versiunea 1.3. redux (incl. ROCKLAND & alinland)
Be afraid...
Be very Afraid
Be wery wery af raid ;)
'cos
101 years later
Nosferatu is back in his homeland...
Transylvania, but Transilvania Blues...
LIVE und ALIVE
ONLY ON
28.09.2023
WORLD PREMIERE ;)
BRASOV, ROCKSTADT
BLUESFERATU
eine symphonie des blues
(a symphony of Blues)
also FREE ENTRANCE !!!!
what more do you want? B. THERE!!!
TBC
The great contender for The Nicolas Cage Award of 2023 is this thriller in which The Cage eats and chews scenery more than Gary Oldman in the 2003 Tony Scott BMW film Beat the Devil with James Brown. I mean Cage is great as Dracula in Renfield but that movie sucked :( bigtime also.
The only bummer with Sympathy for the Devil (2023)is it features no Rolling Stones song. Not even a cover. Well, the director, Yuval Adler, said it would've cost more than is post production budget...It has a great song and a great moment in Fat City by Alan Vega, Alex Chilton and Ben Vaughn from their Cubist Blues Sessions that reminded me of the vibe and the score in Wild at Heart (1990) though.
sad day today, even sadder than 2 days ago when Billy Friedkin passed...
Sixto Rodriguez is gone also (but that was y-day on the 8th)...
just spoke about The Band 2 days ago, considered by many the best band ever, and last year or so I saw the doc focusing on Robbie Robertson's and The Band, Once Were Brothers...he was one of the Great ones, played with Bob, probably Scorsese's best friend in the seventies and more, he's rejoining Levon Helm, Richard Manuel and Rick Danko on that Last Waltz...all dead but as Neil says it, not forgotten...
His final score will be heard this fall when Scorsese's latest KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON releases.
and here's Scorsese tribute to the Man, in Esquire....
Cruising
To Live and Die in L.A.
Rules of Engagement
The Hunted
One of my top favorite directors and much more than that, he had crossed the final bridge today.
William "Hurricane Billy" Friedkin was 1987...He won the Oscar for directing in 1972 for The French Connection, at that time being the youngest recipient of the award at 33.
Met him thrice in Cannes, in 2006 with Bug at the American Pavillion, in 2007 at the Quinzaine with Cruising and nine years later in 2016 in Bunuel at La Lecon du Cinema.
Francis Ford Coppola took to Instagram to pay tribute to Friedkin, who he called “a giant of a man.”
“William Friedkin was my first friend among the filmmakers of my generation and I grieve for the loss of a much-loved companion,” Coppola said. “His accomplishments in Cinema are extraordinary and unique. He is the only colleague I knew whose work actually saved a man’s life (‘The People v. Paul Cruimp’). Billy’s work represents true milestones in Cinema, a list which will never be forgotten; certainly ‘The French Connection,’ ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘Sorcerer,’ but all of his films are alive with his genius. Pick any of them out of a hat and you’ll be dazzled. His lovable, irascible personality was cover for a beautiful, brilliant, deep-feeling giant of a man. It’s very hard to grasp that I will never enjoy his company again, but his work will at least stand in for him.”
