Sunday, April 25, 2010

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Wai o Tapu thermal valley

On the road to Taupo, a great day was almost hot in December, we stopped at Wai o tapu thermal valley, volcanic site (another one), very touristy and organized. Every day at 10:15, a guide "sets in motion" the Lady Knox Geyser . After an explanation of the origins of places and physical and geological explanations of geysers, the store puts a few pieces of soap into the geyser, after a few minutes, a chemical reaction occurs: it starts to boil, then it springs up smoking !


The rash lasts more than a quarter of an hour and the water flows at several meters high. Enough amazing what can be done with soap!
















After the break and despite the rather extraordinary number of visitors, we continue with the visit the "thermal area. There is also the world but it's less embarrassing than geyser where everyone wanted to take pictures of the same place at the same time. The circuit is more or less long, but if one wants to see the whole, it takes well over an hour's walk, not walking fast but in the end, it makes a little walk.

It still pools of mud:

The Primrose Terrace , fabulous





frying pan flat:


Oyster pool, because it is shaped oyster:



The Champagne Pool that makes bubbles, it is warm!



Devil's cellar: it does nothing about the photo but in real life, this is fluorescent green, it's arsenic!


Monday, April 19, 2010

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THE NEW HOLLYWOOD (VIII)

"The first time I heard of Spielberg, it was already part of the system. Not a single drop of rebellion in him," recalls screenwriter Matthew Robbins, now a close associate of a director. The film was always very classic. "
Like Scorsese, Spielberg had a lot of phobias: fear of elevators, roller coasters, airplanes. If by chance someone looked sideways, he began bleeding from the nose. He was afraid of everything and anything. He was not interested in anything except movies. Neither art, nor books, nor music, or politics. Screenwriter Kit Carson fell on him in '68 at a party just after the Democratic convention.
"While on the lam, the revolution was about to burst, he recalls, and everything that interested Spielberg was to find a way to balance a camera from the top of a building by hanging a gyroscope to prevent it from running in all directions, falling.
I thought this guy was lost in the ozone looking for the fourth dimension. "
After several years working for television, Spielberg met Lucas, who led him into the office of Coppola to Warner: "I saw that Francis was a guy who did not differentiate between young and old, just between those who had talent and others, recalls Spielberg. It produced the films of George, and be in his circle meant a chance to shoot a movie. "
Spielberg realized Duel for ABC. He was released 13 September 1971 and was highly acclaimed. Producer Don Simpson said: "The media offering incense the young boy who had Duel . Marty and Brian commented: "Yeah, what he did is not so exceptional as this." There was envy in their voices. "


Sunday, April 18, 2010

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FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE - 1963


Can I borrow a match ? I use a lighter. It's Better still. ... Until They Go Wrong

Lektor
is the best 007.


Map Postal is the founder of saga: Russia. Cold War forces. But Bond is not on vacation, he must solve the problems of Her Majesty. Atmosphere quickly paranoid, typical of the era, history merges with history, the film is a contemporary and iconic perpetual. The USSR is secret then and it fascinates the public. Little is known then one can imagine many things ...

And for my next miracle ...
From action, efficacy, James is on a mission with his hat, I think that's the only time he leaves office Miss Moneypenny, result: 78 million dollars of revenue in the world ...

SMERSH ( Смерть шпионам!)
SP SPECIALIST E XECUTIVE C for ounter-intelligence Errorism T, R Evengi and E xtortion
All symbols of the first adventures of Bond were present: geopolitical imbalance, KGB, prosecution, assault and destruction of the secret base ...

Q (Major Algernon Boothroyd)
is the onset of gadgets and especially surprising briefcase and the gun under infra-red ...

Kronsteen
"From Russia with Love" is an incredible mix of suspense, action, humor, romance and espionage in a world that resembles a giant chess game with secret agents are the pawns.

Ian Fleming
The designer makes a cameo in an insert is a peasant who looks to pass the Orient Express. This will be his only appearance toue saga.

Marnie Hitchcock wanted to make this film. Frustration due to the refusal of producers, he turned instead "Marnie" with Sean Connery.

Venice
The woman on deck filming Bond and Tatiana is married to film director Terence Young.

Bond .... James Bond
is the only film that does not contain this reply! But it is the favorite Bond Sean Connery.



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NEW WAVE ( II)


The success of the New Wave due to a combination of economic, political and aesthetic very different: the disintegration of the Fourth Republic and the advent of a new type of society: release mores and the decline of censorship system "ahead of the recipe soon granted by the Centre National du Cinema films' opening new perspectives in cinema art" concerted action of several dynamic producers (Pierre Braunberger, George Beauregard, Anatole Dauman) anxious to escape the restrictive laws market; extension circuits "arthouse" emergence of a new generation of actors, more relaxed, less marked by the theatrical routine (Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bernadette Lafont), in short, rejuvenation frames at all levels.

Finally, we must observe that New Wave was part resolutely against a false tradition considered routine and bad French movies, that of Jean Delannoy, the Christian-Jaque, the Gilles Grangier, screenwriters as the team Aurenche and Bost.
She recognizes, However, in Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson and Jacques Tati.
From 1963, a reflux began and tenor of the New Wave blend. Some are moving toward classicism (Truffaut, Rohmer), others are dealing with the hated system (Chabrol), others are turning to activism (Godard) or experimental cinema, others continue their lonely road ( Malle, Franju, Resnais). After 1968, there will arise a new "New Wave", is highly politicized, or otherwise escaping in the entertainment and "natural": it goes to André Téchiné Jean Eustache, Maurice Bertrand Tavernier Pialat, Pascal Thomas Jacques Doillon. But economic conditions have changed and the 70s are not conducive to the emergence of young talent ...


Monday, April 12, 2010

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BIG BOSS - 1971

Bruce Lee makes a trip in January 1971 marking India for his project "The Silent Flute," with its two shareholders, actor James Coburn and screenwriter Sterling Silliphant. A journey that proves inconclusive, Bruce did not find the settings that suit him. He therefore accepted through the wife of director Lo Wei of Hong Kong, the proposal by Raymond Chow, the owner of Golden Harvest, to shoot "The Big Boss". Lee left Los Angeles to Hong Kong July 12, 1971 and just happened is placed on the first plane to Bangkok: Raymond Chow fears that his new star will be done by poaching staff from Shaw Brothers.
From Bangkok, the actor reaches Pakchong which awaits the team. From the first days of filming, the problems accumulate. Even in New Wanchai, Pakchong the best hotel that houses the team, the food is bad and unbearable mosquitoes.
Lee passes 62 to 58 kilos in less than ten days. He wrote his wife that he can not find beef, very little poultry and pork and is happy to have won the vitamins! By washing a glass, he severely cut his right hand. Ten stitches and a huge bandage visible on the screen, resulting. The first footage arriving in Hong Kong are catastrophic. Raymond Chow took the decision to dismiss the director Wu Chia Hsiang, Lo Wei and dispatch to Thailand to resume filming. The player takes advantage of the interval to fix the script and expand its role and has no idea that the phenomenon will be the movie ...

Five years have passed since "The Green Hornet" and how to fight on the screen of the Little Dragon has changed considerably, following the evolution of his personal practice, Jeet Kune Do. The fist away from the fencing direct approach to Wing Chun hooks boxing. The influence of Han Yingjie, the choreographer who also plays the villain, is also crucial. Yingjie Han is with Liu Chia-liang, the greatest choreographer of the 60s. The second represents the southern styles, the first styles of the north. Han Figures recycles styles but very unrealistic pay visually, directly borrowed from the Mandarin sword: the image of the hero surrounded by a circle of enemies, beating weightless, boots under secret martial fantasy. Elements a priori incompatible with the designs of Bruce Lee, but the chemistry will work yet. The four days required for the final battle is absolutely exhausting. In addition to spraining an ankle, Bruce gets the flu, forcing Han to abandon the elaborate choreography that would conclude the battle. So he invented an early end to justify that Bruce is on the ground: throwing knife, returned a kick followed by intercostal puncture is too gory and unrealistic in the eyes of Bruce but physically he is no longer able to offer something else.

Other interior scenes will be shot in Hong Kong for former Cathay Studios bought by Golden Harvest. On 6 September, the day Labour Day, Bruce finally left Hong Kong. He arrived in Los Angeles the next day and Lo Wei addresses the assembly. The language of the film is in Mandarin, all dialogues Lee are post-synchronized.

Installation is completed in less than six weeks and the film fate in Hong Kong October 31, 1971.
This was the first film to bring 1 million HKD in 2 days and Bruce Lee's amazing the public accesses to stardom.

Excellent actor, Little Dragon incredible charisma emerges: as soon as viewers saw his first shots, kung fu pian entered a new era. We are witnessing an explosion of violence so disturbing Bruce massacre his opponents. Lee imposes his style, his cries, his body, his power, his speed, his control.

This feline style is totally original and still unequaled today.






Saturday, April 10, 2010

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AN AMERICAN IN PARIS - 1951

Someone knocks on the door. The sleeper wakes up, opens the door to trouble from her bed and takes the crack through a small paper bag containing croissants. Then he gets up, goes back the bed to the ceiling with the aid of ropes, opens the cupboard, pulls out a table and chair, looking left hand a cup and a knife in a drawer, taking his jacket in the closet right hand, he closed the drawer with his knee and turned to the table. So, voila, breakfast is ready.
This wonderful opening scene shows us that the American artist Jerry Mulligan lives somewhat cramped in the capital. But it also shows us that Gene Kelly, dancer and exceptional charge of the entire choreography of the film is able to turn everyday tasks into a feast of movement.


Jerry, remained in Paris after the Second World War, mostly painted but manages to survive thanks to money borrowed from friends, like Adam A pianist who has never yet been able to perform in public.

The film is a fairy tale that puts in brackets the constraints of everyday life.
Two women enter his life: Milo, who is interested and wants to protect his paintings the artist without a penny, and there Lisa ... Of course, Jerry will prefer to Lise Milo. Unfortunately, Lisa has another man in her life.

entire film is a feast celebrated by Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron as Kelly had discovered two years ago in a Ballet des Champs-Elysees. A celebration in honor of Paris bohemia, love and music. Music
immortal George and Ira Gershwin. Kelly sings "I Got Rhythm" in a wonderful duet with street children in Paris, during which they learn American English.
The film is also a celebration of storytelling: The film begins with three narrators who bring us into the story with their comments off.
sequences are visionaries inserted in history, like the time Adam dream of giving his first concert in which he is not content to sit at the piano and directing the other musicians, but also plays all the instruments of music.

At the end, the film definitely stands out in any known drama film concludes with a 18-minute ballet filmed in stereo whose production cost 500 000 dollars of the 2.7 million earmarked in the budget.

Accompanied only by music, without dialogue or songs, Kelly and Caron dance a mix of modern dance and classical ballet in Paris very stylized drawing of the world iconography of French painters such as Renoir, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec and Utrillo. Grandiose! Having been
designer and decorator, Vincente Minnelli paid particular attention to the decor of his films.
The first took place in New York October 4, 1951.

The film received six Academy Awards in 1952: one for best screenplay, best film, best costumes, best music, best picture and best art direction.

An American in California
The film was shot in the MGM studios in California.
Finally, two planes were shot with the city in Paris.

Gene Kelly realized the dance scenes that introduce Lisa Leslie Caron's character and the sequence titled "Embraceable You".






Thursday, April 8, 2010

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NEW WAVE (I) DA VINCI MODE


"New Wave" is a label launched in 1958 In an article in the Express by Françoise Giroud, to describe a group of young French filmmaker, starting with a bang, alongside the traditional industries profession, without technical skills, sometimes supported by private funds and employ interpreters for their age, none has yet gained the notoriety.
The term made a fortune and would soon apply for a new cinematic style, based on casual narrative, dialogue challenging, and amorality of "collage" unexpected, the prototype will Breathless Jean-Luc Godard. The audience was enthusiastic, and in 1960 forty-three new authors turned their first film. Among them, the nucleus was the most active critics of the weekly Arts and turbulent Cahiers du Cinema has : Godard addition, there was Francois Truffaut, who established himself immediately with Quatre cents coups , Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette, Pierre Kast, Eric Rohmer ... Others belonged to a generation ago: although they had already made films, short or feature film, they did not compromise with the "system" and they were therefore recognized as pioneers: and Roger Leenhardt Jean-Pierre Melville, Georges Franju, Alexandre Astruc, Agnès Varda, Alain Resnais and above, who struck a blow in 1959 with a work of design and revolutionary bill, Hiroshima mon amour .
Still others joined the movement by accident or by design, but broke away quickly: the case of Louis Malle, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Marcel Camus, Michel Drach, even Roger Vadim.
helping fashion, the former began the most controversial of the game, Marcel Carne to Henry Decoin. It would also add the names of Jean Rouch, talented ethnographer, who exerted a profound influence on the group's writer and journalist Chris Marker, the brilliance unbreakable; Armand Gatti, playwright, and a few outsiders who slipped and asserted themselves in the wake, more or less gloriously, then: Jacques Rozier, Michel Deville, Jacques Demy, Philippe de Broca, Henri Colpi, Jean-Daniel Pollet ...



Tuesday, April 6, 2010

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1500
Camera obscura Leonardo da Vinci , used by painters and engravers.
1660
Lantern projection Thomas Walgenstein (magic lantern).
1704
Newton Works on the principles of light refraction.
1822
Niépce invents photography.
1832
Joseph Plateau invents phenakistiscope.
is a round disc of cardboard pierced with slots on which the various stages of movement are blended.
1834
William George Horner invented the zoetrope.
The zoetrope is a drum pierced with slots. Images, breaking a movement, are arranged between them. At the center, a handful allowed to hold this toy. When looking through the cracks while rotating the camera at a certain speed, the movement is recomposed, creating an illusion almost perfect.
1837
Jacques Daguerre invents Daguerréoype which fixed the images on a silvered copper plate.
1846
Fox Talbot invented the negative.
1877
Emile Raynaud Praxinoscope invented.
1884
Eastman employs film (stripping film).
1887
celluloid film.
1888
Thomas Edison built an optical phonograph and Emile Raynaud patents the Theatre Optique.
1891
February 13, Patented by Louis Lumiere for a "device used in obtaining and vision tests chronophotographic"
1895
On 15 March, projecting to the Company for the Encouragement of National Industry "The output of factories Light" Rue de Rennes in Paris. This film takes place in Lyon and is the first film in history Film.
December 28, the first public meeting in the Film Salon Indien of the Grand Café, Boulevard des Capucines in Paris.
33 spectators in the room to witness stunned the broadcasting of a dozen short films including "The output of factories Light", "the biter" and "The arrival of a train at La Ciotat "
They paid 1.02 francs.





Saturday, April 3, 2010

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THE NEW HOLLYWOOD (VII) THE NEW HOLLYWOOD


Scorsese De Niro meets
Scorsese De Niro met at a dinner. At the turn of the conversation, they discovered they had grown up just blocks away from each other. They sympathized immediately. De Niro, who took his job very seriously as an actor, do not go out and was very talkative. He was shy to the point that it was difficult to find a job.
"You will not find him at the police station," recalls the casting director Nessa Hyan, speaking of him as she would a good student. De Niro read "Mean Streets" and accepted the role of Johnny Boy. Harvey Keitel will play Charlie, a character in the Scorsese picture, shared between the Church and the Mafia.
Most interiors were shot in LA in fall 72. "To Mean Streets, I had to learn how it was actually a movie, Scorsese says. I had not learned to make films in film school. What you were taught, is to express with images and sound. But making a film is completely different. What matters is the people and the shooting schedule. That means you'll have to get up at 5 am to be here. Let's turn. "
After a first screening of" Mean Streets ", De Niro, Scorsese, his girlfriend and several others were left at the restaurant for what should be a debriefing. But De Niro and Scorsese to disappeared toilets and discussed the film there for two hours. Only.'s girlfriend told Scorsese more: "What Marty and De Niro were together they did in private. No woman was accepted. "


After finishing postproduction of "Mean Streets, Scorsese flew to show a copy of the Coppola film.
"That's how Coppola has seen De Niro, Scorsese reported.
Immediately, he began in" The Godfather Part II "...





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(VI) THE APARTMENT

The documentary "Woodstock," directed by Michael Wadleigh in 69, was such a hit for Warner that shortly after, the studio hired rockers to hippies traveling the country and giving concerts while a team filming their travels.
Martin Scorsese, already famous for his encyclopedic knowledge of cinema and its propensity to speak with the output of a machine gun, was called up for the film that resulted: "Medicine Ball Caravan."
Small, long hair, Scorsese came to New York in January 71 and immediately had a culture shock. Suddenly, her asthma worsened. He spent his time to lose weight and to return due to his medication. Not sleeping much, he spent his nights talking movies and music.

Eleven
Scorsese was full of phobias and began to consult a therapist. He hated flying, hugging each takeoff and landing a crucifix in his fist until his joints white. He was assailed superstition, a curious mixture of Catholicism, dreams and signs of all kinds.
He had an unlucky number, 11. If, by chance, by adding the figures of his parking space, he got 11, he bypassed. There was no way for him to travel on 11 this month, to fly with the number 11 or take a room on the 11th floor of a hotel. He had a gold amulet to ward off evil spirits and brought with him a leather jacket filled with charms.

In May 71, Roger Corman gave Scorsese the opportunity to achieve "Boxcar Bertha". Scorsese was ashamed of the film. He showed it one day at John Cassavetes, who said: "Good job, but do not you dare to remake a damn thing like that!"




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- 1960


"You see, I Have This Problem with my little apartment."

A man ordered, polite, always arriving on time.
When he goes home after work, it ventilates the living room, doing the dishes and put away the bottles.
Yet this does not look like him leave his apartment without storing it: In fact, Baxter is accountable to the "Consolidated", a major insurance company in NYC. And his way up the ladder is to leave its key executives of the company will meet with their girlfriends.

It will help so many managers and finally the chief of staff to fully enjoy their extramarital affairs.
The only thing that Baxter did not foresee was that his feelings might play tricks on him by falling in love just the mistress Chief of Staff ...


Baxter is the nice guy that you would protect a large child delighted with his progress and his bowler hat. A man who, in his boundless kindness, takes upon himself the meanness of others and it is impossible to misjudge even if a pact with evil.

"The apartment" is not just a story about good and evil but also a satire without the virulence of the world modern work, hypocrisy and ambition fierce.
The first shot in camera in the office landscape shows people sitting at their desks like battery chickens. The complete anonymity prevails in these places and it is to get out that Baxter agrees to do things that he rejects all my heart. The moral message of the film does nothing to spoil the charm and humor of the film.


"The apartment" has captured images of unique American in the early 60s: the huge office where the employees seem totally subordinated to human mechanisms dehumanizing conformity and efficiency.

Oscars
The film, which won the Oscar for best film, refers to two films that also won the famous award. First Grand Hotel, the movie tries to watch CC Baxter on television but whose distribution is constantly delayed by advertising, and finally "The lost weekend", a film that has Billy Wilder won his first Oscar for best film, when the boss says Fran Baxter and Baxter lost a weekend in the apartment of the latter ...

Black and White
If we except "Schindler's List" in 1994, "The apartment" is the last film in black and white to win the Oscar for best film.

Shut up and deal
Like the famous "Nobody's Perfect" from "Some like it hot, "the last line from the movie" Shut up and deal "was written at the last minute during filming.



Thursday, April 1, 2010

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Some photos of Rotorua

There are many lakes in Rotorua, or in his district, one located in the city, here in the photo, it is the Lake Rotorua and is located a few hundred meters from the pedestrian street where many of the restaurants in town.


Two photos of a park in the city, located almost opposite the hospital and there are about 10 years has been the scene of a spectacular volcanic explosion: it was a quiet and suddenly, geysers have sprung up, transforming the park into a huge site with high geothermal activity. Not difficult to perceive it, and again, it bubbles, it smokes, everywhere.


The center, always quiet, probably because the city is extensive.

A building housing a gift shop:
In town:



The site of the city, here.

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A Rotorua, au centre Te Puia

I take on vacation, where the internet connection works fine to write a new note. A note that speaks of New Zealand, where we were for the third time last December. I know, this date, I'm late but I can not keep up and upload photos to Blogger from Tahiti is a real picnic.

During this third visit to New Zealand lasting one week, we went to Rotorua, Taupo, Auckland for one night before heading north of the country, Paihia.



We spent our first morning, the day after Christmas Te Puia . It is a center Maori in the heart of a "park" natural, is therefore an overview, summary, indeed, of Maori culture but more importantly, we walk the length of roads built where you can see geysers , fumaroles and mud pools, signs that New Zealand is very active.

Entry:
From the entrance, one is quickly "in the bath" because it sees: the smoke almost everywhere


The highlight of the visit, the Pohutu geyser, geyser is a natural, non-activated human, contrary to one where we visited a few days later.

is what it provides by:





And by far, with an overall vision:


Evidence of volcanic activity: the fumaroles and yellow is sulfur:


A pool of mud (mud pool), there are many volcanic sites. In photo, it does not make much but try to imagine: they are different sizes, more or less profound but in any case, it bubbles, it is "flop flop" and it heats.

Again, it heats, except that the water is clear.



A "mini lake", further evidence of volcanic activity:


Rotorua We already knew but I think we do not get tired, it feels both in danger, because it can erupt at any time, well. Indeed, places are quiet, we take full eyes, wherever you look and say that nature is unique, it gives us many lessons.
Te Puia is a tourist place, and in fact when we arrived the car park, buses were present. But the site is extensive, it does not work together on the other. Level only geyser Pohutu, tourists are few in number but once past this attraction, it is quiet again.