I know several people, who felt disappointed aster watching this film by Stephen Daldry, but I had a really enjoyable time. Moreover, I clearly understand, why "The Hours" got an Oscar in 2003 - Nicole Kidman, who star as Virginia Woolf is inimitable!... as usually.

One of the best films I have ever seen ( Read more... )

Beautiful story, which raises an eternal question about life and death and shows changes of their meaning, which appear through interaction of this terms. Izzi defines it as "death as an act of creation". It brings new metaphoric interpretation of humans' desire for eternal life, understanding death as a part of the endless circle of recreation.
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in fast consist of one single story, which is rather simple, however quite unusual and very humanistic. The Home Research Institute has discovered, that an average housewife annually covers the distance equal to that from Stockholm to Congo, while preparing a family dinner, so it was decided to make a research of a movement of a single men in his ( Read more... )

I liked, how all the elements of the film work together to create an atmosphere of time limitation and hurry: this are not just Lola running through the city to rhythmic music and the close-shots of a clock with arrow getting closer and closer to the meting point of "12" in the midday - this is also a very fast change of the shots, usage of ( Read more... )

25, Oct. 2008

Me and Emma spent two and a half hours watching this film by David Lynch and until the last moment both were waiting for something, that would bring all the pieces of a puzzle together, making the whole picture clear. Something did not come.
After watching we read a plod, carefully going through the lines in search for a hidden ( Read more... )

Me and Emma spent two and a half hours watching this film by David Lynch and until the last moment both were waiting for something, that would bring all the pieces of a puzzle together, making the whole picture clear. Something did not come.
After watching we read a plod, carefully going through the lines in search for a hidden meaning, still non of ( Read more... )

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.

Alexander Pope's poem "Eloisa to Abelard"

The narrative of the film seemed quite unusual, thus interesting, however a bit unnecessarily complicated, but I found it much more exciting to ( Read more... )

"The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its margins lies the gulf"

"You need three things in life. A good doctor, a forgiving priest, and a clever accountant"

"Whoever saved one life, saved the world entire"

thank you, Emma.

Few days ago I finally got to see the "Moulin Rouge" (by Baz Luhrmann) without Russian  synchronization (I have seen the very beginning in Nagornij Karabakh (the best place to watch the "Moulin Rouge", isn't it?!), but with all the songs being directly translated into Russian it was not watchable)...
Although this time the film seemed to be much ( Read more... )