Thursday, March 10, 2011

Find The Hazards In The Kitchen Worksheet

The International - Tom Tykwer (2009)

(Id.)

seen on DVD.

An Interpol agent learns of the relationship between a bank and purchase of missiles ... what do you want to do?? The agent is obsessed with us and, almost alone begins to investigate in a flurry of characters, events, connections and pursuits from Germany, Italy ( Barbareschi interprets Berlusconi!! Superb) from the U.S. to Turkey.

A wonderful completely original action, where nothing happens as if the viewer can expect. Not one scene of the shooting (as realized in that wonderful Guggenheim) leaves nothing to the banal. Everything is carefully designed to not be predictable.

Tykwer is absolutely geometric and icy in the staging, showing a detached and ruthless world in a very personal way, as happened not long ago.

Also the exceptional work done on locations. Yes, because this film is made of plot as much as architecture. No place is an end in itself, but it conveys the spirit of what happens there.

An excellent and original film not seen for some time in the action genre.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Contact Information Autobuses Expreso Futura

Hudsucker Proxy - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (1994)

(The Hudsucker Proxy)


seen on VHS in the original language with English subtitles.

Finally the Coen guessed a film completely. In the face of the usual well-kept stock, a choice of the actors and the staging of the usual clean, dynamic and inventive director, ure able to create a good story. A ingenuotto is taken, for legal reasons, to conduct securities business millionaire because of this should be under the heels, but unfortunately has some brilliant idea too, and between a journalist without scruples who wants to understand who he is, and a right arm who decides to get rid of him will not have an easy life.

The base is the upper class '50s comedies and as such moves and hits the necessary points. But as they do sometimes Coen , can play with the genre, disillusioning the public's expectations (beautiful For example the scene where Paul Newman is held by a disreputable trousers fall from 44th floor) and mix well with a final nod lysergic heavily and ironically Frank Capra. Obviously there is light and fun and of course there are fast and flawless dialogues that give the film a fast pace.

A film is absolutely perfect in its kind, not a masterpiece, but a film that aims high and guesses all the objectives that arise, and perhaps something more ...

PS: The only flaw is the Italian title, which completely eliminates the element of surprise del leit motiv del cerchio e che annienta il miglior gioco che i Coen fanno con le aspettative del pubblico… americano.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Free Church Welcome Letter

The Defiant Ones - Stanley Kramer (1958)

(The defiant ones)

Visto in DVD.

Un bianco del sud degli Stati Uniti ed un nero, entrambi carcerati, vengono incatenati insieme per essere trasportati ai lavori forzati. Il mezzo su cui viaggiano ha però un incidente, e i due riescono a fuggire. Ci si può ben immaginare l’imbarazzo di andare in giro insieme, razzista uno e nero l’altro, in un mondo razzista come quello degli anni ’50… ovviamente il cameratismo avrà la meglio, anche sugli interessi personali…

for charity, given the years is certainly a brave film ... but it is really trivial, almost always predictable and without rhythm. Many of the dialogues, often too long and wordy to keep the interest and excessive meanings frankly useless.

few important scenes (like the one in the pit of clay) and still be too emphatic.

Join the above with a Tony Curtis totally out of hand in the shoes of the contemptuous and racist prison you get a wannabe cult '50s film, but without any stigma of genius.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Community Service Letter Samples

American Graffiti - George Lucas (1973)

(Id.)

Viewed VHS.

The night before leaving for college are four friends to celebrate together, in fact it will soon lose sight of, and each, in its way, lost innocence, naivete, or the illusions of adolescence. The protagonist, Dreyfuss, incamminerà is a path to try to interpose obstacles to the start, because it really does not want to leave home, the encounter with a weary idol of young people who would be young and false papers to get the potersene give the last push to get started.

Mild tale of training (which will give to the " Happy days ", but fortunately we are not in the depths of comedy films) for structured, but this was his trump card in the setting in the early 60's, so comparing the carefree youth of the protagonists with those of United States (Kennedy died there one year, after two starts in Vietnam, after six there will be 68) who still have not lost illusions.

The film is left to follow with grace and has a nice cast of characters that seem trivial, but for a closer look will show as losers leaving no possibility of recourse (the mechanic who will not go to college but will remain locked in the car and races in his work; Ron Howard that sends all the air out of love, etc.).

The only drawback is that this film looks like advertising a car dealership. The characters spend more time shooting aimlessly in the car than in their clothes. If it were really the '60s then I understand where it comes from all the pollution of our day.