In an obscure, out of the way cinema, in an obscure, out of the way town, I stumbled across a comic gem the other day: a part-Polish production of a parody of David Lynch, complete with people dressed as animals moving slowly, people passing through borders into — into what? other worlds? the past? fiction? […]
I’m sorry. It’s the best I could do and God knows I have been trying. This is the closest I can come to “Sticks nix hicks pix,” the famousest headline ever. Boris Szyc (it’s pronounced “shits”) is an actor. He was in a film, playing a priest, against his co-star’s prostitute. The reviewer didn’t like […]
Capote is not exactly the preposterous but coherent blockbuster full of wisecracks that I was looking for after the arthouse film festival but it was still a welcome change. Long pauses there were, but motivated. And yes, Capote does tell stories about his childhood but it’s because he’s speaking to someone else about childhood. The […]
After a two-week season of foreign, art house films I’m looking forward to watching a few dumb American blockbusters. There were some good films at the festival but arty films have their cliches too. The long, long… long… silences… The monologic dialogues… The violence. The love of the grotesque. The silent mental collapse of strait-laced […]
Syriana seems to be sowing confusion right and left. A correspondent to the Irish Times compares the verdicts of Charles Krauthammer and Michael Dwyer (IT’s film critic). For Krauthammer the plot was “near-incomprehensible“. O’Dwyer wrote: “Demanding the attention of its audience, Syriana proves thoroughly satisfying and accessible. . .” The review by the eminent film […]
Syriana was reviewed by both Gazeta Wyborcza and Rzeczpospolita on March 3rd. But did the reviewers see the same version? Poor Jacek Szczerba in GW seems to be under the impression that it is a documentary: he praises the US for allowing this pack of anti-US lies to be produced and distributed, even though it […]
