Walking Dead-the sitcom !

via press play: This supposed "alternate intro" for AMC's The Walking Dead is a great example of how a mash-up can become a kind of stealth criticism. The biggest rap against the cable network's smash hit zombie series is that it's too much of a talky whitebread soap opera. Editor Timmy Lunsford sends up the show's shortcomings in an imaginary retro-1970s credits sequence, complete with sugary-inspirational theme music (actually the theme from Growing Pains); gratuitous irises and dissolves and lens flare effects; shots of characters silently displaying different sides of their (actually nonexistent) personalities, and period-correct fonts whooshing across the screen.

RIP Levon Helm

another bad one this week: Levon Helm, bateristul de la The Band si artist solo in his own right, a murit joi 19 de cancer, avea 71 de ani. In the annals rock and roll, Helm was a rarity, a drummer who could keep time while singing lead vocals. A jucat si in filme, debut in Coal Miner's Daughter in 1980, The Right Stuff (si narator), Fire Down Below ! si in doua filme produse de Michael Fitzgerald, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada si In The Electric Mist. In 2011 Helm a scos albumul sau final, Ramble at the Ryman, un live in Nashville. Autobiografie: “This Wheel’s On Fire”. In 1994, pe cind The Band au fost inclusi in Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, Helm a refuzat sa participe la ceremonie. "Take a load off" (The Weight) o piesa de pe albumul sau din 2009, Electric Dirt, scrisa pentru aceasta ocazie: When I Go Away “Levon Helm is the only drummer who can make you cry.”

(Jon Carroll in Rolling Stone via wall street blog

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Cannes 65-selectia oficiala !

it's official ! Mungiu si Dincolo de dealuri, in competitia mare ! Si mai e un scurt-metraj romanesc (22 min.), de la UNATC, Tabara de la Razoare, de Cristi Iftime, in sectiunea Cinéfondation ! Pe 3 aprilie s-a dat o lista , cica leaked, a selectiei. Dupa cum am zis atunci, multe titluri se regasec, daca nu in lista mare, atunci in paralel, in Un Certain Regard ! Film de deschidere: Moonrise Kingdom de Wes Anderson (pe vremuri Woody Allen, acum s-a ajuns Wes A., filmul intra totodata in sali in Franta a doua zi!) Filmul participa si in competitie ! Jacques AUDIARD DE ROUILLE ET D'OS 1h55 Leos CARAX HOLY MOTORS 1h50 David CRONENBERG COSMOPOLIS (dupa romanul lui DonDi Lillo) 1h45

Lee DANIELS THE PAPERBOY 1h41 Andrew DOMINIK KILLING THEM SOFTLY (fostul Coogan's Trade, cu Brad Pitt) 1h40 Matteo GARRONE REALITY 1h50 Michael HANEKE AMOUR (LOVE) 2h06 John HILLCOAT LAWLESS 1h55 HONG Sangsoo DA-REUN NA-RA-E-SUH (IN ANOTHER COUNTRY) 1h28 IM Sang-soo DO-NUI MAT (THE TASTE OF MONEY) 1h53 Abbas KIAROSTAMI LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE 1h49 Ken LOACH THE ANGELS' SHARE 1h46 Sergei LOZNITSA V TUMANE(IN THE FOG)2h07 filmat de Oleg Mutu ! Cristian MUNGIU BEYOND THE HILLS 2h35

Yousry NASRALLAH BAAD EL MAWKEAA(AFTER THE BATTLE)1h56 Jeff NICHOLS MUD 2h15 Alain RESNAIS VOUS N'AVEZ ENCORE RIEN VU 1h55 Carlos REYGADAS POST TENEBRAS LUX 1h40 Walter SALLES ON THE ROAD 2h20 (dupa cartea lui Jack Kerouac) Ulrich SEIDL PARADIES : Liebe (PARADISE : Love) 2h00 Thomas VINTERBERG JAGTEN (THE HUNT) 1h46 Film de inchidere: ultimul film al lui Claude Miller, disparut pe 4 aprilie, Thérèse Desqueyroux, dupa François Mauriac (in afara competitiei). UN CERTAIN REGARD Ashim AHLUWALIA MISS LOVELY First film 1h50 Juan Andrés ARANGO LA PLAYA First film 1h30 Nabil AYOUCH LES CHEVAUX DE DIEU (GOD'S HORSES) 1h55 Catherine CORSINI TROIS MONDE 1h40 Brandon CRONENBERG (baiatul lui David, normal) ANTIVIRAL First film 1h50 Benicio DEL TORO, Pablo TRAPERO, Julio MEDEM, Elia SULEIMAN,Juan Carlos TABIO, Gaspard NOÉ et Laurent CANTET 7 DIAS EN LA HABANA 2h05 Benoit DELÉPINE, Gustave KERVERN LE GRAND SOIR 1h32 Xavier DOLAN LAURENCE ANYWAYS 2h41 Michel FRANCO DESPUÉS DE LUCIA 1h33 Joachim LAFOSSE À PERDRE LA RAISON 1h54 Darezhan OMIRBAYEV STUDENT1h30 Moussa TOURE LA PIROGUE (THE PIROGUE) 1h27 Pablo TRAPERO ELEFANTE BLANCO (WHITE ELEPHANT) 2h00 Sylvie VERHEYDE CONFESSION OF A CHILD OF THE CENTURY 2h05 Koji WAKAMATSU 11.25 THE DAY HE CHOSE HIS OWN FATE 2h00 YOU Le MYSTERY 1h30 Benh ZEITLIN BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD First film 1h32 OUT OF COMPETITION Bernardo BERTOLUCCI IO E TE (ME AND YOU) 1h37 Eric DARNELL, Tom MCGRATH MADAGASCAR 3, EUROPE'S MOST WANTED 1h30 Philip KAUFMAN HEMINGWAY & GELLHORN 2h34 MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS Dario ARGENTO DARIO ARGENTO'S DRACULA 1h46 Takashi MIIKE AI TO MAKOTO 2h14 65TH ANNIVERSARY UNE JOURNÉE PARTICULIÈRE by Gilles Jacob and Samuel Faure 53' SPECIAL SCREENINGS Fatih AKIN DER MÜLL IM GARTEN EDEN (POLLUTING PARADISE) 1h25 Laurent BOUZEREAU ROMAN POLANSKI : A FILM MEMOIR 1h34 Ken BURNS, Sarah BURNS, David MCMAHON THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE 2h00 Sébastien LIFSHITZ LES INVISIBLES 1h55 Claudine NOUGARET, Raymond DEPARDON JOURNAL DE FRANCE 1h40 Nelson PEREIRA DOS SANTOS A MUSICA SEGUNDO TOM JOBIM 1h30 Gonzalo TOBAL VILLEGAS First film 1h36 Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL MEKONG HOTEL 1h01

RIP William Finley

saddest news...de pe De Palma a la Mod aflu ca a murit Bill Finley, adica Fantoma Paradisului ! Unul din actorii-fetis ai lui Brian De Palma, prieten intim si colaborator apropiat (de la Woton's Wake pina la The Black Dahlia, in 9 proiecte), William Finley era un character actor perfect, dar putin intrebuintat. Rolul sau Cult ramine cel din Fantoma Paradisului/Phantom of The Paradise (1974), un muzical excentric, apreciat in Canada (unde exista Phantompalooza) si Franta, dar nu si in SUA. Finley a jucat si la Tobe Hooper, in Eaten Alive, The Funhouse, si Night Terrors. Actorul a murit simbata 14 aprilie, in urma unor complicatii de la o operatie. Avea 69 de ani !
*emisiune speciala despre William Finley la MovieGeeksunited (blogtalkradio), cu interviul sau din 2007 (mostly on Brian De Palma) !

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am preluat montajul foto de la DPalM de Geoff Beran !
-Edgar Wright, un fan absolut, povesteste aici despre experienta lui uncanny de a-i fi trimis un email exact in ziua mortii...

Dupa cum spune Wright, "I was, and remain, speechless and heartbroken", nu pot decit sa subscriu :(


-iar aseara am revazut Ishtar, cu cintece de Paul Williams !
iata Faust-ul sau din Phantom of the Paradise (celalalt credit muzaical al sau fiind piesa-titlu din Murder a la Mod:

"Old emotions may they rest in peace and dream, dream a bunch of friends
Rest in peace, and dream, dream it never ends"