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Gali Seenu Telugu Movie 2009
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Release Date: 25 Sep 2009
Genre: Drama
Language: Telugu
Director: Udaya Bhaskar
Producer: Krishna Prasad MV, Ravindra K, Phaniraj
Music Director: Arjun
Review
Posani Krishnamurali and Satyakrishnan of ‘Mental Krishna’-fame are playing the key roles, while a debutant Haneef is playing the title role in ‘Gali Seenu’ directed by P. Udaybhaskar and produced by MV Krishna Prasad and Kala Ravindra Phaniraj, on the banner of Swapna Movies. Director says, ‘It is the story of a person who wants to rise to the level of a don from a street rowdy stature. We brought out the film in an entertaining manner. I had directed many Telugu serials for small screen earlier. I have also experience as feature film director as I made my debut with ‘Madhya Taragati Mahabharatam’ produced by Dasari Narayana Rao. Presently I am directing ‘Gali Seenu’ produced by V Doraswamy Raju on the banner of VMC Productions. As far as ‘Gali Seenu’, the film had completed shooting and post-production works long ago and is now ready for censor certification.’ Producer Krishna Prasad says, ‘We are making efforts to release the film in the first week of July, with the assistance of Pratani Ramakrishna Goud of RK Films. Action and comedy scenes would remain a highlight. There are five songs in the film.’ RK, Kavya, Chitram Basha, Mumait Khan and others are in the cast. Music is by Arjun.
starring multi-talented film maker Posani Krishna Murali in the lead role, is ready to release in first week of July.The film is produced by MV Krishna Prasad and Kala Ravindra Phaniraj, on the banner of Swapna Movies. Recently Censor formalities were also complete for this film.
It is the story of a person who wants to rise to the level of a don from a street rowdy stature. With touching emotions and rib-tickling comedy, the film showcases the hurdles along the path of this aspirant towards his goal.
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English Movie 2009 If One Thing Matters:
A Film About Wolfgang Tillmans
Cast And Crew
Cast
Wolfgang Tillmans ... Himself
Irm Hermann ... Herself
Pet Shop Boys ... Themselves
Director:Heiko Kalmbach
Writers:Heiko Kalmbach (script)
Alexander Pfeuffer (script consultant)
Release Date:18 September 2009 (USA)
Genre:Documentary
Reviews
Wolfgang Tillmans makes his breakfast. He waters the plants, hops on the subway, meticulously hangs prints at a gallery. For four years, Heiko Kalmbach shadowed the German photographer who rose to fame through spontaneous shots of late-night club life and common places. Following the subject’s cue, the director remains at a distance, trying to glimpse the creative process through the fleeting moments of Tillmans’s daily routines.
But the risk of such hands-off filmmaking is that the narrative itself can become mired in the mundane; there’s little that happens here to shed light on the way this renowned shutterbug works or thinks. In fact, outside a brief foray into directing (for a Pet Shop Boys music video), Tillmans’s life apparently involves very little artistry at all. This might be Kalmbach’s central point—being a celebrity allows almost no time for creativity—but his refusal to question anything leaves even that thread unrealized. Tillmans’s photos may be observational, but even he makes the difficult decisions of what to crop and which shots deserve public viewing. That curatorial heft is sorely missing from Kalmbach’s final edit; it’s a portrait that neither feels forced nor fully formed.—
In the 1990s, Wolfgang Tillmans made a name for himself with photos of parties and club life. Today he is one of the most famous photographers in the world. Filmmaker Heiko Kalmbach accompanied Tillmans for four years. The result is a personal portrait featuring impromptu interviews and documentation of the immediate experience of Tillmans' work process. 'If One Thing Matters - a film about Wolfgang Tillmans' is a search for the core of an influential artist's practice.
Heiko Kalmbach, another would-be DVCam Vasari, has produced an artist documentary that's best when its subject, a German-born, London-based photographer, isn't addressing the camera. The title abbreviates "If One Thing Matters, Everything Matters," Wolfgang Tillmans's Tate exhibition, which represents the platitudes that he falls back on when discussing his work ("If you put in a little bit of effort, it does turn out better"; "Stuff that's thought up will always just be thought-up stuff"). The footage, gathered from shoots between 2000 (when Tillmans won England's Turner Prize) and 2003, shows him filling the appointments of a world-famous gallery icon. With the accustomed self-confidence born of early success—he was a club kid wunderkind—and impressive stature, Tillmans is introduced re-editing a print interview (a bit diva-ish, that). Subsequently, he'll hang a wall-size piece with the help of three handlers and three forklifts, win a succession of courtiers and sycophants with his sharp, triangular grin, and dilettantishly fumble out a music video assignment for the Pet Shop Boys. A shoot with Fassbinder actress Irm Hermann signifies Tillmans's desire—and the desire of every high-profile German-speaking artist (hello, Fatih Akin)—to huff the fading smell of RWF's genius. Like the rest of the film, though, it does little to convince the unconverted of Tillmans's own.
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English Movie 2009 Pretty Ugly People
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Starring Missi Pyle, Melissa McCarthy, Josh Hopkins,
Octavia Spencer, Jack Noseworthy, Larry Sullivan,
Phill Lewis, and Allison Janney
Theatrical Release 9/18/2009
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by: Tate Taylor
Directed by: Tate Taylor
Running Time: 99 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
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A dying woman’s wish brings six estranged friends together in the Montana wilderness. Lucy has battled obesity her entire life and with the "little time she has left", she wants to spend a final weekend together with her college friends like once remembered. Upon arriving, Lucy’s friends soon discover the reality of the situation isn’t what they had expected. On the flip side, Lucy soon realizes her friends are now a far cry from what she remembered and that her final wish wasn’t the best of ideas after all. The group soon finds themselves on an arduous four-day hike, stripped of modern conveniences and with no place to hide. The winding uphill trail brings to surface everyone’s inner demons and fears, with each member of the group taking something away from the adventure that they could have never imagined.
The grass might not be as green as one might think on the other side of obesity. Pretty Ugly People takes a wickedly comedic look at body image, self-loathing and sex within a group of estranged friends in their mid-30s. Lucy was obese her entire life and had always longed to be a thin so she could finally lose her virginity. Successful gastric by-pass surgery has now left Lucy svelte and beautiful. However, she convinces her friends that she’s still obese, on the verge of dying, and that her last wish is for them to reunite for a retreat in Montana. Everyone begrudgingly agrees to come and upon arrival, they discover they’ve been had. The newly thin Lucy attributes her friends’ presence as a way to "walk with you all as a skinny girl like I imagined it would be back in college." She explains that once she has finally done this, "The old me will have died."
This plan falls on unreceptive ears, especially when she reveals to the group that they are embarking on a rugged, four-day hiking trip so she can lose her remaining four pounds. Old friends have definitely gone their separate ways in both life and careers; they now mix like oil and water. Lucy soon realizes that the people she assumed had an idyllic life are actually conflicted and confused, out-of-shape themselves in more ways than just physically. A moment of self-discovery leads a newly empowered Lucy to leave her friends just before a shocking twist of fate forces everyone to take a deep look at their own issues. Lucy’s arduous four-day hike morphs into an unlikely reawakening of sorts that results in strengthened friendships and self-acceptance.
This dark comedy stars Missi Pyle (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dodgeball), Allison Janney (West Wing, Juno), Melissa McCarthy (Samantha Who, Gilmore Girls), Josh Hopkins (Swingtown, Brothers and Sisters), Phill Lewis (The Suite Life of Zack and Cody) and William Sanderson (Blade Runner, Newhart). Pretty Ugly People reveals that our struggles come in many shapes and sizes.
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English Movie 2009 Harmony And Me
Cast And Crew
Cast
Justin Rice ... Harmony
Kevin Corrigan ... Carlos
Pat Healy ... Matt
Kristen Tucker ... Jessica
Director:Bob Byington
Writer:Bob Byington (screenplay)
Genre:Comedy
Theatrical Release 9/18/2009
Reviews
Sad-faced, Harmony, is a prototype nightmare dumpee - the sort of heartbroken friend you take out for consolatory drinks two or three times before resorting to any excuse to avoid hearing, yet again, the play-by-play rehash of what went wrong. In the wake of his separation from his perky dream-girl Jessica, Harmony's friends and family are as unsympathetic as only true intimates can be. His appalling brothers mock his anguished state, and his buddies counsel stoicism on the basis that Jessica was 'dull' and 'only an eight' as opposed to the elusive 'ten'. Then there's Harmony's boss, who self-confessedly loses interest in women once they reach legal age; and his mother, an obsessive chain-smoker whose lungs, according to her doctor, 'should be declared a national disaster area'. His social missteps and emotional misjudgments are regrettable as he drifts inexorably into a one-night-stand with his neighbor, Natasha, a blonde embodiment of every soul sucking over-sharer you've ever met.
By his own account, the 30-year-old Harmony (Justin Rice, looking all of 19) grew up "with limited access to mental health." And for the duration of "Harmony and Me," a low-fi comedy of sulks and self-pity, he will try to prove it.
A recent dumpee whose ex refers to him as "the loser," Harmony wears his heartbreak like a badge and his former beloved’s likeness around his neck. Thus shackled, he shuffles through the movie unloading his pain on anyone who will listen, while a clutch of quirky supporting players — including his less-than-harmonious family and a breast-obsessed one-night stand (Allison Latta, terriffic) — urges him to get a grip.
Written and directed by Bob Byington and produced with the help of the Sundance Institute (normally a pusher of projects no audience is likely to cut itself on), "Harmony and Me" unspools on unlovely video in a featureless Austin, Tex. Yet despite the film’s sketchy aesthetic and barely animate lead, its tone is carefully contrived: I’ll wager no one in your circle is as dryly funny or spontaneously surreal as Harmony’s nonsupport group.
The significance of the film’s music, however, may take longer to register: the awkward, fragmented and occasionally soaring sound of grief being transformed into a way forward.
HARMONY AND ME
Opens on Friday in Manhattan.
Written and directed by Bob Byington; director of photography, Jim Eastburn; edited by Frank Ross and Jacob Vaughan; production designer, Yvonne Boudreaux; produced by Kristen Tucker. At the Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters, Museum of Modern Art. Running time: 1 hour 15 minutes. This film is not rated.
The Museum of Modern Art presents the theatrical premiere of Bob Byington’s slacker comedy Harmony and Me (2009), from September 18 through 24, 2009, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters.
Director Byington will be present at the September 18 and 19 screenings to introduce the film and participate in a post-screening question and answer session.
A major highlight of the 2009 New Directors/New Films festival, the longstanding collaboration between The Museum of Modern Art and The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Harmony and Me takes place in the independent film capital Austin, Texas, where a melancholy young lyricist named Harmony (Justin Rice) refuses to let go of the heartbreak caused by a crushing break-up with his girlfriend.
He remains stubbornly unhappy, reducing his story of lost love to a broken-record spiel that he repeats to friends, family, and anyone else who will listen.
Although his depression annoys his tough mom, Harmony’s friends, as oddball and eccentric as he, seem largely unaffected by his cultivation of misery.
In addition to Rice, a musician who is also front-man for the band Bishop Allen, the film features Kevin Corrigan as Harmony’s sidekick Carlos.
Byington’s film employs a barebones aesthetic to present a contemporary portrait of a descent towards rock bottom that ultimately resolves in redemption.
Harmony and Me received an Annenberg Fellowship from the Sundance Institute in 2008, and, in addition to New Directors/New Films, was also screened at the 2009 Edinburgh International Film Festival and the Los Angeles Film Festival. Director Byington was recently awarded the Stanley Kubrick Award for "Bold and Innovative Filmmaking" at the Traverse City Film Festival.
MoMA’s weeklong run of Harmony and Me is organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art.
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English Movie 2009 Fatal Promises
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Staring;;Emma Thompson,Gloria Steinem
Genre(s): Documentary
Written by: Katharina Rohrer
Directed by: Katharina Rohrer
Release Date:Theatrical: September 18, 2009
Running Time: 90 minutes, Color
Origin: USA Austria
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An in-depth look at the scourge of human trafficking through the personal stories of victims of trafficking, interviews with politicians, non-governmental organizations and activists.
"Fatal Promises," a documentary about human trafficking, seems to start from the premise that no one has ever heard of this vexing international problem before. So it tries to cover every base: sex slavery, forced manual labor, political foot-dragging, celebrity activism, frustration among nongovernmental agencies dealing with the issue.
As a result it lacks focus and adds little to the awareness of the subject that even a casual follower of the news has already acquired.
The film, directed by Kat Rohrer, uses a hopscotching approach that muddies rather than clarifies. At its core are the personal stories of several trafficking victims — stories that certainly deserve to be heard — but it cuts away from these to drop in on legislative debates, a United Nations conference, a speech by the actress Emma Thompson and more.
The filmmakers seem to be trying to slam various governments (especially the New York Legislature) for preferring vague platitudes to legislation that would make it easier to prosecute traffickers. But "Fatal Promises" is guilty of its own sort of vagueness, saying that nongovernmental agencies need more support without detailing how they intend to address the issue.
Statistics cited in the film say 800,000 people are trafficked each year (including 17,500 in the United States), most into forced prostitution, domestic service or agricultural work. As Gloria Steinem, the other famous name besides Ms. Thompson to turn up here, notes, it is a modern-day version of slavery but more widespread than slavery was because today transportation is easier, and the disparity between rich and poor countries is greater.
Trafficking seems particularly to have taken hold in the countries of the former Soviet Union, the film says, and the victims who tell their stories are from this region. Several are women who were forced into the sex trade, a subject that has already received a fair amount of attention (including its own mini-series, "Human Trafficking," on Lifetime in 2005).
But the filmmakers, in the documentary’s most illuminating segments, also talk to two men who bought into false promises and found themselves working on an illegal crabbing boat under wretched conditions. At one point they were reduced to eating their own bait. It’s a reminder that sexual slavery is only one part of this ugly phenomenon.
FATAL PROMISES
Opens on Wednesday in Manhattan.
Fatal Promises opened on Wednesday in New York City to two mixed reviews. • Neil Genzlinger wrote in the New York Times, "...tries to cover every base: sex slavery, forced manual labor, political foot-dragging, celebrity activism, frustration among nongovernmental agencies dealing with the issue.... lacks focus and adds little to the awareness of the subject that even a casual follower of the news has already acquired." • And Andrew Schenker wrote in the Village Voice, "...it's the personal stories—a woman forced to prove that she's menstruating to avoid rape, the starved captives of a crab boat reduced to eating their rotten bait—that have the most impact, humanizing the sickening end-product of capitalist failure."
Fa.tal: adj- Causing ruin or destruction;disastrous / Prom.ise(s): noun- something that effects an express assurance; indication of what may be expected. Every year, an estimated 800,000 persons are trafficked across international borders and forced into sexual or labour servitude. Estimates are that as many as 32 million people yearly are held in slave-like conditions for sexual or labour exploitation, 2.4 million of these individuals as a result of being trafficked. They are promised good jobs or pay, but end up forced into prostitution or working in servitude for no pay. They are emotionally and physically brutalized, starved, forced to work extremely long hours, stripped of their passports and locked away, and eventually discarded or worse, murdered. Eight years after the United Nations established the Palermo Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, "Fatal Promises" offers a comprehensive look at the realities on the ground versus the rhetoric of today's political efforts in combating human trafficking. While focusing on Ukraine as a country of origin and western European countries and the U.S. as countries of destination, "Fatal Promises" illuminates the magnitude of this global epidemic.
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Japanese Movie 2009 Evangelion 1.0 You are Not Alone
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Starring: Kotono Mitsuishi, Megumi Hayashibara, Megumi Ogata,
Akira Ishida, Fumihiko Tachiki, Motomu Kiyokawa, Yuriko Yamaguchi,
Hiro Yuuki, Tetsuya Iwanaga, Tomokazu Seki
Director: Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Masayuki
Genres: action, drama, psychological, science fiction
Themes: Mecha, Military
Running Time: 95 mins.
Additional Notes: dialogue Japanese
Country Of Origin: Japan
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A reluctant young hero is called upon to pilot an immense robot in a battle against alien invaders.
When Neon Genesis Evangelion was first released in North America back in the mid-90's, I bought into the hype. And yes, there was hype for it, in anime circles, which, admittedly, were much smaller than they are today. I devoured the series as it came out, two episodes at a time, on VHS. And I liked it, a lot. I even thought the original ending was decent. Even though Studio Gainax ran out of money to finish the show, leaving the final two episodes devoid of action. Oh, and that creator Hideaki Anno seemingly embraced the lack of budget as a way to abandon the action aspect of the series to hammer home the point that the show was really always about sad-sack, damaged hero Shinji Ikari and his mental state and all the giant robot fights were just window dressing. Still, it was watchable. A few years later, I saw the follow-up films, hastily assembled in the wake of Evangelion's amazing success in Japan. Consisting of two awkward short movies recounting the high points of the tv series and the incredibly bizarre and nihlistic End of Evangelion, I hated them. The postscript films soured me on Evangelion big-time and I have never returned to the series. So I didn't exactly jump for joy when it was announced that Anno, after a decade of messing around with other people's franchises to limited success (Kare Kano, a live action Cutie Honey movie), would be returning to the Evangelion cash cow and rebooting the story yet again as a series of four feature-length films.
But circumstances lined up perfectly for me to spend a night out at Houston's Alamo Drafthouse with some anime-loving friends to watch a one-time showing of the film on the big screen. So I went. And I was impressed. Mighty impressed. Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone starts the story over, and you don't have to have any knowledge of the original series to watch this movie. Shinji Ikari, a 14-year old boy, has been summoned to Tokyo-3 by his father, but he doesn't know why. But since he hasn't seen his father in years, he jumps at the chance to re-establish a relationship with him. We don't know this right at the beginning, of course. All we know is that this kid is in the middle of a war zone and that a hot chick in a sweet car arrives at the last second to pick him up, just as the street he's on is destroyed. Turns out that the woman is Lt. Colonel Misato Katsuragi, Shinji's new boss, and that Shinji's father, Gendo, intends for him to pilot Eva-01, a giant robot that is mankind's last hope. Japan is being ravaged by monsters from outer space called Angels, and even the military's most destructive bombs have no effect on them. Only the Evas can go toe to toe with and defeat the Angels.
But Rei, the pilot of Eva-00, has been badly injured and is in no shape to fight the Angel currently destroying Tokyo-3. So Shinji is coaxed into getting into Eva-01 and attempting to fight, despite having no training whatsoever. Predictably, he does very badly, but his Eva somehow develops a mind of its own, goes berserk and destroys the Angel. The rest of the film is more concerned with showing how Shinji gets settled in to his new life, adjusting to sharing an apartment with Misato and going to school. Interestingly, everyone at school knows who Shinji is and what he does, but it makes him more of a pariah than a celebrity. Despite the fact that the Evas are the only things that stand between humanity and total destruction, it turns out that people still don't like it when huge swaths of the city are destroyed by monsters, not to mention the ancillary damage the Evas cause while fighting them. While focusing on Shinji's domestic life, though, the movie doesn't forget about the threat. There are two more desperate Angel battles in the film, including an incredible climax against a rapidly shapeshifting diamond-shaped Angel.
All along, there are hints that there is more going on here and that Gendo is keeping a lot to himself. While everybody thinks that humanity is in a fight for survival, Gendo and his associate Fuyutsuki seem to have larger concerns in mind. Which is pretty presumptuous considering the stakes, but Gendo is all haughty attitude, all the time. He doesn't seem to care about Shinji one bit except as a piece to use in his game against the Angels. And, despite the stakes, it does seem to be a game to him- at one point he mentions that he expects eight more Angel attacks before it's over. Gendo's attitude is a huge disappointment to Shinji, who doesn't get any of the attention he hopes for. To make matters worse, Gendo actually has conversations with Rei and seems to show affection for her, confusing Shinji even more.
Some things never change. Since this is essentially the same story, Shinji is just as much of a damaged sad-sack here as he was in the original. We know a lot of the reasons why he has these issues, but that knowledge doesn't really make him more appealing as a main character. Still, You Are (Not) Alone tells a focused, complete chapter of the story and makes it engaging. The comedic interludes (Misato is a slob; wacky misunderstandings involving showers, towels, and nudity) are well-placed and quite funny. The action scenes are spectacular, and this is where the animation technology of 2007 vs. 1995 really shines. The Angels and Evas look great, particularly Ramiel, the final diamond Angel. Anno also does a great job doling out morsels of a bigger picture, letting us know that Gendo and his UN contacts have a lot more on their minds that simple survival. Another interesting aspect of the update is what elements Anno has chosen to leave alone. Shinji, in his scenes away from the Eva, is forever using earbuds, constantly listening to his SDAT cassette player. When his classmates leave him a good luck message, they find a phone terminal. There are no cell phones in this world and no iPods, giving the movie a peculiar sort of just-barely-retro sci-fi setting. I never thought I would get sucked back into Evangelion, but Anno has managed it. I'm officially on board for the next three films, and hopefully this time he'll come up with an ending I actually like. 4/5
After the second impact, all that remains of Japan is Tokyo-3, a city that’s being attacked by giant creatures that seek to eradicate the human kind, called Angels. Last hope for survival rests with a government agency and its gigantic Evangelion fighting artillery, a human-mechanical hybrid designed by Shinji’s distant father, Gendou. Before I continue I should note that I last saw the series about five years ago and haven’t retained much in the way of exact plot recollection. What I do know, is rather than a straight remake, Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone, is an expanded retelling of the opening to a story that began as a 1995 TV series and was concluded by mastermind Hideaki Anno in the 1997 feature Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion. When you’re dealing with a classic anime series that has been around for many many years, you can expect confusing plot jumps like this.
The art in this film is probably not what you are used too from earlier episodes. Tech package is geared up with the latest CGI software without betraying the sharp lines and simple facial expressions of the original material. The character designs are the same, streamlined and tweaked a bit, but when it comes to the layout, placement and style of the film, it’s like watching a glossier version of what came out back in 1995. Of course, they are condensing six episodes, about 120 minutes, down to a 90 minute runtime so things are cut. But they deal with it well enough.
Allow me to explain that last part, Rebuild 1 is basically a retelling of the first 6 or so episodes from Neon Genesis Evangelion. In a real rarity, the Evangelion TV series is being "remade" into four new movies, the first of which is entitled "You Are (Not) Alone". Once you get past the dubbing and shotty backstory given, you begin to really think this movie is is really quite predictable and inane. I felt this flick lacked basic plot development to form a basis for what is to come in future films. While the storyline basically follows that of its sister anime it has been completely remade. For instance, there have now been a few changes in design as well, EVA Unit 1 has had a slight rehash with a few armor additions and some new weaponry.
I can’t really talk about the film without talking about the series because… well… It’s a reboot, one that stays fairly close to the story of the original. Then again, if you aren’t familiar to this series I won’t be able to catch you up to speed in the limited amount of space in my reviews. This is not to say that it’s not a good movie. It’s just that like I said, it’s like watching the series again. The music, composed by Shiro Sagisu follows the ways of the story and visuals in regards to the original anime. It sounds familiar, though outright different. Despite the quality of this film, You Are (Not) Alone is only held down because of the reasons why it was created. Many fans might look at this and see only money, or others might say that the original series never needed to be made. Frankly, I like to look at it like another take on the Evangelion universe, expanding on ideas that were not touched on in the original series.
fter two drastically different endings that left fans seriously irate and not a little bit confused, Hideaki Anno, the series creator of the popular and influential anime Neon Genesis Evangelion, had a lot to answer for. Today, the show is infamous for its convoluted financial troubles and Anno's inability to give closure to what is probably the most ambitious anime to date. His new film, Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, sets out to integrate crucial plot points that he unceremoniously hurled at the viewer at the last minute in the show's now-infamous TV finale. But getting Neon Genesis Evangelion to make some semblance of sense is a mammoth undertaking considering the show's literally Biblical scope (it ends after all life on Earth, save for its adolescent protagonist Shinji Ikari, has been reduced to primordial goo).
As a TV series, Neon Genesis Evangelion was wracked with financial and philosophical burdens, ending without enough funds to develop Anno's bat-shit crazy finale. Even after making the ending he had always wanted in The End of Evangelion, two extra-long episodes later repackaged as a single film, Anno still left fans feeling cheated. There was too much to keep track of, what with philosophical references ranging from Schopenhauer to Sartre and Judeo-Christian imagery being bandied about with flippant alacrity in a show about robots and teen introspection, to say nothing of the scene in which Shinji masturbates over a colleague's comatose body. The story needed to be drastically simplified, making You Are (Not) Alone the first of four proposed films that would make the story a cohesive, if not accessible, single unit.
Unfortunately, the series's story is no less complicated, and it shows from the amount of plot You Are (Not) Alone crams into a single 98-minute film. The movie takes place in a future where—spoilers herein—giant monsters called Angels have destroyed the bulk of the world in an event referred to only as the Second Impact. Within minutes of Shinji's (Spike Spenser) arrival, an Angel attacks and his father Gendo (John Swasey), who abandoned Shinji at a young age, asks him to help stop it by piloting an Eva, a robot designed to battle to the Angels. A colossal migraine just waiting to happen, this is only just the tip of the iceberg in a story rife with double-crosses, self-analysis, and questionably re-appropriated Christian iconography.
Though Shinji is essentially humanity's only hope of survival (the Angels seek to destroy the human race by causing a Third Impact), his struggle to fight the Angels is secondary to his internal struggle to rely on other people. Everyone from Misato Katsuragi (Allison Keith), his handler and tentative friend, to Rei Ayanami (Brina Palencia), a fellow Eva pilot, try to get him to break out of his mopey little emo shell—he spends a lot of his alone time listening to his Walkman and staring at the ceiling—and accept that he's, as the title inexpertly puts it, not alone.
As our introduction to Shinji, You Are (Not) Alone is very much a psychodrama where supporting characters and Shinji himself inexpertly tell us and only sometimes show us what his personality is like. This is a result of Anno's heady ambition to elevate the Mecha anime subgenre with philosophy and religious symbols. His lofty ideas have always overshadowed his characters, even when they're ostensibly about those characters.
Analogies, such as Schopenhauer's concept of the Hedgehog's Dilemma, are used to explain the character's angst because images of him failing to gain acceptance with his scholmates, Eva, co-pilots, or his superiors are not enough to show that he's socially inept. No, Anno's trying to present Shinji's struggle as a grand drama, showing that his alienation is the focal part of the show's existentialist malaise regarding how little agency mankind has over their own actions. Selling material that dense to a teen audience is tough but Anno persisted in making in the show's finale, no matter how many glaring plot holes he created in the process.
It's impossible even in You Are (Not) Alone, which is essentially a condensed version of the first few episodes of the series with a few elements from later episodes tossed in to make the show's climax appear more grounded, to understand the logic of a show where only children are able to pilot robots, that are themselves sentient creatures, that fight Angels whose destruction causes blood to rain down around a giant cross with a rainbow at its pinnacle. It's a kid's show, I know, but Christ on a crutch, why the hell do things happen the way they do in it?
There is no right answer because Anno was and apparently still is more interested in provoking than explaining. In You Are (Not) Alone, he refuses to add anything new except better special effects during the robot-monster fight scenes and scenes of expository dialogue that spell out in a few seconds what took whole episodes to explain before. There are no new explanations here, just a better packaged version of what Anno already delivered, which makes You Are (Not) Alone very attractive but fundamentally pointless.
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English Movie 2009 The Painter Sam francis
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Cast
Bruce Conner ,Samuel Francis
Al Held ,Walter Hopps
Pontus Hulten, Arata Isozaki
Theatrical Release 9/11/2009
Director:Jeffrey Perkins
Genre:Documentary
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An intimate portrait of and tribute to one of the leading lights of American abstract art: Samuel Francis. Here, we retrace Francis’ life and career from his childhood in California to his artistic maturation in post-war Paris, his time spent in Japan, and his eventual return to the United States. A combination of interviews and scenes of the artist at work in his studio provide an insight into Francis' mysterious and complex personality, and its reflection in a body of work that is simultaneously diverse and singular.
Forty years in the making, 'The Painter Sam Francis' is artist Jeffrey Perkins' intimate portrait of abstract expressionist painter Sam Francis. The film retraces Francis' life and career from his childhood in California to his artistic maturation in post-war Paris, his time spent in Japan, and his prominence in the United States. It reveals a man in constant struggle with physical maladies and his own demons, but for whom creativity was a powerful life-sustaining force.
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English Movie 2009 The Most dangerous Man In America
{Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers}
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Production Status: In Production/Awaiting Release
Genres: Documentary and Politics/Religion
Running Time: 1 hr. 33 min.
Distributors: Kovno Communications
Production Co.: Kovno Communications
Produced in: United States
Starring: Daniel Ellsberg
Directed by: Rick Goldsmith
Produced by: Jodie Evans, Rick Goldsmith
Released: 09/16/2009
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Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, concludes that the war is based on decades of lies and leaks 7,000 pages of top secret documents to The New York Times, making headlines around the world. Hailed as a hero, vilified as a traitor, and ostracized by even his closest colleagues, Ellsberg risks life in prison to stop a war he helped plan. This story of one man’s profound change of heart is also a piercing look at the world of government secrecy as revealed by the ultimate insider. Marked by a landmark battle between America’s greatest newspapers and its president -- that goes to the Supreme Court -- this political thriller unravels a saga that leads directly to Watergate, Nixon’s resignation and the end of the Vietnam War. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. Whatever one thinks about Ellsberg’s decision as a governmental insider to go public with classified documents in 1971 regarding the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam conflict, one cannot deny that few Americans have ever been forced into such a moral and ethical quandary as Ellsberg.
Or have they? Gradually, over the course of the film, as Ellsberg himself recounts the story of our country’s troubling history with Vietnam, the current situation in Iraq becomes more than just a mere parallel; it becomes a mirror image. And if one makes that virtually unavoidable connection, a more disturbing question emerges: why hasn’t this behavior happened more often, throughout the course of history?
Is it because Ellsberg’s actions are, like his opponents say, those of a criminal, a liar, a traitor? Was his professional vow of silence with regards to his immediate superiors, and, by extension, the institution to which he belonged, more important than his overwhelming sense of duty to his fellow Americans, as well as those innocent civilians in Vietnam? This is a question that Ehrlich and Goldsmith don’t address directly, but by simply allowing Ellsberg to tell his own story, they make a powerful argument in support of the man, and deliver a rousing call for others to join him.
danielellsbergstill"Let it be known that Ellsberg wasn’t some hippy outsider who infiltrated the government with a master plan of exposing its deadly corruption. No, he was a believer—in his government, in his profession, in his support of America’s involvement in Vietnam. So much so, in fact, that in 1964, as Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs), he was responsible for producing a report on Vietcong atrocities that enabled Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara to begin bombing North Vietnam. It wasn’t until later that Ellsberg realized the gravity of his actions, which hadn’t at that time been supported by concrete facts. By that point, the Vietnam War had spun all the way out of control and Ellsberg was now working for the RAND Corporation on the "Pentagon Papers," which studied U.S. decision making in Vietnam from 1945 through 1968. As he learned more and more about his government’s devious actions, no matter the president, his own role in the fiasco began to take a toll on him. In order to redeem himself, he felt a dramatic measure must be taken. He wanted his fellow countrymen to see this report. Ellsberg narrates his own story with intelligence, grace, and passion. This was a wise decision on the filmmakers’ part, as it personalizes the situation for viewers who might not be sympathetic to Ellsberg’s plight from afar. I’ve always felt that it’s better to hear an anti-war argument from someone who fought on the frontlines, or that it’s better to be warned of the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse by an addict. Ellsberg wasn’t just there. His hands are dirty. By telling his story in this way, it has the potential to appeal to those detractors who would love to render a "traitor" verdict before the trial had even started.As for the filmmaking itself, Ehrlich and Goldsmith employ the dreaded—to me, at least—technique of the "Hollywood thriller recreation," to enhance the tension of certain scenes. The problem is that this technique itself automatically reduces the tension since it feels like such a forced stylistic choice. Let’s hope I’m in the minority on this one. That said, they don’t overuse it, instead relying on stock images, footage, and Ellsberg himself to build the tension. While The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers might not break any formal ground, it nonetheless feels like a vital time for this story to be told. And—recreations aside—Ellsberg and the filmmakers tell it very well.
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English Movie 2009 Phobidilia
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Cast: Ofer Shechter, Efrat Baumwald,
Shlomo Bar Shavit, Efrat Dor
Directed by: Yoav Paz, Doron Paz
Rating: NR
Theatrical Release 9/14/2009
Running Time: 87 Minutes
Status: Production/Awaiting Release
Country: Israel
Genre: Drama
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After suffering an emotional breakdown in a public place, a young man vows to quit the chaotic city life and never leave his apartment. He quickly discovers that in today’s world all his needs can be easily met: sex via the internet, food by telephone delivery and entertainment by television. Four years later, his idyllic existence comes under attack when Daniella, a free spirited girl comes into his life while Grumps, the building’s real estate agent, informs him that the apartment is about to be sold. Both Grumps, an elderly holocaust survivor with a troubled past and Daniella a cheerful young woman with a disastrous love history, are the first people in a long while to care about our hero. Both think the only way out is OUT. However, our hero refuses to leave his kingdom and decides to fight till the bitter end. ~ Baseline StudioSystems
After suffering an emotional breakdown in a public place, a young man vows to quit the chaotic city life and never leave his apartment. He quickly discovers that in today’s world all his needs can be easily met: sex via the internet, food by telephone delivery and entertainment by television. Four years later, his idyllic existence comes under attack when Daniella, a free spirited girl comes into his life while Grumps, the building’s real estate agent, informs him that the apartment is about to be sold. Both Grumps, an elderly holocaust survivor with a troubled past and Daniella a cheerful young woman with a disastrous love history, are the first people in a long while to care about our hero. Both think the only way out is OUT. However, our hero refuses to leave his kingdom and decides to fight till the bitter end.
After the first, incredible trailer we posted for this Israeli thriller, I'm disappointed. This new, English subbed trailer give us more of an overview, done Hollywood style, almost giving away the story while concentrating on the more mundane, and boring, aspects of the film. Phobidilia will be premiering at TIFF, and honestly, I still want to see it.
Regev, a young computer programmer, decides to completely cut himself off from the world. After suffering an emotional breakdown in a public place, he begins to develop agoraphobia and creates a secluded idyll private kingdom of his own in which all of his needs are met: work via the internet, food by phone delivery and entertainment by television. After two years of solitary paradise in his apartment, Regev's life is on the verge of falling apart when Gramps, a holocaust survivor who works as the building's real estate broker, tells him that his apartment is about to be sold. Regev is neither ready nor able to give up his kingdom, and a battle of wills between the two erupts. A battle that unleashes a progressive process of personal
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English Movie 2009 House Of Numbers
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Starring: Jack Palance, Barbara Lang,
Harold J Stone, Edward Platt
Director: Russell Rouse
Release 9/4/2009
Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM)
Running Time: 92 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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What is HIV? What is AIDS? What is being done to cure it? These questions sent Canadian filmmaker Brent Leung on a worldwide journey, from the highest echelons of the medical research establishment to the slums of South Africa, where death and disease are the order of the day. In this up-to-the-minute documentary, he observes that although AIDS has been front-page news for over 28 years, it is barely understood. Despite the great effort, time, and money spent, no cure is in sight. Born in 1980 (on the cusp of the epidemic), Leung reveals a research establishment in disarray, and health policy gone tragically off course. Gaining access to a remarkable array of the most prominent and influential figures in the field -- among them the co-discoverers of HIV, presidential advisors, Nobel laureates, and the Executive Director of UNAIDS, as well as survivors and activists -- his restrained approach yields surprising revelations and stunning contradictions. The HIV/AIDS story is being rewritten, and this is the first film to present the uncensored POVs of virtually all the major players -- in their own settings, in their own words. It rocks the foundation upon which all conventional wisdom regarding HIV/AIDS is based. If, as South African health advocate Pephsile Maseko remarks, "this is the beginning of a war...a war to reclaim our health," then House of Numbers could well be the opening salvo in the battle to bring sanity and clarity to an epidemic clearly gone awry.Couched as a “personal journey” through the history of H.I.V. and AIDS, “House of Numbers” is actually a weaselly support pamphlet for AIDS denialists. Trafficking in irresponsible inferences and unsupported conclusions, the filmmaker Brent Leung offers himself as suave docent through a globe-trotting pseudo-investigation that should raise the hackles of anyone with even a glancing knowledge of the basic rules of reasoning.Assembled from interview fragments with doctors, scientists, journalists and others, the film cobbles together an insinuating argument against the existence of H.I.V. as a virus and AIDS as the resulting disease. Among the many inflammatory claims is that diagnosis is a pharmaceutical-industry ruse to sell complex drug therapies (which the film then presents as the real cause of the syndrome we identify as AIDS). Evidence to support this and other highly dangerous contentions is found not in verifiable statistics (house of numbers, my foot) but in the impassioned anecdotes of individuals who have outlived the expectations of an H.I.V.-positive diagnosis.Rife with fuzzy logic (most people with AIDS live in poverty, therefore poverty causes AIDS) and a relentless fudging of the difference between necessary and sufficient conditions, this willfully ignorant film portrays minor areas of scientific disagreement as “a research community in disarray” and diagnostic testing as a waste of time. A few months ago 18 angry doctors and scientists interviewed in the film issued a statement claiming that Mr. Leung “acted deceitfully and unethically” when recruiting them and that his film “perpetuates pseudoscience and myths.”Mr. Leung said in a recent interview, “All we do is raise questions.” Perhaps his next film will question the existence of gravity.HOUSE OF NUMBERSOpens on Friday in Manhattan. Director Brent Leung is a brave man. But what makes his explosive documentary, House of Numbers, so undeniably effective, is that he didn’t set out to be. As he tells us in the film, he was born in 1980…part of the first AIDS generation, a group who came into their sexuality with the threat of HIV strapped to their genitals like a potentially lit bundle of dynamite. A few years ago, Leung came to learn there has always been a debate over the current HIV/AIDS scientific paradigm. Having never known a world without AIDS, this intrigued him, and so his investigative journey began. He was not trying to show courage through radical activism or by asserting some aggressive agenda. He had some questions, and he went around the world asking top HIV/AIDS scientists for the answers.Now…one would think that, at least on the basic facts, these pioneers of HIV/AIDS research and treatment might all agree. Think again. They not only don’t agree, they contradict each other in ways that are truly terrifying. From these orthodox HIV experts, there is no agreement on what HIV looks like, how it kills human cells, how the virus is isolated, how one confirms an HIV test, how drugs should be used to treat it, whether co-factors are necessary, or if our own immune systems can beat it all on their own. And there is much scandal on how it came to be “discovered” in the first place. There are moments in the film when I found myself laughing heartily at this clownish behavior from our world’s top scientists; it almost plays like satire. But then I’d remember: this is about lives. And there is nothing at all funny about this. To his credit, Leung does not try to elicit laughs…he simply places the interviews side by side, juxtaposing so as to highlight the contradictions. It serves to rattle any trust one may have in our medical establishment. In an instant, these scientists lose credibility and reveal that on the issues of HIV/AIDS, it is confusion, not certainty that prevails.In addition, the film gives voice to many self-proclaimed “dissidents” like Peter Duesberg, Kary Mullis (Nobel Prize winner), and the late Christine Maggiore – along with investigative journalists Celia Farber and Liam Scheff. To many, their opinions might seem downright insane. What do you mean HIV might not cause AIDS? What do you mean we’re wasting money giving Africans HIV drugs when all they need is clean water and nutritional food? What do you mean “lifestyle” may indeed have played a role in the immune collapse of some gay men in the early 1980s? None of these are said to be “true” and all are politically incorrect at best, heretical at worst. But accompanied by the orthodox swamp of contradictions, one sits back and ponders…deeply.The film was screened this week at the Washougal International Film Festival. Brent Leung and his producer were present and most humble. Knowing the film has received great backlash from the orthodox scientists he interviewed, I asked the director to respond to accusations that he has somehow misrepresented them in the documentary. He simply said, “Not one person has ever offered a specific example of how I have done so. We invite them to join in on the discussion. We want there to be an ongoing dialogue.” An audience member asserted that many of the outraged are linked to pharmaceutical companies that manufacture HIV medications. My research has shown this to be, at least in part, true. And one must ask, “How could he misrepresent them?” There are long interview segments with clear, unedited responses. It’s not as if Leung utilizes second-to-second jump cuts to create a message. In fact, the style of the piece is very straight-forward and journalistic with very little editorial commentary. It trusts the audience to draw individual conclusions.If there is one moment of overt theatricality in the film, it is in its final frames when the score serves to highlight a most shocking revelation offered by Luc Montagnier, who just last year was awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering HIV. He says that one can be exposed numerous times to HIV and that if they have a strong immune system, their bodies can cleanse it out. He is asked to repeat this notion by Mr. Leung…as if the director cannot believe what was just said. Montagnier does not hesitate. He reaffirms with a simple “yes” – and with that, the ominous piano and minor synth-string chords echo out. But you know, this moment earns a touch of scary music – because the implications are monumental.f Luc Montagnier is correct…if the discoverer of HIV is right…then an HIV+ status might be meaningless. If one is exposed to HIV and cleanses it out, then the immune system’s antibodies have done their job – but those antibodies would still show up on the HIV antibody test, resulting in a + result. This happens a lot with other diseases. For instance, I test + for TB, which means I was exposed to it and beat it. But with HIV, a + test result currently means lifelong drugs and eventual death. Are there thousands of people partaking in the drug protocol who actually have immune systems strong enough to battle it alone? Given the drugs are lethally toxic, might this be considered a type of mass medical homicide?Throughout the film, the struggles of an HIV+ baby girl and her adoptive parents are followed. While still a toddler, she experienced horrific side effects from the AZT regimen given to her by doctors to keep her alive. When the parents reported the horrible side effects, they were told it was HIV creating the leg cramps and other painful symptoms. Finally, the parents turned to dissident Peter Duesberg who convinced them to take their daughter off the meds and leave HIV behind.During the Q&A after the film, this little girl – now a beautiful, healthy 19 year-old young woman – came onto the stage with her mother. It was a truly breathtaking moment – one that could not be more illustrative. She has not taken a drug since she was a toddler. She has no idea what her “numbers” are in terms of CD4 counts and viral load. For her, it is clear HIV is something of a mythological boogey man…something that haunted her early childhood, and has been forever locked in the closet.
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English Movie 2009 Give Me Your Hand
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Starring Alexandre Carril, Victor Carril,
Anaïs Demoustier , and Samir Harrag
Genre(s): Drama
Written by: Pascal-Alex Vincent
Martin Drouot
Olivier Nicklaus
Directed by: Pascal-Alex Vincent
Release Date: Theatrical: September 11, 2009
Running Time: 80 minutes, Color
Origin: France Germany
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Antoine and Quentin are 18-year-old twins who live with their father and work as bakers in a bucolic French village. When their estranged mother dies in Spain, they set off to attend the funeral, without telling their father. The journey turns out to be more difficult than either had anticipated and a rift threatens to split the brothers apart. The brothers must struggle to accept each other as individuals, and to find their places in an uncertain world.
Give Me Your Hand (Donne-moi la main) opened in New York City to weak reviews. • Ronnie Scheib wrote in Daily Variety, "...humorless, two-note road movie... The wooden lead duo make the taciturn stars of 'Two-Lane Blacktop' (the pic's obvious template) look positively hammy." • Nicolas Rapold wrote in the Village Voice, "The voyeuristic cavorting is the film's only real attempt at tapping the twins' mirror images for something deeper, and it's rendered futile by the Carril brothers' range: sullen to expressionless." • And Mike Hale wrote in the New York Times, "Pascal-Alex Vincent’s first feature, 'Give Me Your Hand,' harks back to an earlier and much better film, Bertrand Blier’s 'Going Places' (1974)."
Pascal-Alex Vincent’s first feature, "Give Me Your Hand," harks back to an earlier and much better film, Bertrand Blier’s "Going Places" (1974). Two young men of less than sterling character take a road trip across France, finding and discarding sexual partners as they go. In Mr. Vincent’s film, the men are identical twins (played by Alexandre and Victor Carril), on their way to Spain for their mother’s funeral, and the partners are of both sexes.
Neither of those new wrinkles adds much interest, however. The twins constantly argue and fight, but we never find out why. Their sometimes violent actions seem to be motivated by shared jealousy and protectiveness, but the Carrils are so inexpressive and the script so sketchy that we never have much of a stake in figuring it out. Nothing in the film approaches the energy and joy Mr. Blier and his stars, Gérard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere, brought to "Going Places."
Some viewers may enjoy "Give Me Your Hand" simply as an excuse to gaze at the Carril brothers — it’s not so hard to believe that everyone their characters meet wants to have sex with one or the other or both of them. And as the story goes south, literally and figuratively, in the film’s second half, the landscape, at least, becomes increasingly dramatic.
GIVE ME YOUR HAND
Opens on Friday in Manhattan.
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Blind Date English Movie 2009
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Cast: Stanley Tucci, Patricia Clarkson, Thijs Romer
Director: Stanley Tucci
Genres: Comedy Drama, Marriage Drama
Running Time: 80 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
Theatrical Release 9/25/2009
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An estranged couple is desperately trying to reconcile after the tragic death of their daughter. Unable to face either their grief or each other, they go on a series of "blind dates", each placing personal ads in the paper and pretending to be strangers when they meet. They do this over and over again, playing a series of different roles, in an attempt to overcome the pain and rebuild their shattered relationship.
A married couple has suffered a tragedy and now the only way they can now relate to each other is by meeting as different characters through a series of personal ads. A remake of the original work by the late Dutch director Theo van Gogh.
In Blind Date, Walter Davis goes on an arranged night-out that starts off well but turns very, very ugly when alcohol gets into the mix. Don’t worry though, this is a romantic comedy so you should be able to turn off your brain and watch the silliness unfold until you get to the happy ending. However, should you accidentally leave your brain in gear, you may not be able to wait for the ending.
Between 1985 and 1989, Bruce Willis was known to millions of television viewers as David Addison on the popular television series Moonlighting. Mid-way through the series and at the height of its popularity, Willis made his big-screen debut as Walter Davis in this lightweight romantic comedy. The movie has plenty of star power, starting with producer/ director Blake Edwards (Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the Pink Panther franchise, and 10), who cast Willis alongside one-time Bond Girl Kim Bassinger (Never Say Never Again), and Willis’ fellow television stars John Larroquette (Night Court), William Daniels (St. Elsewhere), and Phil Hartman (Saturday Night Live).
The premise of Blind Date is embarrassing. Walter agrees to be set up on a blind date with Nadia (Bassinger) only because he needs a "wife" for an important corporate dinner. Before they go to the dinner, Walter gets Nadia drunk although he has been warned not to let her drink and she even refuses at first. Hey, Walter! Ever heard of alcoholism? Adding insult to injury is Bassinger’s remarkably amateurish performance as a drunken person (Willis does much better when Walter gets drunk). At the dinner, the guest of honour is a "very traditional" Japanese businessman, complete with misogynist values, a Geisha wife, and no sense of humour. As if this stereotype wasn’t ugly enough, Nadia imposes good old American values on the visitors, advising the wife to find a good divorce lawyer. The evening goes from bad to worse when the couple is pursued by Nadia’s obsessed ex-boyfriend, (John Larroquette – who cannot overcome his television softie persona to appear physically threatening, and instead resembles a persistent mosquito). After the date from hell, Walter is bailed out of jail and then proceeds to turn the last part of the film into a disrupt-the-wedding movie. How is it disrupted? With alcohol, of course.
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Gogol Bordello Non-Stop English Movie 2009
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Directed by Margarita Jimeno
Starring: Gogol Bordello, Manu Chao, Susan Donaldson, Eliot Ferguson, Thomas Gobena
Release Date: Friday, September 11, 2009 (New York)
Genre: Documentary
Rating: NR
Duration: 1hr 30min:n/a
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"Gogol Bordello Non-Stop" is a lo-fi, high-energy documentary about New York City's most notoriously entertaining band, led by frontman Eugene Hütz. Filmmaker and fan Margarita Jimeno follows the band on a five-year journey from underground legend to international phenomenon, taking in the reckless, raucous sights and sounds of a band whom Hütz describes as "dedicated to creating an insane party atmosphere to deliver messages of social and political commentary. Featuring backstage interviews, onstage antics and copious concert footage, Jimeno waves together the story of the band's rise and rule. Gogol Bordello's early gigs involved playing traditional gypsy music at Russian weddings, but their music soon evolved into an explosive stage experience that earned them a following among New York's hipster elite. A passionate punk tribute to the most uninhibited band on the planet, "Gogol Bordello Non-Stop" goes beyond music, beyond the political, opening hearts and ears to a global artistic revolution.
A documentary about New York City’s most notoriously entertaining band, led by frontman Eugene Hütz. Filmmaker and fan Margarita Jimeno follows the band on a five-year journey from underground legend to international phenomenon, taking in the reckless, raucous sights and sounds of a band whom Hütz describes as “dedicated to creating an insane party atmosphere to deliver messages of social and political commentary.”
Fusing the instrumental approach of Eastern European gypsy music with the energy and attitude of punk rock, Gogol Bordello are one of the most unusual success stories of pop music in the new millennium, and Eugene Hutz hardly has the background of a typical rock frontman. Born near Kiev in 1972, Hutz’s family fled the Ukraine after the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986, and they made their way through Eastern Europe as refugees before coming to America in 1990. After playing with local bands in Vermont, Hutz relocated to New York City in 1997 and while working as a DJ at downtown clubs, he began meeting fellow expatriate musicians and in 1999 Gogol Bordello was formed. Gogol Bordello’s frantic live shows earned the band a loyal following both at home and on the road, and their third album, 2005’s Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike became a major independent success. Filmmaker Margarita Jimeno followed the band on the road for several months, and the result was Gogol Bordello Non-Stop, a documentary which looks at the group’s colorful history and rigorous schedule as well as offering a look at the high-energy live show that’s made them famous. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
“It is all sexes, all ages, all nationalities,” announces Eugene Hütz, the charismatic Ukrainian-born founder and frontman of the Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello, in Margarita Jimeno’s choppy, high-energy documentary of the band’s rise from a cult phenomenon to international acclaim. The scenes of the nine-member band, which includes two dancers, in theatrical attire cavorting with the audience in a Lower Manhattan club are beyond joyous. Anthems like “Immigrant Punk,” powered by a frantic pogo beat strung with wild, squealing accordion and violin that suggest demonically fueled klezmer music, generate an ecstatic communal anarchy.
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Irreversi English Movie 2009
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Starring: Ian Bohen, Meiling Melançon, Kenny Doughty,
Estella Warren, Caroline Carver, Christian Mills
Director: Michael Gleissner
Theatrical Release 9/25/2009
Rating: PG-13
Additional Notes: dialogue English
Country Of Origin: China
Country Of Origin: United States
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Adam has made it big. He's cashed in on an important technology patent that makes him an overnight millionaire, and he marries the girl of his dreams, Lynda. Life seems perfect until Lynda discovers a key that begins to unravel the past. Could Lynda's brother have been murdered by her new husband? And why is Adam working more after he sells his company for millions? As Lynda gets closer to the truth, the couple's bond of trust takes an unexpected turn. Someone's life may now be in danger.
Newlyweds Adam and Lynda have the perfect life. They are completely enamored with each other and Adam has just sold a technology patent for millions. However, their marital bliss soon fades when Lynda begins to suspect that Adam's newfound fortune could be tied to the recent death of her beloved brother. With the truth slowly emerging, how far will Adam go to hide his dark secrets from the one he loves, and will he be ready to live with the consequences?
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The Unforgettable English Movie 2009
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Director: Arsala Qureishi, Sabrina Louis
Producer: Arsala Qureishi, Sabrina Louis
Music Director: Ismail Darbar
Release Date: 11 Sep 2009
Genre: Romance - Thriller
Language: English
Certification: A
Review
The Unforgettable is a story of an unusual love, a story about an interminable romance, a love story told through all the ugliness that makes love the greatest emotion there is.
The Unforgettable depicts the stark contrast in individualistic beliefs interwoven in a web of romance, mystery, travesty and triumph.
The film “The Unforgettable” is about romance, mystery, mockery and changes. A man named Yash is a writer and a teacher teaching people how to live and he believes in his teaching until he meets a woman Padma, who cannot be changed by any kind of teachings.
Padma has no morals and she secretly depicts her true self to the writer. The story of the film is about endless romance and love that gets ugly in the end. Yash and Padma live in Mauritius and Yash is writing a book in Mauritius about life but Padma proves all the theories of Yash about life and love are wrong .The movie ends with a shocking twist.
The film “The Unforgettable” is a psychological love story targeted mostly for British audience as it has some scenes that may not be accepted by Indian audience. The film is produced by Arsala Qureishi who was working in Saudi Arab Airlines and Sofia Hayat, former Zee TV presenter. The film has been made on bold subject and it has some intimate scenes.
Qureishi is not only worried about the censor board but she has been worrying what her family members will think, after they see the movie. While Qureishi is also hoping that the film will be passed in India as recently many such movies are getting cleared by the Indian Censor board. The film was shot for two months in Mauritius and the lead roles in the movie are played by Sofia Hayat and Raji James.
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On His Majesty,s secret Service Hong Kong Movie 2009
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Country: Hong Kong
Production Company: Mega-Vision Pictures (MVP)
Genre: Comedy/ Romance
Director: Wong Jing
Starring: Louis Koo, Barbie Hsu, Sandra Ng, Liu Yi Wei,
Tong Da Wei, Song Jia, Yuen King Tan, Fan Siu Wong,
Lam Chi Chung, Leung Ka Yan, Liu Yang, Lee Kin Yan
Length: 102 mins
Date of release: 30th July, 2009
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The Emperor (Liu Yi Wei) appoints 12 secret royal guards in accordance with the Chinese zodiac. Among the best guards are Zero Tiger (Tong Da Wei) and Zero Pig (Lam Chi Chung). However, only Zero Dog (Louis Koo) is not interested in learning martial arts but prefers to spend more time on science and technology. His future wife Mui Hei Mong (Barbie Hsu) and her parents are speechless when they know about it.
One day the chief eunuch, Cao Yan Chui (Fan Siu Wong) plans to overthrow the Emperor by killing a minister and want to have one of his godsons to marry the Emperor’s daughter (Song Jia). The evil plan is later discovered by the minister’s daughter, Yuen Ngor Nam (Liu Yang). Together Ngor Nam, Zero Dog and Hei Mong decide to stop Yan Chui from assassinating the Emperor after his plan to overthrow the Emperor failed. Can they save the Emperor’s life and bring Yan Chui to justice?
The secret service has been responsible for protecting the Emperor for generations and 12 agents are always assigned to bodyguard duty. Amongst the current group, Zero Zero Dog (Louis Koo) is considered to be the weakest as he shows no interest in the martial arts and spends his time studying technology and creatng inventions. When Dog stumbles upon an evil plot to kill the Emperor by the chief eunuch, Cao Yan Chui (Fan Siu Wong), he decides to prove everyone wrong and vanquish the enemy himself.
With what part of a man's body should he use to feed his baby son when the toddler wakes up hungry and crying in the middle of the night? You'll be devastatingly tickled by the answer. This isn't "Seeding Of A Ghost" or "Picture Of A Nymph" but there shouldn't be a single Hong Kong cinema fan that isn't going to have a good time watching this new Wong Jing comedy!
Set in the days of lavish brothels and palace politics, the James Bond here is not a suave British spy like the movie's 1969 Ian Fleming namesake "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" but good ol' Louis Koo in a comedic role as a bumbling scientist-cum-emperor guardsman 009 (Zero Zero Dog in Cantonese) who knows more about inventing strange impractical devices than practical kickass kungfu.
For this outing, Wong Jing doesn't indulge in his usual multiple-siren lineup to drive the humour, like he did in "Beauty & The Seven Beasts" or "My Secret Admirer Is A Vampire". That's because if a movie is going to star the brash and bewitching Sandra Ng, you're best off letting her steal the screen!
This enjoyable nonsensical story about a royal coup d'etat benefits from having an old school storytelling format and some credible performances from its cast, not to mention some token fighting sequences. Even the cutesy beauty Barbie Hsu (who plays Louis Koo's disgruntled love interest) pulls her own weight beyond just smiling stupidly.
Faux lesbianism and overdone eunuch jokes aside, "On His Majesty's Secret Service" is one of the funniest Hong Kong movies so far this year. This is a real Cantonese movie so forget it if you have to read the mistranslated subtitles. If however you're in on the lingo, it's time to go update yourself with some top-shelf Canto banter.
Opening in Hong Kong this week is a movie that sounds like James Bond but may play closer to Austin Powers. On His Majesty's Secret Service (Dai noi muk taam 009), written and directed by the prolific -- and wildly fluctuating in quality -- Wong Jing, stars Louis Koo, Barbie Hsu, and Sandra Ng in a 'nonsense' comedy that is set in a historical period, long before British secret agents began drinking martinis.
Andrew Mack of Twitch found a plot description at Far East Films: "The secret service has been responsible for protecting the Emperor for generations ... Amongst the current group, Zero Zero Dog (Louis Koo) is considered to be the weakest as he shows no interest in the martial arts and spends his time studying technology and creating inventions. When Dog stumbles upon an evil plot to kill the Emperor by the chief eunuch ... he decides to prove everyone wrong and vanquish the enemy himself."
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Jija Raging Phonix Thailand Movie 2009
Cast And Crew
Country: Thailand
Production Company: Sahamongkol Film International Co. Ltd./ Baa-Ram-Ewe
Genre: Action/ Romance
Director: Rashane Limtrakul
Starring: Yanin Vismitananda, Kazu Patrick Tang,
Boonprasert Salangam, Nui Sandang, Rungtawan Jindasingh
Length: 90 mins
Date of release: 12th August, 2009
Reviews
Deu (Yanin Vismitananda) is a heart-broken drummer who is unlucky in love as her boyfriend leaves her with another girl. To cool herself she finds comfort with liquor but later got kidnapped. One mysterious man, Sanim (Kazu Patrick Tang) saved her life and soon she is learning the martials arts from him.
Accompanied by Kee Brothers she started mastering martial arts combined with the art of drinking. Soon Deu realizes the Brothers’ girlfriends have been kidnapped and they have nowhere to turn for help but Deu. Meanwhile, Sanim also gives martial arts training to Deu in an abandoned beach resort. Deu feels that she has feeling for him, but Sanim has other woman in his mind.
The Brothers then reveal the reason why their girlfriends’ are kidnapped to Deu. After an intensive training Deu is ready to face the kidnappers’ leader, Jaguar (Rungtawan Jindasingh). She finds a warehouse where the girlfriends are kept and Jaguar is no ordinary fighter. She is so powerful that Deu decides to team up with Sanim to face her. Can Jaguar be defeated and the Brothers’ girlfriends released in the end?
Since the advent of Tony Jaa’s Ong Bak, the Thai film industry has seen its action films flourish with new energy. Yanin “Jija” Wismistananda’s new film, Jija Deu Suay Du (Raging Phoenix) continues this tradition by delivering a unique martial arts film, and adding to the growing body of Thai action cinema.
Heir to Hong Kong Cinema
Raging Phoenix possesses stunning martial arts choreography while following the conventions of the kung fu genre. The film opens with several women being abducted and Jija’s character, Deu, being left by her mother, abandoned by her band, and longing to join her dead father. Deu, depressed and drunk, is rescued by Kazu Patrick Tang’s character, Sanim, during a botched attempt to kidnap Deu. Sanim fights off the gang would-be kidnappers in an acrobatic sequence filled with attackers on pogo-shoes.
Waking up in an abandoned factory Deu, encounters Sanim and his gang of merry do-gooders who practice a form of drunken Thai break-dancing martial arts that they dub Meyraiyuth. Sanim and his friends, having had loved ones abducted, have joined together to break the gang of kidnappers. They teach Deu their martial style, putting her through her paces in the traditional martial arts movie training montage. She learns well, and combining dance with Thai martial arts is visually exciting as Deu engages in several fight sequences on her own.
Thai cinema is often known for its genre mixing as seen in its horror films filled with slapstick comedy. Raging Phoenix takes a turn for the surreal as the reasons for the abductions come to light. The final sequences leave out much of the supporting cast of Thai B-boy martial artists, which is disappointing considering their talent. Sanim and Deu combine their efforts to fight a female body-builder on a series of suspension bridges over a chasm. The choreography is well-paced and the climatic action sequence is strong as well.
The film feels long at times and while the action sequences are great, the gap in time between them can leave the viewer anxious. While the actors are all individually quite charismatic, the on screen chemistry between the two leads is lacking. This is fine as the plot develops and the choreography between the two is dynamic while fighting as a team in the end. The film is energetic, fun to watch, and will not disappoint fans of martial arts films.
Raging Phoenix, the new film with Jeeja Yanin (star of Chocolate), was finally revealed. You can see the poster below, and if it is any indication, it looks like it is becoming quite a unique movie, blending martial arts together with Hip Hop dancing. Twitch reports that Sahamongkol is clearly trying to go new ways with the fight choreography for Jeeja. Todd from Twitch has apparently seen some footage of Raging Phoenix already, although no trailer is available currently. Wise Kwai's thoughts about the movie poster seem to be similar, saying "...all I can think is this movie is going to be weird -- a heavily stylized head trip". Raging Phoenix was directed by Rashane Limtrakul who was also responsible for a segment in the 2008 movie 4 Romances.
One complaint from my side: Why do Thai production companies have to change the names all the time. I have to totally agree with Wise Kwai on this. It is difficult enough to keep track 5 different English titles for the same movies, now they are starting to change the names of their main stars. On the poster, "Jeeja" is written "Jija". Right now I cannot think of anything more unnecessary than this.
Raging Phoenix is the comeback of Jija Yanin, the female action icon, that combines new stunning martial art styles and love story to be the ultimate action-romance film. Focused specifically to Jija's skills and personality, Raging Phoenix fuses her martial arts skills with hip hop dancing and other elements. The film also introduces a newcomer, Kazu Patrick Tang who teams up with Jija on the big screen.
There's an odor to Jija Deu Suay Du. An aroma. Not a stink or a stench. But a fragrance if you will.
It's the smell of an impatient audience, waiting for something cool to happen.
The sophomore feature starring Jija Yanin promised a more dynamic role for the young female martial artist who vaulted to international recognition as an autistic debt collector in last year's Chocolate by Ong-Bak director Prachya Pinkaew.
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Gogol Bordello Non-Stop English Movie 2009
Cast and Crew
Directed by Margarita Jimeno
Starring: Gogol Bordello, Manu Chao, Susan Donaldson, Eliot Ferguson, Thomas Gobena
Release Date: Friday, September 11, 2009 (New York)
Genre: Documentary Rating: NR
Duration: 1hr 30min:n/a
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"Gogol Bordello Non-Stop" is a lo-fi, high-energy documentary about New York City's most notoriously entertaining band, led by frontman Eugene Hütz. Filmmaker and fan Margarita Jimeno follows the band on a five-year journey from underground legend to international phenomenon, taking in the reckless, raucous sights and sounds of a band whom Hütz describes as "dedicated to creating an insane party atmosphere to deliver messages of social and political commentary. Featuring backstage interviews, onstage antics and copious concert footage, Jimeno waves together the story of the band's rise and rule. Gogol Bordello's early gigs involved playing traditional gypsy music at Russian weddings, but their music soon evolved into an explosive stage experience that earned them a following among New York's hipster elite. A passionate punk tribute to the most uninhibited band on the planet, "Gogol Bordello Non-Stop" goes beyond music, beyond the political, opening hearts and ears to a global artistic revolution.
A documentary about New York City’s most notoriously entertaining band, led by frontman Eugene Hütz. Filmmaker and fan Margarita Jimeno follows the band on a five-year journey from underground legend to international phenomenon, taking in the reckless, raucous sights and sounds of a band whom Hütz describes as “dedicated to creating an insane party atmosphere to deliver messages of social and political commentary.”
Fusing the instrumental approach of Eastern European gypsy music with the energy and attitude of punk rock, Gogol Bordello are one of the most unusual success stories of pop music in the new millennium, and Eugene Hutz hardly has the background of a typical rock frontman. Born near Kiev in 1972, Hutz’s family fled the Ukraine after the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986, and they made their way through Eastern Europe as refugees before coming to America in 1990. After playing with local bands in Vermont, Hutz relocated to New York City in 1997 and while working as a DJ at downtown clubs, he began meeting fellow expatriate musicians and in 1999 Gogol Bordello was formed. Gogol Bordello’s frantic live shows earned the band a loyal following both at home and on the road, and their third album, 2005’s Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike became a major independent success. Filmmaker Margarita Jimeno followed the band on the road for several months, and the result was Gogol Bordello Non-Stop, a documentary which looks at the group’s colorful history and rigorous schedule as well as offering a look at the high-energy live show that’s made them famous. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
“It is all sexes, all ages, all nationalities,” announces Eugene Hütz, the charismatic Ukrainian-born founder and frontman of the Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello, in Margarita Jimeno’s choppy, high-energy documentary of the band’s rise from a cult phenomenon to international acclaim. The scenes of the nine-member band, which includes two dancers, in theatrical attire cavorting with the audience in a Lower Manhattan club are beyond joyous. Anthems like “Immigrant Punk,” powered by a frantic pogo beat strung with wild, squealing accordion and violin that suggest demonically fueled klezmer music, generate an ecstatic communal anarchy.
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