2010-11-27
ŽIEMA
2010-10-05
Kartėlis
Jie bus visada. O žmonės ateina ir išeina. Sudiev.
2010-09-18
Sinemafilija
2010-09-17
Liūdesiai ir praradimai
2010-08-28
2010-08-18
You die alone anyway
2010-07-24
Dance of life
2010-07-07
Oslas, Sognsvann ežeras
2010-06-15
Paprasta iki graudulio
2010-06-12
2010-05-31
2010-05-08
2010-04-30
2010-04-02
Serious Man (brothers Coen)
The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, are getting personal. They shot their new film in suburban Minnesota, where they grew up as sons of Jewish academics. But if you're expecting something warm and fuzzy, circa 1967, you don't know the Coens, and A Serious Man is no country for you. This seriously funny movie, artfully photographed by the great Roger Deakins, is spiritual in nature, barbed in tone, and, oh, yeah, it stings like hell.
Front and center is Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor who's getting shit from every side. Unsigned letters to the dean question his ethics and threaten his tenure. His son, Danny (the excellent Aaron Wolff), days away from his bar mitzvah, is lost in a pot daze. His daughter, Sarah (Jessica McManus), is obsessed with getting a nose job. His unemployed brother, Arthur (a wonderfully kinky Richard Kind), is crashing on his couch. And his wife, Judith (a pitch-perfect Sari Lennick), is leaving him for slimy, silver-tongued Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed), a serious man.
Larry is being tested like Job, with the Coens playing God and lobbing bolts at him, including a Jew-hating neighbor and a nude lady sunbather who stirs his libido. Larry's divorce lawyer (a deadpan Adam Arkin) warns him to expect the worst. So Larry seeks counsel and comfort from multiple rabbis, who deliver silence or cryptic bromides. Grace Slick, on the radio, gets closer to the point, singing, "When the truth is found to be lies/And all the joy within you dies/Don't you want somebody to love."
Indeed. No doubt the Coens will grin at accusations of stereotyping, self-loathing and box-office suicide. They march to their own mischievous drummer. Larry keeps asking, "Why me?" and stage actor Stuhlbarg, Tony-nominated for The Pillowman, is outstanding at showing the humanity that keeps the question urgent. Larry gets the worst of both worlds, sacred and secular. The film starts with a Yiddish-language prologue, set a century ago in Poland, in which a couple open their door to find a needy neighbor who may be a dybbuk (demon) in disguise. Larry is similarly bedeviled. But that sound you hear in this profane spellbinder is the Coens — chuckling in the dark.
PETER TRAVERS
2010-04-01
Policija, būdvardis
2010-03-30
"Pripučiama lėlė"
"Baltas kaspinas"
2010-03-25
Jane Campion "Shining star"
2010-03-21
Liūdesio pienas
Mažylė (La Pivellina)
J.Jarmuscho "The Limits of Control"
Paskui herojus eina į kavinę ir užsisako dvi espresso kavos atskiruose puodeliuose. Tuomet kas nors prisijungia prie jo, papasakoja kokią nors istoriją, ir jie apsikeičia degtukų dėžutėmis. Jose - kažkoks šifras. Tą popieriuką herojus tuojau pat suvalgo.
Prie šito ritualo tuoj pat pripranti. Tai jo darbo rutina. Supranti, jog tai nusikaltimo vykdytojas. Atokvėpio minutėmis jis daro kūno ir sielos koordinavimo pratimus. "No sex at work". "No mobiles". Ir prie to pripranti.
Filme vaidina daugybė žvaigždžių - Billas Murray'us. Gaelis Garcia Bernalis. Tilda Swinton.
Nors tarpais ta monotonija gali ir užmigdyti - apskritai jau senokai nemačiau nieko panašiai kerinčio.
Pavadinau tai tobula šachmatų partija. Misija - "subjektyvi". Žudyti. Jis pašalina kažkokį idealiai saugomą bosą.
Kaip jis tai padarė?
"I used my imagination." (Pasitelkiau vaizduotę).
Kai eina filmo titrai, skamba daina, kurios tekstas pasikartoja filmo leitmotyvu: "He who thinks he is bigger than the rest must go to the cemetery. There he will see what life really is: a handful of dirt." (ji skamba ir flamenko dainoje tavernoje).
P.S. finalinis filmo epizodas ("subjektyvi misija") vyksta Almerijoje, kur gyvena daug lietuvių. Tikrai, "la vida no vale nada".
P.P.S. reikia būti mačius Hitchcocką, Goddarą ir Wellesą, šiaip daug kas nuskamba pernelyg paslaptingai.
2010-03-08
Kovas
2010-03-05
Kaziukas 2010
2010-02-28
Pavasaris liūdnai šlepsėdamas po balas
Štai jis ir atėjo... Balos aplink, namo atspindys baloje, svaičiojimai apie geresnį gyvenimą, nuovargis nuo esamo, meilės likučiai.