Showing posts with label gamines. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Iconic Lovers: Johnny + Kate


Who else could possibly deny the incontrovertible chemistry of those few years between 1994-1998 as shared between Johnny Depp and Kate Moss, following their fateful meeting at Cafe Tabac in NYC. As Kate described, "I knew from the moment we talked that we were going to be together. I've never had that before." That was the year one of our favorites, Ed Wood, was released, along with Don Juan DeMarco (a film we watched with our mothers). Kate was a year away from her 21st birthday and Johnny was (gulp) 30. These photographs bring us back to what was so cool about these iconic lovers. We were seduced by their dual-charisma as we gawked at their style of bringing together leather with plaid flannels, mod sunglasses, knit caps, forgetting to wash your hair (forgetting to cut your hair). These pictures remind us of young love in all its innocence and then everything that goes wrong because of it. As he stated years afterwards, "we did what was right, we walked away from each other. She went on to bigger and better things, and I went on and fell in love and had kiddies." 












Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Lars von Trier: Antichrist


Although TLF has always looked forward to Lars von Trier’s films, we have to admit that when we read that his latest Antichrist had provoked extreme reactions (booing, gasping, laughter, light applause, et al.) from its audience at the Cannes Film Fest screening last May we underlined this as one of our top priorities for Fall. Granted, he’s not a “repeat offender” (never could bring ourselves to watch the incredible Dogville a second time). The cherry and whipped cream on top is that Antichrist pairs our favorite gamine Charlotte Gainsbourg with Willem Dafoe, whose understated off-screen persona helps to fuel the suspension of our disbelief when it concerns the intensity of his roles. 

The uncut version of Antichrist is scheduled to release in NYC on October 23.