villain ( 2010 film )
2010 (34th) montreal world film festival - aug. 26 - sept. 6 - world competition
the public was invited to vote for the most popular films in different categories of films presented during the 2010 montreal world film festival .
steven soderbergh' s atmospheric, film - noirish and experimental b / w film was a mystery - thriller tale of sad romance .
in this film, directed by jean - loup felicioli and alain gagnol, leo, an ailing boy hero with special powers, takes on a villain in new york city .
kanye west has tonight (february 24) been unveiled as villain of the year at the shockwaves nme awards .
adorable and refreshingly deep, in regard to the theorizing over the nature of good and evil. is a villain still a villain without a hero? can there be one without the other? can one create goodness, or will absolute power corrupt absolutely ?
gladly, once the film gathers momentum it stands tall as a powerful drama .
the film also features a set “built to resemble a dilapidated nuclear reactor. ”
with a beautiful central performance... villain is a drama that leaves an indelible mark on the viewer
far east films
the 2010 animated film “ a cat in paris ” was a nifty enough confection to have been nominated for an academy award; “ phantom boy ” is the second effort from its directors, alain gagnol and jean - loup felicioli, and it’s not nearly as nifty, alas .
when david fincher’s oscar - winning movie the social network hit screens in 2010, facebook had 500 million users and a valuation of $ 25 billion — facts which appear on the film’s closing slides, along with the information that mark zuckerberg had recently been minted as the world’s youngest billionaire .
villain is a sinewy twisting journey behind the curtain of big society thinking - and what it reveals is at once disturbing and moving in equal measure .
thats all! !! !! !! !! !! !! i wished you can make or repeat to done a wonderful movie like villain .
winner of 5 japanese academy awards, villain, ostensibly a crime film, and a thrilling one at that, transcends its genre trappings. adapted from the critically acclaimed novel of the same name, villain is located somewhere between the elegiac doomed young lovers - on - the run of nicholas ray' s classic 50s noir they live by night and the excoriating social commentary of shohei imamura (pigs and battleships, the insect woman) .
continuing with his interest in ghoulish subjects, burton directed the film adaptation of the popular musical sweeney todd: the demon barber of fleet street in 2007. the film reunited burton with longtime friend johnny depp and helena bonham carter. all three received critical praise for their work on the film, including several golden globe nominations. in 2010, they reunited again in tim burton & apos; s adaptation of lewis carrol & apos; s alice in wonderland, wherein depp played the role of the mad hatter and carter, the red queen .
in addition to his filmwork, burton exhibited over 700 drawings, paintings, and other artwork at new york city & apos; s museum of modern art in 2009 and 2010 - as well as at renown museums around the world .
villain is too long, with a propensity for cliché at vital moments, but its best parts are very good and lee' s direction makes the most of them .
part crime movie, part romantic drama, totally compelling. fascinating in terms of its ethics: as the tagline puts it ,
who is the real villain ?
lee sang - il' s film lasts 140 minutes and after 100 we all want to go home .
the rapper beat off stiff competition to be voted top villain ahead of the x factor ‘s simon cowell, liam and noel gallagher and lady gaga, who were also nominated .
excellent cinematography and performances make this tremendous real - life story worth a film worth seeing. [ full review in spanish ]
the next film in the spider - man series is taking on a distinctly british flavour. english actor andrew garfield was revealed in july as the man who will step into the famous red and blue costume, and yesterday it was announced that welshman rhys ifans would play the main villain in marc webb' s forthcoming reboot .
the tamil nadu state government has announced film awards for six years, from 2009 to 2014, in various categories including best picture, best actor, best actress, best villain, best comedian, best character artist (male), best character artist (female), best director, best scriptwriter and best dialogue writer .
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the film' s theme tied together puberty with blood, sexual desire and metamorphic body changes (including possession and infection) .
people will appreciate how this film won awards for acting. however, slightly overcooked shots and inconsequential moments sometimes sap the control of a very solid drama (running time 140 mins). nevertheless, as each tragedy unfolds, the film becomes gripping. ultimately ,
the villain in transformers 3 is “shockwave, the robot cyclops - turned - laser - cannon, who became dictator of their home world of cybertron after the other autobots and decepticons journeyed to earth. ” makes sense .
early in the movie, when roxanne is asking megamind where he gets the equipment for his super villain lair, minion' s hand is sometimes on the back of her chair, and sometimes missing, between shots .
’s novel' akunin' (' villain'). by the 2011 japanese academy awards, the movie won prizes in all four acting categories and was nominated for 11 others (including best picture, best director and best score). understandably, expectation for a film of such sweeping recognition is high. by and large, it does not disappoint .
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the fast - paced wisecracks and ironic asides that are the studio' s hallmark help to push the film past the lumpy, generic storytelling .
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lee has crafted a sparse, elegant portrait of loneliness, grief and desperation, with some brilliantly convincing performances adding to the film' s appeal .
described the film as
an old - school, kick - ass action movie where people are fighting with knives and shooting at each other .
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“inside job, ” a sleek, briskly paced film whose title suggests a heist movie, is the story of a crime without punishment, of an outrage that has so far largely escaped legal sanction and societal stigma. the betrayal of public trust and collective values that mr. ferguson chronicles was far more brazen and damaging than the adultery in nathaniel hawthorne’s novel, which treated hester more as scapegoat than villain .
drew houpt is credited as
the new duke
, an apparent reference to john wayne (' the duke') who starred in the original film .
for a film whose stock in trade are tongue - in - cheek reversals of comic - book cliché, it too often settles for trite audience - pleasing .
based on real events, this crime action film depicts a seoul detective' s attempts to keep peace while two chinese - korean gangs battle over turf in the neighborhood .
in the hands of hilary swank, sam rockwell and a strong supporting cast, this earnest film manages to tug a few heartstrings and say something important in the process .
tim robbins is an academy award - winning actor as well as an accomplished film director, writer and activist. he had a 23 - year relationship with actress susan sarandon .
loved this film. definitely one of those stories that leave you feeling conflicted and melancholy about the whole. the acting was incredible and the chemistry between satoshi and eri was amazing .
the film works on multiple levels – as a supernatural thriller (though explicit paranormal elements are limited to a hallucinatory dream sequence and the final shot of the baby' s eyes), as a psychological thriller about a paranoid pregnant woman who imagines herself at the centre of a conspiracy, and as the last word in marital betrayal, since the most despicable villain here is surely guy, who allows his wife to be raped by the devil in exchange for an acting role .
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 .
tim conway is an emmy award - winning actor and comic known for his stints on mchale' s navy and the carol burnett show as well as many other television and film spots .
in 2010, quotes from the 2004 history that the social network portrays were already supposed to be funny. they took their humor from the dramatic irony inherent in how quickly the life of the internet was moving along. there’s justin timberlake’s famous line as sean parker: “you know what’s cooler than a million dollars? a billion dollars. ” by 2010, audiences knew a billion dollars was cooler than a million dollars, though they didn’t know that in a matter of years, a billion dollars would sound like nearly nothing. there’s also what is supposed to be a very impressive, seductive moment when parker woos zuckerberg with fancy cocktails and beautiful women, telling him, “they’re scared of me, pal, and they’re going to be scared of you. ” he doesn’t specify who “they” are, but his words call up an idea that was en vogue in 2004 — the point of “disruption” being to piss people off, take names, and charge full steam ahead, without care for any of the un - fun consequences. it inadvertently dates 2010 as well before silicon valley’s very recent anti - bro backlash, the delayed side effect of a hyper - masculine culture of “break stuff, change the status quo, who cares what happens next as long as it’s different. ”
like early haneke without the intellectual rigour but enlivened with beautiful moments of realisation, it' s a film that becomes harder to take the more it sides with its
sensitive
star .
film critics made the understandable mistake of identifying zuckerberg as powerful in only an antiquated sense of the term, but sorkin made the worse one of letting him off the hook as a kid who’d been hurt. (all this supports the argument that, as zuckerberg wished, we shouldn’t have made a film about him while he was still alive .) the social network is still a useful, enjoyable memento, but it’s clearly written with very little appreciation of its own stakes, and a lot of reverence for the brilliance of its central figure. in 2010, it may have read as a searing portrait of the moment when, as dargis said in her review, zuckerberg turned “his life — and ours — into a series of zeroes and ones” but it only took that idea as far as a lonely dinner or a dark room .
a few lines from the film feel particularly hilarious seven years later. for one: “we don’t know what it is yet, we just know that it’s cool. ” facebook... cool ?
by the end of the film, the director desires the audience to have sympathy at arm’s length, but whether that is achieved is arguable. though not completely sentimentalising murder, we’re invited to consider the subtleties and complexities of evil conduct - spontaneity and premeditation, malice and regret. as a taxi driver innocuously remarks after the film’s climax, people who commit such awful deeds as murder must only be inhuman .
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) :
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
final confirmation that movie will be released in 3d. no word on if it will be shot in 3d or converted in post. knowing bay’s obsession with film, i’m assuming he agreed on a post process .
reversing the situation, bond held his enemy over the massive parabolic dish by his ankles, and they exchanged a final brief conversation before bond dropped him: (
for england, james ?
no. for me
). after the villain fell to the ground, the massive satellite transmitter - antenna crashed down on him to end his life .
not the best work by the director sang - il lee, but overall, i was able to appreciate the film quite a bit, thanks to superb performances. wish it went a bit further. perhaps more oomph .
each performance is pitch - perfect, distracting the audience from the fact that this is ultimately lifetime tv movie fodder, and seducing them into believing that it really is a triumphant film about the enduring power of family loyalty .
great performance from mrs fukatsu, fantastic direction, but the movie seems to exist mostly for the final sequence. i liked a lot the sub - story of the father of the victim. flawed film, but with interesting touches .
i' m surprised this movie didn' t get more international attention though. or at least an oscar nomination for best foreign film and best actress for eri fukatsu who was painfully good. ok, i' m done. lol
oman polanski' s first hollywood feature was an adaptation of ira levin' s bestseller, and its success launched a trend for devil - baby, evil - kiddy and satanic pregnancy movies that extended well into the 70s. the novel was first recognised as potential film material at proof stage by low - budget horror entrepreneur william castle, who ended up as the producer and had a fleeting cameo in the film as a man smoking a cigar outside a phone booth .
in 1999, burton directed a freely adapted film version, sleepy hollow, of washington irving & apos; s haunting tale the legend of sleepy hollow, in which johhny depp offered a notable performance as the heroic ichabod crane. in 2001, burton took on an ambitious remake of the 1968 cult classic planet of the apes starring mark wahlberg and helena bonham carter. 2003 saw the release of the fantasy drama big fish, which stars ewan mcgregor and albert finney. the film earned four golden globe nominations. in 2005, he released a remake of charlie and the chocolate factory starring johnny depp and a stop - motion animated feature called the corpse bride, which received an oscar nod for best animated feature film .
after super - villain megamind (ferrell) kills his good - guy nemesis, metro man (pitt), he becomes bored since there is no one left to fight. he creates a new foe, tighten (hill), who, instead of using his powers for good, sets out to destroy the world, positioning megamind to save the day for the first time in his life .
i want to watch this movie so bad! i just finished reading the book and i really liked it. can' t wait to see how it plays out on film. why must the dvd be released in march? : - (
bay claims “one thing we’re getting rid of is what i call the dorky comedy” adding the the twins are “basically gone” but comic relief john turturro returns. bay’s “basically gone” comment seems to confirm that they have a short appearance in the film .
according to a (probably spurious) film - making legend, polanski, having never before adapted a novel, didn' t realise he was allowed to make changes, with the result that his screenplay is remarkably faithful to levin' s book .
the film’s visual design is a sometimes winning mix of styles, most clearly inspired by those of picasso and the illustrator pierre le - tan. (the movie’s villain, called the broken face, could be an overly aggressive suitor of one of picasso’s demoiselles d’avignon .) certain details are jarring, though: all the men wear wide - leg trousers, but seem to have unusually tiny feet, accentuated by weirdly pointed shoes. that my focus was drawn to this sort of detail strongly suggests that the movie doesn’t do its primary job: eliciting an affinity for its endangered young hero. instead of maintaining an effervescent fizzle, “phantom boy” too frequently sputters piffle .
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 .
i guess i' m a sucker for sappy tragic love stories when they' re played out in a particular way. the asians typically know how to do it. villain appears slow - moving and sentimental, with a few scenes too heavy on melodrama and social commentary, but it' s made with skill that transforms the material into a moving and rather powerful motion picture. (i haven' t read the acclaimed source novel. )
now, that closing scene — eisenberg hanging back in a conference room after his deposition, sending a facebook friend request to his ex - girlfriend, then endlessly refreshing his page to see if she’s responded, feels hollow. not only that, it feels stupid. whether mark zuckerberg is an asshole in the small - scale interpersonal sense belabored over in the movie doesn’t really matter — you could call him an asshole for a bunch of grander reasons, like assuming rich people are broadly benevolent enough to replace government safety nets, or calling it “crazy” to remove peter thiel from facebook’s board, and calling it “pretty crazy” to ask whether fake news on facebook helped trump win. zuckerberg isn’t a villain because he treated some people badly when he was 20 years old. if anything, he' s a villain because he’s one of the most powerful people alive, and nobody asked him to be .
ifans, currently starring as drug smuggler howard marks in mr nice, joins a cast that also includes zombieland' s emma stone. stone will play gwen stacy, the love interest for spider - man' s alter ego, peter parker. the new film takes spidey back to his high school days, and does not focus on his usual girlfriend, mary jane watson. it may be that producers plump for an equally leftfield villain. studio sony has not revealed which character ifans will play. the webslinger' s most famous enemies include the green goblin, the lizard, venom, the vulture and doc oc. of the above, all but the lizard and the vulture featured in the previous trilogy of films directed by sam raimi .
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 .
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 .
more jarringly: “you know peter thiel? no reason you should, he just runs a $ 2 billion hedge fund called clarium capital. ” in 2010, americans generally didn' t know who peter thiel was, a fact acknowledged in the script with parker lecturing early facebook cfo eduardo saverin. now thiel is an open wound for facebook. he remains on the board even after he buried a successful, popular news outlet over a personal vendetta, and even as he serves as an enthusiastic mouthpiece for various nightmarish political philosophies. his cinematically secretive data - analytics company palantir is poised to help donald trump make good on several of his most extreme campaign promises regarding immigration .
in 2012, burton worked with depp on a film adaptation of the cult television series dark shadows. writer seth grahame - smith penned the script for this humorous look at a vampire living among his descendants. burton also mined his own childhood for the animated film frankenweenie that same year. the title character—a dog brought back to life after death—was inspired by one of his own pets. pepe
just had a good spirit, that dog ,
burton told entertainment weekly .
the frankenweenie character wasn’t meant to look like him. it was more just the memory and the spirit of him .
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 .
after forming his own production company, burton directed the lavish production batman (1989). with a cast that included jack nicholson, michael keaton, and kim basinger, the stylized feature became the first film to sell $ 100 million in the first 10 days of release. the following year, burton helmed the bizarre but touching film edward scissorhands. featuring notable performances by up - and - coming stars johnny depp and winona ryder (as well as price & apos; s final feature role as the eccentric inventor), edward scissorhands was acclaimed for being both a social satire and a simple tale of love and intolerance .
i went into villain (akunin) knowing nothing about the directors earlier work (apart from the japanese remake unforgiven which was fantastic) and what i watched was a profoundly powerful and beautiful experience and is now one of my favorite character studies. saying this, i can definitely see why some may not enjoy this at all due to the fact that some moments do unfortunately slightly to cross the fine line into the melodramatic zone (which you kind of get used to after watching so many asian movies haha) .
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 .
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 .
as of the end of last year, the company’s own statistics claim it has 1. 86 billion active users. it’s valued at around $ 400 billion. while that seven - year growth is staggering, what’s actually uncanny is how markedly the way we discuss facebook has changed since 2010. when vanity fair put mark zuckerberg at the top of its annual list of 100 worldwide influencers that year (affectionately named “the new establishment”), the publication apparently struggled to justify the choice. zuckerberg’s accomplishments, as listed: “facebook runs more banner advertisements than any other website” and “ [ facebook ] drives more us visitor traffic to some sites than even google. ” in other words, to the average reader: “you know, technical stuff. ”
though one could compare to the classic british comedy
the ladykillers ,
jae gon son' s film
villain and widow
is quite a delight for korean movie lovers. it borrows elements from genres like comedy, romance, and drama to make a film that doesn' t quite fit in any genre but is quite satisfying in the end. a cultural artifact smuggler tells his partner (suk - kyu han) that he obtains a very precious tea cup from china, but hides it in his home without his family knowing it. in a hilarious manner he passes away while his partner is hauled away to jail yet is the only one who knows the secret. few years pass, the widow (hye - su kim) and her teenage daughter are in desperate financial straits and want to rent out the now vacant room in their house to help pay their debts. in a deal with a rich person who wants the cup for his gallery, suk - kyu han moves in with an alias and proceeds to search for the tea cup. what happens next is quite surprising, with director jae gon son delving into serious themes like suicide, depression, and dysfunctional family relationships yet maintaining light - hearted elements. though the ending seems inevitable, i give credit to jae gon son for an ending that is not quite a happy ending and yet suitable for the smuggler and the widow. if you are reading this, then it is most likely you have an interest in this film and i say go see it now !
in the new film sam witwicky is “taking his first tenuous steps into adulthood while remaining a reluctant human ally of optimus prime. “shia has this great line: ‘you know, i’ve saved the world twice, but i can’t get a job.' ” okay, so transformers is never gonna get a screenplay nomination at the academy awards .
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 .
in 1994, burton cast johnny depp as the title character in ed wood —a black - and - white portrait of a middling filmmaker and his all - consuming passion to succeed. although critically praised (martin landau won a best supporting actor oscar for his portrayal of a drug - addicted bela lugosi), the film failed to appeal to mass audiences. after producing the third installment batman forever (1995) and the animated feature james and the giant peach (1996), burton directed the sci - fi spoof mars attacks! the film flopped at the box office despite an all - star cast that included jack nicholson, glenn close, annette bening, and pierce brosnan .
good movie. very long, but doesn' t drag. as another reviewer commented, the title really does make you think by the end who the villain actually is. for me, the young girl at the beginning and her fickle boyfriend are way worse characters! yuichi is flawed and he does some awful things, but there is growth from him by the end. (which also initially confused me until i realised what his motivation was). basically it' s a doomed romance between him and a quiet girl who works in a menswear store .
megamind is a highly entertaining and inventive animated comedy that deserves far more praise than what it has received. i really thought that the film was one of those films that really exceeded expectations, and was quite good with the story, voice cast and 9of course animation. the film has plenty of good comedic bits, and to viewers who enjoy a fun, entertaining comedy that is engaging from start to finish, megamind is definitely worth your time. i thought that the idea here was very good, and of course simple, and while using that, the filmmakers were able to pull off something quite memorable in the process. for what it is, it' s an impressive will ferrell vehicle, and here he does some very good work as the lead character, megamind. if you love animated features, megamind is a film for you. with some great on - screen gags, well crafted story, and good performances from the talent voicing the characters, megamind succeeds at being a wonderful animated comedy, one that uses the bare minimum to really grab your attention. i felt that this movie definitely deserved more praise than what it initially got, and it should belong among the most memorable genre films. megamind has great characters, a good idea that just grabs your attention. what megamind does so well is that it uses its cast to really elevate the film' s material, and since the cast is comprised of some of today' s funniest actors, it' s what gives the film its edge to make it stand out among other animated features, that and it' s visuals, effective direction and well thought out comedy. megamind is well worth seeing if you enjoy animated features and it' s a movie that is well worth your time .
the as - yet - untitled fourth spider - man film is set to debut in cinemas on july 3 2012 and will be filmed in 3d. entertainment weekly has called james vanderbilt' s screenplay
gritty
and
contemporary
, suggesting that it may be in the same vein as batman begins, christopher nolan' s successful 2005 reimagining of the batman series .
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 .
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) :
this call to arms makes you wonder why anger of the kind so eloquently expressed in “inside job” has been so inchoate. and through no fault of its own, the film may leave you dispirited as well as enraged. its fate is likely to be that of other documentaries: praised in some quarters, nitpicked in others and shrugged off by those who need its message most. which is a shame .
directing an ensemble that included michelle pfeiffer, danny devito, and christopher walken, burton reteamed with keaton for the 1992 batman sequel, batman returns. the following year, he produced the animated musical tim burton & apos; s the nightmare before christmas. created with the painstaking process of stop - motion animation, the film became a critical and commercial success, while burton was credited for his technical prowess .
anthony breznican has a new article on transformers 3 titled “next ‘transformers’ is due for a switch” which mostly consists of director michael bay and producer lorenzo di bonaventura explaining what went wrong with the previous installment, transformers: revenge of the fallen (blamed mostly on the rushed schedule and writers strike). there are a few interesting bits about the newest film to be found in the article, here is a sample :
sony' s matt tolmach said :
we have been very fortunate to attract some of the best actors working today to play the villains in the spider - man movies, and it is exciting to see that trend continue with rhys ifans. after seeing his performance in our upcoming film anonymous, we' re in awe of his talent and think he' s the perfect choice to take on this role .
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 .
famed director, producer and screenwriter tim burton was born timothy walter burton on august 25, 1958, in burbank, california. as a child, burton was engrossed with the classic horror films of roger corman—many of which featured quintessential screen villain vincent price. burton also developed a penchant for drawing and enrolled at the california institute of arts, where he majored in animation. in 1980, upon his graduation, he began working as an apprentice animator for walt disney studios. within a year, burton grew tired with his work at disney and decided to strike out on his own. in 1982, he released the award - winning short vincent, which paid homage to the enduring work of his childhood idol .
set in a french - animation dream of new york city, it tells the story of leo, a plucky, kind little boy, very attached to his lovely family, and very ill. but his illness has given him a gift: he can leave his body for certain periods and spy unseen on others. conveniently, he can still speak through his physical body as he does so. and so leo finds himself assisting a bumbling cop who’s laid up on another floor in his hospital. together the two, with the help of the cop’s journalist friend (and, of course, possible love interest), team up to take down a villain who’s blackmailing the city with a deadly … wait for it … computer virus .
conviction could have been a compelling, extremely moving, and heat - warming story, but the way tony goldwyn and the cast of conviction tell it, it' s not so gripping (boring even at parts) and compelling, but it tries to manipulate the audience to care, to cry, to cheer. but to tell the truth, it got about half - way. there is almost no history to these characters, and there are a lot of people to remember the names of, and we are supposed to hate, or love these people, but we don' t know much about them, nor have we seen much of them either. the performances by hilary swank, sam rockwell, melissa leo, minnie driver, juliette lewis, baliee madison, and tobias campbell are what keep this film above water. see this film for the extraordinary performances, if for nothing else .
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 .
[ 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). ]
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 ?
the same was true of mr. ferguson’s previous documentary, “no end in sight, ” which focused on catastrophic policies carried out in iraq by president george w. bush’s administration just after the overthrow of saddam hussein. but whereas that film concentrated on a narrow view of a complex subject — the conduct of the war rather than the at least equally controversial rationale for fighting it — “inside job” offers a sweeping synthesis, going as far back as the reagan administration and as far afield as iceland in its anatomy of the financial crisis .
film critics at the time seemed to be betting that the social network would serve as a major historical document. rolling stone ’s peter travers credited it as the film that would forever “define the dark irony of the past decade. ” jim emerson’s review at urltoken started with 300 words from erving goffman’s landmark 1959 essay “the presentation of self in everyday life. ” the new york times ’ manohla dargis called it a “resonant contemporary story about the new power elite, ” and linked out, on that line, to a summary of c. wright mills’ 1956 book about bureaucratic authority figures. it’s not really clear what emerson or dargis were saying, other than they believed zuckerberg would be pretty powerful, and that the moment seemed portentous enough to warrant tying their reviews to classics of contemporary sociology. it’s a handy, comforting way of trying to slot zuckerberg into power structures that had already been studied, rather than acknowledging the fact that upending those (and replacing them with sweeter - faced but insidious new power structures) was the dna - level goal of what he was building .
in 1984, burton created a unique version of the frankenstein story with the live - action short frankenweenie. impressed with frankenweenie, paul reubens commissioned burton to direct the wildly inventive comedy pee - wee & apos; s big adventure (1985). the success of pee - wee & apos; s big adventure brought about other opportunities, including the 1988 ghost story beetlejuice starring michael keaton, alec baldwin, and geena davis. often considered the prototypical burton film, beetlejuice was recognized for its visual flair and interwoven themes of fantasy and horror .
in a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. surrounded by a small army of minions, we discover gru, planning the biggest heist in the history of the world. he is going to steal the moon. (yes, the moon !) gru delights in all things wicked. armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle - ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential dad. the world' s greatest villain has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named margo, edith and agnes .
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 .
but it is hard to imagine a movie more serious, and more urgent, than “inside job. ” there are a few avenues that might have been explored more thoroughly, in particular the effects of the crisis on ordinary, non - wall - street - connected workers and homeowners. the end of the film raises a disturbing question, as mr. damon exhorts viewers to demand changes in the status quo so that the trends associated with unchecked speculation of the kind that caused the last crisis — rising inequality, neglect of productive capacity, endless cycles of boom and bust — might be reversed .
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 .
bruised and unrecognizable to them, she appeared quick to judge and punish, less loving, more erratic and jealous of her boys' closeness. she required complete silence and peace in order to recuperate: no light in the house and no playing inside among other restrictions. the two frightened sons suspiciously believed that their radically - transformed mother who was now disciplining them more severely than usual, was an imposter. they also believed that she was refusing to acknowledge lukas - as a form of punishment - and not for the real reason - - lukas didn' t exist - the film' s obligatory spoiler twist .
with that in mind, i revisited fincher’s facebook film (written by aaron sorkin, whose script won the best adapted screenplay oscar). the social network was and still is one of the sharpest movies i’ve ever seen — it’s the rare example where sorkin’s reflex for writing witty, whiny men with outsized intellect and poorly disguised narcissism serves as an advantage instead of a handicap. it’s paced with the precision of a metronome, it’s shot and edited like a daylight - hours horror movie, it’s a more seductive scene portrait than almost famous or annie hall, and it has at least four career - high cast performances (andrew garfield, the quietly oscar - snubbed !) .
very multilayered tragedy features some beautiful performances from senior cast members, punctuated by a melancholy score by jo hisaishi. the central love story between lonely woman fukatsu and lonely youth turned murderer tsumabuki is good but runs a bit too long. however, what i really liked about this film is that it takes the time to fully explore all of it' s subplots. the one of the father seeking solace, then revenge, over his daughters murder being particularly poignant. then, the young murderer' s grandmother' s stoicism in the face of adversity - just beautiful, but sad of course. no one does melodrama as well as the japanese, and i' m a sucker for it. be warned. some moments will require kleenex .
dozens of interviews — along with news clips and arresting aerial shots of new york, iceland and other disaster areas — are folded into a clear and absorbing history, narrated by matt damon. the music (an opening song, “big time, ” by peter gabriel, and a score by alex heffes) and the clean wide - screen cinematography provide an aesthetic polish that is welcome for its own sake and also important to the movie’s themes. the handsomely lighted and appointed interiors convey a sense of the rarefied, privileged worlds in which the wall street operators and their political enablers flourished, and the elegance of the presentation also subliminally bolsters the film’s authority. this is not a piece of ragged muckraking or breathless advocacy. it rests its outrage on reason, research and careful argument .
just when we think we' re dealing with a straight forward thriller, the story takes a sharp left turn and plunges us into a much more ambiguous space where good and evil seem to slowly merge, reflect each other, and then swap as the film gradually upends all our preconceptions. yet shimizu is given a temporary oasis from the implacable march of fate in the form of mitsuyo, a young naive woman who, unaware of his notoriety, falls in love with him. convinced that despite his dysfunctional behaviour, where everything, including their own sex, is commodified and stripped of emotion, mitsuyo believes they can find a way to be together. at lunch with her in a twee tourist trap shimizu blurts out his terrible secret. as her illusions about shimizu' s character are shattered, she chooses to replace these with a delusional conviction that somehow their love can transcend the situation and remove them from the normal constraints of society .
, ” which has been the heavy favorite among critics this past year, picked up yet another victory by topping the magazine’s ranking of domestic films .
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villain ( 悪人 akunin ) is a 2010 japanese film directed by lee sang-il , based on shuichi yoshida 's crime noir novel of the same name . it was nominated for numerous awards at the 2011 japan academy prize , including best film and best director ( which was director lee 's second nomination , after his 2006 win for hula girls ) , and won five , which included all four acting awards and for the score by joe hisaishi . 
villain (悪人 akunin) is a 2010 japanese film directed by lee sang-il, based on shuichi yoshida's crime noir novel of the same name. it was nominated for numerous awards at the 2011 japan academy prize, including best film and best director (which was director lee's second nomination, after his 2006 win for hula girls), and won five, which included all four acting awards and for the score by joe hisaishi.
villain (悪人 akunin) is a 2010 japanese film directed by lee sang-il, based on shuichi yoshida's crime noir novel of the same name. it was nominated for numerous awards at the 2011 japan academy prize, including best film and best director (which was director lee's second nomination, after his 2006 win for hula girls), and won five, which included all four acting awards and for the score by joe hisaishi.