the set - up ( 1995 film )
football on film: i. d. (1995) - the set pieces
the set up aired on the television channel showtime on july 23, 1995 in the usa .
miramax circumvents' kids' controversy: movies: independent company is set up to distribute the graphic teen film, avoiding potential problem for the disney - owned firm .
miramax circumvents' kids' controversy: movies: independent company is set up to distribute the graphic teen film, avoiding potential problem for the disney - owned firm. - latimes
in 1995 mgm set up a website for the film
hackers
which was promptly hacked. the wording
this is going to be an entertaining fun promotional site for a movie
was changed to
this is going to be a lame, cheesy promotional site for a movie
. mgm left the hacked site up during the theatrical run .
let’s get this straight from the outset: i. d. (1995) is a superb film. not from a purely critical perspective – unless a nomination for the golden alexander at the 1995 thessaloniki film festival counts – but there is a perfect bleakness to it to underpin all the tightly - spun testosterone .
in 1995 mgm set up a website for the film
hackers
which was promptly hacked. the wording
this is going to be an entertaining fun promotional site for a movie
was changed to
this is going to be a lame, cheesy promotional site for a movie
. mgm left the hacked site up during the theatrical run. : movies
o’connell, even if his original vision for the film wasn’t realised, has been reassured by the film’s cult following .
steven soderbergh' s atmospheric, film - noirish and experimental b / w film was a mystery - thriller tale of sad romance .
finally, the two boys threatened to set the curtains on fire. ignoring her, elias pushed lukas’s hand into the curtains, and set the room (and their mother) on fire. it was not clear whether elias also perished in the blaze .
richard iii is a 1995 film adaptation of the play by william shakespeare, directed by richard loncraine and starring ian mc kellen. it was based on an acclaimed royal national theatre stage production by richard eyre that also starred mckellen .
with the headline: film review; in a hell of drugs and despair .
with the headline: film review; johnny depp with a don juan complex .
during the beginning of his search (conducted like the film blow - up (1966) ), mikael became suspicious that he was being tracked and someone had hacked into his computer .
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the waves lapped around his corpse near the surf line, as the sniper packed up his killing gear and walked off .
in the conclusion, lisbeth provided mikael with
reading material
during the last few weeks of his incarceration. the material consisted of hacked documents proving that mikael had been set - up. mikael' s next issue of millennium exposed wennerstrom for using his companies to commit serious financial crimes (setting up cartels for drug trafficking and gun - running) .
red - dressed lilly gathered up the strewn cash, descended in a caged elevator, and calmly drove away .
the film is about the idea of andy kaufman, about how artists channel their influences and keep the dead alive .
i bet every time brad pitt teases angelina jolie about this bomb she fires up a copy of cool world .
: how many times i gotta say it? there' s no percentage in smartenin' up a chump .
tyrell, who only serves as the executioner of the princes in the original play, becomes richard' s dragon in the film .
i used to consider
hackers
a guilty pleasure, but now i just unabashedly straight up love that movie. phreak (the puerto rican guy) is my fave, providing the heart and soul of the film, in my opinion .
[ in fact, vanger' s secretary dirch frode had employed a hacker / researcher to do a background check on mikael and continually monitor his computer during the trial. the researcher concluded regarding the recent case :
blomkvist' s totally clean... i think he was set up .
]
a childhood acquaintance from simon' s past, gordon moseley, was actually the victim of simon' s bullying and torment - and simon was revealed as the real villain of the film. in high school, simon had spread the lie that gordon was gay and had been seen being molested by an older boy in a car. afterwards, the accusation ruined gordon' s life. gordon set up an elaborate scheme to get payback revenge over 20 years later, including possibly impregnating simon' s drugged - up wife robyn during an alleged rape
aside glance / breaking the fourth wall: all of richard' s soliloquies (as well as a few asides) are delivered directly to the camera. also, after shooting richard, richmond also begins to glance into the camera and smile, implying he may not be the perfect replacement he has been set up as .
not true. know someone who was involved. they just thought it was funny. edit: they also wound up liking the movie .
the dramatic tale was set in bombed - out, post - war berlin, germany, a divided city. berlin was the location of the potsdam conference of allied powers in 1945. the main protagonist was :
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a parody of a parody, the film is so soulless that it makes its predecessor seem like a classic in retrospect .
this is a new series on the set pieces in which adam hurrey casts his eye over the numerous attempts to depict football in films. you can read the first instalment, on when saturday comes, here .
and then the whole idea that the most important item in the world is an encryption key is pretty amazing. yeah, it' s a bit fluffed up in the film (naturally), but the substance in it is pretty solid and it' s also really good and fun to watch .
ben affleck' s directorial debut film was an adaptation of dennis lehane' s novel gone, baby, gone. in the film' s opening voice - over narration during the credits, private investigator patrick kenzie (casey affleck) spoke about how his job was to find missing people because of his connections in the tough neighborhood where he grew up (in the working class area of dorchester near boston) :
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the film' s theme tied together puberty with blood, sexual desire and metamorphic body changes (including possession and infection) .
to sidestep potential conflict with miramax films' family - oriented parent corporation, the walt disney co. , miramax co - chairmen harvey and bob weinstein have set up an independent releasing company to market and distribute the controversial
kids
- - larry clark' s graphic portrayal of a day in the life of some amoral, sex - obsessed new york city teens .
steven soderbergh’s bracingly playful return to cinema is accorded a stunning transfer and little else, though the film itself is more than enough .
there’s virtually no actual football in the film whatsoever, but i. d. faces a similar - sized struggle for verisimilitude as any on - pitch drama does. many of the tense, scowling set - pieces and plot devices are based on supposedly real events in the experience of pc james bannon, who went undercover with millwall’s notorious bushwhackers in the late 1980s .
well they did make a sequel of sorts. look up hacker the kevin mitnick story, as a bonus master p is in the movie as an elite hacker ...
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the set - up scenes have all the hallmarks of a made - for - tv docudrama about the disease of the week. we settle in confidently, able to predict what will happen: carol' s problems will be diagnosed, the environment will be blamed, and there will be an 800 number at the end where we can call for more information about how to save the planet. but that isn' t how
safe
develops at all .
“anybody who is familiar with the history of the pacific islanders in film, there’s cause for worry, ” said dionne fonoti, an anthropologist and filmmaker from samoa who was part of the trust. even the film’s young star, auli’i cravalho, a hawaiian teenager making her film debut, admitted that she wasn’t so starstruck by disney’s interest to approach moana without concerns. “i was wary, ” she admits. “i think that everyone can say they might be a little afraid of it, because when we have a film that is inspired by a culture we want to feel good about it. ”
and it’s not just murphy who already feels an emotional connection to moana. “i see all these little girls dressed up as moana for halloween, ” musker says. “young women who are dressing as moana even before the movie has come out, who just feel some connection to her as they see her represented in the film. ”
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is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
“my view has slightly mellowed over the years, as people keep telling me what a good film it was, and i see the excitement that generations of students especially have expressed about it. middle - aged men have tattooed quotes from the film on their bodies, and teenage student women have parties to watch it. ”
in general though, they' d need a strong plot concept to differentiate themselves from every other film that features a character that can hack .
the' ghost' suspected that mcara was murdered, after a frail and elderly resident (eli wallach in a cameo) told him the currents couldn' t have carried mcara' s body so far west to wash up on the beach where it did, and that a local woman named annabeth wurmbrand saw flashlights on the beach the night the body washed up (but had fallen down stairs and gone into a coma a week earlier) .
the film was hit by controversy again in september, when a maui costume featuring a tattooed body stocking was pulled from the disney store in the wake of complaints about “brownfacing” and cultural appropriation. “i think we did the right thing as far as the costume was concerned and maui was concerned, ” the 15 - year - old cravalho says. musker calls the pushback “understandable” given the historically bad treatment of pacific islanders on film .
and not to say that the movie isn' t flawed, but due to the outstanding nature of the film' s good qualities, the flaws and cheesiness just give it vulnerability and make me love it more .
all kids lie about wearing condoms ,
he said .
i did... but the consequences were less catastrophic then.' kids' is a hard - edged wake - up call .
i used to consider
hackers
a guilty pleasure, but now i just phreak (the puerto rican guy) is my fave, providing the heart and soul of the film, in my opinion .
one of the major breaks in the case of harriet' s disappearance was a set of intriguing multiple photographs taken during a children' s day parade in 1966 in the town of hedestat, shot in rapid sequence and viewed as a film. the most important of the photos was the one seen from harriet' s point - of - view - she was fearful of the startling sight of her teen brother martin vanger (in a tell - tale blue striped sweater) stalking her from across the street during the parade - after which she fled and disappeared .
the plot unfolded more completely when corporal tully was found murdered and pulled out of the river with a bullet in his gut. jake appeared to be the only one interested in solving the murder. the persevering geismer was often bloodied and beaten up, but he slowly put together the pieces of the puzzle :
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mr. depp, by contrast, gives yet another mesmerizingly sincere performance, this one colored by more obvious sexuality than he has brought to earlier roles. cast once again in the role of a precious innocent, he takes don juan demarco utterly to heart. the film introduces him as a would - be suicide, then lets him show off his seduction technique on a woman in a hotel who is waiting for her date. the sequence is preposterous, set up as feeble, bawdy comedy. but mr. depp, though sounding as much like dracula as a latin lover, is so supremely earnest and alluring he leaves no doubt that don juan' s methods really work .
a film review yesterday about
clockers ,
directed by spike lee, misstated the starting date of a retrospective series of his films at the american museum of the moving image. it is saturday, not today .
what the film version of
clockers
can' t do is see through strike' s eyes as devastatingly as the book did. the film can capture only the bare bones of such a big novel, and in any case mr. lee takes a more extroverted approach to character. mr. phifer, a handsome actor with a permanently worried scowl, is clearly a neophyte, but he shows enough of strike' s bluster to have a strong presence here. the film knows too much about strike to judge him, and enough to make him someone you can' t forget .
man i loved hackers. such a fun, if weird movie. surprised they haven' t tried to remake this or do some kind of sequel. even though it' d probably cost the films entire budget just to get angelina jolie on the set and i doubt she has the nostalgia for this movie like i do .
the' ghostwriter' wrote the sentence on a piece of paper, passed through a number of hands to ruth, and shortly after, as he stepped outside with the original manuscript, he was run - down (off - screen) in the street (the same thoroughfare in the film' s opening). he was murdered like mcara, in order to silence him - or were both deaths just an accident? his manuscript papers blew down the street in the wind as the film faded to white before the credits .
in the conclusion, brenner reprimanded general campbell, who still claimed he had done nothing wrong :
nothing is gained by my involvement .
he was planning on further covering - up his participation in the entire incident. brenner was steadfast as he confronted the general :
disney animation has come a long way since the days of “ zip - a - dee - doo - dah ” and “ what makes the red man red. ” but even disney’s early 90s renaissance was marked by criticism. “ it’s racist, but hey, it’s disney ” a new york times headline read of 1992’s aladdin, while 1995’s pocahontas inspired at least one scholarly paper about persistent, damaging stereotypes of native americans .
the hooligan film is a curious corner of the football genre. alan clarke’s tv drama the firm (1989) was the first dip of the toes into a sub - culture that plagued the english game at the time – gary oldman’s bex bissell setting the benchmark accordingly – but the big screen would eventually see some increasingly cartoonish depictions of football hooliganism .
with the police investigation eventually closed, and john’s life in tatters, i. d. still manages to leave us with an ambiguous ending, which avoids tying things up too nicely: football hooligan films, by definition, should surely be that rough around the edges .
director stephen frears' complex post - noir crime - drama story (with the tagline :
seduction. betrayal. murder. who was conning who ?
) set in los angeles was about three con artists whose lives were inextricably intertwined, especially the two females who were engaged in a deadly power - struggle love - triangle for the male' s attention :
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there was only one twin - elias. the other identical twin lukas was killed in an
accident
( probably one that also disfigured the face of the mother) before the events of the film. experiencing deep denial and guilt, elias was only imagining that lukas was alive .
the first impression given was that the simon and gordon did not know each other very well, yet gordon began to show up unexpectedly, and lavish inappropriate gifts on the couple, such as an expensive bottle of wine (
how do you think he got our address ?
) .
that just leaves dinsdale’s exceptional turn as detective constable john brandon – for which he [ citation needed ] won the international critics award [ citation seriously needed ] for best actor at the geneva film festival [ oh, come on ] .
because the new company, excalibur films, is not a signatory of the motion picture assn. of america, it is free to release the film unrated in the event it receives an nc - 17 from the ratings board, to which it will be submitted within the next 10 days. and because the $ 6. 5 - million to $ 7 - million investment - - $ 3. 5 million in worldwide rights plus the cost of prints and advertising - - is being picked up by the weinstein brothers, disney' s policy of not releasing nc - 17 films isn' t put to the test .
dieselpunk: the film lives and breathes this trope, both in an elegant and gruff way. probably the most british - flavoured rendition of the trope ever put on screen. it' s not limited to the costumes, vehicles and atmosphere: even the individual architecture that' s supposed to be really historical - e. g. the tower of london - is portrayed by shots of purely period public buildings, often 1930s functionalist structures. ian mckellen himself referred to the production design of the film as
being rooted in a semi - mythical portrayal of the late interwar uk
.
though
kids
created a major buzz at january' s sundance film festival and drew a few glowing early reviews, the movie' s reception at cannes fell flat. some viewers walked out of the screening, and attendance at the press conference was sparse .
the general was court - martialed and found guilty for failing to report and concealing the west point gang - rape. he subsequently withdrew from public life. the film' s ending title :
today, nearly 200, 000 women serve on active duty in the military services .
“it’s no secret i was unhappy at how this film turned out. i kept quiet at the time it was released, not talking to the press and so on, but i was in grief that a powerful cinematic vision had come out looking like a standard bit of british tv social realism. i’d trusted phil davis to direct it as he is such a superb actor, and this film had to stand or fall on the central performance, but he just couldn’t see the cinematic potential of the script. ”
murphy broke into tears when discussing how important moana felt, both to her and for and her culture. disney took up her proposal from five years ago that there be a tahitian - language version of moana recorded (an industry first), and involved her in every step of casting its voice actors. non - english lyrics are included in the film’s score, thanks to the input from samoan musician opetaia foa’i, who worked in concert with composer mark mancina and songwriter lin - manuel miranda .
we talk a lot about the evolving relationship between technology and culture. in order to help our readers keep up with the fast - paced changes of our increasingly digital world, we’ve decided to analyze the valuable lessons about technology contained within the most educational material that we as a society have ever produced: hollywood films. today’s lesson :
hackers is a movie too awful to dislike. after i watched it recently i had a great laugh reading the reviews (pro and con) at rotten tomatoes. i bet every time brad pitt teases angelina jolie about this bomb she fires up a copy of cool world .
though
kids
is almost certain to receive an nc - 17, eamonn bowles - - a former vice president at goldwyn involved in the release of the lawrence film and the new chief operating officer of excalibur - - says he' d give it an
r .
with both spy groups teamed up, the rest of the film unfurls as a series of action sequences that spotlight vaughn’s ability to layer multi - stage mayhem and, perversely, derive no actual thrills from it. vaughn loves to especially home in on whiskey (pedro pascal) as he wields a rope lined with a laser edge that can dice foes, but shots of the statesman in combat favor darting pans that insistently follow the point of his whip like a dog that can only look at your finger pointing and never to whatever it is you’re actually pointing at .
in the film' s tense conclusion, the two agents engaged in a fight - to - the - death combat atop his destroyed control center - lair in cuba. bond raced to disarm the transmitter - antenna of a large satellite dish communicating with a second, deadly rogue goldeneye satellite nuclear - weapon .
and cravalho, who grew up on stories of maui, was able to incorporate her own ideas of the demigod while also expanding on her hawaii - based knowledge: “i believed that maui and all of his amazing stories was hawaiian. what i didn’t know was he was actually shared all across polynesia. our maui in moana is actually just this awesome demigod that has stories from different places all around polynesia. he has the ones that i grew up with—raising islands out of the sea and slowing down the sun—but also others that i didn’t know. he’s different than i would have imagined, but so much, much more. ”
harriet (taking the name anita vanger when she fled) was found grown up and living in australia, although every year on her birthday from a different worldwide location, she had sent henrik a framed, pressed and dried flower (he had thought they were coming from her taunting killer) .
in the brilliant first two - thirds of the film, the focus was on the strange and random behavior of the mother (a
bait - and - switch
directorial technique), not on what the twins were doing. they went to extremes to test and torment her - changing the film' s mood to torture - porn. elias let a giant pet madagascar hissing cockroach squirm from his sleeping mother' s chest into her mouth. in a ghastly and brutal torture sequence, the two twins tied their mother to her bed and demanded that she prove her identity, or tell them where their real mother was .
renny harlin updates the flynn classic swashbucklers by a) casting a female, geena davis, as the lead, and b) injecting more
boom !
into the mix with a lot of pyrotechnics. it almost works. its a brash, brawling pirate film alright and sorta fun alright but it somehow fails to connect. matt modine plays the flynn part okay, flynn in the supporting position instead of as the lead, which is disconcerting, but maybe what' s missing more in the film is the objective: the flynn pirates took the gold too, but were actually
fighting for england !
or
freedom !
or some such and not simply the booty ...
really, though, the movie is more about how the rise of technology impacts our lives, and our changing ideas and concerns about privacy. bennett was easily seduced by devlin because he spied on her describing her ideal man in a chat room, and filled in the details by going through her records. as she says, our entire lives are recorded on computers, from our work to our taste in movies. in 1995, this was a shocking problem that people had to learn to deal with. in 2013, it' s basically how facebook works .
among the blissfully unaware hooligan footsoldiers is the nervous wreck gumbo – the film’s enduring and endearing cult hero, who jars gherkins for a living and who everyone “fucking loves” at one point or another – and, for some reason, a fire - eating extra who’s wandered in from a dexy’s midnight runners video .
not that i. d. is a relentlessly grim affair. it’s joyously quotable, which is surely a huge part of its cult status, and the rapport john builds with the shadwell hooligans (and, initially, with his undercover colleagues) can be genuinely charming, which indirectly explains why he gets so wrapped up in it all .
going out unrated takes the stigma off the film ,
harvey weinstein said .
it also enables us to circumvent theater chains that won' t play nc - 17 movies because of clauses in their lease and newspapers that won' t run their ads. because of these policies, we had to sell the martin lawrence nc - 17 - rated concert film' you so crazy' to [ the samuel ] goldwyn [ co. ] last year. it went out unrated and generated 400 bookings. if it was nc - 17, they would have gotten 50 .
along the way, he met up with his brother who exclaimed about crs :
they just f - - k you, and they f - - k you, and they f - - k you. then, just when you think it' s all over, that' s when the real f - - king starts .
read between the lies
was the intriguing tagline for roman polanski' s taut and increasingly - claustrophobic film about paranoia and power struggles. it had similarities to real - life political figures, including british prime minister tony blair and his wife claire, us sec. of state condoleeza rice, and the halliburton corporation .
the film concluded with ginger transformed into a monstrous ginger - wolf engaging in a killing spree, including a threatening showdown with her sister, who up until this point had attempted to rescue ginger from her animalistic urges. brigitte felt she no longer had a bond with her sister - she had a choice to either cure her sister with a syringe of
werewolf antidote
or to kill her with a knife, and chose the latter (
i' m not dying in this room with you
). she was intimately close to ginger - wolf, hugging her when she exhaled her last breath .
instead, todd haynes, the writer and director, has something more insidious up his sleeve. the movie starts out dealing with one problem (environmental poisoning) and ends up attacking another (a blissed - out cult that charges big dollars to suffering people, who pay to hear the leader blame them for their troubles). and then there' s another level. to some degree ,
safe
suggests that carol may in fact be responsible for aspects of her illness. her life and world are portrayed as so empty, so pointless, that perhaps she has grown allergic as a form of protest. in that case, the spa won' t help either, because it is simply a new form of the same spoiled lifestyle .
historical villain upgrade: the movie. being based off of richard iii (a play that makes a point of vilifying one side of a brutal grey and grey civil war and whitewashing the other) made it inevitable, but the film goes beyond. rather than turning richard into a medieval tyrant, he gets turned into a nazi .
go see the net instead of this dog. the net, starring the girl from the bus .
it has got to be one of the cheesiest pirate movies to ever be put on screen, but by the end of the film you can appreciate it for what it was. the film feels like it is very self - aware of itself, which i love, and the action does not disappoint, even though it is very very over - the - top. the acting is not that great and the bad one liners make me cringe, but it is pretty funny to watch at times. the story is not original in any way, but it is kind of forgivable. i enjoyed some of this movie, but some scenes just bored me to death .
cutthroat island
is a guilty pleasure one time around, but that is about it .
one measure of how far mr. lee has come lies in this film' s credit sequence, another of the show - stoppers for which he has long been praised. it' s a far cry from the scrappiness of
do the right thing ,
in which rosie perez danced and boxed to the angry sound of public enemy' s
fight the power ,
to the
clockers
montage of young black men whose fights have already been lost. replicating grisly crime - scene photographs, and softening their horrific look with gentle colors and a lulling score, mr. lee begins with a scathing sense of the futility that
clockers
will describe. the film' s occasional billboard - level denunciations of guns and drugs are superfluous after that .
the three main sections of the film were told from different viewpoints: first tully, then jake, and finally lena. jake was warned not to get involved by various competing interests, and clearly cautioned by american colonel muller (beau bridges) :
when i was at west point, we put a uniform on a mule .
it opened with the hiring of a new unnamed ghostwriter (ewan mcgregor) for retired, semi - disgraced british pm adam lang (pierce brosnan) forced into foreign exile. the body of the previous writer of lang' s autobiography and memoirs, mike mcara, mysteriously washed up on the shore of martha' s vineyard (supposedly he had drowned and had been drinking), when his vehicle aboard the ferry was found abandoned (it was rumored
it was the book that killed him
) .
producer osnat shurer admits that the decision to make moana next in line to govern her village may be the one cultural inconsistency the film got away with. (well, that and the plumeria flowers, which technically came to hawaii after its first contact with europeans. but the animators couldn’t resist adding a splash of color .) “we could consider it a modern update, ” shurer said of moana’s future as chief, which is established in the story as an anchor keeping the adventurous girl chained to her island. but she also points out that there are women chiefs in samoa, and a “fluidity in the pacific islands of how gender is treated. and often a boy might want to be want to be considered a girl, a young woman might grow up in positions that were originally reserved for girls—and people accept it and people make room for it. ”
as he was walking along the deserted, blackened beach, he was whistling and relieved that his killing days appeared over. he was contemplating ending a life of brutality and violence (by throwing his shotgun into the water and moving abroad). but then he was shockingly and depressingly assassinated by a single shot in the forehead from sniper fire - from a man named
j
( identified from his signet ring near the trigger, in close - up) .
fine attention to detail and constant feedback from the oceanic trust helped shape the film on every level. notes from the trust on the kind of curtains in moana’s home, the pits used to cook food, and inaccurate lyrics about coconut husks all resulted in minuscule tweaks that would mean nothing to audiences unfamiliar with the culture, but made all the difference to the trust. a scene in which moana throws a temper tantrum and hurls coconuts down on the sand in anger was cut because, as fonoti puts it, she “raised a flag, ” calling the waste of the sacred coconut “absolutely offensive. ”
instead of using duct tape, the two superglued her mouth shut to keep her quiet. to feed her, elias used manicure scissors to split open her glue - hardened lips, causing her mouth to bleed. she started to pretend that lukas was still alive (and set a place for him at the table) and claimed that he didn' t die in the
accident .
when she soiled herself and was momentarily freed, she attempted to escape, yet fell teeth - first into cement and knocked herself out - awakening again bound in the living room and surrounded by candles .
the mise en scène is completed by some appropriately gritty location choices – a millmoor here, a valley parade there – to provide the dystopian footballing backdrops for the violence and police malpractice. an ominous score composed by will gregory of eventual goldfrapp fame (seriously, everyone’s involved in this film) finishes off the whole menacing feel rather well. its writer vincent o’connell, however, was aiming for something rather grander :
under the influence of that thought, jack is soon trying to revitalize his marriage. this means, really and truly, a scene in which mr. brando blows popcorn around the mickler bedroom and ms. dunaway merrily catches it with her mouth. ms. dunaway doesn' t quite act in this film, but she does behave like a good sport .
the p6, that famous risc that' s tripple the speed of the pentium. it made the powerbook 280c great
the clock on the square at the beginning shows 9: 05pm, and the same clock at the end shows 10: 16pm. the movie takes place in real time .
it was both a complex serial - killer procedural and a neo - noir, with themes of generational sexual abuse, sadistic violence against women, revenge, family secrets, corporate corruption, and nazi racism. it was the first adaptation of the millennium trilogy, a series of books by stieg larsson. there were a number of questions to be answered in the film as it told its story .
clockers
is well served by its lean visual style, well executed by the cinematographer malik sayeed and only occasionally interrupted by a lighting effect or dolly shot that' s deliberately ostentatious. sometimes music swells into the action in the same needless way. but this film' s most attention - getting moments are about matters of real substance. this time, that' s the main hallmark of mr. lee' s style .
i loved all the stupid bits, the pool on the roof, the sprinklers, the video game showdown, the crash and burn in the automated tv studio, the weird superhip hacker underground, the tormenting of bunk, penn jilette, and shaggy just being shaggy .
writer / director joel edgerton' s twisting vengeance - based thriller (his directorial debut film) had some elements of fatal attraction (1987), the hand that rocks the cradle (1992), and michael haneke' s cache (2005). a suburban la couple had just relocated from chicago due to a change in the husband' s work (and after robyn had lost a pregnancy) :
it’s those little esoteric touches that steer the film away from too many potentially naff generalisations. one episode of terrace abuse towards one of their own hapless players – “gerry edwards”, who scores a free - kick shortly afterwards, and is immediately cheered to the rafters – perhaps veers the wrong side of fantasy: “you’re playing on drugs, and i don’t mean speed! ”, our anti - hero quips .
in the pre - title credits sequence, nine years before the events of the film, british agent 007 james bond (pierce brosnan) was working alongside british secret agent 006 alec trevelyan (sean bean). their assignment was to destroy a soviet nerve gas factory at the arkangel chemical weapons facility, but the mission went awry and trevelyan was executed. as he was shot by general ouromov (gottfried john), trevelyan called out :
for england, james .
kids ,
written by 21 - year - old harmony korine and acted by non - professionals, tracks telly - - a 17 - year - old
virgin surgeon
- - through a day spiced up by shoplifting, drug deals and sexual conquest. though nudity is limited, the camera records a panopoly of bodily functions, senseless violence and nonstop decadence in a world in which aids is barely an afterthought .
so he doesn' t. which is all to the good for
don juan demarco ,
a film with serious potential to be third - rate. instead, it benefits not only from mr. brando' s peculiar presence, but also from johnny depp, who again proves himself a brilliantly intuitive young actor with strong ties to the brando legacy. the movie is cheesy, but its stars certainly are not .
[ the film' s plot twist hinged on the fact that lukas didn' t exist, similar to m. night shyamalan' s ending of the sixth sense (1999), and numerous other films, such as carnival of souls (1962), fight club (1999), haute tension (2003), identity (2003), a tale of two sisters (2003, s. korea), the machinist (2004), and the uninvited (2009). ]
after the fall and the breakaway glass was cleared, he opened his eyes and realized that he was experiencing the start of his own birthday party thrown by his living brother conrad. a grand ballroom was filled with guests, applauding him and celebrating his special day - on the 20th of october. conrad was holding up a t - shirt :
i was drugged and left for dead in mexico - and all i got was this stupid t - shirt .
van orton spoke briefly with his ex - wife, and greeted others, and then split the expensive bill for the experience with conrad .
in the hospital, the general had coerced and urged his daughter to forget the incident :
it never happened. none of this ever happened .
when the general met with brenner, he still believed that the rapists couldn' t be caught, and that he had no other choice but to deny the rape. brenner presented him with the list of 6 names - the men in captain bransford' s squad, who had been arrested and faced 20 years in prison. then brenner described that sexually - traumatized elisabeth had deliberately re - enacted or recreated the original rape incident from seven years earlier, just before her murder, to show her father first - hand what had been covered up :
this forbidden knowledge causes no end of trouble for bennett. on her vacation to mexico, she' s romanced by the handsomely accented jack devlin, who turns out to be a hitman who wants to shoot her because she has become aware of basic html. she escapes, getting knocked out in the ocean and waking up in a hospital with a hilariously stereotypical mustachioed mexican doctor who takes a moment to ash his cigarette before consulting about her head injury, only to find out that her identity has been stolen. she' s now ruth marx, a wanted felon, and everything that angela bennett owned has been sold off. worst of all, there' s no one who can verify her identity, because she never, ever left her house or met with anyone in public. apparently no one thought to contact pizza. net, which could' ve cleared things up tout de suite .
in the film' s conclusion, vengeful myra had been shot to death by lilly, and then myra' s face - blasted and disfigured corpse was made to look like lilly' s. roy was called upon, as next - of - kin, to identify his mother at the phoenix morgue - he concealed that he noticed lilly' s right hand did not have its tell - tale cigar burn mark .
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trevelyan was the villainous terrorist of the russian crime ring named janus syndicate, based in cuba in the mid - 1990s, and the mastermind behind the theft of goldeneye .
at the family dock (witnessed by martin), in an act of self - defense in 1965, harriet clobbered drunken gottfried with a rowboat oar and drowned him, and then fled in a car (hiding under a blanket) with the help of look - alike cousin anita (who later died of breast cancer in england at the age of 37), her closest friend. anita had covered up the fact that she had aided harriet in escaping the island. (mikael realized he was mistaken. both anita and harriet were his baby - sitters .) gottfried' s death was blamed on his drinking and a fall into the lake .
he is to cut it into pieces... including the head and the fat. and the priest shall arrange them on the burning wood on the altar .
you know how some movies give away the twist ending in the trailer? well, this movie gives away the twist ending in the title .
i would love to see a sequel but i would really hope the plot is decent. the idea of blaming hackers for a massive oil tanker virus for money was pretty smart. they have a million different ways they could use the idea of a tech virus with the huge amount of technology we are surrounded by today. hackers will go down as one of my favorite cult movies ever and i watch it every single time it is on tv so i would be seriously pissed if they screwed it up. hell i bet they could even get most of the original cast to be in the sequel and maybe even get a small cameo of angelina jolie to make it amazing .
once again displaying formidable skill with actors, mr. lee teases out an impassioned, claustrophobic intimacy between mr. phifer and mr. keitel, as the latter shows off his great improvisatory naturalness even when reciting scripted lines .
clockers
has more difficulty in managing the fine points of a convoluted story, especially one in which the action is often quietly internal. this film' s ending ought to be heartbreaking, but its denouement about the murder is delivered too quickly and not explained well enough to have its full effect .
the hacked version of the website was actually the website. it was a promotional spoof not a real hack .
outside, christine was getting in a taxi on her way to her next game (or
gig
) assignment in australia (with a small
walk - on
role). after she revealed her real name was claire (
you don' t know anything about me
), nicholas invited her to dinner. she counter - invited him to join her for coffee at the airport - the film' s final line :
would you like to have a coffee with me at the airport ?
only if the soundtrack to said sequel was equally as righteous as the original .
afterwards, kent met with brenner and sunhill on a training site, where she hypothesized :
i think this was a woman giving it out all over the post, and the one man who cared about her, the one who' s willing to risk it all for her, is the person she doesn' t want. and that' s because she couldn' t want anybody .
kent confessed to what had happened :
she owned my heart. she tormented me. she became my obsession. so i followed her and found her out there on the range, on display .
when kent came up to her after she had been rejected by her father, she threatened him - and was strangled to death by the spurned soldier :
his relative tameness here may merely be a function of desperate film editing. anyway, only occasionally is he seen behaving oddly or joking around. (
uh - oh, this is gonna be a good one ,
he says at the start of a bedroom scene with ms. dunaway, which mercifully fades to black .) too often, he just appears distracted and goes through the motions, with the occasional wink to his celebrity presence .
you and me been going to the same bakery ,
he jokes to another character, who is said to have been putting on weight .
and he was right: it turns out that gatekeeper is actually just a big back door that gives its programmers (and devlin' s paymasters) access to pretty much everything, since every single company in the world and also the fbi and new york stock exchange have been spooked into using it for security. with all that unfettered access, you' d think they' d be able to focus on, say, world domination, but they mostly just use it ruin sandra bullock' s life, which makes me think that gatekeeper might' ve been programmed by that weird nazi fetish model that actually did ruin sandra bullock' s life. either way, she ends up bringing down the entire company using the virus from the beginning, after devlin makes the rookie mistake of trying to use the escape key .
also includes selected records of the fbi, civil conservation corps, the committee on economic security, and the department of treasury .
the collaboration of mr. price and mr. lee, who share a screenplay credit for
clockers ,
is anything but a likely one: while mr. price isolates the tiniest subtleties in street - wise behavior, mr. lee likes showing his audience slogans scrawled on walls. despite such obvious differences in scale, the film version of
clockers
emerges as a forceful, involving, tension - filled hybrid. and mr. lee, whose direction so often combines the very good and the galling, works with bristling efficiency, proving he needn' t strew so many stylistic calling cards to make his fierce directorial presence known. (a comprehensive two - week spike lee retrospective series begins tomorrow at the american museum of the moving image. )
the set-up is a 1995 crime thriller film directed by strathford hamilton and starring billy zane . it was based on a novel by james hadley chase
the set-up is a 1995 crime thriller film directed by strathford hamilton and starring billy zane. it was based on a novel by james hadley chase
the set-up is a 1995 crime thriller film directed by strathford hamilton and starring billy zane. it was based on a novel by james hadley chase