Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is amazingly great, and the Hutsul traditional music of the soundtrack adds so much to the film
― Dan S, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 01:55 (four years ago) link
I liked the use of color, black & white, and red tinted film to signify mood. All of the dance sequences, the bagpipes and traditional music vocal tracks, the exotic sounding horns and recorders, the religious images and images of lambs and goats were phenomenal.
― Dan S, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 02:50 (four years ago) link
The hyperactive camera was over the top but in a pleasing way, and the story of lost love was moving
― Dan S, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 02:57 (four years ago) link
I was struck by how everyone went around carrying and using axes
― Dan S, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 02:58 (four years ago) link
https://asia.si.edu/events-overview/films/
The Color of Pomegranates is at the National Museum of Asian Art (the Smithsonian is in the process of unpersoning Freer and Sackler) this Saturday. Is anyone else interested in going? Can anyone here convince me to overcome my exhaustion and go?
― Life is a banquet and my invitation was lost in the mail (j.lu), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 16:56 (four years ago) link
i mean, parajanov on the big screen sounds fucking awesome!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
I first saw The Colour of Pomegranates on a dbl bill with Tarkovsky's Stalker at The Scala in Kings Cross - those were the days!
Because the filmography is so small, I think he's one of those people who never made a 'bad' film - it's all of interest.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:07 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/58hoktsqk_Q
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 19 September 2020 13:01 (three years ago) link
yeah just a few subtle allusions
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 19 September 2020 14:07 (three years ago) link
https://en.armradio.am/2024/01/09/sergei-parajanovs-statue-unveiled-in-yerevan/
Apparently never had a statue before
― anvil, Thursday, 11 January 2024 10:29 (two months ago) link
I wouldn't have expected it, but there are two other public statues of him depicted on his Wikipedia page!
Interesting to learn from that same source that at some point Pasolini was a major inspiration for him, I can see elements of Edipo Re in Sayat Nova for example.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 11 January 2024 16:37 (two months ago) link
The past -- from medieval to antiquity -- as an insight into what can be said about their present is something that looks to be common to both.
Imagined losses.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 11 January 2024 21:15 (two months ago) link