Cannes 77 completions/Les Complements
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versiunea 1.3. redux (incl. ROCKLAND & alinland)
luni, 22 aprilie 2024
Les Roumains: Nasty & Emi Pirvu @Cannes 77 !!!
Luke Winslow King Band @Transilvania Blues Nights
Luke Winslow King Band @Transilvania Blues Nights, vineri 26 aprilie 2024 ora 20.00, @Rockstadt, Brasov.
https://www.facebook.com/events/933426524994257/
Luke Winslow-King este originar din Cadillac, Michigan, chitarist, vocalist, compozitor, și a petrecut 15 ani la New Orleans. În 2008 a fost numit de Gambit Magazine cel mai bun artist de blues. Stilul său este Americana, îmbinat cu delta blues, gospel, jazz, cu versuri și sound original. Al optulea album al lui Luke Winslow-King, intitulat ”Flash-A-Magic” va iesi in luna septembrie 2024.
Open door: 16:00 Concert: 20:00La chimera (2023)
now in cinemas -very limited !
La Chimera is a real treat, weird and one-of-a kind art-house cinema and for me, the best Alice Rohrbacher film 2 date, after Le Meraviglie (2014) and Lazzaro Felice (2018).
in the official selection of Cannes film festival 2023 (#76 edition), and why it did not win any award it's beyond me :(
Josh O'Connor as Arthur (l'inglese) is a revelation, like a Nouvelle Vague Godard figure, or a Neo-Realism protagonist.
A grand performance by bi-lingual Isabella Rosellini
TBC...
duminică, 21 aprilie 2024
Nasty (2024)
De vazut in cinema !!!
sure, o sa intre si pe HBO si HBO Max dar merita in sala de cinema !
La Brasov joi 25 aprilie featuring the man himself, Ilie Nastase aka Nasty ;)
trailer aici.
and this just in (22.04.24), Nasty e in selectia festivalului de la Cannes, proiectie speciala !!!!
sâmbătă, 20 aprilie 2024
Cannes 77-le poster
from Akira Kurosawa's Rhapsody in August
All the poetic beauty, hypnotic magic and apparent simplicity of the cinema emerge in this scene from Rhapsody in August, authored by the great Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, 81 at the time. In this film, presented Out of Competition in Cannes in 1991, a grandmother who was a victim of the Nagasaki bombing on August 9, 1945, passes on her faith in love and integrity as a bulwark against war to her grandchildren and her American nephew, with tenderness and contemplation. The next-to-last film by the director of Sanshiro Sugata, Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Dersu Uzala and Dodes’ka-den reminds us of the importance of coming together, and seeking harmony in all things.
Mirroring the movie theater, this poster celebrates the Seventh Art, with naivety and wonder. Because it gives everyone a voice, it enables emancipation. Because it remembers wounds, it combats oblivion. Because it bears witness to perils, it calls for union. Because it soothes trauma, it helps repair the living.
In a fragile world that constantly questions otherness, the Festival de Cannes reaffirms a conviction: cinema is a universal sanctuary for expression and sharing. A place where our humanity is written as much as our freedom.
vineri, 12 aprilie 2024
Les Trois Mousquetaires de Cannes 77
Coppola, Schrader & Lucas back on la Croisette !
Francis Ford Coppola is back with Megalopolis in the official competition.
Paul Schrader is back with Oh, Canada in the same section.
George Lucas will get the Honorary Palm of the Festival.
Photo posted by Paul Scharder on his FB account, someone asks -but could you please make peace with De Palma xo
and Scharder's answer is: Re: BDP. Not my call.
joi, 11 aprilie 2024
Cannes 77 - La Selection Officielle
Happening Now / maintenent
Iris Knobloch, President of the Festival de Cannes, and Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate, present the Official Selection of the 77th Festival de Cannes on April 11 2024 at 11:00 am. The Festival de Cannes will be held from May 14 to May 25, 2024.
In English here.
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vineri, 5 aprilie 2024
Ripley (2024)
...after so many incarnations, starting with Plein Soleil/Purple Noon (1960), where Alain Delon was Tom Ripley, the Patricia Highsmith absolute spellbinding psycho-sociopath is back !
In black and white and extended duration ! Since y-day- 4.4.24- on Netflix (they bought it from Showtime)!
Steven Zaillian, master screenwriter (from Schindler's List to The Irishman) and art-house director (Searching for Bobby Fisher), social activism ( A Civil Action), unlucky remake (All the King's Men), great HBO mini-series (The Night Of, in my Top 2016), took the time (it feels and it looks) to write and direct RIPLEY, an ambitios, artsy adaptation of the NOVEL The Talented Mr. Ripley (published in 1955 and followed by 4 sequels!) set in Italy in 1960, in no less than 8 episodes, marked I to VIII (V Lucio, man, loved the pun! and the last shot, that was a genius finesse touch). Another masterful touch and change from the novel can be found here. Zaillian is slowly developing his painting on a vast canvas and takes his time to boil into the mind and psyche of Ripley, one of the most fascinating characters in literature and film history ! The novel has been also adapted in a highly successful film that I am not a big fan of (in 1999 by Anthony Minghella, with Matt Damon as Tom Ripley).
An older Ripley has been portrayed by Dennis Hopper in Der Amerikanishe Freund (Wim Wenders, 1977), John Malkovich in Ripley's Game (Liliana Cavani, 2002) and Barry Pepper in Ripley Under Ground (2005, Roger Spotiswoode).
Irishman Andrew Scott who did a brilliant mastermind villain in the BBC Sherlock series, namely Moriarty and recently a grand acting job in All of Us Strangers, kills (metaphorically and practically ;) as the best Tom Ripley 2 date.
Robert Elswit's cinematography is an homage to all greatness of black and white cinema. He and Zaillian take the time to shoot a lot of inserts and details, architectural symmetries or mathematical constructed shots. Loved the Caravaggio puns. Elswit is PTA's collaborator, he won an Oscar for There Will Be Blood and worked with Zaillian before in The Night Of. The set design, the locations, lavish production on a "no problemo" budget, period reconstruction, and great Italian casting. Jeff Russo (Fargo) does a great job with the tense music. Also a poignant sound design all over.
Here's a Vanity Fair article on the cinematography of the project.
and two more words: Reeves Minot ;) TBC ?
miercuri, 3 aprilie 2024
Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)
Trailer out on April 9th.
great song on it (and it's featured in the film): What the World Needs Now Is Love, the Burt Bacharach & Hal David's 1965 song, here performed by Tom Jones
Expected Release date: Oct. 4th 2024
My review of the JOKER (2019) here. (in Romanian;)
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joi, 21 martie 2024
Furiosa @ Cannes 77
Today's announcement from Festival de Cannes !!! Told ya so (here;) at the trailer's debut on Dec. 1st 2023!
Nine years after Mad Max: Fury Road, the Australian director, screenwriter and producer George Miller’s famous saga’s is back on the Croisette! The highly anticipated Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga will be revealed in the presence of the director and the cast, led by Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth and Tom Burke, on the occasion of an Out of Competition gala screening at the Grand Théâtre Lumière at the Palais des Festivals on Wednesday May 15.
Mad Max (1979), Mad Max II: The Challenge (1981), Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024): in 5 episodes and in almost 5 decades, George Miller has created a cathartic myth, even a cathartic mythology. Mad Max is a chronicle of societal and environmental collapse, playing with genre codes to question these themes, initially visionary and now cruelly topical. Originally filmed in the Australian Outback, this revisited “Western on wheels” describes a dystopian world where speed and movement are just as synonymous with life energy as with death as a result of resource depletion, offering the viewer a dose of adrenaline rarely equalled on the big screen.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is the latest episode. It returns to the origins of Furiosa, the new saga-heroine who appeared in Mad Max: Fury Road, rewarded with several Oscars. Actress Anya Taylor-Joy plays the young Furiosa, trying to return home, despite numerous hostile armed gangs.
“The idea of this prequel has been with me for over a decade,” said George Miller. “I couldn’t be more thrilled to return to the Festival de Cannes – along with Anya, Chris and Tom – to share Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. There is no better place than La Croisette to experience this film with audiences on the world stage.”
George Miller, the singular and unclassifiable filmmaker, passing from post-apocalyptic films to young audiences – Babe (1995), Happy Feet (2006) – was twice a Festival de Cannes Jury member before becoming its President in 2016 for the 69th edition. In 2022, he presented Three Thousand Years of Longing with Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, Out of Competition.
miercuri, 20 martie 2024
RIP M. Emmet Walsh
Mr. M. Emmet Walsh has gone away at the grand age of 88. Shy three days of being 89 :( (born on 22th of March 1935, dead on 19th March 2024)
Character's actor Actor, he was great in all of 'em.
Blade Runner
especially in Blood Simple, Coen bros. first film
he was in Raising Arizona too...
I last saw him recently in White Sands (1992), that I've revisited (great soundtrack that got me to Missing Persons...)
a strong unforgottable presence.
duminică, 17 martie 2024
Red Rooms / Les Chambres Rouges (2023)
Canadian thriller/horror/psychological drama in French (shot in Montreal) screening now in Romanian Theaters (very selected;). Distributed by Cay Films (their best entry on their roaster)
Sitges and Fantasia entry, awarded at various film fests of last year, this film deserves to be better known. I had an inner feeling seeing the poster but had no clue about it. So, I was happy I went to see it in the cinema, it was an imersing experience.
A twist on the serial killer game, focusing on their groupies, and a descent into "The Dark Web" more realistic than any I've seen so far.
It' s also a first fare into the genre (cross-over) by writer/director Pascal Plante, Les Chambres Rouges/ Red Rooms -in Romanian it's "Camera rosie" (singular instead of plural!)
Great score (John Carpenter style by Dominique Plante, I guess it's the director's wife), sound design, acting (Juliette Gariepy is sensational as Kelley-Anne!, she looks alike a young Madeleine Stowe but with an uncanny glance intensity, then there is big-eyed Laurie Biron as Clementine ), masterfully shot (a lot of long takes, the first one in the courtroom is quite a tour-de-force), interesting choice of framing (1.50:1), atmospheric and mysterious, with high tension psychologically and emotionally.
Reminded me of David Cronenberg and a bit of Repulsion.
See it in a cinema if you can ! Also not for the faint of heart (rated R-N 15)
RIP Steve Harley The Cockney Rebel
Another bad news Sunday...Steve Harley just died. The leader of Cockney Rebel and the creator of The Human Menagerie (his 1st album with Cockney Rebel in 1973) just got to be 73 on February 27th. He had cancer and that forced him to stop his 2023 tour in the middle of t. I 1st heard of him on Radio Free Europe back in 1983 with the song Sebastian (1973), which was a powerplay hit on the Metronom by Request show. "Make me smile"
I will pay a tribute to him on Rockland Radio this Thursday, with Death Trip.
So now we're on a death trip, listen to the blood dripOozing from a curled lip, ever thought of dying slowlyEver thought of dying totally unholy.
Obit on bbc here
luni, 11 martie 2024
OSCARS 96 @2024
Happy with these Oscars ! #96, man,lookin' up for #100 !
my prognosis was here
Happy for Godzilla Minus One because they had the best mangled speech ever ! Domo Arrigato Mr. Roboto ;) Haven't seen yet the flick ! would've loved to see it screened here (in Ro.)
Happy to see Navalny (well, now that he is is dead ;((((, they put on the beginning of the doc that is on HBO Max... which I 've seen just nights ago...) and Slava Ukraina for 20 Days in Mariupol ! I wondered if they'd cut the cable in Russia...
Robert Downey Jr was (and is) a very happy camper ! Not only a happy camper ! The most happier campiest camper ! I thought he would win for Chaplin in 1992 (Oscars 1993) !!! He thought that too ! He was young and arrogant ! And he needs this now ! Check. Not that Mark Ruffalo's career best in Poor Things wouldn't beat mr. Levi Strauss !!! He actually couldn't caare less ;)
Of course the biggest loser and the glorious loser is Marty again with Killers of the Flower Moon.. I feel most for Robbie Robertson's score...Gud Nite brother...
Jimmy Kimmel did a decent performance, not very risque, not very Hu Ha, but safe (almost)
Ahnuld (mr Freeze) & Danny de Vito (penguin) were the best presenters IMO, funny how they threatened The Batman Birdman (Michael Keaton in the front row).
even though you had Al Pacino on the stage, but not much Hu Ha (Best film presenter)
The best was John Cena in the nude (a reminder of the David Niven 1974 streaker/runner in the bush)
Oppie surely got the cake, as it was expected
Poor Things, same as expected, sorry Lily but she seemed ok
Zone of Interest -sound and foreign film, it rocks !