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Zacca:
For this mounth i racommend to all the new movie of Tornatore.."Baaria".
buah:
Ah, "good old" Giuseppe... (actually he's only 54, but making movies for over 20 years)
His "Nuovo cinema Paradiso" and "L'uomo delle stelle" are among my favorites of all times! Thanks, Zacca.
This is something I found interesting about this film, behind the scene:
--- Quote ---In Italy, the Lega Antivivisezione (an anti-animal cruelty group) has condemned the actual on-screen killing of a cow visible in the Italian trailer. The animal was killed with an iron punch driven in the skull without any pain-relief technique, and then seen bleeding to death while some actors collect and drink its blood.
Such a scene could not have been shot in Italy, because of laws against the unethical treatment of animals in media production. That part of the movie was filmed in Tunisia, where there are no such restrictions.
Thereafter the ENPA (National Association of Animal Protection) demanded the immediate withdrawal of all copies distributed in theatres "to avoid the exposition of minors to such disgusting and fearful images", as the film is rated for an unrestricted audience. Again according to the ENPA, although the scene was filmed in Tunisia thus bypassing the Italian law, after application to the Minister of Justice, the prosecution can still take place in Italy.[5] In October 2009, the ENPA started an international boycott campaign against the film and an online petition asking to revoke the designation of the movie as Italian entry to the Oscars.
Responding to these critics, director Giuseppe Tornatore clarified that the location in Tunisia was not intended to bypass Italian regulations, and that the animal was not specifically killed for the film. The scene was filmed in a local slaughterhouse and the killing was one of the many that take place there every day.
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buah:
April '10
It looked as logical choice to me to recommend another movie by Srdjan Dragojevic. If his previous Pretty Village, Pretty Flame wasn't enough to shock the world, and to face Serbs with the truth, his follow-up The Wounds (Rane) surely was.
If I can't encourage you to see it, let me quote some opinions:
--- Quote ---City of God tried to show it as it is in Brazil, but Rane has managed to capture the heart of it all
hardwork-1 (hardwork@xsinet.co.za) from Cape Town, South Africa
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--- Quote ---Scarface meets Pulp Fiction- a story of upcoming generations
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--- Quote ---...a cross between "Natural Born Killers" and "Scarface"...
cdoggy99 from USA
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--- Quote ---It's a well told, thoroughly enjoyable Tour d'anarchy. Gruesome but real. 8.5 / 10.0
Bill Stoll (bill@billstoll.com) from Tampa FL
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--- Quote ---It would be 10 out of 10 as a gangster movie, yes, but it's 10 out of 10 in many other genres as well.
Weredegu from Hungary
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--- Quote ---Greatest movie ever made for the ex-Yugoslavia
dreni from Kosova
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--- Quote ---holly_summer from Russia
Take 'A Clockwork Orange', add 'Trainspotting', add 'Once Upon a Time in America'... Throw away all the cinema glamour. Add harsh reality. I do not know what you will get as a result and I can't promise you it will be something good. But if you are Srdjan Dragoevic, you will get 'Rane' and it will be breathtaking.
I've watched tons of various movies - & felt like nothing could impress, thrill or shock me - till I've discovered Yugoslavian/postYugoslavian cinema. Black humor. Real passion. Authentic - might be the best definition. The characters are a l i v e and you just wonder how the director managed to put so much pieces of real life inside the picture. What other cinema schools tried to achieve through 'experiments' - like Dogma for example - that is to say by inventing boarders, limits & rules for itself - those Yugoslavs did or do by working in often ordinary, may be even classic way - and the main trick is that they seem to have no boarders! The movies I've watched were dark but still they never lacked 'lust for life'. Yugoslavian cinema seems to have national specific but always keeps in mind the best examples of European/American cinema. Almost all listed above refers to `Rane'. Mix 'Trainspotting' with 'Clockwork orange' add a little bit of 'Once upon a time in America' & put it on the streets of Belgrade of the ninetieth...Take two teenagers who do not know any reality except hatred, violence, crime & poverty - and put them inside the story. One of the most bizarre things for me was - how it reminds the Russia of the early ninetieth - rapid inflation, depression & political madness. Two main characters are the guys from my area. It makes me wonder - why former Yugoslavian directors managed to make a number of brilliant movies - trying to explain what is happening - during extremely hard times - while Russia hadn't already produced even a single good & honest movie about what is happening in Chechnya? Well may be one or two but it is still doubtful. That's a shame.
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You can find parts, if not the whole movie on youtube, but I'm not recommending you to see it that way.
nostra:
Oh man, that looks promising indeed. I will try to find this movie.
buah:
May '10
This time I decided to recommend something completely different. I won't tell you anything about it. I'll only qoute something that I feel like I wrote it.
--- Quote --- I guarantee you'll like it. Trust me, I myself was totally skeptical towards it since I hate sci-fi and futuristic stuff, and it blew me off!
The story is fantastic. 10/10.
The movie is pure eye candy! To Animation/Design/Art I give 10/10.
Music... The main theme is epic! 9/10.
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Video spot - main theme
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