2010
03.04
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Film: What’s eating Gilbert Grape?
Director: Lasse Hallström
Cast: Johnny Depp/ Juliette Lewis/ Leonardo DiCaprio
One of Johnny’s early movies, and also one of the most special films he has played. Variety of styles and appearances is the symbol of Johnny Depp. But in this movie, he shows as a down-to-earth young man. Still, he is charismatic.
What’s eating Gilbert Grape? His special brother, his obese mother and his incomplete home. Before he gets old, after he falls in love with a lively girl, the unbearable situation begins to change. Mother passed away quietly during sleeping. Since her huge body can hardly be moved, Gilbert decided to put fire on the old house for the sake of mother’s dignity. Along with the death of Gilbert’s unmovable mother is his unchangeable life. The fire takes away the house, as well as the miserable history of the family. Gilbert, with his girlfriend and his brother drives away from the town they have lived for years. What is waiting for them? The movie didn’t tell, nor could we predict.
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Tags: Hope, Johnny Depp, miserable life, struggle Category Feature film, Johnny Depp |
2010
03.03
Director: Louie Psihoyos
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Cast: Richard O’Barry/Louie Psihoyos/Simon Hutchins/Kirk Krack/David Rastovich/Scott Baker
A dolphin’s smile is nature’s greatest deception, it creates the illusion they’re always happy.
Nothing is as misleading as the gorgeous scenery along the coast of Japan near Taiji. As an unsuspecting tourist I would not have the vaguest inkling of the brutal slaughter that takes place yearly right under people’s noses.
Produced by the Oceanic Preservation Society, “The Cove” tells the story of O’Barry’s mission to obtain hard evidence of what goes on in Taiji and exposed it to the public. “The Cove” is much more a spy thriller than just a record of that adventure. When the director Louie Psihoyos slipped into the little coastal town of Taiji, Japan, it was under cover of documenting the degradation of ocean reefs. Those men — perhaps cops, perhaps worse — trailed Mr. Psihoyos and his crew unrelentingly, determined to prevent anyone from filming the enormously lucrative dolphin capture and slaughter that support the town’s economy and employ its fishermen.
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Tags: Dolphin, Environmental Preservation, Oscar nomination Category Documentary |
2010
03.02
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Cast: Sharlto Copley/Jason Cope/David James
“It wasn’t like watching a movie; it was like living an experience” one of my friends said after watching District 9.
4 Oscar Awards nominations, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Visual Effects, and Best Editing, make District 9 one of the hottest movies of the year of 2009, comparable with Avatar. The film was produced by none other than Peter Jackson, thus assuring the box office. The director Neill Blomkamp was raised in South Africa until he was 18, and this film is a direct reflection of a similar camp called “District 6″ which was used to segregate blacks until apartheid was finally lifted.
The story, adapted from Alive in Joburg, a 2005 short film directed by Blomkamp and produced by Copley, pivots on the themes of xenophobia, inhumanity and social segregation.
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Tags: Aliens, District 9, inhumanity, Oscar nomination, Peter Jackson Category Sci-fi Film |
2010
02.28
Director: Bob Marshall
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Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis/Marion Cotillard/Penélope Cruz/Judi Dench/Stacy Ferguson/Kate Hudson /Nicole Kidman/ Sophia Loren
“They are the only movies telling the truth about the modern world: the death of religion and sexual revolution” the most memorable line from the glossiest film of the year of 2009-Nine, which is also considered with the best cast of the year.
“Nine,” from the Broadway musical, is a movie about a famous director’s creative blockage and sexual confusion, but not quite in the way it wants to be. Straining to capture artistic frenzy, it descends into vulgar chaos, less a homage to Federico Fellini’s “8 ½” (its putative inspiration) than a travesty.
“I can’t make this movie,” the director sings. It seems that he is busily doing everything but making a movie. Escaping from the news conference, dating with his mistress, and keeping falling into nostalgia. The only hope to save him from such messy situation lies in his wife. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Adaption, Kate Hudson, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Penélope Cruz, redemption, struggle Category Affectional Film, Musical |
