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Selected Films
Carefully Selected From The Pool Of Greats
Deep In The Woods
The film begins with a reading of Red Riding Hood. It’s simple but stylish and raised my hopes for the rest of the film. But what follows is a pretty standard stalk and slash film that does not create any tension or of great horror.
A group of young actors are used to perform Little Red Riding Hood for the lonely son of an aristocrat. A murderer enters the fray and use the mansion as his stalking ground isolation. My biggest problem with this film is never the sense that the characters were scared or worried about your situation.
The mansion of the film is impressive, but when a murderer is loose in the hope that their 
attempted escape of the victims not to admire the place. The victims are so soft and so similar to those of a hundred other films that are likely to be living on site and did not win very soon.
In the end, probably not gained attention. If you are looking for blood, look elsewhere. Only one of the dead is memorable, the rest can be described as functional.
In general this is a horror film of poor quality along the lines of: I know what you did last summer and Valentine. It uses a tired concept and brings nothing new in their execution. It may seem more elegant, but the soft substance.
If you want to recommend a best French horror Mellemspændingsprodukter (Switchblade Romance).
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June 24th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
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June 26th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
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June 27th, 2009 at 12:47 am
I wonder what he’s really asking or saying to you.
June 28th, 2009 at 4:37 am
Here´s the thing Greg:
I´m a student of cinema. The other day I was watching “The Triumph of the Will”, a documentary by german filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. It´s basically a piece of nazi propaganda. It´s also an awesome documentary, a really espectacular and astounding technical and artistic feat.
I´m also very fond of the french writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline. “Voyage to the End of the Night” is one of the best books I ever read, and it universally acknowledged as one of the best novels of the 20th century. Céline was also a major scumbag and anti-semite ass, whose pamphlets “denouncing” the jewish conspiracy would make Mel Gibson sound as a standard for tolerance between religions.
Fact is, humans are complex beings. And the thing about great artists is that their work can frequently overcome the moral and socail shortcomings of their individual lifes. Its like something Carl Jung once said: the work of a great artist does not come from them, but TROUGH them.
Michael Jackson was a f***ed up individual, with a very tragic story. I do understand that you feel unconfortable by his post-mortem eulogizing. I feel the same. I think that, at this moment, we should pay attention to the dark side of his life. But, to see things completely, we should also keep in mind that he was not just the boogeyman from Neverland. This is a man who basically created the musical industry as we know today. Who was, during his lifetime, the biggest individual charity donor of the world, who gave millions and millions every year to help the poor, the sick, the disenfranchised. Who actually used his fame not only to his personal gain, but to bring awareness and get funding to help others.
This is not comic book world, were we know very clearly and conveniently who are the villains and the heroes. In real world, those capable of great evil often are capable of doing great good, too. Judging if Michael Jackson was a evil predator or a misunderstood saint… well, quite frankly, I guess that really doesn´t matter anymore. What matters was the undeniable impact he left in our culture, with his life and his death. Praising the art is not kin to praising the man. The man is dead. The art lives on, way beyond his sins.
PS: also, keep in mind: there was never any proof against Michael Jackson. Particularly, in the LA case, he was being accused by people who had a previous history of fraud and lying to the jury. As a teacher, you may know that if a student made a false claim, you would be in a dire position, even if you were completely innocent. And, even if you were acquited, your reputation could remain tainted for quite a long time. After all, it´s impossible to proof that you DIDN´T do something.
I´m not defending Michael Jackson. But I don´t think we should hurry to accuse him, either. Things are more complicated than that.
June 29th, 2009 at 7:04 am
Roger Ebert on The year’s best foreign films
It was not a great year for foreign films. In America, that is. Or, more exactly in that America between New York and Los Angeles. Distributors, even those specializing in indie films, have grown shy of movies that look like tricky sales, and with the economic downturn, the situation has grown more depressing. I saw subtitled films that would be great in any year, however, and they are on this list.
Although I missed Cannes this year, I did attend the Toronto festival and saw good foreign films that will not open until 2009, including the Cannes winner “The Class,” “O’Horten” and “Waltz With Bashir.” Of those that did open, all are terrific entertainments, which is probably why they won distribution. Looking over my earlier list of the year’s 20 best, I see no thrillers nearly as exciting as “Tell No One” and “Transsiberian.” Indeed, I see no thrillers at all. There is only one human comedy to rival “In Bruges” and no vampire film even remotely as good as “Let the Right One In.”
These best 10 are arranged alphabetically; all should be considered on a par with the earlier 20, and can be described as “one of the year’s best films” (the only real value of such lists is to help worthy films finds audiences).
“A Christmas Tale”: Unlike any movie you can imagine about a dying mother (Catherine Deneuve) and her extended family at Christmastime. Director and co-writer Arnaud Desplechin gracefully moves among the family members, all of whom seem to be more preoccupied with their own troubles than hers. What shines through the movie is the mother’s serenity. Desplechin’s playful approach subtly shows more than one way to handle this material.
“The Duchess of Langeais”: About two elegant aristocrats whose compulsions eat them alive. They’re bull-headed to the point of madness. Guillaume Depardieu plays a famous general who sees the duchess (Jeanne Balibar) at a ball, and begins a courtship that seems to have no end. Jacques Rivette, now 80, shows their fruitless romantic duel as a series of conversations that drift away from the passion of sex and into the passion of winning, in a series of almost hypnotic tableaux. Sadly, Guillaume, son of Gerard, died at 37 in October after mounting health problems.
“The Edge of Heaven”: Surprisingly powerful for a movie telling interlocking stories, which sometimes go astray. It involves an old Turkish man in Bremen, Germany, a middle-aged Turkish prostitute he meets there, her daughter and his son in Turkey, and the strands they may not realize connect them. It works so well not because of those strands, but because of who they are, and how writer-director Fatih Akin understands them.
“4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”: A harrowing, yet sometimes strangely comic, Romanian film about an utterly clueless young woman (Laura Vasiliu) who begs her roommate (Anamaria Marinca) to help her find an abortion. The roommate does everything but have the abortion herself. A journey of frustration, stupidity, duplicity, cruelty and desperation, set against a background of a nation where, in the late 1980s, if it weren’t for the black market there would have been no market at all.
“A Girl Cut in Two”: The latest from Claude Chabrol, 78, another New Wave director still in top form. His film plays like a triangular romantic comedy, until we discover that all three of the lovers are hurtling headlong to self-destruction. Even then it’s comedic, in a macabre Hitchcockian way. Ludivigne Sagnier as the girl, young and ambitious. Benoit Magimel as an insufferably spoiled rich kid. Francois Berleand as a famous author but older.
“I’ve Loved You So Long”: Kristin Scott Thomas may win an Oscar nomination for her performance as a long-imprisoned woman who returns to her family but still lives with a cloud of shame and secrecy. Acting in French, she warms, is more free with emotions, more easily reaches joy and sorrow. Watch her at a dinner party as a guest takes sadistic pleasure in asking her questions it is clear she can not answer. Written and directed by Philippe Claudel.
“The Last Mistress”: An astonishing performance by Asia Argento, playing the most famous courtesan in Paris, who loses her lover (Fu’ad Ait Aattou) to marriage, and does everything she can to win him back — not for love, but for her reputation. Directed by Catherine Breillat, famous for her explicit eroticism; a film of shocking psychological combat, somewhat similar in period and theme with “The Duchess of Langeais,” but its emotional opposite.
“Let the Right One In”: A powerful reminder that vampires, if there were vampires, would not be a joke. They might have been victimized young, stuck at that age into immortality, be poor, be lonely. A boy named Oskar (Kare Hedebrant), shared between indifferent parents, is befriended by the kid next door named Eli (Lina Leandersson). “Are you a vampire?” he asks. Yes. But one who likes him and is protective, in a poignant and sometimes blood-drenched story. Not for fans of “Twilight.”
“Tell No One”: Spellbinding. Deserves comparison with Hitchcock. A man goes on a midnight swim with his wife, he is struck unconscious, she disappears, suspicion hangs over his head, and several years later, he begins to receive e-mails that could only be from her. The scene of their planned rendezvous in a park is masterful. Starring Francois Cluzet, Marie-Josee Croze and (again in French) Kristin Scott Thomas, and directed by Guillaume Canet.
“XXY”: Starring Ines Efron as Alex, born with both male and female sex organs and, at 15, a high-spirited tomboy who broods privately about the choices ahead. During a summer holiday on an island, Alex meets both a surgeon who may have suggestions, and the surgeon’s son; they are attracted to each other. Not a sensational telling of this story, but a sensitive and romantic one, well acted. From Argentina, written and directed by Lucia Puenzo.
Some observations
One: Although I have long defended celluloid projection over video, the time has come for me to relent. Video projection is now excellent; it was not in earlier years, even though its proponents claimed it was. I still prefer film, but I think the time is approaching when the original promise of video can come true. If distributors of foreign and indie films are able to beam a video signal directly to theaters, the cost savings on the manufacture and distribution of prints would be enormous, and allow wide simultaneous openings even in smaller cities. It’s clear something has to be done, and maybe this is it.
Two: I am sure to get complaints pointing out that “The Band’s Visit,” one of the films on my other list, is a foreign film, having been made in Israel. Yes, that is true. But the Egyptian and Israeli characters in it do not speak a word of each others’ languages and are forced to communicate in English. In a decision of remarkable stupidity, the Oscar academy said the movie had too much English dialogue to qualify as a foreign film. So I am observing their ruling as a sort of protest.
That leaves “In Bruges,” on this list, as a film of English speakers in a foreign land. Another fence-sitter. So it gets the Jury Prize, because, like “My Winnipeg,” it falls outside easy categorization. If you think my reasoning is goofy, let me say I agree. But there would have been an Internet uproar of titanic proportions if I had issued two lists, one with 11 titles and one with nine. The anal retentive enforcers of movie critic rules become hyperactive at annual lists time. So maybe one of my motives is to demonstrate my belief that ranking movies in lists has only one point: to honor good films I hope you would admire.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:44 am
Overreaction? The people being cynical about this are either too young to remember him before the scandal or are just culturally retarded. I think a lot of this reaction is nostalgia, from when he was far and away the biggest artist in the world. Thriller isn’t just the biggest-selling album of all time, it sold twice as many copies as any other album. And I think part of the reaction is pity and guilt. The guy came from being the biggest star, who transcended race and culture and appealed to almost everyone, a huge philanthropist, incredible songwriter, etc., etc., and became the sad, pale creature, accused of being a child molester, that most Reddit users probably remember. If seeing a bunch of emotional, hurting people sickens you, don’t worry. Unless Obama dies young, you’ll never have to see a global outpouring like this again in your life.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:18 am
Want! My Nanna is a -huge- Star Trek fan and I so want to get her a copy (she’s in her mind 80’s and the nearest cinema is 17 miles)
July 4th, 2009 at 12:21 am
Pelle the Conqueror - A swedish film by Bille August. Max Von Sydow puts on one of the greatest single performances ever as a pathetic father.
July 8th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Merci pour cette video que je n’avais jamais vu!!!!
July 8th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
SERIOUSLY! The library is where it’s at! You can take five dvd’s out at a time and you can book specific films on line. The Vancouver library system has practically the entire Tartan Asia Extreme catalog! Tons of classic horror too. I still rent tons from my little local video store and I do the zip.ca thing but the library is a great resource. And it’s FREE!!