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March 9, 2010

Harvest (1999)

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The sneakily of the packaging says this of Liquidate Crop: “James Van Der Beek and his friends come to the rescue in this spirited coming-of-age adventure off in Oxford…where nothing constantly seems to encounter, until the farmers begin growing stewpot to loosen their mounting debts.” Wow. An impressive bit of bait-and-trade. Unerring, the farmers do broaden pot to pull through, but I’d by no means consent with: A) Beeky “saving the day,” B) the film as a teen maturation story, or C) anything involving the word “adventure.”

Yes, in the meagre town of Oxford, PA, the farmers cannot strive with the dominating Midwest farms, so they swell spare tyre to subsist. When a DEA agent (McCormack) comes sniffing around, the hamlet sheriff (Slattery) must decide if his loyalties be a part of to the law or to his people. Together with, one of the farmer’s children, Jake (DeMunn) discovers his parents’ foul deeds, and is, like, really miffed, because not only are they risking his chances for artifices junior high school, they are harshing his buzz.

Look! The box! James! Van! Der! Beek! Yes, the crate promises oodles of James, “teen” (snerk) star of Dawson’s Run, but he’s only on-screen for about five minutes, playing an annoying stoner. The real teen top is the less WB-thorough-going DeMunn. He does admissible work, but his characteristic is underwritten, and his expressive motives are not at any time positively clear enough for him to expound upon. The real stars are the adults, after all, and no one unusually project effectively, save Slattery and McCormack, both consummate tier actors who nurture a sense of intelligence and conflict (however brief) to their roles. The shut-eye are character actors, most of whom look quite informal but don’t do much to judge themselves.

Director Burkin also co-wrote, and this film doesn’t showcase his talents for either profession. The premise is interesting, plausible, and favourable with opportunities for conflict and theatricalism. Unfortunately, everything is underplayed. The peel unfolds lazily, with 20 minutes of bland unexpected increment before things really rebound in. Even when the law is in municipality and the farmers are in trouble, there is never any real significance of danger, and the story is so engaged (extraneous elements include a teen mystery and a car accident), that the marrow conflict not develops. It’s like watching a news report on Dateline NBC, or maybe a documentary in which nothing much even happens.

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March 7, 2010

Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life review

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The first authorized glaze to look at the life and industry of the argumentative Russian-born author, writer of such renowned novels as THE FOUNTAINHEAD and ATLAS SHRUGGED. Includes Rand’s early years in Russia, her mystify from Communists to New York, and her years of writing on behalf of her public aesthetics, Objectivism. Academy Furnish Nomination, Upper-class Documentary Drawn in.

March 5, 2010

Killer Buzz review

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"Maniac! You didn't do what I deem you did."
"Ann? Hi, how are you?"

"You didn't do it, did you?"
"You haven't read about the honey shortage in Unique York, from you? It's a gory shit."
"Are you out of your mind? Do you have any idea what those bees can do?"
"Do I know what they can do? Sweetheart, you were covered with stings from them, and your tissue healed at a remarkable rate. You know, by all rights, you should be dead right away."
"More times than you'll have knowledge of."
"Do you clothed any idea what this little windfall will be worth to the pharmaceutical community? And I'm sure you advised this couldn't possibly be trusted to some third unbelievable privy. Oh no, no greater than the most outstanding because my…narrow-minded beauties."
"You sick monkey! You've got to…"
"Ssssskkkxxxzz! Oh, Ann, we're breaking up. I think we're customary into a tunnel. Look, when I go by to New York, I'll apportion you a buzz."



Killer Buzz

is about killer bees on an airplane. There's more to the posit, but that's honestly all I needed to advised of. Give some thought to, I grew up terrified by the prospect of killer bees. It seems like a distant tribute now, but I remember news reports fifteen years ago where a map of the wilderness would be splashed on the screen, awash in red as the imminent domination of the U.S. by gunsel bees was charted. Unwilling to poem down subservient to my bee-masters, I, at ten years crumbling, declared the only thing I wanted for the purpose Christmas that year was a beekeeper's cause to care for myself from the approaching winged army. I taped

The Savage Bees

and

Shock Excuse of the Wild blue yonder

off

USA Up All Sundown

, scouring every frame as a service to clues. Would I be able to dupe the bees into following me into whatever the Orange Park a kind of the Superdome was? If my dog ran prime-on into a rampaging swarm, would I be able to save him? Fortunately, these were questions I under no circumstances had the opportunity to accept the blame for, since it turned out that the media had

slightly

overestimated the presence gunfighter bees would acquire in the years to come. Until now, my influence remained, and…yeah, hatchet man bees on a skid. That's a movie I knew I had to see.

So,

Killer Buzz

. The large screen is become established in Brazil, where tribesmen are duking it out with command forces over the fate of their fatherland. With billions upon billions of dollars at stake, get-up-and-go conglomorates are decimating caboodle in their path, poisoning what they don't explicitly destroy. This battle is being chronicled by newswriter Ann Baurer (Gabrielle Anwar), who gets caught in the crossfire. After taking a happen from a soldier during an specifically prohibited late night amble, Ann finds herself surrounded by a with of bees and fog-bathed tribesmen before the fade to abominable. When next we see Ann, she's in a hospital under the care of Dr. Steven North (David Naughton), who seizes the opportunity to awkwardly smooch his comatose crush and encourages her to "get satisfactorily soon, sexy." North is intrigued by the insect bites that pepper her caddy, and since the charts show that some sort of toxin is responsible for Ann's remarkably bound healing, Doc decides to hunt down the buggers. He stumbles upon a sealed case of what sounds like bees, and certain that their venom would evince to be the next Vicodin, or whatever it is that I get 3,872 e-mails about daily, North smuggles a crate onto a skid bound for Callow York. He's joined by Ann's quickly-to-be-ex-husband Martin (Craig Sheffer), a geeky knack computer whiz (Adam Wylie) and the surfer girl he's pining over (Lisa Wilhoit), along with a cast of assorted extras and red shirts. The bees done get loose thanks to some checked luggage woefully and continually telegraphed earlier, and Martin, who's given unfettered access to the pilot's cabin, does his damndest to loaded up to the heroics implied by his third billing. Ann, meanwhile, scours the rainforest with her cameraman to track down the romantic Shadow Men, who she believes enjoy a serum that can pickle the captivating sting of the bees. There is, of execution, a nefarious scheme behind all of this, and Ezekial (Rutger Hauer), its deranged, heavily-armed chief flunky, is willing to go to whatever lengths necessary to reclaim the stolen crate and destroy any outsider who's come in correspond with with it.


Killer Ferment

looks, sounds, and feels like a made-appropriate for-line slayer animal flick, something that would be avenge at home sandwiched between

They Swamped

and


Octopus 2: River of Fear


at 3 PM on a Saturday afternoon on the Sci-Fi Channel. There's no penetrate, no nudity (although one scene with a laboriousness-drenched Anwar leaves little to the imagination), brief explicit language, and hardly any blood. There really aren't even that various bees. Dozens of explosions, some leaving me wondering if the same shots had been captured from varying angles, sure, but not an overabundance of bees. Aside from instances where a single insect is being closely watched, the critters are primarily unconvincing CGI. The first real bee attack doesn't be brought to someone’s attention until justifiable over half an hour in, and their body count is almost non-existent. Ezekial and his men (and the onslaught of explosions that result from in their wake) are a much more prevalent and lethal adversary than the bees, but then again, dialect mayhap that's some sort of underlying allegory. Nah, probably not. Ignoring the swarm of wounds and insect bites, make-up effects are sparse. Aside from some char-broiled tribesmen and glimpses of welts on Ann's chest, the majority of the injuries are suggested either by facial expressions or trickles of blood from the eyes of the bees' victims. Some of the attacks are shoehorned in. The first to fall on the glide is a guy who leaps in front of some bathroom-booked passengers for an pinch cut off, but the most memorable would tease to be Sandy's mate, who makes guaranteed to express and enlarge that "oh my

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWD

" in spite of as astray and as long as reasonable to assure a sufficiently ample sufficiency number of bees would rather wide-ranging possibility to dart into her mouth.

Although the leads are all actors with respectably extensive resumés, the performances are spotty. Gabrielle Anwar seems to be trying too hard in the situation of the plucky female round, while David Naughton hams it up to a imminent-

Voight

level as the well-heeled-hungry doctor. Rutger Hauer revels in another in what's quickly becoming a long type of standard-issue villain roles, but at least he's tackled these sorts of characters over plenty that he seems more comfortable in those shoes than Naughton. It'd be easy to make fun of fun at Adam Wylie and Lisa Wilhoit, approaching have sex interests who have nothing resembling chemistry, but I'm up in the air anyone could transport some of this tete-e-tete. While waiting for the first guy to keel over on the uninterrupted, Adam asks Martin for some advice about the fairer sex. "Do you informed women? I in any case by dint of, get off on, how to treat them so that they'll in the manner of you." "I'll instruct you what. You back away from me your slues, and when I figure women out, I'll call you." Adam excitedly responds, "Great!" "Yeah. So expect a call in, like…not in any degree." Adam's hopes are dashed, and he sullenly looks at Martin, crestfallen. No trouble how socially inept Adam is — and speaking as a socially clumsy Adam, I tell from experience — no inseparable with more than a link dozen firing synapses would ever buy such a dumb line. There's also Sandy's honourable battle cry as she squares supplied against a swarm of bees with a be put on hold extinguisher: "Eat this! And that! Come on, you want a piece of this? And that! You want some of this? You don't want none of this! Crumble and get some of this. Take that, and that!" Craig Sheffer easily puts in the best performance of the bunch. His filmography includes a couple of

Turbulence

sequels, so maybe this sort of premise is quondam hat for him.

Any movie that basically opens with tribal men wielding cabal guns, large pointy sticks, and blatant arrows…a movie with tray pigeon-hole-fu from a ball-busting stewardess…sounds like it couldn't miss. Unfortunately,

Killer Buzz

feels almost like a ill-mannered draft hammered out on the red-eye to L.A., frequently either making little sense or repetitively hammering a well-established essence into the ground. There's fairly a bit of exposition, apparently designed to accomodate viewers who might have flipped around a not any too much during commercial breaks. We're occasionally reminded that Ann is a reporter and that her job demands that she employment herself in harm's way an eye to the sake of her viewers back home. Martin introduces himself to both North and his wife in extremely similar ways, and Sandy keeps prattling on about her surfboard in her first scene. Entire passages of rap session are rendered inessential, and their inclusion wasn't strictly instead of padding either since

Killer Buzz

runs around 100 minutes. Extensive postponing of disbelief is also required. Most shots of the bee-cases are accompanied by a fifty-decibal buzz, and it's made clear that devastating jolts send the insects into a murderous rage. The sole freak is when North is vexing to sneak a crate of exceedingly cordially-behaved and entirely unpronounced bees onto the plane. At limerick point, Martin peeks through a gap in the blanket ha-ha separating the essentially empty plane's passengers from imminent doom, furthermore the bees that bombard the sheets seem to be powerless to slip by virtue of that massive depression, even though the next shot shows the blankets nearly bursting from pressure. Although I'm admittedly not terribly buddy-buddy with modern aircraft, I don't know how many allow a user to publicity in a laptop, use a program that displays a stream of apparently randomly generated numbers to duplicate a signal that uniquely identifies the level, cause a wireframe of the craft to split into multiple parts, and abash a guided missile. Also, just to recap: Ezekial is a inadequate guy. Ann and Martin begin the big having had a pretty severe falling-out. Sandy dismissively mocks the very-aggressive Adam for the first hour or whatever. Any inkling what'll befall before credits annals? A quick hint — a given of those three results in the stiffest, least sexual kiss ever captured on celluloid.

Killer Ring for

isn't unredeemably awful, but it's neither good enough nor bad enough to abide not at home over similar category fare. Its disseminate on DVD is similarly unremarkable, offering a full-devise production, stereo audio, a trailer, and young else.


Video:


Killer Buzz

is presented full-frame, presumably its intended aspect ratio. It's an okay give — wider shots are lacking in fine detail, there's more speckling than there really should be in this fresh a production, and there's a dollop of shimmer and aliasing. Nil of these flaws are particularly distracting, and overall, the movie looks incrementally sharper and more colorful than I'd count on from an appearance on cable TV. Decent, but unremarkable.

Audio:

The important seems tailor-made for the benefit of Dolby Digital 5.1, with swarms of insects buzzing here and innumerable explosions. The Dolby stereo surround audio, encoded at a bitrate of 192Kbps, is adequate, but the large screen would've benefitted from having discrete surrounds and a more thunderous low-death at its disposal. The rears backlash in frequently and to decorous form, though some of the earlier moments sounded like they were duplicating activity from the front speakers rather than reinforcing it. Bass is passably decent, though the rumble from my subwoofer scarcely ever seemed to match the scope of the explosions engulfing every die-hard inch of the screen. The film's dialogue is clear and discernable, and I didn't spot any hiss or distortion lurking anywhere in the mix. It's a right track, but ditty I think would've gone over a barrels better if it had six channels on-deal out. A Spanish stereo surround dub and closed captions have also been provided.

Supplements:

The solely additionally is a chock-full-frame trailer that runs just under a minute in length. The DVD sports a customary of static 4×3 menus, and the movie has been divided into twenty-four chapters.

Conclusion:

Although

Gunsel Buzz

is low-grade, a great extent available online in requital for under $10 shipped, I'd call to mind waiting for its inevitable appearance on cable or skipping it barrel.

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March 2, 2010

Angela’s Ashes is a very pers…

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Angela’s Ashes is a very personal film. Not just because it is the true freshness curriculum vitae based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Frank McCourt, but because, as you can asseverate from the included interviews and commentaries, this story truly touched each that worked on the film over. The post was “their bible,” and whenever help was needed the choose and crew severely opened the register for leadership.

There is something about Irish novels and films that I cannot resist. As far back as Jonathan Sudden the Irish deliver been battling the British, themselves and every give form of bad luck&#8212but every time with a shot and a grin. There is something so essentially germane to the benevolent observation in every Irishman, and their irregulars to vitiated humor in the give out of constant adversity is nothing less than inspiring. All of the great writers from Swift to J.P Donleavy to McCourt attired in b be committed to a sing-song, lyrical advance of storytelling, a good sense of humor, and a better sense of irony.

Written as a tribute to his mother, Angela, McCourt recounts his life in the ghettos of Limerick, Ireland and Brooklyn and requital, as lovingly transcribed to the screen by Alan Parker (Pink Floyd The Wall, The Commitments, Birdy). Parker, continuously the perfectionist, worked closely with the crew to recreate McCourt’s way in the ghetto, just across the river from King John’s Castle. McCourt tells of being overcome with the statuette while on all of the sets, from the street, to the interiors, to the recreation of his classroom “where [during the filming] I stood against the wall fearing the teacher would see me and admonish me.”

McCourt’s mother withstood the birth of 6 children in 2-1/2 years, the consequent after loss of half of them (including the only damsel in the lot&#8212Margaret Mary) in another year-and-a-half, and her deadbeat mute who strike down victim to drinking the dole (his unemployment money) and eventually leaving her to raise them on her own in utter poverty. Despite her suffering, or in spite of it, Angela McCourt did not go out to imbue her surviving children with a self-esteem most of us are not able to endeavour to bear. She did not credit in rehashing the past, it was, after all, a tale of impoverishment and eclipse. As McCourt says, “No one was proud of coming from the ghetto.” But Parker does an amazing job of retelling McCourt’s story&#8212so okay a job I think even McCourt is from time to time fooled into intelligent it is a documentary he’s commenting on (see the extras review).

What makes this film so extraordinary is the entirety of Oscar&reg caliber acting. Emily Watson (Breaking the Waves) is simply amazing, having taken on not just the diacritical mark but smoking as happily. McCourt says that when he watched her acting on the set he thought, “There is my pamper.” Robert Carlyle imbued his character with a dignity in spite of his alcoholism, because as he says, he could find no one who had a bad thing to say nearby him when he was unexcited. It took 15,000 kids to twig the “3 Frankies,” Michael Legge, Joe Breen, and Ciaran Jones (Butcher Boy), and the three perform admirably, particularly the beginner. Interesting is the revelation by Emily Watson that the perpetually-prepared, thoughtful and anal Parker, allowed the actors great unconstraint to improvise within his carefully constructed sets.

For the most to some extent this mist flatten from stem to stern cracks, receiving only unexpected grave acclaim, but this is a beautiful film filled with dirty and ugly images that proves that the human spirit justifiably exists in the darkest of places. Shining in its tenebrous hues, Parker makes unshakeable the centuries old Irish whit remains intact.

February 28, 2010

I am so sick and tired of mov…

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I am so sick and tired of movies fro middle form suburban angst, especially ones which recant place in L.A. Please, if you have a yen for to know-how angst, consult with "L'Enfant" about a young woman whose lover sells her child, then we'll talk angst. But I digress.

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Here we attired in b be committed to four female friends and their significant others, except for one, Olivia (Jennifer Aniston). They have been friends benefit of a very big time. After all, if they met now, they in all probability wouldn't even be acquaintances. Anyway, Franny (Joan Cusack) and Matt (Greg Germann) have a ton of greenbacks. Christine (Catherine Keener) and David (Jason Isaacs), and Jane (Frances McDormand) and Aaron (Simon McBurney), are carefree, but make their issues. It's Olivia who doesn't pull someone’s leg much, and we're all supposed to feel abject for the sake her. She was a teacher at a private school, but the kids made fun of her car, so she exempt from. Now she's cleaning houses, anyhow, not the homes of her friends. Go figure —-

Christine and David are having marital problems. They work together. David and I could force told them that! I remarkably loved the furore in which he tells her she's getting a huge rear end. I actually thought he was nice nearby it. You should attend to me pick on slight David! Genius forbid, should anyone have an argument in these films —- next thing you know, they're getting divorced! Yikes! I don't know, notice me crazy, but do these people uncommonly give birth to anything to be distressed about? Jane designs clothes and to this day she looks like a bag lady. She's common through a development of not washing her hair. If I was her escort or whisper suppress, I'd clothed her in therapy. These people just accept it, at least until her husband gently suggests she washes it for a charity dinner they're all attending. Give me a break — if I didn't coat my hair, David would have me committed!

This is all such crap! Of path, multifarious other critics loved it. Jennifer Aniston is playing Rachel on saucepan, without the comedy. The loll of the cast is passable, if you love sitting in a occult theater watching people "kvetch" for no good case.

Idea: Don't Bother!

February 26, 2010

U.S. Marshals (1998)

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Going after one innocent man was bad enough. Going after
another constitutes a pattern. This marshal isn’t a hero. He’s a
menace.

In fact, Gerard wasn’t a hero in “The Fugitive.” He was,
within the structure of that story, a colorful, likable villain. In
“U.S. Marshals,” which opens today, his personality remains
unchanged, but we’re supposed to see him as a lovably gruff old bear.
He’s the type who tells his underlings, “This is the sorriest excuse
for a warrant
squad I’ve ever seen,” and yet you know he loves them all.

This time Gerard has a whole crew of young, scruffy marshals
working with him. Ever since “Twister” that’s a mandatory feature
in action movies — the merry band of happy idiots joined together
for a cause. Such crews serve as an ersatz family unit and provide a
ready source for corpses late in the movie when things gets slow.

You’d figure if they were going to make a movie about a
marshal using a large staff and advanced technology to track down one
poor slob, at least they’d make the slob a serious threat to society.
But the filmmakers are so wedded to “The Fugitive” formula that
once again Gerard is after the
wrong man. This time it’s Wesley Snipes as a former government agent
who was set up and framed by rogue members of his agency.

Moreover, the movie tells us from the beginning that the
fugitive is not quite innocent. He killed two fellow agents in
self-defense. All this does is muddy the moral waters, making us
queasy about the one guy we like. At no point is there ever a
compelling reason to keep watching.

So a cop is chasing an almost-
innocent man. Under those circumstances, a viewer’s natural impulse
is to want to follow the fugitive. But no, we have to watch Gerard as
his mood careens from brusque and unpleasant to downright nasty. The
movie wants us to believe that he is noble, but all we see is a nasty
bureaucrat with a little kingdom and an outsized ego.
There’s a plane crash that looks real enough, and a nice bit in which
the fugitive jumps off a building and lands on top of a train, but
some of that was already shown in the trailer.

In the what-is-she-doing-here category is French actress Irene
Jacob, who plays the fugitive’s girlfriend, a worker at Starbucks.

Robert Downey Jr. has a supporting role as an agent assigned
to work under Gerard, but his performance is oddly subdued. One
really has to wonder about a director (Stuart Baird) who would
encourage Downey to underact and Jones to overact in the same movie.

“U.S. Marshals” confirms that what is true of Gerard is
true of Jones as well. A little of this guy goes a long way.

February 24, 2010

City of God review

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City of God


Brazil/Germany/France 2002

Film still for City of God

Reviewed by Paul Julian Smith

Synopsis


Our synopses give away the plot in full, including surprise twists.

Rio de Janeiro, 1960s. Rocket (Alexandre Rodrigues) is an 11-year-old boy in the favela or shanty town of Cidade de Deus (

City of God

). As he grows up he watches the other children around him. He first focuses on the small-time gangsters called the Tender Trio: Shaggy (Jonathan Haagensen), Clipper (Jefechander Suplino) and Goose (Renato de Souza). The group dissolve after they carry out an armed robbery of a brothel. Shaggy is killed by police.

As we move into the 1970s brutal psychopath Li'l Ze (Leandro Firmino da Hora) (formerly Li'l Dice) takes over the new drug-dealing business. We later learn that his first taste of murder was at the brothel. Ze is barely held in check by Bené (Phellipe Haagensen), a less violent hoodlum. Meanwhile Rocket has acquired a camera and starts to hang out at a newspaper office. Bené is accidentally murdered at his farewell party and Ze rapes the girlfriend of peaceful Knockout Ned. Reluctantly Ned allies himself with Carrot, another big drug baron, and by the early 1980s gang warfare has completely taken over the ghetto. Ned is killed in a final shoot-out. Ze, freed by corrupt police, is shot by a child gangster. Rocket becomes a professional photographer.

Review

If

Amores perros

is the Mexican

Pulp Fiction

, then

City of God

is the Brazilian

GoodFellas

, or so the publicity people tell us. The comparison isn't unapt, for Fernando Meirelles' brilliant second feature has the epic sweep of Martin Scorsese's masterpiece. Ranging over three decades of gang warfare in the ironically named real-life favela or slum city outside Rio de Janeiro, it boasts a huge cast of non-professional actors (trained at a performance school on site) and whittles down the hundreds of characters in its source novel by Paulo Lins to a still-bewildering juvenile horde.

This broad canvas brings a real sense of history. Sun-drenched games of football among the neat cookie-cutter bungalows of the 1960s give way to still-innocent hold-ups which gradually segue into the unstinting slaughter of the 1980s, when it seemed that Vietnam had come to Brazil. Far from glorying in violence, Meirelles shows us clearly, almost clinically, its causes and consequences: a single vicious rape (mercifully unshown), for instance, sparks full-scale gang warfare. As the guns get bigger, the thugs get smaller. The most notorious gangster is shot by a tiny child keen to muscle in on the lucrative drugs trade.

The main themes emerge as if naturally from this maelstrom. There's the contrast between Bené and Li'l Zé, the twin 'good' and 'bad' gangsters we've followed from childhood. Self-effacing Rocket, who provides the unobtrusive voiceover, grows into a central artist figure, documenting his home turf with a camera. The intricate narrative artfully loops back on itself, thickening the stew. The gang's first job, robbing clients caught in the act at a brothel, is shown for a second time, but now with a tragic coda: a gleeful child massacres the victims his elders had left alive. Two hours into the running time cheeky intertitles proclaim 'The Beginning of the Film'. A chicken chased by the camera in the opening sequence stumbles into the final battle between warring factions.


City of God

, then, is not without humour. When one gangster hijacks a clapped-out car he ends up pushing it. And the quick cutting of the first scene (a blade sharpened, a drum beaten, a chicken careering through the slums) announces bravura film-making. The handheld cameras rarely rest. We're treated to slow and fast motion, expressionist coloured filters, even

Matrix

-style circling around combatants. The sequences set in the 1970s break into split screen. The image is degraded and saturated, in the style of

Amores perros

: shiny black skin gleams in the dark as the young rebels hide out in damp trees; the taste of the tropics has rarely been felt as viscerally as it is here. Meirelles also stages huge set-pieces with unerring aplomb. At Bené's farewell party, where all musical styles are welcome (guests even get down to 'Kung Fu Fighting'), pleasure slides into horror as carnage breaks out to the jerky rhythm of a strobe. The brilliant stylisation here could not be further from the miserabilist neo-realism of earlier Latin American urban cinema. And Meirelles has no political agenda to rub in the audience's face; more subtly, like Scorsese, he takes us so far into the characters' world that we, like they, can imagine no life outside this inner circle of hell.

Surprisingly for a film with such an advance reputation for violence,

City of God

is remarkably reticent. We have to wait an hour for a truly distressing sequence (the torture of a child) and almost two for a Hollywood-style shoot-out, crackling with Uzi fire. Slowly the main theme comes through. Although the film's child protagonists are hardly innocent, the Brazilian media must take some of the blame for their violent lifestyles, paying attention to the favelas only when they break into spectacular gang warfare. After his photos are first published in a newspaper, Rocket fears he's a dead man. Back in the ghetto, however, vainglorious gang leaders are only too happy to pose for him. The last battle is shown largely through Rocket's viewfinder, a telling equation of photographic and military sightlines. War and cinema converge. And the final credits have a new twist. Documentary video footage replays a scene we've just seen acted out for us. The contrast shows both the brilliance of the film's recreation of reality and the intractability of the problems it treats. The real-life

City of God

remained too dangerous for the film-makers to shoot in (they used neighbouring slums, marginally safer). But this marvellous film still testifies to the awesome creativity of Brazil's underclass.

Credits

Director
Fernando Meirelles
Producers
Andréa Barata Ribeiro
Mauricio Andrade Ramos
Screenplay
Braulio Mantovani
Based on the novel by
Paulo Lins
Director of Photography
Cesar Charlone
Editor
Daniel Rezende
Art Director
Tulé Peake
Music
Antônio Pinto
Ed Côrtes

February 22, 2010

After living together for sev…

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After living together to go to seven years in a seemingly accepting community in Modish York City, Edward DeBonis and Vincent Maniscalco umpire fix to pinch married. But in contradistinction to many other gay couples who formalize their relationship in a house-broken union, Vincent and Edward, both devotional Catholics, want reconcile fix on for nothing short of the ‘Holy Sacrament of Marriage.’ The couple’s request to The Remodelled York Times to put forth their wedding in the weekly ‘Styles’ cut up throws the newspaper into disarray. Publishing the first Catholic gay wedding advert presents the editors with numerous controversial questions: Is a gay priest a valid priest? Can a gay union be called a wedding? Can a gay couple be considered Catholic? As America stands on the threshold of acceptable acceptance of gay and lesbian unions, ‘Saints and Sinners’ explores the social, national and religious aspects of same-sex marriage and examines its effect on American society.

February 19, 2010

Captain Blood review

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“In identical to Flynn” became a corral phrase evermore.

And with the release of “Captain Blood” in 1935, Errol Flynn officially took over the reins from Douglas Fairbanks (who made his last film in 1934) as Hollywood’s greatest swashbuckler.

Yes, “Captain Blood” has any number of acclaimed distinctions, not the least of them being Flynn. After he appeared in different smaller roles, Flynn’s arrival as Doctor Peter Blood made him everybody of the biggest stars of all eventually. The large screen was made for relatively little money, but it went on to become what varied viewers and critics feel is one of the greatest pinch adventures of all time. And the talkie was the start quest of limerick of Tinseltown’s most notorious, scandalous, and legendary figures of all anon a punctually, which Flynn recounted in his 1959 autobiography, “My Wicked, Wicked Ways.”

Casey Robinson adapted the screenplay for “Captain Blood” from the 1922 different (based in large, no suspicion, on the exploits of Sir Henry Morgan) by Rafael Sabatini, the fellow who gave us such other merry romances as “The Sea Hawk,” “Scaramouche,” and “The Black Swan.” Equally influential, I intend, the film began a long association between Flynn and director Michael Curtiz, the duo going on together to produce “The Charge of the Graceful Brigade,” “The Perfect Specimen,” “The Adventures of Robin Hood,” “Dodge City,” “The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex,” “Virginia Megalopolis,” “The Lots Hawk,” “Sante Fe Trail,” and “Dive Bomber.”

Interestingly, not anyone of this might bring into the world happened if Robert Donat hadn’t passed on the character of Dr. Blood, and the relatively untold Flynn hadn’t been chosen to replace him at the last document. Donat went on to win an Oscar a some years later as Mr. Chips. Serendipitous representing all complex, I think.

If there’s any trouble with “Captain Blood,” it’s a problem every actor should enjoy. Flynn is so energetic, so stout-hearted, and so charismatic in the film that there really isn’t anybody else in the picture memorable enough to stay a scene with him; significance that neither the female lead, played by Olivia de Havilland, nor the villains, played by Lionel Atwill and Basil Rathbone, are strong enough to do the pellicle justice. So, it’s Flynn’s mistiness from beginning to uncommitted, and he handles it wonderfully.

The story begins in 1685, as Dr. Peter Blood explains to his housekeeper that he is a prehistoric professional soldier who “hung up the sword and picked up the lancet,” became “a man of peace and not of in combat; a healer, not a slayer.” But circumstances import him side with into the match when he’s arrested fitting for attending to a man wounded in a rebellion against Royal James II. Blood and many of his friends are convicted of treason and sentenced to slavery in the Americas. At Refuge Royal he’s bought by Miss Arabella Bishop (de Havilland), the beautiful daughter of a heavy, district landowner and workhorse driver, Colonel Bishop (Atwill). It’s disentangled that the lovely and very apart Miss Bishop takes a restrict to the young rogue at first view.

Unpretentiously, it isn’t sustained before Blood and his companions issue the island, capturing a Spanish ship in the system, and evolve into pirates on the high seas. Blood’s exclusive feel appears to be his leaving the beautiful Arabella behind. “And thus,” we’re told in bold primer, “Captain Blood began his calling of piracy…with a ship, a handful of men, and a percipience…carving a crimson career…until his name became the dismay of the Caribbean…the hauteur and good wishes of every buccaneer of the brotherhood of the Coast…Blood!”

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The second half of the fog recounts Blood’s exploits as a plagiarizer, and, needless to say, an adventurous reunion with Arabella amidst much derring-do. Blood proves as chivalrous as he is smart and daring, one of his first rules being that neither he nor his men are ever to abuse a mate. And we get to see Flynn get by with Rathbone (as the treacherous pirate, Levasseur), a prelude to their famous duel later on in “Robin Hood.”

As for the applied aspects of the production, they remodel widely. The music is first-class, having been arranged by the noted classical composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who was just turning his attention to Hollywood in 1935 and went on to become one of the peerless figures in cloud music. His score looking for “Captain Blood” is often posh and heroic, in the mold of Richard Strauss in advance him and beyond a an inspiration for John Williams to penetrate. The sets, notwithstanding, are mostly insignificant, the film’s cost ostensibly being kept to a minimum. Anyhow impresario Curtiz makes the most of them, with many of the indoor scenes reflective of the German Expressionist movement a decade earlier.


February 17, 2010

Waitress review

Filed under: Uncategorized — tripolichildmovie @ 9:14 pm

By Michael Rechtshaffen

With the right marketing it should find no shortage of satisfied customers.

PARK CITY — Waitress" is a frustrating film.

It's not because it doesn't deliver — it's a terrific Southern comedy that goes down as smoothly as a mint julep on a sultry afternoon.

Rather, it's that its director, screenwriter and co-star Adrienne Shelly, who was killed in her New York condo in October, had, in her third stint behind the camera, broken through with what is easily her most accomplished and accessible effort, and one that would have assured her a mainstream future if she wanted it.

A certified crowd tickler at Sundance, where Fox Searchlight won distribution rights, the picture stars a never better (or more radiant) Keri Russell as a small-town diner waitress whose passion for baking pies helps distract her from her unhappy marriage.

With the right marketing touch, "Waitress" should find no shortage of satisfied customers.

Stuck in a loveless marriage to the abusive Earl (Jeremy Sisto), Russell's Jenna isn't exactly thrilled when the pregnancy test she takes in the restroom at Joe's Pie Diner — where she waits tables along with no-nonsense Becky (Cheryl Hines) and mousy Dawn (Shelly) — comes up positive.

Although she has yet to figure out a viable way to say, "Goodbye, Earl," Jenna finds therapy in her highly original pie creations, with such names as I Don't Want Earl's Baby Pie and Pregnant Miserable Self-Pitying Loser Pie.

To further complicate matters, Jenna finds herself having a passionate affair with her new OB/GYN, the sympathetic but neurotic Dr. Pomatter (Nathan Fillion), which at least inspires her to create the Earl Murders Me Because I'm Having an Affair Pie (blackberries and blueberries smashed into a chocolate crust).

If "Waitress" was one of Jenna's pies, it would be a sky-high lemon meringue — light, airy, not too sweet, with a tart, satisfying filling.

Shelly, who probably was best known as an actress for her performances in some of Hal Hartley's early films, has a real affection for her characters and their foibles, and judging from the work of her ensemble cast, it clearly was infectious.

Russell really shines here, displaying an affinity for the type of quirky comedy she has seldom had the opportunity to play onscreen.

While Hines, Shelly, Pomatter and Sisto also are fine, it's a particular hoot to see Andy Griffith coaxed back into pictures as Old Joe, the crusty but tender diner owner who urges Jenna to start fresh.

Shelly closes with a coda showing an emancipated Jenna holding hands with her toddler daughter as they happily stroll off into the sunset. That the girl was played by Shelly's then-22-month-old daughter Sophie, for whom the film was written, lends "Waitress" a truly bittersweet poignancy.

WAITRESS

Fox Searchlight

A Night & Day Pictures presentation

Credits:

Director-screenwriter: Adrienne Shelly

Producer: Michael Roiff

Executive producers: Todd King, Jeff Rose, Danielle Renfrew, Robert Bauer

Director of photography: Matthew Irving

Production designer: Ramsey Avery

Editor: Annette Davey

Costume designer: Ariyela Wald-Cohain

Music: Andrew Hollander

Cast:

Jenna: Keri Russell

Dr. Pomatter: Nathan Fillion

Becky: Cheryl Hines

Dawn: Adrienne Shelly

Earl: Jeremy Sisto

Old Joe: Andy Griffith

Cal: Lew Temple

Running time — 104 minutes

No MPAA rating

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