Details on Guy Maddin’s latest opus Keyhole are slowly permeating through the web. The film stars Jason Patric, Isabella Rossellini, Udo Kier (Blade) and Kevin McDonald (Kids in the Hall) and re-imagines Homer’s Odyssey as a gangster noir.
The North Face of Japan asked five notable cultural influencers to materialize a concept, in effect a personal time capsule, of which they would hand down to the next generation.
Jiro Dreams of Sushi is the story of 85 year-old Jiro Ono, considered by many to be the world’s greatest sushi chef. Operating out of a small sushi bar inside Ginza station, the sushi chef is regarding as a national treasure, and is the first to receive 3 Michelin Stars.
Situated in the beautiful surrounds of the Abbotsford Convent, the Shadow Electric is Melbourne’s only independent open-air cinema. As part of their commitment to helping local artists and film makers, 20 minutess of local shorts and music videos screen prior to the feature presentation.
McDonald’s France recently commissioned a whole line of interiors to designer Patrick Norguet. The results are decidedly … rather un-McDonald’s.
The Travel Almanac is a beautifully simple magazine featuring some inspiring and through-provoking interviews with the likes of Helmut Lang, Juliette Lewis, Bernard Sumner, and (cover star) Will Oldham. As the name might suggest, there are also some insightful travel pieces, highlighting key destinations in Montana as well as hotels in London and Paris and a spa in Sweden.
Work assignments have taken budding German photographer Jakob Wagner to many different countries and cities, including Cape Town, Buenos Aires, New York, Rotterdam, and London. His photos of Cape Town are particularly stunning, the city grid coming right up to the harsh topography.
Good news for those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of flipping through the third issue of Highsnobiety’s print magazine: it’s finally available for viewing and download. Between the virtual cover’s you’ll find Firmament celebrating it’s 5th year with a shoot featuring prominent Berliners, and right at the end a little Berlin store guide.
Although sharply dividing critics (we found it both captivating and tedious at times) it’s hard to deny that Gaspar Noé’s depiction of the darker side of Tokyo is visually stunning. The title sequence sets the tone with machine-gun precision; Art of the Title’s interview with sequence designer Tom Kan sheds some light on the design process.