The film is not a straight-forward biography as it seems to spend more time discussing his career and films rather than personal stories. However, it does include a lot of personal anecdotes which date back to Woody’s early childhood. It’s always interesting to find out stories about people now considered masters at what they do and how much their early years showed symptoms that was to be their future genius mind at work.
I honestly never thought that I’d like a movie about skateboard and how it came to be such a big sport. Perhaps because I grew up watching kids skating to Limp Biscuit or Rancid wearing their pants baggy and down low and I was listening to David Bowie and Iggy Pop and putting on glitter every chance I got. Imagine my surprise and secret excitement when I watched Lords of Dogtown for the first time and found out those the first skaters, meant to make the sport as big as it is, spent their adolescent years surfing inVeniceBeach to the music of the Stooges. Sounds like a good combination. And, as it turned out, it is.
Baz Luhrman’s Strictly Ballroom was released in 1992.Come Dancing ran at the BBC until 1998 and was reintroduced as Strictly Come Dancing to the audience in 2004. Its US counterpart Dancing with the Stars came to be in 2006, still running. And while this craze with ballroom in a contemporary setting still holds, no one has done it better, in terms of addressing how the cultural roots of ballroom and latin dances influence today’s youth than Mad Hot Ballroom.
I danced myself right out the womb I danced myself right out the womb Is it strange to dance so soon? – Cosmic Dancer by T. Rex In 2001, I went to the cinema one day to see a movie hailed as the ‘feel-good’ movie of the year. Heart-warming, inspiring, Read More
In 1957, Jerome Robbins created, directed and, most memorably, choreographed a stage musical updating the classic tale of Romeo and Juliet. Critics wrote rave reviews, predicting how the choreography pieces would shape future musical theatre and how the blending and fusing of different techniques and styles actually created a new genre of musical theatre. Most famously, West Side Story projected the dance narrative above the conventional way in which a play tells a story, ie the plot and dialogue. In 1961, the show’s screen adaptation, directed by Robbins and Robert Wise, solidified the choreographer’s impact on stage and film musicals that would follow, creating the most realistic of all film musicals, with its routines still being taught as repertoire in dance schools as it, indeed, created its own school, in terms of choreographing jazz music.
(500) Days of Summer makes it abundantly clear that it’s going to tell a different kind of story from the start. It’s a boy meets girl story but you are warned that it’s not a happily ever after story. It’s more than implied that it’s based on a true story and that it’s sort of a revenge on some girl the writer apparently fell madly in love with once. To him, she’s still a bitch.
Marcel Marx, a poor shoe shiner, leads a quiet, hard life. He has a very supportive wife which takes care of him but he has to work very to not make enough money. However, he loves his profession but neither of the two complain about their situation. One day, he discovers a young African boy trying to escape the police as he is an illegal immigrant. He decides to take him in and care for him. At the same time, his wife if really ill and has to go to the hospital.
In Bruges, written and directed by Martin McDonagh, is the perfectly pitched crime comedy. While marketed more like a full on crime/action adventure when it was first released (the slogan being ‘Shoot first, sightsee later,), I was pleasantly surprised to discover, while watching it, that it weighs more on the side of black comedy than the shooting people up comedy/adventure we’re commonly used to seeing.
The first time I came across Roger Corman’s work was during the Edinburgh International Film Festival of 2009. The festival screened his films The Wild Angels and The Trip. Reading The Trip’s premise as well as the people involved in it, I knew I had to watch, since I’ve been Read More
Inside Job, a documentary about the 2008 financial crisis of the US market is directed by Charles H. Ferguson and written by Ferguson along with Chad Beck and Adam Bolt. Narrated by Matt Damon, Inside Job interviews several key financiers and economists from all around the word, enlightening us deeply Read More
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