Krrish

And then there was the community dinner where Filippo was supposed to cook, the pop in the church party and then the clubbing, well the aforementioned and I. Ended with me going round in circles trying to wake M up to open the door.
But nothing would have been able to prepare us for KRRISH, one of Heidi's souvenirs from the Philippines. Chicken broth like the mama used to make and off we go. Play

The first superhero bollywood movie ( the character looked a mix between Superman and the Crow, with Tarzan moves)



And then well there was her...

Zodiac

I like thrillers, code breaking movies and the lot.
A pleasureable experience for the first hour, soon transformed into a pointlessly long movie.
If they had sent the CSI crew the case would have been solved far earlier.
And take the name from a watch! At least use the intriguing side of the star, not a crappy quality watch brand..
But I liked the poppycorns..

Perfume : The Story of a Murderer

I adored the book
I appreciated the movie.

The book is without doubt a different experience, probably more deep and profound, on the other hand the movie is an engaging story. A major hurdle in adapting the book was how to handle an introverted lead character that’s also an unsympathetic, obsessive sociopath. Tykwer’s adapts the novel’s offscreen narrator to offer up a running commentary on events as they occur (the narrator also steps in on occasion to inform us about Grenouille’s state of mind). Tykwer also cheats moviegoers of a meaningful, satisfying ending when he decided to lift Grenouille’s fate straight from the novel. Unfortunately, the novel’s ending may have worked (and still works) on paper -- but here it just feels like it belongs in a soft-core porn entry from the 1970s or the early 1980s.

Cube II

See..these are the movies I like.

You I love

Well, I bet only Le duc has seen this movie.
How did I pick it? Pure case, let's be fair, it has to do with the video shop that never has anything I want on loan, so here it is.
You I love, the first openly gay russian movie.
Totally contort, strange, but I liked it, probably because this is how I'd like to live my life, just the other way round.

A lunchtime pick-pocketing incident brings together Timofei, a spindly-limbed Moscow advertising geek, and Vera, slick and sexy anchorwoman for a TV news show. Both suffer from a certain spiritual hollowness in their roles as vanguard of Russia's head-forward lunge into capitalism. Their sex life also seems to have been eroded by the politico-economic reality ( a connection made explicit in a reference to a friend whose "virility depends on the value of the dollar").

Thus in each other the two find a perfect match. Vera even has in Timofei a partner who understands her attempts to fill the void through her addiction to food. Their passionate relationship is just about to reach the one-year mark when Uloomji, a Kalmyk lad who overcame homelessness by finding a job at the zoo feeding reindeer, falls onto Timofei's car.

Rattled by the state of the semi-conscious stranger, Timofei drives the victim back to his (Timofei's) sumptuous flat. Vera is not amused at the newcomer, and even less so when she finds the pair of them sleeping in an embrace. She takes this as an assault on her feminine power, a feeling intensified by her own doubts about her position as public face for her TV station.

Slowly, though, she starts to come to terms with her partner's bisexuality, even taking him to a gay romp and engaging in a steamy threesome with a stranger (overheard by a bemused Uloomji via a mobile phone). More than just revealing hidden sexual tendencies, Uloomji brings to the couple something of the spiritual side that they missed, and even provides the inspiration for a particularly successful poster campaign for Timofei.

But Uloomji's family are less than amused, and a struggle starts for control of the boy's life.

Vera's physical sexuality is highly stylised: one scene has her dressed in lingerie revelling in her body as she pretends, for the sake of shock value, to have just had a sex change, while in another we see a subjective nightmare of her own low self-esteem as we see her presenting the news naked.

A miniature bust of Tchaikovsky (Russia's most famous gay personality) rolling around on the floor while the composer's music blasts out of the stereo.




And they never change the sheets for the whole movie...

Can open source methodology be applied to film production?

Can open source methodology be applied to film production? Yes, says UK filmmaker and author, Matt Hanson, whose own project, 'A Swarm of Angels', is attempting to "crowdsource" the funding, production, and distribution of a $1.9+ Thankfully, projects like A Swarm of Angels go some way to proving that given the right kind of attitude and a trolley load of determination the 'wisdom of the crowd' can produce some cracking results.

The 'angels' in question here are the multitude of micro-investors that founder Matt Hanson hopes to attract to his thoroughly modern movie project. His idea: attract 50,000 punters each willing to part with £25 and then spend that money on creating a new kind of cinema.

But what do you get for your money? Well, quite a bit actually. Each pre-production decision will be put to a vote and during production community members will be paid to work on the film. The end result will then be made available free, online and made available for re-editing.


With 900 angels already signed up, the project is already well on its way, and if it's a choice between spending £25 on a one of those fake 'director's chairs' with your name on the back or a small slice of cinematic history, then we know which one we'd go for.