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Showing posts with label sundance. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Sundance 2008-the movies we have seen 2nd weekend
As I said before, sometimes, it is great to take a break from whatever your profession is, and especially if you live in Utah, you have to experience Sundance Movie Festival.
Movies we have seen the second weekend. And, opinions of five people: myself, my husband, his sister, her boyfriend, and my brother. They visited us from San Diego, Redondo Beach and Las Vegas. The Sundance movie festival rating includes: 4 rates: fair, ok?, good, and best.
January 24, Thursday-World Documentary-"The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo"-Women's bodies have always been a wartime battleground. Since the war started in REpublic of Congo, rape is happening on systematic and unimaginable scale. Lisa Jackson is bringing her camera into the eyes of the storm. rate is fair. My husband and I thought it is not quite appropriete for Lisa to share her own gang-rape story. Even though it is horrible and can be a movie story line on its own how and why rape happens in America, for instance, there is no war on United States land now, and compare with what Congo women are going through is not acceptable. We stayed for Q&A. Lisa answered questions very slowly, and talking down sometimes, and at the end either intentionally or not made it sound as if all men's dream to rape a women. That was the end of my husband's patience.
January 25, Friday (my Birthday)-Dramatic Competition-"The Wackness"-hip-hop is permeating white youth culture, and pot-dealing loser kid, Luke Shapiro is trying to figure out how to solve his parents' insolvency, beat depression, and get laid. rate is best. Dr. Squires is a great character, you can relate to this pot-dealer, and all problems young and older people are going through. Very nice movie.
January 26, Saturday-Premiers-"Incendiary"-based on a novel released 2 days before the London bombing, Incendiary is a comtemporary portrait of England that deftly interweaves tragedy, sex, politics, and grief. The rate is ok? I like Michelle Williams in it. The movie was slow and not realistic dialogues were happening at time. I think everone in our group would give the lowest point except me.
-Premiers-"Dimished Capacity"-after concussion leaves the main character unfocused, Cooper, Chicago newspaper editor travels from hom to Missouri to visit his aging unle Rollie. It is probably the longest and the most boring movie I have seen at the Sundance this year at least even though it was actually only 92 minutes. This movie proves that it is not enough to have great and/or famous actors in the movie (Matthew Broderick, Alan Alda, Virginia Madsen, and Dylan Baker) if your writting is sucks. We all gave the lowest rate except my husband (slightly higher rate) because he was amused a little with baseball card storyline.
-Premiers-"Assasination of High School President"-Director's (Brett Simon) debute is a intricately crafted high school drama that strays from the typical teenage fare and manages to keep what at first seems like a familiar plot twisting and turning until the very last frame. I do not know what this new director did to attract Bruce Willis, but the movie was great, and other young actors were good in it. We all liked it. The highest rate. I would say though I had a slightly more difficult time to relate because I think I did not go to high school in this country. The movie made me want to watch "China Town".
We ended this weekend on the high note as well as previous one. It is my 4th festival and my husband's sixth. We hope to continue this nice tradition.
Movies we have seen the second weekend. And, opinions of five people: myself, my husband, his sister, her boyfriend, and my brother. They visited us from San Diego, Redondo Beach and Las Vegas. The Sundance movie festival rating includes: 4 rates: fair, ok?, good, and best.
January 24, Thursday-World Documentary-"The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo"-Women's bodies have always been a wartime battleground. Since the war started in REpublic of Congo, rape is happening on systematic and unimaginable scale. Lisa Jackson is bringing her camera into the eyes of the storm. rate is fair. My husband and I thought it is not quite appropriete for Lisa to share her own gang-rape story. Even though it is horrible and can be a movie story line on its own how and why rape happens in America, for instance, there is no war on United States land now, and compare with what Congo women are going through is not acceptable. We stayed for Q&A. Lisa answered questions very slowly, and talking down sometimes, and at the end either intentionally or not made it sound as if all men's dream to rape a women. That was the end of my husband's patience.
January 25, Friday (my Birthday)-Dramatic Competition-"The Wackness"-hip-hop is permeating white youth culture, and pot-dealing loser kid, Luke Shapiro is trying to figure out how to solve his parents' insolvency, beat depression, and get laid. rate is best. Dr. Squires is a great character, you can relate to this pot-dealer, and all problems young and older people are going through. Very nice movie.
January 26, Saturday-Premiers-"Incendiary"-based on a novel released 2 days before the London bombing, Incendiary is a comtemporary portrait of England that deftly interweaves tragedy, sex, politics, and grief. The rate is ok? I like Michelle Williams in it. The movie was slow and not realistic dialogues were happening at time. I think everone in our group would give the lowest point except me.
-Premiers-"Dimished Capacity"-after concussion leaves the main character unfocused, Cooper, Chicago newspaper editor travels from hom to Missouri to visit his aging unle Rollie. It is probably the longest and the most boring movie I have seen at the Sundance this year at least even though it was actually only 92 minutes. This movie proves that it is not enough to have great and/or famous actors in the movie (Matthew Broderick, Alan Alda, Virginia Madsen, and Dylan Baker) if your writting is sucks. We all gave the lowest rate except my husband (slightly higher rate) because he was amused a little with baseball card storyline.
-Premiers-"Assasination of High School President"-Director's (Brett Simon) debute is a intricately crafted high school drama that strays from the typical teenage fare and manages to keep what at first seems like a familiar plot twisting and turning until the very last frame. I do not know what this new director did to attract Bruce Willis, but the movie was great, and other young actors were good in it. We all liked it. The highest rate. I would say though I had a slightly more difficult time to relate because I think I did not go to high school in this country. The movie made me want to watch "China Town".
We ended this weekend on the high note as well as previous one. It is my 4th festival and my husband's sixth. We hope to continue this nice tradition.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Sundance 2008-the movies we have seen so far:
Sometimes, it is great to take a break from what your profession, and if you live in Utah, you have to experience Sundance Movie Festival.
Movies we have seen the first weekend. And, opinions of five people: myself, my husband and 3 friends who came to visit us from Baltimore, LA, and NY.
The Sundance movie festival rating includes: 4 rates: fair, ok?, good, and best.
January 18, Friday-World Documentary-"Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma"-Dr. Orbinski, former president of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) and 1999 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, bore witness to horrendous suffering and extreme mortality rates during the famine in Somalia, as well as the unfathomable atrocities pf the Rwanda genocide in the 1990s.--"definitely interesting subject; however, movie does not meet the goal of the title. I personally felt very guilty after the movie, since the doctor repeatly says that we are all are not foing anything to help others." rate is ok?
January 19, Saturday-World Documentary-"Recycle"-what makes a terrorist? In Zarqa, Jorda's second-largest city with close to one million people, it is a much-debated question. Zarqa's politacal Islmist are a powerful force in this industrial center, and it is a birthplace of Abu Musa al Zarqawi...The movie slowly unravels some of the hidden agents of terrorism, revealing them as poverty, humiliation, lack of opportunity, and religious doctrine...--"Also interesting subject, little more interesting that previous movie; however, for me, the movies does not unravel agents of terrorism. I only saw how poor and religious focus people are. There are interesting shots. There is no reason to name movie "Recycle" even though the main charactor does have a job in recycling, but it shows very briefly and does not have any second meaning..." rate is little less than "good"
January 19, Saturday-Spectrum-"Love comes lately"-self-appoited bachelor in NY, Max Kohn (Otto Tausig) is accomplished writer whose walking life regularly commingles with his imaginary one.---You can see at least three story lines, Max is in real life, retiree named Simon, and sympathetic gent named Henry. It was a sweet storylines, but with too many stories at the same time. rate is little better than "Recycle"
January 19, Saturday-Premieres-"Towelhead"-directorial debut, Six Feet Under creator and American Beauty screenwriter Alan Ball once again unearths the dirty secrets...Based on novel by Alicia Erian.---I loved this movie, lots of happening. Movie captures many issues: anti-Arab sentiment that came to a boil after 9/11, racism, etc. rate is best
January 20, Sunday-World Documentary-"A complete history of my sexual failures"-when scaggly, endearingly hapless filmmaker Chris Waitt gets dumped by his girlfriend-the last in a long line of disastrous affeirs-he resolves to find out what exactly is wring with him.---Hilarious movie, the only movie you should stay for "Q and A". Chris is as funny in real life as in movie.
Movies we have seen the first weekend. And, opinions of five people: myself, my husband and 3 friends who came to visit us from Baltimore, LA, and NY.
The Sundance movie festival rating includes: 4 rates: fair, ok?, good, and best.
January 18, Friday-World Documentary-"Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma"-Dr. Orbinski, former president of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) and 1999 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, bore witness to horrendous suffering and extreme mortality rates during the famine in Somalia, as well as the unfathomable atrocities pf the Rwanda genocide in the 1990s.--"definitely interesting subject; however, movie does not meet the goal of the title. I personally felt very guilty after the movie, since the doctor repeatly says that we are all are not foing anything to help others." rate is ok?
January 19, Saturday-World Documentary-"Recycle"-what makes a terrorist? In Zarqa, Jorda's second-largest city with close to one million people, it is a much-debated question. Zarqa's politacal Islmist are a powerful force in this industrial center, and it is a birthplace of Abu Musa al Zarqawi...The movie slowly unravels some of the hidden agents of terrorism, revealing them as poverty, humiliation, lack of opportunity, and religious doctrine...--"Also interesting subject, little more interesting that previous movie; however, for me, the movies does not unravel agents of terrorism. I only saw how poor and religious focus people are. There are interesting shots. There is no reason to name movie "Recycle" even though the main charactor does have a job in recycling, but it shows very briefly and does not have any second meaning..." rate is little less than "good"
January 19, Saturday-Spectrum-"Love comes lately"-self-appoited bachelor in NY, Max Kohn (Otto Tausig) is accomplished writer whose walking life regularly commingles with his imaginary one.---You can see at least three story lines, Max is in real life, retiree named Simon, and sympathetic gent named Henry. It was a sweet storylines, but with too many stories at the same time. rate is little better than "Recycle"
January 19, Saturday-Premieres-"Towelhead"-directorial debut, Six Feet Under creator and American Beauty screenwriter Alan Ball once again unearths the dirty secrets...Based on novel by Alicia Erian.---I loved this movie, lots of happening. Movie captures many issues: anti-Arab sentiment that came to a boil after 9/11, racism, etc. rate is best
January 20, Sunday-World Documentary-"A complete history of my sexual failures"-when scaggly, endearingly hapless filmmaker Chris Waitt gets dumped by his girlfriend-the last in a long line of disastrous affeirs-he resolves to find out what exactly is wring with him.---Hilarious movie, the only movie you should stay for "Q and A". Chris is as funny in real life as in movie.
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