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Year: 2004
Directed by: Gen Sekiguchi Plot Summery:
A man continually trying and failing to get his wife to stay dead; a self-absorbed ad agency creative director who comes up with one unworkably inane idea after another; an English hitman who only wants to know everyone’s function in life; and an unfortunate office worker and father whose brain is left scrambled after a stage hypnotist is murdered in mid-performance. Starting off as unrelated plot lines, they intertwine with each other as they continue on their respective ways. Links: IMDB Entry Official UK Site Movie Torrent
Trailer [YouTube] Párbaj Trailer [YouTube] Kurvaelet Trailer [YouTube] CNN Trailer [YouTube] Julika az erkélyen Trailer [YouTube] Fifty years of communism doesn’t go by unnoticed. Eastern Europe escaped the clutches of communism and the Soviets to the embrace of a Europe who leaped across the ocean with one leg, and kicked in the same direction with the other. The ideology that developed in Western Europe is an attempt to embrace the American world and enjoy it, and at the same time keep one self’s as a creature of higher social values. All these didn’t happen in the east. Five decaded of communism left the nations in ruin on the financial side, but brought to the people there a taste of what it feels not to on the top of the food chain, what does it feel to colonized by foreigners. A cruel lesson, but one can only wonder on the irony, and ask what such a lesson would have done to the western side of the continent. However, fifty years of communism doesn’t go unnoticed, hundreds of years of colonization in India did live their mark, and such is also the case eastern Europe. Corruption and occupation by a foreign power leave their marks on the society, and the values which they bring permeate into the society. From this comes this wonderful and hilarious animated movie, the comparison to South Park is, although common, totally misplaced. South Park never managed, nor tried, to mirror such a mayhem, such a chaotic micro-cosmos, which is so refreshing at the same time. Don’t misunderstand, this is not a serious movie, but it does point the direction. Any connection between the movie and this piece is totally incidental. Links: IMDB entry Official website (English) Official website (Hungarian)
We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.
Stage. Lights. Curtain up. We have been fooled, there’s no prairie here, only some worn out musicians. Lies! Deception! Oh, my lord, Christ is pure and we have deceived by the fuckin’ democrats. But wait, what is going on? It’s the prairie all right, it’s the goddamn wilderness, cowboys and lasses, Christians and nothing else, whites and no more. Oh, yea, cowboy, this is the prairie, and these rugged musicians are your guides. It’s all on the radio, no TV can transmit these pictures, for that you need a stretch out that antenna, move it a bit to get it clear, and here the prairie invading your life. Some miracles just keep on running day by day, despite TV, despite Podcasts, despite Soulseek, there were some good things, and for some reason CNN and WB forgot to wipe them out or buy them in.
She shot that bastard in the heart, And ruined his nice suit!
Links: IMDB entry Radio show website Movie official website Update 21/11/06:
On November 21st Robert Altman, the director of A Prairie Home Companion, died at the age of 81. This makes A Prairie Home Companion his bid of farewell. A grander one he couldn’t ask.
Lola Johnson: What if you die some day?
Garrison Keillor: I will die.
Lola Johnson: Don’t you want people to remember you?
Garrison Keillor: I don’t want them to be told to remember me.
Trailer [MOV][YouTube] A film noir movie is a like a drug, an hallucinatory drug. The movie itself grand and exciting and wonderful, but the real treat start when you are out of the cinema, when the trip begins. The sense sharpen up, the worlds slows down. You are both fully alert and calm. You are able, and nothing stands in your way. Your life becomes a film noir, and you become the hero. The rugged fellow with the tough look and the slow voice. The careless anti-hero with his weaknesses and addictions, and the slow world revolving around. This is when a film noir really reveals itself to be what it really is – a fix. And the real experience – the post-fix.
Brick is that kind of a flim noir experience. To me it was like going back to my childhood and watching Parker Lewis (to these of you who remember), a dark version of Parker Lewis, very dark, it’s like I took with me all these years, dragged it and tainted it, darkened it. And it’s all in high school (now this is the point that makes this a true master piece). Links: IMDB entry Official website (including the original script)
Pixel Pirate II: Attack of the Astro Elvis Video Clone is an hour long narrative remix video constructed from samples pirated from over 300 film and music sources. It contains no original audio or video footage. Think of it as a sci-fi / biblical epic / action movie with a subplot of troubled romance. It also stars Elvis Presley, Moses, The Hulk, Monkey, Batman & Robin, Michael Jackson and The Ghostbusters.
The Year is 3001 and the ancient art of remix is being oppressed by the evil tyrant Moses and his Copyright Commandments. Meanwhile, in a secret base-camp on the moon a team of Pixel Pirates plot to overthrow Moses via their latest scientific discovery – video cloning. Their plan: travel back to 1955, abduct Elvis and bring him back to the future. They then clone Elvis and send the Video Clone back to 2015 to assassinate Moses, altering the course of VHS history. But first the Elvis Clone must face-off against the Copyright Cops and every action hero that MGM can throw his way.
Trailer [MOV][YouTube] Under any other production it might have been just the regular vendeta cliche, but with the background of a nordic poem, and with the right woman as the witch, this turns out to be a true delight. Heroes are every where to be found when the plot starts, and are no where to be seen as the inevitable end comes. Oh, and let us not forget the christian point of view, you got to love the christian way. The king crumbles, the heroes fade, all that is left is the myth, built on ashes and bones. But that’s our favorite kind of myth, isn’t it? Salvation bathed in blood, that does not mean a thing. To be saved is just another way of moving on, and at the end, it makes no difference if you were saved or not. Time will move on, and the tale will be told (to the world) again – that’s the only thing that one can really trust. Links: Official movie site IMDB entry
Trailer [YouTube] A while ago a friend called Tim went to see the movie Big Fish. At times you see movies and a feeling of change overcomes you as the movie progresses. This was such a movie for Tim. This feeling often takes over you, but rarely remains there after the movie ends. This one was of these rare moments, and Tim changes his life completely. He became a story teller. He life were paved with stories, all exaggeration of reality, all wonderful and magical. There is a lot of magic in stories, and this magic translates into happiness in the hearer, and Tim realized that and went through life telling stories. There were magical stories, and there just mere anecdotes. There fairy tales with happy endings and tragedies with a catharsis. A good story, despite a happy end or a tragic one, makes you happy. One of Tim’s stories was about a man going through life telling stories, a travelling sales man that ends up turning into a giant fish. One day Time decided to create this story into a movie, and he named the movie Big Fish. Links Official website IMDB entry
Fifty years of communism doesn’t go by unnoticed. Eastern Europe escaped the clutches of communism and the Soviets to the embrace of a Europe who leaped across the ocean with one leg, and kicked in the same direction with the other. The ideology that developed in Western Europe is an attempt to embrace the American world and enjoy it, and at the same time keep one self’s as a creature of higher social values. All these didn’t happen in the east. Five decaded of communism left the nations in ruin on the financial side, but brought to the people there a taste of what it feels not to on the top of the food chain, what does it feel to colonized by foreigners. A cruel lesson, but one can only wonder on the irony, and ask what such a lesson would have done to the western side of the continent. However, fifty years of communism doesn’t go unnoticed, hundreds of years of colonization in India did live their mark, and such is also the case eastern Europe. Corruption and occupation by a foreign power leave their marks on the society, and the values which they bring permeate into the society. From this comes this wonderful and hilarious animated movie, the comparison to South Park is, although common, totally misplaced. South Park never managed, nor tried, to mirror such a mayhem, such a chaotic micro-cosmos, which is so refreshing at the same time. Don’t misunderstand, this is not a serious movie, but it does point the direction. Any connection between the movie and this piece is totally incidental.
A film noir movie is a like a drug, an hallucinatory drug. The movie itself grand and exciting and wonderful, but the real treat start when you are out of the cinema, when the trip begins. The sense sharpen up, the worlds slows down. You are both fully alert and calm. You are able, and nothing stands in your way. Your life becomes a film noir, and you become the hero. The rugged fellow with the tough look and the slow voice. The careless anti-hero with his weaknesses and addictions, and the slow world revolving around. This is when a film noir really reveals itself to be what it really is – a fix. And the real experience – the post-fix.
Under any other production it might have been just the regular vendeta cliche, but with the background of a nordic poem, and with the right 
A while ago a friend called Tim went to see the movie 