"A competent, professional piece of filmmaking from --and perhaps that's just what's wrong with it. A
of
,
brings his solid directorial skills but leaves his passion at the door. It's easy to see
is mad about
's
--this is nothing less than a labor of love--but there isn't a lot going on in his telling of
's story and while it's never less than watchable, there's a pervasive feeling of bloodlessness at work.
and his screenwriter
either are not concerned with or casually ignore some of the more interesting aspects of
's life (his
, his
), preferring to present them mostly as non-issues and, as a result, there's a lot of downtime over the course of one hundred and sixty-one minutes."
"Why is it that whenever directors want to convey sadness (or despair, or impending doom, or whatever) they bring on the rain. It worked OK in Blade Runner because the story took place in a future greenhouse world. But there was just too much of it in " ". And I see that the just-released "Road to Perdition" is going to be drowning as well. Is it that Hollywood is located in a desert?"
"This is a well put together film about a creative but flawed . The plot doesn't glamorise him too much, although it maybe sympathises a little with his
and doesn't show it quite as harshly as it could have done. "
As usual... Eerst dit, later meer (indien nodig) Suc6!
quote:ik dacht ook, ik roep maar wat, dan weet hij dat iemand er mee bezig is
Op maandag 23 juni 2003 12:36 schreef MasterWouter het volgende:
geen idee nog, meer?
"If you like you can't dislike this movie. If you like Noir you will dig the overall look of it. My only problem is that
concentrates more on presenting the tragic side of
's life and so we get a very dark and somber film."
"Those viewers who claim the film is flawed are missing the point. Screenwriter (who also directed the film "
") attempted (quite successfully I believe) to combine the elements of
with the visual medium of film.
,
, the
aspects of
, all of these elements go into creating a movie unlike any produced. It is not to be viewed in the traditional sense of linear story-telling. The mood created by
's cinematography is completed suited to the atmosphere of the 1940's and 1950's."
Hmmmmm....
quote:"...person when he isn't performing..."
Op maandag 23 juni 2003 12:54 schreef GFP het volgende:
Even denken, hoeveel films ken ik waarin drugs een rol speelt...
Ik zou echt nog geen idee hebben waar dit over gaat
quote:"....the atmosphere of the 1940's and 1950's..."
Op maandag 23 juni 2003 12:57 schreef dolle_hond het volgende:
the doors
quote:jij hebt altijd valstrikken
Op maandag 23 juni 2003 12:58 schreef Khalein het volgende:[..]
"....the atmosphere of the 1940's and 1950's..."
quote:Dat is waar
Op maandag 23 juni 2003 13:00 schreef dolle_hond het volgende:
jij hebt altijd valstrikken
"The film follows his rise from clubs to records and follows him across tours, drug abuse, personal loss and his eventual death. At the time of his death at 34 he was so eaten up by drugs that the coroner assessed his age at 65."
"Like Louis Armstrong before him his voice extended the very foundation of jazz. His extensions of chord structure, phrasing, adapting "classical" elements lifted the entire body of music beyond "bebop," and into a wider (world wide) musical arena. In another time and in another place he might have been Mozart (on a lesser scale, some might say; but his influence on future musicians was and is vast and continuing.)"
quote:Indeed!
Op maandag 23 juni 2003 13:10 schreef GFP het volgende:
Bird?
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0094747
GFP +1
quote:Sheri
Op maandag 23 juni 2003 13:13 schreef Sheridana het volgende:
Goeiemiddag...Ons systeem ligt eruit, dus ik kan even Fok!ken...
G'middag...
quote:Khalein
Op maandag 23 juni 2003 13:14 schreef Khalein het volgende:[..]
Sheri
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G'middag...
quote:Daar heb ik geen systeemuitval voor nodig
Op maandag 23 juni 2003 13:13 schreef Sheridana het volgende:
Goeiemiddag...Ons systeem ligt eruit, dus ik kan even Fok!ken...
quote:
Op maandag 23 juni 2003 13:16 schreef Duckman het volgende:[..]
Daar heb ik geen systeemuitval voor nodig
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Ik heb net een nieuwe baan, dus ik moet even de schijn ophouden zeg maar....
quote:
Op maandag 23 juni 2003 13:21 schreef Sheridana het volgende:[..]
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Ik heb net een nieuwe baan, dus ik moet even de schijn ophouden zeg maar....
Verstandige meid!
1. The adventures of an ordinary man at war with the everyday world.
2. For three million years, the human race has been at the top of the evolutionary ladder. Nothing lasts forever.
3. The trial that brought down Alcatraz.
4. He's an angel... Not a saint.
5. A story about love at second sight.
Ik ga even een sigaretje roken buiten, denk even na, ben over een kwartiertje terug!
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