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i'm saddened to find that pretty much every movie theater has repaced twizzlers with the inferior red vines. who eats red vines? they're gross and taste like playdough. don't be fooled!
Available on netflix VICTORIA, a german thriller, though much of the dialogue is english. Impressive camera work - the entire picture done in one take and takes place in "real time" - but I wonder why they made the movie without cuts, it wasn't any stronger because it didn't have them. Cuts are what makes cinema cinema, dammit!
The acting is quire good and the writer gives nice details to the characters. A great scene at the 30 min mark is followed by a big shift in the story and the movie goes in an unexpected direction, for me anyway. Ultimately the story is boilerplate but I think it's a pretty good movie, I'll probably watch it again.
embrace of the serpent - anyone see this?
At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, SERPENT centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.
Tom Cruise playing Barry Seal? Bourne director at the helm? Strange days. Make of it what you will, but it's something...
Idiocracy (now more than ever)