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La Vie en Rose (La Mome)
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Le Notti di Cabiria (Nights of Cabiria)
by ByronStrada and Cabiria deal with similar themes of innocence vs. cynicism. Guilietta (Fellini's wife in real life) plays the innocent in Strada who is finally beaten down by witnessing a tragedy committed by Zampano, the strongman. Here Guilietta plays Cabiria/Maria, the street walker, more familiar with life and cynical of other people, but still at times showing an innocence hidden beneath the surface. I liked Guilietta a bit more in this role playing a woman who has a lot of fight in her, sometimes dancing and being loud and not caring what others think, and sometimes worrying a whole bunch about others taunting her. There are still some touching moments, but I thought this movie was a lot funnier. Cabiria struggles when thinking about her future, she sees a famous actor who lives in a huge ornate mansion, she sees homeless people who live in caves, and becomes convinced she has to seek redemption from the church for her life as a prostitute in order to live happily and find love. I heard in a documentary that Fellini believed in the Franciscan idea that everyone can be redeemed. But in both of these Fellini movies I've seen so far, he also clearly shows the mob mentality that goes along with the processions and ceremonies. After repenting and asking to be saved, Cabiria realizes she and all her prostitute and pimp friends haven't changed, a realistic cynicism comes through. Still when beautiful words and the promise of happiness that she craves are offered, she reverts to her innocent self, Maria. Toward the end she repeats a mistake she made at the beginning. But is it a mistake to trust someone when they insist they love you? Can you accept that love and keep your eyes open for the signs that something is wrong? In the midst of the tragedy of losing trust in someone you've given your life to, you may feel that you want it all to end. Eventually Cabiria chooses life and though she has lost a lot, she is reminded of the joy of youth and that there is hope for tomorrow.
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Die Geduld der Rosa Luxemburg
by SancarRosa Luxemburg (1871-1919)
German revolutionary leader, journalist, and socialist theorist, who was killed in Berlin in 1919 during the German revolution. Rosa Luxemburg saw herself as a citizen of the proletariat. She lived the international life of a Socialist 'pilgrim', believing that only socialism could bring true freedom and social justice. Luxemburg was the advocate of mass action, spontaneity, and workers democracy, but her criticism of the "revisionists" and their ideological leader Edward Bernstein is considered her most important legacy to European political thought.
"Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat." (from 'The Junius Pamphlet', 1916)
Rosa Luxemburg was born in Zamosc, in Russian Poland, into a Jewish middle-class family. At the age of five she became seriously ill. After recovering she walked with a limp; sciatic pain caused her much trouble for her whole life. Luxemburg was educated at the Warsaw Gimnazium. From the age of 16 she participated in revolutionary activities. during these years her favorite writer was the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, whose patriotism and life in political exile influenced her deeply. In 1889 Luxemburg moved to Switzerland to continue her studies. But she was also partly forced to flee from her home country because of her political activities.
Luxemburg entered the University of Zürich, where she studied natural sciences and political economy. In 1892 she changed to the faculty of law. Two years later she researched at the major Polish library in Paris. She started her career as a journalist and became one of the leaders of the Social Democratic Party of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania. In 1898 Luxemburg completed her doctorate. The dissertation was entitled The Industrial Development of Poland. Between the years 1892 and 1919 Luxemburg produced almost 700 articles, pamphlets, speeches, and books.
In 1899 appeared Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution, her defense of Marxism. It opposed Edward Bernstein's reformist position and criticized Bernstein's revisionist theories in Evolutionary Socialism (1898). Bernstein had published also in Neue Zeit a series of articles, in which he had attempted to disprove some of the basic doctrines of Marxism. He rejected Marx's theories of class struggle and concluded that revolution was unnecessary. Luxemburg believed that her work would make the "old guard" of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) to view her as a serious political thinker and leader. "Since the final goal of socialism constitutes the only decisive factor distinguishing the social democratic movement from bourgeois democracy and from bourgeois radicalism, the only factor transforming the entire labor movement from a vain effort to repair the capitalist order into a class struggle against this order, for the suppression of this order - the question: "Reform or revolution?" as it is posed by Bernstein, equals for the social democracy the question: "The be or not to be?" In the controversy with Bernstein and his followers, everybody in the party ought to understand clearly it is not a question of this or that method of struggle, or the use of this or that set of tactics, but the of the very existence of the social democratic movement." (from Reform or Revolution)
To obtain German citizen, Luxemburg married Gustav Lübeck, the youngest son of her friend. Luxemburg became in 1898 a leader of the left wing of the SPD and participated in the second International and in the 1905 revolution in Russian Poland. After insulting the Kaiser, she spend in 1904 a short period in prison in Zwickau. In the same year Luxemburg also drafted SDKPL (Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania) party programe What Do We Want?
During the 1905 Russian Revolution she developed the idea that socialism is a revolutionary process which transforms political and economic relations towards ever greater democratic control by the workers themselves. In 1906 she was arrested in Warsaw but released finally on health grounds. She returned to Germany where she taught at SPD party school in Berlin until 1914 and developed ideas about general strike as a political weapon. In 1912 appeared her major theoretical work, The Accumulation of Capital, in which she tried to prove that capitalism was doomed and would inevitably collapse on economic grounds. After differences with moderate German socialists, she founded with Karl Liebknecht the radical Spartacus League in 1916. She also drafted the Spartacists programme Leitsätze. Two years later the organization became the German Communist Party.
During World War I Luxemburg spent long times in prison, writing her Spartakusbriefe and Die Russisce Revolution, where she welcomed the October Revolution as a precursor of world revolution. In 'The Junius Pamphlet' (1916), written under the pseudonym of Junius, she argued that the choice of Socialism or Barbarism is a world-historical turning point which demands resolute action by the proletariat.
However, Luxemburg participated reluctantly in the Spartacist uprising in Berlin against the government. The uprising, which failed, was a defining moment among others for Adolf Hitler. Luxemburg and Liebknecht were arrested in 1919. While being transported to prison, she and Liebknecht were murdered on the night of 15/16 on January 1919 by German Freikorps soldiers. Luxemburg's body was thrown into the Landwehr canal and found on May. She was buried on June 13 in Friedrichsfeld cemetery, where the graves of Liebknecht and the other killed revolutionaries situated. Her burial became a mass demonstration, witnessed by a number of correspondents, including the American screenwriter Ben Hecht.
Luxemburg's lover Leo Jogiches was murdered in 1919. However, their affair had already ended in 1906 - Leo had gone too far in his infidelity. Just before his death, he had decided with Clara Zetkin and Mathild Jacob to publish Luxemburg's collected works. The project proceeded slowly because at that time Lenin's critical opinions of Luxemburg's thought were not easy to ignore. Lenin saw that she underestimated nationalist ideology, underrated the role of the Communist party, and emphasized to much the power of the mass action. Luxemburg was critical about Lenin's acceptance of the idea of national self-determination. In 'Organisationsfragen der russischen Sozialdemokraten' (1904) she criticized his theory of revolutionary vanguard centralism. Luxemburg argued that there could be no real socialism without democracy. Later Stalinist study was not very happy about her - her unorthodoxy was nearly as dangerous as Trotsky's. Luxemburg's collected works did not appear until 1970-75 in DDR.
"The list of people with whom Simone Weil was politically associated reads like an almanac of the French Left. Thévenon, Guérin, Battaille, Serret. Simone saw in Rosa Luxemburg (d. 1919) a kindred soul. 'Her life, her work, her letters affirm life and not death,' wrote Simone. 'Rosa aspired to action, not to sacrifice. In this sense, there is nothing Christian in her temperament.'" (from The Left Hand of God by Adolf Holl, 1997)
Thoroughful reevaluation of Luxemburg's work started in Germany in the 1970s. Her theories were considered as an alternative to Communism or Social Democracy. When Marxist study lost its attraction in the 1980s, Luxemburg arose still interest among feminist theorist. Luxemburg herself did not participate into women's rights movement; women's liberation was for her part of the liberation from the oppression of capitalism. However, she saw that socialist emancipation is incomplete without women's emancipation. Raya Dunayevskaya argues in her study Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution (1981) that Luxemburg's years after the break-up with her lover Leo Jogiches were not "lost years," as J.P. Nettl presents in his large biography (1966). Dunayevskaya documents Luxemburg's myriad activities and theoretical work including Mass Strike. In the 1980s Margareta von Trotta's film Rosa Luxemburg (1986), starring Barbara Sukowa, gained commercial success. The film was partly based on Annelies Laschitza's studies. However, feminist critic objected Trotta's conventional (melo)dramatic narration.
For further reading: Rosa Luxemburg by Paul Frölich (1904); 'Some questions regarding the history of Bolshevism' by J. Stalin, in Stalin, Leninism (1933); Rosa Luxemburg. Gedanke und Tat by Paul Frölich (1939); Rosa Luxemburg by J.P. Nettl (1966, 2 vols.); 'Notes of a publicist' by V.I. Lenin, in Collected Works, vol. 33 (1966); 'The Marxism of Rosa Luxemburg' by G. Lukács, in History and Class Consciousness (1968); 'Hands off Rosa Luxemburg' by L. Trotsky, in Rosa Luxemburg Speaks (1970); The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg by N. Geras (1976); Rosa Luxemburg, Woman Liberations and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution by Raya Dunayewskaja (1981); Rosa Luxemburg. Ein Leben für die Freiheit by Fredrich Hetman (1987); Rosa Luxemburg. A Life by Elzbieta Ettinger (1988); Rosa Luxemburg. A Life for the Internationale by Richard Abraham (1989); Rosa Luxemburg - Die Rote Demokratie by Peter Bierl (1991); Une Femme rebelle by Max Gallo (1992); Philosophia: The Thought of Rosa Luxemburg, Simone Weil, and Hannah Arendt by Andrea Nye (1994); Eine Leiche im Landwehrkanal. Die Ermordung der Rosa Luxemburg by Klaus Gietinger (1995); Im Lebensrausche trotz alledem by Annelies Laschitza (1996); Rosa Luxemburg and the Noble Dream by Donald E. Shepardson (1996); Sozialismus oder Barbarei by Virve Manninen (1996); Rosa Luxemburg: A Revolutionary for Our Times by Stephen Eric Bronner (1997); Rosa Luxemburg und Leo Jogiches by Maria Seideman (1998); Die Welt is so schön bei allem Graus by Annelies Laschitza (1998); Rosa und Karl by Manfred Scharrer (2002) - See also: Luxemburg and Mass Action ; Rosa Luxemburg and German Social Democracy by Ernest Mandel ; Rosa Luxemburg, Polish Marxist RevolutionaryOne of the leading women in the world. My favorit one is Mother Teresa, nun, 1910 – 1997, another leading woman in the universe.
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Dark Days
by Stellaa powerful documentary about a group of homeless people living in an abandoned stretch of amtrak tunnel under nyc, some of them for years. first time filmmaker marc singer lived underground for several months, then decided to make a film to raise money to help his friends. using loaned equipment and the homeless as his crew, he recorded their strange life in this moving film. during this time amtrak sought to forcibly evict them from the tunnel. a fascinating story and amazing work by a group of non professionals, with a fitting soundtrack by dj shadow
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Linha de Passe
by SancarSão Paolo, Brazil, the present. Four half-brothers live in the impoverished outskirts of the city with their middle-aged mother, Cleuza, who is once more pregnant by an unknown father. Dario, who is turning 18, is trying out for a professional football team. Dínis, who has already fathered a child himself, is a motorcycle courier. Dinho, a petrol station attendant, is a member of a Pentecostal church. The youngest brother, Reginaldo, skips school to ride the city buses in search of his father, whom he's heard is a bus driver.
Dario is turned down for football teams, as he is getting too old and hogs the ball. Dínis parties, neglects his child, and, in search of easy money, drifts into crime. Dinho, repressed and unhappy, is wrongly accused of theft and beats up his boss. He takes refuge in the church. Reginaldo gets into trouble at school and haunts the bus garage. Cleuza is afraid that because of her pregnancy she will lose her job cleaning a rich woman's flat. She tries to cope with her sons' difficulties as best she can. Finally, Dario, although he cannot provide the bribe demanded by a scout, gets his big break in a professional match. Dínis, after a botched smash and grab, hijacks a car, but lets the driver go without harming him. Dinho takes part in a mass baptism in a local river. As Reginaldo steals a bus and drives it through the city, Cleuza goes into labour at home alone.I am expecting your reviews before me.
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Paris
by SancarI liked. Nice to see Paris again. Several stories in a film. Kids and lovers. I love it. I prefer Paris Je t'aime, but this is also nice. Several aspects in Paris.
Pierre (Romain Duris) is een professionele danser in Parijs. Wanneer hij te horen krijgt dat hij te kampen heeft met een ernstige hartkwaal die hem mogelijk fataal kan worden, is hij genoodzaakt te stoppen met dansen. Het leven van Pierre neemt hierdoor een radicale wending en aan zijn wervelende leven komt abrupt een einde. Plotseling ziet hij zaken heel anders dan voorheen. Hij sluit zichzelf op in zijn appartement en beziet de wereld vanaf zijn balkon, hoog boven de stad. Parijs, de stad die hij zo liefheeft, krijgt een heel ander gezicht, evenals de mensen die hem omringen. Zoals zijn zus, de alleenstaande moeder Elise (Juliette Binoche) bij wie hij steun zoekt. Terwijl Pierre stilstaat bij zijn leven trekken andere levens aan hem voorbij met al hun dagelijkse beslommeringen die zijn eigen relaas in het juiste perspectief plaatsen.
Met Pierre letterlijk als het hart van het verhaal weeft Cedric Klapisch een boeiend web van vrienden, kennissen en bekenden die ergens wel met elkaar te maken hebben zoals dat in een normaal sociaal netwerk gangbaar is. Daarin huist het gevaar dat Klapisch te veel wil vertellen en een overdaad aan karakters de revue laat passeren. Het enige echte houvast bestaat in Pierre en Elise, die de rode draad vormen.
Zoals de titel doet vermoeden speelt de stad Parijs een belangrijke rol. Met een sprekende setting maakt Klapisch smaakvol gebruik van bekende en herkenbare punten als de begrafenis Père Lachaise, Montmartre's Sacre-Coeur en uiteraard de Eiffel Toren. Daarbij laat hij zijn karakters bewegen in nostalgisch en neoromantisch beeld van Parijs, vol kleine ambachtelijke winkeltjes en markten, waarbij modernismen naar de zijlijn verdwijnen. De cameravoering van Christopher Beaucarne speelt daar mooi op in door de contrasten van de wereldstad te belichten zonder dat het een toeristische rondrit door Parijs wordt. Evenals in de portmanteau film Paris je t?aime uit 2006 vormt de stad een karakter dat in dit geval in zijn levendigheid haaks staat op de ingetogenheid die Pierre zich moet aanmeten. De dynamiek van de stad is immers te veel voor zijn hart maar blijkbaar ook voor de mensen die hem omringen. Ze zijn lang niet allemaal gelukkig en rapen de brokstukken van hun leven en slijten de dagen doorgaans alleen en zelfs in eenzaamheid. Naargeestig wordt het niet. Klapisch injecteert drama, romantiek en luchtige, soms bitterzoete humor in de juiste hoeveelheden zonder dat hij vervalt tot melodrama.
In Frankrijk was Paris al een groot succes. Niet vreemd, Cedric Klapisch is immers een regisseur van naam, sluit met zijn films aan in de wereldstedelijke geest van Parijs en met Duris en Binoche op de titelrol heb je al een aardige trekpleister in huis. Voor Duris en Binoche geldt dat zij ook nu weer de nobele status als toppers in hun ambacht waarmaken.If u like Paris, kids, love, kissing, nice ladies. Don't miss it. Specially Juliette Binoche fans.
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Land of the Blind
by SancarAn over mixed vision. I assume that more simple one could be told more. Not bad. I liked it.
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The Fall
by SancarPrésenté par Spike Jonze et David Fincher (y a pire comme soutien !), le nouveau film de Tarsem Singh rejoue la carte de l?extase visuelle au détriment d?une histoire vraiment consistante. Mais à défaut de visions parfois cauchemardesques dans The Cell (et je ne vous parle pas du jeu de Jennifer Lopez mais bien de l?univers dérangé du serial killer), The Fall propose cette fois des images somptueuses et un univers mélodramatique, voire romantique, plutôt qu?étrange et angoissant.
Dans The Fall, Tarsem Singh confronte à nouveau plusieurs univers : l?imaginaire et la réalité bien entendu, mais aussi le monde naïf de l?enfance à celui des adultes, et de façon un peu plus discrète, il oppose également les préoccupations de gens « normaux » à celles de personnes liées à l?industrie du Cinéma. Si certains trouveront la démarche du cinéaste pompeuse, force est de constater que l?idée de faire s?entremêler tout cela était plutôt bonne. Après, tout est question de sensibilité et d?affection. Ceux qui n?aimeront pas le long métrage pointeront du doigt sa naïveté, son histoire banale (dans le fond, l?intrigue pourrait se résumer aux conséquences d?une douloureuse rupture amoureuse), ses images esthétisantes ainsi que ses emprunts cinématographiques peu subtils (des films de Jodorowsky à Taxandria en passant par Le Labyrinthe de Pan).
Les autres, ceux qui adhèreront au récit et à son univers, seront charmés par l?esthétique très artistique du film. Les décors, les costumes, la photographie, la composition des cadres (le spectateur a parfois le sentiment d?assister davantage à une expo de photographie qu?à un long métrage), les transitions soignées,? tout est magnifié pour charmer la rétine des spectateurs. Si le récit n?est dans le fond pas transcendant (quoique), le très beau jeu des deux comédiens principaux nous aide toutefois à rentrer un peu plus dedans. La toute jeune Catinca Untaru est une petite révélation et Lee Pace est quant à lui parfaitement touchant. Leur relation dans le film
transpire l?authenticité.
Avec un casting composé d?illustres inconnus (Lee Pace a tenu de petits rôles dans Infamous et Raisons d?Etat, mais à part cela?), ses univers entrecroisés et sa magnificence visuelle, The Fall est un film osé qui risque de diviser. Non pas qu?il porte à polémique, pas du tout, mais trop d?esthétisme tue l?esthétisme, amenant paradoxalement certains spectateurs à une forme de dégoût. Par contre, si on apprécie le travail sur la forme, on passe un beau moment qui, mine de rien, fait rêver et s?avère déracinant.Fascinating. Don't miss it.
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The Tomb of Ligeia (Tomb of the Cat)
by Stellaa really creepy poe adaptation with vincent price as a man whose dead wife won't give him any peace. good performance by elizabeth shepherd as the unlucky woman who marries him. great gothic atmosphere. one of the better corman films i've seen though less known than the pit and the pendulum and house of usher
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A Woman in Berlin (Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin)
by SancarCrafted with a dedicated eye for detail by director Max Färberböck, A Woman in Berlin is adapted from a German woman's best-selling diaries, published anonymously in 1954. This film sees Färberböck return to the nightmarish vision of wartorn Berlin that provided the backdrop for forbidden love in his cinematic Aimée & Jaguar.
It is April 1945, and the Red Army is invading Berlin. A photographer and journalist (eloquently played by award-winning actor Nina Hoss) becomes the victim of a traumatic sexual assault at the hands of her purported liberators. She grows desperate to find someone who can protect and comfort her, and meets a Soviet officer named Andrej, with whom she soon develops a powerful relationship. However, their passion is forbidden. As enemies, how can they be lovers?
A Woman in Berlin is a stirring and visually striking experience providing insight into events that we can know only through textbooks. It is also a captivating love story about a ?deal with the devil? that is brilliantly portrayed by the leading actors, who ensure that the emotions at play are never reduced to simplistic terms.
Depicting the end of the Second World War ? and all the compromises it required ? with a decidedly lucid approach, the film offers a rare perspective on the women of Berlin who were left with nothing. Highly reminiscent of the rubble film cycle, which dealt with the impact of the war on European cities, the film is characterized by its evocative use of bombed urban spaces to convey the realities of the survivors' ravaged lives.
A Woman in Berlin blurs the lines between friend, lover and enemy. With echoes that resonate in more recent conflicts from Bosnia to Rwanda, this vital film shows the treacherous dilemmas that women must navigate in times of war.If u catch the film before me, I expect yr. comment.
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