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Interesting thematic link to the truly superb "Incendies" which I posted about a few postings back - the war that ravag the lives of the lebanese. Israel is only a back drop in "Incendies'. "Waltz with bashir" was indeed excellent.
We van only hope for the time when film maker can look back at the present hatred ravaging Syria and make movies about it.
I know Wajdi Mouawad's plays and I like him a lot! But I confess I still haven't seen "Incendies". It's always with some reluctence that I get myself to see movies with such difficult subject matters. Guess I'm a bit of a "pussy". But I'll get to this one as I always eventually get to all interresting films like it. :)
As to Syria, yes, you're right, Prospero. It seems like such a remote possibility right now...
Any other "Sherlock" fans out there?
I really enjoyed seasons 1&2 of this BBC America modern take on the Sherlock Holmes theme.
Glad to see that filming has begun on season 3 ,scheduled for release this winter.
http://screenrant.com/sherlock-tv-sh...art-date-2013/
Last night I saw what I suspect may be next year's Oscar and Bafta winner for best foreign film. It's a wholly enchanting french comedy called "Populaire" (a brand of French typewriter) which is about typewriters and relationships. Set in 1958/59 in Lisieux in France. Utterly charming. It has Berenice Bejo (female lead in The Artist) but the two main characters are played by an actress i'd not seen before - Deborah Francois - and Romain Duris.
it's the first film from a director called Regis Roinsard.
A seasoned audience from the film and television industry burst into spontaneous applause at its conclusion at an industry screening in London last night.
Populaire - Trailer - YouTube
Populaire - Trailer - YouTube
Outskirts (Boris Barnet, 1933)
An early example of Russian sound, rather crude, but curious film which seems to be a mixture of the tragic and the comic, possibly satirical. Set between the outbreak of World War 1 and the Revolution of 1917 in a remote town of Tsarist Russia, mostly revolves around the life of shoemakers, one with two sons who die in the war, the other with a young daughter who befriends a German POW. The film lacks substance, but I recall there was a Barnet retrospective at the National Film Theatre in I think the 1980s so his later films might have been better.
There must be hundreds of Russian films that have never been shown in the English-speaking world.
1/7 The Outskirts (Окраина) by Boris Barnet, Mezhrabpomfilm, USSR 1933. - YouTube
Hansel And Gretel - Witch Hunters.
Kinda fun, had it's moments! :shrug
Carancho (Pablo Trapero, 2011)
Powerful film about an ambulance chaser looking for change who falls in love with a medic also looking for a change: to get out of a corrupt system: good script, outstanding acting -as usual- from Ricardo Darin, and also Martina Gusman, who co-produced the film.
Carancho - Official Trailer [HD] - YouTube
Above The Rim. I was bored, and that was the first DVD I laid eyes on at my pad.
Hangover 3 ... Thought it was nearly as good as the original
Sunshine (Danny Boyle, 2007)
I have never seen the whole of this film before, so now having done so and also watched it twice with Brian Cox's narration I think it is quite outstanding; there are flaws, and I am not sure about Pinbacker, but it is an accomplished film which doesn't take the imagination too far away from reality, as Cox points out for example, the outer surface/layers of the Sun at 6,000C is cooler than the heat generated by re-entry into earth which can had up to 20,000C and so on. Acting is formidable too, and let's face it SciFi movies (Star Wars and Star Trek being obvious) can often be so beyond belief they are not worth watching at all.
Sunshine Trailer - YouTube