Monday, February 28, 2011

Ponderosa Horse Trailer Review

Nashville

1975, Robert Altman.

If you ask someone with a minimum geopolitics of knowledge of the United States - What is the most famous resort in Tennessee? - will respond without delay - Memphis, the city of Elvis "the pelvis"! - It 's understandable, with a myth of this magnitude. But the state capital is Nashville, with another record: it is considered the birthplace of country music.

Tennessee once a year it hosts a festival that lasts almost a week devoted to country music. In this context, the film is Robert Altman, which is itself in the nicest features of the great film director, a concert of many voices (counted as many as 24 main-character!). Di I mentioned this feature at this another masterpiece: America today. Nashville is also long, but quiet, fly away! I read that was the result of an important installation, built from more than 70 hours of film to be used so that all good hypothesized to create a series. Unlike America Today, however, which is 18 years more recently, the stories here have no particular games plot and became less demanding and also, not infrequently, fun on the edge of comedy.
masterpiece from Olympus! It exists only in subtitled version, not dubbed seek him, fortunately no one has the feel like it. Seemed to me appropriate to request availability friend to talk about "Americanism" Mauro - unwise. He chose the interview form, I will carry:

robydick :
Just to contextualize the best film, we begin by describing the city of Nashville itself and the state that hosts it, which the Tennessee, to name but one, is still today one of the few to consider and apply the death penalty (lethal injection or electric chair). It 'a state that also has a reputation as "provider of troops." That place was, presumably, in 1975?

unwise :
Tennessee for Altman is not a random ... This is emblematic of a state where many, if not Americans all the elements (for better or for worse) are found. the name Tennessee, for starters, is a legacy of Native Americans (probably Cherokee.) It is the birthplace of Davy Crockett, and during the Civil War (1861-65) he played a role of prime importance: not only was the one who provided the largest number of soldiers before and after exiting the union to embrace the Southern Confederacy and was also the scene of the bloodiest battles (like the famous Shiloh, who many know from the TV series "in the West Was Won"). the nickname of "volunteer state", which is still standing out on license plates, dates back to the war of 1812 against England, but has repeatedly justified at every U.S. military confrontation. is a rural state with a strong drive, well away, ideally, from the cosmopolitan, and deeply rooted traditional values \u200b\u200b(home, family, flag ...). racial tensions here have done a lot of feeling: the founding of the Ku Klux Klan (at General Nathan Bedford Forrest, as correctly reported in Forrest Gump), the assassination of Martin Luther King in Memphis in 1968. Tennessee was the seat of the facilities to enrich uranium for the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer (the one who developed the bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki). on the other hand, it is here that not only the country but also the blues, from the first 900, and rock'n'roll have taken the first steps (Elvis Presley recorded his first hits for Sun Records in Memphis, along with other pieces from 90 as Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash). 1975 is not even any one year: for one thing, is the year of termination of the conflict in Vietnam, the year of the most complete disillusionment. the hippie dream had already broken a few years ago with the deaths of Altamont, were gone Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, and even the White House is not doing well for the Watergate. but America tightens (a cohort, we would say) to their values \u200b\u200band traditions, as it is near the anniversary celebrations of the bicentenary of declaration of independence that will come the following year. Tennessee becomes, like few other states, a place to return after the storm, and find that America is still the same as before, with strengths and weaknesses, but very solid (the situation is perfectly exemplified in the opening song, sung by Henry Gibson (most will remember him as head of the "Illinois Nazis" in The Blues Brothers), where the text is a kind of list of national vicissitudes, natural and otherwise, and concludes with a patriotic we must be doing something right to last 200 years). There are, in the movie, two "returns" specimens, but different from each other: that of the Vietnam veteran, Glen Kelly (Scott Glenn) che focalizza il suo desiderio di casa nel fanatismo per la cantante Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), e quello di Marthe (Shelley Duvall), che era "scappata" in California e si faceva chiamare LA Joan (un omaggio alla Baez, probabilmente), richiamata dallo zio al capezzale della moglie gravemente malata, che invece è il perfetto esempio di rincoglionimento post-hippy. in testa non ha più ideali, ma solo una serie di parrucche, e probabilmente ancora qualche residuo di LSD... forse questi due saranno i nuovi adamo ed eva: reduci dalla disillusione, dalla sconfitta, ma finalmente a casa

robydick :
Il country pare affondare le sue radici nella musica folk-western ma quali sono more precisely? I've always interpreted as a music of the film appears in white and African-American singer, was a real figure or fiction? The lyrics, at least those that appear in the film, have a strong moral and patriotic, with hymns to the old family values, traditions, love of country, honor ... this is just the country or is there?

unwise :
in fact the country has more ancient origins. derives from the Celtic music of the British Isles, arrived in America with the colonists and then other contaminatasi expressive styles, diversified style and sometimes taking on issues typically American. se in Scozia e in Irlanda si è un po' cristallizzata, pur mantenendo un discreto successo a livello popolare (se passate per Ballycastle, a nord di Belfast, all'inizio di settembre, ne avrete una viva testimonianza), pur lontana dalle classifiche e dal mainstream (un po' come il "lissio" da noi), negli USA ha, pur senza perdere uno zoccolo duro di tradizionalisti, interessato parecchi generi diversi. se da una parte le canzoni tradizionali di Hank Williams e Johnny Cash continuano ad essere parte del patrimonio repertoriale di ogni country singer, elementi del country hanno toccato le composizioni degli artisti stilisticamente più disparati: dal prog-hard-rock dei Kansas, alla West Coast di Eagles e Doobie Brothers, al blues acido degli Allman Brothers, fino al mainstream di Shania Twain e Miley Cyrus\Hannah Montana (per lei si parla di DNA, visto che è la figlia di Billy Ray Cyrus, cantante country fra i più noti), visto che poi, strutturalmente (un po' come blues e jazz), permette, anzi incoraggia un certo virtuosismo strumentale, arriva anche a far parte integrante del patrimonio tecnico-espressivo di musicisti supertecnici come Steve Morse (e di tutti i suoi Dixie Dregs, autori di un jazz rock funambolico e stilisticamente trasversale). esiste anche il country "alternative", che sembra un po' prender le mosse dal modus operandi di Neil Young, carattterizzato invece da una struttura generalmente più scarna, focalizzata più che altro sui testi "impegnati", without great wealth of arrangements and even less room for vocal and instrumental virtuosity. But perhaps the most solid and profitable subsidiary is known as Southern rock, bread and butter of groups such as Foghat, Molly Hatchet and especially the great (in my opinion) Lynyrd Skynyrd: in short, rock "shit", at times harsh and at times melodic, with a more than adequate instrumental equipment. thematically there is less variety: If you are talking about the western genre can not be considered only John Wayne, speaking of country would be simplistic to put it all under the banner of patriotism, tradition-family. there are ballatone wrenching, there are stories of women and booze, jail, work hard, and even drug e violenza (va detto anche che parecchio di quello che viene cantato è autobiografico).
come giustamente suggerisci, il country (e varie filiazioni) ha una connotazione etnica assolutamente "bianca", anzi bisognerebbe dire "redneck" (non è una notazione politica, ma cutanea: è il colore che il pallore anglosassone assume esposto al sole.lavorando nei campi e piegando la schiena, il collo resta esposto agli inclementi fotoni). cionondimeno ha avuto anche rappresentanti afroamericani come Charley Pride, su cui è basato il personaggio di Tommy Brown (tutti o quasi i personaggi canterini del film hanno un corrispettivo nella realtà, abbastanza facilmente riconoscibili per il pubblico americano). anche la star Perhaps the most internationally known African-American, Tina Turner has recorded country music. sporadic cases are still quite a bit 'as it happens, in roles reversed, the hip-hop, but is not necessarily a phenomenon attributed to racism ...


robydick :
Altman's films like this that make us think about America and on Americans. In this film, I saw a people determined, still dreaming, believing that everything is possible and yet acutely fatalistic, but always dictated by a certain fatalism that the great country offers everyone at least a chance to emerge. I think it's essential to keep in mind, I say again, that we are in 1975 and now America post September 11 is very different. How about you? How would you describe briefly the "American spirit" of those days and today?

unwise :
then America came out of the tragedy of Vietnam, who had 20 to 30 years had every reason not to be too optimistic, but you could still try to draw a line on the past, internal and external and start again. certainly the occasion of the bicentennial was a great factor recompacting: we rediscover the traditional values \u200b\u200bthat had inspired the founding fathers, and there was an enormous desire to go back to being the land of the free , to get back on a decade abundant had seen the murders of Kennedy, the war, Watergate, and you could not settle for being the first to arrive at the moon. it was better to go back to being the America of Hollywood, baseball, finance peanuts (although I do not think this is due to the election of Carter in '77). begins a period of relative calm and reconstruction of national consciousness, and even some all-American ingenuity, which will lead, not without some excess, in the grandeur Reagan (imitated by us dramatically in the period craxi ...). for example film, several major operation is to face the dark wartime past and, in a sense, to exorcise it. Today the situation is certainly different. first globalization prevents any country to consider any issue as something that you can solve on their own. September 11, 2001 has definitely changed the cards on the table, especially in the U.S. ... not that Americans are less attached to the first of their nation, which continues to be the primary point of reference, but now there is the uncomfortable awareness that it is not even safe at home. American, as is his nature, continues to look ahead, but he can not help but look around the corner of the eye. Internally speaking, however, we can say that for the average American state is always a bit 'like Mom, maybe you pull up to slaps, but you turn it up, and yet often listen to your proposals. even if I do not think Obama can or even should, work things out, your election is symptomatic of the Americans. it was still in some way responds: unmasking the financial scams of recent years, especially condemning the guilty without too many discounts, is one example. the U.S. will also be the land of opportunity, but it's better than when they are caught within the law (on this, the comparison with our reality is not even feasible). Then, of course, nobody is perfect, so there's always someone who can get away, but the specter of three life terms in series can inspire a certain fear ...


robydick :
Per concludere, qualche considerazione sul film. M'ha incuriosito la figura di Geraldine Chaplin, che fa una bizzarra giornalista della BBC. Vista la forte vena comico-ironica del film, che rapporto vuole rappresentare, forse l'incomprensione che avevano gli inglesi dell'America stessa? C'era anche in corso una sana competizione fra i 2 paesi, leader mondiali nella musica. Sempre riguardo alla vena comico-ironica, come interpretare il tormentone del furgone di propaganda elettorale col megafono e la caccia ai testimonial sempre per le elezioni? Curiosa, e per i tempi inconcepibile da noi, la sponsorizzazione privata di un evento del festival, col nome dell'azienda ripetuto a più riprese e presente sul palco con manifesti pubblicitari. What is your opinion? Seen in this all seems a caricature, but Altman seemed to me I want to smile but also look over his countrymen.

unwise :
Opal is a kind of "healthy carrier of stereotypes," and exemplifies a typical attitude among journalists and opinion makers on this side of the ocean. being English, and then have even more attitude from black African explorer, faced the classic primitive tribes, of which he only heard about but did not direct experience. She is first to bring up the racial issue (when interviewing the lead singer of color), which is also minimized by those concerned. She is comparing the gospel choir in an African tribe dancing, and hearing handicap in front of horrified children in the singer that interview (which does not seem to make it a tragedy. in practice, he thought, at best, of finding un'accolita front of backward peasants, and instead she has to make the figure of 800 silly lady. I think Altman, while not offering an idyllic view of the U.S., should above all seek to make out the opinions of viewers from non-US 'Shadow of bias and stereotype (and in this I find absolutely agree ...). The same country music, which here serves as a unifying element, is perhaps the most despised American musical expression dagli stereotipi "esteri".
Il furgone è un espediente narrativo di Altman, che unisce con una specie di filo tutte le vicende dei protagonisti, senza influenzarle, ma semplicemente passando nelle loro vicinanze. è senza dubbio un elemento sarcastico, a partire dal nome del partito che propaganda ("replacement party" è un gioco di parole che combina replacement part - pezzo di ricambio - e party - partito politico). si sente una voce ma non si vede chi parla (direi una velata critica ai politici, la cui vera faccia non si vede molto facilmente...). al contempo chi parla non sa a chi sta parlando, continua solo a proporre una serie di fantasiose, e un po' farneticanti, critiche allo stato e alle sue istituzioni, inno including national. to act as a counterbalance to the van speaker is the figure of the rider (actually tricycles) mute, played by the great Jeff Goldblum. you see all these, dispenses smiles and tricks, and then disappears aboard his vehicle. I am a little 'yin and yang, reason and feeling, spirit and matter (the latter interpretation comes to mind thinking of the scene engorgement, in which the truck stop with all the other cars, while Jeff goes beyond the good' obstacle while walking on the incident (finding a little 'magic, his bike tricyclic beyond the pile of sheets stuck ...). Altman used two contrasting elements as a link at least once, in memory Me (in Shortcuts - in Italian retitration left "America today").
in the land of the free private initiative, the sponsor is an absolute must. is a presence that can sometimes seem a bit 'bulky, but allows those who organize events of the scope of the Grand Ole Opry (the country central to the film festival) not to skimp, especially with regard to logistics, which is the true distinctive feature of the American musical world. plus can not load the cachet of the artists, often very high, only on the viewers (better to say "allowed", as ticket prices have increased not just recently, globally). the phrase Brought to you by ... (is brought to you by ...) has now entered a long time in newspaper jargon, so that even the episodes of the muppet show, use this formula to learn the letters of the alphabet to young viewers (Brought to you by the letter ABC, etc ...). But it seems to me that Altman distinguish the commercial sponsor, which also offers nicely to the public (becoming part of the show, in a sense, or at least adapting to this form), with a classic game of rhyming words, and politically, this but no funny jokes, but with a cumbersome and intrusive banner, it dominates and crushes the stage on which the artists perform. however, the manager-husband of singer Barbara Jean, star of the event, angry as a snake for that, and even physically threatened the manager. if I played well, think like me for interference of politics in art, and especially in music. however, even in the U.S. election campaigns are paid for privately ... There is always an attitude was contrary to private initiative in this regard (I remember the reporters who criticized every 2x3 rai of the organization of the Olympic Games in Atlanta, totally paid for by sponsor), also because our policy is that is the host: it is easier to dispose at will of public funds, which seek a sponsor who then rightly takes a response (which, unlike the cases of crib state, it would be if the results were not satisfactory), and then away with a whirlwind of celebrations of this and that, contributions to the film "cultural interest" on duty, in spite of the taxpayer. In my humble opinion, the best banners of coca cola ...
I agree with you, but I think Altman has a great respect of his countrymen: he sees them with all the limitations, and the system where they are inserted, but no less than appreciate the gifts. seems to understand well the qualities and weaknesses, with an eye certainly kind to the simplicity that is always one of their characteristics clear. Nashville is no humanity in its long range under all points of view, well exemplified in the artistic attitudes of the characters: some institution and proud of it (Haven Hamilton - Henry Gibson), who came to the success but struggling to manage it (Barbara Jean - Ronee Blakey), who has no talent but stubbornly persists (Sueleen Gay - Gwen Welles), and those who seem to almost care (Tom Frank - Keith Carradine), who has a character strong enough to go over problems is not insignificant (Linnea Reese - Lily Tomlin). Altman does not seem to hang on the part of anyone, as if he meant "take your pick" (you choose), here is everything and its opposite (which is always better than having only one choice, and perhaps come to think it's the right thing), it's a free country!

I had said or not that is a very unwise, United States and abroad? He wrote a "response to rece" truly exceptional! We already agree that we will do other rece together, always and strictly film about America. I am very happy.

song at the beginning, a hymn to God, the homeland ... significant that the chorus, more or less, says: "We should have done something good if we lasted 200 years."
this ... had it with the pianist named amphibian: frog. the hippies are not eligible, note
the great diva Barbara Jean, just out of the hospital. sings well, eh, it's just a bit 'stoned. here's so funny!
What is the BBC? aaah, the British ... a bit 'of satire
subtitles here speak for themselves.
other times hilarious, but I do not explain why
sponsor the big demonstration
Subtitles are clear. She then explains that a Catholic in the realm of evangelists could never hope to be elected, the goodness of the person does not count, only the faith that they profess.
c 'is a long piece depicting different masses in different churches
here is crashing!
at a convention to raise money for the political campaign, but she is out of tune like a goat! all men are present, and to address the lack of singing talent will ask what to do? is a character that condenses much of the American dream this girl must enjoy after this event.
Wonderful song ost of the original Oscar winner. I do not even know how many times I heard it without knowing that it was in this film.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Best Pokemon Party Silver

Il cittadino si ribella

1974, Enzo G. Castellari.

Reading here and there, this movie seems to be the first to propose poliziottesco the theme of the citizen who takes justice into its own. Indeed, even in my brief review of gender, is one year before the equally famous "Rome violent." In any event, at least after all these years, it was not the main reason of the vision for me.

The film is representing a number of criminal events of various kinds. Incipit really violent, with shock therapy puts you in Italy where there is to be afraid to leave the house.
Engineer. Antonelli, played by Franco Nero was a great (very women-oriented film, I think he lined up to see it!) Has a life quite wealthy but troubled recently by a house with vandalism and theft in particular suffered from a robbery at the post , where he was also seized as a hostage and beaten. The police can not find the support they want. Result: s'incazza. Who wants at all costs to find the kidnapped ... and the rest I'll leave you to enjoy.

Opera is a triumph of imaging techniques for the kind of action! There is a use, even pleasantly hyperbolic, various filmic devices ranging from slow motion, even still images, sound muffled or amplified in the second. Then truculence, free from violence. Do not miss anything, and guarantee performance of my Cult mandatory. At least two scenes are from yearbooks: the pursuit of a car to Antonelli is on foot in a kind of hollow, with the final shootout in the warehouse bare and semi-desert, with more than a moment of agonizing agoraphobia. But it's all beautiful, and powerful, dramatic.

There are two aspects of socio-political and cultural anthropologists who intrigued me and I would stress, and under them as well.

political embarrassment.
E 'overt, far more than in the trilogy that will follow Commissioner Betti, who wants at all costs to avoid an allocation policy to the film. Now, I do not know the guidelines Castellari and screenwriter, but there is little you can do the themes of vigilance, justice, do it yourself, the law does not sufficiently protect the citizens, are definitely on the right. And I say also "chemmefrega" I want to see a film show. But is the film itself that forces me to think politically, the paradox here. Were included pieces of plot that move to the left center of gravity. First, the copy of the newspaper, dating back several times and taken to the war during the occupation, under the title "Italians stand up!", A phrase attributed to the father of Antonelli. Antonelli also the same when he speaks con il non inquadrabile commissario, cita ancora le lotte partigiane. Non ultimo il citato commissario di polizia che non prende mai posizione in modo netto, condanna e lascia fare Antonelli, preoccupato solo di pararsi il culo più che di risolvere la questione.
Pacchiano e imbarazzante espediente, un paragone del genere tra partigiani e giustizieri è imperdonabile storicamente e politicamente, ma questo bizzarro aspetto rende il film una prova tangibile, reale, che nel 1974 non si scherzava mica e fare certe cose poteva costarti caro. Quindi un po' di prudenza poteva non guastare o perlomeno era comprensibile. Castellari in ogni caso tra i miei miti subito.

L'Antieroe borghese Antonelli.
Alla luce dei tanti vendicatori film that are seen to this is one of the most run-down, at least in the first place, that I have ever seen. It 's why I also felt very true! For most of the film pick blows and humiliations from all sides, its entrance into the world of crime necessary for its investigation is awkward to say the least, a mixture of bravado and imbranataggine. In any case remains the indomitable spirit and vindictive, able to recognize the point of no return, to go through. The figure of the avenger DIY comes out bad, very bad, and rightly so in a realistic sense: go against the criminals, talk about those "serious", with no preparation can only produce negative effects. I saw

una pessima vhs. Giusto un paio di frame per ricordo. Peccato perché le numerose scene d'azione meritavano maggior valorizzazione.
una scena di notevole fattura, inseguimento macchina-pedone
almeno un ricordo, oltre che di Franco Nero, di Renzo Palmer

Questa rece la voglio dedicare di cuore a Francesco, un amico che qua viene spesso e porta avanti, di suo, un interessante blog dal titolo parlante: Amare Produzioni Agricole . Anche per i fatti che spesso narra francesco, would be good if "the citizen sometimes rebel."

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Homemade Cookie Cutters

More

1969, Barbet Schroeder.

Stefan is a German student. Freshly graduated from college on a journey to places that saw the birth of the great mathematicians. An excuse as any to go around the world, hitchhiking.

Among the various people he knows in the end the U.S. will meet with Estelle and she will go to Ibiza, where he does much of the film. He does not mind some cane, but she is a former heroin addict, or so he says, to be ex. In Ibiza, a powerful German man known as Dr. Wolf is a friend in a strange way of Estelle. Will come out that actually she is in his keeping, in exchange for drugs that provides the Wolf.

'll run away and Wolf will live in an isolated cottage on the island, leading to a long life is essential and also to avoid isolated Wolf and his henchmen. Love, fishing and gathering, happiness seems to have arrived (still in Formentera is a community hippy totally devoid of modern conveniences such as electricity, gas, etc. ...). But before you get there, had procured a number of doses of heroin, and this time she will fall not only use, but will also begin to Stefan ... dramatic epilogue. Film

after all not so exciting, let's say noiosetto, at least seen today. Many scenes are really beautiful to see, however, I must say. You can see the whole, even for the curiosity to know what those young women wanted as free life, but without making a bible on the subject.

time it was a movie symbol of the hippie generation and for me it is still wonderful to hear the ost of Pink Floyd, who released self-titled album. A perfect synthesis of their dramatic style. Just their music was the motivation to see it first and, for those who love the genre, is not to be missed.


Estelle moistens the glass, to put the salt of the "margarita" with the language. Not a bad system!
the port of Ibiza, with the top of the castle, he looked very different from today, like all the rest of the Balearic
you eat fish caught
beautiful. I once went to the Balearic Islands, the first years of marriage, where my wife and I could just stay naked in public beach without any problem. the most beautiful seaside holidays of my life, unrepeatable.
Estelle did not shun love and sex of all kinds

ohmmmmmmmmm .... ohmmmmmmmm ....

this tunnel of the castle, for reasons that include watching the movie, is a place of pilgrimage for those ex-hippies or visiting the island.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Ice Kargo French Resturant

Capriccio all'italiana

1967, Mauro Bolognini, Mario Monicelli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Steno, Pino Zac, Franco Rossi, Toto.

episodic film that I'm going to list with very brief synopsis:


The nurse (Mario Monicelli)
A German nanny (Silvana Mangano) in Italy, scandalized by the fact that children read comics like Diabolik, Kriminal Satanik and will read them the story of Tom Thumb. Of ogres, wolves and various monsters, the whole bed with a terrifying look, the children began to cry desperate!


Creature from the Sunday (Steno)
A wealthy older man and a traditionalist (Toto) hates the modern hippies, while not forgetting the graces of a youngster. Implement a plan to kidnap and Diabolik worthy of punishment, then sentenced without being too much by the investigator.


Why? (Mauro Bolognini)
A traffic jam on a sports car and a couple with her hysterical urging fellow "Bausch" not to be lead by the nose by another vehicle, to overcome the tail and make them do maneuvers azzardate, fino a provocare un litigio degno della cronaca dei giornali.


Che cosa sono le nuvole? (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
E' l'episodio che da solo vale l'intera visione del film, poetico e importante, ne parlo poi sotto.


Viaggio di lavoro (Pino Zac, Franco Rossi)
Presa in giro dei viaggi della regina d'Inghilterra in Africa, dove commette gaffe imperdonabili facendo discorsi in un paese scambiandolo per un altro e causando imbarazzi alla politica internazionale. Curioso perché mischia cartoni con persone.


The jealous (Mauro Bolognini)
mad jealousy of a woman (Ira Furstenberg) to her husband (Walter Chiari). There is no solution dialectic taking with her everything that he systematically used to stir suspicions. Paroxysmal situation, I know something in your personal life.


I'm going to talk about "What are clouds?" Pier Paolo Pasolini. First
a curiosity: this episode is the last film in which film is Toto. Seen as ends and speaking, I must say it was a worthy and moving farewell of the greatest Italian genius of laughter (and not just one) of all time.
It 's a short and narrow version of Shakespeare's Othello made by the puppet play. In fact all the actors (Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Ninetto Davoli, Laura Betti, the same Totò ...) play just the puppets that represent the characters of the drama. It is not a random one of the puppets, because characters in the drama, on stage play their part as expected, behind the scenes are told about it, considering the events themselves. Yet the public, very popular, we will not tolerate accalorerà to each other and the intrigues of the act of Otello and Iago to Desdemona. The finish, after a context that mixes reality and fiction, will be un'amara riflessione sulla morte, con le marionette che solo in discarica potranno apprezzare la bellezza del cielo.

Film di satira sociale, con episodi dal valore altalenante, ognuno a modo suo divertente, mai noiosi.
Da Olimpo invece il pezzo di Pasolini.



Thursday, February 24, 2011

Root Beer Tapper Not On Shockwave Anymore?

Thunder on the hill - La campana del convento

1951, Douglas Sirk.

In Inghilterra, in un momento di gravi alluvioni portatore anche di epidemie, un convento che funge da ospedale si ritrova ad ospitare numerosi rifugiati. Tra questi Valerie, a young woman who must endure the sentence to be hanged for killing his brother and is transferred to the place of execution.

Sister Mary, director of the hospital, with a dark history behind it, now realizes that Valerie is innocent and that his conviction can only be the result of a miscarriage of justice. Initially with the sole intention of making the expectation of the scaffold, extended by events, less painful, Mary will be found almost by accident to investigate the matter ... A yellow

exciting and rigorous, with recitations of the "old way" in the sense of the word, those from schools as well as by talent, exemplary, in style theater. Perhaps today we are more accustomed to this kind of action scenes, spectacular aspects and only in noir are still slow and lingering shots as required, attention to the eye as the sentences concise and meaningful.

Yet this style could still have his nice For, just as it is saturated with suspended situations and dramas concealed, only to reveal at the end. He does not feel the passage of time and I do not think its charm lies in its antiquity. It would be great to see someone today riproponesse a movie with all the rigor of this method and, without giving room for personal or excesses of interpretation which is spectacular, keeping the story intact. What

I say more? Nice, very nice, 80 min interesting, exciting without trying fibrillations, and often moving, full of good manners and high values \u200b\u200bof free speech. Recommended to all without delay.
I just can not deny me a few frames of "my" beloved black and white.




One of the many recommended by his friend Napoleon Wilson, sometimes I really have to thank him.
edit: too expensive Harmonica spoke to me on several occasions in this film.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Momsanaladventure Episode Maa Paige: Paige

Zombi 2 - Zombie Flesh Eaters

1979, Lucio Fulci.

I continue this review with two reviews that I have in progress: that of the great Lucio Fulci and the gender zombesco. I state now that this is a movie for different aspects of the history, the page dedicated wiki has lots of facts, anecdotes, trivia, and he dutifully draw.

I take from the page just above the opening words, to reinforce the concept: " is the first horror film directed by Fulci, author hitherto mostly comedies and thrillers. The great success all over the world from the film convinced the director to continue on the path of horror, which is considered a master. The French film critics coined for him, thanks to this film, the term "poet of the macabre." On his release he was accused of being a copy of Zombie directed by George Romero. In fact, the similarities stop with the title Zombi, since Fulci eliminates the social commentary in this film to focus on the Romero zombies of Haitian descent. Zombi 2 is now considered a cult movie lovers of splatter. The makeup and special effects were nominated for Saturn Award in 1981 .

Fulci was an educated man and sure of its value, not a Cazzaro any. It deserves the right picture. Also from wiki: " exiting the movie received a letter from Fulci Dario Argento and George Romero, che lo accusavano di aver cavalcato l'onda del successo del film di Romero, e di aver impedito la realizzazione de Il giorno degli zombi (che Romero dirigerà nel 1985) [...] Fulci replicò alla lettera di Argento, con un'altra lettera nella quale elencò tutti i film di zombi della storia del cinema, precedenti a quello di Romero, aggiungendo un sarcastico e polemico: «Se ho copiato da voi, allora ho copiato anche da loro. Statevene zitti» ".

Finito il copia-incolla, che spero sia stato sufficiente a rendere l'idea del valore del film e del regista. Preciso anche che ho visto la versione come da locandina, del dvd rimasterizzato e comprensivo delle scene tagliate all'uscita del film, cosa che per Fulci era abituale: ogni suo film per un motivo o per un altro, da quando aveva cominciato coi thriller e horror, fu sempre accompagnato da polemiche, censure, tagli, divieti ai minori, anche processi.

Qua Fulci esordisce nell'horror puro anche se, va detto, un po' di gore nei precedenti non è quasi mai mancato. Dice benissimo wiki: questo film è ispirato anzitutto ai 2 capostipiti del genere, " White Zombie " e " I Walked with a Zombie ". Una barca naviga senza equipaggio di fronte a Manhattan. Un essere mostruoso assale, mordendolo, uno della guardia costiera salito per controllare, poi cade in mare. Da lì, per l'interessamento della figlia del proprietario della barca e di un journalist, you will end up on a Caribbean island where ongoing epidemic that leads to death early residents, such as "reborn" as a zombie soon. Is there a doctor on the island with an assistant who tries to combat the problem, without success. When you can shoot in the head to the dead, to avoid becoming zombie, until the situation will escape the hand. Zombies continue to grow in number and soon will no longer be a phenomenon confined to the island.

thus refers to voodoo but latent, not a ceremony will be shown, not witchcraft. The film heads straight to terrorize and horrify. These zombies are monstrous, horrible, full of worms, barely recognizable as humans. Slow but no less relentless, biting voraciously. Surely, between the films on gender, the most violent and bloody present in my carnet. Very high in my opinion the level of trick photography and who has married to find some great original and highly spectacular of which I speak in the frames.

Cult Supercult or as he says "one" whom I respect greatly, Stracult!

is banal to say it, but apart from the beauty of the Manhattan scene that seems deserted, there is a camera that rotates on its axis and gives a sense of instability and uncertainty contributes to the already disturbing sensation. sometimes I run away to notice these things ...

so be it!

great scene with a shark that threatens a woman first, then fight with a zombie! turn with a trainer as I understand it, downright dangerous: it is a real shark, not a puppet.

I hit the art scene in this course, with that triptych of mirrors ...

justly famous scene milling of an eye, I made 2 more frames to complete the sequence, which is clearly visible, clear to enjoy speed zombesca.



here I could not think of the western, where even the classics in the genre seem to contain only the uninhabited villages spirits of those who lived them. these curious crabs, which move much more faster zombies themselves.

bon appetit! this scene because it affects anthropophagous long, relatively very hard, even Fulci lingers ... and good!

worms ... it seems that the director held stock in even a pocket to add a little 'here and there when needed.

but what a fine nose funny! cute as a cherub garden.