Saturday, February 24, 2007

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The Rumble. Francis Ford Coppola. 1983

Since it is very pretty pictures and I will say only that it's almost as if Mickey Rourke was the reincarnation of James Dean (the best role he has done in his life.) Matt Dillon makes his brother, whom you imitate, and Dennis Hopper also appears making their father. If this is added a post-adolescent Nicholas Cage and toupee, as it leaves a film of bands that curious. Nice to see, with a touch bestial about maladjustment, and many, many details.


Poor Rusty James ...
Rating: 8

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Into Great Silence. Philip Gröning. 2006

Into Great Silence is a documentary filmed for a couple of years (the director asked permission to the Order of Carthusians and told him yes 20 years later) about life in the Swiss monastery of the Carthusian order, which is possibly the oldest (the western world) who still live in the cloistered monks.

The film is long, are almost 3 hours of silence, pure and simple. Only hear the sounds of a in which almost no noise. It shows the everyday life of the monks, cutting each other's hair, eating, praying, hiking up the mountain (there should be one day a year in which the luxury of talking and laughing, etc.).

When one sees this movie knows what is stated in the same way that if you drink a double shot of Stroh, vomit instantly. This movie is to love or hate. It's like watching a piece of life but without all the paraphernalia that surrounds us. It's like watching Big Brother with dignity, because those who come here do not speak, do not talk nonsense, and smile with happiness as he does not expect things in life, as if they were REALLY happy doing what they do (and what not do). That is exciting to see these monks. Your happiness is hypnotic. After seeing the documentary is as if you had done to reflect on the passage of time.

Do you remember those images to still camera where you see a landscape progress from day to night in seconds? For here the landscape is not progressing, but we who are going to 500x.

Look at the pictures below, a few seconds to think what they suggest (all together and separately) and then decide whether to see Into Great Silence or not.



Recommendation : use as reference The Quince Tree Sun (1992), by Victor Erice .

Rating: 9

Personal Invitation Engagement

I walk the line. John Frankenheimer. The

Title in Spain is I Walk the Line, another infamous adaptation.
John Frankenheimer is the father of the action. Every time I think Train (1964) goes a shiver down my back and I come to mind my flirtations with the Commandos 1, 1.5, 2 and 3. And something happens to me also Birdman of Alcatraz, that man (Burt Lancaster again) who raised canaries to destabilize the system. Here are some examples.

In 1970, approached the bitterness of the psychedelic 60s, and then comes to Johnny Cash is the soul of this film. And it is not because the star in it because their songs (which is named after the main film) helps greatly to Gregory Peck parco to show their feelings.

The story is about a timid and sad sheriff who falls for a girl, the daughter of a moonshine maker. From there, everything is degenerating into a traumatic consequences. Things are not what they seem. Traps few, the family, leaving everything on a whim, love, heartbreak, righteousness ...

technical assessments must speak of beautiful tracking shots, changes of pace and a beautiful combination of flat parties where near-far focusing and different characters are shaped to accommodate all sides during a conversation that tense.

regular actors, very imposts on Tuesday Weld way the girl. The other half and half. Gregory Peck excellent, with the coarseness and rudeness, their presence and gestures hard to face that make you doubt about the verdict that divided his hand on your face.

Overall, I had created more expectations on the film. I thought it would be more violent, with more action, and has proven to be a drama to use, on the struggle of man against his routine life gray. The first half hour I found boring and slow, heavy, then go slowly entertaining. Lasts an hour and a half, but it could have lasted 70 minutes.


rating: 6