After a really hectic week of preparing, we shot the footage for my new short film, tEXt.
Today I finished capturing the footage and pieced together a short trailer, during which (naturally?) my computer started making disturbing noises.
tEXt (Trailer, Rough Draft) from Robert Thomson on Vimeo.
I’ll be keeping up to date with regular posts about how [...]
More than halfway through Frederic Strauss’ “Almodóvar On Almódovar,” it occurred to me to go back and watch each film to coincide with each chapter. Unfortunately, several of his earliest works are unavailable in North America, as well as “Tacones lejanos” (High Heels) and “Kika,” so my idea will not be fully realized. I have [...]
Happy new year?
What exactly does that mean? Or, more precisely, what has been edited out of it to make it slide off the tongue in such a sweet and slippery way that melts the hearts of everyone who hears it? Merry honey, happy sugar. Super-mega blah-blah-blah. What if some daring soul tried to totally fuck [...]
After the world-wide success of his score for “Chariots Of Fire,” Vangelis became extremely popular. Naturally, many people began to seek out his older, more obscure recordings and luckily Polydor kept 1973’s “L’Apocalypse Des Animaux” in print.
Originally recorded in 1970 for an episodic documentary series on animals and released as an album in 1973, “L’Apocalypse” [...]