All the roads are suicide
All the doors are suicide
All the ways are suicide
All the paths are suicide
All the exits are suicide
All the docks are suicide
All the passages are suicide
All the issues are suicide
But yet I’m still alive.
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I thought of this poem watching Babel yesterday (yeah I’m 2 years late), a brilliant reflexion about frontiers and all the shapes they can take.
Yesterday, I fell on the end of the classic movie “It’s a wonderful life”.
Quebecor decided to invest 2.5 million dollars to transfer into a digital database 800 Quebecer movies [french article]. It sounds like a noble and philanthropic project. But the database will be accessible in pay-per-view only for Videotron (owned by Quebecor) customers.
Artists will receive more money and many movies may be more accessible now and then. But doing something looking philanthropic to make money with it is questionable. I don’t think they shouldn’t do that but they could have done better.
Can’t wait to see the new Spiderman. Well, I can but… I really think the Spiderman franchise is the best movie adaptation of a Superhero. We can see the soul of Spiderman/Peter Parker. We can make links with our lives (well, I do). At the opposite, Superman. Nice, classic superhero (my favorite when I was 3) but we feel so far from him. No wonder the latest adaptation wasn’t a big success. Even the Christopher Reeves ones, we can’t much say “oh yeah, I know what it’s like”. We see a dude flying and fighting a bald man (when the bad guy is the main interest of a superhero movie it’s not a good sign). Could they make a Superman movie closer from us ? I don’t know if I could find a way myself (still, interesting challenge).
At least, if you can’t make it close, make it wild, like the X-Men. They tried hard to put personnal issues in the franchise but the main interest is the wildness of these characters. Wolverine mostly. I don’t think you can’t put much wildness in Superman.
Hulk and Batman are a bit of a mix of closeness and wildness.
Superman is really something else. Maybe we still like him because he’s the father of all modern superheroes ?
Follows the Grammy-award winning rock band System of a Down as they confront the issue of the Armenian genocide in 1915 Turkey and efforts by the Turkish government to deny it.
I had two thoughts in mind after the movie:
I saw 300 Saturday.
When I read about Spartans in College, I felt more alike Athenians. Today, even if I’m (still) a lazy ass, I feel more related to Spartans. There is no compromise on their honor and freedom.
Some people might say this movie is an allegory of the fight of USA against the dark and evil spirit of Muslim world, I don’t think the American culture can be compared to Spartans.
USA is too decadent, too full of itself, too fat, too imperialist to be compared to the noble spirit of Spartans. They, however, could fit kind of well into the Persians in the movie.
Even if Bush isn’t a big fan of body piercing…
The movie didn’t deceive me, except maybe with the ugliness of the clerks. Could have been easier on the eyes.
I don’t know if 300 could have been better. Every story has it own potential. I don’t feel that much of it has been wasted.
But what I mostly like about a movie is how it can feed me. Very subjective, very punctual criteria. And this movie felt well for me.
In order to try to pretend my life is going to be fine, I subscribed to a gym. I always have been out of shape – never BADLY out of shape. Tonight, as I was working out and watching all these people lifting big weights, I was wondering who I could beat up. OK, the point of being in shape is not to be able to beat up whoever you want but it’s always good to be aware of your own chances before losing your temper with somebody. OK, losing your temper with somebody is…
By the way, there is a story about this thought in the movie Léolo of Jean-Claude Lauzon. Some teen is intimidated by a mean teen, so he decided to muscle his body, so no one will be able to intimidate him anymore. He becomes huge and tries to face the other teen. But his soft character can’t match with the mean teen and he ran away crying or something like that.
Many think Léolo is among the greatest movie from Quebec. I’m not convinced about this but this is definitely an interesting movie to see. Weird but interesting.
I would probably pick Joyeux calvaire of Denys Arcand as the best film from Quebec for the last 10-15 years. A marginal choice. I usually like marginal choices.
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES
a feature documentary by Jennifer BaichwalMANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is a feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of ‘manufactured landscapes’ – quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization’s materials and debris, but in a way people describe as “stunning” or “beautiful,” and so raises all kinds of questions about ethics and aesthetics without trying to easily answer them.
The film follows Burtynsky to China as he travels the country photographing the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. Sites such as the Three Gorges Dam, which is bigger by 50% than any other dam in the world and displaced over a million people, factory floors over a kilometre long, and the breathtaking scale of Shanghai’s urban renewal are subjects for his lens and our motion picture camera.
Shot in Super-16mm film, Manufactured Landscapes extends the narrative streams of Burtynsky’s photographs, allowing us to meditate on our profound impact on the planet and witness both the epicentres of industrial endeavour and the dumping grounds of its waste. What makes the photographs so powerful is his refusal in them to be didactic. We are all implicated here, they tell us: there are no easy answers. The film continues this approach of presenting complexity, without trying to reach simplistic judgements or reductive resolutions. In the process, it tries to shift our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it.
2006, Canada, 90 mins.
I saw the movie Derailed the other day.
Not bad, even if it’s never going to be a classic thriller. That’s an OK thriller.
The weakest part of the movie is its casting. Clive Owen gets beaten up by Vincent Cassel a few time. I can’t imagine Owen losing a fight. He seems the kind of guy who could win over an angry tiger with his bare hands. I know Cassel is in super shape but, really, a French kicking the ass of an American, that’s not very credible – being brighter yeah, but not stronger. Maybe if they took someone a little more out of shape for Owen’s character. A Nicholas Cage kind of guy. I easily imagine Cage getting beaten up.
Second problem, Jennifer Aniston. The whole movie, I saw Jennifer Aniston. Sometimes, briefly, I saw a character. I saw too much of her in the news to enjoy a movie with her. Plus, she doesn’t seem to fit into this character. Who would like to cheat his wife to sleep with Jennifer Aniston ? The character could use a more Angelina Jolie like actress. And her hair was awful most of the time. Who would like to cheat his wife with a girl with crappy hair ?
I saw the movie Derailed the other day.
Not bad, even if it’s never going to be a classic thriller. That’s an OK thriller.
The weakest part of the movie is its casting. Clive Owen gets beaten up by Vincent Cassel a few time. I can’t imagine Owen losing a fight. He seems the kind of guy who could win over an angry tiger with his bare hands. I know Cassel is in super shape but, really, a French kicking the ass of an American, that’s not very credible – being brighter yeah, but not stronger. Maybe if they took someone a little more out of shape for Owen’s character. A Nicholas Cage kind of guy. I easily imagine Cage getting beaten up.
Second problem, Jennifer Aniston. The whole movie, I saw Jennifer Aniston. Sometimes, briefly, I saw a character. I saw too much of her in the news to enjoy a movie with her. Plus, she doesn’t seem to fit into this character. Who would like to cheat his wife to sleep with Jennifer Aniston ? The character could use a more Angelina Jolie like actress. And her hair was awful most of the time. Who would like to cheat his wife with a girl with crappy hair ?
I didn’t know if I would like to watch it all. But I did. The greatest movie I saw for a while. I think the last 10 movies I saw it didn’t worth it to blog about it (yeah I spoke a bit about Goodfellas Wednesday).
Phoenix and Witherspoon totally deserved their Oscar nomination. They offer us rich characters. Most of the movie, I didn’t saw the actors but Johnny Cash and June Carter. My best cast is an unknown cast but they slipped very well into their character. That’s better than a gladiator playing a boxer.
A strange concept of the movie is showing that Cash and Carter were touring with Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis and others. But the movies about these musicians don’t speak about Johnny Cash. By the way, they could have hire better Presley and Orbison.
The character of the movie doesn’t seem to get older, except when Cash was 12. Also, they made the choice to elude the last 30 or 40 years of his life. How can you pretend to speak about someone when you only show half of his life ?
This portrait of a tormented artist life made me want to get back to my old stories ideas and write some.
If someday I own a movie studio I’ll do a remake of every Martin Scorsese movie. I can’t believe how many potentially good movies he screwed up.
How this average looking girl with horrible hair turned into an awesome women as Loraine Bracco in the Sopranos ?
Why did we need to see Samuel L Jackson in yellow underwear ?
It’s awkward to watch this movie after watching a lot of Sopranos DVD: Lorraine Bracco, Michael Imperioli, Tony Sirico, Vincent Pastore (briefly but this guy seems to be in EVERY gangster movie)… Did I miss any ?
Ray Liotta: ever heard of acting lessons ?
I watched the preview of Casino Royale. It looks very great. Except Daniel Craig. As a villain, he would be perfect. Apparently, he’ll also do the next Bond movie. Damn. How many Bonds Timothy Dalton did before they fired him ?
This movie looks awesome.
When the coach of Vince Papale’s beloved hometown football team hosted an unprecedented open tryout, the public consensus was that it was a waste of time–no one good enough to play professional football was going to be found this way. Certainly no one like Papale–a down-on-his-luck, 30 year-old, substitute teacher and part-time bartender who never even played college football. But against these odds, Papale made the team and soon found himself living every fan’s fantasy–moving from his cheap seats in the upper deck to standing on the field as a professional football player.
Still three weeks to wait. I tried to put the trailer in my post but I can’t make it.
The movie Children of men looks very good. Unfortunately, I have to wait about two months to see it. What is it about ?
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which man can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea where her child’s birth may help scientists save the future of mankind. (imdb)
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