RIP Kris Kristofferson

Again gone one of the great ones...Mr. Kris K. is one of my personal favourite heroes, just for his look, I fell in love at first sight. He didn't have to be tough, he was in his own right, One of the Only Ones !!!

Mr. Kris Kristofferson was 88

I think the first film I saw with him was The Sailor who Fell in Grace with the Sea (1976), or maybe it was Convoy (1978) ?

in the early Nineties they brought a film in the cinemas called Flashpoint (1984), a curio that I dug. Tangerine Dream scored it too. Also that dud, Millennium (1989-oi), and Welcome Home (1989), the last film from Franklin J. Schaffner. Triple Kris bill :)

His 1st film was Dennis Hopper's aptly titled ;) The Last Movie (1971). But even if there is Pat Garret & Billy the Kid (1973- forSerban Celea :(, the best is for me is now & for a long time that infamous and immortal Heaven's Gate .

Trivia: Kristofferson turned down Sorcerer, him and Steve Mc Queen, all respect for Roy Scheider, I would've seen both Steve and Kris in it...God of Movies said no :(

Yep, he was in Blade and Blade two. And Blade: Trinity, resurrected ;) And what about that Albert Pyun's Knights (1993)? With Mister Lance...

Also: Alice doesn't Live here Anymore, Cisko Pike (wow, the whole flick is on youtube!), A Star is Born (the 1976 version), Trouble in Mind, Lone Star (4 Andrei ;), Payback (not in the director's cut that we dig ;), & a fierce cameo on Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia... 

I got one record on vinyl like over 30 years ago -I guess it was Repossessed from 1986- and was kinda disappointed cos it wasn't rock enough for me then ;) Too young & dumb & ...

posted here a song with his super band The Highwaymen, Desperados Waiting on a Train...

...now Kris is on the TRAIN, on the way to Heaven's Gate, to meet his old buddies, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Sam the Man (Peckinpah), James Coburn, Michael Cimino too...Willie Nelson still Standing !!!

Kristofferson said that he would like the first three lines of Leonard Cohen's "Bird on a Wire" on his tombstone: 

Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free

Vincent doit mourir (2023)

 Try to catch Vincent doit mourir / Vincent must Die/ Sa moara Vincent ! (2023) in Romanian theaters. It runs now a very limited release.

It's a one-of-a-kind film you have not seen before.

Stephan Kastang's feature film debut, from Cannes in la Semaine de la Critique, to the genre fests, with awards in Sitges, Fantasia and Neucahtel.

It's funny 'til it hurts and the main character is so hurt literally, you feel hurt too. It's also crazy, absurd (it starts like a Kafka story  / surrealism fable/ Boris Vian novel)  and somehow in all this fantastic, it's getting real. It can happen, too....

Cuckoo (2024)

Cuckoo is really Cuckoo

an UFO of a movie

psychotronic

psychedelic

weird horror thriller coming-of-age in the vein of Argento's Phenomena IMO, also because of the scenic Alps location and the ornithologic element (there it was bees). Also because it's Shot on film, 35 mm and in Anamorphic 2.35.1.

also Deutsch.

great soundtrack, ecclectic, by Simon Wascow (can be heard here).

forget Longlegs, this is different but Better, on top of the Horror films this year, along with MadS, Maxxine, Oddity & Late Night with the Devil (which is 2023 actually but I saw it this spring). Soft spot for Sting. 

It's Tilman Singer's second feature after LUZ (2018), which I plan to see now NA-saw and wrote about it on Jan.14 2025). 

At the beginning the cast of Cuckoo was different. Comes from Neon in US. Premiered at the Berlinale 2024. It won Silver Raven in BIFFF. Toured all the genre festivals.

definitly has a Cult-ish flavour. Also the plot is, did I say, cuckoo? ;)

Anul Nou care n-a fost / The New Year That Never Came (2024)

 Anul Nou care n-a fost / The New Year That Never Came a intrat de azi în cinematografele românesti.

Uite, e la Cinema One Laserplex Brasov de la 18.15 mîine și poimîine în avanpremieră. Și la Cinema City AFI. Zic de Brașov, că vă plingeti ca nu aveti filme de vazut la cinema, mai ales românești !

Recomand in privat dar si in public :) Am recomandat în scris în Culturama de toamnă, apoi am facut si un interviu cu Bogdan in numarul de noiembrie (soon here). Am recomandat la HIT FM Brasov & Zona Metropolitana, si pe unde am mai fost.

No tags here, ca ar fi prea multe.
Filmul de debut al lui Bogdan Muresanu, cel mai bun debut post-90-ist de la E Pericoloso Sporgersi al lui Nae Caranfil (1993), trecând prin A fost sau nu a fost al lui Corneliu Porumboiu (2006),
Bine, Boss. Acum la cîți mai mulți spectatori ! Și la EFA ! Și la Premiile Gopo !!! La Anul ;) Care(le) a fost, ESTE !!!

așa, din Culturama, citez:

Anulnou care nu a fost, debutul în lungmetraj al lui Bogdan Mureșanu

(premiat de EFA-Academia Europeană de film-cel mai bun scurtmetraj european pentru ”Cadoul de Crăciun” în 2019, filmul se poate vedea pe canalul Cinepub de pe youtube), 

șase vignete din Decembrie 1989, inclusiv cea din Cadoul de Crăciun. Premiera mondială în competiție la festivalul de la Veneția pe 1 septembrie, premii ca la Crăciun, pentru imagine, Boróka Biró (Gratulálok), scenariu, premiul FIPRESCI (juriul presei internaționale) și Premiul pentru cel mai bun film în secțiune Orizzonti !!!

Premiera în cinema la noi pe 27 septembrie . 2h18.

A lot more awards to come (TBC).

”Un film costă cam cît să faci un spital mai micuț. Așa că ar fi bine să și însemne ceva.”

(regizorul Bogdan Mureșanu dintr-un interviu în Variety)