Freitag, 30. November 2012

Take 15: Mittwoch 5.12.2012

December Horror Story Part 1: Evil Dead & Co.

20h15, USA 1987

Sequel to The Evil Dead where Ash does not manage to escape the evil from the first movie. Retelling the story only leaves Ash and his girlfriend in the beginning for whatever reason. Ash must now survive another night in the cabin accompanied now by the Professor's daughter, a mechanic, an associate of the Professor, and the mechanic's girlfriend. But the thing in the darkness vows that they will be -- Dead By Dawn.

The legendary surreal masterpiece of strange comedy is the favorite movie of Alejandro Jodorowsky so what comment you need.









21h45, USA 1988 





This movie is insane! Shot in Michigan at the height of the direct-to-VHS horror boom in the late '80s, The Carrier snuck onto tape with a nondescript cover courtesy of Magnum but managed to astonish the luckly few adventurous souls who bothered to rent it out for an evening. In a small town called Sleepy Rock apparently stuck in some sort of alternate universe of the 1950s, young man Jake Spear (Fortescue) escapes an attack from a strange beast from the woods. Though he seems unharmed, Jake is horrified to discover that he has acquired a highly unusual contagion that contaminates any object he touches and dissolves anyone else who makes contact with it. Soon the entire town is in a panic, unaware that Jake is the source of their problem as these "red objects" (named become a source of terror that can only be exposed by using cats(!) as weapons to identify them. Clad in plastic and heavy cloth, the townspeople soon divide into two warring factions that threaten to destroy the entire community forever.

Considering the era of its release, you don't have to look too hard to find an AIDS allegory here; the weird plot turn that covers almost everyone in trash bags for the duration of the films only lacks a glove-wearing dental hygienist to drive the full message home here. It's definitely unique though, and one-shot direct Nathan J. White certainly knows how to generate a resonant moment or two out of daylight horrors. No one in the main cast went on to much else, but Forescue makes for an engaging, sympathetic lead; more interestingly, as this was shot around the same stomping grounds from The Evil Dead, it features some of the same names behind the camera including composer Joseph LoDuca, cinematographer Peter Deming, and even some funky sound work from Bruce Campbell! 


Give this one a shot; it might become your next favorite unsung treasure, and it's certainly like nothing else you've ever seen before.
















Freitag, 16. November 2012

take 14: 21.11.2012

Phoenix

Kino Anders is back

Your advanced movie experience every wednesday.

 Now @ Offbar.


20h
Shorts out the garbage

One hour of strange shorts without taste. 
Featuring an all-monkey cast, an all dog-cast, a racist panda and some swiss John Waters fans.




 


South-Korea 2003, 120min, english subs
Oldeuboi (Oldboy)

An average man is kidnapped and imprisoned in a shabby cell for 15 years without explanation. He then is released, equipped with money, a cellphone and expensive clothes. As he strives to explain his imprisonment and get his revenge, Oh Dae-Su falls in love wit a young woman and soon finds out that his kidnapper has a greater plan for him.


Incredible beautiful and disturbing existentialist MASTERPIECE.
A movie like a poem.

 
Galgenbruders Lied
an Sophie, die Henkersmaid
Sophie, mein Henkersmädel,
komm, küsse mir den Schädel!
Zwar ist mein Mund -
ein schwarzer Schlund -
doch du bist gut und edel!

Sophie, mein Henkersmädel,
komm, streichle mir den Schädel!
Zwar ist mein Haupt
des Haars beraubt -
doch du bist gut und edel!

Sophie, mein Henkersmädel,
komm, schau mir in den Schädel!
Die Augen zwar,
sie fraß der Aar -
doch du bist gut und edel!
Christian Morgenstern
 



Won: Grand Prix of the Jury – Park Chan-wook
Won: Maria Award (Best Film)
Won: José Luis Guarner Award (Critics' Best Film)
Bergen International Film Festival 2004[24]
Won: Audience Award
British Independent Film Awards 2004[25]
Won: Best Foreign Independent Film
European Film Awards 2004[26]
Nominated: Screen International Award


And here some ignorant quotes from imdb:

The characters' motives and behaviors are incoherent and unconvincing. Psychological truth and logic are sadly missing. The plot is more full of holes than a gigantic piece of Swiss cheese.There is absolutely nothing that sets this movie apart from many other movies. No great achievements in acting, story, script, music, cinematography. Absolutely none. Yet it receives very high ratings. I really don't understand why. Believe me, nobody deserves what happens to our main character in the end, and I'm very serious; you know how some movies just go under your skin and stay there? Well, I felt goddamn dirty after watching this movie, and I REALLY wish I'd never seen it. It stayed with me for days, and some might ask: well, isn't that the purpose of a good movie? The ability to affect us in such ways? Yes, it can be, but this movie not only made me sick, it made me feel violated. More fun watching sticking your head in a toilet to watch the brown submarines.



Here's a good review:

After going through the comments, i must say i'm impressed how many people out there don't have a slightest clue of beauty or intelligent screenplays. there are so many comments from people that totally disliked the movie. which is plain and simple not possible, if you got an open mind and a open heart (and are not drunk). I would compare it to chocolate. You may find it too sweet and prefer bitter chocolate. or you like white chocolate more. Or you got diabetes and can only sometimes eat one. But people that totally dislike chocolate scare me to death. Same goes for Oldboy, you gotta admit some of the genius art-form it contains. Its everything in there. Its heartwarming , disgusting, intelligent, beautiful and lead with outstanding performance of any actor . You HAVE to like something, cause it wont get much better. Its chocolate. If you disliked the movie so much and on a constant basis, why even bother to write a comment? My guess is you just could not follow the movie at all. which is my only guess actually. well enough rambling.
If you call common sense, and a human heart your own and like "challenging" movies, go and see it NOW.