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1998 - Blog Posts
Le Dîner De Cons (1998)
Japanese Sony PlayStation Magazine Ad (1998)
Hey Arnold Headcanon for Lila’s Original Home Town
Lila Sawyer is from Pleasantville, Iowa. No one can tell me otherwise, except Craig Bartlett himself! XD
I got the idea by looking up this movie and where they filmed it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasantville_(film) I didn’t see the actual film, but the premise from the trailer sounds like a place Lila would live (at least the fictional version of the city in Iowa portrayed in the film).
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After a month of one horrible thing after the other I finally finished this!! @officialjonathandavis @korn_official @brianheadwelch @fieldykorn @rayluzierkorn @munky_korn #korn #kornfamily #followtheleader #1998 #metalhead #metalmusic #painting #paint #paintings #painter #artistsoninstagram #art #artist #acrylicpainting #acrylic (at Las Vegas, Nevada) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGtyEPrHcu6/?igshid=3v1hfe8txwd1
David Bowie and Bryan Ferry at the Design Museum London, 1998
© Alan Davidson
Mariah Carey - Breakdown ft. Krayzie Bone, Wish Bone (1998)
one of the most beautiful dance scenes in cinema history christina ricci in buffalo '66
⋆౨ৎ˚⟡ Lisa Raye (Diamond) - the players club 1998 ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪
credits - @simplyglammedbrand on tiktok
One of my Malice Mizer interview book!!
Of Freaks and Men (1998) | dir. Alexei Balabanov
When evil triumphs, humour turns black. Glimpses of turn-of-the-century porn has an uncomfortable, humiliating look to it. Balabanov massages human nature's ugly heart. The film is so original and startling, it appears playful, when really it concerns an abuse of power that feeds off trust and decency, perverting both.
The film is shot as a pastiche of silent cinema, without Chaplin's famous fast motion. In old St Petersburg the bourgeoisie live innocent and privileged lives, while in the basement of an abandoned building tight-lipped Johan (Sergei Makovetsky), with his smirking, sinister sidekick (Victor Sukhorukov), organises nude spanking sessions
which are photographed and sold to sado-masochistic postcard collectors, when not purloined by their naughty maids.
There are moments in this deliciously subversive film when you suspect Alexei Balabanov is being satirical and those scenes of pornographers taking over the grand houses, only to corrupt them with their nasty habits, refer to organised crime's stranglehold on the Russian economy, not to mention the state of the nation.
Gattaca (1997) | dir. Andrew Niccol
DoP: Sławomir Idziak
Of Freaks and Men (1998) | dir. Alexei Balabanov
... Shot in a glittering, wintry monochrome, which attains a heavy sepia tint, Of Freaks and Men is set in turn-of-the-century St Petersburg. It imagines the bourgeois origins of Russia's fledgling porn industry: specifically that catering for images of flagellation and sado-masochism - catching this industry on the cusp of its movement from still photography to rudimentary moving pictures. The film's periodic silent-movie captions and its daguerreotype-hue are in homage to both media... What is most striking about this disturbingly dark satire is Astakhov's masterly cinematography, which not only evokes the primitive photography look of the era, but suggests the passing of an age of innocence, when weakness and trust were not rewarded with abuse and degradation...
The weird rapture of the beatings, which are first photographed, and then filmed, are overlaid with a sadness and an absurdity...
Balabanov's proto-Freudian bad dream Of Freaks and Men stands out as a compelling experience, sinuously original and deeply refreshing - although refreshing is perhaps not the exact word for this uniquely unsettling movie. Balabanov's brutal study of modern Russian gangsterism, Brother, is already on release here, and now this director's later picture marks him out as a distinctive and very remarkable talent.
There is something very gamey and very kinky in the way Balabanov represents the consumers of Johann's wares as being women, and this conceit has its own element of pornographic whimsy. Balabanov's juxtaposition of pornography with the trim, prim world of stage performance and bourgeois musical taste - in the form of Tolya and Kolya's sensational career on the stage - endows this secret theatre of sexuality with a vulnerability and a terrible pathos.
The weird rapture of the beatings, which are first photographed, and then filmed, are overlaid with a sadness and an absurdity as Balabanov reveals the emotional relationship that exists between Johann and the old woman - "nanny" - who is wheeled out on camera to administer the punishment.
Balabanov's St Petersburg is shown as having something in common with Arthur Schnitzler's Vienna, in which heavily furnished front parlours, upright pianos, mob-capped maids and antimacassars are the primal scenes for unacknowledged yearnings and sexual awakenings, both real and imagined. In Of Freaks and Men, Balabanov parodically invents a kind of prehistory of pornography, or a prehistory of sexual modernity: a deadpan world of suppression, displacement and exclusion in which nameless desires have an intensity for being hidden, but also a mortal and overwhelming sadness.
Of Freaks and Men is close to early David Lynch in its grotesqueness and Balabanov's images are faintly reminiscent of the photographs of Diane Arbus, with a suggestion of Joel-Peter Witkin, though they have always the solvent of tenderness. And, as in Balabanov's early movie Happy Days (released here last year), the bowler-hatted Johann and Victor have Beckettian severity and absurdity...
Of Freaks and Men (1998) | dir. Alexei Balabanov
Cinematography by Sergey Astakhov
"Of Freaks and Men" is both a dark gem and a perplexing marketing conundrum. Pic will get fest kudos, but it's too much ribald fun for "serious"art film lovers and too offbeat in its birth-of-Russian-porno subject matter and stylized cinematography to catch any significant arthouse B.O. Its outside chance of success rests upon savvy exploitation of its undeniable qualities and quirky period parlor hijinx.
References for this picture, shot almost entirely in a tinted-sepia re-creation of period daguerreotypes, are tough to find, but one could look to David Lynch’s penchant for dwarves and Canadian cult auteur Guy Maddin’s oddball musings. Pic also bears strong stylistic resemblance to Steven Soderbergh’s ill-fated B&W “Kafka.” But “Freaks” contrasts strongly with all of the above in its fidelity to its sympathetic characters and the central premise that sex is the sinister undoing of both the innocent and the evil...
Thought-provoking, funny, disturbing and utterly involving, “Freaks” marks a terrific follow-up to Balabanov’s award-winning ’97 Russian box office hit, “Brother.” Cinematographer Sergei Astakhov’s carefully modulated and composed sepia-tone images are both disconcerting and hypnotically mood-enhancing. While the distancing effect may be counterproductive to the drama, it does lend an aura of the faded, forlorn days when the combination of sex and photography was new.
Il triangolo no, non l'avevo considerato
Denise Richards, Matt Dillon & Neve Campbell in Wild Things (1998) by John McNaughton
Mike Faist, Zendaya & Josh O'Connor in Challengers (2024) by Luca Guadagnino
Metal Gear Solid di Hideo Kojima (sia quello classico per PS1 ed il The Twin Snakes della GameCube, rispettivamente usciti nel 1998 e nel 2004), hanno risentito molto del film di Oshii.
I recently rewatched the CATS film after about 15 years. Grizabella was my childhood sweetheart- but today, I seem to have taken a liking to Misto. During the 3 days I had spent on this, I’d listened to Tugger’s 7-minute serenade to Misto about 16 times. That’s over an hour and a half of singing cats. (also, petition to make this cat a gay icon…)
Here’s the b&w version!
The Old Man And The Goblins
Periodic table in the DK childrens science encyclopedia from 1998
Spring 1998- Shalom Harlow
One of the most beautiful ever sports photos I think
Bono - post concert - 4 AM
Quay Grande Hotel - Sydney Australia 1998
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CHRISTIAN DIOR Couture Spring/Summer 1998 if you want to support this blog consider donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways