ALD'S Life of Brian (LMA Terry Gilliam)

A fost ziua lui Terry Gilliam (69, LMA Terry, prima zi de Sagitarius, cu tot cu Scarletta si Jamie Lee si Robert Vaughn si Steven Van Zant, wow, whata day but not so much pentru PDL),

un poll din filmele lui l-a declarat cistigator cu 29,6 % pe Monty Python and the Holy Grail (nu-i corect, e co-regizat...), favoritul meu Munchausen /The Adventures of Baron Munchausen e pe al patrulea loc de la coada, si m-am hotarit sa ma duc la Diana Krall ca era in drum de vot, dar no succes de intrat cu 50 ron, so Fuggetaboutit ! In schimb am revazut pentru a miaenshpea oara LIFE OF BRIAN>, din nou editia mea Criterion care nu se vede prea bine, nu era prea curatat, dar are in plus scenele taiate care sunt un deliciu (mai ales Sheeep si Otto),

si profit de ocazie sa declar din nou acesta capodopera as one of the best films eer made, acum stiu ca fanii Python sunt impartiti, intre Holy Grail si Brian, there is no contest despre Meaning of Life being third. Am mai observat ca Brian are aniversarea de 30 de ani, deci LMA Brian, stiu Graham Chapman nu mai e demult, decit in urna cu care au venit Pythonii la Aspen, gen SOB
Nu retin cind am vazut prima oara Life of Brian, si habar n-am de ce, dar cred ca prima copie la film pe vhs am adus-o din Danemarca, apoi am
avut-o letterboxed via Arte, ca se tot dadea de Craciun, apoi l-am vazut cu prietenul meu T. si prietena mea de atunci la Praga in 97, l-am mai vazut si singur, si cu AC, si cu Rares care a plecat in Irlanda, am luat apoi DVD-ul Criterion l-am vazut prin 2004, cu prietena mea de atunci, tot cu documentarul despre Pythoni in locatie...

Terry cu barba, e al doilea din dreapta

good choice on Election day anyway, the name is Brian (Great song, de Bond intotdeauna am zis, cintat de Sonia Jones), si mai actual decit oricind, cu JPF teroristi si PFJ si PPFJ, ca la Caragiale, si Biggus Dickus si Incontinentia Buttocks... "what did the romans ever gave us? "

People called Romanes, they go, the house?


si Gilliam care nu stiu daca Parnassus mai vine la cinema, cronica de la Cannnes aici
well,
"Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" (valabil si pentru Melvin Udell)

If you have enjoyed this film,
why not go and see "La Notte"?

Le Concert (2009)

n-am fost la concert dar am fost la LE CONCERT, Concertul lui Radu Mihaileanu, premiera romaneasca la megalopolisul Cinema City. Si apoi am petrecut strasnic cu artistii si invitatii lor, a fost o seara si o noapte minunata, mai tragica fost la trezirea de a doua zi...
schitez doar citeva puncte asupra filmului, nu e un film romanesc ci unul filmat in Romania (si la Moscova si la Paris)

si nici Radu Mihaileanu nu e regizor roman in purul sens al cuvintuluui, dar este un film special, comedie dulce-amara cu exagerari si ingrosari, melodrama de tip american, old-fashioned, emotie si ceva din Spielberg touch, manipularea spectatorului pina la lacrima, prin fiorul muzical al lui Ceaikovski. Concertul e montat virtuos, si isi ia zborul, la fel ca actul lungit din Unfaithfully Yours al lui Preston Sturges, in varianta cu Nasstasja Kinski. Iar Mélanie Laurent (din Inglorious Basterds) e minunata si m-am indragostit total de ea, in rolul violonistei.
Actorii rusi sunt excelenti (Aleksei Guskov, dirijorul, seamana cu George Motoi, Valeriy Barinov, fostul KGB-ist care vorbeste o franceza de baladeur) la fel ca cei francezi (Francois Berleand, Lionel Abelanski, Miou-Miou, Roger Dumas), ca si Vlad Ivanov, oligarhul violoncelist, sponsorul falsei orchestre Bolsoi. Si Rusine, actorii romani nu sunt trecuti pe pagina imdb. N'oubliez pas Le Trou Normand !!!
4 din 5 / 8 din 10
strongly recommended pentru umor si emotie, ambele cum am zis pe alocuri groase, dar e un film de public care merita succesul incredibil pe care l-a avut in Franta (peste 1 milion de intrari). pacat ca nu a fi iesit mai repede sa poata reprezenta Romania la Oscar (Franta e reprezentata de Un prophete) al lui Audiard, noi de Porumboiu. TWC (fratii Weinstein distribuie filmul acolo, si ar fi putut face un lobby, ceva)



what's good it's worth repeating: Mélanie Laurent

Paul Dianno anulat !!!

aflu cu stupoare cu trei ore inainte de concert, ca s-a anulat concertul ! Bullshit, man !
pe interviul audio se explica de ce (cica aseara s-a anulat la Belgrad si nu ami merge nici in Ungaria, v datele de tour aici), e a treia oara cind Dianno se anuleza (prima oara ar fi trebuit sa cinte la Fetesti RCOA). Curat Beast(y)!!!

Neil Young-Ordinary People

18 min jumate, cit o fata de vinil
de pe Chrome Dreams II (2008)


v. "a day in the life....

"Ordinary People"

In a dusty town
a clock struck high noon,
Two men stood face to face.
One wore black and one wore white,
But of fear there wasn't a trace.
Two hundred years later
two hot rods drag race
through the very same place,
And a half a million people,
moved in to pick up the pace.
A factory full of people,
Makin' parts to go to outer space.
A train load of people,
They were aimin' for another place.
Out of town people.

There's a man in the window
with a big cigar,
Says everything's for sale.
The house and the boat
and the railroad car.
The owner's gotta go to jail.
He acquired these things
from a life of crime,
Now he's selling them
to raise his bail.
He was rippin' off the people.
Sellin' guns to the underground.
Tryin' to help the people,
Lose their ass
for a piece of ground.
Rippin' off the people.
Skimmin' the top when
there was no one around.
Tryin' to help the people.

He was dealing antiques
in a hardware store,
But he sure had a lot to hide.
He had a backroom full
of the guns of war,
And a ton of ammunition besides.
Well, he walked with a cane,
Kept a bolt on the door
with five pit bulls inside.
Just a warning to the people,
Who might try to break in at night.
Protection from the people,
Selling safety
in the darkest night.
Tryin' to help the people.
Get the drugs
to the street all right.
Ordinary people.

Well, it's hard to say
where a man goes wrong,
Might be here
and it might be there.
What starts out weak
might get too strong,
If you can't tell foul from fair.
But it's hard to judge
from an angry throng,
Of hands stretched into the air.
The vigilante people.
Takin' law into their own hands.
Conscientious people.
Crackin' down on
the druglord's land.
Government people.
Confiscatin' all
the dealer's land.
Patch-of-ground people.

Down at the factory,
they're puttin' new windows in.
The vandals made a mess of things,
And the homeless
just walked right in.
Well, they worked here once,
and they live here now,
But they might work here again,
They're ordinary people.
And they're livin' in a nightmare.
Hard workin' people.
And they don't know
how they got there.
Ordinary people.
And they think that you don't care.
Hard workin' people.

Down on the assembly line,
they keep puttin'
the same thing out.
But the people today,
they just ain't buyin'.
Nobody can figure it out.
Well, they try like hell
to build a quality end,
They're workin' hard
without a doubt,
They're ordinary people.
And the dollar's
what it's all about.
Hard workin' people.
But the customers are walkin' out.
Lee Iacocca people.
Yeah, they look
but they just don't buy.
Hard workin' people.

Two out of work models
and a fashion slave,
Try to dance away
the Michelob night.
The bartender poured
himself another drink,
While two drunks sat
watchin' the fight.
The champ went down,
then he got up again,
And then he went out like a light.
He was fightin' for the people,
But his timing wasn't right.
For Las Vegas people,
Who came to see a Las Vegas fight.
High rollin' people,
Takin' limos
though the neon night.
Fightin' for the people.

And then a new Rolls Royce
and a company car,
They went flyin' down the street.
Each one tryin'
to make it to the gate,
Before employees manned the fleet.
The trucks full of products
for the modern home,
Set to roll out into the street,
Of downtown people,
Tryin' to make their way to work.
Nose-to-the-stone people,
Some are saints, and some are jerks.
Hard workin' people,
Stoppin' for a drink
on the way to work.
Alcoholic people,
Yeah, they're takin' it
one day, one day at a time.

Out on the railroad track,
they're cleanin' up number 9.
They're scrubbin' the boiler down,
well, she really is lookin' fine.
Ah, she's lookin' so good,
they're gonna
bring her back on line.
Ordinary people.
They're gonna bring
the good things back.
Nose-to-the stone people.
Put the business back on track.
Ordinary people,
I got faith in the regular kind.
Hard workin' people.
Patch-of-ground people.