titus thotawatte 1929-2011

Remember "handaya" and "Doctor Honda Hitha".

Titus Thotawatte was a great film maker and perhaps the best film editor Sri Lanka ever had. He made several popular and technically skilled Sri Lankan action movies in the 1960s and 1970s and later developed Sinhala children's pro grammes and perhaps made the most significant contribution by producing properly dubbed foreign language children's programs to Sinhala hence making these films accessible to a wider section of the Sri Lankan society. He passed away on October 15, 2011.

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Cool series of short movies from BMW.
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John Frankenheimer's Ronin
Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
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Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Alejandro González Iñárritu's 21 Grams
John Woo's The Killer
Joe Carnahan's A Team (the movie)
Tony Scott's Top Gun

museyon; a curated guide to your obsessions

Museyon. A curated guide to your obsessions. Are you a film (or for that matter music or art) buff and would like to visit one of  the locations from Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' on your next trip the states. Then here is your web site

kaubôi bibappu

Space cowboy bebop (Kaubôi bibappu in japanese) "Knockin' On Heaven's Door"

Another good Anime, but  not from Miazaki san this time. This is from a guy called Watanabe. Apart from the fantastic story line, its worth just for its fantastically animated street scenery alone. 

 

miyazaki san and studio ghibli

Miyazaki san (Hayao Miyazaki) happens to be my favourite anime creator/director, not only because of his  fantastic hand drawn, almost surrealistic images but also due to his ability to bring out the child in you, no matter how old you are (most probably his hand drawn anime style is one of the reasons for it). And most of the time Miyazaki's  heroes and villains are not so black and white as we have gotten so used to see in western cartoons. 

And of course he creates these fantastic (architectural) spaces and viewing angles almost all the time!

Movies to watch: Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Spirited Away,  Howl's Moving Castle

Hayao Miyazaki Web

Miyazaki on WP

Studio Ghibli (Miyazaki san's studio)

famous architectural locations in movies

Quickie. check this out.

This house in Woody Allen's Sleeper is the Sculptured House in Colorado, by Architect Charles Deaton

lived space in architecture and cinema

Some heavy stuff on cinema and architecture, if you are interested.

"Cinema is a multi-dimensional art form as Jean-Luc Godard states: 'There are several ways of making films. Like Jean Renoir and Robert Bresson, who make music. Like Sergei Eisenstein, who paints. Like Stroheim, who wrote sound novels in silent days. Like Alain Resnais, who sculpts. Like Socrates, Rossellini I mean, who creates philosophy. The cinema, in other words, can be everything at once, both judge and litigant.'4 Godard's list of the alternative ways of film making could be expanded by one more specific mode: cinema as architecture."

Photo - Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema (Juhani Pallasmaa)

hollywood's architect of dystopia

When film makers want a nice backdrop for good shoot-out who would they turn to? Of course o Frank Lloyd Wright and his Guggenheim museum in New York. Ramp structure is designer made for a movie set shoot out. And this is not the first time Wright's architecture has been made in  to a back drop for doomsday scenarios. Gattaca (Marin County Civic Center) and Blade Runner (Ennis House) are two of those.

Hollywood's architect of dystopia

The International

'North by Northwest' & frank lloyd wright

Being a Alfred Hitchcock fan I couldn't by-pass this! Click the title to read this interesting article about how Hitchcock brought  a 'FLW house' in to the  movie set of  'North by Northwest'.

"NbNw" article