Random Musings

laviecine:

Harry Escott — Unravelling (from the Shame Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Every time I think of the scene that this piece is scoring, I get chills and an overwhelming desire to cry.

lovealwaysla:

Manhattan

Just one more final and I’m home free.  I seriously cannot be more excited for next year.

Nothing else matters this week.  Counting down the hours until The Hunger Games!

Release Countdown for The Hunger GAmes on  Friday, 23 March 2012EDT timezone (-0400 GMT)

The Hunger Games: "The Victory Tour!"

Screw school!! I’m going to Dallas.

bread-and-arrows:

The cast and director of The Hunger Games will be meeting with fans across the country next month, in anticipation of the movie’s March 23rd release date. Starting March 3rd in the Los Angeles area, various cast and crew members will visit malls at several cities across the country. Each stop…

Second Semester Senior! Time to start using this again… 

On another note: Why is Carey Mulligan so incredible?

thesearethethoughts:

“There are days when I’m just terrible and I can’t act. Like, there was a day in Never Let Me Go… There was a whole scene where I’m facing down the beach while Keira [Knightley] gives us a little note. It’s a very serious scene and me and Andrew [Garfield] are meant to react emotionally. I couldn’t do anything that day. I couldn’t do anything. I just turned away. It looks like I’m having a moment but I’m just not… I can’t think what to do. Sometimes when that happens I think, ‘What on earth am I doing?’ I think the most confident I feel as an actress is when I’m doing theatre.” Carey Mulligan

engraved:

why can’t I breathe?!

Oh look. It’s finals.

saint-hymen:

Melancholia Prologue 

Because I had nothing better to do with my life today I decided to watch Melancholia by Lars von Trier, and I can honestly say it’s one of the best movies I’ve seen of 2011 and possibly makes the list of one of my favorite movies ever. The clip above is just the prologue, but I find that it’s much more intense and insightful than the rest of the movie. 

The film begins with an introductory sequence shot in extreme slow-motion, involving the main characters and images from space which introduce many visual leitmotifs of the film. A giant planet is shown threateningly approaching Earth, eventually destroying it in a planetary collision. The film continues, in two parts, each named for one of the two sisters.

 While the mysterious planet Melancholia makes a slow journey to destroy Earth, newlywed Justine (Kirsten Dunst) must cope with severe depression, depending her older sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) to take care of her despite their already strained relationship. Although the idea of a secret planet coming out of nowhere to destroy earth seems rather unbelievable, the concentration of the plot is more about Justine’s everyday experiences and dependence on her sister, and offers an all-too real account of what it’s like to live with melancholy. While it comes off as somewhat overdone and cheesy at times, Kirsten did an excellent job of portraying a broken spirit, and Charlotte must be commended for her work as the strained family member who is left to deal with the sick relative. As for the whole “end of the world aspect,” von Trier makes it abundantly clear that the plot is not about the apocalypse, but about the human experience of tragedy and the ways in which we cope with it. 

The idea for the film originated during a therapy session Lars von Trier attended during treatments for his depression. A therapist had told Trier that depressive people tend to act more calmly than others under heavy pressure, because they already expect bad things to happen. Trier then developed the story not primarily as a disaster film, and without any ambition to portray astrophysics realistically, but as a way to examine the human psyche during a disaster.

The idea of a planetary collision was inspired by websites with theories about such events. Trier decided from the outset that it would be clear from the beginning that the world would actually end in the film, so audiences would not be distracted by the suspense of not knowing. 

(via manic-utopia)

Genius.