SEARCH RESULTS
 
Showing 1-10 of 20 records
 
Expand article

It's Good to Be Bad (Make that Really, Really Bad)

The Article has images
2007-11-30 11:09:00 by Josh R in Edward Copeland on Film
...bathhouse and currently flexing its somewhat puny muscles at Studio 54 Terrence McNallys 1975 hit play, a product of the carefree era before the specter of AIDS brought an end to the heyday of the bathhouses, comes equipped with the standard trappings of farce. The helium-weight plot, which involves a lot of slamming doors, sight gags and...
 
Tags: googie gomez, googie, boys, beastie boys concert, googie warns, gay, flamboyantly gay universe, ritz, googie loses
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg, 2007)

2007-12-18 21:20:00 by Noel Vera in Critic After Dark
 
...bathhouse. The sequence (an attempted rape by Kyril by way of Semyon?) has some of the homoerotic poetry of the sauna murder in Orson Welles' great Othello (1952), some of the complex fight choreography and stuntwork of the climactic prison shower riot in Mario O'Hara's Kastilyong Buhangin ( Castle of Sand , 1980--well, perhaps not as...
 
Tags: cronenberg, cronenberg film, russian, film, russian mafia, cronenberg mentions, enter cronenberg, sense, courtly russian
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Through a Year Darkly

The Article has images
2007-11-13 07:09:42 by clydefro in clydefro
...bathhouse sequence left me literally nauseous, a combination of sustained struggle leaving us nowhere to escape and visceral stabbings that shatter the safety glass usually enjoyed by the audience. It has a semi-happy ending, but the ultimate message is far from consoling for the thoughtful viewer. Mouthbreathing Videodrome nerds struggle...
 
Tags: film noir, film, baumbachs film, burtons film, film argues persuasively, dark films, films, pessimistic film, hollywood films
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Eastern Promises

The Article has images
2007-11-29 10:40:00 by Czaro Woj in Compact Cinema
...bathhouse two-versus-one knife fight! That , you've never seen before. Idea, visuals, sound: riveting. Acting is great all-around, too, with Mortensen often iconic. Although not quite a masterpiece, as solid as films get. A perfect exercise in technique Eastern Promises are seldom broken
 
Tags: eastern promises, cronenberg, david cronenberg, story, sudsy crime story, nurse, english nurse, deadly precise, thematic depthdamn
 
 
 
 
Expand article

The Best and Worst of 2007

The Article has images
2007-12-19 19:03:00 by John in Confessions of a Film Critic
...bathhouse. Outrageous Knocked Up / Superbad A double-bill of instant comedy classics. Superbad just shades it, but theres only a hair dark and curly, obviously between them The Lives Of Others This coruscating history of the East Germany and the Stasi is a gripping spy thriller and a profound celebration of the human spirit The Bourne...
 
Tags: story, revenge story, downbeat story, sense, scottish dramas sense, sickly humorous story, vivid sense, film, dreamy film
 
 
 
 
Expand article

No title

2007-10-15 16:03:00 by Steve in The Ongoing Cinematic Education of Steven Carlson
 
...bathhouse. Also not to be discounted is Christina Lindberg, spine-meltingly hot even when haltingly speaking in two languages she doesn't know. (Her final scene, with her body spinning and her hair flying, is pretty impressive.) The bold, eye-filling primary colors, saturated in that Japanese-'70s-cinema sort of way, give the film the air of...
 
Tags: suzuki, seijun suzuki, norifumi suzuki, suzuki lacks, naked reiko ike, ike, trashy genre assignments, out-of-nowhere slow-motion swordfight, kaleidoscopic female-revenge saga
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Tuesday Top Ten: An Oscar Show Unlike Any Other

The Article has images
2007-12-18 21:02:00 by NATHANIEL R in Film Experience Blog
...bathhouse set to fend off real life assassins with their bare hands. Only Viggo Mortensen ( Eastern Promises ) is exempt from this challenge, already having demonstrated his bad asseryand his ass 3. They could nominate five truly great songs instead of schmaltzy power ballads and then give the actual performers ample time to si-- I'm sorry....
 
Tags: oscar, clip-less oscar ceremony, hold, oscars hold, loop, oscar ceremony, oscars, wga strike loop, wga
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Movie Review - Pirates of the Caribbean

2007-05-28 12:00:00 by Escape.... Great Escape in My Review Blog
 
...bathhouse? Hmm Finally what was the rationale behind Becket not firing even one shot while two ships cannonaballed him Spoilers ended there... and see this movie is going to be released in Sathyam. I would advice you to not go near Thousand Lights for the next 1 month or so. I am sure there would be a huge yuppie crowd which is going to...
 
Tags: movie, action movie, gloriously pointless movie, deals people, deals, jack sparrow, people, shipwreck island, pointless
 
 
 
 
Expand article

List #3: Best of 2007, Film

The Article has images
2007-12-27 15:53:00 by Joe in Fin de cinema
...bathhouse brawl. Full review here 14. Zodiac dir. David Fincher USA Or, All the Zodiac Killers Men . Zodiac was riveting in ways I never expected, particularly coming from a director whod lost any notion of subtly after his first big film 15. Flanders [ Flandres ] dir. Bruno Dumont France Flanders was a perfect example of reading...
 
Tags: film, grindhouse, grindhouse dir, eastern promises, eastern promises dir, dir, bug, bug dir, red road dir
 
 
 
 
Expand article

Eastern Promises

The Article has images
2007-11-29 09:50:00 by Pacze Moj in Critical Culture
...bathhouse two-versus-one knife fight! That , you've never seen before. Idea, visuals, sound: riveting. Acting is great all-around, too, with Mortensen often iconic. Although not quite a masterpiece, as solid as films get. A perfect exercise in technique Eastern Promises are seldom broken