L’année des méduses (1984)
Finally was abble to finish it, my VHS reader it’s not operational so it kind of a logistical problem to see these VHS tape (best to find a DVD-r I guess).
Cool movie nice as I remember it, I was very much influenced by French teens movies of the 80’s (well this one is not quite a teen movie, but who cares) like La Boum and others of the type, due to familiar influence from France (from that to Godart is just a step away ;D)
And it’s great having a young Kaprisky that walks around half naked the all movie, it makes you not even caring about the plot, but for what it matters it’s not a bad film a solid story, some nice performances from all actors, and well directed with some stuning photography helped by the locations in the French Riviera (was Christopher Frank French or English ?), it can be considered like a coming of age type of movie but in a more exploitive way and got something of a thriller also, well I like it. Lessons to be taken Men are just plain stupid when they are after a woman and normally act stupid, but girls, girls can be nasty very nasty.
I saw [b]The Only Son /b, a Japanese film directed Yasujiro Ozu, who is considered by some to be the best filmmaker of all time; while I would hesitate to award him this title, this is a very, very fine movie movingly acted and beautifully photographed. I’m looking foreward to seeing another of his films, Late Spring (1949).
Well I would to John but in any case a fine director, and a very influential one for western directors not so much in image terms but mainly in film thematics and human nature studies, I only have seen some films of him but I guess his best work it’s the one made after WWII, Early Summer and Floating Weeds are trully great Japonese and cinema great cinema.
Apparently he was born in England, probably also had the British nationality (see the second link), but wrote in French (En attendant Kaprisky)
Seems he wrote quite a few books, but as a writer he never rose to stardom
I guess this movie was his best shot at fame
" We were Soldiers" third time i have seen this film. i liked it first time i saw it , some time ago, still like it. very good action scenes, bloody and brutal. yeah it overdoes the sentiment a bit but a good action film and supposedly the most realistic in depicting what fighting in vietnam was like.
[quote=“scherpschutter, post:2424, topic:1923”]Apparently he was born in England, probably also had the British nationality (see the second link), but wrote in French (En attendant Kaprisky)
Seems he wrote quite a few books, but as a writer he never rose to stardom
I guess this movie was his best shot at fame[/quote]
Thanks’d for the info Sherp.
Maybe (it ain’t no Nam’s Angels ;D), but I think Hamburger Hill it’s also a good one in showing some realistic fighting in Vietnam (and a better film IMO).
I have seen only parts of it when I was very, very young, and I don’t remember anything. but Ihave never tried to get it, or the other 2 Wellman/Wayne films.
Funny, as I like both.
Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
Good film. Though I thought the beginning was pretty slow. After it gets going, it’s a very interesting film. Kinski portrays one of his few more innocent characters. He’s pretty harmless here and not the madman he ofen portrays. And he and Cardinale work very well together in their brief scenes. Next I guess I’ll check out Cobra Verde.
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Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
Good film. Though I thought the beginning was pretty slow. After it gets going, it’s a very interesting film. Kinski portrays one of his few more innocent characters. He’s pretty harmless here and not the madman he ofen portrays. And he and Cardinale work very well together in their brief scenes. Next I guess I’ll check out Cobra Verde.[/quote]
Well, his character is quite mad - or at least very eccentric. A wonderful film for me.
Cobra Verde is nowhere near as successful, but certainly needs to be seen.
I’ll have a review for my blog soon (I hate saying that for some reason)
Loads of people seem to have blog’s these days.
Which is why I hesitated so long before actually making one myself. And if I didn’t have to make one, I wouldn’t because I don’t want to be a follower.
But I have lots of opinions on films and no approapriate place such reviews (except spaghetti reviews). So I’ll put them on a blog.
Anyway, here’s my take on Fitzcarraldo
The all world it’s turning into a big big blog
Uggghhhh!!! For some reason, I saw fit to watch the uncut version of Red Cliff, after already watching a 5 hour movie. And Red Cliff is somewhere around 4 hours and 50 minutes. I said earlier that I like long movies. I didn;t know I’d take that so serioisly.
Seriously though. Red Cliff is a mixed bag. The action scenes are ofcourse among the greatest of all action scenes but their is a little too much going on between them that isn’t as interesting. All in all, the action sequences save this film from being a total bore. But I’m glad I saw it uncut.
The Omega Man 1971 Boris Sagal
This might be the first time that I saw the remake first than the original (well to be correct both were remakes of The last man on Earth with Vicent Price), and I might say I’m not a great fan of both ( but I do like the Vicent Price one it’s a great flick), the Will Smith one took the George Romero vampire/zombies way more spectacular I guess, but apart from the good performances from both Smith and Braga, I think that like most of films these days they seem to lack some sort of charisma, I don’t know but to me it seems to be missing something, maybe some years on it.
The omega man it’s another history a true product of it times maybe now a classic but not my cup of tea. The plot it’s imaginative (but I would do it even more radical a trully last man on earth, I would have to fins a plot do), to me the film it’s some a counter culture one and even sometimes reactionary if I might say so, to me the family represented more than the usual critic to religion fanatism, what I see there it’s a resemblance to the Charles Manson family, and with that a criticism to the all Hippie flower power culture, came on watching Charles Heston seing a Woodstock film… with that joke face, the family really blaming the scientific man and preaching on a return to the purity of the past, while killing every one, and the only zombie with a gun was a sort of black panther figure, ok it was dosed with a inter racial love relation but the main message was there (and remember the all thing started with a Soviet/China affair).
Like ENNIo said there’s some relly speedy camera work on some scenes, I don’t know maybe it looked well in the big screen (those films were made to watch in the big screen).
Some say it was Heston best performance, I don’t agree I can tell a dozen films where his performance it’s way better, Anthony Zerbe, yes he gives some nice acting as the crazy preacher zombie leader and before as the TV news anchorman, the rest of the cast relatively unknown gives the films a sort of exploitation feeling which is a good thing.
Not a bad flick, but for may money and personnel taste I do prefer Soylent Green, but I concede that it has became a classic and deserves to be in any collection among with other sci-fi flicks of the 60 and 70
“Salvage” (2008) low budget, British horror/ science fiction thriller. set on christmas eve for some reason about a housing estate that is thrown into chaos and terror when the army turns up and puts the area into solitary. why are they there? what are looking for? why are they frightened?what is initially thought to be a terriost attack, turns out to be something more sinister.
filmed on the sets of disbanded t.v soap opera " Brookside". this film must be given credit for at least trying something different but it doesn’t really come off. The main problem is the plot which has gaping holes of logic all over the place, and you can’t help but be disapointed about what is in fact, taking place. ( not giving anything away there). the acting form an unknown cast is ok, and film doesn’t outstay it’s welcome as it is fairly brief, it has some well done gore for it’s budget.Is reminiscent of " Night Of The Living Dead" at times, although it’s not zombies that are the problem.in fact the problem is the problem, if you see what i mean, it isn’t explained enough.6/10
Ricco - finally caught up with this semi-legendary Italian/Spanish mafia/revenge flick and, while in many ways it’s a poor film, it delivers on the promise of cheap, sleazy thrills.
Plenty of violence (including a notorious castration scene that goes way beyond a similar set-up in The Valachi Papers) and gratuitous nudity will keep undemanding viewers entertained, but if its incisive writing or disciplined, imaginative directing you’re after, forget it.
Chris Mitchum has his father’s hangdog demeanour but not an ounce of his talent or charisma, but Barbara Bouchet and Malisa Longo are charming, and the cast is brimming with SW character actors, looking somewhat out of place in Seventies suits rather than Western gear.
watched " Sweeny Todd" for the second time, and still like it.
THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA - Slow burn but I quite enjoyed it, probably one of the best performances I’ve seen from Kristofferson. It’s hard to say much without giving it away but is is certainly a peculiar film.
The Book from Mishima it’s great, never saw the film do.