9 la Anim'est

9 (2009) este un sf animat post-apocaliptic, co-produs de Tim Burton cu Timur Bekmambetov.
cu vocile lui Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau. Filmul e bazat pe scurt metrajul studentesc al lui Shane Acker, care a fost nominalizat la Oscar in 2005 si care poate fi vazut aici.


asta seara la 20.30 la Patria, in prezenta regizorului Shane Acker
si in reluare miine (luni) la 16.30 la Patria si tot acolo duminica 16 oct. la 16.30
miine e si un seminar la UNATC cu Shane Acker, la ora 14.00, intrarea libera !
si joi un masterclass la ArCub (ora 19.00, intrarea libera)

Crulic la Animest !

A inceput Animest-ul, editia a 6-a, ieri.
Am vazut Crulic, de Anca Damian, premiera romaneasca pe 21 octombrie.
primul film romanesc de lung metraj de animatie in peste 20 de ani.
cu vocea lui Vlad Ivanov, despre cazul Crulic, care amurit de greva foamei, in detentie, in Polonia, in 2008. In genul animatiei adulte pe teme dramatice, Persepolis, Waltz with Bashir, un soi de documentar-eseu care combina tehnici de animatie pentru a reda aceasta poveste dramatica. Crulic a avut premiera la Locarno unde a luat o mentiune speciala si face in prezent turul festivaluirlor internationale.

Animatia a fost facuta de o echipă de la studioul DSG din Bucureşti: Dan Panaitescu, Raluca Popa, Dragoş Ştefan, Tuliu Oltean şi Roxana Benţu.

RIP Diane Cilento

actrita australiana si for once sotia lui Sean Connery (din 1962 pina in 1973). A jucat in Hombre, Tom Jones (nominalizare la Oscar), Agonie si Extaz. Cel ami cunoscut rol, cel putin pentru britanici, in Wicker Man (1973), scris de Anthony Schaffer, cu care s-a maritat in anii '80. Mama lui Jason Connery.
Diane Cilento a murit de cancer pe 5 octombrie, in aceiasi zi cu Charles Napier si Steve Jobs. Avea 78 de ani.
obituary in The Guardian aici.

RIP Charles Napier

in timp ce toata lumea vorbeste despre moartea lui Steve Jobs la 56 de ani, in aceiasi zi (5 oct.) a murit un mare character actor, tough as nails, Charles Napier, am aflat de pe MUBI care comenteaza:

"Roger Ebert referred to him as 'that character actor with a smile like Jaws,'" recalls Tom Stockman, passing along the news that Charles Napier as died at the age of 75. "Russ Meyer recognized that his cartoonish grin and jutting chin made a perfect complement to the bigger-than-life women he cast in his films so gave Napier his first starring roles in Cherry, Harry & Raquel, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (both 1970) and Supervixens (1975)…. Jonathan Demme cast Napier in his films frequently and everyone remembers him as the ill-fated Lt Boyle, charged with guarding Hannibal Lecter in that cage in Silence of the Lambs (1991)."

Mie mi s-a parut mereu ca seamana cu Dick Miller, si ca prezenta, si prestatie :) folosit de Jonathan Demme in filmele sale la fel ca Miller in cele ale lui Joe Dante. Ei sunt old school Roger Corman graduates, Napier a inceput cu Russ Meyer. Actorul avea 75 de ani.
site oficial aici

si un interviu genial si exhaustiv pe avclub. mai ales despre Russ Meyer, despre cum l-a angajat Hitchcok la Universal, prietenul sau Hunter Thompson, John Landis si John Belushi -a jucat in Blues Brothers-"That’s several months of my life I don’t remember"
-Rambo (a fost nemesisul lui Stallone in Rambo: First Blood Part II) si Menahem Golan !

It all started from years ago, when I did a starring role with Stallone. He was the only actor that ever said, “If I ever make it, man, I’ll help you.” And he did. And Lee Marvin was a pal of mine, and when that role came up, Lee was supposed to do it, but he was in Australia. He said, “You can have it, tell them to pay me off.” And that’s how I got that role. (...) I’ve made 30 films out of the country that nobody will ever see, with Menahem Golan, and I can’t even remember the names of ’em. I made them in the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Bulgaria, Russia, Argentina, Panama, you name it.
(.....) Menahem was a great guy. He must have been in his late 70s when I was working with him. We used to go to these Eastern Bloc countries where you could literally carry your money around in suitcases and buy your way day by day. And this old guy was ready to do that. We hit up a relationship. Golan-Globus fell apart. He wanted me to come back to Belarus one last time, and I said, “Menahem, I can’t take Belarus anymore, man.” He goes, “That’s okay, Charlie, I still love ya.” He also loved Oliver Reed for some reason. We were his two favorite actors, I guess.