Saturday, December 19th, 2009
Despite its reputation as an oversimplified epic, King Vidor’s War and Peace remains a stellar showcase of Hollywood prestige. While Cecil B. De Mille was reviving ancient Egypt for The Ten Commandments, Vidor was transforming Italian countryside into war-torn Russia, bringing massive resources to bear on this sumptuous, if ultimately misguided adaptation of Tolstoy’s classic. Given the marqU casting of Audrey Hepburn as Natasha and then-husband Mel Ferrer as decorated battle hero Prince Andrei, this is a movie you watch for star valu, not literary fidelity (for the latter, look to Sergei Bondarchuk’s Russian version). Henry Fonda serves Tolstoy more effectively as Pierre, whose passive observation of Napoleon’s invasion turns this grand moral tale into an intimate study of individual passions. The battle scenes (directed by Mario Soldati) remain impressive, as does the film’s grand parade of pomp and circumstance. Slow, regal, and peppered with brilliance, this epic falls short of classic but it’s still a visual feast. –Jeff Shannon
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
A blonde Sophia Loren, an unknown Marcello Mastroianni and a comic turn by BICYLCE THIEF director Vittorio de Sica are the active ingredients in the Italian treat, TOO BAD SHE’S BAD.
“SHE” of course is the Italian “anatomic bomb” Loren, stealing hearts as a lusciously larcenous petty thief. Mastroianni is the nalve young cabbie who tries to set her straight, while de Sica, as Loren’s smooth con man papa makes sure his not so little girl stays on the crooked and narrow.
Already the “Number 1 Cover Girl of Europe,” “New York Times” critic Bosley Crowther wrote of her attributes: “One striking point is the luxurious Sophia Loren, who is something to look at from any angle or any side . . . she displays such a full and shapely figure she makes it a pleasure to consider being robbed.”
Artfully directed by Alessandro Blasetti, TOO BAD SHE’S BAD is a delightful romp , the first pairing of Lorena & masrotinana not too mention the historic first appearance together of these three legends of Italian cinema.
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
As noted critic Pauline Kael wrote, the 1987 box-office hit The Untouchables is “like an attempt to visualize the public’s collective dream of Chicago gangsters.” In other words, this lavish reworking of the vintage TV series is a rousing potboiler from a bygone era, so beautifully designed and photographed–and so craftily directed by Brian De Palma–that the historical reality of Prohibition-era Chicago could only pale in comparison. From a script by David Mamet, the movie pits four underdog heroes (the maverick lawmen known as the Untouchables) against a singular villain in Al Capone, played by Robert De Niro as a dapper caesar holding court (and a baseball bat) against any and all challengers. Kevin Costner is the naive federal agent Eliot Ness, whose lack of experience is tempered by the streetwise alliance of a seasoned Chicago cop (Sean Connery, in an Oscar-winning performance), a rookie marksman (Andy Garcia), and an accountant (Charles Martin Smith) who holds the key to Capone’s potential downfall. The movie approaches greatness on the strength of its set pieces, such as the siege near the Canadian border, the venal ambush at Connery’s apartment, and the train-station shootout partially modeled after the “Odessa steps” sequnces of the Russian classic Battleship Potemkin. It’s thrilling stuff, fuled by Ennio Morricone’s dynamic score, but it’s also manipulative and obvious. If you’re inclined to be critical, the movie gives you reason to complain. If you’d rather sit back and enjoy a first-rate production with an all-star cast, The Untouchables may very well strike you as a classic. –Jeff Shannon
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
Based on the posthumously published memoir by Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls is artist-director Julian Schnabel’s second exercise in artist biography, but where Schnabel’s earlier film Basquiat was relatively conventional, this film is bolder in both style and execution. Schnabel is perhaps too enamored of his subject as a noble martyr, lending the film a somewhat inflated sense of importance. Still, it’s rare to see an artist’s life and work so elegantly interwoven, and Before Night Falls uses all of Arenas’s life as its canvas, from impoverished youth to lively gay freedom in mid-1950’s Cuba; imprisonment during Castro’s antigay regime; and to New York City in 1980, followed by Arenas’s battle with AIDS and subsequnt suicide (depicted here as assisted) in 1990.
Through these extreme rises and falls, Arenas is always writing, his typewriter his most faithful lover and weapon (by way of smuggled manuscripts) against the dark forces that surround him. As Time magazine’s Richard Corliss wrote, Arenas is “a serious actor’s dream role: to be a gay Jesus in a modern Passion Play,” and Javier Bardem–the first Spanish actor to receive an Oscar nomination–inhabits the role with subtle ferocity, charting this emotional odyssey with outer reserve but blazing infernos of internal passion. And while Schnabel suffers from a hyperactive camera, there’s poetry here–visual, dramatic, and literal–and vibrant humor to temper the deep tragedy of Arenas’s life. Schnabel also uses his actor friends to good advantage: a nearly unrecognizable Sean Penn adds an ironic touch to his brief appearance as a peasant, and Johnny Depp is both funny and fearsome in dual roles as a drag qUn and vicious army interrogator. –Jeff Shannon
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Gasoline is the tender love story of two young women, Stella and Eleonora who are from opposite ends of the social spectrum. When the accidental death of Eleonora’s mother occurs, the two women must flee and dispose of the body in order to stay together. Gasoline is the directorial debut of Italian filmmaker Monica Stambrini, who also served as co-screenwriter, and stars Maya Sansa and Regina Orioli in the lead roles.
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Sexy leading lady, Tania Mendoza, plays the title character in this captivating drama about a beautiful woman’s rise to power within one of the most notorious and lethal Mexican cartels. Top star To
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
“…I am a poor orphan girl…”
Innocent orphan Therese seeks her fortune in a wicked world where no virtu goes unpunished. While she strives to preserve her precious “virtu,” Therese finds every inch of her flawless form systematically sullied as she runs afoul of depraved young nobles whose hounds have a taste for human female flesh; a surgeon with a scalpel in one hand and a whip in the other; men of the cloth who keep their female flock shorn and branded with a red hot iron; and a Count whose concubines must give him their very blood! Will Therese finally learn “how delicious it is to be a whore?”
Director Claude Pierson’s adaptation of the Marquis de Sade’s catalog of hedonistic horrors stars Marco Perrin (ARMY OF SHADOWS), the lovely Alice Arno (FEMALE VAMPIRE) and her real-life sister Chantal Broqut (GOLDEN TEMPLE AMAZONS). This scandalous spectacle has been widely censored, banned, and virtually unseen in the United States – until now, as JUSTINE DE SADE arrives fully restored and uncut on DVD for the first time ever!
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
A somewhat contrived screenplay doesn’t stop this thriller from serving up some of the most spectacular fire sequnces ever committed to film. Like any Ron Howard production Backdraft is impressively slick and boasts a stellar cast, including Kurt Russell and William Baldwin. The actors play sibling rivals who have been at odds since the death of their firefighter father years earlier. Robert De Niro is the veteran fire inspector who is tracking a series of mysterious and deadly arsons, and Donald Sutherland is effectively creepy as the former arsonist who understands the criminal psychology of pyromaniacs. Rebecca De Mornay, Scott Glenn, and Jennifer Jason Leigh are featured in supporting roles. Backdraft is a triumph of stunt work and flaming special effects. –Jeff Shannon
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
This curious fourth film from Guy Ritchie returns the writer-director to familiar gangster territory following his disastrous remake of Swept Away, which starred Ritchie’s wife, Madonna. Jason Statham, a Ritchie regular, stars as an ex-convict named Jake Green, whose strategy for bankrupting a casino owner/crime boss named Macha (Ray Liotta)–whom Jake holds responsible for his incarceration–results in Macha ordering him killed. Enter a pair of other criminals (Vincent Pastore, Andre Benjamin) with a plan of their own, preventing the hit on Jake but telling him he has a fast-acting disease that will soon take its toll. From there, an increasingly convoluted gangster tale becomes a fascinating if often silly movie about Jake’s descent into possible madness while he simultaneously ponders the art of defeating one’s enemies and communing with God. Ritchie is indeed in a serious vein, but he doesn’t hold back on his uniqu sense of stylish fun, outfitting each character with memorable dialogu and behavioral traits. Standing out in a crowded pack of colorful underworld types is Liotta’s villain, who sympathetically conveys an all-too-human level of despair while wearing eyeliner and bikini underwear. The film becomes wearing after a while: Ritchie might be less interested in the crime genre than he once was. But there are plenty of fresh ideas here, even if they don’t always fit perfectly together the way Ritchie’s catchy debut, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, did. –Tom Keogh
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We had the pleasure of talking with Jason Statham (The Transporter, Snatch, The Italian Job) about Revolver, his new film with director Guy Ritchie. Here’s a taste of what he had to say, and you can hear more in the February edition of the Amazon Wire Podcast.
Describe Revolver for people who have yet to see the film:
I would say it’s a movie that’s not to be confused with the likes of Lock Stock or Snatch if you have ever seen any of the previous Guy Ritchie movies, it’s not to be confused with that kind of a film. It’s a little bit more of a serious sort of psychological thriller about being able to smash what controls you, but at the same time it’s all set within a world of ya know, violence, ya know that sexy shiny world that Guy Ritchie creates.
Do you see comparisons between Lock Stock, Snatch and this film as a good thing or a bad thing?
Well look, he’s made two terrific films, two great black comedies, do you want him to go and make another one as well? Sometimes you have to do something a little bit different you can’t please everyone.
You’ve carried a lot of other movies, action movies, where there’s explosions and fast cars, but this film is really held together by your presence, and it’s a totally different mood. Did you you feel a lot of pressure on your performance as Jake to carry the picture?
Um, I mean, no, it’s best not to try and focus on that really. But obviously if you haven’t got your usual bells and whistles to rely upon, then you have to try and dig it out from somewhere else.
What did you draw from your own experiences in preparing for this movie?
You might know from reading other stuff that I used to work on street corners hustling, or conning people if you like, so I understood the psychology of that and what you need to do to make somebody sort of bend over and succumb to your will, it’s a very simple set of rules there’s so many ways that you can be sort of lured down a certain road and it’s all about making decisions, and if you’re aware of what is leading you, you can make the right decision at the right time.
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