Leonard Cohen RIP

If you are the dealer, I'm out of the game
If you are the healer, it means I'm broken and lame
If thine is the glory then mine must be the shame
You want it darker
We kill the flame

Magnified, sanctified, be thy holy name
Vilified, crucified, in the human frame
A million candles burning for the help that never came
You want it darker

Hineni, hineni
I'm ready, my lord

There's a lover in the story
But the story's still the same
There's a lullaby for suffering
And a paradox to blame
But it's written in the scriptures
And it's not some idle claim
You want it darker
We kill the flame

They're lining up the prisoners
And the guards are taking aim
I struggled with some demons
They were middle class and tame
I didn't know I had permission to murder and to maim
You want…

Leonard COHEN
1934-2016

obituary in Rolling Stone here
am avut onoarea de a-l vdea in toate cele 3 rinduri cind a cintat in Romania
-in 2008 chiar de ziua lui (v.aicihttp://aldmovieland.blogspot.ro/2008/09/first-we-take-manhattan-then-we.html)
albumul sau ultim, You Want it Darker. despre moartea iminenta, despre pacea interiora, unul din cele mai bune de anul acesta. But still: We kill the flame :(
-TBC-
ultimul interviu:

...azi la Cluj....

Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

"Mad" Mel's mad comeback...a true war story Worth telling.

Medic, adventist & Conscient Objector Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield) saved 75 lives in WW2, at Hacksaw Ridge, a horryifing battle in the Pacific in 1945.

Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson's comeback to directing after a 10 year gap (since Apocalypto), and his own inner battles with his addictions and past sins, is a resurrection, faith and redemption story.                         The war scenes are terrific. 

Things to object: a too classic and long act one backup story and mainly the musical score, by Rupert Gregson-Williams is too reminiscent of Hans Zimmer's The Thin Red Line. as is the atmosphere at the beginning of the picture.
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Dedicated to Andrew Lesnie and James Horner, they whould've been Mel's main contributors to HR. I would've loved Horner's score, esp. as his last one was wasted on the mediocre remake of Magnificent Seven :(

3 out of five, 6 out of 10 !

I'm back (big as life and twice as ugly*)

Greetings friends,
maybe u'v noticed my absence starting this May and Cannes.
Due to technology accidents which i am prone and master chif inspecteur Clouseau, as im the grandmasterfunk of typo-s, i got loccked out of my blog due to various accounts not working. Finally after a hard try on a hor summer Sardegnian day -on which my IT CEO Vlad tried his best but quit, he tried again ona cold November Brasov night. Und he succeded !
Great succes, as our Borat friend uss to say.
Thank thee, Filed Commander of my tech strategies, Vlad !
I know, i got four thumbs (but still up !)
so, welcome back to ALD's Movieland (and Rockland 3.0) !
:)