueyi #till the end of the moon #immortal samsara #love you seven times #love between fairy and devil #love never fails

[veritanascoste]

Codice Genesi:

Matrix non è un film, è un documentario❗

Alcuni fatti divertenti:

👉 Al minuto 33 del film , Neo si sveglia e viene disconnesso ❗ Coincidenza❓Lì, vede i corpi criogenici collegati come cibo per il sistema governato dall'IA❗

I personaggi non possono morire all'interno della matrice, perché se muoiono lì, rimangono intrappolati❗Quello che chiamano Samsara (la ruota della reincarnazione è un programma).

👇

L'anima può essere intrappolata qui perché li viene impedita l'evoluzione...e in contemporaneamente,lo spirito, è costretto a seguire l'anima ❗

Questo perché non vogliono che vi connettiate con la vostra essenza❗

Ecco perché hanno creato religioni e programmi che vi soggiogano con i loro sistemi di credenze❗

La New Age è stata creata da loro TMB, per intrappolare le anime che si risvegliano e riempirle di dogmi per tenerle in ostaggio nella stessa Matrix❗

Negli ultimi 20 anni ho percorso molti sentieri spirituali e la maggior parte di essi mi ha deluso, non gli insegnamenti, non i messaggi, ma i messaggeri (le persone) e questo è stato molto positivo perché ho compreso la funzionalità dell' ologramma ❗

Sono stata disillusa,lo ammetto ..e questa è stata la cosa migliore che mi sia capitata, tutti i paradigmi sono stati rotti e questo mi ha portato a trovare il mio percorso,il mio equilibrio ❗

È TUTTO è una bugia, un'illusione, a poco a poco la verità ti viene rivelata❗

Che più che una rivelazione è un'integrazione di tutte le parti ed esperienze, ma filtrata dalla Saggezza dell'Essenza, senza dogmi, senza programmi❗

Questo filtro è nel cuore e la cosa assurda è che è così semplice e diretto che vi rendete conto che è sempre stato lì...in bella vista ❗

https://t.me/httpR2aVkMTA0

Codice Genesi

[tilbageidanmark]

Movies I watched this week (#172):

"May I watch you eat?"

The taste of things is the latest French 'Food-porn' movie, following the recipe of so many before it, and paying homage especially to 'Babette's Feast', with Juliette Binoche playing the simple cook Stéphane Audran in a similar style. They knew what they were doing, romanticizing the 'olde thyme' vision of culinary bliss, making it like a summertime Renoir tableaux [but without any of the dozens of assistants needed to chop the wood, peel the potatoes, pluck the geese, and do the dishes]. Food as love.

I saw it on the same day I read this article about 'The Hottest Restaurant in France', which got me in the mood.

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"I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Please forgive me..."

Samsara is not Ron Flicke's film of the same name (him of the The Qatsi Trilogy). But this 2023 film too is a meditative, spiritual essay about life, death and change. It specifically tells about the Buddhist idea of re-incarnation.

Like the Italian poem 'Le quattro volte' it transforms the philosophical concept of 'Bardo' into a visual story about a bed-ridden old Laotian woman who turns into a new-born goat in Africa after her death. And like Philip Gröning's patient 'Into Great Silence', it follows the simple life in a monastery, quietly and poetically. (Photo Above).

It tells two separate stories: A young boy reads from 'The Tibetan book of the Dead' to a dying woman in a village in Laos. And exactly at midpoint, there's an unexplained, abstract 2001 "Star Gate" light show, where the (Spanish) director asks the audience to close their eyes, and get lost in the vortex with her for about 15 minutes. Long stretch of strobe lights and strange dead sounds, as her soul travels though the afterlife into new birth. Then her spirit transmutes into an another form, as a pet goat for a young Muslim girl in Zanzibar. It's a fragile, silent and unfocused vision about the circle of life.

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Thoroughbreds, my second unsettling thriller by Cory Finley (after 'Bad Education'), his accomplished debut feature. It tells of two rich, psychopathic Connecticut girls who scheme to murder, a-la Raskolnikov, the mean father of the richer one. Terrific direction choices and well-made execution, but I can't stand the young, unlikable actresses (and actors!), and their emotionally-stunted upper-class coldness left me cold too.

I loved JunePictures's lovely animated logo at the beginning!

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Invention for Destruction, a Jules Verne steampunk'ish adventure fable. It was made by Karel Zeman, the "Czech Méliès", in 1958, and is considered "the most successful film in the history of Czech cinema". It's a fantasy sci-fi story that includes rollerskating camels, underwater biking pirates, a giant man-eating octopus, submarines with duck-foot paddles, Etc. It mixes real-life acting with special effect Victorian engravings and animation, including traditional, cut-out, and stop-motion, along with miniature effects and matte paintings. 4/10.

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2 by French feminist Germaine Dulac:

🍿 Dulac was a radical, impressionist, avant-garde film-maker who had made ground-breaking surrealist silent films even before Buñuel and Dalí made 'The Andalusian Dog'.

The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923) is a strong feminist story of an intelligent woman unhappily married who's dreaming of killing her boorish husband. It includes a literal Chekhov's gun. [*Female Director*].

🍿 The Seashell and the Clergyman is based on an experimental story by avant-garde artist Antonin Artaud. A year before 'Un Chien Andalou', it's just as opaque & untamed. Anybody interested in early Buñuel, should visit her films. It's about the "erotic hallucinations of a priest lusting after the wife of a general." Distorted images, bizarre fantasies, impolite subversions... [*Female Director*].

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Another silent era classic, made by a towering pioneer, Alice Guy Blaché's 1906 The Life of Christ. [On IMDb, Alice Guy is credited with directing 464 (!) films, producing 32 and writing 18!]. Composed of 25 individual tableaux, telling of mostly his last days, and noted for her focus on his mostly women followers. The poor baby who had to play Jesus in the manger!... [*Female Director*].

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Crack-up, a confusing 1946 Film Noir, made by a second-rated director, with a terrible script and bad acting all around, including the miscast Pat O'Brien. A stolen art piece, not up to 'The Maltese Falcon' levels. 2/10.

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"I was drugged and left for dead in Mexico, and all I got was this stupid T shirt."

A single re-watch this week: the sophisticated mystery The Game, again♻️. Still my favorite David Fincher film, even more than 'The social Network'. With the magnificent Memory montage opening, which was also copied successfully by the show 'Succession'. Chasing a "White Rabbit", a birthday present to remember...

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2 more selections from the US National Film Registry:

🍿 I am somebody is a 1970 documentary about a strike by 400 black hospital employees (all but 12 women) for better pay in Charleston, South Carolina. Racist discrimination against poor blacks in Amerika is so appalling and so deep, it's hard to watch. The fight for equality and civil rights never ended. 9/10. [*Female Director*].

🍿 Jammin' the Blues is a 1944 Warner Bros. jazz short featuring Lester Young and (new to me) singer Marie Bryant. Oscar nominated in 1944. 'Smokin'!

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I used to really like British magician Darren Brown, and saw many of his shows. Pushed to the edge (2016) is a disturbing experiment in social compliance, a-la Stanley Milgram, taken to the extreme. With dubious morality, he manipulates an unsuspecting guy to push another man from the roof of a building. But the more elaborate the set up, the more uncomfortable it is to watch it.

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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, a lame, loud, shallow music mockumentary by The Lonely Island. It had only one good number, "Fucked Bin Ladin" (which came at 46:00, exactly one hour before the end, so they did follow some script writing rules after all..) and about one million celebrity cameos, including Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney. 2/10.

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In They're Made Out Of Meat (2005) two aliens meet in a night Diner. One of them tell the other, dressed in St. Pepper-type uniform that he discovers that all people on this planet are "made out of meat". It's a cute concept, but that's the whole thing, and there's not more to it.

RIP, Terry Bisson!

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Semiotics of the Kitchen was an angry installation piece by artist Martha Rosler, at the heights of the second wave feminism years (1975). A parody of a cooking show, where the host gets more and more agitated. [*Female Director*].

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(My complete movie list is here)

#movies #samsara

[thenukacolachallenge]

watching people badmouth the live action with shitty analysis before it dropped: rage, seething blinding angry rage at people who don't understand what an adaptation is supposed to be or how it works or how film in general works tbh. watching them try to justify their opinions is like pulling teeth

watching those same people badmouth the live action with shitty analysis now that it's dropped, and watching those same people get mocked mercilessly for being pedantic dumbasses: pure zen. i have achieved samsara

#there are definitely real critiques to the show #but there is a staunch difference between actual critique #and being salty that the live action isnt 1-to-1 with the animanga even though LITERALLY EVERYONE INVOLVED INCLUDING ODA HIMSELF #has said it's not a 1-to-1 adaptation #'this character isnt the exact same as in the manga and therefore its not good' bitch you are behind and in the minority on this. get fucke #god i just. i love watching these clowns get eaten up in their own askbox #i love this song

[radical-revolution]

Somebody asked HH the Dalai Lama, "What's the quickest and easiest way to enlightenment?" And HH just looked at him. The quickest and easiest way to enlightenment....He just looked at him. And he put his head down and then he just started crying. And he said: "I always pray that i will come back again and again endlessly to serve all beings until samsara is emptied."

And we miss the point. It's not a quick and easy fix. A genuine spiritual path is not easy because our lower nature is like the force of gravity. It keeps pulling us back down. And it's very, very hard to get beyond that. To be like an eagle soaring... it takes tremendous, tremendous amounts of effort to become effortless... And how much effort people are willing to put into it, i don't know. This is my only fear. But hopefully there will be a change in consciousness, because if not, the planet is finished."

-Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, from the film "Talking with a Buddha"

[denimbex1986]

'...Close Your Eyes led the nominations alongside Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers with 10 apiece. Strangers ended up the biggest winner of the day with four: Lead Actor Andrew Scott as a gay man finally coming to terms with his painful repression; Supporting Actor Jamie Bell as the ghostly, apologetic dad who failed to save him from bullying; the film’s entire otherworldly Ensemble, including strong turns from Claire Foy and Paul Mescal; and writer-director Andrew Haigh for his lovingly crafted Adapted Screenplay based on a novel by Taichi Yamada...

BEST PICTURE

1. Close Your Eyes 2. All of Us Strangers...

BEST DIRECTOR • Lila Avilés – Tótem • Victor Erice – Close Your Eyes – WINNER • Jonathan Glazer – The Zone of Interest • Andrew Haigh – All of Us Strangers • Radu Jude – Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World – Runner-up • Justine Triet – Anatomy of a Fall – Runner-up

LEAD ACTOR • Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers • Karim Leklou – Sons of Ramses • Josh O’Connor – La Chimera • Andrew Scott – All of Us Strangers – WINNER • Manolo Solo – Close Your Eyes – Runner-up • Koji Yakusho – Perfect Days

SUPPORTING ACTOR • Jamie Bell – All of Us Strangers – WINNER • José Coronado – Close Your Eyes – Runner-up • Mateo Garcia – Tótem • Milo Machado Graner – Anatomy of a Fall • Charles Melton – May December • Ben Whishaw – Passages

SUPPORTING ACTRESS • Claire Foy – All of Us Strangers • Julianne Moore – May December • Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers • Catalina Saavedra – Rotting in the Sun • Ana Torrent – Close Your Eyes – Runner-up • Ana Torrent – Foremost by Night – WINNER

ENSEMBLE • All of Us Strangers – WINNER • Anatomy of a Fall • Asteroid City • Close Your Eyes • Society of the Snow • Tótem – Runner-up

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY • All of Us Strangers – Andrew Haigh – WINNER • The Beast in the Jungle – Patric Chiha, Jihane Chouaib, Axelle Ropert • Killers of the Flower Moon – Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese • Poor Things – Tony McNamara • Society of the Snow – J.A. Bayona, Jaime Marques, Bernat Vilaplana, Nicolás Casariego • The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer – Runner-up

CINEMATOGRAPHY • All of Us Strangers – Jamie Ramsay • Close Your Eyes – Valentín Álvarez • Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell – Dinh Duy Hung – runner-up • La Chimera – Hélène Louvart • Samsara – Mauro Herce, Jessica Sarah Rinland – WINNER • The Zone of Interest – Lukasz Zal

EDITING • All of Us Strangers – Jonathan Alberts • Anatomy of a Fall – Laurent Sénéchal – WINNER • Close Your Eyes – Ascen Marchena • Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World – Catalin Cristutiu – Runner-up • Oppenheimer – Jennifer Lame • Society of the Snow – Andrés Gil, Jaume Martí

SOUND DESIGN • All of Us Strangers – Joakim Sundström • The Boy and the Heron – Koji Kasamatsu • Maestro – Richard King, Steve Morrow, Tom Ozanich, Jason Ruder, Dean Zupancic • Oppenheimer – Richard King, Kevin O’Connell, Gary A. Rizzo, Willie Burton • Samsara – Xabier Erkizia, Luca Rulio – WINNER • The Zone of Interest – Johnnie Burn, Tarn Willers – Runner-up...'

#International Cinephile Society #Andrew Haigh #Andrew Scott #All of Us Strangers #Jamie Bell #Claire Foy #Joakim Sundstrom #Jonathan Alberts #Jamie Ramsay #Strangers #Taichi Yamada

[breezybeej]

Here's some random movie recommendations for you accursed beafts:

Ginger Snaps (2000): if you liked Jennifer's Body, you'll probably like this. It has a lot of the same themes but with a more sisterly bonding bend. Personally I liked it more than JB.

Being John Malkovich (1999): Okay so you want to talk about Ego Death? You want to meditate on identity? This movie assaults you with so much absurdity that the overarching message is the only thing that makes sense.

La Llorona (2019) ((NOT the Curse of La Llorona, we are talking about the Guatemalan film)): This movie is very slow, still, and steady. There are no jump scares, really. The film is a long slow build up of dread but in like a positive way? It's a horror movie about women and the power structures men put them into.

Smoke Signals (1998): You ever have complicated feelings about your dad, lol? Watch this. Bonus points for being a film made by indigenous americans

Sound of Metal (2020): Man loses a connection to something he built his life around so it all starts crumbling. You'll cry.

Perfect Blue (1997, yes the anime movie): I know, Satoshi Kon yadda yadda it's already a well known movie. This psych thriller anime is yet another meditation on identity and how we try to change ourselves to please others or change others to please ourselves.

Microcosmos (1996): This is the single best insect documentary I have ever seen. There is no narration after the first minute, you real close macro footage of bugs. Even without words, you can watch their world unfold before you and it just Makes sense.

Samsara (2011): In the same vein as microcosmos, this doc is a wordless meditation on humanity. You'll see all kinds of fascinating cultural events unfold before you. It really makes you feel connected to other humans.

Warsha (2022): This one's a short film. There is something about finding bliss even in the face of oppression

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979): The poster is literally the pride flag. The pride flag which came out one year before thin movie did. But really, this movie is VERY slow. Which is to its benefit. They really let you sit and think about what is happening in front of you. I don't know, the performances in this film are immaculate. It gets a lot of hate for how slow it is but if you let the movie take over, it WILL fill you with the intended sense of simultaneous fear of the unknown and curiosity about that unknown. Trepidation? Also it's a very good love story about two parallel romances.

Pig (2021): Nicholas Cage in a slow burner about the past and how we try to run from it. About how we can never escape it either. How to we cope with that? Maybe Nic can show us.

#movies #la llorona #ginger Snaps #being John Malkovich #smoke Signals #sound of Metal #perfect Blue #microcosmos #samsara #star trek the motion picture #warsha #pig

[stillnotspamdog]

Mondjuk el az igazat: Asteroid City : Túl sznobok voltunk írni róla Deadstream – Kísértetjárás : Horrorról régóta nem volt semmilyen kritika. És most is egy Blair Witch kópiáról van szó. May December "Hol érhető el: Egyelőre sehol. Az Egyesült Államokban a Netflixen látható. " : Teljesen adekvált egy elérhetetlen film ajánlása Ott vagy, Istenem? Én vagyok az, Margaret :Állítólag egy hétig ment a Művész moziban december elején bár az IMDB szerint nincs magyar megjelenése. Szinkron nincs hozzá a digitális platformon (Amazon). Pedig ez még érdekelne is.

Rye Lane : Ez érdekel! Nézem is Disney+ Samsara : Még jó hogy nem írtatok a telexen egy 12 éves filmről. Esetleg lesz majd egy Bosszúállók kritika is? Suzume : csak a nemzeti torrentkölcsönzőben találtam meg, de óvatosan a kereséssel mert esetleg hirtelen a 18+ kategóriában találod magad. Kaibutsu : Ezt még ott sem. War Pony Hol érhető el: Egy darab vetítése volt Budapesten, legálisan jelenleg sehogy. Tavaly nyert egy díjat Cannes-ban idén sem mutatták be itthon. Amazonon fenn volt 1 hónapig. Nincs magyar felirat sem.

When You Finish Saving the World : Ez is Amazonon érhető el de legalább van magyar felirat hozzá.

[lingshanhermit]

Ling Shan Hermit: Samsara Cinema

Samsara is a series of films, a succession of clichéd plots that have been remade into numerous sequels. It is played on repeat, endlessly. All of us are drawn into the cinema of samsara by karma, staring at the screen.

Typically, we only get to see an abridged version of samsara. We only see the exciting trailers of the movie, hence we're filled with anticipation for the future. If you could see the full version, you might not be as hopeful.

You would see the miserable samsara, the repetitious plot. In the film, sometimes you are lifted high up to the sky, but then you plummet down heavily, all the way to the bottom. You start to climb up from the very bottom, and after a long time and many cycles of samsara, you reach the top again. But unfortunately, history tends to repeat itself, and you will fall again. When you see this cycle happening over and over, you're less likely to maintain your expectations.

You see yourself gaining, losing, gaining again, losing again, and so on. The people around you are the same. Those things that you thought would bring you happiness, those things you thought would always stay with you, they all betray you without exception, leaving your expectations unfulfilled. If you saw the full version, the repetitive scenes of gaining and losing, you would learn not to hold any expectations.

Ignorance is a crafty director. It doesn't show us the full version of samsara, knowing that the full version would disappoint us. It only gives us snippets, exciting trailers, making us believe that this is a movie worth anticipating, a summer blockbuster.

But actually, when you really see the full version, you'll find it incredibly tedious. In fact, you'll feel this way even if you stay in the cinema for a bit longer. You might wonder: what's the point of this cycle? Perhaps you may even choose to leave home, just like Siddhartha did. You wouldn't want to keep watching. If you're tired of this movie and want to step out, that's renunciation.

You might try to wake up the people on the screen, to stop them from continuing the act. And those watching the movie, you would want to tell them how dreadful the film is. But usually, they won't listen to you. Maybe they can't hear you at all. The sound of the movie is too loud, drowning out your voice, so you must use some techniques.

If you just walk out of the cinema yourself, it's only you who gets liberated. Many others are still watching, still acting, and even more people have seen the trailers and want to buy tickets to enter. For these people, preventing them from entering is not a wise choice. You could let them go in and watch for a while, and when they come out for a smoke, ask them about their feelings towards the movie: is it as terrible as you found it to be? If they have similar thoughts, you could discuss Buddhism with them.

Generally speaking, young people tend to have overly high expectations of this movie. They have seen the least (some even think that the movie has only one part, not knowing there are sequels), so they are full of anticipation. Older people, who have seen more, are starting to be disappointed. But whether young or old, no one can see the real original version. What they see is an abridged version, which prevents them from making a correct judgment.

If you haven't seen the full version, you wouldn't realize that the actor playing your enemy in this episode was playing your mother in the previous one. When they were playing your mother, they loved you just as your current mother does, but now they've forgotten all about it and are trying to harm both you and themselves. If you haven't seen the previous episode, you wouldn't truly feel compassion.

If you could see the people in those movies, each harboring the same desires as you but unsure how to achieve them, taking paths that lead them astray, their choices bringing them everything but happiness. They once played roles as your parents, too. If you haven't seen these parts, you wouldn't feel compelled to hold their hands, guide them, show them the way. If you don't know that your current enemy was very caring towards you in the previous episode, you would find it hard to forgive the harm they've caused you in this one.

If you haven't seen the scenes about hell, you wouldn't know what fear is.

Only by watching the complete version can one draw the right conclusions, and only those who draw the right conclusions can make the right choices.

First published on Ling Shan Ju Shi Blog on June 19, 2008.

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灵山居士：轮回电影院

轮回是一系列电影，他是一系列情节老套重复拍了很多续集的电影，他被反复播放，不停的播放，我们所有的人都被业力牵引着走进轮回电影院，注视着屏幕。

通常我们只能看到删节版的轮回，我们只看到了电影的精彩预告，所以我们会对未来充满期待，如果你可以看到完整版，你可能就不会太期待。

你会看到糟糕的轮回，情节重复的轮回，在电影里，你有时候被捧到天上，有时候却又重重的摔下来，一直摔到最底层，你从最底层开始爬起，经过漫长的时间和轮回，你又爬到了最高层，但很不幸，历史总会再次重演，你会再一次摔下来，当你一遍一遍的看到这种轮回的时候，你不太可能继续维持自己的期待。

你看到自己一次次的拥有，失去，再拥有，再失去，再拥有，再失去。周围的人也和你一样。那些你本以为会带给你快乐的东西，那些你以为会一直呆在你身边的东西，无一例外的背叛了你，让你的期待落空。如果你看到完整版，看到这一幕幕重复的画面，拥有和失去，你就会学会不抱期待。

无明是个很狡猾的导演，他没有给我们完整版的轮回，他知道完整版的轮回会令我们失望，他只是给了我们一些片花，精彩预告，让我们以为这是一部值得期待的电影，暑期大片。

但其实当你真正看到完整版，你会觉得乏味至极。其实你在电影院里多呆一会都会产生这样的感觉。你会思考：这样的轮回有何意义？也许你还会象悉达多那样选择离家出走。你不会希望继续看下去，如果你厌倦了这场电影，你想走出去，那就是出离心。

你还会试图叫醒那些银幕上的人，不要再演下去了。还有那些看电影的人，你想告诉他们这部电影糟糕之极。但通常他们不会听你的，也许他们根本听不到，电影的声音太大，淹没了你的声音，你必需使用一些技巧。

如果你只是自己走出影院，那只是你一个人解脱。还有很多人在看，在出演，还有更多的人看了片花，想要买票进场，对这些人来说，阻止他们进场不是明智的选择，你可以让他先进去看一会，在他出来抽烟的时候问问他对这部电影的感受：是否和你一样糟糕。如果他有类似的想法，你可以和他谈谈佛法。

一般来说，年轻人会对这部电影抱有过高的期待值，他们看到的最少，（有的人甚至认为这部电影只有一集，他不知道还有续集）所以充满期待，年长的人看到的较多，已经开始失望。但是无论是年轻的还是年长的，都无法看到真正的原版，他们看到的都是删节本，这阻碍他们得出正确的判断。

如果你没有看到完整的版本，你就不会看到那个在这一集里演你对头的演员在上一集演的是你的母亲，在演你母亲的时候他和你现在的母亲一样的爱你，但是现在他忘记了这一切，还试图伤害你和他自己。如果你没有看前一集，你就不会产生真正的悲心。

如果你看到那些电影里的人，每一个都怀有和你相同的愿望，却不知如何实现，他们走上相反的道路，他们的选择只能带给他们除了快乐之外的东西。他们也曾经出演你的父母亲人，如果你没有看到这些，你就不会想要牵着他们的手，告诉他们怎么走。如何走。如果你不知道你眼前的对头在上一集对你非常关爱，你也不那么容易原谅他在这一集里对你的伤害。

如果你没有看到那些关于地狱的镜头，你不会知道什么是怕。

只有看到完整版，才能得出正确的结论，只有得出正确的结论的人，才能做出正确的选择。

2008年6月19日首发于灵山居士博客。

[mogai-headcanons]

What’s rusty lake? Sounds neat!

STIMS SO HARD INFODUMP TIME

rusty lake is the name of the developers of and world depicted in the cube escape games, rusty lake hotel/roots/paradise, samsara room, and the white door! they're point-and-click adventure/escape puzzle games with very surreal/creepy vibes, following stories that are all connected by the titular rusty lake. they're apparently pretty heavily inspired by twin peaks, but i've personally never watched twin peaks, so i can't speak to that.

the cube escape games came out first, and they largely follow detective dale vandermeer, who's investigating the mysterious death of an unnamed (at first, later you find out her name is laura vanderboom) woman in the 1970s. he becomes obsessed with trying to figure out who she is and how she died, unable to think about anything else, and eventually finds himself drawn to the lake to get to the root of the weird/paranormal shit he's seen. when there, he ends up trapped within his memories, observed and sometimes aided by the mysterious 'enlightened' half-animal characters that currently populate the lake area.

some cube escape games are not part of this story directly - for example, cube escape: arles has you play as vincent van gogh in his bedroom in arles - but they all tie back to the central themes of the entire rusty lake series, namely the corruption of one's soul (which is typically shown to happen through the extraction of memories into the titular cubes, but can also occur due to death or immense suffering in life).

the most recent cube escape game actually had a live-action short film attached, which was incredible! they actually set up the room that the game takes place in and filmed dale doing the puzzles and holy shit it was so fun.

rusty lake hotel, roots, and paradise are prequels to the cube escape games, taking place over about 200 years and telling the stories of laura's ancestors and the lake in general.

in hotel, you play as the partially human version of laura's pet parrot (harvey) working at a lavish hotel on an island in rusty lake, which currently has five half-animal guests. you do individual 'escape rooms' in each of their hotel rooms, one per night, in order to serve the remaining guests a perfect meal the next day.

in roots, you follow the growth of the vanderboom family tree across 75 years and watch all the weird happenings within the family's lives (odd magic, alchemy, the search for immortality, murder plots, etc.), much of which is caused by the fact that the vanderbooms live near rusty lake.

in paradise, you follow the eilander family in 1796, who live on a small island in rusty lake that has been cursed to endure ten plagues after the death of the player character's mom, which you stop through odd rituals. the end of this game has a twist that heavily links it back to the cube escape games (i had to put my phone down and full-body stim when it happened kfjdgldk).

the white door is considered a spinoff and has a very different look from the rest of the games. it follows bob, laura's ex-boyfriend, as he's undergoing an odd mental health treatment in the same year she died. he has severe memory loss and begins to remember things as you play through the game.

samsara room was actually the first game the rusty lake developers made, but it was rereleased to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the series, and i didn't play it until the rerelease, which added plot connections to the games that came after its original release. it's a weird, time-traveling puzzle experience that a lot of fans theorize follows the recently-dead soul of a character from the series (i won't spoil who) as they are pondering on what they might want to become in their next life.

i played all of the games on my iphone, where the majority of them are free (i think the only ones that aren't are hotel, roots, paradise, and white door, all of which are under $5), and you can also play them on other mobile platforms and through steam! i highly highly reccomend not only playing them once, but doing a few playthroughs - i first played them in a random order after seeing on on the appstore, then played them in order of release, then played them in chronological order of events using a timeline guide i found on reddit, and i've also played them two or three more times just for fun in whatever order i pleased.

it can be difficult to fully understand the story with just one playthrough (or even with a few), and even though the series has been a special interest of mine for five years, i still benefit a lot from watching lore breakdowns and reading fan theories. the confusing nature honestly doesn't detract from the experience at all, as you're often meant to be confused until you learn something in a later game, and the series isn't over yet, so not everything is known. there's a new game coming this fall, actually!

tl;dr: the rusty lake games are surreal, point-and-click, escape room-style games full of mystery and intriguing themes of life and death. if you like mystery/puzzle games and can handle creepy themes and the occasional jumpscare, you should absolutely play them!

#long post #death ment #rusty lake