Final scene from La Vie En Rose

Unfortunately there is no embed for this video on Youtube, but here is the link. Watch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Dz3-k1d9I


I can watch this scene over and over again. In my personal opinion, this scene makes the entire movie worth watching and ends it on the most perfect note. Every time i watch this ending scene i get goosebumps, and I believe this happens to a lot of people. La Vie En Rose is one of my top 3 favorite movies I've ever seen and I'm so grateful one of my good friend Ynes, showed it to me back in 2008. To this day I always recommend it to friends and family and others who ask for some movie recommendations because it's never failed to satisfy me as a movie lover.

Marion Cotillard, whom I love so much, and is one of my favorite actresses, perfects the role of Edith Piaf. Just until recently did I find out she was in fact lip syncing the recorded songs of Edith Piaf. Marion Cotillard won best actress for this film and I've never doubted that she would. Her tongue, mouth, and general facial movements convinced audiences she was truly singing, however she wasn't. I think her amazing lip syncing is what also completes her talent in this role. To convince people she herself is singing is a hard thing to do, and she managed to do that wonderfully.

This ending scene in my opinion, is the best of the entire movie. As I mentioned before, it makes it all worth watching. That she performs Non, je ne regrette rien makes it all that much better. Edith Piaf made very bad decisions throughout her life, however through the words of this beautiful song, she explains that she regrets not a single decision. Why? Because it made her who she was at that very moment and made her the woman she is and is known as. I respect that whole handedly and will always look up to Edith Piaf as a wonderful woman. And I will always love Marion Cotillard for playing this role to the best ability she could have.

If you have not seen La Vie En Rose, I recommend that you do as soon as you get the chance.

It's been too long!

My apologies, it's been a while since i posted anything on this blog, but i've been busy with so many other things but i'm back at it :)
So to continue with my film blog i'd like to share a video my friend Renell posted on her facebook. Everything about this short video is pure greatness. I also posted it on my other more personal blog for my other followers to watch. I recommend you to watch it if you haven't stumbled upon it before! The way it's filmed and the composition of it all enhance all the emotions that the audience is able to grasp from it. I love everything about it and couldn't have been more impressed. Funny to think that the way it is filmed is so similar to how i'm hoping my upcoming stop-motion film will be.

Enjoy!

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IS IT WORTH IT?

I've gotten SUCH mixed reviews about Salt, can you guys please let me know if it is worth it or not? I'm going to make a poll, so feel free to vote OR comment this post, it'd be much appreciated :)

I know i shouldn't really care on what people are saying and I should see it for myself, but tickets aren't exactly cheap anymore so i'd rather go only if i know that it's worth it.

Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino really impressed me this week. The other night, I slept over at my friend Ynes's house and we always have a tradition of basically ordering in and watching movie after movie until our eyes cannot stay open. So, she finally got me to watch Inglorious Bastards, and all I can say is wow. That movie really caught me off-guard, I certainly did not expect it to be so good as it was. The acting, the humor, the music, the editing and script, all was so well put together. Kudos to Brad Pitt as well, his character was a favorite of mine.

Followed by Inglorious Bastards, we then watched Kill Bill. I saw Kill Bill before, however I was a lot younger at the time and simply did not follow the story line very well. The next morning at Ynes's, we then watched Kill Bill 2. I loved both of them, and obviously understood them now. Quentin Tarantino should really be proud of himself, as well as Uma Thurman, the main character in both films. Again, I am a fan of the music selection and script for both Kill Bill Volumes and Inglorious Bastards. Tarantino definitely has an altogether great style to directing movies and it never fails to entertain me.

Word on the street is that Kill Bill 3 is coming out as well! However, in 2014, bummer.

for anyone who has not seen Inglorious Bastards or Kill Bill Vol 1 and/or 2., GO WATCH NOW.

Apologies!

I'm sorry i've been completely MIA for a while. Kind of been catching up on sleep and resting a lot this past week but this weekend and upcoming week and weekS, i'll be doing a lot of filming. I've been working simultaneously on two projects. One of the projects was the first one i started about 3 weeks ago, which is my documentary on the Lower East Side and its remaining culture, why people love it, why it's stands out versus other neighborhoods, etc. I for a while now, have said I was going to use this (what I'm guessing will be around 10 minute long film) for my admissions into colleges which i'll be applying to for film/photography/cinematography. However, as i've done more and more research on what colleges require for art portfolios, i've realized that i need to send them a much shorter video, nothing longer than 2 and a half minutes.

This realization is what inspired my newest project that i'm also working on. What I've decided to send to these colleges I'll be applying to will be about a 2 to 2 and a half minute stop-motion film that might possibly have time lapse effects weaved throughout it. As for a theme, I've come up with something along the lines of life's simplistic beauties. This idea that the most simple things in life are what make it beautiful.

I'm hoping to finish this stop-motion film by the end of August, including all of it's editing, etc. As for the documentary, keep an eye out! I'm hoping to finish by End of September, so Fall I guess. I'll probably be updating my followers more and more about that. I need to schedule more interviews for that project and set time aside to really work on that considering that project/film is a lot more to handle.

That's my life as of now!

Radiohead never fails

Radiohead never fails to make interesting videos, but this particular music video for their song "All I need", has got to be one of their most beautiful ones.
Check it out

Check this out!

Hey Guys, check out this link.
It's an australian anti-speeding ad that's filmed so well, whoever did this really had an eye for this. But they managed to film it in correlation to the mood that was to be aimed for throughout the video as well, really well done.

http://wimp.com/antispeeding/

How To Make It In America

Just remembered how good the opening credits is for this HBO Series How to make it in America. So creative and the composition of the shots and photos they use are so well chosen to represent NYC and what the show is about itself.

If you haven't seen any episodes from this series, do so now!

Maxence Cyrin

My good friend Zoe showed me this cover by Maxence Cyrin, a cover to the Pixie's song "Where Is My Mind", and it really is a very beautiful cover. I love piano, the sound of it, the way it is played by these delicate little bones we call fingers. The style of this video really creates a nice essence to it overall as it also matches very well with the genre of the song. The fact that this composer decided to go with an old looking film as the music video is really fascinating. Though short, the short film's story is almost being told through the music which is a very difficult skill to do. Overall a really good music video for this amazing cover by Cyrin.

Tom Ford

Designer Tom Ford has really impressed me I must say. To be able to expand his talents and skills to step forward as a film director is great, and he sure has been successful as a director. I just watched his film A Single Man with Colin Firth and Julianne Moore, as well as Nicholas Hoult from Skins, and couldn't have liked it more. It was shot incredibly well which only shows Ford's great eye for things considering he was the creative director for YSL and Gucci. The simplicity of the entire movie is really what made it very interesting to watch, and of course, the narration was the icing on the cake.



Even as much as the decision to create a trailer without one word shows the creativity this whole movie takes on.