Thursday, March 13, 2008

The territory virgins | Virgin Territory

The territory virgins | Virgin Territory
Directed by David Liland
Cast Heyden Christensen, Tim Roth, Misha Barton, Christopher Igen, Silvia Colloca, Matthew Rice
USA, 2007, 105 min.

Encouraged "Decameron" Boccaccio film with atrocious Lilanda Englishman Tim Roth, samovlyublennym Hayden Christensen and Michael Russian Rise.

While in Florence, m-m-m-m-m XV century plague rages, the rich, beautiful and smart girl city Pampiniya (Barton) to decide whom of the three aspirants to marry her. First, frozen dark with a cross around his neck (Roth), once described in the spirit of pants that he had not everything is in place, though he and most… x Operating man in Florence. Second, the Russian (in the XV century!) Earl Dzerzhinsky (Fig), which comes from the outside Pampiniey Novgorod, appears in the frame with the question "Chto eto za m *** k?" And keeps well mark, breaking the language of Slavic raskatistom "r" and fell to the right and left from the first, judging by the reaction of others, in Italy, smooth-bore guns. Third, the mascot Extroversion (Christensen), lives on the principle "I too beautiful to…", but in the depths of the soul loves stranger flame, which once tselovalsya with eyes closed.

What is happening around this core quartet, in general, hardly lends itself to be described. Tut and retreat nunnery, which is just fine dwellers and nip that enlist to imagine someone beautiful man and to engage fully nude wash it in a wooden bade. I Tunisian gang of thieves who barely otloviv two beautiful virgins, are beginning to argue who is the greatest dignity of manhood, and then allow themselves to kill the chicken. And no less beautiful selyanki who met with the naive boys, dedicate their love of mysteries with the help of cow's udder.

The film Englishman David Leland, ancient shortstop George Harrison created at the beginning of kinogorizonte 80 - x as a scriptwriter rigid social AMD Alan Clark (including - "Made in Britain", which started his career in Tim Roth), announced remeykom "Decameron" Pasolini.

Pasolini whether Volume fault or that the likely Boccaccio - but "The area looks like the product of virgins" is not our time. I would just okay beauty of Florence and Tuscany countryside, stacked in perfect vozrozhdencheskie songs. But even razuhabistaya and sexual concerns, not once, upon reflection, not in inflowing vulgarity.

I use the manner of a stamp sanctified tradition after another, not forcing us to estimate how a new turn. And most importantly, the ability to placement, and a good sense of a budget deal with the full idiocy spare no when neither money nor time, nor, surprisingly, mental forces. And so it goes that branded snouts (and much more) Misha Barton and Hayden Christensen are present here at the Renaissance backdrops. It said at the very beginning of the film a kind of working in the local cathedral artist, on all grounds alter ego director: "Draw pop angels - not the worst thing in the world rabotenka". Similarly, not the worst.

Another kind Boleyn | The Other Boleyn Girl

Another kind Boleyn | The Other Boleyn Girl
Directed by Justin Chadwick
Starring Natalie Portman, Skarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Jim Sterdzhess, Kristin Scott-Thomas
UK, 2008, 115 min.

Costume drama with Natalie Portman and Skarlett Johansson in the role of the two sisters caught in the eye of erotiko political clashes at the Court of King Henry the VIII.

The beginning of the XVI century, tyudorovskaya England. Young King Henry VIII (Bana), whose Spanish wife (Torrent) can not give birth to him heir to the estate comes hunt Boleyn family. Boleyn-Senior (Raylans) nauskivaemy his vile brother-in-law (Lewis), solves a career considerations podlozhit King under its beautiful daughter Anna (Portman), which is actually not totally against it. It is not sensible anything goes, but sovereign, falling from a horse, feels feelings of another kind Boleyn - Mary (Johansson), younger sister Anne, to an extreme positive at the same time having the eve married.

A screen adaptation of the best seller Philippa Gregory initially seemed a win-win project: two very hot to date actress in the role of opposing sisters - in fact, postav light switch camera - and the more you can do nothing. But, of course, it was not so simple. Chadwick, previously worked only in soap operas, sees the same movie as television, only richer and the effect - in other words, every ten minutes you have to cancel anything from bottom perspective on the background of clouds running.

The history of palace intrigues - naprashivayuschayasya to turn into soap opera - and so inevitably becomes: only given the compressed time of the events somewhere in the middle accounting scheme zahlebyvayuscheysya skorogovorkoy (six months have passed; mounting fore another year next scene, the first, another two years) , but everything that does not fit into two hours, to report in writing - in the final titer promelknet half of the British Encyclopedia.

Portman, dazzling in the two or three scenes where she needs to play smarter stervu, other times gives Meryl Streep - besides that, a) it was not Meryl Streep, b) Strip and there is no need, this story is not about the internal passion Anne Boleyn, and about her arse. Johansson same two hours pops eyes in the role of pseudo porugannoy virtues of dissolved curl - and few people in Hollywood would be worse came to the jumps. The idea of co-sponsors is clear: now we take Tyudorov, is a modern denote sexual conflict - and get Tom Stoppard. Cherta with two - has Savvich Valentin Pikul.

It comes at night | Hancock

It comes at night | Hancock
Directed by Peter Berg
Starring Will Smith, Sharliz Theron, Jason Bateman, Degas Ferch, Lauren Hill, Valery Ezlinn
USA, 2008,

There are already online clips from the film. Hancock beyond their abilities not be called such a "hero". It is for any trouble at napavshuyu inhabitants of the planet, taken with zeal, his intention to help, but not all that easy for him - not measurable enormous destruction it brings. And soon his desire to help everyone in the end it is not desired by anybody, patience does not stand up to the public destruction of the price being paid by them.

Campaign-monger stated Ray opens his eyes, during his rescue Henkok aware of their vulnerability. With this, and he will have to fight.

PS: a great desire to see this film

Introduction of the spartantsami | Meet the Spartans

Introduction of the spartantsami | Meet the Spartans
Directed by Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Starring Sean Maguire, Carmen Electra, Ken Davityan, Kevin Sorbo
USA, 2008, 84 min.

In order to receive the positive emotion of this film, there are three important conditions:

1. You watched "300 Spartans"

2. Do you like movies in the style of "Very scary movie"

3. You are more or less aware of the popular American TV show.

Ideally, it still must look to the original, as the Russian translation kills 30% of text jokes, which make up a decent portion of the film.

Overall, the movie light, ugly places, but funny. Lehx was still able to withdraw a travesty of movies.

Parody of the recent blockbusters, with jokes about gay men.

Beowulf | Beowulf

Beowulf | Beowulf
Directed by Robert Zemekis
Starring Ray Winstone, Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, Robin Wright Penn, Crispin Glover, John Malkovich, Alison Loman, Brendan Gleeson
USA, 2007, 120 min.

Shot and painted with the help of the latest technologies, previously tested in the same Zemekisom "the Polar Express", a film about adventure hero in the struggle capitalized gadom Grendelem yascheropodobnoy and his mother srisovannoy with Angelina Jolie.

"Beowulf" (VIII century.) - Anglo-Saxon epic of the hero of the same name. B. winning Breku sail affects marine monsters, exempts from the Danish giant-eating Grendelya (pohischavshego soldiers from the King Hrodgara Chambers), and his fierce mother. Then he becomes king, holding its people from the dragon, but the poison dies of a murdered his monster… Along with songs about Nibelungah, Rolande, and the like Side B. epic is a monument of world importance. " "This Literary Encyclopedia", Volume 1, 1930, edition.

Text 77 - year-old was well suited to a summary of the new movie plot, except that remains skobochkah put in the names of actors: Beowulf (Winston), Hrodgar (Hopkins), the mother Grendelya (Jolie). But this is not necessarily - a film by Robert Zemeckis uses the latest technology of digitization movement, so that even in the original cast of all these natural remained only one vote, and after the Russian dubbing and does not understand what is in them. Strictly speaking, the "Beowulf" - cartoon rather than a movie, and acknowledged that its authors: "studio Paramount launched its" Oscar "to" in this category, and the creator of special effects is in the row of higher titer operator. Technology, admittedly, are impressive: the myriad pixels up to majestic landscapes, bloody battles and frightening monsters. The only thing that has not given pixel - is a person and the movement of people. First, even beautiful, terrible look like masks, and the latter are like convulsions puppets in the hands of skilful, but netalantlivogo puppeteer. Apparently, Zemeckis and company are most concerned about the way the film would look like in 3D - each scene is carefully planned so as to run in the maximum number of spectators. I saw the movie on a normal screen - but, I am afraid, if you want to watch, only in three-dimensional form.

Who here has fulfilled its work with a soul - is the screenwriter Neil Gaiman (author of "Zvezdnoy dust" and the rest) and Roger Avery ( "Pulp Fiction"). Podvertev here and there an ancient plot, they turned trehchlennuyu straight line and the funeral ritual battles in the history of tightly wrapped tragedies of betrayal and weaknesses. Against this backdrop, the work of all other actors in loss reserves - is a joke or what? Funny moments here, and in fact is, however, the same: bare like Jolie in the heel, as though Hopkins naked in the sheets, as if Uinstoun naked from the stomach into cubes. During the battle with all the forces Grendelem authors go to never show viewers digital member of a naked Beowulf - Livermore, suppose, and this, too, sinefilskaya joke, and not a desire to earn an American PG-13 rating. Only a sense of this whole unpleasant. As if you blatantly tychut agony directly in a huge TV screen and the reality: "You че, blja, jokes do not understand?"

Reach to the heavens | Knocking on Heaven `s Door

Reach to the heavens | Knocking on Heaven `s Door
Directed by Thomas Ian Griffith
Cast Til Schweiger, Moritz Bleibtreu, Jan-Josef Lifers
Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, 1997, 87 min.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

History Richard O. | L `Histoire de Richard O.

History Richard O. | L `Histoire de Richard O.
Directed by Damien Odul
Starring Matthew Amalrik, Rizleyn al Cohen, Marianne Costa, Damien Odul
France, 2007, 75 min.

Drama about erotic experiences capitalized character.

Stardust | Stardust

Stardust | Stardust
Directed by Matthew Vaughn
Starring Charlie Cox, Claire Duijns, Sienna Miller, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jason Fleming, Peter O `Toole, Ian MakKellen, Rupert Everett, Robert De Niro
UK, USA, 2007,

Richly decorated in the spirit of cultural fantasy "Labyrinth" and "The Princess Bride-" - about a young man who is looking for a magic fallen star in the country. Previous work has been director Vona "puff" of cake narkodilera charming.

Somewhere behind the village Zastene that near Ipsvicha, the wall separates England from the old country Stormhold. Stormhold, as befits pripryatannoy country inhabited dying kings, enslaved princesses, princes-bratoubiytsami, murdered princes, witches, a unicorn and other exotic creatures. Seventeen zastensky uvalen Tristan (Cox) in the romantic impulse of the first promises zastenskoy beautiful Victoria (Miller) for the wall to bring fallen star (Deyns). For star witch hunt led by Michelle Pfeiffer and several princes still living. While the wall of mere mortals are not supposed to walk (the only passage Atitlan hour), the father of Tristan already once had Stromholde visit, as the guys have yet to learn.

And the small screen narochito Wednesday novel Nile Geymana Lover fabulous stories about parallel worlds with a heap of corpses and references to the folklore and English bard, entrusted Matthew Vonu, a movie debyutirovavshemu Sloenym "cake" - the history of pro-simpatyagu dragdilera. Fantasy authors do not limit the amount of any books (of a pair of hundreds of pages), nor the details: each adventure Geiman describes as a passing and accidentally, a couple of the most promising fit in a paragraph.

Liberty reasonably ordered: some of the characters had to sacrifice, a poor final action on the Spider decisive battle, and pass, in general, it is (as almost all the book heroes), the captain of the heavenly vessel (De Niro) has been renamed the beloved Shakespeare and became Geymanom variation on the theme of Jack Sparrow. The creative method Vona and reduced to a set of varying degrees udachnosti shutih and quotations that quite adequately and creative method Geymana: where Geiman goes through the old stishkam about sheep, there Von recall movies (sometimes unexpected - like "Basic instinct"). However, even if the picture and falls into a set of episodes, and Vaughn and Geiman still never Tolkien and Jackson (as an option - Cuaron and Rohling), but "Harry Potter" rolls inexorably towards a metaphysical drama about the loss of innocence, people have which recognizes a beautiful maiden hamster in love, wants to applaud.

Moscow gigolo

Moscow gigolo
Directed by Dmitry Fix
Cast Andrei Sokolov, Alexander Fadeyev, Sergei Glushko, Sergei Gorobchenko, Olesya Sudzilovskaya, Daria Charusha
Russia, 2008, 105 min.

Upon receipt of the Order inherited grandmother, a young Kostya (Gorobchenko) went to serve in the army and served until the wife of famines not dragged home of wealthy citizens and kalsonah with gold crosses. Pohal officer betrayed to Moscow, where he was robbed, humiliated, in the wall strip, fell in love with the beauty chromium (Sudzilovskaya), saved it from the scoundrel - ex-husband (Joe) and at the zone after mykalsya up to the presidential amnesty.

The ideological charge picture Dmitry Fix (student director Anatoly Vasiliev and the series "All my two guys at the same time ...") is calculated as a simple calculation. Fix attentive to the chronology: adding to a happy childhood Costa-1978 study of twenty years of service, he Jaffa "wild" nineties, when left without pants military personnel ublazhali menedzhersh fat, and type of gang chinushi grobili in drunken accidents own kids and solve disputes with the family Scheduled through gun.

Heppi-end (after three years) in this case naturally coincides with the hanging in the office of the warden portrait of the current head of state. Genre "Male" - either embarrass encomium, or prolonged anecdote, or inept drama. The fact that the Russian capital in the late twentieth century was both say, is not very comfortable, all interested recall since the movie "Moscow". In order for this comparison is not passed unnoticed here quoted directly from the picture Zeldovicha anecdote about life, which is stronger, with the only difference that diagnosis era "Zhigolo" makes a diagnosis of his desk tool.

Monday, March 10, 2008

Hero | Ying Xiong

Hero | Ying Xiong
Directed by Zhang Imou
Starring Donnie Yong, Zhang Tszyi, Tony Leung, Maggie Chun, Jet Li
China, Hong Kong, 2002, 96 min.

The great warrior named Unnamed comes to the Qin emperor, and tells how it dealt with three main enemies. Man, which began with the revival of the Chinese cinema, Zhang Imou ( "Red fan) withdrew picture milestone: a film that lovers of Chinese fairy tales about flying warriors waited for all his life.

The great warrior named Unnamed came to the Emperor Qin to explain how he dealt with his three main enemies - Slomannym Sword, Flying Snow and sky. During the conversation history, seen through the eyes of different characters, it appears so, the insurgents, but what actually happened - not so important. The main point is that one of the interlocutors leaving Imperial pokoi hero.

Staging withdrew Yimou picture, put option scored a seat. This is the film that lovers of Chinese fairy tales about flying warriors have long been expected to thrill. To actors and good and the plot tense and dramatic fights, and the epic scale, and so that was bound to Jet Li, and the main thing - that the spirit seized as if some "watch" Gone with the Wind.

The audience spoke: "Hero" has become almost the most box-office Chinese film in history. But he moreover, followed by "Kraduschimsya tiger, a dragon zataivshimsya" (yet another approach to the "Kill Bill" Tarantino - in recognition of the fighters love Hong Kong), finally brought about the movies "Kung-fu" from the ghetto of dubious entertainment to the world of adolescence this adult film: the tape first took the Berlinale competition, "then nominated for Oscar."

And what kinonomenklatura inclined to "Hero" head, it seems very correct. After all, "Hero" is the film in its pure form, potentially - an irresistible argument in infantilnom eternal dispute about its benefits to the theatre.

Because the theater is not so happens that polutorachasovuyu confusing history of life drevnevostochnyh warmongers be regarded as a gallery with pictures, but forgot about everything in the world. To immediately wanted to buy a ticket for the next session, and then - for one, and then come home and intended frames on the walls. This narcotic effect - what are, in fact, done. What other than magic, and not be called otherwise than in the theater is not fried.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

Fight | Heat

Fight | Heat
Directed by Michael Mann
Cast Dayen Venora, Robert De Niro, Tom father, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer
USA, 1995, 171 min.

Police fatally tired (Pachino) catches in Los Angeles mortally tired gangster (De Niro). Friends and enemies are killed one after the other, personal life or the hell, and nothing but respect, and the legal code bandits from each other do not cause. No one understands that still need to catch, and the other - that escape.

Two of the greatest American actor of our time to "augment" played together only once - a second father's "Cross" - but there they lived in different times and therefore the frame had never met. Here in trehchasovom movie, they all steam scene of a full-fledged - and it would be a cost for the whole fuss cheese selection.

In Shvatke "virtuoso" is a robbery, effective shooting, a lot of mikrosyuzhetov, each of which pulls at length film replica drums, excellent role of the second plan and the overall plans dizzying removed fantastic operator Dante Spinotti. And all this epic gromadina somewhere near the end abruptly to a single moment in a night table food, sit where De Niro and Al Pacino, for the first time decided to look each other in the eye.

They are more silent than talk, but it is the culmination and the center of gravity of the film, and because they do not have to say anything. Too many characters in his life managed to do, and the actors - play too close to them in a single frame. "Perhaps we will never meet," - will announce the total De Niro. Whatever.

Maps, money, two trunk | Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels

Maps, money, two trunk | Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Directed by Guy Ritchie
Cast Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Flemyng
UK, 1998, 105 min.

Radio Day

Radio Day
Directed by Dmitry Dyachenko
Starring Mikhail Kozyrev, Leonid Barats, Rostislav Hait, Alexander Demidov, Camille Larin, Dmitry Maryanov, Maxim Vitorgan, Nonna Grishaeva, Amalia Mordvinova
Russia, 2008, 100 min.

New kinokapustnik "Quartet" And, this time on weekdays alcoholic staff FM stations, markedly inferior "Day of the elections".

Team "How would radio" led by genprodyuserom Mishey (True-blue radiodeyatel Mikhail Kozyrev) conducts a marathon in support of the middle-up without fuel Nahodkinskoy Bay boats with two tsirkachami, several pudelyami and bears. In a live radio station employees (theatre artists "Quartet" I Leonid Barats, Rostislav Hait and others, they - artists and producers scenario) pustyachnogo fuel from the accident history of the collapse of the scientific liner "Ph.D. Professor Shvartsengold" with the rarest animals on board. During communicated useful information from the life podkustovogo vypolznya, North American rabbit-zanudy typical employee and the Moscow FM radio station.

Released last October, the most massive domestic nice ribbon years - "Election Day" - "Quartet" I manually and with them come back with "Radio Day". This again MacOS them together with a group of "Accident" musical kapustnika, while even earlier (not 2003, and 2001). Years of age, alas, the impact: if the problem of pre PR arhiaktualna one way or another, then laugh at how irresponsible employees oligarchic media spyanu korezhat reality by themselves, as is already something very uncomfortable, even if the stupid jokes about rabbit-zanudu same stupid probiraet laughter there.

Actually, the "Radio Day" is the feeling that the authors have decided to cut money quickly at the crest of success. What - prikvel five months after the first film! And the most surprising in the history of screen musicals decision - to replace written parody Alexei Kortneva on new and old hits sparodirovannyh groups from our magazines "Radio" - preferred by the same smell is not particularly sporting. Especially when one considers that the "election day" about the same group performed a parody themselves - until Andrei Makarevich, the text of the guitar singing "Do not you understand living in apartments, pidorasam, students, teach / The beauty of this world, where surfing just us, man. " In principle, видеоверсия Performance couple of years as already available on DVD and, in essence, is a much more appropriate way to look at this piece of art - that is, in my view, sums director Dyachenko contribution to the common cause.

Nevertheless, "Quartet" I, admittedly, a certain path to protoril almost forgotten Eldorado - neotvratitelnoy Russian comedy. They would have to learn how to withdraw and mount a normal film - all of which will cease to be so ridiculous and will be very straight ridiculous. However, that while the trend is the reverse.

Horton | Horton Hears a Who!

Horton | Horton Hears a Who!
Directed by Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino
USA, 2008, 95 min.

The animation of the elephant-environmentalist.

10000 BC | 10.000 B.C.

10000 BC | 10.000 B.C.
Directed by Roland Emmerich
Starring Steven Streight, Camilla Belle, Tim Barlow, Omar Sharif, Cliff Curtis
USA, New Zealand, 2008, 115 min.

Block buster about prehistoric hunting mammoths. Rolanda Emmeriha of "Day After" the day before yesterday in the UK.