Category Archives: movies

Film: The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)

Posted on March 19, 2011 by admin

In the mid-90s I was fascinated by the Danish TV series The Kingdom. The story happened in a hospital which was a labyrinth building that played an active and determining role in the action – a structure built on unsafe … Continue reading →

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Film: Gei Oni (Dan Wolman, 2010)

Posted on March 13, 2011 by admin

‘Gei Oni’ based on a book by Shulamit Lapid and directed by Israeli veteran Dan Wolman is the kind of epic story from the beginnings of the Zionist endeavor in Palestine at the end of the 19th century that includes … Continue reading →

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Film: Kikujiro (Takeshi Kitano, 1999)

Posted on March 12, 2011 by admin

By one of these coincidences that make you wonder the very day the strongest earthquake in memory hit Japan, a Japanese film festival took place at the cinematheque in my city. Kikujiro which I saw last night is a very … Continue reading →

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Film: True Grit (Coen Brothers – 2010)

Posted on February 18, 2011 by admin

For once the Coen brothers played it according to all the rules of commercial cinema, and no wonder they did it as the producer of True Grit is no other than Steven Spielberg. The film went out in time for … Continue reading →

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Film: The King’s Speech (2010)

Posted on February 6, 2011 by admin

Here is a film whose destiny is to gather a lot of statuettes on the Oscar night this year, and this may be one of its problems in my eyes. The combination between a personal drama doubled by a physical … Continue reading →

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Film: Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky – 2010)

Posted on January 29, 2011 by admin

‘Black Swan’ is about art and obsession, is about sanity and madness, it’s about perfection and genius, all this described in the world which can be so mistakenly perceived of classical ballet. A world in which the spectator is supposed … Continue reading →

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Film: The Book of Eli (Hughes brothers – 2009)

Posted on January 22, 2011 by admin

Post-apocalyptic movies are by no means unexplored territory. The Book of Eli has a very strong idea which gave it the premises to be different. To a large extent it failed. As 2012 happens to have been the previous film … Continue reading →

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Lipsett Diaries

Posted on January 10, 2011 by admin

The ARTE European TV chain brought last week at late night hours an outstanding Canadian short animation film. The name is ‘Lipsett Diaries’ and I found on the Internet two Web sites dedicated to this film, which received several important … Continue reading →

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Film: 2012 (2009)

Posted on January 9, 2011 by admin

After having destroyed a few times on very big screens Manhattan, Washington DC, the United States and the whole North America it was time for director Roland Emmerich to get to the ultimate stuff – destroying the planet. What better … Continue reading →

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Film: ‘Gainsbourg (Vie heroique)’ (Joann Sfar, 2010)

Posted on December 28, 2010 by admin

Where does this amazing film come from? Who is Joann Sfar, a director I never heard about before? The easiest answer at hand was the wikipedia entry which tells us that Sfar is a well known comics author in the … Continue reading →

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