i remember seeing “la haine” in the screen cinema in dublin back in ‘95 or ‘96, i staggered out of it a bit shellshocked. the scene in which the dj played to a inneryard as the camera panned and flew around was just fantastic.
apart from “it was pretty much perfect” i dont know how to put “heima” into words. more pictures here.
on the opposite ends of the intellectual spectrum:
i saw fans labyrinth yesterday. it was amazing - violent, scary, enchanting, historical, imaginative and so on. one of those films that affects ones mind when its over. i wandered around dublin in a bit of a daze afterwards. (last time that happened was for “requim for a dream”)
also saw the justin timberlake / snl “dick in a box” video. (youtube link / nbc link). fantastic, funny, löl etc.
i want a wii.
currently watching some random french movie on tv5. its over in a few minutes. still waiting for a happy ending. (erm - i just searched for the above link on imdb. and found out that the main point of the film wasnt what i thought it was. (one of the main characters has hiv - i thought (using my poor french) that she wasnt able to have babies). hmm.)
almost time for bed.
a little while back i went to see the film “the science of sleep” - directed by michel gondry. its one of the best movies ive seen in ages despite (or perhaps caused in part) by a linguistic mashup. the film is mostly in english and french with a tiny bit in spanish. the copy we saw at a film festival didnt have any subtitles - so a woman was sitting at the back of the cinema with a laptop and a fancy machine thingy that allowed her to live subtitle the french parts into finnish. of course it didnt work properly for most of it - so i was reading finnish, listening to french, still laughing at a previous joke in english. hohoh. i sat there smiling like a madman for 105 minutes. anyhoo go see it when it comes to your part of the woods.
previous: december 2003 rant about gondrys directors dvd set.
(i do sort of feel bad that ive started his other film “eternal sunshine of the spotless mind” twice and not finished either time. just does nothing for me. i think i just prefer his own stuff)
omg! i just noticed/realised/remembered that the character of zoé is played by emma de caunes - daughter of “eurotrash” presenter antoine de caunes. madness. mmm.
also: the making of the film: google video link (mais c’est en français!)
within the space of a month or so (with today being near enough to the centre of that month) there is three film festivals on here in helsinki (espoo ciné, doc point and rakkautta & anarkiaa). i love going to the cinema but with so much going on i just cant get my mind into the frame of mind of searching for good movies, going to see those movies non stop for a few days… so i just ignored the three festivals (with the exception of one documentary perhaps).
instead im going to try at least check out some of the events in the “helsinki design week” that goes on in late september / early october. thats it.
tickets booked for a few films at the espoo ciné film festival at the end of the month. woo!
saturday 27th: crash + love + hate
sunday 28th: l’amore di marja + para que no me olvides + il più bel giorno della mia vita + manderlay.
i got back a few hours ago from the opening night of star wars here in helsinki. ten screens in tennispalatsi were showing it, all starting at 3minutes past midnight.
the film was great. i loved it, despite mistakingly buying front row tickets thinking they were back row. so i spent the few hours missing out on a lot of the action due to being so close to the screen.
anyhoo, the movie. it was fantastic, looked fantastic with great little moments and some (typically) horrendous moments. to get the fullest from the whole experience, its a must to watch the 25 “clone wars” episodes that were on cartoon network over the last 18months. the cartoons are so good that when thinking of various scenes from the movie last night, i see them in cartoon style and not actual filmed scenes. check them all out! [clone wars here and here] [clone wars amazon.co.uk link and amazon.com link] (note: dvds contain the first 20 of the 25 episodes)
i keep bumping into jaques tati. a friend, noelani, mentioned him to me first last year and then over the last few days ive been looking and looking for some of his movies. the helsinki library system has some, but only with finnish (and other nordic languages) subtitles (the films are in french). so ive reserved a few of them regardless. basic finnish and basic french should do the job. the orion cinema here in helsinki is showing playtime this sunday. so i’ll go check that out (again using the french/finnish combo).
also: playtime wraps up today in new york [gothamist: jacques tati’s playtime today].
