MEAN and MASSIVE

SEB: Sofia Coppola Somewhere reviewI love Sofia Coppola’s view on the world. Her images are very close to magic realism, and watching her movies feels like entering the head of a little girl who still believes that the princess rides her pink pony toward the sunset. And not in any dumb way. And in Somewhere [...]

SEB: The Coen Brothers True Grit movie review, True Grit 2010 Although I haven’t watched the original True Grit movie (1969, John Wayne) – it feels like I have. The Coen Brothers gave a new feel to the western parody, and most of it is related to Mattie Ross – the 14-year-old played by Hailee [...]

SEB: Blue Valentine, Michelle Williams, Ryan Gosling Blue Valentine is a good movie that brings you inside the lives of a married couple (Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling) a second before they break up. There’s no good or bad, everyone’s full of good intentions and hard circumstences. The story is going backwards and then jumps [...]

SEB: 127 hr film review, Danny Boyle, James FrancoI didn’t read anything about 127 Hours before watching it, which truly paid off. The new (and praised) Danny Boyle‘s film is an adaptation of the true story of Aron Ralston, who got stuck in a narrow canyon in the Utah desert. Played by talented James Franco [...]

George Clooney is a fairly versatile actor. He does studio blockbusters (Ocean’s 11-13, Up In The Sky) as well as indie films (Men Who Stare At Goats), and he does them all with style. It’s fantastic to watch an actor that really let himself be different every time the script allows him. But, I’m afraid [...]

Yes! Finally a trailer so good. It gives Mood Mood Mood and wrap it all in juice suspension that all I can do is count the days until I’m Still Here will arrive in the cinema near me. It won’t of course, so it will find its way to my dl list. But hey, this [...]

We’ve seen this couple (Jake Gyllenhall, Anne Hathaway) in better movies (Brockback Mountain, that was maybe not such a good movie, but had for sure more depth than Love and Other Drugs). here they play the same old boy-doesn’t-want-to-fall-in-love-until-girl-plays-it-hard-to-get game. Not too interesting, jokes are not funny, sometimes even insulting, females must takes their specious [...]

There is a kind of excitement that goes through the body when the lights go down and you know you’re going to spend 100 minutes more or less with Angelina Jolie. You don’t expect much from the plot or the cinematic experience, and that’s good, but you know you’ll follow that story and feel satisfied, [...]

So I guess Christopher Nolan has lots of real creativity and talent in him. I guess he’ll get many awards for his movie Inception, but I know that the biggest award is ours, the chance to watch such a film. I got quite bored with some of the recent films I was watching, and only [...]

I love animation, and in the last years it seems like animation movies feel more comfortable being what they are. They get the story better, and not only the technique. They actually use the right technique for their stories, and not forcing the wrong story on the newest technique out there just for the fun. [...]

For me, that big green ogre was always something of an enigma. It was such a big and hairy anti-hero, for times I thought I only run to the theater to get closer to his best friend, donkey. Whatever my reasons were, I ran to the cinema near me (and it’s not so near anymore, [...]

I had a bad luck with cinema lately, or maybe it simply gets too dark for me out there. Regardless of the reason, I stayed home. I have it all on my computer, so who needs the cinema, right? I went to check out Vimeo’s short films channel. O2 is about a media addict guy [...]

I seriously start to believe that the Oscar nominations for Best Foreign are part of a conspiracy. Hollywood wants to prove the world that they make the best movies, so they use the Oscar to demonstrate their point. If this film won, probably the others are worse, which means they suck. Otherwise I can’t explain [...]

I don’t know, I think I should really choose the films I go to more carefully. Precious is a movie that’s better to watch on TV, when you’re home and feel safe. The cruelty there just depressed me and the minute the lights went on I wanted to forget what i so. Luckily it wasn’t [...]

Shutter Island from CINEMA on Vimeo. I was not surprised to see that in the posters advertising Shutter Island Leonardo DiCaprio’s name got the most attention. It is hard to believe that so many people would come to see such a dark movie, so sad and disturbing if it wasn’t not for DiCaprio. This movie [...]

I must admit I never saw any film by Michael Haneke before. I always wanted to, but somehow it was easier to watch again Ocean’s 12, for example. You know what i mean. And I love German films, but somehow everybody made me think Haneke makes not the easiest most fun-to-watch films. Hmm. And on [...]

So today I saw Avatar. For days now I’ve been getting the Variety Newsletters saying how the sales are fantastic, how critics and audience are pleased. It won the Golden Globes. David Denby of The New Yorker said it’s the most beautiful film he’s seen in years. It was about time I’d seen it. Maybe [...]

Somehow I get the feeling that this trailer is much better than what it’s supposed to represent. The visualization seems better than normally in such movies, though I’m not sure what ‘such movies’ really means. Apocalyptic? Lone Hero? It reminded me actually of the X-Man series in its serious parts. Tes, this good visualization was [...]

I must start at the end here: I loved the ending of this film. It is one thing that makes the Coen brothers so special for me, that makes me really hope they will make more and more (independent) films. They use the medium, the know what we feel and what we expect. This ending [...]

I usually enjoy German movies. I used to dislike them, thinking they were trying to hard to become Hollywood, and forgot to show us where they come from. I don’t know if there has been a major change in German cinema in the last years, but I enjoy them more and more. Lila, Lila is [...]