versiunea 1.3. redux (incl. ROCKLAND & alinland)
Great new song from some ol' boyz
Produced by Bob Ezrin. Written by Don Airey, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Simon McBride & Ian Paice.
From their upcoming 24th studio album SPLAT !, out on July 3d.
see ya in Cluj on Oct. 1st !!!
https://btarena.info/event/concert-deep-purple/
tickets here
hell yeah, and yes a film about the Maidens
8.05.2026. watch your cinema screens !!!
now the London premiere was on
See ya Friday at Coresi Cinema One in Brasov, it runs there Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 19.00
https://www.cinemaone.ro/movie/3292/1/253179#/
Up the Irons !!!!
The Lodger -from Aperitiff 2009 on a a special live music projection
asasin în serie, numit Răzbunătorul (The Avenger), care ucide blonde în plină şi perpetuă
ceaţă. În acelaşi timp un individ misterios se cazeză în pensiunea familiei Bunting, care
începe să-l suspecteze pe chiriaş că este asasinul mult temut. Protagonistul titular este
Ivor Novello, renumit compozitor, actor şi cîntăreţ în epocă, care şi-a reluat rolul din
acest film mut într-un remake sonor, din 1932 (regia Maurice Elvey). Temele
caracteristice lui Alfred Hitchcock, suspiciune şi vionovăţie, care vor reveni obsedant,
sunt prezente în primul său thriller, cu tuşe expresioniste, care se inspiră din povestea lui
Jack Spintecătorul. Este şi primul film de Hitchcock care se păstrează integral (copia
nouă are 105 minute) şi în care regizorul are un cameo, apariţie devenită apoi trademark.
Versiunea clujeană are 75 de minute şi e acompaniată live de muzica DJ Dubase &
Leizaboy.
Alin Ludu Dumbravă
The Fortune was then back in 1975 at the time not so fortunate...a good time to revisit now on Jack's 89th BB (Birthday Bash-I hope so...)
For Jack and Warren one of their most obscure films and the only one they did together except Beatty's own REDS...This was Beatty's film trying to greenlit Shampoo (1975) and the studio, Columbia Pictures, made that film in order to get this made and guess which film flopped bigtime...
Directed by Mike Nichols, (shot in summer 1974), it was a huge flop at the time of the relase, the guyz had a lot of fun tho but not also Nichols (!) and the film has way more fun values today !
Plot synopsis: Two bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.
via my post from 2007, `You Don't know Jack! on DVD/ updated and in English now:
In The Fortune /Averea in Romanian/1975, Jack joins his buddiest friend Warren Beatty. What they thought they would reissue Some Like it Hot, became Beavis and Butt-head avant la lettre. Or Stan and Bran dadaists. Abbot and Costello meet the Stooges. Without Iggy. With Stockard Channing (nominated for a Golden Globe as a newcomer), who did not become the new Marilyn Monroe. Compared to something like Wedding Crashers, B & B (i.e. Nicholson and Beatty), are rocket scientists. Jack as Oscar plays as madcap as it gets, Beatty as Nicky keeps it dandy,. It's an all-mus-go cynical farce, tango featured, bonus the moustaches. Plus the sexiest movie star chick since Chicken Little the cartoon. Director Mike Nichols had previously made, in 1970, with Jack and Art Garfunkel, Carnal Knowledge and would direct Jack again in Heartburn and Wolf. Nichols had such a bad experience that he didn't make another film for 8 years...:(
Maybe Billy Wilder would've made it better and less chaotic ? Or Blake Edwards' more succesful ?
Written by Carole Eastman, Jack's buddy (wrote 4 films for him and Jerry Schatzberg's Puzzle of a Downfall Child), under the pen name Adrien Joyce.
Shot by master John A. Alonzo (working with Jack after Chinatown, Black Sunday, Scarface). Widescreen 2.35.1, ANAMORPHIC.
Exceptional production design by Richard Sylbert in his last film with Nichols, and with Jack via Chinatown. The villa apartment is the same as in Day of the Locust , 'cos it's the same set, Schlesinger's film is also 1975).
Merry period music and adaptations by David Shire. I Must Be Dreaming is sung by Stockard Channing.
Jack's buddy, Scatman Crothers has a cameo as a fisherman, one of his many in Jack's films (The King of Marvin Gardens, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining).
Another Nicholson great buddy, Harry Dean Stanton has a silent and uncredited cameo at 1h21.
More trivia from wikipedia:
Because the start of principal photography on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was delayed, Jack Nicholson, who had worked with Nichols on Carnal Knowledge, was available for the role of Oscar Sullivan. During filming, the actor was forced to deal with two events that impacted his personal life. First, a fact checker working on a biographical piece for Time discovered that the woman Nicholson believed was his sister was actually his mother, and the woman who raised him was his grandmother. Then his close friend Cass Elliot (mama Cass!) died in her sleep, and rumors about the cause of her death circulated in the media. These two events, linked with the film's eventual failure, made The Fortune a subject that Nicholson never discussed in interviews and biographies.
3 1/2 stars out of 5 / 7 out of 10 !!! (raised it a half-star after that viewing in 2007).
