Trei kilometri până la capătul lumii acum la Cannes-live- !!!

Emi Pârvu și echipa filmului său Trei kilometri până la capătul lumii, urcă acum în Palais Lumiere !

Proiecția oficială a singurului film românesc din Competitia Oficială a Festivalului de la Cannes de anul acesta !

Merde !!!

The Last Stop in Yuma County (2023)

The Last Stop in Yuma County is a cool little movie, debut (written & directed & edited by Francis Galluppi), film noir,  B style, happening in the early 70's (my guess), in a Yuma desert station with no gas. The idea of fatality reigns.

Cast: Jim Cummings, Jocelin Donahue Faizon Love, Gene Jones and baddie Richard Brake

Blood Simple, Bad Times at El Royale 

& now I heard about LaRoy, Texas, also 2023.

Great title song, Love is Blue the 1968 Paul Mauriat version, sounds like a Morricone song and I realised I knew it from childhood from a Richard Clayderman record (!)

Megalopolis @Cannes 77

World Event du jour (16 mai 2024) -the world premiere of Francis Ford Coppola's MEGALOPOLIS (over 40 years in the making, and finally produced on his own dime-and 120 million $ of it !!!), at the 77th Festival de Cannes. Coppola is 85 now and won double time -deux fois la Palme d'Or, for The Conversation in 1974 and for Apocalypse Now in 1979 (ex aqueo with Schlondorff's Blechtrommel/The Tin Drum). Now he's nominated for a Third Palme (third time's a charm syndrome, well, Merde! :)

I have a feeling it might win !!!

Great teaser for the film (or First Look clip) shattered the internet views 12 days ago, and then the trailer is on now, 2 days before the Cannes screening. French distributor is Le Pacte and I know for fact il will be distributed in Thaeters in Romania. Interesting enough, no US distributor yet, but surely this will be of passé composé demain ;)

Cannes TV du 1er rang just showed the end of the screening, the applause and the ending photo call of Coppola and his family & Team. Adam Driver, the lead of the film, Talia Shire (Francis' sister), Aubrey Plaza, Nathalie Emmanuel, Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Jon Voight (85 as well !!!) and a bearded almost unrecognizable Shia LaBeuf in Palais Lumiere and on the Red Carpet (here's the Red Carpet before the seance). 

                       Here are the whole 22 mins of this Historical Event (yep, wish i was there...)

                                                                 c'est Cannes, c'est beau...c'est vieux ;)

Challengers (2024) & cronica audio

Luca Guadagnino's tennis threesome Challengers starring Zendaya (les Dunes), Josh O'Connor (La Chimera) & Mike Feist (Spielberg's 2021 West Side Story)

Great score by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, my main reason to see this flick. 2nd collaboartion of TR & AR with Sicilian director after 2022's Bones and All (see in my top of the year here, on soundtracks too).

Absolutely overlong (130 mins !!!), over stylish, slick editing and sound design.

...this is no Jules and Jim, more like Punch & Judy ;)

and if you wanna see Tennis, see Nasty ;) 

cronica audio de la Hit FM aici & aici

RIP Roger Corman

 The (B) King is gone, but not forgotten !!!

I met him in Grossmann in 2008 ! Oh, what a Lovely Day !:) and the Night of too...

see here in the funny papers ;)

https://aldmovieland.blogspot.com/2009/09/roger-corman-o-sa-ia-oscarul-omagial.html

Roger Corman just made it to 98 on April 5th, he was gone on May 9th....

autobiography: which I had and read-How I made a hundred movies in Hollywood and never lost a dime (1990)

great doc on him: Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011), which I saw then in Cannes 

                                                                        Cormanesque

Dune part Two cronica audio

 am scris de el aici (in ingles)

https://aldmovieland.blogspot.com/2024/03/dune-part-two-2024.html

acum am pus cronica audio de la Hit FM aici (thx, Doc!)

The Fall Guy (2024) & cronica audio

 am sa ii fac cronica pe radio si o voi publica aici si aici. 

The Fall Guy ruleaza la cinema in Ro  sub titlul Cascadorul.

Este despre un cascador (Colt Seavers, interpretat de Ryan Gosling) si regizat de un fost cascador, David Leitch, care a facut si primul John Wick (dar acum e creditat doar ca producer), Atomic Blonde si Bullet Train (Atomic mi-a placut, Trenul nu).

in productia australiana (Sydney galore) a filmului Metalstorm, un "High Noon la capatul galaxiei", povestea de iubire dintre Space Cowboy si Aliena !!!

Mi s-a parut zero chimie intre Gosling si Emily Blunt (acre este total Necredibila ca regizoare de film de buget A si serie B SF). La fel straul filmului, Tom Ryder, un zero Aaron Taylor-Johnson si producatoara malefica (Hannah Waddingham, cunoscuta din serialul Ted Lasso).

Muzica insa exclenta, de Dominic Lewis (The King's Man, Bullet Train), face tot filmul si il ridica mult. Muzica e in sine un omagiu adus lui Michael Kamen, in stilul score -urilor de action gen Lethal Weapon.

Intreg filmul se bazeaza pe piesa I was made for Loving You a grupului Kiss din 1979, compusa de Desmond Child cu Dominic Portia si Paul Stanley Acum interpretata de englezul YUNGBLOD. 

Un fel de Last Action Hero pentru anii 2020, filmul e meta-meta, cu un umor quirky al carui rtm (hit and more miss) il prinzi cam greu. Isi revine insa in actul 3. Bazat pe serialul cu acelasi nume din anii '80 cu Lee Majors, cu care insa nu are nicio legatura (Majors are un cameo la final).

Civil War (2024) & cronica audio

 cronica radio despre noul film a lui Alex Garland, Civil War ! 

acum in cinema

Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura & co sunt o echipa de juranlisti de razboi ca in filmele din anii ț70, de la Vietnam la Beirut

Soundtrack interesant, Suicide (Alan Vega), Silver Apples, De La Soul.