ana maria's Talk

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Nein, Danke!

Fantastic moving. Very moving. Superlative cast (although Mick Jagger looked beyond bizarre. Must have been an amazing experience on stage with Ian McKellen in the lead role. By Sam.

Moebius

UM 86

The Möbius strip is a two-dimensional compact manifold (i.e. a surface) with boundary. It is a standard example of a surface which is not orientable.

Yi Yi

the film is excellent. E.Yang has been establishing a spiritual contact with the meaning of life for 3 hours. Beginning is too noisy. Then you get calmness and tranquility when u are searching your past. There is nothing to regret.

Heading South

Summer confessions on the hard pillow. 2005 by Laurent Cantet , one of the leading new generation French film directors after New Wave.

Douches froides (Cold Showers)

2 important French works about happiness. Will u see in it ?

La Fille de Monaco (The Girl from Monaco)

For people who are interested in smiling. Maybe u can chuckle, giggle, smirk, guffaw. Who knows ?

Issiz adam

The film is nice. Cagan Irmak is making nice films. U need the napkin, handkerchief, tissue in large quantity. Very large. I consider this is too cheep way to make a film.

Coco avant Chanel (Coco Before Chanel)

The film is telling nothing. However u can extract an idea that Life has no meaning without love. I accept that.

Boarding Gate

Director Olivier Assayas, who established himself with Irma Vep (1995), a tribute to a cinematic ur-text (Louis Feuillade?s Les Vampyres, 1916), specialises in films about a globalised world with an increasingly fragmented sense of humanity filtered through a hazy, kaleidoscopic visual sensibility that captures an era numbed by technological glaze and the comedown blues after a night of cocktails, Ecstasy, and kinky sex. Boarding Gate forms a loose trilogy withDemonlover (2002) and Clean (2004) as a globe-trotting study of terminal emotional exhaustion, the illimitable capacity for depravity, and the simplicity of decency.

L'Heure d'été (Summer Hours)

It?s a beautifully framed film ? look out for the long tracking shot at the party ? wonderfully acted, and daring in its subject matter; one usually avoided, or played for melodrama or laughs.

Whatever Works

A new excellent Manhattan comedy from W.Allen. Actually , I liked some of his works from London and Barcelona. Later I realised that I missed his intellectual Manhattan monologs. I can be getting bored soon. Better enjoy now. Forget tomorrow. Important tip; W.Allen is much better when he is just behind the camera.

Dry Summer (Susuz yaz)

Metin ERKSAN is the most controversial film director in Turkey. He was making films when others try to make out what a camera is. DRY SUMMER (Susuz Yaz), 1964 is in top ten Turkish Cinema. Dry Summer, a village story whose source is the struggle over land and water, is one of the most stunning examples of the clash between good and evil in the Turkish Cinema. Repeating the success he achieved with The Revenge of the Snakes, a Fakir Baykurt adaptation shot in 1962, in Dry Summer, Metin Erksan shows the confrontation between two brothers, Osman and Hasan. Osman surrounds the water that springs from their lands with barriers to prevent the village from using it. Being a good man, Hasan argues that the others should also use the water. Confessing a murder actually committed by his brother, Hasan is convicted and sent to jail. After his release he learns that Osman used deception to take away his wife and marry her. Hasan loses control. In the ensuing fight, he drowns Osman in the water and then clears away the barriers.

One of the best examples of the social realism that first appeared in Turkish Cinema in the early 60's, Dry Summer, due to its success in portraying the sexuality of rural areas and its ingenuity in handling erotic elements, earns a special place in our film history. One should also emphasize that the film marked the rise of Hülya Koçyigit's career.

Metin Erksan worked as a cinema critic in various newspapers and magazines. He graduated from the Department of History of Art in Istanbul University. In 1952, he directed his first film, The Life of Poet Veysel written by Bedri Rahmi Eyuboglu. He directed social realistic films such as Beyond the Nights, The Revenge of the Snakes 1962, Bitter Life and created his own style in his later films such as Dry Summer, Time to Love, 1965 and The Well, 1968. He won the Golden Bear with Dry Summer in Berlin Film Festival in 1964 and became a pioneer in the recognition of Turkish cinema abroad.

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

2002
Ohhhhhhhhh Nooooooooooooooooooooooo. Director of this film CANNOT be Lone Scherfig who makes Italiensk for begyndere-2000. I cannot believe that. How quick falldown. What a desire to kill her-self. Terrible. Double suicide.

Synecdoche, New York

Annoying, disturbing, abandoning, burning, menstruating, depressing, dimming, theatral trash. Director is wasting his money and my time. He has being sick, tired, lonely and dying for 124 min. Do something else to enjoy life if art does not fit u. There is no point for torturing.

Italiensk for Begyndere (Italian for Beginners)

Dogme 12.

One of the best Danish films I have ever seen.

The Holy Mountain

The world where we live.

Professione: reporter (The Passenger)

2nd one from Italy. Marie Schneider-Jack Nicholson-Michelangelo Antonioni-1975.

Its final, famed seven-minute shot remains a delight to behold.

Ultimo Tango a Parigi (Last Tango in Paris)

2 masterpieces from Italy. Maria Schneider-Marlon Brando-Bernardo Bertolucci-1972.

"eventual monstrous obesity seemed a clear sign of his hatred for Hollywood," as Stanley Kauffmann wrote in the best of the Brando obituaries.