Gregory Crewdson’s Dream House portfolio for the New York Times, 2002.
“The catalyst for these pictures was an empty ranch-style house in Rutland Vermont. The furniture, lamps, even the hand-towels in the bathrooms, were exactly as the owners had left them ten years earlier when they passed away. It was an eerie and beautiful place, painted with memories. Absence was one of the furnishings.”
— Kathy Ryan, photo editor of The New York Times Magazine.
“…I just brought two unrelated ideas to the table. One was that I had always wanted to photograph Tilda Swinton and the other was that I also wanted to make a series of photographs in a particular uninhabited ranch house in Vermont. […] We amassed an additional list of actors, who I felt could inhabit the world of my pictures. […] We had mapped out a concept: to spend the entire month of August, with a production crew, in the house, separately photographing these actors. My parameters were that I would have complete artistic control and that the actors must come alone, unaccompanied by assistants or entourage. What ensued was a magical adventure, strange, enchanting and totally unique magical adventure.
— Gregory Crewdson
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![Synecdoche, New York (2008) by Charlie KaufmanThe Once And Future Blonde: How you? I’m settled in nicely: week off, swimming, dvds, dvds (revolutionary road, the reader, young victoria, wendy and lucy, let the right one in, friday night lights entire season 3, frost nixon, I have loved you so long, Tell no one (finally) - sorry for not writing the fr title - I’m expecting La Reine Margot (this is the fr title) to arrive tomorrow. oh and synecdoche new york, which I hated. […]Me: […] So, really, Synecdoche didn’t do it for you? I went to see it last night and I enjoyed it. True, I thought it was dragging towards the end but it could have been because I had to stand at the back for the second half of the film as I couldn’t take the sitting anymore (ah, well, same old, same old). I actually laughed hard a few times. I’m chuckling now thinking of that scene when Michelle Williams shows Philip her huge tattoo on her back and says “but everybody’s got tattoos” and he says “i never saw that”. And almost every scene with Hope Davis made me laugh. I mean, sure, Kaufman crammed way too many symbols and ideas in that film and I’m sure he could have edited some out, but it’s nice sometimes to get brain candy, trying to figure out what all this surealism is about and trying to articulate some of the stuff you instinctively get. Anyway, good films there on your list. It reminds me that I need to add Frost Nixon on my queue…ok, done. As for me, I’m working through a list too. Mainly stuff you’ve recommended. By the way, I liked The Deep End. Richard III should arrive soon.The Once And Future Blonde: Well, yes I did like Michelle and Hope, oh and Samantha Morton (and Emily watson playing Samantha Morton) but I hated the miserable guy and the miserable theme just dragged on and on… male midlife crisis film is what I pegged it as. SO. There.](http://2.media.tumblr.com/hFiUi53rXocqkt3ckxNSyJbRo1_400.jpg)
Synecdoche, New York (2008) by Charlie Kaufman
The Once And Future Blonde: How you? I’m settled in nicely: week off, swimming, dvds, dvds (revolutionary road, the reader, young victoria, wendy and lucy, let the right one in, friday night lights entire season 3, frost nixon, I have loved you so long, Tell no one (finally) - sorry for not writing the fr title - I’m expecting La Reine Margot (this is the fr title) to arrive tomorrow. oh and synecdoche new york, which I hated. […]
Me: […] So, really, Synecdoche didn’t do it for you? I went to see it last night and I enjoyed it. True, I thought it was dragging towards the end but it could have been because I had to stand at the back for the second half of the film as I couldn’t take the sitting anymore (ah, well, same old, same old). I actually laughed hard a few times. I’m chuckling now thinking of that scene when Michelle Williams shows Philip her huge tattoo on her back and says “but everybody’s got tattoos” and he says “i never saw that”. And almost every scene with Hope Davis made me laugh. I mean, sure, Kaufman crammed way too many symbols and ideas in that film and I’m sure he could have edited some out, but it’s nice sometimes to get brain candy, trying to figure out what all this surealism is about and trying to articulate some of the stuff you instinctively get. Anyway, good films there on your list. It reminds me that I need to add Frost Nixon on my queue…ok, done. As for me, I’m working through a list too. Mainly stuff you’ve recommended. By the way, I liked The Deep End. Richard III should arrive soon.
The Once And Future Blonde: Well, yes I did like Michelle and Hope, oh and Samantha Morton (and Emily watson playing Samantha Morton) but I hated the miserable guy and the miserable theme just dragged on and on… male midlife crisis film is what I pegged it as. SO. There.
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Punch Drunk Love (2002) by Paul Thomas Anderson: the film that made me rethink Adam Sandler.
Sidenote: Philip Seymour Hoffman doesn’t have much screen time but he is hilarious in this.
