Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 18.02.2012 – 20.02.2012

  • Muscle Beach and the Dawn of Huge – Over the years, whispers have circled about Arnold’s possible involvement in the gay-for-pay cash grab at Gold’s, but no evidence has ever emerged. Sprague, when asked, says he had no direct knowledge and wouldn’t comment on rumors. So, too, with Drasin and the others I talked to, who conceded that Gold’s was rife with hustlers, but not them and surely not Arnold. Efforts to reach Schwarzenegger were unsuccessful. I couldn’t ask him, then, about that other vice at Gold’s: the prolific, and very public, use of steroids.
  • Steve Coogan (Vanity Fair) – And now comes word from Coogan that he is at work on something his fans have long hoped for: an Alan Partridge movie. He is writing it with two of his frequent collaborators, Peter Baynham, who co-wrote the Borat movie with Baron Cohen, and Armando Iannucci, the creative force behind the BBC political-satire series The Thick of It and Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s new HBO show, Veep. The plan is for the Partridge picture to be filmed this summer and released in 2013.
  • Style & Identity in Do the Right Thing – The costume palette is loud and the clothes (in the main) are minimal, reflecting and highlighting the sweltering heat and sweat of the long Bedford-Stuyvesant day upon which the film is set. The girls wear tube tops and the guys wear shorts and vests, and there is little cohesion in terms of a colour scheme, echoing the growing mood of disharmony that permeates the film. Reds, pinks, greens, oranges and yellows are par for the course, often on the same garment. However, the colour explosion is largely youthful, with the older characters’ clothes generally more reserved.

David Cronenberg kertaa neljä

Museum of Moving Image esitti taannoin Cronenberg-retrospektiivin. Samaan aikaan nettijulkaisunsa sai uutta sisältöä samasta aiheesta: Physical Instincts – The phantom limbs of Dead Ringers, Migrating Forms – David Cronenberg and the challenge of the impossible adaptation, Laws of Desire – What did David Cronenberg’s Videodrome get right about us? ja They Came From Within – Yonic symbolism in the films of David Cronenberg.

Arvostelu: Härmä tarpoo vailla päämäärää

 Elämä oli hurjaa, lyhyttä ja kurjaa 1800-luvun Pohjanmaalla. Jos soitti suutaan väärässä paikassa, oli rintalastaan pian tuikattu muutama ylimääräinen hengitysaukko. Sellaiseen maailmaan sijoittuu Härmä, joka hassaa kaikki paukkunsa tyhjänpäiväiseen plörinään.  

Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 14.02.2012 – 15.02.2012

  • Jon Hamm’s True Hollywood Story – Because of the man he plays on TV, people make all kinds of crazy assumptions about him. But his "real life" is more unbelievable than you'd ever imagine.
  • David Lynch – Remain in light – Lynch is, in short, a religious or spiritual artist in the same loosely categoric sense that one might apply the term to William Blake or Tarkovsky, and the fact that this goes so often unrecognised by critics may be because the religion in question isn’t Christianity. It’s basically the Indian Vedanta, with an admixture of the somewhat cartooned gnosticism that Harold Bloom once hypothesised underlay every example of “the American religion”.
  • Cut detection experiment – You'll be shown a series of film clips from movies and asked to detect cuts. Just press the spacebar every time you see a cut. It's that simple! Or is it?
  • 22 Bonds for One Minute – YouTube –

Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 12.02.2012 – 14.02.2012