RIP Drew Struzan

Drew Struzan, the man who designed some of the most iconic posters in the history of Movieland, for over 150 films. From the Star Wars and Indiana Jones series to Blade Runner, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China and Back to the Future in the 80's, then over a new generation of filmmakers-Tim Burton-Planet of the Apes, Mars Attacks, Frank Darabont-The Shawnshank Redemption, The Mist (David's paintings), The Green Mile, Guillermo Del Toro-Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth- has passed away on Oct. 13th. He was 78...

Note (grazie, LD): Legendary Italian poster art maestro Renato Casaro died on Sept. 30 at 89...He did the posters for the Leone spaghetti westerns, up to Flash Gordon and Conan the Barbarian (as they were Dino de Laurentiis productions). He retired in 1998 but came back in 2019, called by Quentin Tarantino to realize some "old school illustrated Western posters" ("Uccidimi Subito Ringo, disse il Gringo" aka "Kill Me Now Ringo, Said The Gringo", and "Nebraska Jim") for Italian films starring Rick Dalton, the character Leonardo DiCaprio plays in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. 

Struzan and Casaro have even a poster in common, for The Name of the Rose in 1986, for whom they did both posters. 

     
Struzan                                                   Casaro

Struzan also designed LP covers before film posters, including the legendary Alice Cooper's 1975 `Welcome to My Nightmare`.

In 2013, he was the subject of Erik Sharkey’s feature documentary “Drew: The Man Behind The Poster,” with interviews with collaborators like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford, Frank Darabont, Tim Burton and Guillermo del Toro. 

exhaustive obit in Variety here 

 “Drew made event art. His posters made many of our movies into destinations…and the memory of those movies and the age we were when we saw them always comes flashing back just by glancing at his iconic photorealistic imagery. In his own invented style, nobody drew like Drew.”

Steven Spielberg 

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)

When you have a 400 mill. $ budget you can make the best and bigger film ever made. 

But instead you make a bloated overbearing part 2 to an enuff bloated Mission: Impossible 7: Dead Reckoning (my review here), film that came out in 2023 and disappointed bigtime performing. Keep in mind that movie cost 300 Mill. $ to make. That film was 2h43, this one is 2h49. Add the running times, 'cos basically it's the same film, and it's an almost 6 hours film which could've easily be told in 2hrs. 

so, part 8 it is. No more Dead Reckoning part 2 but A grand finale, as they promised to spare us to do more. The Final Reckoning.  hopefully last.

It's all Tom Cruise. Tom cruise on a plane, TC running (doing what he does best!), TC underwater, TC fighting, TC, TC, TC. 1st Mission was a masterpiece, done by Brian De Palma with the help of 4 screenwriters working their heads off. Then John Woo made TC the coolest there is. Then the next two films, meh. When Chirstopher McQuarrie, screenwriter of The Usual Suspects and attached director to Tom Cruise, took the Mission on its fifth installament it was a cool update. Hitchcock, opera set-up, more paranoia and a lot more running. Rogue Nation was good, Fallout (the 6th) was even better. Plus they were linked. But M:I 8 wants to link all Missions, especially to the original. So, Kitteridge is now the chief of CIA and you get to see that Shea Wigham is the son of Jon Voight (c'mon) and Rolf Saxon shows up 29 years later as William Donloe, from M:I 1996. Actually that was cool, cos it takes a funny line which is a Brian De Plama trademark wink and puts it into the film's reality. In act 3 the film looks like a poor pastiche of Indiana Jones, all geared up in a cave looking to kill The Entity (worst villain of 'em all if you ask me). The plot is ludicrous and it's repeated every ten minutes, every person speaking one at the time, no ever overlapping, like you're in grade A in school. Also an over-the-top pounding soundtrack which replaces Lorne Balfe with his disciples, two eager newcomers (Max Aruj and Alfie Godfrey), and they fill the space completely, no scene should not have music and booming sound effects. Plus ADHD editing and curved camera shots. And TC running , oh yeah, did I mention that again? 

Well the world's fate depends on him more than it ever did of James Bond, Indy or Jack Ryan. He's the JC figure, the only one that can saves it. "It is written" (in the script I guess in Italics...)

Also a film made with the support of Department of Defense that gave these people airplane carriers so they can quote from Tom Gun, doesn't impresses me. The dooming feel these days it's not from AI but from the top of the White House and his omonim in Moscow. 

3 out of 5, 6 out of 10 !

*the rating would be even lower if it wouldn't be for the impressive underwater sequence and the plane stunt. Remember, a movie star acts and entertains, we don't go to the movies to see them doing superhuman stunts we don't care about. It's called Moviemagic and movie tricks are doing that, you don't have to sell every film you're in piloting your own, driving fast motorcycles. You're no Steve Mc Queen...

a good review writing what I think also in The Detroit News: Mission Failed. 

RIP Richard Chamberlain

Richard Chamberlain for me was Edmond Dantes, Aramis, Jason Bourne, the Shogun and my faved, Allan Quatermain. Twose two cheesy movies from the late '80's, featuring young Sharon Stone and James Earl Jones, Herbert Lom and Henry Silva. B movie Heaven & Royalty. Unfortunately the second Quatermain flick was such a flop they never completed a Trilogy :). 

The character, an Indiana Jones adventurer, but more Camp, was based on the  H. Rider Haggard character from his Pulp novels. Ironically, Indy was inspired originally also by Alan Quatermain. The character was resurrected for Sean Connery in the malignant The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen/LXG (2003), which convinced Sir Sean to retire from acting...

Richard Chamberlain was more one of my mother's favorites, than mine. She watched the Thorn Birds on the video dayz (& Nites;) 

He died March 29th 2025 at 90 years of age. RIP...

Bastarden (2023)

Easily the best Danish film in years and a Career Top for Mads Mikkelsen.

Bastarden in original Danish, Promised Land in English, and Bastardul now in Romanian theaters.

It was proposed by Danmark for the Oscars but The Zone of Interest happened...

It opened in Venice last fall in the competition but won only a SIGNUS award.

Nikolaj Arcel's return to filmmaking in his own home after the disastruous Dark Tower (why?..). His previous films in his homeland and Scandinavia were all very good (Royal Affair, Kongsgame and the original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). 

Based on the book "The Captain and Ann Barbara" by Ida Jessen. And loosely on a true story. In 1780 and so. In Jutland, the windy wasteland of the Danish kingdom. Captain Ludwig Kahlen is on a mission, to colonize and fertilize the empty fields of Jutland.

It plays like a classic western, epic drama, but done with a very felt naturalism.

Something that got to do with potatos. cartofeln ("decât cartofi" ;).  Fistful of potatos. With a cold shiver of Danske cinema realism. 

Great atmospheric score by Dan Romer.

Brilliant and exquisite widescreen cinematography by Rasmus Videbaek (Arcel's aquired DOP).

Strong performances all over, esp. by Amanda Collin ('Mother' in Raised by Wolves) as Ann Barbara.

About Mikkelsen, I know him (as an actor) from his first film Pusher (in which he was Tony-he was also in Pusher 2), which I saw in Prague in 2000 from the Terminal Bar Video Collection. Saw him in Refn's follow-up Bleeder,Bleeder, in Valhalla Rising, in the cannibal comedy The Green Butchers, in TIFF in Flame and Citron, in B-EST in The Hunt,  showed at Cinemateca Patria A Royal Affair (his 1st film with Arcel), enjoyed at home during the "pandemic" Another Round / Druk. He was impeccable in all his American/Hollywood fares, from King Arthur on to the Hannibal series, in Casino Royale-a brilliant Le Chiffre,  SW-Rogue One, up to his latest baddie, in Indiana Jones V.

soft spots for Riders of Justice, Arctic, even Polar. 

Even high-end commercials like Le Fantome.

He won best actor on Danish Oscars (Robert prize) for this, and best European Actor of the Year 2023.

To be seen in theaters !

9 out of 10/ 4 1/2 out of 5

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

Saw the fifth INDY on premiere day -June 30, on a huuuge screen and liked it (it's already controversial and I don't understand the badmouth, never compare with the original trilogy! That was four decades ago...I was fearful to be dissapointed. After all I am a fan for life of the character and his adventures. Less crystal skulls. The film, after a wait of 15 years since the fourth one, was touching and heartfelt old-fashioned and James Mangold did a great job! There are four screenwriters credited including David Koepp and Mangold himself. Probably more hands and brains there. It's a dignifying end chapter, with old wisdom and even bitterness of a lost era. Also a lost era of filmmaking.

John Williams' score is magnificent and elegant (the Maestro is 91 now and came again out of retirement, as he did it again for The Fablemans, I guess this will be his final score...just when you hear the musical theme you get goosebumps, well, I did), Harrison Ford (81 in 13 days!!!, and he was 78 while filming) is THE INDY (the de-aging at the beginning it's Ok as they said it will be, not grand but works here as opposed to The Irishman and other films) and the girl, Helena (his goddaughter) - brit Phoebe Waller_Bridge (Fleabag series) is a very nice female companion, like a version of Katherine Hepburn on the African Queen days, Mads Mikkelsen is brilliant (as always and he made history as the villain in both Bond (Le Chiffre in Casino Royale) and Indiana Jones franchises!, same as Julian Glover...), Boyd Hollbrook great baddie, plus some nice cameos (no spoliers here!). I liked the new kid, Teddy (Ethann Isidore), Thomas Kretchmann ("Spoils of war go to victors"), Toby Jones (Basil Shaw, Helena's father), Olivier Richters-the tall henchman (2m18”!!!), the nice and touching Antonio Banderas part (Renaldo), Shaunette Rene Wilson (an agent like Cleopatra Jones).

It's the first digital Indy and it was shot beautifully by Mangold's attired cinematographer, Phedon Papamichel (from Identity to Le Mans/Ford vs. Ferrari, sans Logan...). Points go to Adam Stockausențs production design (he worked for Wes Anderson and Spielberg-in Bridge of Spies, Ready Player One and West Side Story). You sense the Spielberg touch and homages all the way (making it up as it goes along;).  I have no clue if Lucas was involved. 

In the end credits Mangold's thanks go to Milos Forman and Alexander Mackendrick. Nice.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny it's also the longest film of the series (2h34'min) and the first one without opening credits, plus the Paramount joke on the logo, cos it's the first Disney distributed and so forth...also it's the first to have an underwater sequence (and eels!). If you buy the MacGuffin and gimmick in the final act it's cool, if not bummer, and I have a feeling most of the audience won't :(

The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival one month ago and I heard from then mixed reactions, more pointing to a thumbs down than up...I saw Indy IV in Cannes in 2008 and I really really wanted to like it, but alas...I saw it last time last week and still the final act is horrendous, and it's all Lucas fault. Plus Shia doesn't really shine as Mutt...earlier this year I saw again Indian Jones and the Last Crusade which is my second favourite Indy flick after Raiders of the Lost Ark which I saw 1st time on video when I was 12, one year after its release, on a black and white TV in my house, with another 50 mesmerized people, brought impromptu by a guy I didn't know, and it changed my life (and his;), but that's another story...

Unfortunately BO predix not so good :(, though so...the film cost 295 mill. $ to be made (plus probably another 100 mill $ for marketing and advertising), more than 1000 people worked on it, at Pinewood studios, in Morocco and Sicily,  with New York exteriors, tons of special effects, extras  plus the Covid problems, a lot of post production but also a lot of set dressing and practical effects.

Also in the film can be heard The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour and David Bowie's Space Oddity, cos' it's all happening in 1969...there's a small nod to The Godfather and Nino Rota (1st Sicilian shot, done on a crane I think)...

Anyway, I will go and see it again on that huuuge screen! see if it gets better or not, or holds on to my fearful first but now enthusiastic encounter with a dear dear old friend. Well, we've been friends for 40 years...

T B Concluded...

• "I don't believe in magic. But a few times in my life, I've seen things. Things I can't explain. And I've come to believe it's not so much about what you believe,it's how hard you believe it."
•                                                               dr. Henry Jones Jr. 

Rough Night in Jericho (1967)

din seria: am primit un dvd si l-am si vazut. Thx, Relu !
Rough Night in Jericho (1967) e un western B, cu un rar, de fapt unic Dean Martin bad guy. Si-nca ce bad guy. O bate de o da pe jos pe Jean Simmons, si trage de pe dupa stinci ca un las si un ticalos. Filmul isi ia si timpul sa urmareasca un schimb de priviri intre Martin si un castor. Nah, Dino ! ce schimbare de imagine fata de Matt Helm !

Eroul este George Peppard, secondat de veteranul John McIntire. Peppard are o bataie cu negativul Slim Pickens, acesta fiind specializat in lupta cu biciul, dar Peppard il capiaza cu ce gaseste prin sura (m-a dus cu gindul la Indiana Jones, iar unul din scenaristi, Boehm, a scris si Secretul incasilor, unde Charlton Heston este inspiratia totala pentru Indy). Destul de violent pentru un western american din epoca pre-Wild Bunch (cu urme de singe si impact de gloante!), si inca sub codul Hayes, mai ales ca e regizat de un oldschhol TV veteran.
regia: Arnold Laven (1922–2009) a facut peste 70 de filme si TV, a facut si razboiul alaturi de alti combatanti hollywoodienei precum Capt. Ronald Reagan, Capt. Clark Gable si Lt. William Holden. Specializarea sa au fost serialele: "The Rifleman" (1958), "Law of the Plainsman" (1959), "The Detectives" (1959) si "The Big Valley" (1965)).
Primul film al lui George Peppard sub contract la Universal (au urmat Tobruk, What's So Bad About Feeling Good, P. J si dupa ani si ani Peppard s-a intors la Universal dar la TV cu The A Team !) cu legendari profesionisti in echipa: imaginea Russell Metty (Touch of Evil, Spartacus, Madigan), scenografia Frank Arrigo si Alexander Golitzen (Spartacus), muzica, atmosferica, Don Costa (Madigan), scenariul Sydney Boehm (Secret of the Incas, The Big Heat, When Worlds Collide) si Marvin H. Albert (autorul lui Tony Rome), dupa romanul acestuia intitulat: The Man in Black.
De vazut mai ales ca o curiozitate pina si in acele vremuri, inegal, dar cu momente fascinante, si cu un Dean Martin total atipic !

dvd francez, cu titlul "Violence en Jericho". altfel, bare bones.
format: 2.35.1, anamorfic.

3 din 5, 6 din 10 !

TINTIN! Tin-TIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"

Tintin rules. Not only the adventure movie of the year, maybe the best action movie of all time

"
ALD

"Great 3 D, beautiful pulsating score by John Williams, shades of Indiana Jones, magnificent set-pieces, the boy-boysh kid film to end all films

"
ALD
"

Best Spielberg film in years ! Better than Indiana Jones (at least all the Raiders sequels) !"

ALD

"Oscar Time for Andy Serkis. It's now or never! "

ALD

"Never in my life I saw animation that you forget it was animation and you live it for real like this. Proof that Spielberg is no Zemeckis. They did it, they fucken did it! "

ALD !

Can't wait for the next one ! Bring it on, Pete :)!

ALD

10 out of Ten, 5 out of Five !!!

DGA talk: Spielberg, Cameron, JJ Abrams

o conversatie de 2 ore de la sarbatorirea a 75 de ani de Director's Guild, DGA, in onoarea lui Steven Spielberg, “A Tribute to Steven Spielberg", in iulie a.c., intre JJ Abrams, James Cameron si Spielberg, moderata de Michael Apted !
Jaws, Close Encounters, Indy, E.T., so on...
-a real treat pentru cei ce au timp, si poate fi ascultata si ca audio !

pe situl DGA, click pe prima imagine din sectiunea “EVENT PICTURES & VIDEO” si puteti vedea toata conversatia.

Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010)

Luc Besson s-a intors. Pentru Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec,
o poveste bazata pe benzile desenate-cult in Franta ale lui Jacques Tardi.

Adèle Blanc-Sec este o scriitoare care are aventuri fantasmagorice, comparat de producatori cu un Indiana Jones feminin, dar mai aproape de Tintin. Actiunea se petrece in Paris in 1912 si Besson a filmat (de fapt Thierry Arbogast a filmat :) in locatii reale, ceea ce e foarte frumos. Un clin d'oeil la inceputul celui de-al Cincilea element, cu un episod egiptean inspirat de prologul la primul Indy, cu un negativ machiat dens (sub care il decoperim sau nu pe Mathieu Amalric-Dieuleveult), si o protagonista care nu m-a convins total, e enervanta in citeva secvente, dar Besson ne-o si dezbraca apoi (n-am inteles ideea pina n-am verificat cum arata BD-ul si da, si acolo Adele face baie,

acum daca e voyerismul lui LB sau noua lui Muza , asa cum au fost Anne Parillaud si Milla Jovovich, Besson a creat ceva eroine, Nikita, Ioana D'arc (care are si un cameo funny in film), Leloo, fata are 29 de ani si-a remarcat in La fille de Monaco a Annei Fontaine, Louise Bourgouin enumele ei. La un film pentru adolescenti nu am priceput de ce, dar ne-a placut :) la fel si mumiei egiptene :)

Pterodactilul mi-a adus aminte de King Koopa (Dennis Hopper) si Super Mario Bros. dar plotul din film seamana si cu seria Mumia, ma refer la primul (celelate doua duda si chiftea indigerabile si indigeste), cross cu Micmacs a tire-larigot si in general universul lui Jean Pierre-Jeunet. E un Besson care aduce mult a Jeunet si mai ales pentru faptul ca el n-a acoperit pina acum aceasta perioada de timp (si un foileton de tipurile celor din epoca, Arsene Lupin, Fantomas, Judex) care mie mi-a adus cel mai mult aminte de copliarie cu Nick Carter superdetectiv (Dinner for Adela), filmul cehesc al lui Oldrich Lipský. Comparatii se pot face pt anul asat si cu Sherlock Holmes, si cu Vidocq din care se trage Holmes (Pitof vs. Guy Ritchie, England wins). Sau malignul LXG al lui Steve Norrington , cross cu A series of Unfortunate Events. Tradi s-a inspirat din Jules Verne si Fritz Lang,
Buget huge (30 milioane de euro), muzica de Eric Serra, roluri secundare fun (Philippe Nahon for once-prof. Ménard ), Jacky Nercessian-prof. Esperandieu, Jean-Paul Rouve-Saint-Hubert si Gilles Lellouche-Caponi.


amuzant fara sa fie pretentios, fantastic si totusi cam usurel. Astept continuarile, Besson a zis ca va adapta cele 9 serii ale bandei desenate (aici toate detaliile) in trei filme (acum a luat din prima, Adèle et la bête-1976, Le démon de la Tour Eiffel-tot 1976 si Le savant Fou-1977. Prefer sa faca Adele BS decit Arthur is minimoishii sau Angel-A si productiile sale EuropaCorpes de action, karate, revenge movies si Taxi-uri.
trei stele jumate din cinci, 7 din 10


vazut in cadrul festivalului filmului francez, pe grand ecran pt. ca asa merita
(e 2.35.1), si pt. ca am aflat ca distribuitorul roman, Media Pro, nu-l aduce la cinema, asa cum a facut si cu Mesrine acum 2 ani

Raiders of the Lost Ark 1951 si 1954 (Secret of the Incas)

trailerul fake la Indiana Jones,ca si cum ar fi fost facut in 1951, de whoiseyevan, si un breakdown cu toate influentele si clipurile (ex, Peter Lorre din Mr Moto, svastika din Casablanca, etc)


contine inspiratia obvious cu filmul pe care Paramount il tine ascuns, Secret of the Incas,, cu Charlton Heston as Harry Steele, hat and jacket of Indy, da, am scris despre asta recent in topul meu Indiana Jones pt HBO club, v. pozitia 10-predecesori ! dar finally l-am gasit pe un site memorabilia, wow, bravo, obsesia vietii unui britanic, James Byrne, (care si-a implinit visul si in 2007 a vizitat locatiile in Peru)....unde e dat tot pe bucati pe youtube... (e public domain now, fuck you very much dear studio and George !) sunt ciordeli atit de exacte incit ti se rupe inima (ca citate si omagii nu-s ci doar ripp off-s), iar in Indy IV, Peru e o locatie importanta...

cu Yma Sumac care of course si cinta (eu stiu de ea de la tata, voi probabil din Big Lebowski)

TopTen-ul meu de Indiana Jones

pt HBO Clubda, k se da The Kingdom of the Crytal Skull...
si ma gindeam ca sunt wanker k nu l-am pus in top ten 2008, k e un film mai revizionabil decit Let the right one, Wall-e (4 me) si Martirii, dar pt ca actul 3 e de kk, si Ray Winstone si John Hurt dar nu conteaza, still a fun film ! shi asta in vremi de transformeri si francize de vampiri rasuflati..
Indy is still the man !

script conference la Indiana Jones

priceless, ,de pe blogul lui mystery man on film se poate downloada intreaga story conference din 1981 (transcript pdf) a celor 5 zile (cite 9 ore) de discutii intre George Lucas, Spielberg si Lawrence Kasdan, ales ca scenarist al unui filmulet intitulat atunci...Raiders of the Lost Ark.

comentariile lui mystery man legate de momentele importante ale discutiei, si cum
s-a creionat Indy din ele, sunt al fel de interesante !
iata dovada ca 13 martie nu e o zi cu ghinion !

Indiana Jones IV-de la filmari

yes, acesta e serialul de in the making pt. ca, minus vestea proasta, cu Sean Connery, this can be eventful, nu die hard 4 si pg 13 (clasificare pe care a inventat-o indiana jones si templul mortii in 1983).

unu, se intimpla in 1957, deci "dupa 20 de ani", desi Ford ar fi putut parea mai tinar

doi. Shia Le Beuf e ok, l-am vazut in transformers si e cool.

se filmeaza la universitatea Yale

fanii au venit sa asiste si s-au intilnit cu Spielberg

masini de epoca in New Haven , unde s-a filmat saptamina trecuta

to be contd....

prima zi de filmare la Indiana Jones IV

un filmuletz cu Spielbeg si Lucas in forma foarte buna si extem de veseli (Spielberg, Lucas tacut si mai intepat) a fost pus pe situl ofiicial al lui indiana Jones (al personajului, nu al filmului)...

este deocamdata PATRUL (fourquel) in care am incredere, Mad Max IV nu se intimpla si daca se va face va fi fara Mel, Rambo IV suna a B muvii, iar Terminator 4 va fi fara Arnie si not very interesting anyway...iar Die Hard, apare articolul vineri in Sapte Seri...doar Star Wars IV a facut istorie (A New Hope) pt ca de fapt a fost primul...

prima poza din Indiana Jones IV

24 iunie 2007
se filmeza ! si uite ca Harrison Ford arata Ok, chiar n-au trecut anii sau e din cauza ca a baut din Graal !!! deci poza, facuta chiar de Spielberg...



din pacate nu joaca Sean Connery, mare greaseala, dupa parerea mea, dar io cred ca e bolnav si ca cioaca cu retragerea din filme nu e asa de palimplesir...

si se filmeaza in Hawaii, si o sa arate ca Marocul din cel de-al doilea razboi mondial...

mai e mult pina pe 22 mai 2008 ?



in fine, io ascult o ultima piesa cu THE CULT de pe Electric , cover metalic si cum altfel decit elEctric, dupa Born to be Wild si ma duc sa-i vad pe Astbury and co, la lacul Morii. ROCK NROLL on Sunday Nite. Ceremony !

Marocco de vineri

16 martie 2007
marocco e jocul cu beţe de ridicat subtil, pe care+l căuta un prieten psihotic prin orash şi care a zis că mi le bagă în K...să încerce.



Iranul blameaza 300, dar au mai făcut-o cu Alexander…. belea de ştire,

s+a sinucis solistul de la Boston (more than a feeling), şi comicul Richard Jeni,

care era deprimat-ce sa mai zic io, se pare că pe ANS au otrăvit+o, Britney şi+a găsit iubirea vieţii la Rehab, o dura vreo priză două… Maiden vin în Bulgaria (luni 4 iunie, Lokkomotiv stadion, Sofia, unde i-am vazut shi pe Sabbath) şi la noi George Michael cică…care ţară e ghei, hmm, ei au ceafa groasă de aia poate să bage metagale ?



shi da, comentariile românesti re: rolling stones mă fac să mă oftic din nou kă ţara asta e po+pulată.

da şi e pe bani concertul, io zic că pe Lia Manoliu,


şi mai vin Therapy pe 17 (aprilie), la ei pe site scrie că la Motoare, buşhit, s+a reconfimat Evergrey, tot la Preoteasa….pe 21 aprilie


şi io cred că bag Waters la Budapesta pe 14 apr, sîmbăta cu Mishulin dacă vine şi fratele Ndugu la fel…că trebuia să-l vedem în Italia dar lui Ndugu i+au luat carnetul şi lui Michluin i+au dat gărzile, asta asha ca o paranteză personală



extra

Aja regizează Pirahna,

foarte bine…mult mai bine decăt Chuck “Blob/Eraser”Russell. Aja vine întâi în Romania pt mirrors, cum am mai scris pe aici.



6/6/05 PIRANHA TO GET THE REMAKE TREATMENT COURTESY OF CHILLER FILMS

Atmosphere/Relativity joint venture to finance update of 1978 classic, Wild Bunch to handle international rights.

7/6/05 Chuck Russell is rewriting the script, using elements from spec script Killer Fish by Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger plus the original's script by John Sayles. The film is based on a story by Richard Robertson.Russell (The Mask, Eraser, The Scorpion King) will decide whether or not to direct the film after he completes the rewrite. The movie will go into production this fall.

16/03/07 Alexandre Aja is now the director. He says he will have a complete new take on the film.





extra extra

Cate Blanchett joacă în Indiana Jones 4, se filmează din iunie, foarte bine..asteptam 28 mai 2008

mi+ar fi plăcut mai mult să-şi agite tziteele Scarlett sau Naomi Watts, decât Blancheta, care nu mă excită aşa cum nu m+a excitat nici Katherine Hepburn…dah…



extra extra extra ng ng

bu hu hu-se face remake la unul din filmele mele prefearte, EFNY adică ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, Gerard Butler îl joacă pe Snake Pliskin, foarte rău…

am auzit că e ghey şi m-a enervat în 300, Sparta să te spargă….once a butler….mai bine se făcea Escape from Celevand, sau from space, partea treia cu Kurt şi Carpenter. Kurt o să fie snakeish în Grindhouse şi Death Proof.



bonus

cel mai tare lucru de pe planetă la ora asta e ROBOT CHICKEN, creat de Seth Green, claymation, plastilină, păpushele, chestii…eu am juns tangenşial la el, de la Les Claypool care a făcut tema muzicală, Ba-Bawk-Bawk-Bawk

mostre de pe youtube asha de wikend….

gen war stars;

einz

empire strikes back

zwei

Vader sună pe împărat după distrugerea stelei morţii

drei

şi cea mai tare: George W. Bush Jedi



şi ţineeeeţi minte...STOOPID MONKEY!!!

13, aka OSCAR NOMINEE # 4 B, Kiefer en Roumanie, Sunshine nu reggae ci sunspotting (feat. balada lui John McLane)

7 februarie 2007
ce s-a mai întâmplat, expresso bongo, că e entry nr. 13 here

more DEPARTED (OSCAR NOMINEE # 4 B) şi uitasem să zic, Scorsese a luat premiul DGA pentru prima dată în carieră, după şapte nominalizări anterioare, ghinionist omul, really…alte amănunte despre şi sfîrşitul lui DEPARTED şi DEPARTED 2 aici

“Wake up and smell the coffin”, cea mai tare replică din film nu e în film, ci pe scenele tăiate (pardon, după menu disc în româneşte, scene şterse, u boneheads..),

un fel de “here’s Jack”, asta pe dvd, two disc special edition , unde se vede şi mai mult cu operă şi dildo…”I’m shipping you to Boston”, sunt curios ce ediţie de Dvd va ieşi la noi, wake up and smell the coffin sau the muffin ? smell of the glove !

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cică vine Kiefer Sutherland aici, adică en Roumanie. Se întoarce AA adică Alexandre Aja care şi-a filmat aici HAUTE TENSION să facă horrorul Mirrors. În mai. Kiefer să vorbească cu taică-su, care a fost hăituit de fumul de tutun aici, pe când filma Cold Mountain şi An American Haunting. Acuma îl înţeleg ,că şi eu mă lupt cu otrava nicotina şi slujitorii ei satanizaţi. Ş nu cred în terapia prin bio-retonanţă sau hipnoză.

trivia 1, ce legătură e între Kiefer, şi Joel Schumacher ?

trivia 2, ce legătură e între Aja şi Alexandre Arcady, care a filmat aici Entre chiens et loups ?

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eu aştept data de 22 mai 2008, adică Indiana Jones IV, sunt unul din puţinii care
n-au cârtit la idea asta şi aştept finalmente să-l şi văd, având în vedere că au trecut 29 de ani de când s-a făcut ultimul…ce, Dumas n-a scris după 20 de ani ? Şi după, încă, Vicontele de Bragelone ?

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and just for fun, până iese DIE HARD IV, pardon LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD, iaca Balada lui John McClane, nah, nu e din pagina de gardă de la imdb, acolo era THE DAY AFTER DIE HARD…
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SUNSPOTTING….am văzut SUNSHINE dar nu vă spolieresc nimic decât că e SF-ul anului şi că e mega-lat şi supertippy, merită văzut numai la cinema…feat visual şi audio…check out more on the site, de fapt production blog şi iată ce zice Danny Boyle… "It's kind of a space mission movie, in which they're taking a bomb the size of Kansas to reignite a section of the sun that's failing. It's got those rules of sci-fi, and it has a mystery attached to it as well. There's a mission that's failed seven years earlier and nobody knows what's happened to the crew, and at the end, they get to meet the source of all life in the universe. That has got to be worth 10 or 12 bucks or whatever you guys pay."



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4 comentarii
1alin 12 Februarie, 2007 ora 18.23si Douglas Sirk. mai complex.
2cuervo 9 Februarie, 2007 ora 12.37Nt. Michael Ballhaus. Your turn.
3alin 8 Februarie, 2007 ora 16.17Douglas Sirk 4
cuervo 8 Februarie, 2007 ora 13.04Kiefer a jucat in Lost Boys, Flatliners si Phone Booth
Arcady e tacsu\'
trivia 3. Ce legatura e intre Fassbinder si Scorsese?