Count the headlights on the highway

Count the headlights on the highway.....


Hold me closer tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today

Aeon Blank si Plastik Charm @ Control

Marti, 4 februarie, ora 21.00: Aeon Blank revine pe scena din Control, alaturi de tanara trupa Plastik Charm.
Temperaturile scazute de afara vor fi indulcite de o reducere de 50% la orice bautura, acorduri de chitara pline de energie si versuri pline de caldura!
Aeon Blank - trupa abordeaza un stil rock alternativ cu influențe dark wave, metal si gothic.
Special guest: Plastik Charm- trupa de muzica electro-rock din Bucuresti.

Fb event
Intrare libera
Sala Berlin/ club Control - Str. Constantin Mille, nr. 4

Jack Goes Boating (2010)

Am vazut in fine, ca un omagiu, debutul regizoral al lui Phillip Seymour Hoffman (si ramas acum singurul sau film :( , Jack Goes Boating, dupa piesa lui Robert Glaudini. Un film intimist, tandru-dulce amar, o dovada in plus a talentului imens a lui PSH, care si-a reluat rolul de pe scena, secondat aici de John Ortiz (excelent), de Amy Ryan (pe care o numeau o Isabelle Huppert newyorkeza)si Daphne Rubin-Vega.

Doua cupluri newyorkeze, un melanj a la Woody Allen, dar cu personaje mai disfuctionale si working class, si un ton optimist. Un prim film in care Hoffman isi ofera un rol minunat, de misfit, cald insa fata de freaksii jucati in alte parti, cu caciula de iarna, si dreadlocks sub ea, sofer de limuzina, timid si putin sarac cu duhul, sau doar un pic autist.
Muzica de Grizzly Bear si piese de Fleet Foxes, Cat Power, Goldfrapp. Melodia Rivers of Babylon, in varianta celor de la The Melodians, nu va mai fi niciodata la fel.
un interviu cu PSH despre film, in The Guardian !
Philip Seymour Hoffman has a gift for playing quickly embarrassed men who fear rejection. He can convey such vulnerability in some roles that we're on his side without the script needing to persuade us. We want to finish his sentences, clap him on the back, cheer him up. In other roles, such as "Synecdoche, New York," he projects enough ego to enforce his will for years on end. There's an actor for you.

Roger Ebert, in cronica la Jack Goes Boating

afis fals de comedie romantica, rom-com, si unul mai potrivit:

3 1/2 din 5, 7 din 10 ! i-as fi dat mai mult, pt ca m-a emotionat teribil, dar asta si datorita momentului tragic. Philip Went Boating :(

Philip Seymour Hoffman RIP

Incredibil ! A murit Philip Seymour Hoffman. 46 de ani. Overdose :(
v. New York Post
si NYTimes aici
Premiul Oscar pentru cel mai bun actor, Capote, 2005. Trei nominalizari pentru cel mai bun actor in rol secundar.
Tocmai se anuntase un nou proiect regizoral al sau, Ezekiel Moss. Hoffman a regizat Jack Goes Boating in 2010. Cel mai recent, a avut premiera la Sundance cu A Most Wanted Man, al lui Anton Corbijn, dupa John le Carré. Ultima data l-am vazut in sensibilul A Late Quartet (2012). Actor fantastic, versatil, jovial, preferat al lui PTA; The Master (premiu de actorie la Venetia, nominalizare Oscar), Magnolia, Punch-Drunk-Love, Boogie Nights, arthouse star: Happiness, Synecdoche, New York, State and Main, si pentru mine Lester Bangs in Almost Famous, The Count in The Boat That Rocked (aka Pirate radio) si Brendt din The Big Lebowski. Bad guy psihotic in Mission: Impossible III. Alte roluri, in The Talented Mr. Ripley, Charlie Wilson's War, Doubt, Moneyball, Hunger Games.
Un interviu cu el in The Guardian, zice, citez:
Philip Seymour Hoffman was one of the most miserable men I have ever met, and one of the most humane. I interviewed him in 2011 when he was promoting his directing debut, Jack Goes Boating – a quiet, still and surprisingly optimistic film.
Of course, he was anything but optimistic in the flesh. It was painful for him to sit down and talk when all he wanted to do was get away and smoke in silence. He spoke in the same fractured, tortured sentences as he did in his films. Nobody did crippled communication quite like Hoffman. Hoffman was a lumbering, grumbling bear of a man.

"I got to remember to not kill myself, not beat myself up, not get too worked up about it. There will be another film, there will be another relationship, or I'll die and then I'll be dead."

Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967-2014)