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Kino-Solaris: January 2012
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From Antonioni to Zemeckis - a smorgasbord of filmtastic views and reviews. Monday, 9 January 2012. Bobby Fischer Against the World (Liz Garbus, 2011). Dying from acute renal failure and refusing life-saving medical treatment his last words were reputedly "Nothing is as healing as the human touch." He is buried in Iceland, the country where he saw his greatest triumph and which following his trouble with US immigration granted him citizenship. A real American Tragedy indeed. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Kino-Solaris: Vincere (2009, Marco Bellocchio)
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From Antonioni to Zemeckis - a smorgasbord of filmtastic views and reviews. Monday, 1 August 2011. Vincere (2009, Marco Bellocchio). We first meet Mussolini, played by the excellent Filippo Timi, as a moustached Marxist on the up challenging God to strike him down. When God fails to oblige he declares that God does not exist. In the aftermath of a rally he meets shop-owner Ida, played by Giovanna Mezzogiorno, who soon in the throes of amour fou. Alas we never find out here. Moustache playing Benito Junio...
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Kino-Solaris: UPCOMING
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From Antonioni to Zemeckis - a smorgasbord of filmtastic views and reviews. Thursday, 18 August 2011. You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger (2010, Woody Allen). Source Code (2011, Duncan Jones). Of Gods And Men (2010, Xavier Beauvois). I am also planning an article about "paranoid" cinema in the 1970s and the influence on today's cinema. Expect a lot about The Conversation, The Parallax View and Chinatown. Probably a bit about Zodiac and the TV series Rubicon. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Kino-Solaris: Limitless (2011, Neil Burger)
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From Antonioni to Zemeckis - a smorgasbord of filmtastic views and reviews. Friday, 12 August 2011. Limitless (2011, Neil Burger). A wannabe writer known more for his drinking than his prose enters into a Faustian pact when he becomes hooked on an experimental smart drug called NZT which increases his intellect. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010,. Limitless (2011, Neil Burger). Vincere (2009, Marco Bellocchio). Marlon Brando and Francis Ford Coppola.
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Kino-Solaris: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
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From Antonioni to Zemeckis - a smorgasbord of filmtastic views and reviews. Saturday, 13 August 2011. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul). A Thai widower dying of kidney failure spends his final days on his farm conversing with his relatives, alive and dead, while considering his past lives. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010,. Limitless (2011, Neil Burger). Vincere (2009, Marco Bellocchio). Go Into The Story (Sc...
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Kino-Solaris: Hanna (Joe Wright, 2011)
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From Antonioni to Zemeckis - a smorgasbord of filmtastic views and reviews. Thursday, 8 September 2011. Hanna (Joe Wright, 2011). A former CIA agent trains his daughter to become an assassin as they hide out in a log cabin in the Arctic Circle. Here's another teenage girl with problems but unlike Fish Tank's Mia the problems are slightly more fantastical than winning a dance competition or falling in love with her mother's boyfriend. Like the average Bond film the action travels about a fair bit from Arc...
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Kino-Solaris: Bobby Fischer Against the World (Liz Garbus, 2011)
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From Antonioni to Zemeckis - a smorgasbord of filmtastic views and reviews. Monday, 9 January 2012. Bobby Fischer Against the World (Liz Garbus, 2011). Dying from acute renal failure and refusing life-saving medical treatment his last words were reputedly "Nothing is as healing as the human touch." He is buried in Iceland, the country where he saw his greatest triumph and which following his trouble with US immigration granted him citizenship. A real American Tragedy indeed. Roman Polanksi, Mia Farrow.
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Kino-Solaris: September 2011
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From Antonioni to Zemeckis - a smorgasbord of filmtastic views and reviews. Thursday, 8 September 2011. Hanna (Joe Wright, 2011). A former CIA agent trains his daughter to become an assassin as they hide out in a log cabin in the Arctic Circle. Here's another teenage girl with problems but unlike Fish Tank's Mia the problems are slightly more fantastical than winning a dance competition or falling in love with her mother's boyfriend. Like the average Bond film the action travels about a fair bit from Arc...
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Kino-Solaris: Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, 2009)
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From Antonioni to Zemeckis - a smorgasbord of filmtastic views and reviews. Thursday, 8 September 2011. Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, 2009). A 15 year-old girl, Mia, lives in Essex with her sister and single mother in a council flat when an Irish security guard called Connor comes into their lives. The recent inner-city riots and books such as Chavs: the Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones have pushed the debate back again onto the front pages and the front benches of Parliament. What do we d...
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Kino-Solaris: July 2011
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From Antonioni to Zemeckis - a smorgasbord of filmtastic views and reviews. Sunday, 24 July 2011. L'Emploi du Temps /Time Out (2001, Laurent Cantet) and L'Adversaire/The Adversary (2002, Nicole Garcia). L'Emploi du Temps (Time Out):. Two different approaches to the source material result in two very different films. L'Emploi du Temps takes the Romand case as a starting point to explore a man’s relation to his work and how it defines him as a father, a husband, a son and as a man. Saturday, 23 July 2011.
