Krispy's Blog

The Festival is almost over, with just one weekend to go. I’m pretty tired by now, but I’ve seen some beautifull movies. The list of movies from the last days:

• Kammerflimmern: Movie about a young ambulance driver, who is traumaticed by an accident in his youth. In the accident he loosses both his parents. His live is meaningless for him ever since, untill he gets an emergency call from a young woman who’s friend has taken an overdose. Good camerawork, acting and a nice plot. With some unexepted changes in the course of the movie.
• Team America: World Police: Hilarious movie from the directors of Soutpark. Nobody is spared in this satire.
• Goddess: Prententious movie, not my cup of tea.
• Onde: I can’t even remember what is about… Not a very good sign is it?
• How Arnold won the West: documentary about the recall campaign of Arnold Schwarzenegger in California. Strange and disturbing to see that ideas don’t count, it’s just the image. Politics seem to have become the ultimate wet dream of marketeers in the USA. Is that the country which tries to enlighten the world into democracy? It looked more as the former USSR kind of campaign. With media attention for the places our ‘GREAT LEADER’ has been today, where did he eat, what dit he eat, what did he say. Hallelu and don’t you dare ask a question. Very disturbing.
• Twilight Saloon: An interesting insight in Japan during the late 50’s/ early 60’s. The movie is situated completely in a bar, the guests and employess all have their own story to tell during the movie. Entertaining movie by Uchida Tomu
• The Steel Helmet: Disappointing warmovie about the Korean War. The movie is crowded with cliche.
• Spying Cam: Two men with an camera in a room. Playing, acting, threatening each other. Maybee it is because I mist the first minutes, but the story couldn’t really catch me.
• Bipedalism: Strange movie about even stranger scientific experiments. There are almost no dialogues in the movie. It’s a bit a disturbing movie, the voice-over in the past tense tells you something is going to happen, although it never becomes quite clear what it will be. Magnificient camerawork though.
• Yoshiwara: The Pleasure District: Yet another Uchida Tomu movie, which tells the story about the downfull of a rich factory owner and the uprise of a courtisan.
• Keep Righ: a short movie about two men chasing each other. Very powerfull and dynamic, with a surprising plot. I won’t tell more, ‘cause that would ruin the effect.
• Dead Man’s Shoes: A very powerfull movie from Shane Meadows about revenge. Richard, a veteran and Anthony, his younger brother, return to their home village. Richard is a bit slow, and doens’t want to go back. Richard is back to punish the gang of local drugsdealers, who mistreaded Anthony years before. During the movie the humilliations that Anthony has been through by the gang of crooks come to light. Richard starts his quest almost funny, but it soon becomes clear he is back to bring them all down. Definitely one of the best movies I saw this year. As far as I understood Dead Man’s Shoes has no Dutch distributor yet, which is a pitty.
• Land of Plenty: The new movie of Wim Wenders. I couldn’t stand it, not my cup of tea. After about one and a half hour I left the screening room. This is not the Wenders of Paris, Texas or Der Himmel Über Berlin.
• Baghdad Blogger/Salam Pax – Video Reports from Iraq: It was to early for me, so I must admit that I felt asleep. But it was nice to see a compilation of the reports blogger Salam Pax made from occupied Iraq. Although I didn’t got more faith in US strategies in Iraq.