суббота, 17 сентября 2016 г.
Velvet Goldmine (1998)
In 1984, a British journalist investigates the career of 1970s glam superstar Brian Slade, who was heavily influenced in his early years by hard-living and rebellious American singer Curt Wild.
Using a plot modeled after Citizen Kane this movie offers some great period details and music and succeeds in recreating the 70s glam rock scene; the story, however, remains negligible in comparison.
Halliwell**: "A camp account of a camp phenomenon, flamboyantly revelling in the fakery and the androgynous appeal of it all."
Maltin**1/2: "Opulent, glittery paean toearly '70s glam rock (and youth-culture head movies like QUADROPHENIA and PERFORMANCE) is such a triumph of style and excess it's easy to overlook the film's clinky CITIZEN KANE narrative structure and emotionally aloof characters. Rhys Meyers is effectively snotty as a bisexual David Bowie-esque pop star, but Collette is a standout as his negelcted party-girl wife..."
пятница, 16 сентября 2016 г.
Symptoms (1974)
A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her; the estate, however, isn't quite what it seems--and neither is the friend who issued the invitation.
Atmospheric and stylish thriller that creates a dreamlike mindscape where all males are annoying intruders and the English woods appear like a jungle; unsual, but the plot itself is not too original.
Halliwell*: "Creepy thriller with lesbian undertones, stylishly directed."
First Lines: Howard Zinn - A People's History of the United States
Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer at the strange big boat.
четверг, 15 сентября 2016 г.
They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
A boxer flees believing he has comitted a murder while he was drunk.
Effective and quite unsentimental crime drama (and romance); an example for those kind of movies "they don't make anymore".
Halliwell*: "Competent remake of The Life of Jimmy Dolan, a tribute to the American way."
Maltin**1/2: "Enjoyable, with Rains miscast as a Dick Tracy type."
The Flesh Eaters (1964)
A group of young adults are trapped on a desert island only to find the water inhabited by a violent form of flesh-eating organisms.
Unusual sci-fi shocker with some gory scenes; it has an adequate cast and some surprise moments, but the monster is once again absolutely ridiculous.
Maltin*1/2: "Occasionally tense, but gruesome and generally boring."
среда, 14 сентября 2016 г.
First Lines: Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward - All the President's Men
June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake.
вторник, 13 сентября 2016 г.
Destination Moon (1950)
A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general and an industrialist conceive an ambitious plan to land Americans on the moon.
Excellently produced sci-fi advaenture with good effects and amazing scientific accuracy in almost all details; interesting, but not quite exciting.
Halliwell*: "Semi-documentary prophecy with impressive gadgetry encased in a tedious and totally unsuprising script."
Maltin**1/2: "One of the pioneer sci-fi films about the first manned mission to the moon, modestly mounted but still effective. Striking lunar paintings by Chelsey Bonestell."
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