The subways of Budapest harbor an elaborate network of tunnels and trains... and people. There is a ticket agent named Bulcsú who is so devoted to his job that he never goes to the surface of the real world. Or maybe, it's that he's avoiding his responsibilities up top.
Zano makes a proposition to his lover, Naïma, to travel from France to Algeria to discover the homeland of his parents who were killed early in his life. They set off walking across Europe, discovering new lands and themselves at the same time, until they finally reach their historic destination.
I like this film because it lets the music do the storytelling. More than that, in fact.
Walter was in jail for 12 years for child molestation. But that doesn't make him a bad guy, does it? Director Nicole Kassell explores the duality of the nature of a beast, a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Walter may have a compulsion, but the audience does feel sympathy for him. Kevin Bacon does a fair job of portraying a guy with demons that he tries to fight but can't win against.
John Wayne must be spinning in his cold, silent grave. What has his macho world come to when there are films like Ice Men being made studying the complex world of male emotion? The Duke spits black zombie chaw at us.
That being said, Ice Men is a study of the complex world of male emotion. Vaughn is distant and repressed after his father's death.
Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman) has a conundrum. He's the leader of the local chapter of the Open Spaces Coalition where he uses poetry to save the area from suburban sprawl. However, he has a problem. He continually and without warning runs into this tall African man and wants to know the meaning of why it keeps occurring.
What is existentialism? Why do we care?
Existentialism is defined as "a philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience in a hostile or indifferent universe, regards human existence as unexplainable, and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one's acts".
EIFF Review: International Shorts – Package I
Posted by: Scott Hayes • October 15, 2004 @ 11:59am
This first of four series of international shorts (still mostly Canadian and American) was a pleasant surprise. Being just a regular moviegoer doesn't often afford the opportunity to see short films in theatres or otherwise. So here I am and there they are.
Package I had 8 films in total and together they all came in at about 80 minutes.
EIFF Review: Temptress of a Thousand Faces
Posted by: Scott Hayes • October 15, 2004 @ 11:59am
I had to see for myself this obscure old bad martial arts movie from the legendary Shaw Brothers. There's nothing like good old ShawScope to put a smile on your face.
I'll admit a guilty pleasure for bad films. This ranks right up there.
I would recommend that people attend this beautiful, powerful, artistic, and strange collection of situational poetry. That is, poems by various authors are read out and related to different life experiences, such as love, death, birth, truth, beauty, etc.
This was a pretty complex and challenging movie to enjoy because it's in German, so the subtitles are key.
Team America: World Police is vile, vulgar, and the most politically incorrect movie since the last time Trey Parker and Matt Stone got together on the big screen. It's also very, very funny. But those expecting a lop-sided, Bush-bashing, Michael Moore-style rant may be disappointed.
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