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sâmbătă, 1 august 2026

Cape Fear (2026)

Beware !!! (literally stay away from this Fake Fear)

Max Cady is Back ! And this time he is Javier Bardem with a goat-e and Udo Kier type of Blue Eyes -actually Green lenses!)

The new Cape Fear is here...on Apple Tv + (premiered June 5th)

Episodes 1 and 2 were cool and atmospheric, but will it have enough breath to do Ten ?

we'll see...

well, now it's over and what was originally published on June 8th overstayed its welcome -as expected !!! here are the August 1st conclusions of this bloated overbearing season !

Bardem, best thing about him, his Panama hat (which he took from Mitchum's Cady, but Mitchum had a cooler one-and in black and white)- does not get even close to his Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men or even the blonde eyed psycho Silva from Skyfall. No my faved, his best psycho and most fun is the one from Perdita Durango, Romeo !. Basically Bardem is ripping off De Niro's Max Cady at a nec plus ultra grand guignol style. Efficient but pastiche...

Very little from the original book John D. MacDonald's The Executioners (1957) stays on.

Also not much of the 1962 J. Lee Thompson original adaptation as Cape Fear in glorious Black and White.

cool tittle lettering, cool ideas from the Scorsese 1991 remake and homage (the shots on the negative, camera moves), and most of all the music stays the same. Bernard Herrmann's score, now redone by Jeff Russo. This is the only asset imo, I think I watched it for the score alone, this being one of the best I ever heard, and tops some of Herrmann's work with Hitchcock.

Exec prod by Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and showrunner Nick Antosca.

Wasted Ted Levine and Ron Perlman in the obvious baddie daddy roles.

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1st episode, 'Fingers and Toes' directed by Norwegian Morten Tyldum (Headhunters, Passengers).

Ep. 2 'Why Would I Want to Hurt You?' directed by S.J. Clarkson (Jessica Jones, Madame Web), features a cameo by screenwiter Wesley Strick (who wrote the 1991 remake of CF).

Ep. no. 3 on June 12th: Phantom Sensations

already feeling the nausea

Ep. 4 Pierced. June 19th.

some lgbtq happens before the two daughters.

ep.5 Faith -June 26.

loss of breath, mambojambo and a sinister Juliette Lewis.

Ep. 6 Possum -July 3rd.

that's when I feel like quiting, don't really wanna see how they're gonna mangle this beyond belief.

Ep. 7: Mongrel -July 10th

by episode seven it's becoming such a grand guignol caricature with storytelling of a bad telenovela, I switched it of. They take a road trip and ouch, and the soundtracks goes from BOC's Don't Fear the Reaper to Alice Cooper's Eighteen.

Ep. 8 ∙ Los tiempos de Dios son Perfectos -July 17. Telenovellas quickens.

Ep. 9- The Scar -July 24. More mambojambo, rednecks and swamps. We don't need a bigger boat ;)

Ep. 10: The Executioners. July 31th. Hurricane arrives. Leaving open season two ? C'mon !!!

2 out of 5, 4 out of 10 !

luni, 16 februarie 2026

The Secret Agent wins at Spirit Awards !

O Agente Secreto wins at best International Film at Spirit-the Independent Film Awards !!! Good luck at the Oscars !

See it in a Cinema !!! In Romania from 27.02.2026 !

Featuring the last role of the great late Udo Kier !!!

Full winners list here / Train Dreams scored big !

Later Edit: Unfortunately the film was snubbed bigtime at the Oscars....

marți, 16 decembrie 2025

The Secret Agent /O Agente Secreto (2025)

Kleber Mendonça Filho's follow-up to Bacurau is O Agente secreto. 2025's Cannes award winner for best actor -Walter Moura !and best director, Golden Globe nominated and soon Oscar nominated-Brazil's entry for best foreign film.

Also Udo Kier's last part as Hans, a great on screen goodbye.

2h38 of complicated narrative, non-liniar, Brazilian politics and 1970's history, plus a lot of love for the cinema, ecclectic soundtrack, one of the most interesting and best films of the year.

**** out of *****

8 out of 10 !

joi, 27 noiembrie 2025

RIP Udo Kier

Udo Kier died on November 23d in Palm Springs. He was 83. One of the greatest actors. Ever. Only through his mad glaze, blue piercing eyes, he dominated every screen and stole every scene he was in.

Takes me some time and pain to write about him. I knew him, met in different occasions 4 times over the years. Interviewed him with Andrei on the set of One Point O in Bucharest in 2003. We spent hours in a derelict block of flats, now demolished, in a smoked flat, under the lights, into the night. Uberhot, hot early summer night in Bucharest (8th of may as the picture says). Udo came for a film and stayed for one more, got a part in Andy Garcia's Modigliani. His hair was dyed blonde for the part. We got Polaroids with him, each, this is Andrei's here.

Then he was invited in Cluj at TIFF in 2006 and we hang out with him, even to a second hand shop where he bought a glorious long leather coat. This is another pic from Andrei, from one night to never forget, in the Diesel club, in the cellar VIP room (ha, another place that does not exist anymore...)

Then year passed, I had Udo's US address and mail, we sent him a script of a film still not done today. Didn't pass us to his agent or anything. I don't have the same mail address so that got lost.

In 2015 I was a guest of Grossmann film Festival, and spent more time with Udo, also there. We even went to see an art exhibition together.

Found another pic from Grossmann 2015, with my buddies, director Kritstjan Milic (Zivi i mrtvi) and Kapelmeister of the fest, Marko Mehtsun.

And last time I saw him in Cannes, on Rue des Antibes, in 2019, as he was there with the cast of Kleber Mendonça Filho's Bacurau, great film. We met on the street and had a chat. The last part of Udo is in Filho's new film, The Secret Agent. A beautiful heartfelt goodbye...

On the screen I saw him last in Hunters, season two where he played obviously on of his recurring characters, Adolf Hitler. Update: I just saw My Neighbor Adolf and liked it, Udo is at his best.

Goodbye Udo, it was a pleasure and an honor to meet you...

joi, 25 ianuarie 2024

Concertele anului 2024

Just 2 b clear, these are gigs and events I am interested in. Or some that we do with Transilvania Blues.

Copeland & Wragg-The Last Sundown -20 ianuarie, Rockstadt -Transilvania Blues Nights

Bombino -3 februarie, Control

Help, a tribute to The Beatles (UK) -10 feb Rockstadt

Kofi Baker's Cream Faith -1 martie, Rockstadt -Transilvania Blues Nights

The Tiger Lillies-10 martie, Hard Rock Cafe (chiar asa, HRC? cu burgeri si beri? cabaret arthouse rock? :( )

Fred Sunwalk -The Brazilian Guitar Hurricane Returns to Transilvania-23 martie, Rockstadt, Transilvania Blues Nights- POSPONED TO 17 NOVEMBER 2024 !!!