5 Kasım 2010 Cuma
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NOWHERE BOY: The Film Babble Blog Review
NOWHERE BOY (Dir. Sam Taylor-Wood, 2010)
The famous guitar chord that kicks off the song and the movie A HARD DAY'S NIGHT also begins this film in which we see a 17 year old John Lennon running down a Liverpudian sidewalk.
The famous guitar chord that kicks off the song and the movie A HARD DAY'S NIGHT also begins this film in which we see a 17 year old John Lennon running down a Liverpudian sidewalk.
But he's not being chased by a crowd of screaming teenage girls - that wouldn't be for several years - he's apparently caused some mischief and it looks like the police may be after him.
As embodied by Aaron Johnson (the kid from KICK-ASS!) the Lennon of 1958 is a tall kid with an Elvis style pompadour. Jerry Lee Lewis's "Wild One" tells us what we need to know about his character during the opening titles.
Lennon lives with his Aunt Mimi (Kristen Scott-Thomas) and Uncle George (David Threlfall) who he’s really close to. Uncle George dies and at his funeral Lennon catches a glimpse of a red-haired woman named Julia. Beatles fans should know that this is Lennon’s mother.
Julia (Anne-Marie Duff), for reasons that aren’t clear, had left her 5 year son in the care of Aunt Mimi. Lennon has flashes of memories from his past but they’re too fleeting to be of much narrative use.
While suspended from school Lennon hides out at his mother’s house bonding with her as she teaches him how to play the banjo. When she finds out, Aunt Mimi is furious and Lennon decides he’d rather stay with his mother.
He also decides to start a skiffle band called the Quarrymen and recruits some of his fellow students. At one of their first concerts Lennon meets Paul McCartney (Thomas Brodie Sangster) who says he’s 15, but he looks like he’s 8 years old.
However this isn’t about the birth of the biggest band in the world – which are never named incidentally – it’s about the young Lennon’s relationships with his mother and his Aunt and how these 2 diametrically oppossed personalities shaped his psyche.
Johnson carries the film with a convincing Lennon. His accent is dead-on and doesn’t come off as a thick or cheap impression at all. The British actor has got down the phrasing of sarcastic quips as well as Lennon’s brooding intensity that I didn’t think he had in him after seeing “Kick-Ass”. Not that he was bad in that previous film – there just weren’t hints of anything like this.
Anne-Marie Duff rises above the screenplay’s painting of Julia as a flighty flirty floozy. Scott-Thomas scowls effectively as the angry yet loving Aunt and she steals many of the scenes she’s in.
David Morrissey as Lennon’s step-father mostly just looks on disapprovingly while Sangster makes the most of the small yet pivotal part of Paul.
“Nowhere Boy” is respectful and heartfelt but it’s not without its shortcomings. The arc of the supposed mystery of why Julia abandoned her son is handled in a hazy way marring the impact of the payoff.
This doesn’t mean it’s not extremely worthwhile - Like Lennon himself its charms outweigh its defects. Especially considering its sensational ‘50s soundtrack including classics from Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Gene Vincent, and one of Lennon’s greatest influences: Elvis Presley.
Johnson does his own vocals throughout the film, but the real Nowhere Man is featured via an alternate take of “Mother” which plays on top of the obligatory yet unavoidable black and white archival photo montage conclusion.
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4 Kasım 2010 Perşembe
THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST: The Film Babble Blog Review
(Dir. Daniel Alfredson, 2009)
"It's like a classic Greek tragedy. Zalachenko tries to shoot his daughter, assisted by her brother. Then she rises from the grave to plant an axe in her father's skull." - Fredrik Clinton (Lennart Hjulström)
That's right - Lisbeth Salamander (Naomi Rapace) is back in the third and final edition of the extremely popular "Millennium" trilogy, but after the events of the last film she has to recover in a hospital bed, which kind of drags this movie down right from the get-go.
It's the same hospital that her evil father (Georgi Staykov) was taken to - you see that axe didn't quite do the job (or quite cut it if you want to go the pun route).
Meanwhile Rapace's old journalist friend Michael Nyqvist assembles a special issue of his magazine Millennium devoted entirely to expose that several authorities conspired against the dragon tattooed Girl who plays with fire to protect a pathological killer.
At the same time the old white haired men behind the crimes scramble to have Rapace placed back at St. Stephen's mental hospital where she was wrongly committed when she was 12 years old.
Oh yeah, there's also the supposed to be frightening factor that her half brother (Micke Spreitz)- a blond brute who again looks like a '60s Bond villain henchman is out and about killing and torturing folks on some kind of Anton Chigurish-bender.
When Rapace is fit for trial she emerges in completely punked out attire - tall pitch black faux-hawk, heavily pierced, black leather, black lipstick and eye shadow. Her so cold and sullen attitude does her or the movie any good though as the court room scenes have no edge.
They take too much time in the drab back and forth questioning with a predictable playing out that makes this movie seem for a long chunk that it's "The Girl Who Treaded Water."
It's all leading to the inevitable violent showdown between Rapace and Spreitz in yet another dark warehouse setting.
In a overpopulated cast it's hard to keep everybody straight but the other notable people here are Lena Endre as a pregnant lawyer friend of Nyquist's, Annika Hallin as a flirty Millenium magazine co-worker, and Anders Ahlbom as another evil entity from the Girl's past - a corrupt psychiatrist trying to keep all wrong doings under wraps.
As you can probably tell - I thought this was the least inspired of the 3 films that make up this series based on the bestselling novels by the late Stieg Larsson, but I know it's still one that fans of the previous films will just have to see and will most likely find a fitting, if muted, end to the trilogy.
Having not read the books I don't know if it's faithfully handled but I just bet that there's more emotional resonance to the characters than what's on display here.
Maybe the English language version of the series, directed by David Fincher and starring Daniel Craig with Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salamander set for release in 2011, will figure out a more satisfying conclusion for all those who hate subtitles. We shall just have to wait and see.
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2 Kasım 2010 Salı
LEBANON: The Film Babble Blog Review
LEBANON (Dir. Samuel Maoz, 2009)
“Tanks are made of iron. Men are made of steel” states a stencil inside of the Israeli tank at the center of this intense war drama set at the beginning of the 1st Lebanon war in 1982.
More than one critic has called it "the DAS BOOT of tank movies" and that's pretty apt except for the first and final shots that depict the tank in a field of sunflowers.
In DAS BOOT there were often exterior long shots of the submarine, here we're inside the tank non-stop for the 90-something percent of the film's 93 minute running time.
Through sweaty sometimes bloody close-ups we get to know the four members of the tank crew (Reymond Amsalem, Yoav Donat, Michael Moshonov, and Oshri Cohen).
Donat is manning the gunner's scope and doing a frantic close to incompetent job of it - accidentally firing upon a old man's chicken truck for starters, and his crew members are fretting just as frantically because of it.
“You can't run a war in this mess” Donat says at one point, but it seems a futile comment - it's not like there's a shower inside the tank. But on second thought - it seems a cutting commentary on trying to maintain some kind of order in the most extreme chaos.
Many war films have displayed that war is Hell, but in this film with in your face close-ups of face covered in sweat, dirt, blood, and army surplus salad croutons it's also grimy, disgusting, and incredibly demeaning every second of the way.
LEBANON is a gripping narrative that may be hard going, but it's definitely a essential entry in the modern claustrophobic thriller sweepstakes that includes Rodrigo Cortés BURIED starring an underground Ryan Reynolds and the upcoming Danny Boyle film 127 HOURS featuring a trapped mountaineering James Franco.
With it's sense of history and depiction of confined desperation "Lebanon" more than holds its own.
More later...
“Tanks are made of iron. Men are made of steel” states a stencil inside of the Israeli tank at the center of this intense war drama set at the beginning of the 1st Lebanon war in 1982.
More than one critic has called it "the DAS BOOT of tank movies" and that's pretty apt except for the first and final shots that depict the tank in a field of sunflowers.
In DAS BOOT there were often exterior long shots of the submarine, here we're inside the tank non-stop for the 90-something percent of the film's 93 minute running time.
Through sweaty sometimes bloody close-ups we get to know the four members of the tank crew (Reymond Amsalem, Yoav Donat, Michael Moshonov, and Oshri Cohen).
Donat is manning the gunner's scope and doing a frantic close to incompetent job of it - accidentally firing upon a old man's chicken truck for starters, and his crew members are fretting just as frantically because of it.
“You can't run a war in this mess” Donat says at one point, but it seems a futile comment - it's not like there's a shower inside the tank. But on second thought - it seems a cutting commentary on trying to maintain some kind of order in the most extreme chaos.
Many war films have displayed that war is Hell, but in this film with in your face close-ups of face covered in sweat, dirt, blood, and army surplus salad croutons it's also grimy, disgusting, and incredibly demeaning every second of the way.
LEBANON is a gripping narrative that may be hard going, but it's definitely a essential entry in the modern claustrophobic thriller sweepstakes that includes Rodrigo Cortés BURIED starring an underground Ryan Reynolds and the upcoming Danny Boyle film 127 HOURS featuring a trapped mountaineering James Franco.
With it's sense of history and depiction of confined desperation "Lebanon" more than holds its own.
More later...
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