tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57008161328208763502024-03-05T02:56:31.676-08:00Impressions on FilmJoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459075611644113746noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700816132820876350.post-44223085343406853172013-11-24T14:53:00.003-08:002013-11-24T14:53:39.199-08:00ABCs of Death 2 - Search for the 26th Director<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The competition to find the 26th horror short to be included in <b><i>ABCs of Death 2</i></b> produced a few gems, proving cinema is alive and well, thank you very much. </div>
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<b style="font-size: 12px;"><i>M is for Masticate</i></b><span style="font-size: 12px;"> (Robert Boocheck, 2013)</span></div>
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<b style="font-size: 12px;"><i>M is for Meat</i></b><span style="font-size: 12px;"> (Wolfgang Matzl, 2013)</span></div>
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<b style="font-size: 12px;"><i>M is for Middle</i></b><span style="font-size: 12px;"> (Soichi Umezawa, 2013)</span><br />
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<i style="font-weight: bold;">M is for Middle </i>was not selected to be in the final 12, and as such, it won't be included in the collective film, but that's ok, because Soichi Umezawa has the brightest future of them all. What a doozy!</div>
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Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459075611644113746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700816132820876350.post-32754808191590417942013-09-01T05:05:00.000-07:002013-09-01T05:06:00.879-07:00Kick-heart (Masaaki Yuasa, 2013)<div>
At the age of 48, Masaaki Yuasa creates with the unfettered imagination of a 5-year-old.<br />
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<br />Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459075611644113746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700816132820876350.post-66261869368308851482013-08-04T04:19:00.001-07:002013-08-04T04:19:31.305-07:00Hayao Miyazaki<i>"Airplanes are the most beautiful when they are in the air. I wanted to see a Zero flown by a Japanese aviator, not an American. My fantasy was to see it flown under high-voltage power transmission cables next to Studio Ghibli in western Tokyo. But my wife told me to stop being such an idiot, and that was that.</i>"<br />
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Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459075611644113746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700816132820876350.post-17149604179286630572013-08-03T16:08:00.004-07:002013-08-03T16:09:15.509-07:00The Future Is Now #2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459075611644113746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700816132820876350.post-24416730022599652772013-07-07T11:23:00.000-07:002013-07-07T14:16:12.858-07:00Shoes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 12px;">David Letterman and Jerry Seinfeld in<i style="font-weight: bold;"> Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee 2.2</i></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"> (2013)</span></div>
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Images of shoes in film are a rare thing. Feet rarely get a close-up of their own, and since the current aspect ratios are not made to accommodate the whole of the human figure, and the feet are the farthest away from the face (the part of the human body most closely associated with personal identity, and as such, the most prevalent in narrative filmmaking), it's unlikely that they will show in the frame accidentally.<br />
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Joehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459075611644113746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700816132820876350.post-58203234028466148142013-06-23T07:05:00.004-07:002013-08-04T04:17:46.188-07:00Johnnie To<i>"Most of the films are made for the industry, and to sustain my company. I can count on one hand the films I really enjoyed making: The Mission, PTU, Exiled, Sparrow and Life Without Principle. That’s just five! And the rest are, shall I say, business projects.</i>"<br />
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Silvia Calderoni cuts an astonishing figure in Davide Manuli's <i><b>La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser</b></i>, her body constantly bouncing to a silent beat, as if her heart was a drum machine, a kinetic energy that is both awkward and awe-inspiring. A true messiah.<br />
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A stunning moment in Griffin Dunne's <b><i>Addicted to Love</i></b>, a camera obscura projection of a window across the street, an ex-girlfriend turned object of desire, magically "lit up" by virtue of a brokenhearted man's misguided (but oh so earnest) fixation. <br />
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All romantic comedies should be this perverse.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700816132820876350.post-78992944898370427132013-05-25T15:15:00.001-07:002013-06-02T06:27:03.170-07:00The Future Is Now #1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Queensbridge looks eerily beautiful from above. Strange-looking structures surrounded by trees, scattered around with no apparent criteria, as if they had sprouted from the earth, it almost looks like something from another world. </div>
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Dito Montiel's cinema is essentially impressionistic. Recollections of moods, places, events, people. Always too richly detailed to have been entirely made up. In <b><i>The Son of No One</i></b>, when his camera repeatedly hovers over the neighborhood, it's as if these buildings are hiding a million different stories, and he knows every single one of them.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700816132820876350.post-53662092327543357812013-05-08T16:20:00.001-07:002013-05-08T16:21:43.649-07:00R.I.P. Ray Harryhausen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ray Harryhausen's contribution to the art of cinema is ever more meaningful in an age where countless new films try (and fail) to convince me I should be in awe of their unbelievable (literally, not believable) CGI spectacles.
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Admittedly, the screenshots don't do justice to the tone of romantic despair that Kieran Culkin and Emma Stone convey so beautifully. <br />
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Griffin Dunne's <i><b>Veronica </b></i>is at odds with everything else in <i><b>Movie 43</b></i>. No irony, no faux-edginess; it's all heart. A real treat.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700816132820876350.post-39919457784635662392013-04-28T07:04:00.001-07:002013-06-02T06:27:52.634-07:00Deadfall (Stefan Ruzowitzky, 2012)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Deadfall is a classic example of a film that lives on the strenght of its director's virtuosity. Given a terrible script to work with, Stefan Ruzowitzky makes the most of it by focusing on the basics of each individual moment: how do you shoot a car crash? How do you shoot a murder? How do you shoot a sex scene? Taken as a whole, the film doesn't make a lot of sense, but moment to moment, it's beautifully realized.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700816132820876350.post-75604845084264734662013-03-11T15:01:00.000-07:002013-03-11T15:02:11.290-07:00Buñuel Ever-present<br />
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Two movies watched yesterday.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700816132820876350.post-86102199151346036762013-03-10T05:36:00.000-07:002013-03-31T16:09:44.374-07:00Flight (Robert Zemeckis, 2012)<div style="text-align: center;">
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Five great scenes from Robert Zemeckis' <i><b>Flight</b></i>, a film so packed with cliches and heavy symbolism that only at the hands of a master craftsman could it have turned out as good as it is. Zemeckis is the most modern of filmmakers working in the classical Hollywood mold.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700816132820876350.post-66347706632655503552013-01-20T14:11:00.001-08:002013-01-20T14:18:39.407-08:00China, China (João Pedro Rodrigues e João Rui Guerra da Mata, 2007)Trapped in a life she doesn't want, China finds her freedom in small moments of bliss she invents for herself, and in those moments, <b><i>China, China</i></b> comes alive like few other movies do.<br />
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This scene, a 3-second handrail slide that's made to last 10 seconds — because that's how long it takes to really appreciate it — is probably my favorite in all of João Pedro Rodrigues' work.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700816132820876350.post-61769598778941473442012-12-23T14:50:00.001-08:002012-12-29T17:57:19.340-08:00Viagem à Expo (João Pedro Rodrigues, 1998)<i><b>Viagem à Expo</b></i> is a sort of follow-up to <b><i>Esta é a Minha Casa</i></b>, this time following the Fundo family on a trip to Lisbon, to visit the 1998 Lisbon World Exposition (Expo '98).<br />
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The film is marvelously complemented by the ethnographic essay it originated, Filomena's Silvano's <i><b>De Casa em Cas</b><b>a</b></i>, which paints a more comprehensive picture of the human side of things, and gives context to the action in the film.<br />
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<i>Out of politeness, José never made any negative comments towards the films. He merely regretted the absence of some shots for which he had high expectations, (...) and asked for copies, if possible, of all the material we shot. He has, however, confided in his neighbor, a sociologist who put us in touch with him, expressing his perplexity at how the film was shot. The main issue was related to the fact that the classical cinematic representation focusing on the face, the part of the human body which in western culture is more directly associated with personal identity, was not the director's option of choice. </i></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700816132820876350.post-59712088483532017132012-11-25T15:16:00.000-08:002012-12-22T06:11:23.952-08:00Parabéns! (João Pedro Rodrigues, 1997)On the morning of his 30th birthday, Chico wakes up to find a young man on his bed, with whom he spent the night. The film is a (re)collection of details of The Morning After. <br />
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<i><b>Parabéns</b></i>! is where João Pedro Rodrigues starts coming into his own, the first glimpse into the style and themes we've come to know from his features, albeit still in embryonic form. <br />
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The character of João is in a way a percursor to <i><b>O Fantasma </b></i>'s Sérgio, exhibiting the same kind of animalistic energy, although while the latter assumed a canine behaviour (barking, crotch-sniffing, territorial pissing), the former more clearly resembles a feline.<br />
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Of the details, the overlapping sounds of Tom Tom Club and Dragon Ball Z is something to cherish.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700816132820876350.post-64770454217617982702012-11-13T15:20:00.002-08:002012-11-25T15:20:37.051-08:00O Pastor (João Pedro Rodrigues, 1988)<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Formally assured, and consisting mostly of long shots, it tells the story of a shepherd who, at the age of 65, is forced to retire. It is unsurprising to learn that António Reis was one of Rodrigues' teachers at ESTC, considering how much it reminded me of Reis' own semi-ethnographic portrayals of quotidian rural life in <i><b>Trás-os-Montes</b></i> and <i><b>Ana</b></i>. Still, it is a mere curiosity.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700816132820876350.post-83033905300918275182012-10-28T17:30:00.000-07:002012-10-28T18:41:00.254-07:00Killer Joe (William Friedkin, 2011)<i>"The audiences have changed. They are conditioned
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<i><b><br />Killer Joe</b></i> is a movie haunted by television sets, right from the opening scene, where a television is on in the middle of the night, for no apparent reason, eerily showing static noise, while everyone's asleep.<br />
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When Ansel arrives in the living room, after having been woken up by Chris, the first thing he does is change the channel, and we're treated to a curious bit of foreshadowing, as the television shows us the scene we're missing at the end of the film.<br />
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But for the most part, TVs in <i><b>Killer Joe</b></i> exist as a perpetual source of distraction and annoyance, and Friedkin makes a ritual of people turning them off. It starts with Joe turning off a TV upon arriving at the Smiths' trailer for the first time, because the TV is too loud, and Dottie can't hear him otherwise.<br />
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Dito Montiel does his best Spike Lee impression and comes out on top. His passion for the medium is evident, and the film is packed with interesting (albeit simple) cinematic ideas. <br />
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Great acting all around, including Channing Tatum, and (especially, surprisingly) Shia LaBeouf.
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Charlize Theron and Berlin modern architecture feeding off each other's aesthetic appeal to create the kind of sumptuous imagery pictured above. Karyn Kusama can't hold a shot to save her life, but as far as architectural travelogues go, it's still pretty decent. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700816132820876350.post-37104669629389380722012-08-12T12:13:00.003-07:002012-08-14T03:41:40.491-07:00On CGI<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://diespinnen.blogspot.pt/2012/05/nas-nuvens.html">On <i><b>Take Shelter</b></i> and CGI.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700816132820876350.post-40744710232947816792011-02-07T11:56:00.000-08:002012-08-12T03:25:52.889-07:00Les parents terribles (Jean Cocteau, 1948)<div style="text-align: center;">
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