Rutger Hauer RIP

One of my favourite actors and a personal hero, the Flying Dutchman, android Roy Beatty, The Hitcher, Mr. Rutger Hauer is no more.  Debut in the Dutsch TV series Floris in 1969.. Spetters, Eureka, Nighthawks, La legenda di santo bevitore, Osterman Weekend, Flesh + Blood, Blind Fury,  Split Second, Salute of the Jugger, Ladyhawke, Sin City, Batman Begins, Hobo with a Shotgun....Gone at 75 on July 19th, but just announced now.

                               AND ALL THESE MOMENTS WILL BE LOST
                                 LIKE TEARS IN THE RAIN ???

 I wanted to get him at Dracula film fest for the.last three years :( met him in Bucharest and in Romania more than once , he shot over here a lot, last time 2 years ago as The Commodore in The Sisters Brothers
:( now i am so sad....2019, the year of the blade runner.....

Franco Zeffirelli RIP

Zeffirelli now :( He was 96. Opera director, formerly a stage designer. In Romania they loved him because his early films were shown in cinemas, Romeo and Juliet -1968, was ahuge hit. so was Taming of the Shrew, He also filmed in Romania, what was to be his last film, Callas Forever, in 1992. Then The Champ-1979 who made me cry as a child, disover Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway and the blond kid Ricky Schroeder. Saw it with my father, cried my eyes out. I was ten. Astra cinema in Brasov.
In the video piracy age Jesus of Nazareth was a huuuuge hit. And Endless Love, with Brooke Shields and a song by Lionel Ritchie :) Then he did Hamlet in 1990 with fucken Mad Max  :)
Young Toscanni, Tea with Mussolini. Will pay a tribute at Cinemateca Patria in July.
Buon viaggio, Maestro....

Rammstein-Auslender

funny, third video from the new Rammstein album , after Deutschland und Radio !
Auslender means foreigner, stranero !

Cannes 72: Jour 12- PPP -Parasite, Palme d'Or & Palmares

articolul despre ziua 11 in Cinemap aici
https://www.cinemap.ro/stire/140/jurnal-de-cannes--jour-douze-le-grand-finale
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Azi am recuperat Parazitii lui Boong Jon-Ho /  Joon Ho Bong ?/ si bine am facut, pentru ca desi auzisem de bine si foarte bine, trebuia sa il vad cu ochii mei. Il urmaresc pe regizorul corean inca de la Memories of Murder, de la The Host (cronica mea aici) i-am vazut toate filmele aici, de la segmentul de omnibus din Tokyo la Okja de acum doi ani, facut pentru Netflix, dar pe care am avut privilegiul sa il vad pe Marele Ecran. E primul regizor coreean care ia Palme d’Or, wow, in 72 de ani de Cannes ! Bravo !

Este o comedie neagra neagra, satira, cu elemente naturaliste, supra-realiste si normal, de horror, horror social si bien sur de pur cinema, despre o familie de amariti care se insinueaza in viata unei familii super-bogate, manipulind-o, cu rezultate absolut neasteptate. 
Un tur  de forta, care poate fi incadrat cumva in seria topica Boudu salavat de la inec, cu remakeul Down and Out in Beverly Hills si Borgman al olandezului Alex van Warmerdam, tot in Selectia Oficiala la Cannes in 2013, dar nec plus ultra, plus cu specific coreean. Un  regal !
Parasite va fi distribuit in Romania de Independenta Film !

Palmaresul complet aici

https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/infos-communiques/communique/articles/all-the-72nd-festival-de-cannes-awards