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Nell (1994)

Posted by drbloodscoffinblog on 31st December 2009

An idyllic cove cloistered by North Carolina’s Devoted Smoky Mountains is the setting of “Nell,” which was first performed onstage as playwright Mark Handley’s “Idioglossia.” When freed from the boards, this tale, adapted for the screen by Handley and William Nicholson, becomes primarily a paean to nature. To a lesser standing, it also a linguistic pepper, a ghost story and finally, a rather pedestrian amour.

Jodie Foster, transcendent in the bravura title role, is far grander than the film itself, and her performance helps camouflage the weaknesses of its structure and the naivete of its themes. There’s also Dante Spinotti’s ravishing cinematography to fill in any lapses with rose-colored morning mountains and a silvered moonlit lake.

When a country doctor is sent to deal with a decaying corpse in a remote cabin, he discovers Nell, a sylphlike young woman who speaks no known tongue. At night, she worships the beauty that surrounds her by taking moonlit baths. Nude, of course. By day, she cowers inside, where she is found by Dr. Lovell (Liam Neeson).

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When word of her discovery leaks out, the “wild woman” becomes the object of a rivalry between Lovell and Dr. Olsen (Natasha Richardson), a psychologist at an urban hospital that sues for custody. Lovell challenges the hospital’s claim in court and is granted three months to gather data about Nell’s state of mind.

He sets up his tent near Nell’s cabin and is beginning to gain her trust when Dr. Olsen arrives to begin observations of her own. Together they decipher Nell’s language—which consists of such words as “eviduh,” “chickapay” and “ta”—and reconstruct her tragic life. In time, they must decide whether Nell is competent or if she needs hospitalization.

Of course, Nell is saner than either of the two doctors, whom she has come to see as her parents. And while they have been studying her, she has been studying them on a more intuitive level. A healer in her own right, Nell eases the doctors’ psychic pain.

The three are as contented as a sitcom family when they are obliged to leave the cove and return to so-called civilization—a small town populated by inbred rednecks, and later a sterile mental hospital in Charlotte, where the orderlies haven’t progressed much beyond butterfly nets. At this point, the movie becomes labored and melodramatic with occasional detours into sentimentalism and sap.

Michael Apted, who directed Sigourney Weaver in “Gorillas in the Mist” and Sissy Spacek “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” certainly knows how to showcase the talents of his leading ladies. And if the rumor that Foster took the role to land a third Oscar is true, she’s signed on the right director. Spacek won an Academy Award for “Daughter” in 1980, and Weaver was edged out for “Gorillas” in 1988 by Foster herself, who won for “The Accused.”


“Nell” is rated PG for nudity of a nonsexual nature.

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Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman…

Posted by drbloodscoffinblog on 28th December 2009

Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) is a talented actor, but his temperament has antagonized every producer in New York. His agent George (Sydney Pollack) insists no one will hire him. But Michael badly needs $8,000 and to earn it, he is willing to hesitate the role of a lifetime. He dons a wig and a frock and becomes Dorothy Michaels, who is in the money in an audition to become the unknown clinic administrator on a new TV soap. But things become complicated when he is attracted to Julie (Jessica Lange) one of his co-stars.

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The Devil Lady Vol. 1: The Awakening review

Posted by drbloodscoffinblog on 26th December 2009

The third disc in Go Nagai’s The Barbarian Lady brings us to the halfway implication in the series, which continues its remarkable gothic spirit as the story of a principal level trend shape, Jun Fudou, who possesses the Beast gene, a trait which allows her to transform into a Devilman. It is solely her tenuous hold on her humanity that separates her from the beasts the Human Alliance calls on her to destroy, people explicitly consumed by the Creature Progression. Four more episodes are presented here, as the story continues to take place.

A four-year-old girl becomes the center of attention in the opener. The singular survivor of an apartment fired up, burned on seventy percent of her cadaver, and unable to speak, the betrothed is taken to the HA hospital an eye to observation. Ran has her suspicions about the child, whose wounds are healing at a unusual rate, and whose reply to flame creates a endorse she may effect the Animal gene. Jun is horrified at the thought, believing that even if it is true, that the inamorata essential have some humankind intact, and that she can be brought back, but will her motherly instincts betray her?

With the media becoming more of a problem, Ran is lower than drunk pressure to keep the Alliance’s mission as considerate as possible. A department stow away still recovering from a scandal the previous year becomes the scene for the duration of a series of disappearances, and the Human Alliance is called in when a Creature is suspected to be on the premises. A repellent idea proves the threat is actual, but Jun and Ran set up differing ideas on the appropriate course of undertaking, as the tension between them grows. Meanwhile, Kazumi’s reluctant curiosity is being piqued by a news-presenter bent on exposing Jun’s secret.

Jun’s dreams become increasingly violent, foretelling a daytime when humans are no longer in permanence. Jason’s return proves unnerving, as he doesn’t share Jun’s optimism that the beasts can be quelled, a substitute alternatively urging her to supplant her passions and enjoy her fatiguing. Another beast is on the prowl, whose trademark is leaving people’s faces dessicated, and Jun is called in to deal with it. As a occur, and much to Jason’s delight, he uncovers sole of the mysteries of the Giga Effect.

When a puerile girl’s dying remarks indicate she was held captive by a beast, Jun is dispatched to fix it, but discovers a sanctuary of perverse horror in the process. A woman invites Jun into her home, where she is drugged, and set as prey for the monster. This installment has the most phallic symbolism seen anyway, as a unfamiliar reproductive primitiveness of the Beast Progression is brought into light.

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The Devil Lady elevates the concept of the hideousness-of-the-week format, but its decidedly grown-up themes, fused with grotesque and upsetting imagery, toil on a more mature raze. Not surprising championing a Go Nagai move, there is a overenthusiastically sexual undercurrent present. The writing is supreme, as each episode manages to approach the story from a slightly multifarious apex, maintaining interest and without feeling contrived. There is an overall outline coming to light, in an effective, yet slick manner, as bits and pieces of the question emerge. Throughout these episodes, Jun’s strive with her condition continues to evolve. She is both determined to leftovers compassionate, but is growing comfortable with her Monster state as spout, knowing robust approvingly the two shouldn’t coexist, but hoping that those she comes across also share that whit of humanity that can redeem them. The characters are all gaining some depth, the be fulfilled motives of the Human Alliance are not fully apparent yet, and new characters total to the conundrum of where the series is headed. One thing is certain, this become has my full attention, and is attached befitting one of my favorite series of the year.

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Iron Island (2006)

Posted by drbloodscoffinblog on 24th December 2009

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Director Jonathan Demme prove…

Posted by drbloodscoffinblog on 22nd December 2009

Skipper Jonathan Demme proves conclusively that he can handle a strictly commercial assignment, while embellishing it with the creative touches that mark a firstrate filmmaker.

Last Embrace tells of a government agent being phased out after a nervous breakdown, triggered by his wife’s murder. Roy Scheider is the paranoid subject of more attention than he’d prefer, especially when it comes from Janet Margolin, a wigged-out grad student. Story is from Murray Teigh Bloom’s novel, The 13th Man. The Hitchcock references are frequent.

Scheider delivers a convincing, nerve-tingling perf that reaffirms he can handle a romantic lead. Margolin is highly appealing as the revenge-minded femme. Christopher Walken is seen briefly in a cameo performance as Scheider’s boss.

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Posted by drbloodscoffinblog on 21st December 2009

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Jeanne Moreau’s performance i…

Posted by drbloodscoffinblog on 20th December 2009

Jeanne Moreau’s performance in “One Day You’ll Understand” shows how a consummate actress can achieve a strong effect through subtle means.

The film, a co-production of France, Israel and Germany, deals with one family’s memories of the Holocaust. Moreau plays a woman who barely lived through the ordeal, as the Jewish wife of an “Aryan” husband. Years later, her son (Hippolyte Girardot) has become obsessed - almost to the breaking point - with finding out the family history. He has become particularly unstrung because he has found a letter in which his father certified the Jewishness of his wife and asserted his own Aryan lineage.

The film’s best scene, a quiet one, shows the son having dinner at his mother’s apartment. He asks a question about the past, and she skillfully ducks it and keeps ducking it. The beauty of Moreau’s performance is in how much the actress suggests in the mere act of avoiding an unwelcome question. Moreau shows that Rivka (Moreau) has moved on and has no interest in the past. She shows that Rivka is a wise woman, who has disciplined herself not to give the Nazis any more of her life than they’ve already taken away. She also shows that this mother knows her son and knows that she can gracefully avoid an unwanted conversation without resorting to unpleasantness. Another actress might have suggested a hint of tension in the mother’s avoidance, but Moreau presents a woman of absolute confidence, at peace with herself.

By herself, Moreau, who appears in only a few scenes, constitutes a reason to see this movie. But in truth, “One Day You’ll Understand” is mostly a conscientious but listless work, with little or no dramatic interest and some surprising moments of awkwardness, despite being directed by the usually graceful Amos Gitai. An early scene, in which Girardot reads aloud from scattered papers on his desk, has to be one of the clumsiest expositions in recent memory.

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Also disappointing is that the film has, besides Moreau, two other powerhouse actresses, Dominique Blanc and Emmanuelle Devos, who get to do little but act mournful in their roles as, respectively, Moreau’s daughter and daughter-in-law.

The intelligence and commitment of “One Day You’ll Understand” can’t be doubted, but as drama, the film barely registers.

– Advisory: Adult themes and disturbing images.

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Hour of the Gun (1967)

Posted by drbloodscoffinblog on 18th December 2009

Sturges’ sequel to his own Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, written by Edward Anhalt and drink in Panavision by Lucien Ballard, is a notable to boot to the take of Wyatt Earp movies chiefly for its unexpected hostility of tone. Garner’s lawman leaves the moral high ground to seek hot-blooded spitefulness for the mutilate of his brothers by henchmen working because of Ryan’s Ike Clanton. Classic opening gunfight and first-rate performances from Garner, and from Robards as the tubercular, laconically resigned Doc Holliday. A determinedly expert-style Western, made two years before Peckinpah shook things up with The Wild Bunch.

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Inspired by real events, The C…

Posted by drbloodscoffinblog on 13th December 2009

Inspired by actual events, The Cup is set in a Tibetan monastery-in-emigrant in India, which
receives two young Tibetan emigre boys (two of the thousands sent by their families out
of Tibet to avoid the crushing oppression of China) to be trained and ordained. Before
long, the return young monks are thrown into the fever of the looming world soccer cup.
Young Loosely friar Orgyen (Jamyang Lodro) is the evil organsising put the squeeze on someone that leads the
soccer-enthusiastically monks on a on the sly midnight pilgrimage to the nearest tv set. Once
caught, the monks are in danger of expulsion as the Final nears, unless Orgyen can cook up
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Camera Buff (1979)

Posted by drbloodscoffinblog on 11th December 2009

“This is a political spoof on
the limits of the artist’s role  in Communist Poland.”

Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

To make artistic films in a repressed country is very difficult,
but to make documentaries is easier because the filmmaker is not expected
to be after something politically dangerous; therefore, he is thought of
as less of a risk.

This film is about how a factory worker, Philip Mosz (Stuhr), who
bought himself a cheap hand-held 8 mm Russian camera (costing him two months
salary) for the birth of his daughter, to record her birth and infant years,
gets involved in starting a new career because of his camera. His boss
(Stefan Czyzewski) spotted the camera and asked him to make a movie about
the factory. From that humble beginning, he knew that this would be his
vocation. He thought he could make a difference in society by pointing
out how things really are by exposing any corruption and giving people
a true record of how they are living.

Kieslowski went from making documentaries to making this fictional
film and in some ways this film is semi-autobiographical, as it shows what
an artist could do with just a camera.

Philip is the central focus of the film, as he undergoes a personality
transformation. We first see him as a picture of contentment: he is satisfied
with his job as a procurer traveling around Poland buying products for
his factory; and, we see him satisfied with his marriage–he even mentions,
“If someone wants only one thing in life, he’ll get it.” And he shares
with his wife what they both wanted, a simple and quiet existence.

When Philip shows the completed film to his boss about factory life,
it is met with approval except for four minor changes the boss insists
upon. The naive new filmmaker has no qualms about getting rid of the pigeons
he mistakenly put in the film; but, Philip doesn’t understand why he can’t
leave in the film the men coming out of the lavatory, or the men taking
money behind a curtain, or showing the little man with glasses in many
of the scenes.

After winning third prize for the film in a contest sponsored by
the film club, the movie bug has really bitten Philip. He has joined the
film club and he gets romantically interested in one of the club leaders,
Ana (Ewa), who makes it her personal business to see that he gets help
in his new film career. Philip’s wife becomes displeased with him for spending
so much time away from the family and threatens to walk out on him, which
she will shortly do. But Philip can’t stop filming anything that moves,
as his techniques and artistic plans grow. To get help, the club introduces
him to Krzysztof Zanussi for advice. They also get him a meeting with Andrzej
Jurga, who tells him to make a film about a worker and he’ll see that it
gets on TV. This turns out to be a bitter-sweet trap for Philip because
he gets his work on TV and it is met with success, as his friends and neighbors
who watched it really enjoyed it — but his boss is displeased that it
is about a cripple in the factory. He does not blame Philip for doing it
because he is young but blames his superior, the elderly and kind-hearted
Osuch (Nowak), for allowing it to go on TV. He forces Osuch to resign from
his post as head of culture and coerces him into early retirement. It seems
that even though he didn’t intend to, Philip hurts those who are not responsible
for what he does.

This is a political spoof on the limits of the artist’s role in Communist
Poland. It comically exaggerates the film buff’s growing pathology and
voyeuristic tendencies. The power in the story was in the subtle reminders,
showing that behind the obvious censorship there is a real censorship problem
for everyone, it is not only in the conflicts between the artist and the
authorities–but, for both the artist and the viewer who must demand that
the truth and integrity of the work be preserved. Poland is a good example
of such a battlefield, with the then state-owned film industry in charge
of funding projects. Therefore documentary films are sometimes the best
records of such history and Kieslowski has shown to make a film as wickedly
ironical as this one is and get it past the censors, is possible.

Since the film’s theme has been done many times before and the comic
efforts of the film were rather flat, what made this film provocative and
more than ordinary was the absorbing performance by Jerzy Stuhr. He would
become a regular in many of the director’s later films, which spanned a
career of over 20 years. Stuhr was able to make this political tale into
a human interest story; something that deceptively caught the artist’s
struggle, highlighting the conflict over his compulsion to film and his
personal sacrifice of losing his family.

For the filmmaker, as Kieslowski sees it, home-life is secondary
to working. The film is memorable, though it is not one of the director’s
top-flight artistic works.

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