This sounds great !!! I hope it will be so !
Udpate, It's out NOW !!!
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versiunea 1.3. redux (incl. ROCKLAND & alinland)
miercuri, 8 ianuarie 2025
LIFE, DEATH AND DENNIS HOPPER ;)
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marți, 7 ianuarie 2025
Top series 2024
fargo season 5 (waz in between years, wrote last year)
******
Ripley (though is not a series per se, more alike a 7 hours film!)
&
The Landman -in between years, saw just five episodes, for Billy Bob whose career best it is (Ex aqueo with Goliath ;)
Top films 2024
(wherever is a link I wrote about 'em),
still have to see The Brutalist and some more to come.
The top in Romanian about films in cinemas in 2024 here
and my Top films of 2023 here.
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# 1 across the aldmovieland: Furiosa (A Mad Max Saga)
Anora- also the comedy of the year
From 2023 as seen in 2024:
animation:
Flow
muzical:
joker folie a deux
io capitano
animation:
Flow
muzical:
joker folie a deux
Oddity
Sting
& Late Night with the Devil (but from 2023)
Thriller:
Strange Darling (production year 2023)
LaRoy, Texas (2023 also)
& more:
The Apprentice -best performance of 2024, Sebastian Stan (not the one from a Different Man, kind of Elephant man 2024)
The Bikeriders -flawed but still...
action but with a soul and a message (maybe too much even) but cool: Monkey Man (on that budget chapeau bas Dev Patel !!!)
Guilty pleasure film of the year: John Woo's own remake of THE KILLER
Nicolas Cage Award of the Year: Longlegs (not seen The Surfer yet)
Bonus: a grand barf for the grand guignol of The Substance (will see it again in theaters soon and conclude)-Later Edit, yep, much better, I swallowed the last 1/2 hr. ok)
Romanian film of the year:
Anul nou care nu a fost / The New Year that never Was
Documentary:
Mrs. Buica (from 2023, but saw in 2024)
Alice On & Off /
Isabela Tent
Disappointment of the year: Megalopolis :(
Worst film of the year/cash-in: Gladiator II (again, Ridley Scott :( after Napoleon in 2023, and so on...)
sâmbătă, 4 ianuarie 2025
Nosferatu (2024)
No to the new nosferatu
now, this comes to close to home as we had the Bluesferatu project already in the third year now !
so I was expecting more, not more length (an overlong bloated 2h12), the original Nosferatu is 95 min, out of which intertitles and Eggers' is more Dracula than S-feratu. Says on the end credits, the film is based both on Henrik Galeen's 1922 script and on Bram Stoker's novel (1897).
Note on Jan. 23d, Nosferatu is nominated for 4 Oscars, Costume design, make up and hair stilling, cinematography and production design.
"years later" and generous budgets spent, here we go...Germany 1838.
Lilly Rose Depp is nympho Ellen (a somnambul), Nicholas Hoult is the victimised Thomas Hutter, Bill Skarsgård (or should I say his shadow?) is Count Orlok, Willem Dafoe is the mad professor alchemist, Simon Mc Burney is Knock (this tale's Renfield), Ralph Iverson is the other doctor, Emma Corrin, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, are useless new characters, also from Stoker's Dracula and Coppola's film (plus two wasted girls that should've bite in the end).
All Romania settings , the gypsy's, the monastery, The Hundedoara Castle (looks like the one from Van Helsing, why shoot exteriors there?), the language, I couldn't care less. Shot in Czech Rep. , the interior castle is exactly the one from the original Nosferatu), on a lavish budget (50 mill. $) , with beautiful costumes, shadows, exquisite snow and desaturated colors.
The cinematography, by attired Eggers collaborator on all his films, Jarin Blaschke, is the major plus of the film.
I didn't like the Nosferatu look at all, a Hungarian Husssar, a Moustache (yes, Vlad the Impaler had it..), the whole decrepit, pandemic look, reminded me of Pampon (Victor Rebengiuc) in the Caragiale adpatation, De ce trag clopotele, Mitica?/Carnival scenes (1981). And the whole schock extreme close-ups, cuts, sound effects, double tracks, way overdone. And let's not even start arguing about that prosthetic penis, It got me in a real whirlwind argument about if vampires can have sex the regular way...imo NO !
Eggers says he's inspired by Zualwski's Devil, Bergman's Cries and Whispers, Paradjanov and other rusky obsurish cults, but I see more a rehash of Herzog's Nosferatu and Coppola's Dracula. And Rose a far cry from her imatotaion of Adjani in Posession.
Also, I did not like the music (by Robin Carolan, his second film for Eggers after The Northman), reminiscent of Wojchiek Kilar's Dracula, but without that panache.
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and an interview on videoclub konbini with Roger Eggers here, about his influences and favorite films.
you can see & read the Nosferatu script here.
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