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AFTER THE WEDDING,
Director: Susanne Bier
BEAUTY IN TROUBLE,
Director: Jan Hrebejk
VITUS
Director: Fredi M. Murer
CONVERSATION WITH ED ZWICK - BLOOD DIAMOND
Director: Ed Zwick
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INLAND EMPIRE
Nov 10, 2006 03:29AM
Missed it? Wait until dark. Walk from the Dome down to Vine towards the Linwood Dunn on Easter Eve. You won't see the Energizer Bunny in the INLAND EMPIRE. These rabbits move in slow motion on a sit com set. I kept wishing Fred, Ethel, Lucy and Ricky would drop in. Whatsup Doc?
Lynch don't like the South. Lynch likes Ponderosa Pines. And pensive rabbits. There is a curse, cursing, a screwdriver and of course those screwball rabbits. The set is dark, plenty of foot steps and some kind of mechanical ho hum that droned all the way home. You get it or you don't.
Then again, that was what they said about the abstract art of the painter who was really a spy and wandered the world showing solid blue canvas. What's that? Off in the distance. I hear Aretha Franklyn singing, "Think, think, think about what you're tryin' to do to me....oh Freedom, Freedom!" Oh look, a John Ford horizon at the top of the screen, the cowboys are coming home. No, wait, the horizon is at the bottom of the screen, the cowboys turned around and are riding off into the sunset. Bring me that horizon! Let's leave the INLAND EMPIRE and the biosphere of deadpan debauchery. There is more than one way to skin a rabbit. (Did Dern's head spin like in THE EXORCIST or was my mind playing tricks?) Silly rabbit, tricks are for kids.
-Je Suis
VITUS
Nov 09, 2006 12:10PM
I have one word of advice for the Director, Writers and Producers of VITUS: Hang on to your hats! (that is 4 words...., ok: "RUN!!!!") Everyone is after you now because you have brought such a wonderful film to Hollywood. They are going to want to remake it, turn it into a TV series and a Saturday afternoon cartoon series. They will have VITUS lunch boxes, notebooks and toys. You hit the jackpot. After I saw VITUS I had to stop watching movies and have a glass of champagne with my family. What a movie! Keep it pure, keep it as is, it is a keeper. Don't let them remake it with little Johnny Depps, over the top sex and overkill on the stockmarket scenes. They will overwork it, make it flat and too pretty...turn VITUS into "Pretty Woman" or "Spiderman". Let VITUS be. It is PERFECTION as it is. Don't let anyone change a hair. The fact that so many people may WANT to remake VITUS before it is even seen by the USA public is the very reason it should stay the way it is. Hang on to VITUS with all your might. It is a real treasure, beautiful and perfect as is. Ciao, J. E. Siu
An Evening With Ed Zwick-BLOOD DIAMOND
Nov 09, 2006 11:51AM
Ed Zwick is an excellent speaker, relaxed and at ease with turbulent subjects. The clips from BLOOD DIAMOND made me leave the theatre with the "say it ain't so" feeling for the character Solomon Vandy's lost son. You fear this father will find his child with blood on his little hands, ruined like diamonds are ruined, tainted with a too heavy heart forever.
All diamonds are BLOOD DIAMONDS when the black market slips even one blood diamond into the "innocent" market. Blue, clear, red...all diamonds, no matter what the colour, are blood diamonds by proxy. Ed Zwick sends us off on a mystery to find the most rare of all lost gems, our own humanity. How can diamonds ever be a girls best friend again? How can we mend humanity after such heinous actions keep repeating? ED ZWICK
brings to mind MACBETH and Lady Macbeth trying in vein, insane, to wash the blood from her hands. ED ZWICK refuses to let us wash our hands and pulls us into the mystery of how do we save us from ourselves? - J. E. Siu
VOLVER and THE TRIBUTE TO PENELOPE CRUZ
Nov 04, 2006 06:21PM
Penelope is, as Salma Hayek introduced her in the TRIBUTE TO PENELOPE CRUZ before the screening of VOLVER, an ethereal creature. Penelope Cruz has a life on the silver screen that you experience as real no matter how out of this world the character and situation may be. Material that would engulf other actresses like quicksand, Cruz glides through and is completely at home and convincing with even the most impossible mission. Her range and passion are borderless. In VOLVER she commands the screen like a character created by Miguel Cervantes, with grace and as if anything could happen and as if mastering the impossible was part of every day life for her.
-J. E. Siu
BOBBY
Nov 04, 2006 04:55PM
I saw BOBBY twice. I cried my contacts out, twice. The cast is outrageously well chosen. If I say any more, I will start crying again!
-J. E. Siu
THE BANQUET
Nov 04, 2006 04:52PM
This beautiful film, rich in form, colour and motion would have made Shakespeare proud. In fact, it was such a rich banquet that one wonders if China told the tale first or if Shakespeare visited that hamlet first. Shakespeare was known for finding inspiration for his tales in history books such as the Holinshed's Chronicles, but who is to say how far he read and traveled. Which came first, the Chinese Hamlet or the Shakespearean Hamlet? If Shakespeare went to Ancient Rome, Greece, and Spain for inspiration, perhaps he was influenced by the Great Chinese Culture as well and found some of his HAMLET there. THE BANQUET deepens the mystery and opens new wonders. THE BANQUET is not just another version of HAMLET. It is a royal feast impossible to forget. -J. E. Siu
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DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD | posted 17-NOV-06 |
BEAUTY IN TROUBLE, | posted 17-NOV-06 |
My Friends & Favorites
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AFTER THE WEDDING,
Director: Susanne Bier
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BEAUTY IN TROUBLE,
Director: Jan Hrebejk
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VITUS
Director: Fredi M. Murer
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CONVERSATION WITH ED ZWICK - BLOOD DIAMOND
Director: Ed Zwick
VOLVER
Director: Pedro Almovodar
BOBBY
Director: Emilio Estevez
THE BANQUET,
Director: Feng Xiaogang
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