1. Mulholland Drive David Lynch, U.S. 2001 2808
2. Das Leben der Anderen Germany, 2006
3. Reconstruction Danish , (2003)
4. Syndromes and a Century Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand/Austria/France 2006
5. There Will Be Blood P. T. Anderson, U.S. 2007 1664
6. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu Cristi Puiu, Romania 2005
7. A History of Violence David Cronenberg, U.S./Canada 2005
8. Tropical Malady Apichatpong Weerasethakul, France/Thailand/Italy/Germany 2004
9. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days Cristi Mungiu, Romania 2007
10. The New World Terrence Malick, U.S. 2005
11. Non ti muovere, Italy (2004)
the list will be continuing:-) Just cat remind all of them right bow.
As to “Avatar”, it’s no so easy to express my feelings as I thought before. It is, no doubt, an amazing spectacle – though I was expecting something like this, but got more than expected. It’s important that this is not clear computer animation, which has no relation to the true cinematography, like “2012″ is, with its various unrealistic effects and great number well-known imprints. Frankly saying, Avatar is also can be reproached with over-use of all existing stamps – but at the same time it has a very fascinating and absolutely unpredictable scenario then this fact rises the movie to another level. On the other hand, I guess that two and a half hundreds millions of dollars is price good enough for the scenario that must be.
It seems that director of Avatar, James Cameron behaves like a boy, carrying to the movie screen all his dreams and fantasies over though it were high technologies or erotic dreams (despite the inhabitants of the planet Pandora are totally deprived of primary sexual characteristics, however their shapes, movements and facial expressions came exactly from wet teen dreams. The fact is Cameron invented an unreal steep tale and embodied it on the movie screen then he is praiseworthy for that, but
But the point is there is a big lie in Avatar. This movie as a product of the era of high technology is likely protects the mother-nature from these technologies, and ultimate leftist manifesto about self-determination of developing countries is advertised by McDonald. That confused me. It’s not funny at all it is rather ridiculous, rude and finally disgusting. And, besides, most part of the audience, reared with much care exactly by products produced by such corporations, look this movie as a high-tech show – just belching with Coca-Cola, throwing over with popcorn and unstopping laughing all the time. After all “Avatar” is just a high-tech show independently what kind of massage Cameron wanted to put in.
All moves I loved you can check out ‘My Favorites’ tag. Now I’d like to talk about the one I’ve watched right now. This is J’ai toujours rêvé d’être un”.
This film by French film director and screenwriter Samuel Benshetri “I always wanted to be a gangster” consists of four stories where each of them is the story about people who tried to become real gangsters, but could not. Every time desperate heroes have to make a choice between an honest poverty and crime they cant choose crime because comic absurdity keep them from the fatal step. All of them are joined by the fact that most of their time they spend in a cheap roadside cafe. “I always wanted to be a gangster” is tragicomedy, recalling images of Chaplin’s personages which make people laugh through their tears. Samuel Benshetri knows how to make so without falling in vulgarity.
The movie starts from the classic gag: man in pantyhose on his head hits the telegraph-pole and falls down. This is easiest way to using the situation comedy make people to laugh but actually it’s not so easy. Benshetri skillfully manipulates emotions of spectators, making them not only laugh, but also compassionate. Here is gangster-loser who is trying to rob a roadside cafe, but fails, getting acquainted with the beautiful waitress. Or the two intelligent-looking men stealing the girl-emo, which greatly complicates the life of kidnappers. There are elderly gangsters among inhabitants of the cafe which had a plan to kill their old gangster-friend at his own request, and two aged, forgotten rocker who still decide which of them was better.
Ther picture is created very stylish in black and white fool of quotations: here and Tarantino’s cafe, as in “Pulp Fiction” and the long, somewhat strange dialogues, and Jim Jarmusch’s style strange dialogs, and flashbacks made in the style of early Chaplin. But Benshetri is not trying to disguise references on their favorite characters. A gangster theme is just a way allowing to recall one more time that life is not easy and simular problems are familiar to every citizen of any city, and such stories could happen anywhere, anytime. It appears that even if life is unbearably heavy, not everyone can make a step over at this point it is important what is the hero’s soul, but not what he has in his pocket. All inhabitants of this cafe are infinitely good and charming people.
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Tom: People don’t realize this, but loneliness is underrated.
Tom: What happens when you fall in love?
Summer: You believe in that?
Tom: It’s love, it’s not Santa Claus.
Tom: Darling. I don’t know how to tell you this, but there’s a Chinese family in our bathroom.
Tom: It’s official. I’m in love with Summer.
[while Montage of Summer plays]
Tom: I love her smile. I love her hair. I love her knees. I love how she licks her lips before she talks. I love her heart-shaped birthmark on her neck. I love it when she sleeps.
Paul: [Opens the door to Tom's apartment] We didn’t know who to call.
McKenzie: It’s Amanda Heller all over again.
Rachel Hansen: You did the right thing.
Rachel Hansen: Just some guy she met at the gym with Brad Pitt’s face and Jesus’ abs.
Rachel Hansen: Just because she’s likes the same bizzaro crap you do doesn’t mean she’s your soul mate.
Author’s Note: The following is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Especially you Jenny Beckman. Bitch.
Partygoer: So Tom, what is it that you do?
Tom: I uh, I write greeting cards.
Summer: Tom could be a really great architect if he wanted to be.
Partygoer: That’s unusual, I mean, what made you go from one to the other?
Tom: I guess I just figured, why make something disposable like a builing when you can make something that last forever, like a greeting card.
Summer: We’ve been like Sid and Nancy for months now.
Tom: Summer, Sid stabbed Nancy, seven times with a kitchen knife, I mean we have some disagreements but I hardly think I’m Sid Vicious.
Summer: No I’m Sid.
Tom: Oh, so I’m Nancy…
[Pancakes arrive]
Summer: Let’s just eat and we’ll talk about it later. Mmm, that is good, I’m really glad we did this. I love these pancakes… what?
[Tom gets up and walks away from the table]
Summer: Tom, don’t go! You’re still my best friend!
Narrator: This is a story of boy meets girl. But you should know up front, this is not a love story.
Rachel Hansen: Tom, I know you think she was the one, but I don’t. Next time you look back, I think you should look again.
Tom: I feel like why make some disposable like a building and make something that lasts, like a greeting card.
Rachel Hansen: You know, all my friends love you and think you’re great. It’s like they say, there’s plenty of fish in the sea.
Tom: [Looks at a group of twelve year old girls who wave at him and giggle] Those aren’t fish. They’re guppies.
Rachel Hansen: Better that you find this out now before you come home and find her in bed with Lars from Norway.
Tom: Who’s Lars from Norway?
Rachel Hansen: He’s some guy she met at the gym with Brad Pitt’s face and Jesus’ abs.
Summer: You weren’t wrong, Tom. You were just wrong about me.
Rachel Hansen: Quit being a pussy.
Vance: [reading a card that Tom has written] Roses are red, violets are blue… Fuck you, whore!
Narrator: This is a story of boy meets girl. The boy, Tom Hansen of Margate, New Jersey, grew up believing that he’d never truly be happy until the day he met the one. This belief stemmed from early exposure to sad British pop music and a total mis-reading of the movie ‘The Graduate’. The girl, Summer Finn of Shinnecock, Michigan, did not share this belief. Since the disintegration of her parent’s marriage she’d only love two things. The first was her long dark hair. The second was how easily she could cut it off and not feel a thing. Tom meets Summer on January 8th. He knows almost immediately she is who he has been searching for. This is a story of boy meets girl, but you should know upfront, this is not a love story.
Tom: She took a giant shit on my face. Literally.
Alison: Literally?
Tom: Well, no, not literally. That’s disgusting.
Tom: [Montage of Summer] I hate her crooked teeth. I hate the way she smacks her lips. I hate her knooby knees. I hate that cockroach shape splotch on her neck.
[Fade to black]
Tom: [Swayze's She's Like the Wind plays briefly] I HATE THIS SONG!
Bus Driver: [Open to Tom standing while bus comes to a sudden stop] Sir, you need to get off the bus.
Summer: I woke up one morning and I just knew.
Tom: Knew what?
Summer: What I was never sure of with you.
Tom: Darling…
[Summer looks up at him]
Tom: I don’t know how to tell you this, but… there’s a Chinese family in our bathroom.
Tom: My name’s Tom.
Girl at Interview: [shaking hands] Nice to meet you. I’m Autumn.
Narrator: Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin, and they end, with no lasting memories made in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a life. May 23rd was a Wednesday.
Tom: Paul, seriously…
Paul: Did you bang her?
Tom: No!
Paul: Blow job?
Tom: No!
Paul: Hand job?
Tom: No, Paul, no jobs. I’m still unemployed. We just kissed.
Summer: I named my cat after Springsteen.
Tom: Cool… what was his name?
Summer: Bruce.
Paul: Robin is better than the girl of my dreams. She’s real.
Tom: You don’t want to be named as someone’s boyfriend, and now your someone’s wife?
One of the best films I’ve watched this year are ‘Reconstruction’ and ‘Allegro’ by Christoffer Boe. “It is a film, it is all a construction. But even so, it hurts.” “It is very important that you understand the movie is actually playful. It likes being a movie, it’s playing with how you can tell a story, and it doesn’t really take itself too seriously.”
The movie about how people do not take seriously the things that may happen every day. Perhaps it’s nor right, perhaps it’s so. The film looks like reconstruction a dream – you sleep and you don’t. You make a choice and you cant do that.
Love is like a dream but it’s not in our power to change the way it goes. After graduating from the Danish Film School in 2001, Christoffer Boe’s student film Anxiety played at the 2002 festival, where it won a prize from French critics, and then Boe returned to the Croisette the following year with his debut feature, Reconstruction. A dazzlingly inventive and playful film, Reconstruction’s tale of love and parallel universes in Copenhagen beguiled critics and was awarded both the Camera D’Or and the Prix Regards Jeune. Boe was celebrated as international cinema’s most precocious wunderkind, and his film played all around the world, plundering prizes – including the prestigious FIPRESCI Director of the Year award at San Sebastian Film Festival – wherever it went.
Next his film ‘Allegro” is also coming the way of love but with a lot more melancholy. Ansering on the question – Were those films a reflection on what was going on in director’s life at the time, Christoffer Boe said: ‘My movies have gone in the exact opposite direction of my own life. I’ve become more and more happy, and my movies have become more and more depressive. Offscreen is off the charts in depression and hatred. I don’t know how the relationship works between that, but it seems like there is an outlet in my cinema for some feelings that I don’t have in my personal life.’
If you could travel back in time are you sure you can ewmind all those you loved and all thoose who loved you.
- ‘What’s the meaning of this?… Do you remember this woman?…You remember something?
- I forgot it.
FM: Are you ever totally satisfied with your films? Reconstruction was such a huge success and seemed to be universally loved, but how did you feel about it?
Boe: I really don’t look back. When I make a movie, it’s a closure on something I want to deal with, but I don’t look back on when I was very successful. Obviously I tend to look at what people don’t like. There was a lot of stuff that people said about Reconstruction and even more so about Allegro. Obviously I try to listen to that because there might be something wrong with the way that I work with some of the ideas, but I don’t look back in the sense that it’s never Le Mépris. It’s never Godard.
Une femme douce / A Gentle Creature / 1969 / is the first color Robert Bresson’s film sees a marked change in the director’s style from the cold austerity and intensity of his earlier works, such as Au hasard Balthazar (1966) and Mouchette (1967). Although the film deals with familiar Bresson themes of suicide and domestic repression, his approach in this film is far more accessible, making the film attractive to a mainstream cinema audience (for perhaps for the last time in Bresson’s film-making career). Bresson cast a successful model Dominique Sanda in the role of the ill-fated heroine of the film, allegedly for the sound of her voice rather than her more obvious attributes. Sanda’s celebrity may have been another important factor which contributed to the film’s popularity.
Director: Robert Bresson
Script: Robert Bresson, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (novel)
Photo: Ghislain Cloquet
Music: Jean Wiener
Cast: Dominique Sanda (Elle), Guy Frangin (Luc, son mari), Jeanne Lobre (Anna, la bonne), Claude Ollier (Le médecin), Jacques Kébadian (Le dragueur), Gilles Sandier (Le maire), Dorothée Blank (L’infirmière)
Country: France
Language: French
Runtime: 88 min
Aka: A Gentle Creature; A Gentle Woman
Summary
When his young wife commits suicide, leaving no explanation for her act, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together and tries to understand why she had to kill herself.
Maybe all of us love Christmas Holidays the most. And frankly saying we can’t imagine miraculous Christmas Holidays without favorite Christmas films. No doubt that usually preparing to the celebration we don’t forget to lay the most loved Christmas movies up, such as
1.A Christmas Story (1983): Based on Jean Shepherd’s timeless classic, the film introduces us to Ralphie, who wants a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas, in spite of the fact that every adult he knows is convinced that he’ll poke his eye out.
2.Miracle on 34th Street (1947): A single mother and her daughter in New York City, discover that the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Santa Claus just might not be a myth. The 1994 sequel is a good option too.
3.How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966): Try watching the TV version and the movie version back-to-back!
4.A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965): The first of many prime-time animated TV specials based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, has aired annually since 1965.
5.The Polar Express (2004): An animated Christmas film about a young boy who is taken on a train ride to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus and discover the true meaning of Christmas.
6.Home Alone (1990): The misadventures of a young boy who has been stranded by his parents during the Christmas holidays.
7.Elf (2003): Will Ferrell is an orphan raised by Santa Claus and his elves.
8.Frosty the Snowman (1969): The half-hour animated Christmas special based on the classic Christmas song of the same name airs each December since its late-Sixties premiere. The sequel Frosty Returns usually runs immediately afterward.
9.Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964); The stop motion-animated Christmas classic is the longest-running holiday special on television.
10.The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974): In this claymation Christmas special, Santa Claus wakes up with a cold and decides to take a vacation.
11.Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983): Disney animated short retelling of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
12.The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992): Muppet adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novel A Christmas Carol.
LOS ANGELES, California- Patrick Swayze, whose good looks and sympathetic performances in films such as “Dirty Dancing” and “Ghost” made him a romantic idol to millions, died Monday. He was 57. Swayze died of pancreatic cancer, his publicist, Annett Wolf, told CNN.
Swayze’s doctor, Dr. George Fisher, revealed in early March 2008 that Swayze was suffering from the disease.
“Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months,” Wolf said in a statement Monday.
Most recently, Swayze starred in A&E Network’s “The Beast,” which debuted in January. He agreed to take the starring role of an undercover FBI agent before his diagnosis. The network agreed to shoot an entire season of the show after Swayze responded well to his cancer treatment.
In an interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters in January, Swayze said his work on that show was exhausting, requiring 12-hour workdays in Chicago, Illinois, doing his own stunts. But he said the show’s character “just felt right for my soul.”
If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I’ve tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself,” Swayze told Walters, when asked why he decided to do the show. “And that keeps me going, that gets me up in the morning. My work … is my legacy.”
“The Beast” was canceled in June because of Swayze’s illness, after doctors told him the cancer had spread to his liver.
“We are saddened by the loss of one of our generation’s greatest talents and a member of the A&E family,” a statement from the network said. “Patrick’s work on ‘The Beast’ was an inspiration to us all. He will be greatly missed and our thoughts are with his wife, Lisa, and his entire family during this difficult time.”
Swayze was mostly known for a handful of supporting roles when he broke through with his performance as dance instructor Johnny Castle in 1987’s “Dirty Dancing.” Co-star Jennifer Grey, who played his young lover, Baby Houseman, in the film, described Swayze as “gorgeous and strong.”
“Patrick was a rare and beautiful combination of raw masculinity and amazing grace. … He was a real cowboy with a tender heart. He was fearless and insisted on always doing his own stunts, so it was not surprising to me that the war he waged on his cancer was so courageous and dignified,” Grey said in a statement Monday.
Three years after “Dirty Dancing,” he became an even bigger star with “Ghost,” in which he played an investment banker who dies and learns to tap into his unspoken feelings for his partner (Demi Moore). The film won Whoopi Goldberg an Oscar and helped make him People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” in 1991.
“Patrick was a really good man, a funny man and one to whom I owe much that I can’t ever repay,” Goldberg said in a statement. “I believe in ‘Ghost’s’ message, so he’ll always be near.”
Swayze told Entertainment Weekly in 1990 that “the movies that have had the most powerful effects on my life have been about romantic characters.” He expanded on the effort he put into love scenes for People in 1991.
“It’s possibly the scariest thing I do,” he said, “doing something so personal and giving people out there the opportunity to see if you’re a good kisser or not.”
Patrick Wayne Swayze was born on August 18, 1952, in Houston, Texas. His father was an engineering draftsman; his mother was a ballet dancer and later the director of the Houston Ballet Dance Company.
Swayze’s career diminished in the late ’90s. He broke both legs in 1997 while making a film, “Letters From a Killer,” and went into rehab to overcome an admitted drinking problem.
In 2000, he was flying in his own twin-engine plane when the plane depressurized; Swayze landed in a housing development in Arizona. Though some witnesses say he appeared intoxicated, he was later revealed to have been suffering from hypoxia, related to the depressurization and his three-pack-a-day cigarette habit.
Swayze re-established his knack for picking sleepers with “Donnie Darko” (2001), the dark film about a troubled student that became a sensation on video. Swayze played a creepy motivational speaker and won raves for his performance.
Swayze’s more recent films included a TV version of “King Solomon’s Mines” and 2007’s “Christmas in Wonderland.”
Though he still had the power to make women’s hearts flutter — 22-year-old Scarlett Johansson, upon receiving Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Award in February 2007, said her dream date was “probably Patrick Swayze, my dream come true” — Swayze wasn’t too impressed with himself.
“Good-looking people turn me off,” he once said. “Myself included.”
Swayze is survived by his wife, Lisa, of over 30 years and his mother, Patsy.
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