The man behind Amy and Senna has turned his attention to ‘techno-authoritarianism’ in the genre-defying 2073. He talks to our journalist – one of the #movie’s unlikely stars – about the events that fed his dystopian vision
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/dec/15/asif-kapadia-2073-amy-winehouse-senna-maradona-trump
#Music #Films #1990s #JerryGoldsmith #SciFi #StarTrek #FirstContact
A bit on the tacky side, though.
Et c'est franchement appétissant !... :)
Second day of "Night Visions" festival movies. Spoilers due.
A daughter arrives to a small town to handle matters after her fathers death. They clearly have not been close and the life the father has been living quickly uncovers to be different than she expected, after endless interviews of the townsfolk and people he had surrounded himself with. A kind of TV miracle doctor, inventor of the "healing machine".
Does the machine actually do anything? Was the doctor a swindler or did he genuinely help people? Did big pharma "off" him?
I think the movie was trying to portrait the grief of a woman who lost their father. I couldn't really tie the whole healing machine and the loss of the father together, there seemed to be two different focuses going on.
In a dystopian future, the boss of a pharmaceutics company invents a time machine. What does he use it for? The benefit of humanity? No, lets make a TV show, pulling warriors (like, err, a cop) from history just before their death, giving them a second chance in life - that is if they survive a brutal arena where the historical combatants battle to the death using weapons of their era.
The idea is very interesting, though the background story of the world is somewhat weak like Israel at a human rights conference. There is a kind of story, albeit not a very interesting one. What the movie excels at are the combat scenes, warriors of different times facing each other in very, very brutal combat. Like I'm not sure how well I will sleep tonight kind of gore. I think the story was just pieced on top to somehow tie together lots of fight scenes. And based on the ending they kind of just gave up in the end.
"Night Visions" is a movie festival I've long wanted to participate in, but somehow have never done. I think originally I tended to look at it and see it focus too much on horror movies (which I do not like), but it clearly, at least these days, is not just that, having a load of fantasy, scifi and plain weird stuff. This year it fell on a kid free week, so bought tickets for 7 films, yay!
Today, two films. What follows may contain plot spoilers.
It's the end of the Edo period in Japan, with clans opposing and supporting the Shogun happily warring away. During a stormy night, two samurais supporting the Shogun prepare to take on a ronin from the opposing side. During the battle, lightning strikes, transporting our samurai to another time. Through hilarious turns of events the samurai finally adjusts to his new surroundings as part of a stunt man on jidaigeki TV productions. But was he the only one transported through time?
I think this is probably the most goodwill samurai film I have ever seen. Really enjoyable film, lots of well written comedy, mixed with the grief of a samurai who lost their time and purpose. At times things stand still a bit and the plot doesn't have too many surprises, but overall a very enjoyable film.
What do you get when Star Wars has just blown out across the world and an Italian scifi fan writer and director wants to create a film with all the cool stuff he liked as a kid? Starcrash! This movie has everything, from the many clear Star Wars rip offs no one is trying to hide, space Amazons (with a freakin' huge metal robot), a Dracula influenced villain, a godlike alien that apparently dies when wounded on his arm, troglodytes, a somewhat Roman influenced emperor, a space smuggler, the planet Arrakis, silly space battles - and of course David Hasselhoff!
There is little point in worrying too much about the plot, this is a movie where you just sit back, enjoy the silliness and the various references to many other scifi/fantasy works, and of course the late 70's special effects that don't quite reach Star Wars levels. As the director present at the screening said, "no one had done this in Italy at the time".
The ratings on IMDb really don't give this the credit it deserves.
Festival ALIMEN-TERRE #Films et visites de #fermes près de chez vous pendant tout le mois de Novembre. Un évènement incontournable sur l'#alimentation #durable et #solidaire
Durant 1 mois et demi, près de 2 000 événements sont organisés dans 600 communes et une douzaine de pays : projection-débat, marché alimentaire et solidaire, atelier cuisine bio, locale et #équitable avec des enfants, exposition, visite de fermes et rencontres avec des professionnels agricoles, jeu pédagogique pour une classe de lycéens, spectacle de rue, etc
#books #reading #literature #libraries #photography #films #kubrick
Stanley Kubrick was only nineteen years old when he took this photograph.
- Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and photographer. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. His films were nearly all adaptations of novels or short stories, spanning a number of genres and gaining recognition for their intense attention to detail, innovative cinematography, extensive set design, and dark humor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick
9:40 AM Sunday. I'm going back to bed- need more sleep................................
https://social.growyourown.services/@FediVideo/113307468578952717 FediVideo@social.growyourown.services - As it's #Halloween, you might like to check out the gothic horror film "The Phantom of the Opera" (1925) which is now in the public domain.
Unfortunately its soundtrack isn't in the public domain, so I edited together a new freely available soundtrack from modern creative commons and public domain tracks.
There's a trailer for the Fedi.Video edition of the film at:
➡️ https://fedi.video/w/1SwBmPJaT9TxvxTG6YwrCM
The full length Fedi.Video edition of the film is at:
113 - Les Princes De La Ville - 1999 (ALBUM)
https://piped.video/watch?v=vhIanx96kxE
https://youtu.be/vhIanx96kxE
DJ Mehdi - Made in France (4/6) Le prince de la ville #docu #documentaire #histoire #musique #music
Une série doc sur Arte qui ne doit pas plaire du tout à la "police allemande". Aujourd’hui en reprenant le pouvoir, cela réveil le pire de nos années pétrin.
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/119468-004-A/dj-mehdi-made-in-france-4-6/
A voir Lacombe Lucien
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/027777-000-A/lacombe-lucien/
133 min-Disponible jusqu'au 10/11/2024
#Films #Cinéma
En 1944, un jeune fermier entre par hasard dans les rangs de la #Gestapo après avoir été refusé par une cellule de résistants. Parce qu'il tendait le miroir de la #collaboration au public #français, ce grand film sur la versatilité de l'homme suscita un tollé et contraignit Louis Malle à l'exil.
Juin 1944, dans une petite préfecture du #sud-ouest de la France. Lucien Lacombe, 15 ans, travaille dans un hospice. À la faveur d'un congé, il retourne dans sa ferme du village de #Souleillac. Il y découvre que sa mère vit avec un autre homme, alors que son père est prisonnier des Allemands. Il veut gagner le maquis, mais son instituteur, un résistant influent, refuse, l'estimant trop jeune. Le soir, n'ayant pas respecté le #couvre-feu à cause d'un pneu crevé, il est arrêté par la police et fait la rencontre d'un groupe d'auxiliaires français de la Gestapo qui le font boire et parler, puis finissent par l'adopter. Désormais, Lucien a du pouvoir, notamment celui de tuer. Il rencontre Albert Horn, tailleur #juif réputé qui a trouvé refuge en province. Il tombe éperdument amoureux de sa fille, #France, et lui rend visite tous les jours…
La banalité du mal
Avec ce film, #Louis-Malle aborde la collaboration dans une province française sous un angle démystifiant, celui de la "banalité du mal" – théorisée par Hannah Arendt. Il met en relief le caractère grossier et fortuit des motivations personnelles, un paradoxe dans lequel réside toute la tension de la narration. Chez le jeune paysan, en l'absence de conscience #politique, ce sont les ressorts primaires et égoïstes qui jouent (le désir de revanche #sociale, la jouissance du #pouvoir, le besoin de reconnaissance). L'engagement dans la #résistance ou la collaboration tient alors à peu de choses : un pneu crevé, le hasard d'une rencontre, une humiliation, le désœuvrement… Lucien Lacombe est un personnage fascinant et fruste dont la simplicité des émotions, en proie aux faux-semblants, touche et horrifie à la fois. Cinq ans après Le chagrin et la pitié, ce film est la première œuvre de #fiction à éclairer le tabou du #comportement de nombreux Français pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Subissant les foudres de l'opinion (autant de l'extrême gauche que de l'extrême droite), Louis Malle a dû s'exiler aux États-Unis pour poursuivre sa carrière.
Réalisation - Louis Malle
Année -1974
Last day of Love and Anarchy film festival for me! Was a good bunch of films and documentaries. Many of them sad stories, of places and people with little hope for a future. It's important to see these kind of stories to remind oneself of how a privileged life one is living.
Leila is a judoka in the Iran national team, participating in the Judo world championships in Georgia. Everything starts going out well and it looks like there is a strong chance for a gold medal. When there is a possibility she will have to face an athlete from Israel in the final, politics comes into play and things start going wrong.
A touching story of willpower and fighting for your rights as a human being. Includes lots of tatami action.
After killing a police chief customer in a Delhi brothel she works at, Renuka is forced to flee to a smaller town. There in a community of sex workers she meets 17 year old girl Devika, who has yet to have been initiated into the trade. They fall in love, fighting both against Devika's family but also the patriarchy which not only wont accept them, but wants to destroy them.
Two Palestinian migrants on their way to Germany end up stuck in Athens after their smuggler ripped them off. Needing money for passports, they steal, rob and eventually end up in more and more dangerous schemes.
A story of struggling to keep your humanity when all has been taken away from you.
Today two productions at Love and Anarchy.
Detective Travis Hurley gets sent to evaluate reopening of an old case in a small mining town in the outback of Australia. The old disappearance of Charlotte takes us through the town, slowly building the story of families torn apart in a town plagued by racial injustice. A broken detective may not be able to solve the old case, but will it be possible to heal the old wounds and bring families back together?
The film features and endless amount of bare dry scenery in and around the old opal mining town. Shooting it fully in gray scale brings a nice touch that blends everything into the background, stripping away all the colour, all the joy taken away, just like from the townsfolk and the detective themselves.
A documentary by four activists, Palestinian and Israeli, filming the torment of the Palestinian population of "Masafer Yatta" [1] in the West Bank by the Israeli military and settlers. Lands forcefully confiscated by Israel to make space for their own settlers in the region. Houses are demolished, only to be rebuilt in secret during the night. Power generators are confiscated and wells filled in with concrete, all to force the villagers to leave the area. When you resist, you are shot. What ends up being more dangerous to the villagers are the armed Israeli settlers who do attacks against the Palestinians, with the Israeli forces watching by.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masafer_Yatta
I can't say this more clearly: Fuck the Israel terrorist state.
Not only is the #workingclass the most powerful group in the world, it also has by far the best music! (The #Commitments is definitely one of the better #music #films) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH2sSzneWYg
Today I saw two Love and Anarchy films, and they were both seriously weird. It's great when you walk out of the movie theater into the street and for a while just forget all about the ugliness of society around you, your mind processing all that audiovisual information you were just blasted with. I love this festival.
I don't know what to think of this film. There was a lot of trying to figure out what exactly is happening, and more importantly when. As if in a dream, the film jumped (or did it?) between time, connecting two people, Gabrielle and Louis, wrapping them in a deep love story over space and time. In constant fear of tragedy just around the corner, never quite becoming the love story that you are constantly waiting to happen.
Beautiful filming, great screenplay and lots of mind warping jumps in the story, including some jump scares to keep the audience from getting too comfortable.
Filmed in beautiful Estonia the film follows two teenagers as they spend their summer holiday at a cottage, catching up on their friendship and the challenges growing up causes. Feeling a loss of connection one of them connects to "Doctor Mindfulness", through an enhanced reality dating app. What they get is not quite what the scruffy mind expanding doctor promised.
There are several layers to this film, and I'm happy I stuck around for the director Q&A to get those clarified. On the one hand we have a teenager growth story, on the other hand we have a scare story of technology going horribly wrong. Or are things going wrong? Or is this a growth story of humanity as well, transcending into something else. Maybe not better, maybe not worse, but different. We are not told, and there probably is no answer.
First Love and Anarchy festival film for me this year, a part of the "Spotlight Selection". And I can see why. I think this film will easily go into the top list of films I've seen in recent years.
Telling the story of "Kneecap" [1], a real world hip-hop trio who rhyme in a mixture of Irish and English, acted by the band members, but in a fictional way. Based on Wikipedia there are many elements of the film that borrow from their real world journey. Whether this includes the outlandish drug use or being in the middle of republican militants and British imperialist police forces I can't say based on the article. However, it is all put together really well, conveying the most important message of all: fuck both of them. Humour is a central building block while tackling a difficult subject.
The Irish language and the right to use it is a central carrying theme through the film. Thanks to British imperialism the language only received official status in Northern Ireland in 2022. The film ends with a sad reminder that every 40 days an indigenous language dies [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneecap_(band)
[2] https://www.activesustainability.com/climate-change/climate-change-languages/
EmphaseBonjour tout le monde, je suis #nouveauici. Mes centres d'intérêt sont #animaux, #bible, #cavalierkingcharles, #chantchrétienévangélique, #chien, #films, #siamois et #vidéos.
