"I might even end up a rock-"n"-roll god."
This DVD could be said to have an odd mixture of highlights from the band's career, some songs of which might not appeal to those who are not 'dedicated followers' of The Kinks, so to speak. However, for someone who doesn't want to sit through the hit parade and would like to judge The Kinks based on their true nature, this DVD is an inspiring insight into their wit, agendas, their ups and their downs (taking nearly four decades into account), at the centre of which was Ray Davies, a fragile soul, who narrates from his heart in this documentary. A man who would redefine how many thought of music, whose life unquestionably had an impact on what some critics now call the best songwriting career in the history of English pop music - 'a national treasure,' the Sunday Times claimed.
A rock-"n"-roll god. Undoubtedly the godfather of heavy metal. 15th July 1973. The aspiring artist, the valiant vocalist, the deathly depressive, Raymond Douglas Davies had resorted to something his fans would never have suspected.
"Face torture and death," Ray had once advised. Face? This man had nearly self-inflicted torture and death. However, on that day, he had successfully proven to everyone how sensitive and fragile he really was. Ray Davies was not immortal; he was just an ordinary man endeavouring to supersede the likes of Chuck Berry and Little Richard. Ray was truly a rock star on the surface, but the splintered soul suppressed within, the mortal "Max", was perhaps what drove him to write such thought-provoking songs about quintessentially British society.
Ray Davies, his face stony, his eyes wide with a foreboding glare, his frame rocking indecisively, "Take them whenever you feel depressed," he recalled from the doctor"s surgery. Ray contemplated that he felt down every five minutes and, logically, would need to configure his dosage accordingly.
A glossy sheet of tears coated his dilated pupils, proceeding to snake down his rose-coloured cheeks and between the cracks in his skin. He thrust out a quivering hand towards the box, failing to grasp it as the atmosphere shifted and inverted. His fellow Kinks had been thrashing at the door for over an hour, a band of ghostly silhouettes. The cacophony of an ambulance outside juxtaposed with the satanic chortle of Max. Heartbeats. Sirens. Darkness. Death.
Death. Ray was a sophisticated man. Death was inarguably a theme he had understood, yet he had avoided it in the witty lyrics of his flamboyant songs. Then again, Ray had never composed songs about his fascinating life; he had always preferred to conceal his face behind the mask of a social study. There had indeed been many "days in the life of", including the Dedicated Follower of Fashion, Mr Reporter, the working-class man who lazed on a Sunny Afternoon and even an organisation known as The Village Green Preservation Society, dedicated to the conservation of nostalgic village greens, close-knit communities and comic-strip characters such as Desperate Dan.
A blinding light at the end of a tunnel, flashing memories of a village green before him. "I miss the village green, the church, the clock, the steeple, I miss the village green and all the simple people, I miss the morning dew, fresh air and Sunday school." His own characters had spoken to him as if with personalities of their own. Mr Flash bloodied the knife of a promising successor. Preservation was his objective. Preservation had preserved his life ... and Max was asleep at the time.
Preservation was the title of an unsuccessful dual-release Kinks album, of which Act 1 was released in 1973; Act 2, in "74 six months later. It seemed that so many Kinks LPs had failed to chart since the row of top-ten hits in the sixties. On the other hand, the charts were never vital to an established fan base, who believed their favourite band had done something revolutionary for the world of music. Ray Davies had surpassed his charming concept album idea by elevating one step further. He had ingeniously imagined the prospect of a musical soap opera with a plot and cast of characters that progressed along with the albums. Not even manic depression and a near-death experience could prevent Ray from conjuring up novel ideas. Pete Townsend of The Who, who had their fair share of hits in the sixties, said of Ray, "He is probably my favourite songwriter of all time."
Yet Ray"s fight with fame had been a hard struggle. A lot of Ray"s songs detailed of his wish to just run away from all the glory. Sitting in My Hotel, for example, features a straining voice squeezing out the lyrics, "If my friends could see me now in a chauffeur-driven jam jar, they would laugh. They would be saying that it"s not really me; they would all be asking who I"m trying to be."
Ray Davies had never hoped for a life of fame and fortune, and there had always been doubts about how he would cope in later life. "You"ve got tough hands, little David," his father had expressed about a young Dave, "you"ll be alright. But I"m worried about Ray because he"s got really soft hands."
On the 21st June 1944, little did the world know that a radical British rock star was about to be born in Muswell Hill, North London. It would only be a matter of years before his superior band christened the stage with something unique, something kinky and indescribable it had never had before.
Ray and his younger brother, Dave, were members of the massive Davies family and were the youngest of eight children, whose ages spanned almost thirty years. Additionally, six of the children were female, two of whom lived away from the family home. The two brothers spent most of their childhood apart, as Dave lived with a sister called Renée and Ray lived sometimes with another sister, Rosy, and her husband, Arthur; other days, in his family home. Consequently, Arthur provided Ray with inspiration for an album named Arthur, or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire in 1969 - a concept LP following Arthur"s emigration to Australia.
In their portentous teenage years, Ray and Dave were magnificently musical people. They would often get the adrenaline rushing through their blood vessels by playing skiffle and rock-"n"-roll. Through The Kinks" career, this adrenaline never disappeared. Ray had encouraged the fans to throw paper plates at him during concerts and was frequently balancing a pint of beer on his head when performing the song Alcohol. Wherever The Kinks went, there was a guaranteed riot among the crowds; Ray solved this by dancing on top of the piano, rendering people frozen with amusement. However, this hadn"t prevented The Kinks" ban from the United States, though the Americans had originally loved them for the harsh riff of the 1964 break into fame You Really Got Me, created by slicing the amplifier with a pen-knife.
Recognising such kinky, eccentric moments like this, it is a depressing shame that everyone has heard of great bands like The Who, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, but The Kinks are no longer as widely known. The legacy of The Kinks, though, still survives in some hearts and they continue to achieve.
For example, in the year of 1990, Ray Davies was elected to the Rock-"n"-Roll Hall of Fame. He has since fathered a child, Natalie Rae Hynde, with Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, the third partner after wives Yvonne and Rasa, who had left him in 1973 with his two previous children, partly the reason that caused him to attempt suicide. He had also proceeded to write his semi-fictional autobiography X-Ray cleverly subtitled the "unauthorised autobiography". Then, he was awarded CBE at the 2003 Queen"s New Year"s Eve Honours List for his "services to music".
Only days after these events, in New Orleans" French Quarter, Ray was with his girlfriend when a thief stole her purse. Ray, attempting to recover his girlfriend"s property, was shot in the leg. While the police focused their efforts, he was in the Medical Center of Louisiana making a rapid recuperation from a near-lethal wound infection.
Afterwards, on the 22nd June 2004, Ray went on to win the Mojo Songwriter Award, beating the groundbreaking artists Nick Drake, Paul Weller, Elvis Costello and Paul McCartney in the British field of nominees. He apparently won the award because of "his ability to produce classic material consistently".
These awards were demonstrations of Ray"s song-writing brilliance, but what of his present-day personality? On a weblog, an interviewer revealed the following:
"Mr Davies proved to be a gracious, charming, soft-spoken gentleman, who escorted me backstage and pointed out where the microphone on my tape recorder was (it was upside-down, I was a little nervous) without the slightest hint of condescension. But a randy rock-"n"-roller still lurks beneath the veneer of the "well respected gentleman". When we embraced after the interview, I felt his hand firmly and affectionately take hold of my left cheek. And I"m not talking about the one on my face."
By now, I am sure that Ray has fulfilled his goal, even though he has said, "If had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done." I guess that it would be without his imaginary enemy, Max, who apparently halted The Kinks" world domination whenever they had success. But I don"t think Ray would be the same without Max.
Truth be told, much of The Kinks" repertoire is overlooked or underrated, but the influence and novelty he held on British music was undeniable. Yet I know The Kinks" legacy lives on with the current generation through people like me who adore them, and the unforgettable band"s spirt shall hopefully continue until the end of time. Rock on, Kinks, rock on!
I enjoyed watching this dvd. I am a big fan of the simple life and this didnt disappoint me.
Worth watching if your a a fan of paris and nicole.
Very funny!
I would give this dvd 8 out of 10.
The three films in this boxset abound with love for their characters. And that makes every minute of each of the films ouze with beauty. The films follow Apu, the son of a poor Brahmin in rural Bengal. When we first meet him all we see is one big eye staring through a blanket as his rebellious older siter tries to get him out of bed. Each film deals with love, loss and the struggle to survive in a changing world. The first film "Pather Panchali" features the young Apu and his sister exploring their lush world as their parents, or rather mother, struggles to feed them, while her husband prefers to write poetry and fails to get the money he is owed by the local landholder. All the while the meddling neighbours only make things less pleasant. In the second film, the first time we see an older Apu, he is poking his head around the worn corner of a Calcutta tenement. This one takes place in a decaying urban environment, where the neighbours are equally nosey. In the third film, "The World of Apu", the protagonist is suprised to get married, falls in love and has a child. As with all the films, the love between and for characters dominates the viewing experience as the audience's emotions fly up and down with those on screen. I think you have to be heartless not to enjoy these films.
1950s melodramas might not be popular among the young and /or socially progressive these days. But this collection of Douglas Sirk's "women's films" suggests that they should be. The boxset features seven of the German emigre's films with acceptable to good image quality. The first film in the set is "Has Anyone Seen My Gal?". It opens up with the question: "This is a film about money. Remember it?", before it demonstrates that money is not everything, but human contact, community and friendship is. It is a fun film, full of cliches (it uses them well) such as the wealthy man feigning poverty to witness the real side of a family he wishes to benefit. The second film is "Magnificent Obesession", "perhaps the greatest weepie of all time", and a tale of a selfish and immature playboy who causes the death of a local doctor (and hero) whose widow he then falls in love with, who he also blinds. The playboy (Rock Hudson) slowly redeems himself by first being told and then learning the true meaning of altruism. Perhaps my favourite film in the set is "All that Heaven Allows", inspiration for Fassbinder's "Fear Eat Soul" and Haynes' "Far From Heaven". This one is another love story, as middle aged widow falls in love and struggles to maintain a relationship with her young gardner (Rock Hudson, again). This is not easy for her as she faced the scorn of her neighbours, community and, worst of all children. He, however, is a pure of heart and beautiful man, and there is, no suprises, a happy, and wonderfully shot ending. I am afraid that I have made these films sound a bit sanctimonious, but, believe me (and watch them), they are not. This is one great boxset with seven good DVDs of seven great films, made one great man. And it is cheap. Fassbinder wrote that: "I have seen six films by Douglas Sirk, including the most beautiful in the world". That film is inclued in this set, watch it! And one quick afterword, as to who and how great Rock Hudson is, a man at an AIDS support group when the media discovered that Hudson was gay and had AIDS said: "A few days ago, I was just another person with AIDS whom nobody cared about. Now I have Rock Hudson's disease, and everything has changed."
Todd Haynes' films always delight me, and "Safe" is one of his best. Carol (played brilliantly by Julianne Moore), bored, wealthy housewife, and mother of one, loses control over her safe suburban environs, and her domestic idyll turns against her. Her allergies proliferate rapidly, her nose bleeds, respiration becomes irritated and her stomach nauseous. Her husband freaks out, a little bit. And her doctor tells her there is nothing wrong. A TV show, however, leads her to believe she is one the growing, but few, poor individuals who suffer from "environmental illness". As she shuns the unnatural (car exhausts, air freshener, etc.) for pure, oxygen tank, she becomes distanced from her friends and family, also recoiling from sex with her husband. Her low impact existence is transformed as she starts to stand out from those around her. As her illness (Haynes" never really tells us whether "environmental illness" is real or not) escalates, she seeks solace and perhaps her lost anonymity in a retreat of people all with the malady. Because Haynes never tells us what to think about Carol, her illness and existences (even her husband is an unambiguous character, swinging between sympathetic and harsh) "Safe" is interesting in several ways. As a drama about an unknown illness it sometimes seems to parallel the intrusion of HIV into middle-class culture. Because her illness is not diagnosed as immune system related, or medically diagnosed at all, this, however, does not explain its entirety. As a possibly psychosomatic illness emerging from a safe and bored bourgeois life, it suggests criticisms of Carol"s lifestyle, as the film"s melodrama replaces the lack of real drama in these people"s lives. As well as engaging with ideas and people that a lot of us can recognize in our and other"s day-to-day lives, "Safe" also, through this recognition and its ambiguous characters (including "environmental illness"), is also emotionally engaging, and thus entertaining. This is one of my favourite films of the last ten years or so. Highly recommended.
The Simpsons Season 10 is one of the best seasons of the simpsons but some of the episodes are starting to be very bare. Probably the best episode on the season is "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace", when Homer is inspired to become an inventor by the example of Thomas Edison. He turns out to be not very successful. Some of the episodes that seem to lack in comedy are "bart the Mother", "D'oh-In the wind" and "Wild Barts can't Be Broken". After season 9, the episodes have seemed to "die". A new addition to this season is the introduction of "Simpsons Bible Stories" although these aren't nearly so good as the "treehouse of Horrors". Even with all the draw backs, this DVD is still worth buying. "Happy Shopping!"
There is something great about "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" that is really hard to identify - and it is not the photography, which is clearly stunning. It shows the last stage of Jesse James" life as his paranoia becomes rampant, his friends and family distant, and his world-weariness looms large. The entire film is haunted by a kind of sadness (expressed in its pacing, music and cinematography), and the questions how and why did the ruthless James become a hero for many Americans during and after his lifetime, and one of the first figures of celebrity in the Western world. Despite what I thought were several flaws, it was my favourite movie of 2007 and I watched it in the cinema twice. At first I wasn"t too impressed with Pitt"s Jesse (he didn"t give the taciturn James quite enough emotional range in the face), but was very impressed by Affleck"s Bob Ford. I thought the secondary characters were all brilliant. I was unsure whether it was a subtle and compelling critique of the cult of celebrity, or guilty of a bit of hero worship itself. I found Nick Cave"s cameo jarring and out of place in the film, but the music was otherwise excellent. It didn"t feel like a western (or any other genre film), either, so no clue how to feel about it there either. After a third watch, I am still not too sure why I think this film is brilliant, and its many parts effect me differently every time. Maybe next time... And I can say that it is a beautiful film, though-provoking and entertaining.
I have watched this film so many times yet I never tire of the characters. Julie Christie is superb in the lead role, her beauty and charm shine through in her loving yet temperamental character. Terrence Stamp the handsome rogue who steals her hearty and nearly destroys her is captivating. The sop who loses everything is wonderfully portrayed by Peter Finch. Alan Bates the tough, stoic hero who stands by her to the end and says the immortal words ............................................. but i had better not tell you as it would spoil it for you but when you hear them you will know!!
This wonderful story, written by Thomas Hardy, is a timeless creation of innocence,love, passion, desception and betrayal. It makes you fall in love with the heroes as well as the villians and invokes feelings of pity and despair for all the characters as we watch them rise and fall as fate deals their hand.
This is my my favourite Quentin Tarintino film a must have for any movie fan.
John Travolta, Samuel L Jackson & Bruce Willis are all on this movie go buy it.
10/10
How do you pick 80 artefacts, places or things which represent what humans have done over thousands of years? A great deal of in-depth knowledge helps, for a start. Dan Cruickshank certainly has that. This series is the story of how he travelled to 40 countries in search of the treasures on his list. Some are well known: the Taj Mahal; the Parthenon; the Great Wall of China (but no less impressive just because of their fame.) Others are less famous: Leptis Magna in Libya (I knew nothing of this before watching the programme); Angkor Wat in Cambodia; the underground city of Goreme in Turkey. There are surprising choices, too: the Volkswagen Beetle, the Seagram building in New York and the Sydney Harbour bridge. Dan Cruickshank has a distinctive presentation style and his vocal inflexions take a little getting used to but we can forgive him this because of his overwhelming enthusiasm for everything he sees. He interprets the treasures and places them in context for the layman without ever being patronising. If you like to see the world but don't feel you'll ever get to these far flung places, watch this series. It's an astonishing eye-opener.
Dan Cruickshank travels the world in a quest to find 80 treasures which play a part in the story of human endeavour.
When I first heard about this movie and about how good it is I just thought "it can't be all it's cracked up to be!" I watched it and went home with an aching stomach from all the laughing. The actors fit the roles perfectly and the plot is brilliant. The storyline of the film is basically of this boy called rod Kimble (Andy Samberg) in his late teens who is in his crew and does stunts which the crew members all help to make happen. Rico (Danny McBride) builds the ramps, Dave, (bill hader) is the mechanic and Kevin, (jorma taccone) rods half brother, is the team manager. Through the film you can tell that rod really fancies Denise (isla Fischer) and loves it when she joins his so called crew. Rod finds out that his step-dad, frank, is dying from a heart problem and needs 50,000 dollars for the operation. Rod decides that he and his followers will raise the money by doing one big jump. Fifteen buses! One more than evil knevil jumped all those years back. An am radio station sponsors this jump and he crashes but still makes it to the target of fifty grand. He gets together with his dream girl, Denise. It"s the best film I"ve seen in years and years.
After a career more than half a century, Ray Harryhausen is still a giant in the field of animation. He even had a nightclub named after him in Monsters Inc., that"s seriously big-time. Although he didn"t invent stop motion animation, Harryhausen"s work on films such as Jason and the Argonauts, Clash of the Titans and the Sinbad film series expanded and refined the art form like no other animator had done before. This DVD of Harryhausen"s early work is a must for fans of the man himself as well as those who love good animation. Disk One of this set features the excellent early films Mother Goose Stories and Fairytales (which have been fully restored by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and now feature introductions by Ray Harryhausen) as well as the story of the making of The Tortoise and the Hare and, on DVD for the first time, Harryhausen"s early film tests and experiments. Although these early films may seen somewhat simplistic compared to modern animation, the stories are excellent and there"s a special kind of magic that accompanies good stop motion animation. Disk Two contains the kind of bonus material that would really appeal to dedicated Harryhausen fans: footage of the reunion between Harryhausen, Ray Bradbury and Forrest J. Ackerman, Harryhausen"s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony, a tour of the Harryhausen exhibition at Berlin"s Filmmuseum, galleries of rare photos and sketches, and a star-studded tribute to Harryhausen and his work. Although Disk One would no doubt be watched the most, this is an excellent tribute to Ray Harryhausen and the genius of animation.
More evidence that Matt Dillon is, perhaps, the greatest actor of his generation; Dillon plays troubled writer Charles 'Barfly' Bukowski's thinly veiled alter ego; Henry Chinawski: work-shy writer, alcoholic and lover of the finer things in life. A factotum (i.e. worker who does a variety of jobs) who lives for booze, women, booze, writing and gambling (in that order). Norwegian director Bent Hamer's skilful adaption of the text can be a tad depressing at times; as we watch Chinawski crash from one dive to another, fumbling around in a drunken stupor (though never too inebriated to spend time with the likes of Lilly Taylor or Marisa Tomei and offer insightful viewpoints on life). 'Factotum' is a well written, brilliantly acted stream of consciousness, an often bizarre balancing act between the depiction of socio-economic reality and tragi-comic surrealism. At worst; Chinawski a man who squanderers his talent for life's fleeting pleasures, but he's never a villain, nor a loser and his closing advice is nothing short of an eloquent polemic that asks us to join him in the vehement rejection of mediocrity, in spite of society and all its flawed doctrines masquerading as rules-to-live-by. 'Factotum' is a film that requires a second viewing in order to fully appreciate its subtleties / downbeat humour and is, quite simply, one of the best movies ever made.
The Heartbreak Kid (2007)
What is it with Ben Stiller? Really, I mean we"ve all seen him be funny...come on now, there"s a film you"ve liked him in, I guarantee...even if you have to go all the way back to "Keeping the Faith".
The thing is, there"s an underlying, almost aggressive, "unlikeable-ness" going on here, and it"s not the first film he"s displayed this in. It could be just bad direction, but what is no doubt meant to be madcap, manic stuff comes across as bad-tempered, ill-judged indulgence here. Granted, there are a few promising laughs at the start of the film, but it"s downhill from there. (The trek across Mexico? Why? Clearly running out of ideas, it"s as shabby as the "comedy" is by this point.)
I haven"t seen the 1972 version but I"ll bet this "remake" is another which bears little resemblance to a good original film which does not deserve to be associated with an inferior modern rehash.
Come on Ben, we know you can do better. You"re even managing to denigrate by association at the moment; on first sight of Malin Akerman in "27 Dresses" this week I cringed as it brought back memories of this film. Onwards and upwards from here I hope.
Back in 2004, the citizens of Paris were able to enjoy an exhibition commemorating the literary characters seen as having done the most to promote Britain across the Channel. It came as quite a surprise to most Brits that, rather than honouring the feisty Bennett girls, the heroic Bond, the dashing Shakespearian heroes or even Noddy, the French chose the cigar smoking, whisky drinking, adventurers Blake and Mortimer as the epitome of Britishness. Created by Edgar P. Jacobs, a friend and collaborator of Tintin creator Herge, the comic strip adventures of Captain Francis Blake, the never seen without a stiff upper lip head of MI5, and Professor Philip Mortimer, a red-haired Scottish nuclear physicist, have been entertaining French speakers for over sixty years. The comics proved so popular that a television series was produced in Canada in 1997 which has now finally been dubbed into English and released on DVD. This boxed set includes all twenty-six episodes of the original series and follows Blake and Mortimer as they travel through London, Paris, Cairo and Tokyo (and occasionally even through time and space) risking their lives while chasing down criminals, spies, mummies and other ne"er-do-wells on a daily basis. The thrill of the original adventures can still be found in this series even though many of the original stories have had to be trimmed and tamed in order to fit into the time available to each episode. Although the animation and plots are generally excellent, the series is slightly let down by the dubious Canadian, American or Scottish-by-way-of-Ottawa accents given to these supposedly archetypal British characters. The Adventures of Blake and Mortimer is a wonderful series capturing the type of thrilling exploits and daring-do not often to be found in cartoons anymore and is a real treat of watch, especially for fans of the comics.
Another far-fetched adventure in which the Simpson family are caught up. This mystery tour includes near death experiences, frequently funny punch lines and mutated animals. After grandpa has an out of body experience he predicts that terrible things are going to happen. Marge becomes paranoid about this premonition and urges everyone to be extra careful. When Bart gets dared by his very child like father figure to skate to Krusty burger and back naked, Homer acquires a pig and appoints him as his side kick. But when he has to come to the decision of if he wants free donuts or to dispose of "Harry Plopper's" waste you guessed what he picked. After dumping the silo in the lake he therefore dooms the whole town because the EPA (environmental protection agency) covers the whole of Springfield by a massive dome. The townspeople come as an angry mob and destroy the Simpsons' home. The family escape the dome and emigrate to Alaska where they find out that Homer wants to stay there. Homer has an epiphany and realises that in order to save himself he must save spring field from a bomb which is whats going to turn spring field into the next Grand Canyon! This is a great storyline and is a must see family film. Matt Groening has done Springfield proud!
Quite simply, greatest tv show ever made.
Slick, though not entirely successful, take on the old body snatchers tale which sees Nicole Kidman as a frantic mother trying to save her son from aggressive alien assimilators who're pacifying the Earth at an alarming rate, in German auteur Oliver Hirschbiegel's ('Downfall') troubled, but nonetheless intriguing, Hollywood debut. Marked with the cuts & bruises of studio intervention, albeit ones inflicted by 'Warner Bros' most reliable, if unlikely, hatchet men; living legends the Wachowski brothers and 'V: For Vendetta' director James McTeague. 'The Invasion' is a thoughtful, smooth and sophisticated sci-fi dragged kicking and screaming into Joel Silver's world of high-octane thrills & car chases; it's the cinematic equivalent of asking Yehudi Menuhin to smash his violin and beat up the front row orchestra after a masterly rendition of Elgar's Cello concerto in E minor. Hirschbiegel's work-in-progress picture raises some good moral dilemmas; the most obvious being that would society be willing to sacrifice emotion for peace, or would we be so far gone that the basic concept of what had been achieved, would elude us? I loved the satirical conceit of depicting the corporate media as pre-victim drones, literally ingesting & essentially regurgitating the vitriol of infected politicos; though the assimilation effects aren't that good, in fact, it probably would've been better if they'd just wrapped the drone's faces with cling film instead designing of some complex CGI that ends up looking like cling film. Nicole Kidman puts in a good performance, Jeremy Northam is effectively menacing as her ex-husband (now an alien) Daniel Craig is a bit of bore and Jeffery Wright provides solid support in an exposition heavy role. And though I liked the literal Goya reference of the sleep of reason bringing monsters (i.e. our reluctance to face the horrors inflicted upon us by the powers that be) 'The Invasion' is simply begging for a director's cut: one which highlights its key point of differentiation being humanity's filter to separate the wheat from the chaff. A few minor alterations to the movie's structure is bound to make all the difference, and will surely reinvent this film as a defining landmark in modern sci-fi, up there with the likes of 'Blade Runner' and 'Solaris'. Watch this space.
if you step into the craziest dream of a bohemian artist, you may understand the beauty that is eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, created by the visionary excellence of direction by michael gondry, and screenplay by charlie kaufman.
the two men work wonderfully together to make the "tragic love" between joel and clementine, destined to love and hate, never knowning which itll be.
the film takes us on a journey of the relationship and those around them at lacuna inc, the company which erases the minds of joel and clementine of one another, with excellent performances from tom wilkinson, elijah wood, kirtsen dunst and mark ruffalo.
however, the two lead actors, played by jim carrey and kate winslet really do stand out, breaking their usual actor bounds as "corset kate" and "jim ace ventura carrey", showing a sensetive and often, overwhelming brilliant side to the roles.
i believe that eternal sunshine of the spotless mind is one of the very best films ever made, and shows just how amazing a film can be with a little imagination.
this will be a great film for anyone who likes art, comedy, photography and visual technique, plot twists and hair dye!
a story about two very different people with one thing in common, each other.
joel and clementine.
one reserved, an artist, is "nice".
one is loud, brash, and "applies her personality through paste"
their love grows for one another, until clementine knows that shes had enough for her wayward life, and gets her memories of joel erased.
once discovering this process, joel erases clementine to save from further heartache, but soon realises that he wants to remember her forever.
Funny from start to the end. It is one of them things you can watch again and again and find new things to laugh at. Good, clean, family humour
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