RIP Harold Pinter & Haralamb Zinca

2 scriitori, cum nu se poate mai diferiti...

Writer Harold Pinter Dead At 78
26 December 2008 1:33 AM, PST

Harold Pinter, who wrote 32 stage plays, 22 screenplays, numerous TV plays and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, died on Wednesday after an eight-year battle with cancer He was 78. His screenplays included The Quiller Memorandum (1965), The Last Tycoon (1976), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Reunion (1989) and Sleuth (2007). Too frail to attend the Nobel Awards in 2005, he delivered his acceptance speech on video -- and used it to denounce America's invasion of Iraq, calling it "a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law." He went on to accuse the U.S. of supporting "every right-wing military dictatorship" and committing international crimes in the name of democracy. His obituary in today's (Friday) New York Times, written by theater critic Ben Brantley and the late Mel Gussow, runs a whopping 3,260 words.

si Haralamb Zinca, 85 de ani, pe numele sau real Hary Isac Zilberman, un John le Carré (combinat cu un Ludlum comunist) romanesc, unul din eroii mei in copilarie, cel mai celebru scriitor de romane politiste alaturi de Rodica Ojog Brasoveanu
Moartea vine pe banda de magnetofon (ecranizat ca Un om in loden), o Crima aproape perfecta, Mapa cenusie GR (da, Godzilla, Romania)

Topul lui Stephen King pe 2008

1. The Dark Knight – “The best superhero movie ever.”
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. WALL-E – “It certainly deserves to be nominated.”
4. Tropic Thunder
5. Funny Games – “A savage parody of the snuff-porn”
6. The Bank Job
7. Lakeview Terrace
8. The Ruins
9. Redbelt – “Not your father’s Karate Kid.”
10. Death Race
dixit King:

Let's start with a confession: I'm not trustworthy when it comes to movies. I'm two-minded about them. Take this year's Saw film. I sat there in my favorite seat — third row middle, so the screen towers above me — and my forebrain was thinking, Oh, man, this is the year's biggest pile of cinematic dog vomit. But the rest of my brain is thinking, I'm at the mooooovies! IS THIS GREAT OR WHAT?

So when I get flamed in the letters column, as I usually do after one of these lists, I know why. This is almost surely the only 10-best list you'll read that contains not one but two Jason Statham movies; it's that two-brains thing.

din Entertainment Weekly

season's greetings

yep, a bullet for the general, and Klaus as moses, mad prophet, freeing the panchos !



and as always on the 24th, LMA, Lemmy is 63 !!!
godbless und godspeed !!! probably with'em strippers santiclaus
see ya in Bucharest in 2009 !

Eagle Eye

Atentie la pana de vultur ! trebuia sa se numeasca articolul in noiembrie, apropo de Occhio a la penna din 1981, cu Bud Spencer şi Amidou, pe care nu l-am mai scris pt ca am gasit un film mai bun de cronicat ! si am gasit draftul si l-am pus aici
Eagle Eye e un compendiu de copy/paste din Hitchcock, la nord prin nord vest si omul care stia pre multe, plus 2001, candidatul manciurian (numele Shaw) si telefon si war games, plus stealth, care recent a ciordit same old 2001 Hal plot !
o scena sub stilpii de tensiune aminteste de seven



shia e bun, monahan couldn’t care less, billy bob de umplura
cel mai preposterous over the top film din an sau aproape,
regizor DJ Caruso, cu bun nume DJ pt ca face sampling dar peste voma de Disturbia (cum o fi facut Salton Sea, ca mie mi-a placut si am luat si dvdul?)


2 stele din 5, 4/10