I am a fan of the Iranian cinema, they know how to make much out of little. Usually their films are political, This one is a
situational comedy. Hilarious!
http://www.iranarthousefilm.net/movi...azemi/#trailer
10/10
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I am a fan of the Iranian cinema, they know how to make much out of little. Usually their films are political, This one is a
situational comedy. Hilarious!
http://www.iranarthousefilm.net/movi...azemi/#trailer
10/10
I mainly enjoy comedy. I will see if I can find Maat.
Yesterday I watched "I am Wrath", an action movie rather than a comedy although since the good guys win and the bad guys get killed this might be considered a sort of comedy. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_am_wrath/
The plot was something I tend to expect. There are good guys who have superpowers, such as, having experience with "black ops", who have to act against the government to bring justice back to civilization. Once they have been wronged which motivates them to act they start killing everyone in their way until they kill the top bad guy, the governor of a state.
It was an acceptable vengeance movie, but the plot bothered me not because it has been done so many times before but because it was done at all. Usually the bad guys are foreigners trying to get nukes to blow up the world and the good guys with superpowers kill them along with a few rogue agents. It is usually safe watching foreigners getting their butts kicked especially if they are portrayed as terrorists going to blow up the world. In this case the bad guy was the governor of a state. Not a foreigner. Not exactly a terrorist. Just someone minding his own political business fabricating reality to keep his power intact and having people killed who get in his way.
That such a movie would be found acceptable enough to risk marketing it is a sign of very negative social mood. But then Rotten Tomatoes, both the normal folk and those who supposedly know better (aka critics) thought it stunk.
Score 4/10
I think you will enjoy this one, though it is not a vengeance movie. On the contrary it is an example of Iranian resilience. I just don´t know if it and where it is available. It was selected for our yearly Film Festival and it won a price. But as it was made on a very limited budget, the director paid for it out of his own pocket, I don´t know if it will have a good distribution in spite of two awards (it won the audience award too and was applauded.)
http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/4080...at-Mostra-film
As to the film you saw:
"It is usually safe watching foreigners getting their butts kicked..."- Thank you very much Yes/No, I really appreciate that!!:shocked:
"In this case the bad guy was the governor of a state.Not a foreigner. Not exactly a terrorist. Just someone minding his own political business fabricating reality to keep his power intact and having people killed who get in his way."Although it seems to be a commonplace movie,"I am Wrath" is an significant choice if you reflect what day we have today. Your unconscious mode seems to be wide awaken.
I wasn't able to find Maat but the trailer looked more realistic than the kinds of films I have been watching recently.
About those foreigners, you're right that it was the governor who was the bad guy, and he was not a foreigner. The good guys broke into the governor's mansion, killed all of his guard and then killed the governor as well. Normally, I don't expect to see such a plot although there are anti-government films being made. So I am thinking it might have to do with a decentralist, "negative" social mood perspective.
I saw another action movie last night almost the opposite of "I am Wrath". This one was "Criminal". In this one the foreign, anti-government forces where going to blow up the world and the US government was trying to stop them. I would label that one a centrist, "positive" social mood perspective. The problem with Criminal is that it was too unrealistic although it had some nice moments.
It seems that Maat is not running officialy yet. Even in Iran it will only start on Nov, 16. I´ll wait a bit more for, of course, the director will now try to sell copies of the fill to other countries. In Brazil the interest in Iranian films used to be good. But now with the crisis they are importing only blockbusters. I´ve no idea about the US market.
If I find it in the net later on I´ll post it.
Most of the blockbusters I have seen recently I have not been able to finish. I started watching the action movies only recently.
The library showed an old movie (1958) about a month ago written by John Gay and Terence Rattigan that I thought was pretty good: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/101...parate_tables/ I'd give it a 10/10.
The cast looks fine. I´ll look for it in the internet later on.
We had an opportunity to meet the director of Maat for a short talk. Guy around 30 years, and this was his first international event, I guess. The film was shoot in two days, shouldn´t wonder if the location belonged to him or to someone of his family/friends. It is based on a real story.
I reviewed Separate Tables on this thread a while ago and agree that it's better than any 'Blockbuster'.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
Separate Tables (1958)
This black and white rendition of the celebrated play by Terence Rattigan has a tremendous cast including David Niven, Burt Lancaster, Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Wendy Hiller, Gladys Cooper and Felix Aylmer.
An English seaside hotel has a number of residents, some of whom have the inevitable skeleton in the cupboard and the resultant exposure makes for the dramatic tension between them.
The main problem with the film is that it’s set-bound and the entrances and exits betray its stage origin all too obviously but, despite Deborah Kerr’s overplaying the repressed daughter of an overbearing mother, there are some excellent performances from Wendy Hiller, David Niven and Burt Lancaster. Lancaster was in my view one of the most natural actors to come out of Hollywood and turns in a very watchable performance as an American writer trying to come to terms with the failure of his marriage to Rita Hayworth, who turns up at the hotel having tracked him down through his agent.
The main thrust of the film comes from the fact that the resident British army major, played by David Niven, is in reality a confidence trickster who is arrested for molesting women in a cinema.
David Niven and Wendy Hiller won academy awards for their performances.
8/10
I thought this movie was probably one you would have seen, if not already reviewed here. I initially went to see it because (1) it is an easy walk to the library, (2) they have a nice theater, (3) it was "free" (but then I do pay taxes supporting these showings), and (4) maybe some culture would rub off on me. It turned out I enjoyed the movie more than I expected.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
Of all the people in the story, I enjoyed the hotel hostess the best or maybe I empathized with her character more. It did seem like it was "set-bound" as you mentioned. The movie was shown as part of a four-part series featuring Deborah Kerr. Of the four movies, I was able to also see "The Innocents" which was a retelling of Henry James, "The Turn of the Screw".
"The Bad Seed": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048977/ (I think you can find this on YouTube.)
This is another old movie (1956) the local library displayed. Director: Mervyn LeRoy, Writers: John Lee Mahin. It was based on a play by Maxwell Anderson and a novel by William March. I'm listing all of this information since I have never heard of these people and I am trying to get cultured.
There is a question whether someone can be bad because of their heredity or whether the environment causes them to be bad. Evil can be reduced to either (1) heredity or (2) environment. There is a third alternative: they just choose to be bad, but that assumes they can choose at all.
In this case the bad guy is an eight year old girl who is outwardly too perfect, but she is killing off people so she can get stuff. It turns out her mother, who is normal, finds out that she herself is the daughter of a serial killer and she was adopted by her parents when the serial killer abandoned her. So her daughter is bad because her mother was bad.
All throughout this movie there is a lot of jarring music which tries to set the mood but is more annoying than it needs to be.
Although the movie seems to promote option (1), heredity, the credits at the end are humorous. Like one would expect in a play, the actors are introduced one by one at the end. Finally the actresses playing the eight year old girl and her mother appear. After they take their bows, the actress playing the mother grabs the actress playing the girl and gives her a good paddling. As I see it the message changes sharply at this point and the third option is affirmed with a little help from option (2), the environmental paddling.
For a score, I'd have to deduct for the music, but the story kept my interest right through the credits. And so, I'd give it an 8/10.
Saw the last Oliver Stone film yesterday.
Whatever ones position about the issues, its a rare opportunity to watch a chapter of contemporaneous history.
Some romanticising of characters.
9,5 /10
Hunt for the Wilderpeople: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hun..._wilderpeople/
Directed by Taika Waititi. This is a story about a boy who is threatened with juvenile detention if he doesn't get along with his new foster family. This new family is far from civilization living on the edge of the New Zealand bush. This makes it hard for him to run away, but there comes a point early on in the story where he has to run and then things get complicated, and funny.
For a change, the Rotten Tomatoes' critics gave this a reasonably correct rating of 98% "Fresh". Even the hoi polloi got it more or less right, giving it 91%. The correct score was 10/10.
lol! Looks like a parody of action films. See if I can find it on the net. The director has an interesting background.
I am going to see if I can find more films by him.
Sorry, I forgot to post the link about the director:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taika_Waititi