The trees don't sway nor do the children play in JONAS DAHLBERG'S film INVISIBLE CITIES.
It's like a giant 3D Sims ghost town.
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 10/25/2008 07:59:00 PM
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Dear Diary,
It's been a while since I've written to you...but tonight I felt compelled.
I was just watching the Daily Show. The guest was Tim Robbins. He was promoting the movie he's in - City of Ember. He casually remarked that it was about "the human spirit". Ugh. This stupid little thing set me off. They showed a clip and I just couldn't believe that he related this obvious and simple film about common people overcoming evil to something so complex as the human spirit. I don't even have to see it to know what is going to happen and the obvious metaphors about the environment and bla bla bla.
I felt so strongly because yesterday I watched SILENT LIGHT, the Mexican film about a Mennonite farmer who questions his faith when he falls in love with a woman who is not his wife. It's so gorgeously filmed, acted, and the ending is handled so incredibly well that I can't imagine the over-blown crap that Tim Robbins is promoting could in any way relate to my human spirit and I find it insulting that he could be so pretentious to boil down the human race like that.
Anyway, watch Silent Light - it's quiet and downtempo but so great.
POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 10/07/2008 12:02:00 AM
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4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days handles the most devastating day in the calmest way. The wedding plate at the end is just too much. Haneke meets Lars von Trier. Oh Romania.
MORE INFO HERE. Rent it.
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POSTED BY GRAYDON AT 7/08/2008 11:38:00 AM
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