Archive for the 'Films' Category
This silly flu had me however on Saturday morning I woke up feeling much better, but not quite up to karate katas, nonetheless I showed up at the karate Dojo at the end of the training to help out with the cleaning…. However visiting people who just had brain surgery within the last two weeks is still out of the question according to my colleagues of the medical profession and thus my Sunday plans have just been redrawn.
There are days when what happens in my life makes all my fiction a collection of rather dull narratives. Above all, there was not much about the day that I could possibly have predicted. It was one of those days when the universe is bent on teaching me a few lessons, and give me a [...]
Yesterday before taking off from Locarno and its festival, I got a chance to view the screening of Freigsprochen.
Funny! This ain’t a funny film. Afterwards my friend and I mused on the wisdom of having a 10 year old watch such a film, and we agreed that even fiction reality is a good vehicle to [...]
I have been having a few very free-running days. It starts with waking up without an alarm while sleeping out in the open air in the balcony. So far it was only on Friday evening that I was not at at the Piazza Grande for the evening showing. Besides Vexille also got to see [...]
Just got in from watching the world premiere of Vexille. Anime it is. It is modern computer graphics combined with good old anime tradition. It is a genre that has been attracting me in the past few years. It is not a secret that I have a thing for the movies, and that my [...]
Three months down the road in 2007, there is not much that I can conclude beyond my own perception, other than that change is taking place. Change is change, and I have taken it to call that these recent changes are good and leave me refreshed, although I would not generalize that all change is [...]
Once more within a few days I just got back from watching a film with Frédéric. This time is was “Je vous trouve très beau” which I was pleasantly surprised by. The title is really corny, and then it is a french comedy, and that would make it even cornier. Granted that it has its [...]
Shortbus is my kind of Christmas flick. Fréderic and I just went to see it on the late showing on Saturday, afterwards he returned to the office to pick up something or other, and I took a taxi back home. John Cameron Mitchell may just not be your mainstream writer, actor and director, however [...]
I watched Yojimbo last night three times: once in Japanese with German subtitles, then in German with German subtitles and the last time in Japanese without subtitles. I figure that if ever I am going to learn Japanese I might as well give it a go beyond counting to ten. Here I combined the very [...]
The original story was written by Chuck Palahniuk, the screenplay by Jim Uhls, then David Fincher directed the movie and certainly the actors playing Jack, Tyler and Marla do put in their own expression on the characters and story…. The other two movies, Syriana and L’ivresse du pouvoir, both deal with exactly the same issue, but in a rather different way.
Matt Dillon does a great job of playing Hank Chinaski, if for nothing else other than the fact that to me he speaks right into my heart…. One of the many scenes that touched home with me was when Henry (Hank) goes home to his parents needing a place to sleep and his father ends up throwing him out of the house.
