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sâmbătă, 31 august 2013

Detachment -Tony Kaye*

Un film foarte tulburator pentru mine.

Nuovo Cinema Paradiso -Giuseppe Tornatore


vineri, 30 august 2013

The Shining -Kubrick

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Le dernier metro -Truffaut

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Memento -Christopher Nolan

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Babette's Feast -Gabriel Axel

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A Fallible Girl -Conrad Clark


miercuri, 28 august 2013

Once upon a Time in Anatolia -Nuri Bilge Ceylan

 Despre film aici si aici (Gorzo) si aici (engl).

miercuri, 21 august 2013

La peau douce -Truffaut


The Virgin Suicides -Sofia Coppola

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Interviu cu Sofia Coppola aici.

Despre film in cartea "The 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen" de Richard Crouse (pag.237):


"The Virgin Suicides is one of those rare occasions when a film surpasses the book it is based on. Writer and first-time director Sophia Coppola manages to render the complex novel down to its core, without losing the heart and suburban spirit of the book. [...]
Set in the upscale suburb of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, in the early 1970s, the film introduces us to the Lisbon sisters. They are five blonde and sweet girls ranging in age from 13 to 17, who have captivated the neighborhood boys with their angelic beauty The group of guys, led by Tim Weiner (Jonathan Tucker), worship the sisters from afar, using binoculars to secretly watch them.
The girls are unattainable, not because they don't like the boys, but because their strict parents (James Woods and Kathleen Turner) barely let them out of the house. In a misguided effort to protect their kids
from the big bad world, the elder Lisbons are overprotective and smother the girls with rules and regulations. [...]
Coppola has taken a beautifully but densely written book and boiled it down to its essentials. Eugenide's novel is obsessed with details, so much so that the book threatens to collapse under the weight of its own minutiae. On film, Coppola follows the golden rule of directing, "show us, don't tell us," and avoids the downfall of the book. The wonderfully choreographed Lisbon party scene, for example, quickly conveys the whole awkwardness of the social gathering, from the well-meaning interruptions of the parents to the harmless flirting of the girls. 
[...]
As the most luminous of all the sisters Kirsten Dunst shines as Lux. On her face you can see the struggle of a young woman trying to find out who she is but never quite succeeding. Even when she is smiling there is a sadness that comes through, as though "the imprisonment of being a girl" is too much for her to bear. And in the end, I guess it was.
The Virgin Suicides is Sophia Coppola's directorial debut, and it is a strong, self-assured piece of work. She balances the dark humor of the piece with real emotion and treats the young characters with respect,
not as some strange mutations who are trying to learn the ways of the adult world. She realizes that the boys who loved these girls couldn't give them the one thing they needed most: understanding."

Delicatessen -Marc Caro; Jean-Pierre Jeunet

 Despre film in cartea "The 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen" de Richard Crouse (pag.56):

"The French are world renowned for their cuisine, so leave it to iconoclastic directors Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet to set their first movie in post-apocalyptic France where there is very little food and no meat. Well, almost no meat. Delicatessen is a high voltage variation on Sweeney Todd, set in a time when people will eat just about anything ... or anyone.
[...]
...a catastrophic meltdown of some sort has left thick toxic yellow smog hanging over the city, and killed almost all the animals in the world. With lots of mouths to feed people had to seek out alternative forms of animal protein. This is where Louison comes in. The residents of this particular building have come up with an interesting way to procure meat: they hire it. Louison is the latest in a string of superintendents whom the tenants plan to butcher and eat. Clown stew, anyone? 
A romance with the butcher's myopic daughter keeps him off his neighbor's dinner tables for a time, but as their hunger grows, his chances of survival get slimmer. [...]
Delicatessens apartment building is populated with many memorably grotesque comic characters. [...]
In their feature film debut co-directors Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeuriet show a great deal of control, keeping this disparate group of characters intriguing and captivating, while grounding a story that seems ready to take tangential flight. Their sense of comic pacing is dead on, particularly in a scene that starts off with the butcher and his mistress in bed, the motion of their lovemaking causing the mattress springs to squeak rhythmically. Soon, as the camera cuts from one apartment to another we are treated to a symphony of household sounds playing in concert with the squeaky springs. The toymaker's drill keeps time, as do the grandmother's knitting needles. The piece builds with the addition of a bicycle pump, a cello, and a  metronome. Louison paints the hallway ceiling to the beat, using his suspenders as a bungee cord so he can reach the awkward parts. It is a beautifully realized sequence, expertly edited and paced, that ends with a frenzy of action.
Stylistically Delicatessen owes more to music videos and animator Tex Avery's feverishly wild Bugs Bunny cartoons than to other post-apocalypse movies [...] Shades of Terry Gilliam and David Lynch shine through the motivation and execution of this film, but Caro and Jeunet are such mavericks that every camera move, every scene in this film feels fresh and alive. Cinematographer Darius Khondji, who created the look of David Fincher's menacing Seyen, helps put their dark vision on celluloid. 
The script, by famous comic book author Gilles Adrien, constantly keeps the viewer off guard. The basic story is bizarre but fairly simple, but it is his eccentric vision of the dystopian future that confounds and  amazes. He has created a dark and moody world worthy of any serious science-fiction movie, but at the same time filled it with belly laughs. While being propelled through this crazy world it is impossible to guess
what will happen next.
[...]
After the success of Delicatessen, Caro and Jeunet teamed up once more for the bizarre but entertaining The City of Lost Children (1995) [...] That was Caro's last film, although Jeunet has had international success with 1997's Alien: Resurrection and the enchanting Amelie in 2001." 

Un été brûlant-Plilippe Garrel

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A Royal Affair -Nikolaj Arcel



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joi, 15 august 2013

A Single Man -Tom Ford

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Splendor in the Grass -Elia Kazan


luni, 12 august 2013

Krugovi (Circles) - Srdan Golubovic


joi, 8 august 2013

Thirst -Park Chan-wook

 Gorzo despre film aici. Despre film si aici.

miercuri, 7 august 2013

Il y a longtemps que je t'aime -Philippe Claudel

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marți, 6 august 2013

Ashes and Snow -Gregory Colbert