Κυριακή 24 Φεβρουαρίου 2008

We could start over again...




Do you feel like a chain store?
Practically floored
One of many zeros
Kicked around bored
Your ears are full but your empty
Holding out your heart
To people who never really
Care how you are

So give me Coffee and TV
Peacefully
I've seen so much
I'm goin blind
And i'm braindead virtually
Sociability
It's hard enough for me
Take me away form this big bad world
And agree to marry me
So we can start all over again

Do you go to the country
It isn't very far
There's people there who will hurt you
Cos of who you are

Your ears are full of the language
There's wisdom there you're sure
'Til the words start slurring
And you can't find the door

So give me Coffee and TV
Peacefully
I've seen so much
I'm goin blind
And i'm braindead virtually
Sociability
It's hard enough for me
Take me away form this big bad world
And agree to marry me
So we can start all over again

So give me Coffee and TV
Peacefully
I've seen so much
I'm goin blind
And i'm braindead virtually
Sociability
It's hard enough for me
Take me away from this big bad world
And agree to marry me
So we can start all over again

Oh...we could start over again

Blur - Coffee & TV

ΠΙΝΩ ΜΠΑΦΟΥΣ ΚΑΙ ΒΛΕΠΩ LYNCH....

Inland Empire (2006)

David Lynch
A Story of a mystery...A mystery inside worlds within worlds...Unfolding around a woman...A woman in love and in trouble.

A blonde actress is preparing for her biggest role yet, but when she finds herself falling for her co-star, she realizes that her life is beginning to mimic the fictional film that they're shooting. Adding to her confusion is the revelation that the current film is a remake of a doomed Polish production, 47, which was finished due to an unspeakable tragedy.


Μια εμπειρία... έτσι θα χαρακτήριζα αυτή την ταινία. Τρεις ώρες βομβαρδίζεσαι με πως γιατί και ποτέ .παρακολουθείς και βυθίζεσαι στην παράνοια ."Κουνέλια" που μιλάνε -σχόλια πάνω στην τυποποιημένη ψυχαγωγία των μαζών .Ολοφάνερες αιχμές κατά του hοllywood (με αποκορύφωμα τα ξερατά πάνω πάνω σε πλακάκι-αστέρι στην Walk of Fame !)παράλληλες πραγματικότητες και γεγονότα που παραθέτονται χωρίς καμιά συνοχή συνθέτουν το ονειρικό σύμπαν του lynch .Παρόν και μέλλον εναλλάσσονται ...μήπως είναι όλα μια στιγμή (just a blink of an eye)?Ένα ατελείωτο παζλ .Στο τέλος (βέβαια δεν σου δίνει απάντηση !)και αφού έχουν περάσει οι σχεδόν 3 ώρες τότε ..αρχίζει το παρτυ ...το γιορτάζετε μαζί...κάνεις ένα μικρό flash back στις προηγούμενες ταινίες του σκηνοθέτη ....και μετά νιώθεις σαν να έχεις μόλις ξυπνήσει...όχι ρε γαμωτο....

(9/10)

I figured one day I'd just wake up and and find out what the hell yesterday was all about. I'm not too keen on thinkin' about tommorow. And today's slipping by...

Πέμπτη 21 Φεβρουαρίου 2008

How about a shave?

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)


Tim Burton
Never Forget. Never Forgive!

After hard years in exile for a crime he didn't commit, Benjamin Barker now Sweeney Todd, returns to London to find his wife dead and his daughter in the hands of the evil Judge Turpin. In his anger, Sweeney goes on a murderous rampage on all London, with the help of Mrs. Lovett, he opens a barber shop in which he lures his victims in with a charming smile before casually ending their life with a flick of his razor across their neck. But not one man killed, nor ten thousands men can satisfy Sweeney's lust for revenge on those who've caused his years of pain

Το ξανάκανε το θαύμα του ο Tιμ Mπαρτον ...σκοτεινη και συγχρονως παραμυθενια ,ατμοσφαιρικη και αιματοβαμενη...Απλά συναρπαστική!

(9/10)


Τετάρτη 20 Φεβρουαρίου 2008

3.1415926535897932384626433832795

π(1998)

Darren Aronofsky

faith in chaos

The mathematician Maximillian Cohen (Sean Gullette) is tormented by a severe migraine since he was a kid, and he uses many pills to reduce his painful headaches. He is a lonely man, and his only friend is his former professor Sol Robeson (Mark Margolis). Max has the following assumptions, which rules his life: (1) Mathematics is the language of nature; (2) Everything around us can be represented and understood from numbers; (3) If you graph the numbers in any systems, patterns emerge. Therefore there are patterns everywhere in nature. Based on these principles, Max is trying to figure out a system to predict the behavior of the stock market. Due to his research, Max is chased by a Wall Street company with obvious interest in the results of his studies, and by an orthodox Jew follower of the Torah, who believes that this long string of numbers is a code sent from God

(9/10)-> Για τη μουσική που τα σπάει + γιατί με μικρό μπατζετ o Aronofsky κατάφερε να κάνει μια ταινία που διαπερνά το μυαλό σου σαν τρυπάνι ;P

Suspiria (1977)

Dario Argento

The Only Thing More Terrifying Than The Last 12 Minutes Of This Film Are The First 92!

A young American dancer travels to Europe to join a famous ballet school. As she arrives, the camera turns to another young woman, who appears to be fleeing from the school. She returns to her apartment where she is gruesomely murdered by a hideous creature. Meanwhile, the young American is trying to settle in at the ballet school, but hears strange noises and is troubled by bizarre occurrences. She eventually discovers that the school is merely a front for a much more sinister organization


Ένα σκοτεινό παραμύθι ...Υποβλητική ατμόσφαιρα ,μπαρόκ αισθητική , έντονα χρώματα ,χαμηλός φωτισμός ,ψυχεδελική μουσική ( + η ποιο ευφάνταστη σκηνή φόνου που έχω δει σε ταινία) τελειώνει και τα πάντα μοιάζουν με εφιάλτη ....

Once You've Seen It, You Will Never Again Feel Safe In The Dark

(8.5/10)

Πέμπτη 14 Φεβρουαρίου 2008

The Prophecy (1995)

Gregory Widen
Years after losing his faith, Detective Thomas Daggett, (Elias Koteas) is assigned to a murder case where the victim is almost unrecognizable. Finding an ancient bible among the victim's belongings, he begins to translate it and finds that it contains a previously-unknown chapter detailing a second war in Heaven among angels. On an Indian Reservation in Arizona, teacher Katherine Henley, (Virginia Madsen) thinks that something's wrong with her children, and it leads Det. Daggett to the area. Also racing to the area is Gabriel, (Christopher Walken) a renegade angel wanting to restore Heaven to it's former past. Investigating the appearance of the angel and the sudden chaos in the town, they band together to stop the renegade angel from unleashing a war on Earth that will tear apart Heaven above.

Catherine: Go to hell!
Gabriel: Heaven, darling. Heaven. At least get the zip code right.
(7.5/10)


Δευτέρα 11 Φεβρουαρίου 2008

There is no fucking you...there is only me!



I'm becoming less to find as days go by
Fading away
Well you might say
I'm loosing focus
Kind adrifting into the abstract in terms of how I see myself

Sometimes I think I can see right through myself ...

Less concerned about fitting into the world
Your world that is
Because it doesn't really matter
...no it doesn't really matter anymore
None of this really matters anymore

Yes I'm alone but then again I always was
As far back as I can tell
I think maybe it's because you never were really real to begin with
I just made you up to hurt myself
And it worked.
Yes it did!

There is no you
There is only me
There is no you
There is only me
There is no fucking you
There is only me
There is no fucking you
There is only me

Only ...

The tiniest little dot caught my eye and it turned out to be scab and I had this funny feeling
Like I just knew it was something bad
I just couldn't leave it alone, picking at that scab
Was a doorway trying to seal itself shut
But I climbed through

Now I am somehwere I am not supposed to be,
and I can see things I knew I really shouldn't see
And now I know why ...yea now I know why
Things aren't as pretty
On the inside

Nine Inch Nails - ONLY

Κυριακή 10 Φεβρουαρίου 2008

Red Road (2006)

Andrea Arnold

Jackie works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she never wanted to see again. Now she has no choice, she is compelled to confront him.

Λοιπόν...από που ν’αρχίσω και που να τελειώσω ...
θα το πω το κρίμα μου ...ναι σε αυτήν την ταινία ..με πήρε ο ύπνος ...και όχι μόνο αυτό αλλά είχε προηγηθεί μάχη για την επιλογή της στο video club στην οποία μαχη τελικά νικητής βγηκα εγώ(που να μην έβγαινα) και ο κόκκινος δρόμος ..επιλογή την οποία υποστήριζα με σθένος (οπότε καταλαβαίνεται τι άκουσα ) . Εεε τι να πω ήτανε η μέρα κουραστική ηρθε και η Andrea Arnold με τις τεράστιες παύσεις της και έδεσε το γλυκό. τελικά σήμερα την ξαναείδα και την βρήκα watchable αν όχι ενδιαφέρουσα .Αν και απεχθανομαι τις ταινίες του δόγματος και η συγκεκριμένη έχει αρκετά χαρακτηριστικά ..ο τρόπος που βλέπει η Αρνολντ το θρήνο μιας γυναικάς για το χαμό της οικογένειας της όχι σαπουνοπερικα αλλά αντίθετα …με την απόλυτα ψυχρή απεικόνιση των γεγονότων (που όμως μιλάνε από μόνα τους) και το τέλος-εξιλέωση που σε βάζει σε ηθικά διλλήματα ... την κάνουν (σχεδόν) ελκυστική αν και σε καμιά περίπτωση ευχάριστη στην παρακολούθηση

Της βάζω (6 /10) {για να μην ωρύεται η “Roz”} ...

Τετάρτη 6 Φεβρουαρίου 2008

Singing Alone...



By or by the way of an explanation
Cast adrift off the shores of shotter's nation
I had a lick it caved my skull in like a brick
Oh now what use am I to anyone
I'm fucked, forlorn, frozen beneath the summer
Don't sing along or you'll get what I got...

Babyshambles - Delivery

Κυριακή 3 Φεβρουαρίου 2008

Atonement (2007)

Joe Wright
Torn apart by betrayal. Separated by war. Bound by love

In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. Cecilia, he hopes, has comparable feelings; all it will take is one spark for this relationship to combust. When it does, Briony -- who has a crush on Robbie -- is compelled to interfere, going so far as accusing Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie declare their love for each other, but he is arrested -- and with Briony bearing false witness, the course of three lives is changed forever. Briony continues to seek forgiveness for her childhood misdeed. Through a terrible and courageous act of imagination, she finds the path to her uncertain atonement, and to an understanding of the power of enduring love

Είναι λίγες οι φορές που μια ταινία κατορθώνει να σε κάνει να νιώσεις έτσι ...ανάξιος να κάνεις σχόλιο .Μένεις σιωπηλός...προσπαθείς να το συνειδητοποιήσεις .Απλά καθηλωτική.
(9/10)

Παρασκευή 1 Φεβρουαρίου 2008

Session 9 (2001)

Brad Anderson

Fear Is A Place.

An asbestos abatement crew wins the bid for an abandoned insane asylum. What should be a straightforward, if rather rushed, job, is complicated by the personal histories of the crew. In particular, Hank is dating Phil's old girlfriend, and Gordon's new baby seems to be unnerving him more than should be expected. Things get more complicated as would-be lawyer Mike plays the tapes from a former patient with multiple personalities, including the mysterious Simon who does not appear until Session 9, and as Hank disappears after finding some old coins.


Ατμοσφαιρικό , τόσο ώστε να σε κάνει να νιώθεις άβολα...χάνεσαι στην δίνη της παράνοιας ...ίσως ο Simon δεν είναι τόσο μακριά ...

Simon: You can hear me!

(7.5/10)