Review: Orphans [13:48 ] #0083
DIRECTOR: Peter Mullan
CAST: Douglas Henshall, Gary Lewis, Stephen Cole, Frank Callagher, Alex
Norton
Alex Cox metioned that he didn't quite understand why actors wanted to be
directors. Well, some can go right ahead and continue making films! Like Peter
Mullan who was in Braveheart and Trainspotting. This story about three
brothers and their empaired sister who mourn about the death of their mother
and every single one runs into the trouble the night before the funeral. The
fast pace and the everchanging plots of the four keeps the viewer on the edge.
The whole film is packed with jokes, but also with strong emotions. It
doesn't matter that some of the dialog is almost incomprehensable because
of the scottish accent. Great fun!
Joep
Review: Black Angel II
[13:46 ]
#0082
DIRECTOR: Ishii Takashi
CAST: Amami Yuki, Yamato Takeshi, Kataoka Reiko
This film is almost too stylised. From the first shots onward every camera
angle is carefully set most of the shots are made from the ground, the scenes
are slow and an atempt is made too be poetic. This movies fails in that, the
best scenes are the very violent shootouts and fightscenes, lots of different
angles, highly orchestrated. This film is about style and in that it's good.
Joep
Review: La sueur des palmiers
[13:42 ]
#0081
DIRECTOR: Radwan El Kashef
CAST: Sherinan, Mohamed Nagati
Maybe I just don't get this or Egyptian cinema is too alien for me. But this
very moralistic story with a lot of religious undertone is just not my cup of
tea. It has it's moments and it's good to see some Egyptian culture, but in
the end it bored me to death.
Joep
Review: Barrio
[13:35 ]
#0080
DIRECTOR: Fernando León de Aranoa
CAST: Crispulo Cabezas, Timy, Eloi Yebra
Young boys get bored easily, young boys in the outskirts of the city even
easier. That's why in the end they always run into trouble and even turn to
crime. The three teens in this Tiger Award offering haven't run into trouble
yet, but the way thing progress it soon will happen. This makes for very
funny wiseguy dialog, funny situations and some very painful twists. Original
story, excellent acting by unknown young actors and beautifully filmed.
Joep
Review: Three Businessmen
[13:25 ]
#0080
DIRECTOR: Alex Cox
CAST: Miguel Sandoval, Robert Wisdom, Alex Cox, Isabel Ampudia
Men on the road are scared, scared of their surroundings, scared of other
people, scared of every new situation they get into. And because this happens
all the time to businessmen on the road this is a good basis for a funny
movie. Alex Cox has pulled this concept into absurdity and letting the two
businessmen get lost, very lost, from one city to another, constantly talking
about whatever men talk about: gadgets, business, science, nothing, and
looking for restaurants. The religious twist at the end is the icing on the
cake.
Enjoyable.
Joep
Review: Victor... pendant qu'il est trop tard
[13:22 ]
#0079
DIRECTOR: Sandrinne Veysset
CAST: Jérémy Chaix, Lydia Andrei, Mathieu Lané, Skan Guenin
I've said it before, I'll say it again, this movie already has won the Tiger
Award if I had my say in it. It's the first movie in the festival which gave
me chills down the spine. A little boy runs away from home and finds refuge
with a hooker who has a comparable sexually abused childhood as the boy,
they become good friends. Every single person in the movie is acting
excellently especially the little boy and hooker played by Lydia Andrei. The
rough and dark photographing make it even more touching.
Joep
Review: Touch of Evil
[13:18 ]
#0078
DIRECTOR: Orson Welles
CAST: Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich
Halfway through the movie Marlene Dietrich sums it up, almost, by saying: "It's
so old it's new". Sadly it's not and even making a directors cut out of the
memo Orson wrote after the studio had butchered one of his masterpieces. Let's
face it's old, so the actors act too much, talk too much and it takes a while
till the story picks up. The photographing is excellent though and you should
definitly see it for the opening sequence alone, which is truly amazing.
Joep
Review: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
[13:18 ]
#0077
DIRECTOR: Terry Gilliam
CAST: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Ellen Barkin, Gary Busey
Oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh
man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man,
oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh
man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man,
oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man.
Tom
Review: Psycho (suprisemovie #1)
[13:15 ]
#0076
DIRECTOR: Gus Van Sant
CAST: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen
When Universal announced plans to remake Psycho, the big question on
everybody's lips was: why? Now that I've seen the film, I still ask the same
question. It's a shot for shot, word for word (though I'm quite sure the line
"Let me get my walkman" wasn't in the original) copy. Even the set and costume
design has been kept as early sixties as possible (even though it's set in the
present). To all intents and purposes, this is just a big gimmick. A novelty
act. And if that's what film means to you (it clearly did to Van Sant and co),
go have a look. I hear they're remaking Psycho 2 next.
Tom
Review: Velvet Goldmine
[13:10 ]
#0075
DIRECTOR: Todd Haynes
CAST: Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Toni Colette, Eddie Izzard
You've probably read what this hyped-up movie is about a million times
already, so I won;t bore you with plot lines. Suffice it to say I'm a huge fan
of both David Bowie and Iggy Pop and I still thought the movie was
uninvolving. The framework story of reporter Christian Bale and his growing up
during the glam era is meant to add depth (come on, it's about glam rock for
chrissakes), but only serves to make this movie more disjointed.
All applause must go to Ewan McGregor for his absolutely spot-on imitation of
Iggy Pop, though.
Tom
Review: Rushmore
[13:07 ]
#0074
DIRECTOR: Wes Anderson
CAST: Jason Schwartzman, BIll Murray, Olivia Williams, Seymour Cassel
Who'd have thought: a Bill Murray comedy playing at the Rotterdam Film
Festival. An oddball (by Hollywood standards) look at the high school career
of a young overachiever and his romantic entanglements (or so he thinks) with
pretty English teacher Williams. Murray, as the millionaire father of two of
his classmates, serves as both his friend and rival for the teacher's
affections.
Wonderfully defined, multi-layered characters give these actors a movie to
sink their teeth into. Which is what you should as well.
Tom
Review: Lola Rennt
[13:05 ]
#0073
DIRECTOR: Tom Tykwer
CAST: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu
Hip, speedy, thumping "what if" story, exploring three possibilities of the
same event. Small time hood Bleibtreu accidentally leaves a bag of money
behind on the subway. Problem number 1: the money was meant for his boss.
Problem number 2: he's meant to deliver it in twenty minutes or else... He
decides to ask his girlfriend Lola for help and so the story starts.
A barrel load of funky visual show-offery seems pointless at first, but they
merge with other stylistic touches (music, writing, characters) to form a
unified and totally engrossing whole.
Tom
Review: La expresión del deseo
[09:30 ]
#0072
DIRECTOR: Adrián Caetano
CAST: Pablo Castello, Roberto Merlo, Jorge Sesán, Hector Anglada, Guillermo Perez
Not very special, but nicely shot movie about two gangs in Cordoba, Argentina's second largest city. It's only 15 minutes and that's exactly the length it should be.
Hubert
Review: Midnight
[09:30 ]
#0071
DIRECTOR: Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas
CAST: Fernando Torres, Luis Carlos Vasconcelos, Mateus Nachtergaele, Nelson Sargento, Carlos Vereza
Another 'fin de sičcle' movie, but this time in Brazil. Murderer escapes prison to kill a friend and rescues a woman who wants to kil herself because her boy friend left. Very cool pictures on Rio de Janero and it's poor barrio's.
Hubert
Review: L' albero delle pere
[09:15 ]
#0070
DIRECTOR: Francesca Archibugi
CAST: Valeria Golino, Sergio Rubini, Stefano Dionisi, Niccolo Senni, Francesca Di Giovanni
Beautiful Valeria Golino is a drug addicted mother of a 14 years old boy who has to raise himself and his sister, together with his two dads. Nice story line and good acting.
Hubert
Review: Tropicola
[09:15 ]
#0069
DIRECTOR: Steve Fagin
CAST: Adria Santana, Mario Balmaseda, Tito Junco
This was just such a bad movie, it's hard for me to say anything about it. This director started with a ten minutes talk about it before it even started. the actors where bad, the acting was terrible, the video quality (VHS??) was horrible and it had only one message: "Cuba is good, World is bad"
Hubert
Taking the piss, in het damestoilet [00:00] #0068
Een zwaar aangeschoten Gary McCormack poseert in het damestoilet: 'Which of the
two cameras do you want me to smile at?'
Alex Cox speelt graag [00:00] #0067
Links tiger award jury lid Alex Cox toen hij nog vrolijk kon poseren.
Rechts nadat hij met zijn tengels aan Joep's palmpilot komt:
'How do you work this thing?'
Review: B-Monkey
[00:30 ]
#0066
DIRECTOR: Michael Radford
CAST: Asia Argento, Jared Harris, Rupert Everett, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Tim Woodward, Ian Hart
Very funny thriller about a girl who meets a boy, but their lives are totally different from each other. It's not a very special story, but it's just a funny and entertaining movie, take some extra time to check B's tattoo's! I really would like to check them some closer ;-)
Hubert
Review: Last Night
[00:30 ]
#0065
DIRECTOR: Don McKellar
CAST: Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, Callum Keith Rennie, Sarah Polley, David Cronenberg, Genevičve Bujold
Canadian Fin de Siecle movie about people spending their last hours on this world because it's going to be destroyed by an Asteroid (very original...) Nicely shot pictures, but a little bit boring. I saw lot's of stars who also appeared in Exotica, which I liked much more. Still worthwhile seeing. There was one very bad thing about this movie: they way this really cool Ford Pinto get's fucked up. Man that's a cool car. The first person I see fucking up a Pinto in real life can get a foot up the butt.
Hubert
Prachtige vrouw maakt schitterende foto van zichzelf [00:00] #0064
De mooie Lydia Andrei die een schitterende rol speelt als hoertje in de film
'Victor... pendant qu'il est trop tard'. Een film die we voor het gemak maar
alvast uitroepen tot winnaar van de tiger award. Het is maar dat je het weet.
Waar zitten ze? [09:57 ] #0063
???
09:45 ve1 orphan
14:15 ve2 mange-kyo
17:45 Pa7 Minazuki
20:00 Pa5 Flowers of Shanghai
22:30 Pa4 The flight of the bee
???
19:45, Toto che visse due Volte, Pa4
22:00, Ikinai, Pa2