9 posts tagged “film”

I keep saying that going to the movies is the best thing you can do with your pants on. Well, this weekend I was so frustrated cos I couldn't go to the movies, as all the cinemas were closed on the account that some guy resurrected. Big deal. So I did the next best thing: I watched a DVD. The flick we're talking about is Steve Buscemi's Interview. (Funny fact: try typing Buscemi's and the spell proof will underline it. The alternatives you get: Minuscule's or Septicemia's. True fact. Try it.)

Well, I never cared too much about Mr. Minuscule there; although he's a great actor, he never really did it for me. And even less about his female counterpart in the movie, La Sienna Miller, the actress turned socialite turned fashionista. I mean, no wonder the talented Mr. Law cheated on her with the nanny, of all women...

but...

Interview is one hell of a spectacular surprise!!! Well, we have one middle-aged journalists with one middle-life crisis and one successful soap actress, particularly famous for her love affairs. The journalist is a political analyst, but due to a series of unfortunate events, is sent by the editors to interview the said shallow self-obsessed mademoiselle. He waits for her for more than an hour in a restaurant in Manhattan, and just when he's about to leave, she shows up like nothing happened. The two of them politely hated each other and decided the interview it's not a good idea.

But...

Just when they walk out, he gets hurt in a taxi accident and she offers to help him and takes him at her nearby apartment. That's when the interview really starts. The tension between them gets extremely sexual, and they're both groping the thin red line with infinite lusciousnesses. Until they get drunk, and they lose all inhibitions only to confess to each other their deepest, darkest secrets. Or is it just a role play of a spoiled actress having fun, messing with an older full of himself investigative journalist? Or maybe a cunning experienced journalist trying to get juicy information from a young unsuspected victim? You have to see it for yourself. Both Buscemi and Miller are doing one helluva role, in this heartbeat accelerating salman rushdiesque story, very intense and disturbingly contemporaneous.

PS: I'm declaring Mondays "Movie Mondays", when, dah, I'll be talking about my favorite movies. Please feel free to COMMENT. Your opinion is highly valuable.

Oh, Indy! I've been waiting for you to return all my life. This is the best v-day gift ever! I missed your corny jokes, your outrageous courage and manly dignity, your quirky sense of fashion and of course, that good-old uplifting music.

Harrison darling, you still so do it for me! In fact, as a tribute to your long awaited comeback, my new pick-up line will be "Hey han, are you solo?"

Love,
M

I've just seen Across the Universe, the love & war musical on the Beatles music. Let me tell you right from the beginning that it's one of those films that after they end, you just want to go back and see it all over again. It is a beautiful, heartbreaking yet hopeful story told in a powerful cinematic image and iconic songs, that everybody can relate to. Don't get put off by the word "musical" you cynical people out there, I promise you that you will surprise yourself singing along (until the person near you gives you "the look"), tap your feet under the seat, laugh out loud, get all emotional and forget about the rest of the world for about two hours.

"Across the universe" has the power to give you a new faith in mankind, it makes you wanna take the entire globe and hug it in your loving arms, call everybody that has ever done you wrong and tell them you forgive them and you love them, go back home and reevaluate your life on a grander scale, because all of sudden you realize it's so worth it.

The songs are sang by the actors themselves. And, on a gossip note, the she character (Lucy, of course) is none other than Evan Rachel Wood, the current tenant of the Manson Mansion. That's right folks, she's the nineteen years old Marilyn Manson's girlfriend. And she is terribly sweet, talented and candid. While I do like MM, I've seen him closely without make-up and he looks quite normal, almost cute, also read some of his interviewsand was surprise to find out that he's very intelligent, sensitive and profound, I think he and Evan make a terrible match. But that's besides the point, ain't it?

Also, we are treated with two delicious cameos. One of them is mr. Bono himself, rock star slash politician, sporting a huge 'stache while singing I Am the Walrus. Too good. And the other one is señorita Salma Hayek, as the sexy nurse.




Do yourself a favor and see it, you're gonna feel like a hopeful teenager all over again. And if you are a hopeful teenager, this movie will help you stay like this for the rest of your life.

<3 <3 <3
Marmelade Skye, a girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

Thanks to my fascination with LOTR (along with so many others), I will probably watch all its major characters' real life career development in whatever films they deem to grace with their presence. Except for El Viggo, who I met a long time before, when he was a poor painter and clandestine lover of one Gwyneth Paltrow, the wife of a very rich and vindictive fellow by the name of Michael Douglas. You know, that Hitchcock remake, Perfect Murder. He won my heart forever.

Hence, The Oxford Murders, a movie done by a Spanish director, señor Alex de la Iglesia, with none other than the artist formerly known as Frodo, aka Elijah Wood. Let me tell you something right from the beginning: my worst fears were scattered. Phew!

Elijah is a talented actor, who made me believe in his character, a young American student who went to Oxford to meet his mentor, a renown mathematician, played by John Hurt. Also, he proved beyond reasonable doubt that he does not, in fact, have hairy feet, nor pointy ears. However, he does have quite of an appetite for brunettes, and we get to witness him involved in lewd conduct with this big busted dudette in several occasions throughout the movie.

If you like mystery movies, than this is your movie. It's quite clever, definitely intriguing, the characters are very well developed, and the tension keeps you guessing at all times. Very well done, except for that mathematical mambo-jumbo; I still don't understand how it would help to actually find the murderer, but hey, it's entertainment.

For Elijah's die hard fans (and not only), there are a lot of hot steamy shirtless scenes, and our boy has been working hard for those abs! No pictures leaked on internet, so you have to go see it for yourself.

Hey Jude,

1. You've finally came to terms with the fact that you're bolding. Congratulations!

2. Who are you kidding? You can hardly hear the radio on a breezy day on a beach, providing you do get any signal with that little antenna. You're just trying to be artzy.

3. Is that very intellectual book for the pose too?

4. Are you by any chance thinking about me? Cos this is how it looks like.

Keep dreaming, dude!

love,
Marmelade

I am the quintessential movie lover. I like all sort of movies, good movies, bad movies, profound movies, shallow movies, comedy movies, serious movies, horror movies, ridiculous movies. I'm non-discriminative.  That's why I want to share my opinion about the recent Oscar nominated film, rest assured, with no spoilers, I'll be professional about it, and please feel free to join in and debate, whether you agree with me or not. You're welcome!

I'm gonna start with Atonement, as it is the most recent one I have seen. As I said before in a previous post, I will not mention again No Country for Old Men, as my personal boycott for otherwise respected Coen bros. They screwed it up this time.

Atonement is a deeply moving story of a woman who has to live her entire life with a silly mistake she did as a child. It may sound boring, but it ain't. Director Joe Wright, the same who did Pride and Prejudice, managed to do the most outstanding job with this movie. I bet all my money in my pocket that he'll win either the best photography or the best directing. Or both. Well, the directing is flawless, groundbreaking and breathtaking. There is a shot that lasts for about five continuous minutes that is so thoroughly put together, so intense and painfully beautiful, that it burns deep in your conscience only to review it with the eyes of your mind over and over again.

The only thing that I would change about Atonement is Keira Knightly. This girl cannot act. She proved it over and over again, yet they keep casting her in such good movies. It's a pity, with all those talented actresses out there. Her love interest is the charming James McAvoy, the scottish lad you probably know from Chronicles of Narnia (the faun) and more recently The Last King of Scotland, where he proved his extraordinarily talent confronting the last year undeniable Academy Award winner, mister Forest Whitaker. And something hilarious, McAvoy's character is called Robbie Turner, which means our darling Keira gets involved with yet anotherTurner.  

The main story though is the one of Keira's character sister, played impeccably at different ages of her life by Saoirse Ronan, Ramola Garay and the venerable Vanessa Redgrave. She is the one who committed the unexpiable sin at the fresh age of 13, and she has to live with it and try to atone it for the rest of her live. 

It's a beautiful, heartbreaking story. What do you think?