Top 2025 albums, concerts and soundtracks

Albums:

 1. The Waterboys -The Life and Death of Dennis Hopper

nothing gets closer to this.  5 stars out of Five !

If there ever was a musical biopic this is it...

Gigs

Abroad

1. Iron Maiden -Budapest

2.The Tiger Lilies' Macbeth- Barcelona

3. PIL- Olympia, Dublin

4 Iron Maiden  -Belfort, France

5. NIN -Dublin

should've been The Waterboys in Porto but it was cancelled,. Went to IMAX and saw The Shining insteed..

Inland ;)

Laibach-Quantic

Curtis Salgado -Brasov Jazz and Blues

Zac Harmon -Brasov Jazz and Blues

David Ronaldo and the Dice-Brasov Jazz and Blues

John Nemeth-Brezoi

Fantastic Negrito -Brezoi

Bluesferatu redux -Bran Castle 

Vulture industries-Rockstadt

All TBF ;) esp. TBF VII- John Primer & Giles Robson, Sean Chambers,  Riccardo Grosso, Jorg Danelsien, Todd Sharpville, Eamonn Mc Cormack, Luke Winslow-King,  TRES, ', Jose Ramirez.

and how about that S.H.I.T. ? ;) 

also Bluesferatu in Bran- for the Second Year. 

Top Ten 2025 Soundtracks 

Sinners -Ludwig Goranson & VA

One Battle After Another -Jonny Greenwood

Sirat - Kangding Ray

No Other Choice- Cho Young-Wuk

Ballad of a Simple Man-Wolker Bertelmann

Highest 2 Lowest-Terence Blanchard

28 years Later -Young Fathers

Eddington -Daniel Pemberton

Play Dirty-Alan Silvestri -* way better than the film

special mention (Hans Zimmer Award of the Year ;)

F1

Life, Death and Dennis Hopper by The Waterboys -Out now !!!

 Finally ! On April 4, the most expected album (in any sense, and for me in special) by Mike Scott's The Waterboys is out. I announced here on Jan. 8 2025.

What a Treat !!! 25 songs (you can find 'em all on Youtube here, spotify and other patforms), featuring an array of guests, from Steve Earle to Bruce Springsteen and Fiona Apple. 

Vignetes about Golf (Hooper's latter passion), The Last Movie (his doomed film), Andy (Warhol), Michelle (Phillips), Frank Booth (from Blue Velvet), Terry Southern (who wrote Easy Rider), etc. Including a fake trailer for a biker movie, "Freaks on Wheels", a la Tarantino's latest films. 

Post-modern, cool, eclectic, funky, groovy, mad -as Sir Dennis was ;) A wonderful heartfelt tribute, about the times and of Wild Pop Americana and one of True Legends of the Movieland (und more). 

Reviews here:

MOJO -4 stars

Uncut -4 stars

Under The Radar  -75 %

Rolling Stone 

Metacritics -78 %

**** 1/2 out of FIVE. 

Life, Death and Dennis Hopper Track List 

(where there are links you find the videos). 

1. Kansas (featuring Steve Earle)

2. Hollywood’55

3. Live In The Moment, Baby

4. Brooke / 1712 North Crescent Heights

5. Andy (A Guy Like You)

6. The Tourist (featuring Barny Fletcher)

7. Freaks On Wheels

8. Blues For Terry Southern

9. Memories Of Monterey

10. Riding Down To Mardi Gras

11. Hopper’s On Top (Genius)

12. Transcendental Peruvian Blues

13. Michelle (Always Stay)

14. Freakout At The Mud Palace

15. Daria

16. Ten Years Gone (featuring Bruce Springsteen)

17. Letter From An Unknown Girlfriend (featuring Fiona Apple)

18. Rock Bottom

19. I Don’t Know How I Made It (featuring Taylor Goldsmith)

20. Frank (Let’s Fu*k)

21. Katherine (featuring Anana Kaye)

22. Everybody Loves Dennis Hopper

23. Golf, They Say

24. Venice, California (Victoria)/The Passing Of Hopper

25. Aftermath

 

RIP David Lynch

...four days shy of his 79th Bday...

I wasn't expecting David Lynch to start this year of " I see dead people"...here he is playing John Ford in Steven Spielberg autobiographical The Fablemans (2022). I will post separately about my relationship with Lynch. Talked about him extensively with Christa Bell, his muse and last collaborator (their album, in 2024, Cellophane Memories).

more from me on Lynch here

Remembrance from Steven Spielberg on David Lynch: 

“I loved David’s films. Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and Elephant Man defined him as a singular, visionary dreamer who directed films that felt handmade. I got to know David when he played John Ford in The Fabelmans. Here was one of my heroes—David Lynch playing one of my heroes. It was surreal and seemed like a scene out of one of David’s own movies. The world is going to miss such an original and unique voice. His films have already stood the test of time and they always will.”

"There's nothing like the big screen. The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience." - David Lynch

Farawell David Lynch the Magician, white or black lodge, I guess you have your own, the David Lynch Lodge, there's a lady with a Log there and some guy, Bob, is the bouncer. Badalamenti plays the piano, Bowie's at the bar, Dennis Hopper sips his whisky, Jack Nance gets another bottle, even Tom Sizemore is aloud to come for a drink...

LIFE, DEATH AND DENNIS HOPPER ;)

This sounds great !!! I hope it will be so ! 

Udpate, It's out NOW !!!

 Our new album: LIFE, DEATH AND DENNIS HOPPER. Out 4 April on Sun Records. Guests include Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, Fiona Apple and Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes. It's the story of Dennis Hopper's life in songs - and the story of his and our times.
#TheWaterboys #RockAndRoll

https://www.facebook.com/WaterboysMusic

Rip Tony Todd

The original "Candyman", Tony Todd was 69. He died on November 6th 2024. I thought he was younger... Although he was in hundreds of films Tony Todd will remain forever The Candyman (Clive Barker's iconic horror character directed by Bernard Rose in 1992), that spawned two sequels and a remake in 2011. Last time I saw him this year when I re-saw Dennis Hopper's Color, wher he had a bit part as a Vietnam Vet (1988). He played militaries also in Platoon and The Rock.

RIP Kris Kristofferson

Again gone one of the great ones...Mr. Kris K. is one of my personal favourite heroes, just for his look, I fell in love at first sight. He didn't have to be tough, he was in his own right, One of the Only Ones !!!

Mr. Kris Kristofferson was 88

I think the first film I saw with him was The Sailor who Fell in Grace with the Sea (1976), or maybe it was Convoy (1978) ?

in the early Nineties they brought a film in the cinemas called Flashpoint (1984), a curio that I dug. Tangerine Dream scored it too. Also that dud, Millennium (1989-oi), and Welcome Home (1989), the last film from Franklin J. Schaffner. Triple Kris bill :)

His 1st film was Dennis Hopper's aptly titled ;) The Last Movie (1971). But even if there is Pat Garret & Billy the Kid (1973- forSerban Celea :(, the best is for me is now & for a long time that infamous and immortal Heaven's Gate .

Trivia: Kristofferson turned down Sorcerer, him and Steve Mc Queen, all respect for Roy Scheider, I would've seen both Steve and Kris in it...God of Movies said no :(

Yep, he was in Blade and Blade two. And Blade: Trinity, resurrected ;) And what about that Albert Pyun's Knights (1993)? With Mister Lance...

Also: Alice doesn't Live here Anymore, Cisko Pike (wow, the whole flick is on youtube!), A Star is Born (the 1976 version), Trouble in Mind, Lone Star (4 Andrei ;), Payback (not in the director's cut that we dig ;), & a fierce cameo on Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia... 

I got one record on vinyl like over 30 years ago -I guess it was Repossessed from 1986- and was kinda disappointed cos it wasn't rock enough for me then ;) Too young & dumb & ...

posted here a song with his super band The Highwaymen, Desperados Waiting on a Train...

...now Kris is on the TRAIN, on the way to Heaven's Gate, to meet his old buddies, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Sam the Man (Peckinpah), James Coburn, Michael Cimino too...Willie Nelson still Standing !!!

Kristofferson said that he would like the first three lines of Leonard Cohen's "Bird on a Wire" on his tombstone: 

Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free

Program Cinemateca Patria 19-25 ianuarie 2015

Program Cinemateca Patria, Brasov- 19-25 ianuarie 2015
site oficial aici
http://cinematecapatria.ro/
*
Luni 19 ianuarie
20:00 Seara Filmului European
LMA /Ciao Federico (n. 20 ian 1920)
Fellini's Casanova / Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (Italia, 1976)
Regia: Federico Fellini
Cu: Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Cicely Browne
Dramă, biografic
Durata: 155 min.
Premiul Oscar pentru cel mai bune costume

Marți 20 ianuarie
20:00 Seara filmului asiatic
Mongol
Regia: Sergei Bodrov
Cu: Tadanobu Asano, Amadu Mamadakov
Epic, istoric
Durata: 126 min.
Nominalizat la premiul Oscar pentru cel mai bun film străin (Kazahstan)

Miercuri 21 ianuarie
20:00 Seara Doc And Roll
Buena Vista Social Club (Germania, 1999)
Regia: Wim Wenders
Cu: Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, Ry Cooder
Documentar, muzical
Durata: 105 min.
Cel mai bun documentar -European Film Awards 1999

Joi 22 ianuarie
20:00 Comedy Classics
Grand Hotel Budapest (SUA, 2014)
Regia: Wes Anderson
Cu: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Adrien Brody
Comedie
Durata: 100 min.
Marele Premiu al Juriului la Festivalul de la Berlin
4 nominalizări la Globul de Aur si prermiul pentru cel mai bun film -comedie-
9 nominalizari la premiul Oscar
10 nominalizari la premiile BAFTA

Vineri 23 ianuarie
20:00 Seara fantastică/ Film Cult
Waterworld (SUA, 1995)
Regia: Kevin Reynolds
Cu: Kevin Costner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dennis Hopper
aventuri, fantastic
Durata: 135 min.
Aniversarea de 20 de ani !
LMA Kevin Costner -60 de ani (18 ianuarie)

Sâmbătă 24 ianuarie
11:00 Matineu copii
Pinocchio (1940)
Regia: Norman Ferguson, T. Hee
Animaţie.
Dublat în limba română
Durata: 88 min.

17:00 Golden Classics
Cortina sfâșiată /Torn Courtain (SUA, 1966)
Regia: Alfred Hitchcock
Cu: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova
thriller
Durata: 128 min.

19.30: Mari regizori
Miller’s Crossing (SUA, 1990)
Regia: Joel & Ethan Coen
Cu: Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, John Turturro
Thriller, film noir
Durata: 115 min.
Aniversarea de 25 de ani !
Scoica de argint pentru cel mai bun regizor-Festivalul de la San Sebastian

Duminică 25 ianuarie
11:00 Matineu copii
Doamna şi vagabondul/ Lady and the Tramp (SUA, 1955)
Regia: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson
Animație
Durata: 76 min.

17:00 Golden Classics
Șarada / Charade (SUA, 1963)
Regia: Stanley Donen
Cu: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
Comedie, thriller.
Durata: 113 min
LMA Cary Grant (18 ianuarie)

19:00 Seara de Oscar
Totul despre Eva All About Eve (SUA, 1950)
Regia: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cu: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
dramă
Durata: 138 min.
14 nominalizări și 6 premii Oscar
Cea mai bună actriță și premiul special al Juriului–Cannes 1951

RIP George Hickenlooper

announced by A.C. by sms.
dupa imdb:

Director George Hickenlooper has passed away at age 47. Best known for directing the 1991 documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse--on the making of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now--Hickenlooper was preparing for the release of Casino Jack. The Hickenlooper-directed drama stars Kevin Spacey as disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. George was so excited to see the picture finds its way to release through Ato Pictures, after showing it at numerous festivals this year, and he was particularly proud of the performance turned in by Spacey. The film will open December 17 in New York and Los Angeles. He leaves behind a son, Charles.

a mai facut The Man From Elysian Fields (2001, cu Mick Jagger(sir) si James Coburn) si The Big Brass Ring (1999, dupa scenariul lui Orson Welles, ultimul sau(O.W.)proiect neterminat..., Factory Girl (2006, despre Edie Sedwick (Sienna Miller), vedeta lui Andy Warhol si for a short while fling-ul lui Bob Dylan, documentarul Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003) despre impresarul pop Rodney Bingenheimer, i a debutat cu filmuletzul despre Dennis Hopper, Art, Acting, and the Suicide Chair: Dennis Hopper in 1998...
all the young dudes...it's a real shame...

un interviu cu el pe film freak central
He was found dead in Denver on Saturday. He was 47. The immediate cause of death was not known (just on listening to Warren'Z.s Things To Do in Deenver When You're Dead)

Remembering Dennis Hopper

"

I don't have a problem playing bad guys,but it would be more interesting if I had a variety of roles to play

."
(DH)

"

I've been in a lot of really bad movies that I think I gave some of my best performances in. And there were some movies that I've really been bad in … It's shaky material a lot of the time but I try to do the best job that I can under the circumstances."

(DH)
continuind surfarea prin viata si cariera lui Dennis the Menace, de la The American Dreamer la Mad Dog Morgan, Tracks si The American Way-o sa revin cu the B side (The Piano Player, The Keeper), am descoperit niste articole minunate despre el in Guardian si Observer, de la un obituary, la un elogiu al lui Alex Cox, fostul sau angajat, la un tribut de Peter Bradshaw, Hollywood's Uneasy Rider,, Paul Joyce, despre el ca artist si fotograf, si chiar un articol al lui Dennis despre prietenul sau Jack Nicholson cind a implinit 70 de ani (2007)

la Cannes in 1970, alaturi de Peter (Fonda) si Jack...

dar cel mai bine o spune un user cu un citat din Kerouac,

'The only people for me are the mad ones,the ones who are mad to live,mad to talk,mad to be saved,desirous of everything at the same time,the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing,but burn, burn , burn, like fabulous Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

'
Jack Kerouac-On the Road

in fata operei sale "Fractured Girl" (1964)

Tracks of Dennis Hopper

in memoriam Dennis I started to watch him and the one on the shelf I didn't see at all was TRACKS (1978) by Henry Jaglom, with a fantastic performance by Dennis as a military on a train, back from Vietnam to acompagny his buddy's casket home. The series of shots express the trip of the movie, until the end of the night and of the line.

LMA Clint 80 !

dupa cum se termina luna mai, fara Dennis Hopper, dar cu the last of the tough/hard men, Clint Eastwood, care a implinit azi 80 de ani ! LMA si sa lucreze cit Oliveira ! Hereafter, noul lui film, o sa fie la Venetia ! Apoi Clint face filmul despre J Edgar Hoover, zice-se cu Leonardo DiCaprio !

portret de Monkey Jack

RIP Dennis Hopper

a venit si ziua asta! Parca de-aia a plouat in halul asta ! dude man Sir Dennis Hopper is gone ! Finally gone la 74 de ani impliniti pe 17 mai ! Live to Ride-Ride to Live ! The Legend resets now !

a doua noastra intilnire, pe aeroportul din Nisa, 14 mai 2008 !

azi dimineata ma uitam la Warren Zevon, The Wind, inainte de a muri, cu piesa Keep Me in Your Heart. This is for you, Easy Rider, Mad Dog Morgan :), The Last Movie !

Shadows are falling and I'm running out of breath
Keep me in your heart for awhile

If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less
Keep me in your heart for awhile

When you get up in the morning and you see that crazy sun
Keep me in your heart for awhile

There's a train leaving nightly called when all is said and done
Keep me in your heart for awhile

(...)

steaua lui Dennis Hopper !!!!

primeste si el a 2.403=a stea de pe HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD (RUSHINE CA E LA NR. ASTA CIND AR FI TREBUIT SA FIE la cel putin SUB O MIE !!!!!)
ar fi (vai de) steaua lui ! sorry dude man sir ! :-( ok, beetr later than after you're gone !!!

au fost de fata friends old and new, Jack Nicholson, Viggo Mortensen, David Lynch, Michael Madsen, Danny Trejo, Johnny Mathis, Dwight Yoakam si un Dennis slabit si vlaguit (lookul sau si bandajele se datoreaza unei cazaturi de ieri (25 martie), din cauza paparazzilor !! Dennis are cancer de prostata in faza terminala.

& related:

Save Dennis Hopper25 March 2010 9:10 AM, PDT | Movieline |
Recently filed court papers say the 73-year-old actor-director-artist Dennis Hopper is in irretrievably dire straits. He's destitute from divorce, too frail (barely 100 pounds!) from prostate cancer to undergo continued chemotherapy and unable to earn funds through acting roles. Hopper's film festival is on indefinite hiatus. Meanwhile, his estranged wife says he's profited well over the $45,000 he claims from having sold artwork in recent years; she reportedly refuses to settle for his $5,000-per-month alimony limit.

this is a shity, shity world !!!

The Last Movie / Chinchero (1971)

Dennis Hopper did it ! And now I saw it !!! Finally ! O mare bucurie si realizare for little me, pentru ca acest film e de negasit (si nici Dennis H nu stia cind va putea fi vazut, dupa cum mi-a zis si mie, in 2003 in trailerul sau din Parcul Tineretului). In 1971, ceea ce pentru o vreme s-a chemat chiar Dennis Hopper's Last Movie (glumitza rautacioasa in Little Murders al lui Alan Arkin), D.H. a facut unul din cele mai infame filme din istorie ! Universal, studioul finantator si distribuitor, care a crezut ca va avea un hit gen Easy Rider pe mina, si sir Dennis the man le-a dat-o direct in ochi ! Filmat in Peru la Chinchero, titlul original al filmului, e o tzacaneala,un vis si trip total, cu flashforwarduri, secvente onirice, jump cutting ("Scene Missing" title cards) si cronologie inversa (titlu filmului apare la minutul 25, ceea ce cred ca e un record, iar a film by Dennis Hooepr la minutul 13). Kansas (Hopper) e un cascador, specializat in cai (horse wrangler), care ramine in locatia peruana, Chinchero, alaturi de prostituata Maria (Stella Garcia), dupa ce o echipa de filmare (cameouri regale, regizor Sam Fuller, Peter Fonda, John Phillip Law, Dean Stockwell, Sylvia Miles, Russ Tamblyn, still photographerul Peter Sorel, Kris Kristofferson-in debutul sau, nevasta de o saptamina a lui DH, Michelle Phillips), a filmat acolo un western violent al carui protagonist moare accidental. Localnicii incearca sa imite ce au vazut la filmare, dar in mod real si cu aparatura facuta din paie, iar Kansas pierde legatura intre realitate si film complet, ajutat si de bautura si de droguri. Un subplot include o mina de aur de exploatat (de catre Don Gordon). Si un soi de Wicker Man issue, in care Kansas va fi sacrificat, ca the ugly american ce este. Tomas Milian este preotul care acuza ceea ce reprezinta Hollywoodul.

Premiat la festivalul de la Venetia de catre membrii juriului Bergman si Fellini (de aia Dennis a premiat si el Hotel de lux in 1993, ca a crezut ca e un kindred spirit, big mistake, man !) Lew Wasserman, sef la Universal l-a avertizat ca daca nu remonteaza filmul mai coerent, nu-l va mai vedea niciodata, dupa o initiala anemica distribuite de citeva zile. Si asa a si fost, filmul a disparut fara urma, pina in 2006, cind a aparut o copie de 35mm pentru o saptamina la New York la Anthology Film Archives (pe imdb zice ceva de distributie in Japonia si Franta in 1988). Am auzit de el si povestea nebuna despre cum s-a facut (si ce i-a facut lui Dennis care n-a mai putut regiza nici un film pina in 1980, cind a inlocuit regizorul al Out of the Blue), din cartea lui Peter Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, in 1999, in Greyhound, de-a latul Americii. Apoi am vazut bucatele pe ecranele de la expozitia Dennis Hooper la Amsterdam in aprilie 2001. Acum i-au facut si francezii o restrospectiva la Paris, cea mai completa, la care s-a lucrat 3 ani si jumatate si care include si The Last Movie.
Iata de exemplu, o cronica rea a lui Roger Ebert la film (ii da o stea, si il desfiinteaza pe regizorul cokehead!) Amuzant e ca Hooper i-a aratat filmul lui Alejandro Jodorowski, care i-a zis sa nu taie nimic (DH s-a intors in America cu 48 de ore de material si a montat la film mai bine de un an-16 luni !) Intre timp casa lui deschisa includea orgii si petreceri cu grupies necunoscuti (si asta dupa ce crima din Bel Air a lui Manson inchisese astfel de intreprinderi). Un eseu cu informatii excelente din Village Voice, intitulat semnificativ Drugstore Cowboy, aici.

The Last Movie is an act of visionary aggression that desecrates Hollywood's universal church.(...) when The Last Movie destroys itself it is to liberate us all—or at least, make Hopper's point that, so far as the movies go, everyone is an Indian.

J. Hoberman


Despre montajul filmului la casa lui DG din Taos, New Mexico s-a facut un documentar, de catre L.Kit Carson, numit The American Dreamer, (am gasit o copie facuta dupa VHS, de-abia astept sa-l vad). Pina atunci, o bucata despre The Last Movie intr-un documentar despre Hopper din 1991, Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper !
partea a patra (dar inceputul in partea a treia care se gaseste tot acolo)



un interviu excelent cu DH de acum din noiembrie aici, singura referinta la The Last Movie :

"I could’ve brought them a ship full of gold, and they wouldn’t have let me direct a picture after my fallout with Lew Wasserman over The Last Movie. He wanted me to re-edit it after The Venice Film Festival. I had final cut and said ‘no.’ He said “Then it will never be distributed.”

D.H.




greu de apreciat si clasificat, one of a kind film, sintetizeaza perioda si spiritul rebel al lui Hopper, mult mai self indulgent, megalo si powertrip dar cu momente de geniu si azi un document nepretuit.
10/10 pentru avangarda, spirit vizionar, satira, nihilism (poti sa-i spui si protopunk) si document istoric !!
si pentru ca Dennis a supravietuit !!! Maan !

Hell Ride (2008)

a iesit weekendul trecut in SUA, megaobscurizat de Tropic Thunder si restul de release. Larry Bishop (baiatul lui "Rat Pack"Joey), Michael Madsen si Eric Belfour din Six Feet Under, care trebuia sa fie Tarantino, care numai a produs (executiv). Plus Dennis Hopper, David Carradine si Vinnie Jones. Suna a film cult si sper sa si fie asa. Bishop e autorul lui Mad Dog Time din 1996, o tzacaneala care am vazut-o ca midnight movie pe tvr a long time ago...

***si a fost si titlul predestinat al weekendului meu despre care nu mai povestesc aici for now (cel mai memorabil 23 august ever !)

You don't Know Jack (Jack N. on DVD)

23 aprilie 2007
dupa cum am promis, am gasit articolul publicat in alTitudini, vara trecuta (aug/sept i suppose), si iata-l. am sa-l dau si la liternet si am sa trec linkul. Enjoy...

DVD: You don’t Know Jack



Jack Nicholson revine pe ecrane în forţă cu un personaj malefic în filmul lui Scorsese, The Departed (premiera la noi pe 3 noiembrie, scos strategic în sezon de nominalizări la Oscar, aici cronica mea). Dar ce e mai important, el vine la noi pe ecranele de acasă, dacă binevoiţi a cumpăra sau închiria dvd-uri de la distribuitorii locali, cu o serie de filme Kul(t).


The Passenger /Pasagerul-1975 (Columbia – Propotiki), unul din filmele favorite ale lui Jack, regizat de mentorul său tardiv, Michelangelo Antonioni. Titlul alternativ, Professione Reporter (Profesiunea reporter) a fost dat în Europa la lansare, pentru a nu confunda filmul cu un att Pasager, film polonez. Un thriller abstract, înrudit cu Blow Up (de fapt putem să-l încadrăm în trilogia filmată în străinătate a lui Antonioni, alături de Zabriskie Point). Participă Maria Schneider, infama parteneră de sex a lui Brando din Ultimul Tango la Paris. Filmat în Almeria, Germania, Algeria, cu o scenă pe Casa Guell a lui Gaudi la Barcelona. Jack, care nici măcar nu apare în EPK-uri (a făcut un favor faţă de Kubrick că a apărut în documentarul despre el), face aici onorurile. Comentariu audio de Jack Nicholson (wow !) şi încă unul, de scenaristul Mark Peploe cu ziarista Aurore Irvine. Mega-eveniment planetar, Jack a răs-cumpărat drepturile, a restaurat filmul şi chiar l-a scos pe banii lui într-un cinema arthouse din Los Angeles şi a făcut PR de presă. Iubirea e un lucru foarte mare şi cine ştie cunoaşte !

Format 1.85 : 1. 5 stele din 5


The Fortune /Averea-1974 (Columbia – Propotiki), cu prietenul Warren Beatty. Ceea ce ei au crezut că vor reedita Some Like it Hot /Unora le place Jazzul, a devenit Beavis and Butt-head avant la lettre. Sau Stan şi Bran dadaişti. Abbot and Costello meet the Stooges. Fără Iggy. Cu Stockard Channing, care nu a devenit noua Marylin Monroe. Comparat cu noii Wedding Crashers, B &B (adică Nicholson şi Beatty), sunt rocket scientists. Plus cel mai sexy pui de găină movie star de până la Chicken Little. Regizorul Mike Nichols făcuse înainte, în 1970, cu Jack şi Art Garfunkel, Carnal Knowledge. Prezentat în format corespunzător (2,35,1, ANAMORFIC, cum vor cei cu TV-uri K lumea)

3 stele din 5

The King of Marvin Gardens / Regele din Marvin Gardens-1972, în regia prietenului Bob Rafelson. Un film ciudat în care Jack joacă rolul de băiat cuminte şi cu minte, DJ radio nocturn şi disfuncţional, chemat de fratele mai mare, un escroc incurabil (Bruce Dern), la Atlantic City, într-o iarnă a vrajbei lor şi cazinourilor. Elen Burstyn este femeia dezechilibrată de la mijloc iar Scatman Crothers, prietenul lui Jack (din Shining şi Zbor deasupra unui cuib de cuci), este un gangster dur cu un râs dement. Format 1.85 : 1.

3 stele din 5

The Two Jakes / Cartierul chinezesc 2-1990, (Paramount-Euro Entertainment), continuarea la seminalul Chinatown, care trebuia să fie un film de Robert Towne (scenaristul), cu Jack (în rolul Jake Gittes) şi prietenul Bob Evans (legendarul producător), în rolul celuilalt Jake. Dar tot eşafodajul a căzut şi până la urmă l-a regizat chiar Jack (al treilea film al său, şi de-atunci nu s-a mai atins de nimic ce are de-a face cu regia ci se ţine statornic de golf şi preferă să vizioneze meciuri de baschet), cinci ani mai târziu cu Harvey Keitel în rolul lui Bob (pardon, Jake). Dennis Hopper a fost considerat şi el pentru la doilea Jake şi ar fi fost mai bun ca Harvey, care vine parcă din altă epocă, mai modernă. Intriga e dezlânată, scenografia e genială, dar Jack trebuia să-şi amintească fraza legendară, “Forget it Jake, this is Chinatown”.

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3 stele din 5

Pentru cei ce nu şi-au luat filmul referenţial pentru Jack şi Ken Kesey, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s nest / Zbor deasupra unui cuib de cuci-1975, se mai găseşte (distribuit de Warner Bros.-Pro Video) . Iar prin urbe, la reduceri, poate mai aflaţi On A Clear Day You Can see Forever /O altă identitate, film de Vincente Minnelli din 1970 cu Barbra Streisand şi Yves Montand, cu Jack în rol super-secundar, care apare de 2 ori, cântând la sitar precum Hrundi S.Backshi şi legînîndu-se în hamac. Şi altele, la mine acasă. Jack face la anul, pe 22 aprilie 70 de ani. Respect !



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Nota> acum Departed a ieşit la noi pe dvd. Ediţia chioară, nu cea dublă şi specială (de care am mai vorbit aici), în care Jack apare în mai multe scene tăiate. Ca de obicei în România ! Will buy abroad. As usual. Şi ieri a fost ziua lui Jack….aşteptăm The Bucket List. More (than) Respect.