The Venice Film Festival opened today with its jumble of all time: the ineptitude and confusion. To “Periodici” (an Italian euphemism for “get to the end of the queue and stay there) means people like me, however, began with a rare press conference that, as it turns out, rather perfectly reflected the themes of the film. For the daily press, the day began with a screening of Burn After Reading, the new Coen Brothers film, starring John Malkovich, George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Brad Pitt (put them in that order, with more than or less reflects their read more

You, however, see the ass. In yesterday’s blog I forgot to mention the presence of Kim Basinger in Guillermo Arriaga The Burning normal, but now I have to clarify things I am afraid I have nothing more to say on the matter. Or maybe someone’s ass, I imagine it would be the magic of moviesShe plays an unfaithful wife and mother who meets her lover in a filthy trailer every day, bunking off trips to buy a stuffed animal poaching. The joke going into this film was very fitting that we would see 110 minutes of screen Basinger and Charlize Theron daughter with a tug of war over an read more

Breaking with his father and thousands of sisters, Brunhilde hitches a ride on a jellyfish that passes and comes to Earth, where she meets a boy named Sosuke, who re-christened her pony and put it into a green bin. Ponyo Brunhilde is actually the daughter of goldfish Fujimoto, an evil wizard-type who looks like Tilda Swinton and life under the sea in a wooden submarine where he keeps his precious “elixir.” But Fujimoto wants her back, sending a wave of eyes kind of evil things “he could to find her, and Ponyo is taken back to the family home. But while Fujimoto is away - read more

My day was yesterday when I received a phone call was Crounel Marins, son of legendary Brazilian director José Mojica Marins, a filmmaker who had heard of many years, but knew little. As I said, it is quite something, and if you think a year-old man of 72 can not be cut in the horror of the scene today … Just wait. Crounel had heard that I was eager to meet his father, so I arranged to meet them at 21:30, directly from a projection, and I joined them for dinnerHe goes by the name of Coffin Joe, and had two big hits in the 60s at midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (1964) and This read more

Messy, noisy and a little below the market … No, that’s not an appreciation of the style director Michael Bay, but the opinion of some who hate moviegoers popcorn which complaints have been Picturehouse Cinemas, a popular chain based arthouse cinemas United Kingdom, in the opinion of management the prohibition of salt / sweet treat.
Since the Lumiere brothers caught a train’s arrival at the station of La Ciotat, film fans have been stuffing his face with the noisy lunch and now it seems that since the advent of the peas and olives, wasabi, humble nucleus days may be read more

Usually, the opening week’s carnage - the first Saturday of last year saw two movies in the morning and had eight interviews in the afternoon, including Ridley Scott, Ang Lee and Casey Affleck. The same time a year later, do not even have a movie of a circle in my guide to detection, and from what I’ve been listening to, the selection is a bit hit and missThree days at the festival and there are a lot of blank stares at the Lido, no one seems to know enough about what is happening here.
Yesterday I made a couple of interviews, first with Tilda Swinton and secondly with the read more

The Venice Film Festival opened today with its jumble of all time: the ineptitude and confusion. To “Periodici” (an Italian euphemism for “get to the end of the queue and stay there) means people like me, however, began with a rare press conference that, as it turns out, rather perfectly reflected the themes of the film. Luckily, I had been at the Locarno film festival in Switzerland at the Italian border, the other week, so I felt like I had paved the way of life here, but it is still a little getting used . Because he was a bunfight, I retired to a quiet area of the read more

I was not a big fan of Kathryn Bigelow’s latest film, K-19: The Widowmaker, but it seems that really got his mojo back here. I just came from The Hurt Locker, which I refuse to tell you about immediately. ” If not for the tremendous opportunity of the object would simply be a war is hell-great movie, a little lack of narrative unity, perhaps, but the scenery is breathtaking. Unfortunately, probably grouped with more parts and politicians as “Redacted” In the Valley of Elah, who were here last year, and ignored, what would be a real shame.
The clock is ticking read more

I’m sitting in the airport of Treviso have heard the big news, but inevitable that Darren Aronofsky The Wrestler has won the Golden Lion for The Wrestler, along with Rachel’s Wedding and The Hurt Locker (yes, I know - all of America), was head and shoulders ahead of anything else in the competition to save Takeshi Kitano’s Achilles and the tortoise (who thought it might be the favorite to win), with two films in the running - Nuit de chien and the city of plastic - that compete for the honor of being the worst movie ever made not only of the worst movies ever scheduled for read more

Has changed.Have you been to the movies lately? I mean a real movie as a multi-plex in London, where great unwashed flock every weekend.
There was a time, wrapped it in her jeans and T-shirt, bought a ticket for what you imagined that night and then sat in the dark and enjoyed the movie. Preferably without speaking.
And not just get to watch. Movies, movies of all regular days, have become an experience of participation.Now, you can not go to the movies without running into someone in a knight costume or a suit Narnia Abba Bengal. They read more

And it was an experience I have to shareOr, to give the subtitle in what is universally known, the High School Musical New *. Last night I had the privilege of attending the European premiere of Camp Rock, the new Disney Channel musical.
The event was massive. Why young Americans have some religious or cultural aversion to neutralsInside the room, they were assaulted with music videos of numerous Disney productions, including the one we were about to see. Were San Bernardo in a previous life? Why all the boys in these videos gel hair forward like that? This led to some concerns: read more

There are two very good films on this Saturday - Shakespeare In Love (ITV1, 22:15) and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (C4, 19:30). But being a discerning reader empire that already know they are good films. Heck, you’ve probably seen several times both zillions. But the reason why the nice feature to mention is that very good performances from people looking to try to become Hollywood’s leading men.
This is the fallacy that just because someone is cute, that can carry a movie. Maybe it’s just that some Hollywood executives are lazy and think, read more

Yesterday I had to choose between a press conference with John Malkovich, here for Burn After Reading, and the screening of Frozen River, the film won the award at Sundance great feature of this year and Quentin Tarantino gave a passionate If on closing night. I’m glad I did. Film festivals will require some tough decisions. By chance, he meets Lila (Misty Upham, not a porn star), the tricks that he was carrying Chinese immigrants from Canada across the frozen lake of the title. Paradoxically, I had heard bad things about all that particular week, so I was not quite sure whether to read more

Has changed.I mean a real movie as a multi-plex in London, where great unwashed flock every weekend. Have you been to the movies lately?
There was a time, wrapped it in her jeans and T-shirt, bought a ticket for what you imagined that night and then sat in the dark and enjoyed the movie. Preferably without speaking.
Now, you can not go to the movies without running into someone in a knight costume or a suit Narnia Abba Bengal. And not just get to watch. They came to sing, dance, fight and shout at the screen dialogue. Movies, movies of read more

And what both programs is to show how good and how underrated, AndrewsFor the second stage in our series of * Screen, we will see two shows - The Sound of Music, on the London stage, and Mary Poppins, now touring the United Kingdom (Edinburgh tomorrow comes, I think). The link should be obvious - the two films from the exhibit are favorites of the Bank Holiday, both are loved by their grandmother, and both originally starred Julie Andrews invaluable.
It’s been showing in London for quite a while now, but since the budget of the rule would not extend to a ticket, while still read more