hugbók uglu: 2010

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Through a Glass Darkly 1961 and Night of the Hunter 1955

Through a Glass Darkly (Swedish: Såsom i en spegel) is a 1961 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, and produced by Allan Ekelund. The film is a three-act "chamber film", in which four family members act as mirrors for each other. It is the first of many Bergman films to be shot on the island of Fårö.
The title is from a biblical passage (1 Corinthians 13) in which seeing through a glass darkly refers to our understanding of God when we are alive; the view will only be clear when we die. The title literally means As in a Mirror, which is how the passage reads in a 1917 Swedish translation of the Bible.
Bergman described Through a Glass Darkly as a “chamber film,” an allusion both to the chamber plays of Strindberg (Bergman's favorite playwright), and to chamber music in general. In line with the “chamber” theme, the film takes place in a single 24-hour period, features only four characters and takes place entirely on an island.

The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American thriller film directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters.[1] The film is based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Davis Grubb, adapted for the screen by James Agee and Laughton. The novel and film draw on the true story of Harry Powers, hanged in 1932 for the murders of two widows and three children in Clarksburg, West Virginia. The film's lyric and expressionistic style sets it apart from other Hollywood films of the 1940s and 50s, and it has influenced later directors such as David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Jim Jarmusch, Harmony Korine, the Coen brothers, and Spike Lee.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Thursday, March 25, 2010

þögn

Buster Keaton

Heavenly visions - Shaker gift drawing and gift songs

The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Coming--a charismatic British sect brought to America in 1774 by their leader, Ann Lee--became known as Shaking Quakers, or Shakers, for their dramatic expression of spirit possession in the ecstatic trances and whirling of "instruments," the majority of whom were women. Their visions were transcribed, usually by other women, and presented as gifts to members of the community to provide spiritual encouragement. Produced during the so-called Era of Manifestations, 1839-60, a period of crisis marked by the group's dwindling population and the absence of its founders, these works document the spiritual return of "Mother" Ann and other deceased Shaker leaders.
----http://www.ubu.com/ethno/visuals/shaker07.html ----http://superdigit.blogspot.com/2008/10/shaker-visual-poetry-gift-drawings-gift.html