movies on north 35

boxart for movies part 1

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Religulous (2008)

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Dir: Larry Charles (Borat)
Written by: Bill Maher
Official Site

Good Dick 2008

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fficial Selection Sundance Film Festival 2008

Official Selection - Edinburgh International Film Festival 2008
Official Selection Jackson Hole Film Festival
Official Selection Newport Beach Film Festival 2008

Director: Marianna Palka
Marianna Palka, Jason Ritter, Eric Edelstein, Mark Webber, Martin Starr, Tom Arnold

The Wayward Cloud

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The Saddest Music in the World
Dir. Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan

this is re posted from Feb 2007, the original had some technical problems with the sound synchronization. well no more problems. to read the original review click here

The Nerve and The Will

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 3 Nov 2008 12:24:00 +0400

back in May 2007, during a post on Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I promised a post on schnabel's other two movies.

By Sanford Schwartz

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, a film directed by Julian Schnabel

Before Night Falls, a film directed by Julian Schnabel

Basquiat, a film directed by Julian Schnabel

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

by Jean-Dominique Bauby, translated from the French by Jeremy Leggatt

Vintage, 132 pp., $12.95 (paper)

C.V.J.: Nicknames of Maitre D's & Other Excerpts from Life

by Julian Schnabel

Random House, 222 pp. (1987)

For those of us who have followed Julian Schnabel's larger-than-life career as an artist for nearly thirty years, watching his new movie The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a doubly extraordinary experience. It is a film that presents a nightmarish and almost unbearable medical case history that has been handled with humor, a lyrical deftness, and a remarkable absence of sentimentality; and if you have more than a passing sense of Schnabel the person and his work as a painter, your mind is running at the same time on a parallel track, one full of amazement and almost disbelief that, with no apparent training in theater arts or the directing of actors, or even a feeling for photography, he has turned himself into a sometime moviemaker—this is his third film—of such drive and sensitivity. The movie is about a patient's transformation of himself as he lies in a hospital bed; and it has been made by someone who, with a perhaps related kind of strength, is similarly extending himself.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is based on the book of the same name by Jean-Dominique Bauby. The editor of the French fashion magazine Elle, Bauby suffered a stroke at the end of 1995, at forty-three, that left him paralyzed from head to toe and able only to use his mind, to hear from one ear (in a muffled way), to move his head a little (with a huge effort), to grunt out the letters of the alphabet (after considerable therapy), and most crucially to see from his left eye and to blink its lid. A victim of what is known as locked-in syndrome, Bauby learned how to communicate through a collaborative process. As someone read to him letters of the alphabet, he would, through blinking at the letter he needed, spell out words......

Like Basquiat, Schnabel's 1996 film about the painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Before Night Falls, of 2000, about the exiled Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is first and foremost a crisp, craftsmanly piece of work, stylish to the degree that the material calls for it and always driven by the needs of the story. Each of the movies, furthermore, is about an actual person of real accomplishment who came to an untimely death.

And like The Diving Bell, Schnabel's earlier movies are graced by images of being on, by, or immersed in water. When Basquiat fantasizes about his future he looks up and sees, above the tops of city buildings, a sky that has become one big ocean wave with surfers carving down it. In Before Night Falls, Arenas's moments of wider understanding, whether concerning his artistic identity, his sexuality, or his political freedom, are inseparable from his being, respectively, in the rain, by a river, or diving into the sea....

Before Night Falls, though, was a huge step forward. It, too, presents a person making his way through a distinct social milieu, in this case Castro's Cuba during the 1960s and 1970s, when individual liberties were first celebrated and soon eradicated. Based on Arenas's autobiography of the same title, the movie at its core is an urgent and affectionate portrait of a man who rose from a background of dirt-poor farmers in the hinterland to become an internationally recognized writer— and who was brutally punished for his views by Castro's regime and eventually died in New York, a decade after he was able to leave Cuba, of AIDS.

Schnabel is as intimate and down-to-earth about Arenas's life as a homosexual, and about the texture of Hispanic Caribbean culture, as he is about the hospital world Jean-Dominique Bauby inhabits. But Before Night Falls is a richer and deeper movie than The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. It encompasses grittier and more tumultuous experiences and revolves around a person (played by Javier Bardem without, it seems, a false moment) who grows as we watch from a cautious kid to a lovely young man and then finally to a self-assured and hardly cautious lover and writer whose refusal to conform leads to imprisonment and torture.

Read the full review

Ridley Scott's Blade Runner

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Based on Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"

Tears in the Rain

Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)

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: Dir: Philip Kaufman

Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988)

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Dir: Giuseppe Tornatore

Wong Kar Wai

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2046 (2006)

Hong kong Express (1994)

Laberinto del fauno, El (2006)

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Pan's Labyrinth (International: English title)

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Writer:Guillermo del Toro (screenplay)

Festen 1998

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The Clebration (english title)

Written and Directed by Thomas Vinterberg

Death Proof (2007)

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Dir: Qentin Tarantino

Paranoid Park (2006)

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Dir: Gus Van Zant

Crossing the Bridge (the sound of Istanbul)

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Directed by Fatih Akin

Persepolis 2007

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Dir: Marjane Satrapi -- Vincent Paronnaud

ENTRE LES MURS (THE CLASS), by Laurent CANTET

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Palme d'Or, 08

Yume ( dreams ), Akira Kurosawa, 1990

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the original theatrical trailer

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David Cronnenberg's Naked Lunch

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Belle de Jour (1967)

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Dir: Luis Bunuel

"It is possibly the best-known erotic film of modern times, perhaps the best. That's because it understands eroticism from the inside-out--understands how it exists not in sweat and skin, but in the imagination. "Belle de Jour'' is seen entirely through the eyes of Severine, the proper 23-year-old surgeon's wife, played by Catherine Deneuve. Bunuel, who was 67 when the film was released, had spent a lifetime making sly films about the secret terrain of human nature, and he knew one thing most directors never discover: For a woman like Severine, walking into a room to have sex, the erotic charge comes not from who is waiting in the room, but from the fact that she is walking into it. Sex is about herself. Love of course is another matter.

The subject of Severine's passion is always Severine.".....Read the full review on rogerebert.com

Un Chien Andalou (The Andalousian Dog) 1929

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:05:00 +0400

The complete Surrealistic fantasy

Dircted by Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali

No need to run out and rent this one the -- entire movie is here (15 minutes)

300, A Review (caution: contains spoilers)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:53:00 +0400

Caution: if you read the following you wont be able to sit through the movie.

from IMDB

Watched as a comedy, 300 is not bad, but they should have put in more funny scenes. I won't spoil anything, but we were all cracking up when the mutant ninjas appeared. It's as if the film makers were so scared that all the half-naked men might give the audience the wrong idea about the Spartans, that they turned the Hetero up to 11. At first I was offended, but the homo/xenophobia is so over-the-top, it becomes absurdly funny.

Things I learned from the movie:

1) Spartans are kind of like football players except that they all shave their chests and don't wear shirts.

2) If anyone is effeminate, nonwhite, a lesbian, or physically unattractive, they are an enemy of freedom or a slave.

3) Wearing underwear is only for evil people like hunchbacks and God-kings. The army of freedom goes commando.

4) Throwing your only weapon is a good battle strategy, as is slowing time and teleporting from one location to another. (I knew this from other funny action movies though)

5) The aesthetic style of perfume and car commercials from the early 90's is the new cutting edge of cinematography.

6) Rhinos and elephants are easy to ship, easy to train, and easy to kill.

7) Spartan cloaks never get dirty unless you are returning from a son-avenging murderous rampage. The cloaks can also summon wind if the wearer utters a corny line.

8) "Well-written action movie" (or video game or comic book) still means laugh-out-loud cheesiness during every dramatic scene.

So, while it doesn't quite top The Mummy Returns for unintentionally hilarious nonsensical action, it's a close second. I predict that this movie will score well with male gamers, adolescent boys, and ultra conservative patriarchs. I know it was based on a comic, but really, it's like an allegory for the War on Terror written by a confused twelve year old. If you're looking for quality even on par with the mediocre Gladiator, keep looking. 5/10

P.S. Make sure you watch the credit roll for the multiple evil transsexual Asian roles (I thought transsexual Asian #3 did an excellent job).

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:51:00 +0400

Director Terry Gilliam

The Ninth Configuration

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Written and Directed by William Peter Blatty (1980)

"In order for life to have appeared spontaneously on earth, there first had to be hundreds of millions of protein molecules of the ninth configuration. But given the size of the planet Earth, do you know how long it would have taken for just one of these protein molecules to appear entirely by chance? Roughly ten to the two hundred and forty-third power billions of years. And I find that far, far more fantastic than simply believing in God."

LEONARD MALTIN: "A metaphysical murder mystery, a gothic war movie and a cosmic love story. You have never seen anything quite like it."

This odd but fascinating film is not for every taste but those willing to accept its challenging style will find themselves rewarded with a one-of-a-kind film that is both impassioned and inventive. Films like The Ninth Configuration are the reason the genre of "cult movie" was invented: its constantly twisting plot line incorporates elements of the psychological thriller, the social satire, the surrealist comedy and the allegorical tale without ever fully giving itself over to one style......Donald Guarisco Allmovie.com

William Peter Blatty’s The Ninth Configuration is a clever, theological drama disguised as a black comedy. This realization initially surprises us, since Blatty also wrote The Exorcist, which is probably the most disturbing horror film ever made, and he insists that The Ninth Configuration is that film’s “true sequel.” Daniel griffin Film as Art

an awesome, magnificent, wonderful, outstanding movie, 13 March 2002

Author: jflagan from Ontario, Canada IMDB

The Reflecting Skin

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:36:00 +0400

Written & Directed: Philip Ridley

Bicycle Thief (Lardi Di Biciclette 1948)

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Dir: Vittorio de Sica