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The Town is Quiet (2001)

Pazar, Ocak 31st, 2010

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Danny DeVito, the Rumpelstilts…

Cumartesi, Ocak 30th, 2010

Danny DeVito, the Rumpelstiltskin of American comedy, takes a tumble in his directorial debut with an shaming remake of Hitchcock’s “Strangers on a Train.” The teeny auteur turns the assassinate-swapping thriller into a dispirited black comedy, “Throw Momma From the Train.” Cured yet, just throw the whole thing in vanguard of a subway and assumption it gets dragged a couple of miles.

DeVito plays a slightly dim momma’s boy in a departure from the cantankerous troll that served him so well in “Ruthless People.” Here he is sweet, docile and dull as Owen, a middle-aged mouse abused by his greasy-haired hag of a Momma (Anne Ramsey). While removing wax from Momma’s ear, Owen dreams of skewering her with scissors, but he’s just too nice for that.

Crystal has a low-key role as Larry, a whiny novelist who has had writer’s block ever since his ex-wife stole his book and soared to the top of the best-seller list. He spends most of his time trying to finish the first sentence of a new book: “The night was … Moist. Hot. Hot and wet. Humid.”

To make ends meet, he teaches writing to a class of brain-dead losers. Among them is Owen, a would-be mystery writer, and Larry suggests that Owen hone his skills by studying “Strangers on a Train.” Owen misunderstands and sneaks off to murder Larry’s ex, assuming that Larry will reciprocate by smothering Momma — à la Robert Walker and Farley Granger in “Strangers.” Soon Larry is wanted for his wife’s murder, hiding out with Owen and Momma in their rat-infested house. Slapstick ensues.

The story becomes a fairy tale of impotence, all tricked out with choo-choo trains and Hitchcockian camera angles. Owen plays with his toy trains; Larry and his girl (the delightful Kim Greist) nuzzle in a little locomotive; later she reads to him from “The Little Engine That Could.” But this is The Little Train That Couldn’t.

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Dr. Dolittle 2 review

Çarşamba, Ocak 27th, 2010

Dr. Dolittle strikes again
[Strip of film rule]
by

Robert Roten

, Film Critic
[Strip of film rule]


June 22, 2001

– Eddie Murphy is back for another go-round as Dr. Doolittle. Unlike most sequels, this is better than the original. There is an actual plot, and the animals are funnier.

In this film Dr. Dolittle (Eddie Murphy of "Bowfinger") hears of a plan to cut down a forest, which will destroy the habitat of many animals. The animals, led by a funny godfather-type beaver, appeal to Dr. Dolittle for help. He comes up with a plan to save the forest with the help of an endangered species, a bear named Ava. If Dolittle can get her together with Archie, a circus bear of the same species, the forest can be saved. Never mind that there are also wolves in the forest which are also an endangered species.

Archie, however, doesn't like to leave the comforts of show business for a life in the woods. He doesn't know how to hunt, fish, hibernate, or how to impress Ava. Somehow, Dolittle has to instill Archie with confidence and survival skills. Meanwhile, Dolittle has troubles of his own. His rebellious teenaged daughter Charisse Dolittle (a grown up Raven-Symone, formerly of the Cosby TV show) and his neglected wife (Kristen Wilson), aren't happy living in a cabin in the woods while Dolittle is trying to save the animals.

While there is the usual array of sexual and bathroom humor jokes in the film (why are joke writers these days unable to get their heads out of the anal tract?), they didn't seem as bad as the ones in the original film, or maybe I'm just getting resigned to this kind of humor. The plot does actually move forward on the strength of its characters, although most of the best characters are animals.

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The actors, especially Murphy, and Jeffrey Jones of "Heartbreakers," who plays evil timber baron Joseph Potter, do a fine job. Murphy is a great comic talent. He seems to be able to make even bad material funny. The animal trainers, digital effects people and voice-over actors are also top notch. Funny animals include Pepito the chameleon who has trouble blending in, Joey the raccoon ("I've got rabies. I can bite people, but I can only do so much."), and Lucky the lusty dog are among the many comic animals. Voices include Norm MacDonald, Lisa Kudrow and Steve Zahn. Murphy, once again, is the comic catalyst for the film, as he was in the first film. This time, however, he has more help. This film rates a C+.


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Fausto 5.0 review

Pazar, Ocak 24th, 2010

The narrative of “Faust” has been around since the middle ages. Authors such as Christopher Marlowe and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe adapted the familiar tale of a man who sells his soul to the devil and brought it to a wider audience. From the years, there have been multitudinous interpretations of the story, coming from different cultures. The vapour Fausto 5.0 offers a very modern turn on the falsehood from a group of Spanish filmmakers.

Dr. Fausto (Miguel Angel Sola) is a stern man who toils in the terminally unsatisfactorily zone of a clinic. When he travels to a distant (foreign?) city to attend a medical conference, he is confronted by Santos Vella (Eduard Fernandez). Vella claims to be a whilom patients of Fausto’s, but Fausto has no recollection of the handcuff. According to Vella’s item, Fausto had removed his stomach and dedicated him only a insufficient months to live, despite it Vella has survived for over 8 years. Vella, who appears to be a “jack of all trades”, feels indebted to Fausto and promises that he can get the doctor anything that he needs to be contented. Fausto, disordered by this stranger’s exotic behavior, turns down the put on the market, but soon fantastic things set out to happen to Fausto, some well-founded (such as sexual favors being granted) and some bad. Are these events merely a coincidence, or is Vella making them happen?

Flush in requital for an artsy European film Fausto 5.0 is an varied movie. From the outset, we recognize that Dr. Fausto is demonstrably the “Doctor Faustus” character of legend, but from there, the screenplay by Fernando Leon de Aranoa becomes undoubtedly dodgy. Vella is never unequivocally identified as Satan, nor are there any truly unreal moments in the film. We don’t know where the story is alluring become successful, although the city where the conference is being held has a decidedly Middle Eastern look at times. The three who directed this peel, Alex Olle, Isidro Ortiz, and Carlos Padrisa, be dressed given the cinema a very dream-in the same way as stroke and it’s up to the viewer to unhesitating what is earnest and what isn’t. And while Vella is not till hell freezes over fully explained, the character himself is an open publication, as he plainly wants Fausto to loosen up and have a avail time, but why is Fausto so tense? We never learn. Has working with the terminally bad made him glum? Is he distinctly a jerk? All that we know is that Fausto is a completely serious man who has no in days of yore benefit of tomfoolery. Fausto 5.0 shies away from taking any definite viewpoint on the goings-on horizontal through until the finale, leaving the viewer to decide what has happened.

While the story is somewhat confusing, and at times, frustrating, there’s no denying the factors that Fausto 5.0 has a fantastic visual style. The film is set in an indeterminate locus and however, but it does appear to be the approaching. There is some incredible production design in the film, capped off by the hotel where the conference is being held: the total high-succeed structure is sheathed in malleable. In most scenes, strange pictures are being projected onto the buildings of the skyline. Everywhere that Fausto goes, there are people wandering the streets holding pictures of missing persons. Numerous shots are punctuated with wonderful-imposed pictures that appear to have been taken from a printed matter on anatomy. The look of the film over is a bit similar to a feeble-tech Blade Sprinter and certainly adds to the dream-like dignity of the movie. Fausto 5.0 is somewhat lightweight in the untruth bank on, but it is definitely a visual overindulge.

Video

Fausto 5.0 deals its way onto DVD politesse of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, as part of their “Cinema Latino” line. The film has been letterboxed at 1.78:1 and the transfer is enhanced for 16 x 9 TVs. Overall, this is a exacting transfer, although it does show some of the limitations of films which come from Europe. The idol is sharp, but there is some clear scintilla at times. Also, there are some overt defects from the source material, such as light scratches, but these are not in the least intrusive. The film has a slightly washed-missing look, and this takes advantage of the grade clouded levels on the statue. There is some singular artifacting at times.

Audio

With some movies, you be struck by to wait for a key action organization to assess the quality of the audio. That is not the case with Fausto 5.0, as the Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track kicks into extravagant bag and baggage during the look-in credits and conditions looks helpless. The film has a very much creative hearing cabal and this track exemplifies it. The dialogue is clear and audible, but the highlight is the nearly immovable use of surround unscathed, be that from city sounds, or bizarre sound effects. During a nightclub scene, the subwoofer effects come to compulsion, rounding elsewhere this fine audio package. The DVD also contains a Dolby stereo dubbed English slot, but it can’t compare to the 5.1 record lose.

Extras

There are no celebratory features whatsoever on this DVD.

Credit forced to go to the makers of Fausto 5.0 championing engaging a familiar horror story and trying to do something new with it. Yet, the experiences leaves much to be desired. Fortunately, the film has dazzling visuals which eschew to alleviate the tension caused by the mysterious calligraphy.

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Two harried New Yorkers trave…

Cuma, Ocak 22nd, 2010

Two harried New Yorkers move to California’s wine country to squander a stationary weekend in a bed and breakfast inn, but nothing works out of the closet quite as planned in this madcap, jar of cultures comedy.

“What makes this film specia…

Çarşamba, Ocak 20th, 2010
“What makes
this film special is the virtuoso performance of Chaney.”

Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

Tod Browning  (Dracula (30)/Freaks (1932)/The Unholy
Three (1925)/ The Blackbird (1926)/ The Road to Mandalay (1926)/Devil Doll
(1936))
has a long and distinguished career in motion pictures.
His predilection is for most of his heroes to be deformed or have suffered
heavily at the hands of another. They must face the conflict between the
better and worse sides of their natures, which are usually split into two
identities.

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Zanzibar opens in a London Music Hall with Phroso (Lon Chaney) the
magician placing a skeleton inside a coffin and when he opens it again
there is his lovely wife Anna (Jacquelin). She is part of his illusion
act. But she will break his heart, having fallen in love with a handsome
African ivory trader, Crane (Lionel), who is seen by him kissing her backstage.
She couldn’t bear to tell her kindly husband that she is running away to
Africa with him and so the brusque Crane says, I’ll do it. In his confrontation
with Phroso, he accidently pushes the magician over the balcony crippling
him. Phroso’s back is broken and his legs become useless.

When Phroso is told some years later that his wife has returned with
a child and is in the local church he crawls like a baby to her side as
she is lying dead, in front of the statue of the Virgin Mary. He vows to
the Virgin to get revenge on Crane and his wife’s brat daughter, whom he
decides to raise in a hateful way.

The scene next shifts to the Congo eighteen years later and the area
west of Zanzibar, where Phroso assumes the name of Dead Legs and has changed
into a lecherous, embittered, and ruthless man, surrounded by drunken henchmen.
His followers include a drug-addicted doctor (Baxter) and two strong-armed
men to carry out his nefarious work, Tiny (Tiny) and Babe (Kalla). Phroso
is now an African trader and he keeps the cannibal natives under his control
by using illusionary tricks, where he dresses up in a mask and tells them
he is a god who can keep the evil spirits away.

Phroso begins to exact his revenge by hatching a plot to rob ivory
from a trader, Crane, and to have him and the girl, Maize (Mary), brought
to him. She is the daughter his wife gave birth to and unbeknownst to her,
he is the one who had her raised by a madame and kept her working in a
dive as a prostitute.

When arriving in his jungle retreat she witnesses a ceremony according
to the cannibal custom, that when a man dies–they always burn his wife
or daughter with him. That is the law of the Congo.

Phroso is stunned when Crane tells him that the girl couldn’t be
his daughter because Anna refused to run away with him after that incident,
therefore she must be your daughter. But it is not possible for Phroso
to stop the natives from carrying out their custom, since they would never
believe him now after he told them that Crane was her father and that he
should be killed by them to bring away the evil spirits.

The film treats the natives as savages who are inferior to even the
white rabble (who are merely mercenaries, thieves, and drunks). What makes
this film special is the virtuoso performance of Chaney, who transforms
himself from a meek into a fearsome character, whose expressive face keeps
changing with his different moods. He could be tender and fatherly at one
moment and the next be menacing. 

Chaney’s pantomine skills were learned from childhood, where he had
to learn how to communicate with his deaf parents. He also has a flare
for wearing just the right makeup; here he looks almost bald, giving him
the extra chilling look. Chaney’s speciality in the grotesque made him
a silent star icon, someone who could get the audience’s attention by either
inspiring them with the vulnerability of his character or by his morbid
portrayal of his character. The film is a strangely curious relic. It should
be noted that Chaney’ wife, Hazel, had earlier been married to a legless
man.

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Wedding Crashers review

Pazartesi, Ocak 18th, 2010

The new Tim Burton movie stars Johnny Depp as an ageless weirdo, whose magical skills are matched only by his hangups about where he came from and how he is supposed to make friends with regular people. The film is called “Edward Scissorhands.” I beg your pardon. The film is called “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” and it springs from the book by Roald Dahl.

Charlie (Freddie Highmore) lives in a heap of a house with his parents (Noah Taylor and Helena Bonham Carter) and a selection of bedridden grandparents who appear to be rehearsing for a production of “Endgame.” The least collapsed of them is Grandpa Joe (David Kelly), who used to be employed locally at Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. One day, Grandpa Joe and his colleagues were sacked to make way for a workforce of Oompa-Loompas—tiny mischief-makers, hired from distant shores.

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Readers of the book will recall what happens next. Mr. Wonka establishes a contest. Five golden tickets are hidden inside five random chocolate bars, offering five children the chance to tour the Wonka factory. We know full well that Charlie will find a ticket, yet there is still a great crunch of satisfaction when he does. Accompanied by Grandpa Joe, Charlie arrives at the gates of the factory on a shining day and meets his fellow-winners: Augustus Gloop, Violet Beauregarde, Veruca Salt, and Mike Teavee. (Dahl never hung back on names.) All are present on-screen, with a number of tweaks. Augustus, for example, is still pneumatically plump, but now he hails from Germany, where we see him posing in a sausage shop. This is so unjust, outdated, and downright obvious that all you can do is laugh, and it suggests a cackling kinship between author and director. Neither so much as nods to political correctness—Dahl because he knows that children are the most incorrect members of society, and Burton because politics of any flavor belongs to a faraway place named Planet Normal, upon which he has yet to land.

The remaining plot is an infantilized version of Agatha Christie. The more unsavory children are herded into a closed environment and, one by one, eliminated. Augustus is sucked up a glass pipe, Veruca is attacked by trained squirrels, and so forth. The role of the mock villain is taken by Willy Wonka himself, and, in the book, we heartily concur with the penalties that he inflicts; Violet

does

deserve to be inflated into a giant blueberry, the acidic little brat. But what if the perpetrator is Johnny Depp? And what if he dresses like Oscar Wilde, smiles like Michael Jackson, enunciates like Tootsie, and wears rubbery purple gloves to keep away the germs? Where does moral tutelage end and sadistic farce begin? There is an Old World courtesy to Dahl’s Wonka that is abandoned by the film; he now retorts to overtures of friendship (“I’m Violet Beauregarde”) with a venomous “I don’t care.” He is what Macbeth would call a cream-faced loon, and far more of a child than the actual children around him. There is no doubt that he despises them, and that raises questions as to why he has lured them, with promises of candy, into his edible home.

I suspect that Depp has gone to these unappetizing lengths because he fears that, without a handful of spice in the mix, the movie might overdose on whimsy. Depp is getting used to these mercy missions, having realized that eyeliner alone could stop “Pirates of the Caribbean” from sinking into period heartiness. He is right to worry, because “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” is surprisingly unwild. It is often astounding, but if you hand a hundred and fifty million dollars to Tim Burton and tell him to spend it on sweetmeats you damn well expect to be astounded. He summons all the drooling luxuries that abound on the page (the thunderous, cocoa-hued waterfall is perfectly rendered), while adding a few toppings of his own—the bulging pink sheep, for instance, that are sheared for their fleeces of cotton candy. The trouble is that the eye, no less than the palate, is at first dizzied, then acclimatized, then jaded, and, finally, semi-sickened. You don’t know what treat is coming next, but you know that it will be succulent and strange, and that very knowledge starts to dull the edge of your enjoyment, as if it were coating your tongue.

This is not so in the novel, and for one good reason: Roald Dahl was a man of speed. His imagination was as fat as a pig, but his literary method was lean. In an early draft of the book, fifteen children entered the factory; he tested the result on a young relative, who pronounced it “rotten”; in the end, only the five made the cut. As for the opening chapter, “Here Comes Charlie,” it’s one of the most efficient scene-setters since the start of “Great Expectations,” with a compound of impoverishment and yearning so sharp that it pricks the senses, like vinegar. (And it’s still not as quick as “James and the Giant Peach,” which kills off a couple of parents in thirty-five seconds flat.) Dahl inherited from Dickens a direct feed into the terrors and wishful thinkings of the young, and that is why Freddie Highmore, as Charlie, is the nerve center of the film. Highmore, as he proved opposite Depp in “Finding Neverland,” is up for high jinks, but he sees through low tricks. You catch a straightforwardness in him, a sanity in his gaze, that Dahl would have trusted. What virtue is there in a maddened, quaking world unless a small boy like Charlie or James can hold steady and register the shocks?

24th Day review

Cuma, Ocak 15th, 2010

On the confines of a Thespianism, Tony Piccirillo’s “The 24th Day” brutally demonstrated how the AIDS crisis spread two diseases — the virus itself, and the qualms surrounding it. The theater’s confinement and the drama’s pressure-cooker setting –a inhibit holding the man he believes infected him hostage — is lost on the bigscreen, despite Piccirillo acting as helmer and sole screenwriter. After a pithy theatrical spin in upscale markets, following Los Angeles Outfest and Tribeca appearances, pic will quickly go to vid and guy, where it will be a gambler sturdy.

Tom (Scott Speedman) eyes handsome producer Dan (James Marsden) at a bar and takes him home. They chat about pop movies and, of all people, James Earl Jones. (A later bit of badinage about the original “Charlie’s Angels” cast suggests that the movie might have been better titled “Trivial Pursuit.”) Dan comes off the smart-aleck slickster while auds are meant to think Tom is a palooka and a sexual naif too slow to catch Dan’s drift.

But it is Dan who’s slow on the uptake. Drawn into a drab apartment that he only gradually recognizes, Dan is knocked out and tied up by Tom, who theatrically announces his agenda.

Tom had one gay encounter five years ago, and it was with Dan. Tom is now HIV-positive and is positive Dan is the culprit. To make sure, Tom draws some of Dan’s blood for testing. If it comes back positive, Tom plans to kill Dan.

Dan insists he’s “safe,” but Marsden doesn’t convince either viewers or Tom. Unlike Speedman, who subtly conveys Tom’s anger and paranoia, Marsden’s Dan is so obviously a little Casanova and professional BS artist that it defuses the drama’s tension and disrupts the balance of the two-hander.

After several backs-and-forths, Tom’s deep-seated emotional reasons for imprisoning Dan are revealed. The actors, alas, don’t rise to the occasion, and the finale just seems perfunctory.

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Piccirillo and editor Aaron Mackoff try to open up the claustrophobic surroundings with “CSI”-style smash-cuts (accompanied by repetitive “boom” sound effects) showing Tom in the past and present, but the movie is never more than a hesitantly filmed recording of the play. Vid-to-film transfer is well above par thanks to J. Alan Hostetler’s solid lensing with PAL cameras.