Monika’s Pensieve

I am finally up to date with my film diary *grin* Which means I haven’t watched any films in over 2 weeks - my BA project is really taking too much of my time *sigh* No wonder I have withdrawal symptoms from not watching enough films…
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Ballet Shoes (UK, 2007)
Seen: Tuesday, 11th August 2009 (DVD)
Runtime: [...]

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Public Enemies (USA, 2009)
Seen: Saturday, 8th August 2009
Runtime: 140′
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Billy Crudup, Marion Cotillard
Production House: Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Forward Pass, Misher Films, Tribeca Productions, Appian Way
Plot: (from imdb)
The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming [...]

Below is an interview with Andre Morgan, nowadays a big Hollywood producer. He basically introduced martial arts into Hollywood in the 1970s. It’s the most hilarious “how to break into Hollywood” story I’ve ever heard lol

The BBFC very rarely outright rejects films nowadays, but it’s made an exception for Grotesque - a Japanese horror movie:
BBFC director David Cooke has stated: ??Unlike other recent ?torture?-themed horror works, such as the Saw and Hostel series, Grotesque features minimal narrative or character development and presents the audience with little more than an unrelenting [...]

This is my last ENH film festival post, but I’m still reaaally behind with my film diary. My excuse is that I’m writing my BA project (again ;) ).
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The Corporation (Canada, 2003)
Runtime: 145′
Director: Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott
Production House: Big Picture Media Corporation
Plot: (from imdb)
Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent [...]

It amazes me how bad the trailers for the Twilight movies always end up being :] And who came up with the idea of doing trailers for the Twilight trailers? lol So far both of the New Moon trailers had 20 second clips released first and the full versions released a few days later. I [...]

I found it hilarious how tendentious the report is (but hey, Indian media just is like that, I’ve sort of gotten used to it now). SRK was really trying to play it down, while they were trying to get maximum scandal out of it. It was kind of funny ;) Still, the main facts seem [...]

This sort of thing has happened before (SRK has spoken about being frisked and checked at US airports before), but unless the Indian media is misrepresenting what happened, it’s just been taken to new levels…
Apparently, Shahrukh Khan was detained for 2h at Newark airport yesterday. He was only released after the Indian embassy interfered. The [...]

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60 years of WFDiF (Poland, 1947-1958)
Production House: WFDiF
Plot: The festival programmed two sets of films commemorating 60 years of activity of Poland’s biggest production house. I watched the first set which included: Powódź (Poland, 1947), Błękitny Krzyż (Poland, 1955), Spacerek Staromiejski (Poland, 1958), Pamiątka z Kalwarii (Poland, 1958) and three shorts by Walerian Borowczyk [...]

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Szegénylegények (Hungary, 1966)
Runtime: 90′
Director: Miklós Jancsó
Production House: MAFILM IV. Játékfilmstúdió
Plot: (from imdb)
In Hungary, the national movement led by Kossuth has been crushed and the Austrian hegemony re-established, but partisans carry on with violent actions. In order to root out the guerilla, the army rounds up suspects and jails them in an isolated fort. The [...]