Boom Bap Boom

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Time For A Lil Trip...

Fantastic Planet's score composed by Alain Goraguer.

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Gimme

French designer Jacques Dumond

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Im having a tough time finding more of his work on the interwebs...

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Sorta

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Mighty Fine Timpani

This is part of the score [ by Antoine Duhamel ] for Francois Truffaut's 1970 film Domicile Conjugal.

The film's synopsis > H E R E <

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Mad Hair Daze

French-Englishman Charlie Le Mindu's wig work is wonderfully vulgar.

Here are a few of 'em:

His S/S 2010 collection:

Charlie Le Mindu's site > H E R E <

I almost exclusively hate all and ANY site that auto-plays music or any sound for that matter - but Charlie's is an exception. Definitely let the index page run with your speakers on.

enjoy,

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QUOTABLE '13'

"Style is just the outside of content."

- Jean-Luc Godard

Mon Dieu

[ write up from Twin Factory ]

This week sees the release of a documentary film starring one of my all time favourite actresses: Romy Schneider.

The film, called “Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno” tells the story of how the then hotly-tipped French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (’The Wages of Fear’ and ‘Les Diaboliques’) experimented and failed in putting together his 1964 effort ‘L’Enfer’. Famously given an unlimited budget for the project – Clouzot blew extortionate amounts of cash experimenting on camera tests; and quickly alienated his cast and crew. Filming stopped after just 10 days – so the public never saw the film that was tipped to revolutionise the industry.

The documentary came about when thirty years after Clouzot’s death his widow, Inès de Gonzalez, found herself trapped in an elevator with Serge Bromberg, young film-maker and restoration prodigy. He persuaded her to allow him to access the hours of footage she’s kept hidden away since the disastrous shoot.

‘L’Enfer’ was originally meant to tell the story of a husband, played by a 42 year-old Serge Reggiani, who suffers from bouts of paranoid jealousy over his new bride, 26 year-old Romy Schneider who was then at the height of her stardom. Inspired by kinetics and kaleidoscopic techniques, ‘L’Enfer’, would have been an incredible step forward for the Sixties Nouvelle Vague scene.

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More > H E R E <

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Goddamn Goude

Jean-Paul Goude is a graphic designer, illustrator, photographer, film director....uhm...a creator of all things fantastical. I cant even pretend to give him a proper write-up.

Monsieur Goude has been doing his thing for decades and has stayed true to his 'evocative', 'irreverent', 'progressive', and 'abstract' creative prose. Technically - his experiments also inspire. I love the 'how'd he do that?' element in just about all of his work.

Oh, and his processes. Oh my.

There's a book out called 'So Far So Goude' which basically is encyclopedic. Tons and tons of sketches, storyboards, on set photos, etc.

Merry halloween to me:

...and c'mon, being Grace Jones' baby-daddy cant be too dull either.

well done, sir

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Oh, Ces Deux

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