Poor French cinema, in complete disrepair for years (if not decades), yet having experienced a great era, that of Melville, malls, Truffaut, and even - a must - one of Lautner! Fortunately, the next generation is here, as I told you at the very beginning of this post as a nod to the great Clint, and you'd be surprised at all that young people can get to do with three pieces of string, as long as it is the desire, passion and creativity (remember David Lynch from more than two years to sleep in a disused hangar to achieve Eraser Head )!
Two examples: first, the short film Vincent, age 22, born in the Tarn, Webmaster of The Lantern and co-author of the short film The Memoirs of the Dawn :
It is also important to note that this little film, made with professional equipment of the CSEC , is claimed by its authors (eight!) as a collective work, everyone who participated in the scenario and the cutting of the script to the sound. Speaking of sound, it is also noteworthy that the soundtrack Camille Galinier is quite interesting, varied, and agreeing well with multiple atmospheres suggested by this short film navigates between reality and fantasy, a bit like the fabulous Deconstructing Harry States Woody Allen (that's my opinion and I share it)!
In a completely different genre, but also poetry, numerous short Zun , 34 year resident of Biarritz, which makes it in total cons by "amateur" (in the truest sense, "one who loves"), with a small band of friends and a lot less material upscale This does not prevent great accomplishments, such as this one, which is my preference (but there are many others on the site in question), Sola :
Although not officially awarded at Festival Fifava, Zun is obtained - which is far more important - a very favorable reception from the public, and especially criticism, as you will read on article Fifava , published on his other site, Zun, the Blog!
I see all this great energy, talent, and especially (something much more rare) poetry: like this, there is no reason to despair of the future!
After the rain, good weather, is not it?
PS: Although there is generally little comment on this blog, for once, wet shirt, go to coal, and encourage them! I am sure they will appreciate ...
The second film "Grindhouse" (an American concept where there was a succession in the same evening two B-movies, or Z, interspersed with trailers of the same style) , supposed to do after Death Proof Quentin Tarantino, which I also just put the criticism just after, which will be easier for everyone ...
In a rather amazing, the DVD appears on the face of the actor's most famous film (which resumed here - very briefly - its role and look great villain in Curfew Edward Zwick), while his name is not on the DVD cover or even early in the credits - which is reminiscent of previous famous by Sean Connery in Robin Wood , or Christopher Walken in Sleepy Hollow :
This is not the slightest traits of humor that Opus, attacking from the outset by a hilarious trailer for a movie that does not exist, Machete , played by Danny Trejo indescribable that all fans of Heat recognize immediately:
kitsch More than that, you die! Must See in VO, of course:
Last nod before attacking the logo of the director's own box (like what all Mexicans are not necessarily bigoted superstitious, lol!):
And so the film can finally start (In a manner just as hot as that of Tarantino , moreover, which was also part of the codes of "Grindhouse"):
And very quickly to a far more "gore"
To be honest, I do not like this film a masterpiece , far from here, even (unlike many people, I much prefer that of Tarentino ) ... But what saves it is the humor, willingness to parody in "bigger than life" the archetypes of the genre best known as The Night of the Living Dead or Invasion of the Body Snatchers , and from this point of view, it works perfectly:
For so is that one is a bit familiar parodied said Codes, otherwise, the salt of course the thing disappears in favor of a film virtually no theme, no history and no scenario (note that there has been music similar cases, as when Stravinsky Prokovief amused themselves pervert the baroque and classical authors!). In summary: Following the leak of nerve gas, any part of the population finds itself gradually transformed into hideous zombies who obviously have only one idea in mind, contaminate the few survivors:
As you can see, it is difficult to get any easier (although there are also masterpieces that take two lines, like Duel or Alien ).
few references to Death Proof passage: first, the use of certain bikes that, too, are bigger than life!
But mostly use the same actress Rose McGowan (Pam, Tarantino's film), which represents here the starring role of the killer in the leg-gun, so kitsch itself that one wonders how many people have taken this movie at first - even second - degree, so it's huge:
The pitching has been summarized in two lines, taking advantage of it to say a few words from some of the actors ... Michael Parks, who in some fun still plays under the name of Earl McGraw, whether Death Proof or both Kill Bill, where he also embodies the same role of sheriff
Michael Biehn, we had not seen in a big production for a long time, and that the poor will still find a When trying to save the world after his signature roles in Terminator and Aliens :
Another very famous actor, you'll no doubt a little difficult to recognize (I swear it's almost a quote from Dune , David Lynch):
Phew, it's better there, lol !
Although it occupies only a tiny place (albeit important) in the film, but at least we are glad to learn that he has descended public enemy No. 1, and by chance, in addition, MDR!
And of course, a fleeting appearance of Tarentino, sympathetic Warren Death Proof here just credited as "Rapist # 1":
Anyway, as already said, what really saves the film is its humor in the third degree, such as the emergence of totally incongruous subtitles German so fleeting:
This warning to pee from laughing at the boss of BAR BQ, while the spectators were already crumbling under twelve tons of hemoglobin:
As in the only romantic scene in the film, just as it begins to degenerate into a torrid scene well:
And damn! Reel missing, lol!
The chase mini-bike is also its weight in gold (citation obvious Vanishing Point ), of course:
Like when dying The boss of famous bar BQ finally agreed to reveal his brother's famous barbecue sauce recipe:
Good. I'll stop there, otherwise we will still accuse me of making a huge spoiler!
In any case, the end, I found ridiculous in the first times (for those who know, the level of that of Battle Royale II is to say!) me well entertained during a game replay:
To be quite honest, I had exactly the same problem with Death Proof , but I think it is only related to the fact that somewhere, and our mind our eyes, conditioned by thousands of production "standard", tend to have only one type of approach - highly formatted - at the discovery a new movie.
PS 1: Despite the false "scratches" and other defects simulated film (even more than in the film Tarantino), it is noted that the entire film was shot entirely in digital, which apparently left to the actors and the director greater freedom of expression - Because not limited by the exorbitant price of 35mm, as of course we know (almost) everyone, since everyone now has a small camera in the same style!
PS 2: The concept of "Grindhouse" is virtually unknown in Europe, the Weinstein brothers - producers' appointed Rodriguez and Tarantino - have finally decided to adapt our practice to leave the two films separately, which We were unfortunately missing some tasty fake trailers in between films, and other no less sympathetic, published after a little contest launched on the Internet. But fortunately, I am there ... And you can see all these little goodies hereby !
first film Tarantino reviewed here, and God knows that exercise is not easy: first because the film is inextricably linked to the saga Kill Bill (not least by the now famous pre-screen credits), a film designed to form a diptych with Planet Terror (Cons filmed by Robert Rodriguez ), and at the same time an Opus to the exact opposite of Kill Bill, because instead of having this one story into two films, one has the opposite symmetrical two stories in the same film:
Like all films bipartisan (I think particularly Full Metal Jacket), the first vision is still quite confusing. And yet ... as well as in Kill Bill , pitch it reveals very simple (four chicks harassed and murdered by a madman's wheel, which eventually became the victim in turn of four other furies ... difficult to get any easier!):
So it's not there to look for the originality of the film, but rather in the warm tribute delivered at the same both Grindhouse films 70s (two films in one evening, interspersed with trailers), the legendary road movies such as those chronicled in the following pages ( Easy Rider & Vanishing Point ), and of course the movies "gore" (which will certainly annoy some in which there will be an avatar over the saga "Tarantino remakes us once again of Tarantino," unpacking culture film anything goes!). The crucial choice of lead actor - finally nay, almost the only actor! - Nor is certainly not innocent, because even if he never really stopped running, Kurt Russell ("Stuntman Mike", aka ICY HOT, "cold-warm", almost abstract abysmal film whole!) is still emblematic of the 80s, including New York 1997 and The Thing John Carpenter, another director of the cult series B:
initially presented as the perfect loser, nerdy, clumsy, old, delicate little in the way eating (say!), but all in all relatively harmless and even rather helpful priori, our stunt ("stuntman") to drift into reality soon proved a dangerous psychopath, driving his mythical Muscle Car 1970 Chevrolet SS :
And this is not just a car stunt, just reinforced and designed to flirt with death
Except that, as stated - a bit late - Kurt Russel his beautiful passenger (the first clone Uma Thurman , which of course will find its counterpart in the second part), this statement applies only to the pilot's seat (and here we go for the sequence of all the most gory movie, hang on!), especially unexpected that the species of duck that sits on the grille looks pretty nice:
'll And, "By car Simone!" for the cartoon of the century (NB: Never drive with your feet in the air at the window, it can be very very bad!):
Race Results: Four victims, and Kurt Russell to the hospital for several months, so much so that nothing will allow justice to charge him, not even the suspicion of the Sheriff Earl McGraw ( Michael Parks) and his "No. 1 son" - but yes, the same as in Kill Bill ! :
This is also where one of the many winks of the film (see below), among others with the appearance of Tarantino makes thinking than Reservoir Dogs :
Film which one of the other features - and more shuffling the genre - is to blur the time references in a rather surprising since the first part, though artificially "scratched" and marked by swings of sound and film, the way of what could be seen in the 70, nevertheless has the technological gadgets Latest, in contrast to the second part, her impeccably polished (I remember feeling a little like a presentation to the vision of Seven D. Fincher, where it was very difficult to locate the time actual film):
Four new players, so when this second part almost symmetrical but not quite the same caliber as the first four, since among them are two waterfalls, including Zoe Bell , which is more the real job (she doubled Uma Thurman for the action scenes of Kill Bill ), and here is his first steps as an actress, very convincing indeed:
With, again, a reference to the famous Vanishing Point (because somewhere, the film appears more modern in its texture and its realization, the more takes a perverse pleasure to cite or film history or film history of Tarantino short):
This is also the wheel of the famous Dodge Challenger white Vanishing Point both lit decide to do what they call "the boom"
Just before getting up for the large patient in question, but this time it will badly regret having come:
In what appears almost a medieval joust, a tournament in such way:
As stated in an interview one of the actresses ( Mary Elizabeth Winstead): "The protagonists are likeable and the dialogue (...) ring true. Tarantino did not attempt to write dialogue" girls. "That's girls express themselves in life. They are also coarser than the guys. I think he really grasped this dimension, which is great "(And so, for I found myself at least once in my life at the restaurant behind a table of five or six chicks, hidden by a hedge plant and is therefore only believer in the world, I can assure you that it ' True true home, lol!):
And here is the quarry, as they say hunters (or, the kill, lol!)
Citation obvious Kill Bill 2 , of course:
In what appears to be probably one of the most violent bastons "girls" ever seen on screen:
The End? Hmmm ... No. Not quite, finally! Still lacked the last little plan that kills the part of this great fetish what Tarantino (arghh, the Cowboy Classics ... finally!):
good. This guy is barge ( Tarantino, I mean), but in the end, that's all of the same damn good film, joussif, recreational, always surprising (it is also noteworthy that no digital effect has been used for the insane stunts of late, and that everything was done "old !), and of course full of little quotes for lovers of the master, a small anthology:
Reference to the famous scene from Pulp Fiction in which Uma Thurman , exploded coke and alcohol, is embarking on a completely crazy dance, just before collapsing total:
More difficult (for amateurs only!):
But yes, it was of course the legendary opening scene of same Pulp Fiction (which itself already quoted the most excellent in fourth gear Robert Aldrich)
Not to mention, as already stated, the famous sheriff Earl and his "No. 1 son" ( Kill Bill ):
Or color of the car girls, of course, those of costume Uma in the same film:
This is indeed an opportunity to note that Tarantino hides less and less of his congenital foot fetish female (which of course, as Webmaster of Sneakers & Buffalos , I can not complain to me of course)! Kill Bill was certainly already placed the bar quite high, between the feet rather strange to Uma Thurman and Sponsorship of Asics Onitsuka :
Anyway. .. There, that attack very hard from the opening credits (an allusion, also, at the feet of highly manicured Bridget Fonda in Jackie Brown ):
To continue with the hallucinatory "lapdance" :
And finally conclude with this scene could not be more explicit in the second part (arghh, what will we do Quentin in his next movie there, we even dare not imagine, but it will certainly be even more daring and more cool, lol!):
Anecdote for the road (just to finish in style, but without any interest) : For several weeks now, I had loaded on my laptop's music Bernard Hermann to warn me of an incoming message (for the record, the whistle - Twisted Nerves - the nurse Daryl Hannah in hospital Kill Bill, that all world knows by heart!). And then I watch the movie once, I hear this signal, I look at my phone, and would like: bizarre, no message? " Again, and poof: even gag! Finally noticed that it was quite simply in the film, when one of the protagonists gets just a message, too:
Why would I foolishly conclude by saying that this film is a true antidote to Ocean's Eleven (no relation)? Well, simply because instead of having Julia Roberts surrounded by players who are drooling all girls, we just here Kurt Russell surrounded by eight equally chicks guns at gun what ...
And this ... That's cool, what (lol)!
PS (and small scoop!): In all likelihood, Kill Bill 3 and Kill Bill 4 would already Pre-production for 2009 ... Suffice to say that licks his lips ahead!
