Calcutta: Wartime klunker with wooden Ladd saved by Bendix 6o4n6e
Viewed at Egyptian Theater, Hollywood, during film noir week. Another Ladd wartime programmer is "Calcutta" with always dependable beefy from William Bendix. In this one both are military pilots flying missions over the Himalayas from Calcutta to Chungking. The "calcutta" location is obviously a studio set and the story quickly segues from a military setting to a noir drama in civilian clothes as Ladd and Bendix seek to track down the killer of their best p...
Bombastic Baloneybtells it like it wasn't 72d3v
By Alex Deleon Just back from seeing VICE with a couple of friends. Viewed at Cinestar multiplex, Berlin. This is not a review but just some immediate reactions. In short, over long, drawn out, discombobulated, baloney. Really boring because the people described in it are all boring from the top down and what they have to say sounds like a college term paper being recited. Extremely uninteresting. Full of gimmicks like pretending to end the picture in the middle and running some final cred...
Green Book was a justly deserved winner 4x6s6s
By Alex Deleon A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour through the 1960s Jim Crow American South. After a string of weak and questionable choices in recent years the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences finally got it right for a change by awarding Green Book the Best Film Oscar of 2019. Whether or not similar stories have been told before (e.g., Driving Miss Daisy) this one takes the cake on every ...
More Berlinale 69 Reviews. You Can't tell book by its cover or a film by its title. 62178
By Alex Deleon Tais-toi et sois belle ~ Shut up and look pretty, viewed on Awards night at Kino Arsenal 1. Not to be confused with a 1958 French feature film of the same name, which, in fact had me confused enough not to check up on what I was about to see and therefore stumble into a siege of boredom. In this talking heads documentary made by French actress Delphine Seyrig, famous actresses talk about their roles in the male dominated movie industry, and the implicit requirem...
A reworking of the Star is Born theme 2d2f8
Chaplin's Limelight I have never liked Chaplin's early silent films because I found his "loveable tramp" character more grotesque than amusing. Guess that makes me part of a vanishing minority. However his major bittersweet 'talkie' of 1952, Limelight" I cannot help but thinking of as one of the great all-time cinema masterpieces and one if the first movies that made me start taking cinema seriously. The movie made an overnight star of young British actress Clai...
Pre-0scar one-up by Alex: Review of Bohemian Rhapsody 4q6l1q
Rami Malek is the insider favorite for Best Actor on Oscar night Finally caught it at a sold out Friday night showing (November 18) in Budapest where I lucked out and got the very last ticket. (At the PUSKIN Cinema). Can't say I enjoyed it but I was entertained by the proceedings. I have never heard any Queen or Freddy Mercury music so I was watching it purely as an informational biopic depicting a pop music era that totally ed me by. At the time fram...
Tbilisi Film Festival, Getaway Day, Four films in Four languages g5f20
The awards ceremony and closing gala was held on Saturday night but Sunday was a festival bonus day with many repeat screenings to help harried film fans catch up on some entries they might have missed because of the vicissitudes of screening schedules. I had a banner final day picking up on four key films from four countries in four different languages; to wit, Polish, Italian, Latvian, and German. The Polish film Cold War (Zimno Wojna) by Pawel Pawlikowski in the Forum of European film...
Peter Greenaway on Stage after screening at 19th Tbilisi Film Festival 85h2u
Peter Greenaway Alex Erekle Leonadze <filmfestivals.telechargerjeux.org> Day four was marked by personal appearances on the stage of the great hall of the Amirani Theater by special festival guest Peter Greenaway and legendary Soviet Georgian director Griorgi Shengelaya. Greenaway's extravagant 1989 study of sadism, gluttony, tyranny, wild sex...
Legendary Soviet Georgian director Giorgi Shengelaia on stage in Tbilisi for his film Alaverdoba (1962) 372ji
By Alex Deleon . Peter Greenaway on stage enlightened and entertained.The Greenaway event was immediately followed in the same hall by a screening of a famous Georgian film of 1962 Alaverdoba, by notable Russian born Georgian director Giorgi Shengala. (გიორგი შენგელაია) now retired at 81 and residing in Tbilisi. He directed 14 outstandung features following this relatively short 40 minute debut film. His best known work was &qu...
Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa was awarded with the Honorary Prometheus in Tbilisi 4j602h
Yesterday in the Cinema Amirani Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa was awarded with the Honorary Prometheus. His films: feature - Donbass and documentaries - The Trial and Victory Day will be screened in the section "Director in Focus". Sergei Loznitsa was born on September 5th, 1964 in Baranavichy, Belorussia. He studied at school in Kyiv. In 1981 he enrolled in Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and graduated in 1987 as a mathematician. After graduating, he worked on experiment systems of...
Ready to Ride, Opening Night,Tbilisi Film Festival 2018 1hz3a
By Alex Deleon The Tbilisi International Film Festival (Tbilisi Saertashoriso Kinopestivali), held in the center of the bustling capital of the Georgian Republic on the outer reaches of Europe at the far end of the Black Sea, is a relatively modest seven day event but by no means a minor or insignificant one as is evident from the impressive guest list alone. Among notable visitors from Western Europe this year are Erika and Ulrich Gregor, for many years co-directors of the ...
Jury of Tbilisi International Competition headed by actor Raimundas Banionis 515o4l
Head of Jury Raimundas Banionis Raimundas Banionis was born on 13 May 1957, in Panevezys, in actors' - Donatas Banionis and Ona Banioniene family. For the first time, he went on stage at the age of three, performing the ...
Full programme of 19th Tbilisi International Film Festival 5x3o6r
Full programme of 19th Tbilisi International Film Festival, here: ...
NYITVA (Open) opening new ground in Hungarian cinema 4nv46
NYITVA (Open) Viewed at the Múvész art house cinema, Budapest, Nov. 21, 2018 with English subtitles. Directed by Orsi Nagypal, starring Csilla Radnay and Lehel Kovács. The subject is how the waning of sex in a long term relationship can undermine a basically good relationship. Fanni and Bálint are a devoted couple in their early thirties who have been living together for five years as an all but married couple. They...
The 2nd Week of Ukrainian Cinema "Ukraine in Focus" to be held in b6k6j
From November 22 to December 1 in Strasbourg (), the Week of Ukrainian Cinema "Ukraine in Focus" will take place. 5 Ukrainian feature films will be shown at one of the oldest European film theaters "Odyssey" The audience will be able to watch such Ukrainian films as "Donbas" by Sergei Loznitsa (November 22), "When the Trees Fall" by Marysia Nikitiuk (November 24), "Falling" by Maryna Stepanska (November 25), "Myth" b...
Napszállta, Son of Sunset...from bad to worse? 5rjx
Napszállta or Sunset, the new film from hot Hungarian director László Nemes (41, director of Son of Saul) is a tedious pretentious shaggy dog story about a fancy women's hat store in Budapest on the eve of World War I. The director was evidently gaga over the new face of actress Juli Jakab and made sure she is in nearly every frame of the film, mostly in full screen facial closeups. Good looking she is but after a while one has had enough of the...
Preview of 15th Yerevan film festival 5b153l
By Alex Delonian <filmfestivals.telechargerjeux.org The Golden Apricot Film festival in Yerevan, the beautiful capitol of Armenia. offers a selection of films this year as offbeat and unusual as the very name of the festival itself. First of all -- Why apricots? It turns out this tasty golden colored fruit is a major agricultural product of the country and as such has become a kind of national symbol. Moreover, apricots are in season at this time of the year and prominently fill...
Three films with JOHNNY HALLYDAY at Max Linder in Paris june 12 2z4z1o
Cherchez l'idole, 1962 J'étais un grand fan de Johnny. Peccato, je ne suis pas à Paris pour voir ces films. Johnny appeared in over forty films, usually as a spotlighted musical performer only, but occasionally in a full proper role, as for example, in Godard's "Détective", 1985. One film from 1962, "Chercher l'idole" has Johnny (then only nineteen) performing a rousing rock version of "Bonne chance&qu...
Milos Foreman dead at 86 j6s3m
photo by Petr Novák Czech filmmaker Milos Forman, whose American movies "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Amadeus" won a deluge of Academy Awards, including best director Oscars, died Saturday. He was 86. Forman died about 2 a.m. Saturday, April 24, at Danbury Hospital, near his home in Warren, Conn., according to a statement released by the former director's agent, Dennis Aspland. Aspland said Forman's wife, Martina, notified him of...
Sullivan travels, review by Alex Deleon 1t92d
John L. Sullivan, a successful but naive director of lightweight motion pictures, decides he wants to make a film about the trials and tribulations of the downtrodden poor. Much to the dismay of his producers, he sets off in ragged tramp's clothing with a single dime in his pocket to experience poverty first-hand and winds up in a chain gang! - but finds a way out... Veronica's golden Waves were alone worth the price of ission.. Light Screwball Comedy with a h...
Alex's best ten of 2017 h5a4v
Andrzej Wajda. Boguslaw Linda 1. Powidoki, (Afterimages) Polish master Andrzej Wajda's final fllm made when he was ninety is another attack on the Communist system his country suffered under during four long decades. A crippled painter who refuses to follow the party approved style of Social Realism is suppressed by the system but wildly adored by his...
The Turkey of the year...goes to The Square 4k534k
There were also some highly overrated films in 2017. The Turkey of the year in my estimation was the Swedish attempt at satire entitled "The Square" Described thusly: "Comedy · A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit". This film has won numerous festival accolades including...
Red Sparrow review Misguided Missile in a Pseudo Cold War. 4h555i
Misguided Missile in a Pseudo Cold War. Red Sparrow (Vörös Veréb) was Viewed on commercial release in Budapest in English with Hungarian Subtitle Jennifer Lawrence wears bangs in Cold War Sex Thumper as ex-Ballet diva boffing away for the NKVD... but the cluttered script and lumbering direction sabotage Jennifer's valiant efforts to keep this shipwreck afloat First let me say that two thin...
Final Oscars update, March 05 3j3f9
Francis McDormand for best actress, Gary Oldman for best actor, and Shape of Water for best film. So glad that Gary Oldman got it. By Alex Deleon "Me too, glad about Oldman. Disgusted with the two others. Shapeless Water was a shoe in with all them dumb nominations, but Mme. McDormand was like a piece of hardwood in a piss poor picture. If you haven't seen Three Ebbings outside of Billboard, Misery I strongly advise you to skip it. I am up at the crack of One ...
The Shapelessness of Water, Oscar but... 2x5623
Sally Hawkins, speechless before Doug Jones' extraordinary amphibian charm by Alex Deleon Forced myself to go out into the icy Budapest cold tonight whenk I found that the hottest Oscar contender "The Shape of Water" was playing at the Művész Art Cinema, only one tram stop away. Immediate reaction. The Shape of Water"is a Self indulgent Shapeless piece of confused unanchored crap tied to the fishiest script of the year. Even outdoes Three Billboa...
