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Gran Torino

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2009-01-08 17:20:00 by Pacze Moj in Critical Culture
...coda to a film that's been stringing us along in good fun, hoping we'd get in on the joke and enjoy ourselves; or is it a hideous, genuine last move by a filmmaker gone completely off his rocker? There's an earlier scene, toowith a deliberately-struck Jesus posethat's either ironic or so literal that it deserves pity. Whatever the tone, the...
 
Tags: gran torino, clint eastwood, eastwood, american, asian-american neighbours, hmong, hmong family, film, family traditions
 
 
 
 
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PRIVATE COLLECTIONS (JUST JAECKIN, SHUJI TERAYAMA, and WALERIAN BOROWCYZK, 1979)

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2007-07-01 23:36:00 by mike in ESOTIKA EROTICA PSYCHOTICA
...coda, but this coda also allows for the viewer to interpret the events as some sort of bizarre fantasy, as it is rooted in simpler, base animalistic desires For what it is, it's a very brief enjoyable piece of Eurotica. As I mentioned before, it's beautiful to look at (Jaeckin was trained as a fashion photographer) and Pierre Bachelet's...
 
Tags: film, feature film, film history, terayama film, erotic feature films, films, terayama, shuji terayama, anthology film
 
 
 
 
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1/14: Berlin Alexanderplatz (Epilogue)

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2008-01-14 23:47:00 by Ed Howard in Only The Cinema
...coda from the rest of the film, emphasizing Fassbinder's drastically different aesthetic decisions in this section Not that all of these decisions work. The epilogue, unhinged from the solid ground of the narrative, sometimes drags and falters in ways that none of the earlier episodes ever did a few scenes drag on too long with little...
 
Tags: franz, franz biberkopf, epilogue, oft-clueless franz, fassbinder abandons, fassbinder, franz appears, fassbinder takes, fassbinder hero
 
 
 
 
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DAY 13: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

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2007-08-13 16:43:00 by Damian in Windmills of My Mind
...coda where, in her distress, Willie accidentally trips the wrong apparatus and the whole thing starts all over again (with John Williams' suspenseful music returning). This time, however, the three of them manage to escape the room before they are sealed inside and, in what has now become a legendary moment, Indy loses his hat but retreives...
 
Tags: indiana jones, spielberg falls, spielberg, spielberg film, willie, named willie scott, willie scampers, willie heats, willie scott
 
 
 
 
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Love, Death And Sex: 'Eyes Wide Shut'

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2007-10-30 13:18:09 by Kim Morgan in Sunset Gun
...coda neither answers nor ignores its own questions. Rather it leaves us in a mysterious, contradictory mishmash of dream and reality, where not only are our eyes wide shut, but our legs are too
 
Tags: sex, eyes, eyes wide, creepy nicole kidman, kidman, bill harford, bill, picture remains, picture
 
 
 
 
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More Thoughts on Evel Knievel

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2007-12-01 10:07:00 by Dan in Exploitation Retrospect
...coda to his career) could be seen on broadcast TV, not on pay-per-view Evel was one of the first to truly recognize the union between sports, marketing and entertainment and I'd venture he made more money over the years licensing his image to toys, lunchboxes and other pop culture items than he ever did as a daredevil I had the Evel action...
 
Tags: evel knievel, evel, evel action figure, lisa takes bart, comic, jump, 1970s superhero comic, jump springfield gorge, bart
 
 
 
 
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

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2007-11-29 09:26:45 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
...coda, Robert, a grown man, pursued by infamy and tortured by destroying his friend and his own brother, can find a brief solace in the company of an actress Dorothy Evans, (Zooey Deschanel), but waits as patiently for the bullet from behind as Jesse did. l
 
Tags: jesse, jesse james, james, robert, destroy, destroy jesse, majestic jesse, jesse awaits, jesse curdles
 
 
 
 
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HEARTS OF DARKNESS: A FILMMAKER'S APOCALYPSE dvd specs

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2007-10-18 11:26:00 by aaron in More Than Meets The Mogwai
...CODA: Thirty Years Later, a brand new documentary about the making of Coppolas first new feature film in 10 years. Eleanor Coppola once again goes behind the camera to document her husbands work on Youth Without Youth and reveals an older Francis as he approaches guerilla filmmaking in a youthful way, making a self-financed film outside of...
 
Tags: coppola, eleanor coppola, francis ford coppola, francis, eleanor, commentary, youth, all-new audio commentary, press release
 
 
 
 
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More Times Than She's Had Hot Meals

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2007-12-19 22:17:00 by Mr. Peel in Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur
...coda which feels like a reshoot, but it just makes the whole thing come up a little short Its an annoying little nitpick, it really is, considering how damn entertaining the whole film is and that the movie was tossed away by its studio just means that theres something wrong out there these days. The two male leads do some of the best work...
 
Tags: shane black, shane black talk, movie, buddy movie genre, shane black movie, black, post film qas, film, los angeles
 
 
 
 
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All's Well That Ends Well

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