Lună: februarie 2009

Google-ul mi-a zis ca multi care au cautat Survivor au aterizat aici . Bine, intre noi fie vorba si cei care sint amatori de dogging s-au prezentat la usa blogului meu in numar mare, dar sa nu dam din casa.
Booon… cred ca am mai zis ca „Salut, sint DeUnDutchable si sint dependenta de show-uri tv” ” Salut, DeUnDutchable!”
Astept de cind s-a terminat sezonul precedent acest moment….Survivor Tocanitis!!!!

Premieres Thursday, February 12, 8:00pm ET/PT

(aproape ca ma ia cu lesin de nerabdare!!!!)
Da, am vazut toate, toate sezoane, am facut maratoane de „Survivor” ca sa recuperez. Hai ca poti, inca un pas si gata…pentru ca apoi vine tortura din fiecare saptamina asteptind noul episod, dar asta este deja altceva.

18th Installment of the Hit Television Series Premieres in High-Definition on Thursday, Feb. 12
CBS today announced the 16 castaways who will compete on SURVIVOR: TOCANTINS — THE BRAZILIAN HIGHLANDS, when the 18th installment of the Emmy Award-winning series premieres Thursday, Feb. 12 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
SURVIVOR: TOCANTINS will prove to be one of the most rugged locations ever visited and the only relief from these harsh conditions will be a river oasis known as the Rio Novo. Left stranded in the majestic interior of Brazil for 39 days, these castaways will battle scorching temperatures, torrential downpours, and dangerous wildlife all in an effort to outwit, outplay, and outlast one another in order to win the title of Sole Survivor.
This season, the castaways will be divided into two separate tribes from the very beginning and these diverse individuals must immediately begin their game based solely on their first impressions of each other. In advance of any formal introduction and before the castaways speak their first words to each other, one person from each tribe will be chosen to remain behind and will not continue with their group on the journey that lies ahead. Will this mean the end for these two individuals or will they get a second chance to make a first impression?

SURVIVOR: TOCANTINS – THE BRAZILIAN HIGHLANDS is hosted by Emmy Award-winning host Jeff Probst and produced by SEG, Inc. Mark Burnett is executive producer and David Burris and Leisa Francis are co-executive producers.

sursa : http://tocantins.survivor.com/ – aici gasiti si protagonistii.

cam asta am avut de spus…acum mai am un episod din „The Mentalist”, o alta noua maaaare pasiune de-a mea.

Am promis  ca o sa vin cu impresii de la festival. Incepusem sa scriu – si numai in gind – dar pina la urma am avut de dus o lupta cu raceala (si inca ne mai razboim) si m-am rezumat la citit de bloguri.
Citeva cuvinte, totusi….
Cu toate ca mi-am luat bilete relativ din primele zile am auzit de nenumarate ori „sold out” gggrrrr…asa ca am ratat niste filme care s-au dovedit „de festival”. M-am dus la casa cu tot programul, casute markuite, cu second option, deci pregatita. Si tot am dat ceva rateuri. In fine, ideea e ca m-am simtit norocoasa (pentru al treilea ani) ca am fost la festival din pozitia sezut.
„Service” – film asiatic. Brillante Mendoza zice ca s-a inspirat dintr-un caz real. Mizerie, sex in toate felurile si pozitiile numai normal nu, o afacere de familie, nu prospera ci doar sa-si duca zilele, concesii pina sus si-napoi, si un copil de 6 ani obisnuit sa asiste la scene de sex oral sau anal. Un cinematograf – pe numele sau „Fmaily” – pentru adulti in care gay-ii se negociau si se vindeau si astfel toata lumea era fericita, contraste peste contraste. L-am notat cu 3, ca am fost indulgenta si a fost primul film vazut dupa ce ratasem unul pe motiv de sold out. 3 din 5, adica de vazut.
„Je veux voir” – film libanez cu o invitata speciala, Catherine Deneuve. Distributia a fost completata de un actor libanez, pe numele sau Rabih. Ea vorbitoare de franceza, el de engleza, pusi sa descopere Libanul dupa razboiul din 2006. Din cite am inteles de la regizori initial s-a vrut un scurt-metraj, sau mediu-metraj, documentar-fictiune. Le-a reusit cu mici exceptii, mai ales la final cind au lungit putin pelteaua cu niste imagini si explicatii in plus. Dar asta sa le fie pacatul. S-a mers pe script si pe ceva improvizatie. pe mine m-a impresionat. Si asa am mai aflat si lucruri noi de care habar n-aveam. Catherine si Rabiah au avut un dialog excelent la inceput, in masina, cind el ii explica faptul ca acea cladire verde e distrusa la razboiul din 2006 si cea de linga la razboiul dinainte. Faptul ca razboiul aduce haos, si cu toate legile, chiar si cele de circulatie, nimeni nu le mai respecta. La ce bun sa-ti mai pui centura cind ei au supravietuit unui razboi? Ideea e ca libanezii au in aluatul lor puterea sa se ridice, sa se scuture de ruine, sa le arunce in mare si sa-si inceapa viata de la capat. Am notat filul cu 4 – merita vazut.
„Boogie” – cel romanesc. Am tinut sa-l vad. Traducerea a fost cam slabuta. Stiiiiu, stiu ca e destul de greu sa traduci exact unele cuvinte/expresii din romana si sa fie redate cu aceeasi putere, dar se putea mai bine. Nu stiu cum se fac traducerile astea. Film fara pic de actiune. Asteptam sa se cam intimple ceva si nimic. S-a mers pe conturarea caracterelor si cred ca aici mi-a cistigat mie atentia. Cum nuantam noi fiecare vorba, cuvint, cit de repede ne pierdem increderea si cit de repede trisam si ce usor e sa-ti inseli partenerul/a doar ca, ce paula mea, ai ocazia si nu trebuie ratata. Mi-a dat nervi la noua jumatate dimineata filmul si de-asta m-a cistigat. Dialog cam fara noima la inceput. Din spirit national l-am notat cu 5 – foarte bun. Dar nu chiar merita, poate 4.:)
„Dogging – a love story”-film englezesc. Ei da, cu filmul asta, in ochii mei, festivalul si-a pierdut virginitatea! Iar am aflat ceva nou, de data asta din cultura urbana, ca sa zic asa…Ce inseamna dogging? Inseamna sex in locuri publice, in masina. A fost o comedie de neluat in serios, primul lung-metraj al lui Simon Ellis care a venit mahmur la proiectie, cu o sticla de apa la purtator si cu mult umor…englezesc, desigur (pe care eu – umorul – il apreciez asa de mult).A venit si cu cele doua actrite, frumoase si rusinoase. Si a mai spus ca s-a documentat vreo trei ani pentru dogging, dar n-a dat amanunte. S-o fi documentat faptic? Anwayz, l-am notat cu 4, pentru ca a fost distractiv si nu trebuia luat chiar in serios. Usor comercial, zic.
Deocamdata ma opresc aici. Am aruncat pareri scrise la cald (de la febra) si cu ficatul agresat de atitea paracetamoale 500 cu cofe4ina care ma tin treaza pina tirziu.

Si trecu si ianuarie!

Jerichow

Germany 2008
Director
Christian Petzold
Producer
Michael Weber

Florian Koerner von Gustorf
Scenario
Christian Petzold
Cast
Benno Fürmann

Nina Hoss

Hilmi Sözer
Photography
Hans Fromm
Editor
Bettina Böhler
Art design
Kade Gruber, Bettina Böhler
Length
93′

Even in his contemporary remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice Petzold reveals himself to be a precise and merciless film maker of interpersonal confrontations in a desolate East Germany.In this contemporary version of The Postman Always Rings Twice, Christian Petzold allows the dishonourably discharged Afghanistan veteran Thomas to return to his home village of Jerichow. His mother has died and he decides to live in her house. Petzold immediately plays it hard with a creditor coming for his pound of flesh. Then by chance the Turkish-German owner of 45 snack bars turns up in Thomas’ life and takes him on as a driver. The businessman, hard and suspicious, reveals himself to be a jealous husband who abuses his beautiful young German wife. Thomas immediately falls for her. A classic drama is born.Petzold sketches less direct action and suspense in this dramatic thriller. Minimal information about the characters’ backgrounds makes them initially as unpredictable as Petzold’s unexpected plot turns. The film is situated in an economically backward area on the north coast of former East Germany, as a result of which the surroundings themselves evoke the necessary unease. As the viewer spends a lot of time guessing the real motives of the three protagonists, the result is a cunning cat-and-mouse game that has to culminate in a dramatic finale. Petzold, one of the most talented of today’s German directors, has in fact made with Jerichow a reprise of his Wolfsburg (2004), in which Nina Höss and Benno Fürmann also play leading roles.

Last Conversation

Netherlands 2009
Director
Noud Heerkens
Producer
Rob Vermeulen
Scenario
Noud Heerkens, Jacqueline Epskamp
Photography
Richard van Oosterhout
Editor
Merel Notten
Art design
Diana van de Vossenberg
Length
75′

Saying that Johanna ter Steege shines in this feature debut by short film maker Noud Heerkens is an understatement. In one spectacular long take (shot with 25 cameras), she plays the tragic figure of the proud, but jilted lover.Noud Heerkens (1954) has for years played an important role in the Dutch film world – as a teacher at several art academies, as a producer and compiler of film programmes and festivals, but above all as a maker of videos, installations, dance films and short experimental films, such as Erasmus Spitzen/Crossing a Bridge on Points, which can be seen as an ode to Rotterdam’s Erasmus Bridge.In 2008, he shot his first full-length feature, Last Conversation. Heerkens posed an enormous challenge for his protagonist Johanna ter Steege and his crew: the whole film was shot in one long take. Cameraman Richard Oosterhout mounted 25 fixed cameras on the car from which the career woman Anna makes one last phone call to her lover. He had ended their extramarital affair a few days before. Anna, a self-assured woman with a good job, is not used to being a victim of other people’s decisions. During the long, dramatic car ride she fiercely resists her feelings of humiliation, loss and sorrow.Unlike previous one-take feature films that have been realised since the advert of digital video, from Sokurov’s Russian Ark (2003) to the Brazilian Still Orangutans (2007), Heerkens concentrates on one person and one character. As a result, the emphasis is on concentration. This makes the achievement of all those involved even more impressive. (GT)

http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en.aspx