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Plot: In a surrealistic setting, a small town in America deals with issues of the American psyche.
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MCT:June 27, 2008
Some of the best animated films ever made, Svankmajer combines claymation, stop motion, puppetry both classical and with found objects like shadows, sand, foods, meats, and live actors. It's almost impossible to describe these little features some bieng fairly straight forward while others are as abstract as cinema can get. Pervasive themes are food and consumption, oppression, the mechanistic puppetlike apsects of life, and those mysterious experiences which transorm mundane objects into something more. Theres a few Edgar Allen Poe adaptations here too, of "The Pit And The Pendullum",all shot from the first person pov, and "The Fall Of The House Of Usher", told with sand and footage of abondoned casteles. There's definitely an aesthetic here an entire generation of music video directors lifted wholesale, but few push themselves into as many directions as Svankmajer. Working under the Soviet Czech government, it was difficult to find grounds to censor more abstract material, Svankmajer along with Milos Freeman ("One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest" "Man On The Moon") and Vera Chytilova("Daisies"), was a key part of the Czech New Wave, known for it's wild anarchic and visually surreal films(which more often then not got banned anyway).
Still I think it helps to know this kind of work evolved out of a necissity as well as a desire to be creative and original.
These short films pack more punch than any of Svankmajer's full length films, which remarkable as they often are can get tedious. Ive never met a person who wasn't impressed and at least momentarily hypnotized by the images in these films. An amazing marriage of animation and storytelling. -
MCT:June 14, 2008While the acting was good, I found the story -- though unique -- a bit too off-the-wall for me. Some of the more ridiculous scenes had me really cracking up, though.
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MCT:June 8, 2008This was a very confusing movie. I didn't understand a lot of things in this movie. I still liked it though. There were times in this movie where I was like awww, because of the romance. I was also like WWWHHYYYY?!?! because of the drama and tragedies. I was also like Hahahaha, that's funny, because of the humor, which there was a lot of in this. Most of the time, I had my face like this: 0_o because this movie had hardly any sense. First of all, what 23 year old would want to love a 45 year old, that was a phsycopath?? Second of all, why would a 25 year old want to marry like an 80 year old man?? And third of all, who would be so obsessed with turtles, that they actually THOUGHT they were going to become a turtle when they die??? Those questions went through my minds during the movie. The cast sure did a great job of everyone acting like CRRRRAAAAZZZZYYY people!!!
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MCT:June 3, 2008Screw you, all you naysayers who didn't want to watch this with me! It was good. It slowly slipped from reality into insanity, but who cares? Craziness is cool in my books. Johnny Depp (who was way better looking in these early days than he is now - why do people think he's still smokin'?), Faye Dunaway and Lili Taylor ROCKED. Everyone else...pretty boring. Thanks Ev for the recommendation.
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MCT:May 20, 2008
This movie was beautiful and poetic. I loved the symbolism even though some of it eluded me, but it just makes me want to watch it again. I really enjoyed the entire feel of the movie, how it really seemed like a dream... slightly disjointed at first, but then everything flows together. Great performances by the cast. Has Johnny Depp ever done a bad job? I especially love the interaction between Grace (Lili Taylor) and Elaine (Faye Dunaway). This is my first time seeing an Emir Kusturica film, and I would like to see some of his others. My only big gripe is that it's been really hard finding a dvd version of Arizona Dream for region 1 players. So I've order the European copy (more footage) of the vhs tape (yes vhs) off of amazon.co.uk... I liked the movie enough it'll be worth it.
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danikaBLAHposted 148 days ago -
This film is very very surreal. It took me while to get in to it but once I did, I really enjoyed it. It's not one of my favourite Johnny Depp films, although his acting is great in it. All the other actors do a good job too but I think it takes a few watches before you really get to like it. It could have done with being a bit shorter too.
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