MIFF Day Eight.
Films seen:
Lorna's Silence, 105 min., Greater Union Cinemas.
Global Metal, 93 min., Greater Union Cinemas.
Land of the Dead, 94 min., Forum Theatre.
Lorna's Silence, a film about an unbalanced woman's plot to make a small sum of money by marrying an ostensibly rich Russian into Belgian citizenship, held such promise for me at its beginning, but unfortunately didn't really carry that through. Unfortunately, I lost interest in Lorna as a character, and being such a character-centric film my interest in it suffered, too. My interest was renewed towards the end of the film when she showed exactly how unstable she was. Maybe I'm just a sadist, but I like to see my main characters in torture and torment, if possible.
Two weeks ago I received a book in the mail. It's bound in black cloth and filigreed, the pages are black, and it lists every single metal band on the face of the planet. I've developed a fun game to play with it. You have to make up the name of an unlikely metal band and check whether it's in the book. Trust me, it's hilarious. The book has also proved to be a good companion piece to a film I saw on Friday called Global Metal. It documented the influence of metal music on culture in different countries worldwide, and also the influence of those cultures on the metal music in those countries. To put this into perspective, I'm generally a sucker for metal music of all types, so I was predisposed to like this film from the start. Still, I think it was an excellent, fun documentary that anyone would enjoy regardless of one's stance on the genre of the beast. It made me really want to go to Japan and hang out with the metal fans there. Global Metal was an absolute delight.
Land of the Dead is the fourth film in Romero's Dead Cycle. It's full of the high camp and splatter you should have come to expect of his films by this point. And it's got a message, kind of. To put that statement into perspective, Dennis Hopper's character, clearly based on George Bush, is heard to remark at one point "We don't bargain with terrorists." 'Nuff said. I'm sure I don't need to say that I enjoyed this film, because I obviously like zombie films and gore films in inordinate amounts. What I do need to say is that there was another clown zombie in Land of the Dead! This makes three that I've spotted so far - did I miss one in Night of the Living Dead? I don't think I did, but I'd like for that to be a common thread.
Lorna's Silence, 105 min., Greater Union Cinemas.
Global Metal, 93 min., Greater Union Cinemas.
Land of the Dead, 94 min., Forum Theatre.
Lorna's Silence, a film about an unbalanced woman's plot to make a small sum of money by marrying an ostensibly rich Russian into Belgian citizenship, held such promise for me at its beginning, but unfortunately didn't really carry that through. Unfortunately, I lost interest in Lorna as a character, and being such a character-centric film my interest in it suffered, too. My interest was renewed towards the end of the film when she showed exactly how unstable she was. Maybe I'm just a sadist, but I like to see my main characters in torture and torment, if possible.
Two weeks ago I received a book in the mail. It's bound in black cloth and filigreed, the pages are black, and it lists every single metal band on the face of the planet. I've developed a fun game to play with it. You have to make up the name of an unlikely metal band and check whether it's in the book. Trust me, it's hilarious. The book has also proved to be a good companion piece to a film I saw on Friday called Global Metal. It documented the influence of metal music on culture in different countries worldwide, and also the influence of those cultures on the metal music in those countries. To put this into perspective, I'm generally a sucker for metal music of all types, so I was predisposed to like this film from the start. Still, I think it was an excellent, fun documentary that anyone would enjoy regardless of one's stance on the genre of the beast. It made me really want to go to Japan and hang out with the metal fans there. Global Metal was an absolute delight.
Land of the Dead is the fourth film in Romero's Dead Cycle. It's full of the high camp and splatter you should have come to expect of his films by this point. And it's got a message, kind of. To put that statement into perspective, Dennis Hopper's character, clearly based on George Bush, is heard to remark at one point "We don't bargain with terrorists." 'Nuff said. I'm sure I don't need to say that I enjoyed this film, because I obviously like zombie films and gore films in inordinate amounts. What I do need to say is that there was another clown zombie in Land of the Dead! This makes three that I've spotted so far - did I miss one in Night of the Living Dead? I don't think I did, but I'd like for that to be a common thread.