This is Vanity Fair's Spinal Tap (dupa 25 de ani)

tocmai cind buzzzul despre Anvil creste (si trupa nu e rea deloc) Spinal Tap apare in Vanity Fair !!! editia pe martie, un podcast interesant si instructiv (Marty DiBergi vrea sa faca un caper film (despre cape sau capere ?) si in concept apare, oare de ce Stonehenge ??? si tap vor sa fie cea mai sponsorizata trupa din istorie {"make Nascar look like a public library"}), la a 25-a aniversare a filmului si deci a trupei ! McKean, Shearer, Guest si Rob Reiner, nu mai trebuie de acum sa impersoneze Tap & director pentru ca...sunt TAP !
PAP Forever !

si video aici



Smell of the Glove redux

This is NOT Spinal Tap: ANVIL, the story of Anvil !

sunt familiarizat cu numele dar nu prea stiu trupa, sunt canadieni si cinta din 1878. Eu de la "a mai proast tzara canada" stiam Rush,(sure, saw them too), Triumph (am viniluri), Saga ! Acum citesc in Uncut (cronica aici), Empire si Mojo ca s-a facut un film despre ei, un documentar (de Sacha Gervasi, senaristul de la Terminal care a fost fan si i-a cunoscut cind avea 15 ani, suna a story gen Cameron Crowe si Almost famous) , care a avut premiera la Sundance, ma uit mai bine la poza si vad ca e facuta la un festival numit Monsters of Transylvania, cu un banner de firma de pza si protectie...so I chcek, cind a fost un asemena mirobolant event si de ce n-am stiut ? Iata de ce, a fost in 2005 doar o editie, Monsters of Transylvania Rockfest 2005 la Targu Mures, Sala Sporturilor !
acum mi-am facut tema, am dwnld si ascult Anvil (Mothra, Metal on Metal, din 1982), de-abia astept filmul, goes to 12 !! Membrii originali Steve ‘Lips’ Kudlow and Robb Reiner (!!!! truth stranger than fiction, for newcomers Rob Reiner a regizat Spinal Tap si apare in film ca regizorul "documentarului" despre Tap, Marty Di Bergi!) apar la Suundance si in finallul clipului, mentioneza Stonehenge ! Dar mai surral e sa-l vezi pe Robert Redford intrebindu-l pe Gervasi de unde i-a venit inspiratia ! Sounds like movie of the year, ce-am ami vazut recent in genre, Air Guitar Nation (ok), Heavy Metal Bagdad n-a fost cine stie ce, si de-abia am vazut Spinal tap in concert la Royal Albert Hall-The Reuninion din 1992 (inainte sa plec la Berlin!)!

Palamaresul Berlinalei

Golden Bear for the Best Film

La teta asustada (The Milk Of Sorrow)
by Claudia Llosa



Silver Bear - The Jury Grand Prix

Alle Anderen (Everyone else)
by Maren Ade

ex aequo

Gigante
by Adrián Biniez



Silver Bear - Best Director

Asghar Farhadi
for Darbareye Elly (About Elly)


Silver Bear - Best Actress

Birgit Minichmayr
in Alle Anderen (Everyone else)
by Maren Ade


Silver Bear - Best Actor

Sotigui Kouyate
in London River
by Rachid Bouchareb

Silver Bear - Outstanding Artistic Contribution

Gábor Erdély and Tamás Székely
for the Sound-Design of
Katalin Varga
by Peter Strickland

motivare: There’s a tremendous originality and risk in the experimental and original way this film builds up its somber narration around its powerful sound design.



Silver Bear - Best Script

Oren Moverman and Alessandro Camon
for The Messenger
by Oren Moverman



Alfred Bauer Prize

Gigante
by Adrián Biniez

ex aequo

Tatarak (Sweet Rush)
by Andrzej Wajda

de pe situl Berlinalei

deci a luat cartoful ! si Varga doar pt sunet ! si bineinteles ca n-am vazut filmele premiate pt a-mi da cu parerea...

iaca si Jude a luat cu Girl Happy, ro version, aka Most happy, Premiul C.I.C.A.E (Confédération Internationale des Cinemas d’Art et d’Essai), deci a distribuitorilor, si in extenso a fost cumparat pt pentru Franta, de Pyramide Distribution. la noi se vede in cadrul Festivalului B-Est (23-30 martie) si in sali de pe 8 mai 2009 (Transilvania Film).

Tage 9: Double Take

poate cel mai interesant film (cu siguranta din cele noi) din Berlinala, in sectiunea Forum Expanded, e de fapt un eseu cinematografic dedicat lui Hitchcock (mi-a prins bine expozitia ca practica), dublului, razboiului rece, televiziunii cinefage, anume Double Take. Un hit absolut al festivalului, am mai vrut sa intru o dat si era ful, acum l-am vazut, Imbina imagini de arhiva cu filmari cu adevarata sosie a lui Hitchcock, Ron Burrage, si cu impersonatorul vocii acestuia, Mark Perry, acum amindoi dusi pe tarimul unde e si Hitch azi...


synopis:

Director Johan Grimonprez casts Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a double take on the cold war period. The master says all the wrong things at all the wrong times while politicians on both sides desperately clammer to say the right things, live on TV. Double Take targets the global political rise of "fear as a commodity" in a tale of odd couples and double deals. As television hijacks cinema, and the Krushchev and Nixon debate rattles on, sexual politics quietly take off and Alfred himself emerges in a dandy new role on the TV, blackmailing housewives with brands they can't refuse.

The novelist Tom McCarthy writes a plot of personal paranoia to mirror the political intrigue, in which Hitchcock and his elusive double increasingly obsess over the perfect murder - of each other! Subverting a meticulous array of TV footage and using The Birds as an essential metaphor, Grimonprez traces catastrophe culture’s relentless assault on the home, from moving images’ inception to the present day.

4 din 5, 8 din 10 !!!