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Monologue - Femme Fatale.
7 December 2009 9:00 AM, PST
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Jose here with the Monday Monologue.
The Limits of Control might not be Jim Jarmusch's best film (in fact it was panned by most critics) but there are hints of the auteur's brilliance throughout that overcome the otherwise nonsensical, pretentious existentialism. One of these scenes involves Tilda Swinton (no surprise huh?). She's one of the characters the hitman (played by Isaach de Bankolé) must meet for information.
Swinton enters the scene in a conspicuous outfit made out of a trench coat, a hat and dark glasses. She looks around everywhere before she sits with the hitman. She seems to read through him and makes up in her mind as to what kind of man he is. "Are you interested in films by any chance?" she asks.
She doesn't wait for an answer before she continues I like really old films. You can really see what the world looked like; thirty,
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Movie Review: Michael Jackson's This is It (2009)
28 October 2009 1:31 AM, PDT
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Michael Jackson rehearses with his dancers in Michael Jackson's This is It
Photo: Sony Pictures Entertainment
In Michael Jackson's This is It we watch as the late King of Pop "sizzles" on stage. He lets musical moments "simmer" and his only concern is to ensure the audience is "nourished." Jackson sounds as good as he ever has, but it's impossible to ignore his thin and frail frame as well as moments of deep breathing and not think about the circumstances involved in bringing this footage to the big screen.
What is being shown in theaters was never intended to be seen by anyone other than Michael Jackson for his own private reference material, and yet mere hours after his death the promoter of what was to be Jackson's comeback/farewell concert, Aeg Live, snatched up over 100 hours of footage and began shopping it around in order to recoup over $30 million
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- Brad Brevet
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Broken Embraces - Poster
28 July 2009 11:16 AM, PDT
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Broken Embraces is a four–way tale of amour–fou, shot in the style of ‘50s American film noir at its most hard–boiled, and will mix references to works like Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place and Vincente Minnelli’s The Bad and the Beautiful, with signature Almodóvar themes such as Fate, the mystery of creation, guilt, unscrupulous power, the eternal search of fathers for sons, and sons for fathers. Broken Embraces is an original screenplay written by tPedro Almodóvar which see's him once team up with Penelope Cruz following their successful collaboration on Volver, for which she was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. The films also star Lluis Homar of Bad Education and Blanca Portilla of Volver. Regular Almodóvar contributors, such as Rossy de Palma, Kiti Manver, Chus Lampreave and Lola Dueñas have also joined the cast. Veteran actor Ángela Molina, who starred in Live Flesh,
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Please Don't Let Me Love You: 'In A Lonely Place'
16 July 2009 3:29 PM, PDT
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Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place is one of the most heartbreaking love stories ever committed to film. It's certainly one of the most poignant pictures (violently poignant at times) within the canon of film noir, a genre haunted by doomed love.
Noir love -- the kind that causes characters to throw that "Baby, I don't care" caution to the wind -- is frequently a cynical fancy that won't survive the angst and ugliness inside the man or outside in the world. Its happiness is typically intense, but brief. Love or lust often motivates action in noir, particularly via a femme fatale (as in Double Indemnity or Out of the Past). But it also holds up a mirror to myriad themes, largely existential, that hang over characters with profound malaise. Ray approaches the torments of Camus and Sartre with In a
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- Kim Morgan
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Thirty Five Seconds of Bliss: Broken Embraces Teaser
20 February 2009
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- Lush wardrobe colors, a Penelope Cruz being carried around by multiple older men, and a wall littered with former “flames”. You can't get much out of 35 seconds, and I'm not about to make some sort of analysis here before just appreciating the images and score, but for what it is worth, Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces is looking to do exactly what Todd Haynes' did with his homage to Douglas Sirk – bring the 50's to the forefront. To be released in Spain well before Cannes, I'm looking forward to catching this one on the Croisette.
Broken Embraces is a 1990s-set drama is a four-way tale of amour-fou, shot in the style of '50s American film noir at its most hard-boiled, and will mix references to works like Nicholas Ray's In A Lonely Place and Vincente Minnelli's The Bad And The Beautiful, with signature Almodovar themes such as Fate,
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