poza noua din Expendables !!!

Stallone ca si cum l-ar apara pe Polanski si mortii sa fie DA-i rai din LA...glumaaa !
no chinatown for jake !

Il Bidone la MTR !!!

comunicat:
miercuri 30 septembrie de la 19:00
Noul Cinematograf al Regizorului Român

Muzeul Ţăranului Român, intrarea Str. Monetăriei

Fellini
O singură proiecţie
O peliculă restaurată
O discuţie despre cariera cinematografică a maestrului


Escrocii / Il Bidone în regia lui Federico Fellini, 1955, Italia, 112', versiune originală italiană, subtitrare în limba engleză şi română.

Actori: Giulietta Masina, Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart.

Pentru prima oară în Bucureşti are loc proiecţia peliculei Escrocii exact cum a fost prezentată la LIDO, Festivalul de Film Venezia 1955. După acest moment, datorită reacţiei criticilor şi a publicului la "excesiva " durată a filmului, Fellini a decis să scurteze pelicula cu aproape 30'.


Această peliculă a fost restaurată în 2001 de Cineteca di Bologna şi Titanus în laboratorul Immagine Ritrovata di Bologna utilizând două role incomplete şi avariate. Montajul şi eliminarea părţilor avariate au fost realizate prin metode digitale. Pelicula a fost obţinută cu sprijinul Cinematecii din Bolonia (Italia) şi a Institutului Italian de Cultură Bucureşti.

In deschiderea filmului, VA INVITAM la o prezentare - discuţie cu publicul - a filmografiei maestrului Federico Fellini (1920-1993) susţinută de către regizorul Cătălin Mitulescu şi directorul Institutului Italian dl. Alberto Castaldini.

sau aici:

topul meu de echipaje spatiale

"ground control to major Alin"
a intrat pe HBOclub noul meu top ten, despre echipaje spatiale, de la Melies, la 2001, Capricorn One, Alien, Event Horizon si M2M (mission to Mars) ! enjoy ! o sa urmeze topul de Hitmeni !!!

Polanski's support by Thierry/ TWC

Thierry Fremaux enlists Harvey Weinstein in bid to save Polanski28 September, 2009 | By Jeremy Kay
screen daily
via AC care e la fel de incommunicado ca si RP !!!

Harvey Weinstein has leant his support to a move by the French film-making community to petition against the possible US extradition of Roman Polanski following the Oscar winning director’s arrest in Zurich late on Saturday.

Weinstein immediately become involved when he was approached by Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux after Polanski was taken into custody in connection with the charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl dating back to 1977.

“We’re calling on every film-maker we can to help fix this terrible situation,” Weinstein said. Sources close to The Weinstein Company said the mogul would reach out to Hollywood to lobby against any move to bring Polanski to the US, where he could face up to 50 years in jail.

It is understood the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office learned of Polanski’s trip to the Zurich Film Festival and presented an arrest warrant to Swiss authorities who promptly took him into custody. The Oscar winning director of The Pianist was due to give a masterclass at the festival on Sunday.

However the timing of the arrest has puzzled observers, who pointed out Polanski had owned a property in Switzerland and made a number of visits prior to his detention. Indeed the director’s agent, ICM chief Jeff Berg, said the film-maker was in Switzerland this summer editing The Ghost.

Swiss Justice Ministry spokesman Guido Balmer rejected suggestions that the arrest was political. Unsubstantiated online reports claim the incident may be a gambit by Switzerland to curry favour with US authorities in light of the unfolding tax evasion scandal involving the Swiss banking giant UBS and American account holders.

In a statement issued on Sunday Polanski’s attorneys said: “We were unaware of any extradition being sought and separate counsel will be retained for those proceedings.”

After Weinstein picked up international theatrical rights last January to the HBO documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired, which highlights legal irregularities in the case against the director, he intimated the film might play a part in getting the charges dropped.

Earlier this year a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge rejected Polanski’s attempt to do just that after the Polish director failed to appear in court in person, however the judge agreed there was “substantial misconduct” in the original hearing. An appeal is pending.

Polanski fled the US to France in 1978 after he pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, now 45-year-old Samantha Geimer, who subsequently sued the director for an undisclosed amount and earlier this year called on authorities to drop the case against him.

Polanski..arrested development...

l-au arestat pe Polanski !!! unde ? in Elvetia ! de ce ? pentru "violul" din 1977, ca urmare a unui tratat de extradare din 1950 intre Elvetia si SUA ! invitat la festivalul de film de la Zurich, Polanksi a fost imbarcat si luat...ce o urma, ar trebui ca o lume intreaga sa spumege, problema a fost ca judecatorul american nu a vrut sa-i suspende sentinta, nici cind 'agresata" a zis ca l-a iertat si acerut expres acest lucru...

stire pe associated press, cercetat azi cind am primit sms de RIP Polanski, stiam ca e bine sanatos, si tocmai am mai facut un film, si nu am gasit nici o dovada in acest sens decit legat de arestarea lui, dau telefon si mi se zice, "pai daca l-au arestat si-l extradeaza si-l baga in puscarie nu e ca si mort ?"
well, we'll see about this...

The Swiss Directors Association sharply criticized authorities for what it deemed "not only a grotesque farce of justice, but also an immense cultural scandal."

in schimb autoritatile elvetiene sunt "no comment", vedeti in schimb comentariile poster-ilor care il declara un monstru depravat...Elvetia, tzara neutra, mein arsch !

recuperari: Cargo 200 /Gruz 200 (2007)

de ce la recuperari ? pentru ca l-am pierdut la TIFF anul trecut or so, si pentru ca auzisem ca e bun si vroiam sa-l vad. Dar nu stiam exact plotul asa ca am fost surprins,...se bazeaza pe intimplari reale, petrecute in URSS, intre orasul Leninsk, si satul Kaliaevo, in 1984. Iar titlul, Gruz 200 vine de la transportul de sicrie cu cadavre ale soldatilor rusi in Agfanistan, si e, ca sa zic asa, metaforic. E o comedie neagra, combinata cu horror, thriller si totodat o dram si o satira a epocii sovietice...
Aleksei Balabanov (Brat si Pro urodov i lyudey /Of Freaks and Men, care se pare ca e ceva de vazut neaparat) combina un Texas Chainsaw Massacre autohton cu ceva si mai infiorator, in monotonia societatii comuniste pre-Cernobil, cu cu un militian dement, si mama sa alcoolica, in perioada moonshine, bootlegging, de prohibitie sovietica...a fost la Gjon, la Rotterdam, la Sochi, dar merita sa mearga la Cannes sau Venetia !

soundtrackul este extrem de referential pentru nativii rusi, cu piese hit din epoca, cam cum ar fi fost la noi cu Iris, Semnal M, Holograf, Compact, FFN sau via Cenaclul Flacara...dar nu stiu exact asa cum ar sti un basarabean din Chisinau...
recommended, one-of-a kind, mai aproape de Calvarul belgian al lui De Weitz si de Buttgereit decit de Tobe Hooper..
gasit o cronica romaneasca cu analiza amanuntita pe movieblog buna dar cu spoilere !!!
4 din 5, 8 din 10 !!!
intleg ca

Drivin Rules !

Iaca de ce nu conduc io par exemple


Dai click pe flimuletz (danke Arne!, du auch)

Paul Dianno in Romania ! si Wasp !

erau zvonuri, s- anuntat oficial, 19 noiembrie la Silver Church (preoteasa)
cu trupa lui, Thunderbolt. Cinta si piese de pe primele 2 albume Maiden, la care a fost vocalist.

si WASP pe 16 noiembrie, la Arenele Romane intr-un cort incalzit! Bilete aici

...unde jetzt for eine kleine unterschied...eine kleine... muzikritik...

ich weiss mein Deutsch ist scheisse, aber uber alles ist viel spass...
really now,
ziceam sa va mai sheruiesc despre ce albume am mai ascultat /au mai iesit/mi-au mai placut ...stelele sunt coatate din 5 !!!

Ian Hunter-Man Overboard
vocalistul de la Mott the Hoople a implinit 70 de ani ! si e la al 13-lea album !!!(aflat de el via Uncut !) album excelent, matur, serios, cu vocea intre Noddy Holder de la Slade si Rod Stewart...orchestratii minunate, unele imi amintesc de Warren Zevon, prima piesa, The Great Escape excelenta, cu ecouri de Bruce Springsteen, “When you gotta gotta get away, get away..ESPECIALLY when the other guy’s BIGGER than you", la fel emotionantul Man Overboard, “drunk and disorderly”/straight in the deep end/sometimes it’s a treacherous sea !!!”
si These Feelings, si Babylon Blues, si The Girl from the office...

Mott the Hoople s-au reunit dupa mai bine de 30 de ani, primul album Ian Hunter solo e din 1975, ei s-au despartit oficial in 1978- si au concerte sold out la Hammersmith Odeon acum la inceput de octombrie. Un articol chul despre reuniune in Guardian aici...
****

Lynyrd Skynyrd-God & Guns
hard rock american, anumite piese suna ca Bon Joi la voce, una ca Whitesnake, kinda pissed me off those, o piesa leit Sweet Home Alabama: Southern Ways (si acum suna si ca Kid Rock-cacofonia inteneded) dar naiss, favorite: Floyd, si This ain't my America
(aflat de el via Uncut !)
*** pt nostalgie, 2 din membri au mai murit in timp ce se face albumul (basistul Evan Evans si keyboards man Billy Powell), primul de la Vicious Cycle (2003) incoace !


Mark Knopfler-Get Lucky
oi oi Mark didnt get lucky, cum spunea cronica la Uncut, te plictisesti si uiti albumul in timp ce-l asculti, well that is true ! Cam asa a fost si cu ultimele doua, boring si foarte cuminti ! Mai bine faceai o reuniune Dire Straits, really !!!
(aflat de el via doctorje !)

**
Pearl Jam-Backspacer
mai mult jam decit pearl si cam scurt...sub 40 de minute
produs de Brendan O'Brien (noile AC/DC, producer la ei pina la Yield, in 1996).
faved: Force of nature, Supersonic !

***
Arctic Monkeys-Humbug, not really humbug, ok, rocks but not my age (via grapevine)

** 1/2
Muse-Resistance
cel mai ambitios album de pina cum, varza juvenila pretentioas dar mai intersant decit ultimii 10 ani de Dream Theater, problema e ca prea suna a multe chestii, de la Queen la Rush trecind prin...depeche Mode, piesa 3, partea a doua e mai interesanta, contine o mini-simfonie (Exogenesis, exogenesis, 14 min) , tema e teoria conspiratiei 9/11 inside job, bubulii cu new world order...carora trebuie sa le rezistam... (via Uncut)

*** 1/2

Anvil-This is Thirteen !
o fi un numar cu ghinion pt ca desi au profil dupa film, albumul e obosit, zgmotos si degeaba...allmusic e de alta parere...(aflat de el via imdb news)

**

Ticke is back..Mr Pan[k]sament

Ticke de la Pansament is back, rebotezat Brusvox sau Mr Pan[k]sament as a one man revolution, electropunk, aici pe blogul lui si pe myspace
si pe youtube:

One Bullet [Resolution]
lansare album pe 1 octombrie in Silver Church !!!

multa bafta, dude man sir !

Deutsche Pussy...

clipul Rammstein a aparut deja de ieri pe Visit_X, amateur webacam community
e cam...porno, si face din rammsteini pornstaruri, nu stiu cit si cum va putea fi vazuta versiune asta necenzurata...din pacate scandalurile de tipul asta au fost bifate und blazate de madonne, gasparzi noe si brown bunnies...
regia Jonas Akerlund care se leaga prin Mickey Rourke de ieri prin Spun...
nu stiu cine sunt domnisoarele din clip dar banuiesc ca va deveni imn prin discoteci, pacat c-a ratat Vama Veche -Ibiz(d)a de anul asta...da mai e shi la anu'
mein bratwurst im deiner sauerraut...ja ja jawohl, i-ar fi placut si lui Alois Von Eichberg, poate chiar si lui Goebbles...

RIP Henry Gibson

Henry Gibson 1935-2009 EmpireOnline

Henry Gibson, whose name you might not know but whose face you'll almost certainly recognise, has died at home in Malibu, a week before his 74th birthday.Gibson's hangdog expression disguised a great talent for deadpan comedy. His first movie role was in Jerry Lewis' original The Nutty Professor in 1963, and he was a regular on the sketch show Rowan and Martin's Laugh In from 1968 to 1971 alongside Lily Tomlin and Goldie Hawn. One of his characters was a flower-wielding poet, all of whose material was written by Gibson himself.Robert Altman cast him four times, in Nashville, The Long Goodbye, A Perfect Couple and Health, and Joe Dante used him three times, giving him the role of Tom Hanks' nemesis in The 'Burbs, Mr Wormwood in Innerspace, and a cameo in Gremlins 2. He was the leader of the Illinois Nazis in John Landis' The Blues Brothers. »

In recent years he'd had a recurring role on Boston Legal as a judge, and played the priest officiating several of the weddings in Wedding Crashers. His final role was in Rob Schneider's directorial debut Big Stan last year.

A Prayer for the Dying (1987)

de LMA Mickey Rourke revazut A PRAYER FOR THE DYING, l-am luat acum 3 ani din Franta sub titlul L'irlandais, regizat de Mike Hodges in 1987. E infamous pentru ca Rourke s-a luat de Samuel Goldwyn dupa film,
Rourke is on record calling producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. a scumbag and a liar,

apoi din salariul de la Francesco (sfintul Francisc) al Lilianei Cavani (1989) a donat banii IRA (in film MR e Martin Fallon, un terorist irlandez pe fuga). Teme catolice all over, despre pacat si redemption, dar nah, dupa un roman de Jack Higgins...ma lipseseam de melodrama dar el e Chul, cu parul vopsit roscat si accent irlandez vero (nu ca Brad Pitt in Devil's Own). Again he's a falle angel (fallon ?), si are 2 scene de motivatie bune, in rest e cam monosilabic...cu ochelari de soare a a la Zbigniev Cybulski ?


o scena misto in care Rourke cinta la orga in biserica parintelui De Costa (Bob Hoskins, cam constipat, pina-si da drumul la furie, ins cena barului luminat Courage-Rage)
bad guy, gangsterul Jack Meehan-Alan Bates, si Liam Neeson in rolul partenerului IRA al lui Rourke, era pe vremea cind IRA devenise subiect la Hollywood, dupa cum s-a vazut din Patriot Games si In the Name of the Father ! Alison Doody, la fel de blonda si de rea ca in Indy III sau poate si mai shi
dvd extras: none
3 din 5 sau 6 din 10 (cu ingaduinta)

LMA Mickey !

oh, he's doing well, anul trecut luase premiu la Venezia as randy the Ram ! acum joaca in enshpe filme, toate high profile more or less ! am aflat ca a fost la Sarajevo la festival, daca stiam ma duceam si io, ca imi promisese Pjer ca ma invita ! Acum am zis de ziua lui (fuckin 57) sa revad un film pe care mi-l amintesc ca fiind cam prost, A PRAYER FOR THE DYING, v. next post !!!
Vorbele lui Adrian Lyne se pare ca se adeveresc: "He was hugely talented, but he was surrounded by so many creeps," says Lyne. "I often think if he had died after Tasking Angel Heart, he would have been a legend on the scale of James Dean. Maybe he still will be."

Chiar daca fatza nu-i permite sa joace junii din tinerete, proiectele lui Rourke includ filme cu Walter Hill (St. Vincent), megabadguy-ul de anul viitor Whiplash in Iron Man 2, Passion Play (unde o va avea ca inger pe Megan Fox !), Expendables si poate Rambo V cu Stallone, si un remake la Mona Lisa de Larry Clark ! cu Eva Green...(BTW, in A Prayer for the...joaca cu Bob Hoskins, soferul original al Monei Lisa), ar mai fi un proiect interesant, Pretty, Baby, Machine, dupa un comix, daca s-o face ! si indianul Broken Horses !



articol in People "MR-on the Ropes" October 10, 1994

Gamer (2009)

un gunoi, cam asta e Gamer intr-un cuvint.
LATIMES says better:

"Some years from this exact moment," we're told at the beginning of the dismal "Gamer," Americans will be lining up to become flesh-and-blood avatars inside violent and lurid video game worlds. The bad news: Participants are likely either to be killed or imprisoned in an environment that looks like a David LaChapelle photo shoot. The good news: These kinds of games would render garbage like "Gamer" obsolete.

"Gamer" actually makes you feel nostalgic for the time when the filmmaking team of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (the duo behind the "Crank" movies) didn't feel burdened by the need to conjure up a story line or reflexively comment on American culture. Thought is antithetical to these guys' absurdist, Red Bull action aesthetic.

abysymal, garbage, true ! Hiperviolent in acelasi timp ! si pretentios, si cu un look extrem de ugly si nereusit! Gerald Butler nu e Jason Statham

Gladiatorul ? nah, i'm fat and uncharismatic !

si Crank era funny si tongueincheek nu avea cliseul de plot ultima data vazut in Max Payne, cu nevasta si copilul, nevasta porn model Amber Valletta (din Transporter 2), dar cam trecuta fata. Si acest cross de Running Man cu Death Race si daca vrei ca ciulamaua de voma sa fie completa mai baga si matrix, tron si rollerball ! Bravo Neveldine si Taylor, nici camera nu e destul de kinetica ci epileptica si
"I've Got You Under My Skin" de Sammy Davis Jr. cintata de Michael C. Hall. e o secventa destul de funny si suprarealista, in rest el badgheiul (din Six Feet Under si Dexter) e fix pix si..ghei, ma enerveza cind iau oameni din seriale TV si-i fac badnomofo, ca Dominic West in Punisher: War Zone, de ex ! Poate cu JCVD sa fi functionat, sau funny cu Jason S, sau pe vremuri la Corman, si on the funny side, nu voit drmatic ! John Leguiziamo maninca si el un burger ceva de pe urma filmului asta, dupa cum o fac si Keith David (cameo as cop), si Ludacris (rapper hacker) si Kyra Sedgwick (obosita rau)...sunt curios cit are rating, ca io sub 18 nu i-as da...
3 din 10, 1 1/2 din 5
metacritics score de 27 puncte cu epitete gen "A futuristic vomitorium of bosoms and bullets."(New York Times)

RIP Troy Kennedy Martin

The Italian Job screenwriter Troy Kennedy Martin dies at 77
16 September, 2009 | Screen Daily

Troy Kennedy Martin, the British screenwriter whose credits include The Italian Job, died of cancer yesterday (September 15) aged 77 years old.

The award winning writer began his career at the BBC in 1958 and wrote several plays for the broadcaster before creating his first series, Storyboard, in 1961. His most famous TV creation was Liverpool-based police drama Z-Cars, which ran for 15 years although he was only involved in the first two series.

He moved into feature films in the early 1970s with the original screenplay for Peter Collinson’s The Italian Job, which starred Noel Coward and Michael Caine. He followed it up with Kelly’s Heroes, The Jerusalem File and Sweeney 2, based on the popular TV series, The Sweeney, created by his brother Ian Kennedy Martin. He also co-wrote the screenplay for Red Heat with director Walter Hill in 1988 and Red Dust, directed by Tom Hooper, in 2004.

He returned to TV work during the 1980s, including the critically acclaimed political thriller/science fiction drama Edge Of Darkness, and the popular ITV drama Reilly, Ace Of Spies. He also adapted Andy McNab’s book Bravo Two Zero for the BBC.

Although he was best known for his work spanning TV and film, he also penned a novel, Beating The Damask Drum, published in 1959, and gave many lectures including the McTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International TV Festival in 1986.
(Via AC), Edge of Darkness se reface, un soi de comebak la acting Mel Gibson !

making of Stolz der nation

si making off-ul la filmul din filmul lui Tarantino, Stolz der nation/ Nation's Prize, cu inca un citat Brian De Palma (caruciorul din Untouchables via Potiomkin, in plus fata de fintina din Scarface), mockup Saving Private Ryan, cu interviu cu Josef Goebbles, Francesca Mondino, soldatul Frederik Zoller si cu Eli Roth in rolul regizorului Alois Von Eichberg ! Bo Svenson are si o replica dementa ! Priceless !!!
(Via AC)

Inglorious Castellari !!!

un interviu chul cu Enzo Castellari, intulat: Warrior of the wasteland !!!, apropo si de Caribbean Basterds, noul sau opus in care ripuieste (pardon omagiaza), Portocala mecanica,
shi situl lui Castellari aici
a aparut tot la severin video (pe 11 august)La battaglia d'Inghilterra cu Van Johnson si Luigi Pistilli aka Eagles over England, si scot si El maledetto pe Blu-Ray !

RIP Patrick Swayze-Point Break

ar fi fost bine daca s-ar fi dus la un surf si nu s-ar mai fi intors...dar s-a cam chinuit cu acest cancer la pancreas care l-a ros de tot la 57 de ani...



obituary imdb:

Actor Patrick Swayze, who attained heartthrob status in the movies Dirty Dancing and Ghost, died Monday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer; he was 57.

The star revealed in March of 2008 that he was suffering from the deadly form of cancer, but continued working on the A&E series The Beast, and remained optimistic in interviews and on the set during his treatment.

Swayze shot to fame in the early '80s as part of the destined-for-fame ensemble in the 1983 drama The Outsiders, and also appeared in the action drama Red Dawn before taking on one of the lead roles in the popular miniseries North and South. He hit his zenith of fame in the late '80s and early '90s with the smash hit Dirty Dancing (1987), the cult fave Road House (1989), and the Oscar-winner Ghost (1990), opposite Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg, where his pottery-making scene with Moore became one of cinema's most iconic romantic scenes.

His films in the '90s included another cult favorite, Point Break, as well as the drama City of Joy, the cross-dressing comedy To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar, and the indie hit Donnie Darko. He reprised his Dirty Dancing role in the quasi-remake Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights. In addition to his role in The Beast, Swayze most recently appeared in the drama Powder Blue and British comedy Keeping Mum.

Swayze is survived by his wife Lisa Niemi, whom he married in 1975.

pentru mine Swayze nu a fost like the wind (desi piesa "She's Like the Wind," nu era rea), dar mi-a placut in Red Dawn, Road House, Steel Dawn (un poor man's Mand Max), Next of Kin si of course Bodhi din Point Break !!! poate acu-l si revad...incercarile lui de action tough macho man...

trebuia sa fi jucat rolul principal in Total Recall varianta Bruce Beresford care
s-ar fi filmat in Australia dar a dat De Laurentiis faliment...

recuperari: The Long Ships (1964)

tagline: The Greatest Viking Adventure Of Them All!
filmul cu vikingi, Sidney Poitier si the mare of steel, obiect de tortura care mai inspaiminta si azi !!! Filmat in Yugoslavia de Christopher Challis in pentru Jack Cardiff (pe care l-au luat ca fusese operator la Vikingii)! Faimos pe vremea lui Ciao Bao, as Corabiile lungi sau in sirba, Dugi brodovi , dar eu l-am vazut abia acum, dupa ce am recuperat si Vikingii lui Fleischer (din 1958, filmat si el in Dalmatia, in Kornati/azi Croatia), si un Bava cu vikingi copiat dupa el, Erik cuceritorul (Gli Invasori, 1961)


overblown, epic cu Richard Widmark excelent (Rolf !!) si Russ Tamblyn acrobatic...Poitier e ultraserios intr-un rol de maur..reminscente azi in The 13th Warrior si Kingdom of Heaven ! Oskar Homolka secondeaza cu aplomb si frumusetea locala Beba Loncar (blonda Greta)si Rosanna Schiaffino.

muzica de sirbul Dusan Radic , care ulterior l-a orhestrat si pe Ghenghis Khan
Plotul are de-a face cu un clopot imens de aur (the mother of all voices) pe care-l vineaza si vikingii si maurii, prezentat intr-un prolog facut de Maurice Binder. Bazat pe romanul clasic suedez al lui Frans Bengtsson pe care se pare ca l-a masacrat. Produs de Irvin "Poseidon" Allen.
trivia: There was dissension on the set, as Widmark hated the script and played it as camp while Poitier hated his dialogue and played it seriously

3 1/2 din 5, 7 din 10
format: anamorphic widescreen 2.20:1.
extras: trailere la 2 Sindbad (Columbia/sony)

Palmares Venezia 66

n-a luat Francesca nimic, desi a ajutat-o Alessandra Mussolini aia putzin la marketing>>.

Palmares Venezia 66
President: Ang Lee (Taiwan)
- Golden Lion for best film: Lebanon by Samuel MAOZ (Israel, France, Germany)
- Silver Lion for best director: Shirin NESHAT for the film Zanan Bedone Mardan (Women Without Men) (Germany, Austria, France)
- Special Jury Prize: Soul Kitchen by Fatih AKIN (Germany)
- Coppa Volpi for Best Actor: Colin FIRTH in the film A Single Man by Tom FORD (USA)
- Coppa Volpi for Best Actress: Ksenia RAPPOPORT in the film La doppia ora by Giuseppe CAPOTONDI (Italy)
- “Marcello Mastroianni” Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress: Jasmine TRINCAin the film Il grande sogno by Michele PLACIDO (Italy)
- "Osella" for Best Technical Contribution: Sylvie OLIVÉ for the film Mr. Nobody by Jaco VAN DORMAEL (France)
- "Osella" for Best Screenplay: Todd SOLONDZ for the film Life during Wartime by Todd SOLONDZ (USA)


Orizzonti
- Orizzonti Prize to Engkwentro by Pepe Diokno (Philippines)
- Orizzonti Prize for Best documentary to 1428 by DU Haibin (China)
- Special Mention to Aadmi ki aurat aur anya kahaniya (The Man’s Woman and Other Stories) by Amit Dutta (India)


Controcampo Italiano
President: Carlo Lizzani (Italy)
si Giulio Questi si Marina Sanna in juriu !
Controcampo Italiano Prize to: Cosmonauta by Susanna NICCHIARELLI (Italy)
Kodak will offer to the awarded director 40,000 euros in negative film stock - 35 or 16mm, chosen by the winner - to shoot a new feature film.
- Special Mention: Negli occhi by Daniele ANZELLOTTI and Francesco DEL GROSSO (Italy)


Corto Cortissimo (Prizes awarded on 10th September 2009)
President: Stuart Gordon (USA)

- Corto Cortissimo Lion for Best Short Film to Eersgeborene (First Born) by Etienne Kallos (South Africa, USA)
- Venice Nomination to the European Film Awards 2009 to Sinner by Meni Philip (Israel)
- Special Mention to Felicità by Salomé Aleksi (Georgia)


“Luigi De Laurentiis” Award for a Debut Film
- Lion of the Future – “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film to Engkwentro by Pepe DIOKNO (Philippines) - ORIZZONTI
as well as a prize of 100,000 USD, donated by Filmauro, to be divided equally between director and producer



Persol 3-D Award for the Best 3-D Stereoscopic Film of the Year (Prize awarded on 11th September 2009)
- Persol 3-D Award: The Hole by Joe Dante (USA) caere afost si in juriu !!!


Jaeger-Le Coultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award
to Sylvester Stallone (care a prezentat bucati din Expendables)

ZZ TOP boogie in Bucharest

ZZ top la Bucuresti ! 20 octombrie 2009, it's tuesday !!! Finally trio-ul texan va face Fandango pentru romani, dupa ce s-au tot plimbat prin zona, la Praga si Budapesta din anii 90 pina acum ! I-am vazut la Petofi Czarnok in 2003, la Budapesta, vara , cu vreo 3000 de oemeni. Era Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers Tour. De-abia scosesera Mescalero, ultimul lor album de studio to date. Din pacate concertul are loc in odioasa Sala polivalenta, unde v-am povestit cum a fost la Faith no More. E una din putinele trupe ramasa in componenta originala (ca si Rush) si tot trio, Billy Gibbons-chiarta, voce, Dusty Hill-bass, voce si Frank Beard -tobe (care, nah, n-are barba !). Primul album in 1970, as ZZ Top's First album.

LMA Brian !!!

our beloved BDP (Brian Russell De Palma L'incorigible et l'incoruptible, pt cine nu stie), a facut in ziua turnurilor cind am terminat si eu treatment english la BY Pass finally ! Bineintles ca BDP e la Toronto as usual !
Pls. Brian make another movie ! N-am mai auzit nimic nici de Toyer, nici de Capone Rising, nici de Boston Stranglers (decit ca e produs la Overture Films) !!!
shi o veste noua:
Also on Film Farm’s production slate is Brian De Palma’s Tabloid, a political thriller inspired by political and personal imbroglios of Democratic presidential nominee John Edwards – with a serial killer thrown in. Weiss described the project as exploring De Palma’s core themes: politics, sex and murder.
De Palma said the film was about, "Sex and Lies on the Champaign Trail."





un De Palma blogathon la cinema viewfinder, cu votari pt trei din filmele preferate ale lui BDP, au am votat acum Scarface, si aleator Carlito si Body Double !

si pe blogul intitulat cel putin intrigant, If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,
There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats o serie excelenta de Frames within Frames !

Roger Corman o sa ia Oscarul omagial...

si Lauren Bacall (se bucura Boogie), si Gordon Willis (dop care a filmat Nasul si Woody Allen-uri)
cum trei ? pai da, daca acum se nominalizeaza 10 filme de ce n-ar da si trei Oscaruri ?
funny pentru Corman, nici nu banuia el ca o sa ia un Oscar pentru dudele lui cu man/ woman in a suit si butaforie, eu l-am intilnit in Ljutomer la Grossman 08 . Kudos Roger !
iar premiul Irving G. Thalberg se va da producatorului John Calley !
mai ciudat e ca se dau cica la Balul Guvernatorului pe 14 noiembrie, WTF ?
All four awards will be presented at the Academy's inaugural Governors Awards gala event on Nov. 14 in Hollywood.


RC: Iau io Oscarul la anu !
ALD: Nu cred ca mai iei!


RC: Ba sa crezi !!!
ALD: Nu prea-mi vine sa cred !
RC: Ceeee ?


ALD: bine, da, si mie in scris !!!
RC: de ce, nu ma crezi ?


ALD: ba da, dar sa am si eu cu ce ma lauda !!!
RC: Ai si tu dreptate !

si mi-a dat, pe caietul program de la Grossmann

Chris Rea la Bucuresti..asta daca scapam de cutremur...

citesc azi:

Chris Rea va concerta la Bucuresti, pe 6 februarie 2010, spectacolul fiind inclus in turneul european de promovare a celui mai recent album al artistului, "Still So Far To Go - The Best Of Chris Rea".
verific, pt ca au fost zvonuri ca ar fi trebuit sa vina, ca era pe moarte, etc. Nu stiu cum e cu venitul, dar pe moarte a fost.

acuma mergem si noi, daca scapam de cutremurul din 13 septembrie...prezis prin ziare de un clarvoyant care-si lipete chestii pe piept, ca are cimp magnetic...whatever gets it up for you, Jack !

pentru cei ce vor sa se veseleasca pina atunci iata acordionistul Litza Ghitalau paranoid (de la Iasi)

recuperari: Madigan (1968)

tagline: "If Detective Madigan kept his eyes on the killer instead of the broad..."





Inainte de Dirty Harry a fost Madigan. De fapt a fost Coogan's Bluff. pentru Don Siegel (facut in acelasi an, in acelasi oras). Dar Madigan era un Dirty cop din New York, in 1968. Avind in vedere finalul filmului, ciudat ca s-a facut un serial cu acelasi nume si acelasi erou (anti-erou), intruchipat de Richard Widmark in 1972, doar 6 episoade, dar cica s-ar fi dat si la noi la TV in epoca.

realismul urban preluat de la Jules Dassin (Naked City), scris de Abraham Polonsky (Force of Evil) , ambii blacklistati, Polonsky aduce atmosfera scenariului adaptat dupa romanul "The Commissioner" de Richard Dougherty.


genericul este o capodopera de jungla umana, cu cadre filmate spre sus (imagine Russell Metty in techniscope, 2.35.1) prin New York pe muzica jazzy de Don Costa, excelenta !

Richard Widmark e un hardboiled cop, Dan Madigan, al carui partener e Rocky Bosco (specialist in acest gen de roluri, Harry Guardino). Ei sunt pacaliti de un criminal psihotic, Barney Benesch (Steve Ihnat) care le ia armele (plot similar cu Stray Dog al lui Kurosawa, implicatii freudiene ?) si pe care trebuie sa-l gaseasca.

iar Henry Fonda este seful politiei (the commissioner), cu care Widmark e intr-un perpetuu conflict. Nu au decit o scena impreuna, dar in ea se vede intreaga prapastie dintre lumi. Relatiile cu sotiile (Inger Stevens), amantele (Susan Clark), si un subplot cu adjunctul lui Fonda si prietenul sau de demult (James Whitmore, personaj pe nume...Charley Kane !!!) Don Stroud apare ca un tinar golan, Hughie, gen Marlon Brando. Siegel l-a luat apoi in Coogan's Bluff. Mai e prezent un pitic pe nume...Midget Castiglione
(Michael Dunn, dr. Loveless in Wild Wild West)

Filmul se petrece in trei zile, de vineri dimineata pina dumica seara, timp in care orasul si politia nu dorm. Structura si inceputul mi-au amintit de Seven, poate Fincher si au preluat arhitectura urbana. Si palaria lui Morgan Freeman seamana cu plariile purtate de politisti. Cel mai aproape e de French Connection, care, e mult mai modern si novator, dar asemanator ca structura si urbanism.

extras: none (Universal)

8 din 10, 4 din 5

Firepower (1979)

nu stiu de ce Michael Winner e considerat un regizor atit de prost de unii si de altii dar dupa Firepower (coperta de dvd e de la danezi si-i zice "Flacari in Caraibe", bine ca nu... pe comori) se poate judeca asa. Mai ales cind ai actori ca James Coburn si Eli Wallach in acelasi film, si Sophia Lorem, si Anthony Franciosa despre OJ Simpson m-a abtin....un cameo final Victor Mature care e creditat pe generic la and desi n-are decit 3 cadre si o replica...piticutzul Billy Barty apare si el...si boxerul Jake LaMotta as Nickel Sam si Dominic Chinese as Orlov ! muzica softcore jazz de Gato Brabieri, trei directori de imagine, de baza Robert Paynter ! second unit Richard Kline, si unul pt scene USA. Filmat in Antigua si Caraibe (Curacao) si in Miami ! Pac pac by the numbers cu un agent retras care e pus pe urmele celui mai bogat om din lume dar care nimeni nu stiu cum arata !!! Pac pac, poc poc ! Sophia Loren e cam trecuta, Coburn are si o dubura prefecta, sosie dar aceasta dispare din film fara sa fi avut nici un rol ! Pe imdb scrie ca ar fi trebuit sa fie cu Charles Bronson, un Boby de Niro al lui Winner, si ca acesta ar fi vrut rolul feminin pentru Jill Ireland. Tot aici zice ca ar fi fost scris ca un sequel la Dirty Harry. I dont really think so. Co-scris si produs de Winner pentru ITC.
2 din 5, 4 din 10

format: 1.85.1
extras; trailer, biografii

Rammstein strikes back !!! mit Pussy !

Pussy walks zice Iggy, Pussy Galore zice Bond , all kinds of pussy zice Cheech Marin in From Dusk til Dawn, acum Rammstein au un single numit Pussy care va avea premiera pe 18 septembrie aici: un teaser funny despre Deutsche pussy intro ! Baietii sunt acum... femei...goale iar un videoclipul e regizat de Jonas Åkerlund(Spun, The Horsemen).







de pe noul album (al saselea) "Liebe ist für alle da” (Love is for all, nah) nich fur mich...

care iese pe 16 octombrie !!! Piesa titlu a fost leaked pe net din iulie !!!

Tracklist-ul este:

01. Rammlied
02. Ich Tu Dir Weh
03. Waidmann's Heil
04. Haifisch
05. B******
06. Fruehling In Paris
07. Weiner Blut
08. Pussy
09. Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da
10. Mehr

date de turneu, noimebrie, decembrie si feb. 2010, aici !

interviu cu Steve Vai

de la Cerbul de aur aici (metalheas) ...si pe best music complet...nu prea interesant decit ca zice ca descoperirea muzicii lui Tom Waits i-a schimbat viata...!!!

LMA...

6 septembrie Roger Waters a facut 66 de ani ! Ce s-a intimplat cu albumul ala nou sir Rog ?
7 septembrie Nae Caranfil a facut 49 de ani, si a baut ..o vodca ! si eu un Laphroig !

8 septembrie Peter Sellers ar fi facut 84 de ani ! Din pacate a murit la 55 !

A venit toamna...

shi s-au blocat strazile de masini ! stiam ca benzina e scumpa...

...more Basterds !!!

Empire strikes back, adica vine cu info noi,
am si una de la Relik, ca e si o piesa de Riz Ortolani in soundtrack ...
odata da 5 precursori, de la Acel blestemat tren blindat (Castellari, 1977),

la Dirty Dozen, Where Eagles Dare,

Tunurile din Navarone si The Good the Bad & the Ugly desi mai corect ar fi fost sa dea Kellyu's Heroes, pentru ca Fish Tank, piesa lui Lalo Schifrin din IB, e de aici...iar TGTBATUgly e anyway, Tarnatino's Bible ("best directed film of all time")
si The Eagle has Landed si Marea Evadare for that matter, k el a fost precursorul lui Dirty Dozen...

tot Empire a colectat un Tarantino A la Z, de la A K 47, trecind prin F oot Fetish,

la Z ed "Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead." , ca dubla referinta la John Boorman (Deliverance si...Zardoz!)

Mai e o idee interesanta de sequel:

a Basterds-in-the-USA spaghetti Western. Tarantino's childhood fantasies rained down justice on the KKK and he hints at a Dirty Dozen meets Birth Of A Nation-style bash-up. "Once they get through with Europe, they could go to the South and do it to the Kluxers in the '50s." After

si ca veni vorba de Basterds, iata si Lazy Basterds al lui Andrei Cretulescu de la Cannes !