Monika’s Pensieve

This interview totally cracked me up. It’s even weirder than his usual I think. I totally died when he started talking about his Dali film:
?In a lot of ways,? Pattinson says, ?I was kind of crossing lines of what I thought I was comfortable doing. I had to do all this naked stuff.?
See, Little Ashes [...]

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Mesmer (Austria/Canada/UK/Germany, 1994)
Seen: Saturday, 14th February 2009 (DVD)
Runtime: 101′
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Cast: Alan Rickman, Amanda Ooms
Production House: Accent Entertainment Corporation, Deutsche Film (DEFA), Levergreen, Mayfair Entertainment International, Satel Film, Studio Babelsberg
Plot: The story of Franz Anton Mesmer - an Austrian doctor, who was born in the 18th century and had very unconventional ideas about treating [...]

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Little Ashes (UK/Spain, 2008)
Polish Distributor: None at the moment *sigh*
Release Date (worldwide): It’s out in the US in March, outside of the US it only seems to have film festival dates.
Runtime: 107′
Director: Paul Morrison
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Javier Beltran, Matthew McNulty, Marina Gatell
Production House: APT Films, Aria Films, Factotum Barcelona S.L.
Plot: (from imdb)
In 1922, Madrid [...]

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33 sceny z życia (Poland/Germany, 2008)
Seen: Saturday, 3rd January 2009 (cinema)
Runtime: 100′
Polish Distributor: Kino Świat (7th November 2008)
Director: Małgorzata Szumowska
Cast: Julia Jentsch, Peter Gantzler, Maciej Stuhr, Małgorzata Hajewska, Andrzej Hudziak, Izabela Kuna
Production House: Shot - Szumowski, Pandora Filmproduktion, STI Studio Filmowe
Plot: A slightly autobiographical film. It’s mostly about what death does to a family, [...]

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The Duchess (UK/Italy/France/USA, 2008)
Seen: Monday, 29th December 2008 (cinema, pre-release screening)
Runtime: 110′
Polish Distributor: Best Film (9th January 2008)
Director: Saul Dibb
Cast: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Hayley Atwell, Dominic Cooper
Production House: Paramount Vantage, Pathé, BBC Films, BIM Distribuzione, Qwerty Films
Plot: The true (or, er… sort of true - it’s been meddled with a bit [...]

So this was the last day of the festival for me this year…
Pärnography
Impressions In Short
It probably wasn’t the best of ideas to come in late for the film :] I felt a bit lost for about half of it. Would have helped also if I had known a bit more about Estonia’s history - other [...]

American Military Intelligence and You!
Impressions In Short
Small, funny, sarcastic film.
Some Details
Basically, the director took the style used in films made during World War II to train US soldiers and made his own propaganda film of a totally different nature. It’s not the most amazing film ever, but there are some wonderful, very sarcastic lines which [...]

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The Warsaw Film Festival starts on Friday, so it’s high time I looked into what they’re showing and choose something - a task which is not as easy as it sounds (on top of which I’m feeling a little guilty right now - I should be correcting the documentation of my degree project rather [...]