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Taste of Cherry review

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POLITE APPLAUSE
TASTE OF CHERRY: Drama. Starring Homayon Ershadi. Directed and
written by Abbas Kiarostami. (Not rated. 95 minutes. Today through
Thursday at the Castro, opening May 15 at the Towne 3 in San Jose.)



“Taste of Cherry,” opening today at the Castro, is the newest import
from Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (“Through the Olive
Trees”). A humanist in the tradition of Satyajit Ray and Vittorio de
Sica, Kiarostami tells simple, compassionate stories that are so
lacking in Hollywood effects and cosmetics that they come as a
surprise.

“Taste of Cherry,” which won the Palme d’Or at last year’s
Cannes Film Festival, is the story of Mr. Badii (Homayon Ershadi), a
middle-aged man who wants to die and
goes looking for someone who will bury him after he’s killed himself.
Driving though the outskirts of Tehran, he encounters a series of
men, asks them to ride with him in his car and then makes his
proposal.

His possible accomplices include a laborer who gathers and sells
plastic bags, a timid Kurdish soldier, a security guard, an Afghani
seminarian who quotes from the Koran and a
Turkish taxidermist who urges Mr. Badii to embrace life (“Every
problem has its solution — you want to give up the taste of
cherries?”).

That’s really all that happens. We don’t learn anything about Mr.
Badii’s profession, his family or the roots of his exhausting despair
– only that he’s “decided to free myself from this life.” Ershadi
is such an eloquent actor, with such large, sad and expressive eyes,
that his bearing and his face tell us enough.

The dialogues in “Taste of Cherry” open up to religious and
philosophical debates, and the men that Mr. Badii encounters become
reflections of him in different ways. When the seminarian argues
there
is no difference between murder and suicide, Mr. Badii says, “I know
suicide is a sin, but being unhappy is a great sin, too.”

Kiarostami doesn’t take sides or judge Mr. Badii but arranges his
story, which takes place in one day, in a way that allows for
ambiguity and contradiction and gives us the option to decide as we
wish.

A warning: The pace is very slow in “Taste of Cherry,” with long
takes and leisurely, repetitious shots of Mr. Badii’s car twisting
through a hilly countryside. Kiarostami is in no rush, but the
respect and love he shows for his characters, and the confidence and
simplicity of his technique, make “Taste of Cherry” a satisfying
experience.

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Mar
07
2010
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Erotique (1994)

POLITE APPLAUSE
Starring Kamala Lopez-Dawson, Priscilla Barnes, Camilla Soeberg and
Tim Lounibos. Directed by Lizzie Borden, Monika Treut and Clara Law.
(Unrated. 90 minutes. At the Lumiere.)



Sex should be a natural for the movie camera, but somehow it
isn’t. In the exalted capacity of movie reviewer, I have the
privilege of seeing hundreds of simulated sex acts in the course of a
year. Most of these scenes look belabored, by-the-numbers, tired. The
ones that work are those that seem personal, that make you believe
the people on screen really desire each other.

The love scenes in “Erotique,” a collection of short,
sexy films by three women film makers, all work in this way. Oh, yes.
Yes, indeed. Let me tell you. . . . This entertaining, quirky
collection, which opens today at the Lumiere, is almost as good as
the real thing.

The first film, Lizzie Borden’s “Let’s Talk About Sex,”
co-written by the director and Susie



Bright, is about a would-be actress (Kamala Lopez-Dawson) who makes
money working in the phone-sex business. When a caller asks to hear
her fantasy, an intense phone relationship begins and builds until
finally the woman decides they have to meet. When they do, there
isn’t a calm pulse in the house.

The second segment is Monika Treut’s “Taboo Parlor,”
about a young lesbian (Camilla Soeberg) who persuades her
businesswoman girlfriend (Priscilla Barnes) to let her bring home a
man for one night. For the novelty. They pick one up, and riding the
bus back the three start right in on the fun. This leads other people
on the bus to join in, creating this wonderful scene of impulses just
beneath the surface breaking through.
Both “Let’s Talk About Sex” and “Taboo Parlor” are marred by
smirky, cute twists. Such is not the case with Clara Law’s “Wonton
Soup,” the least sexy of the three films and the only one that
doesn’t hinge on the notion of sex as an issue.

“Wonton Soup” is about a young Chinese couple, the man
from Australia and the woman from Hong Kong, who are having trouble
holding their relationship together now that college is over. The man
(Tim Lounibos) is thoroughly Westernized, while the woman moves back
to Hong Kong to return to her roots.

The erotic angle enters when the man decides to win the
woman by working his way through an ancient Chinese sex manual. But
beyond sex, “Wonton Soup” is a meditation about culture and race.

The final shot, of the man and woman looking at the imposing
skyline of Hong Kong, is a beautiful emblem of the strong, impersonal
forces that cause people to huddle together — or to break apart.

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Mar
05
2010
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photo: Simon Mein Dropping th…

photo: Simon Mein

Dropping the ball: Foxx, Pacino, and LL Cool J in

Any Given Sunday

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Any Given Sunday

Directed by Oliver Stone

Written by Stone and John Logan

A Warner Bros. release

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Neither spectacle nor drama, Stone's 160-minute football saga

Any Given Sunday

is more like a visual concussion. The camera is moving, the actors are screaming?and those are just the locker-room scenes. Stone must've run five editors ragged assembling the game footage. Rub-your-nose-in-the-dirt close-ups alternate with dirigible high-angle shots, and there's a great recurring effect where the ball spirals downfield toward the camera until?wham!?some tight end flies on-camera to snag it. But mostly, the on-field trials of the Miami Sharks are rendered in the filmmaker's patented LSD-laced-with-strychnine effect?power blurs, slo-mo double vision, kaleido fades, lightning bolts, and celestial superimpositions.

How can Stone's flawed hero, Sharks coach

Al Pacino

, blame TV for the degradation of the game when the soundtrack suggests a two-and-a-half-hour loop of the theme to

Sports Machine

punctuated with Indian chants and the sound of snapping bones? Even Pacino is subsumed in the bombast, as is corrupt team doctor

James Woods

, until he gets the hook?still screaming, "They ARE gladiators, they are WARRIORS!" The action itself is interspersed with cutaways to dishy cheerleaders and Stone himself in the broadcast booth: "Holy mackerel?that is football!" What makes him so sure? You might see the same thing if someone clamped your head between those paddles the guys in

Bringing Out the Dead

used to shock stilled hearts.

The movie is its own half-time show, complete with beer commercials?as when the Sharks play touch football with a beachful of bethonged beauties.

Any Given Sunday

doesn't look like any previous sports film?

He Got Game

is Ozu by comparison?but the narrative is somewhat less novel. When the Sharks' star quarterback (

Dennis Quaid

) is injured, the unknown third-stringer (

Jamie Foxx

) takes over. Brilliant but moody, Foxx's character has a trademark upchuck routine and harbors some attitudes?indeed, the militantly square Pacino, suffering through a film-length midlife crisis, discovers that the kid is a sort of hip-hop black nationalist philosopher. Pacino is getting old. The team's ruthless boss lady (

Cameron Diaz

) criticizes his lack of intensity?even if his idea of relaxing has something to do with blasting the chariot race from

Ben Hur

on a wall-sized TV.

For a mad minute, it seems as though Stone might be making a movie about how football wraps religion, business, sex, and violence in one superbly telegenic package. Later, he settles for the less ambitious notion that America is all about kicking ass. (The socially conscious director does include a scene alluding to athletes and domestic violence: Quaid is verbally and physically abused by his harridan wife.) Ultimately, everything turns out to be corrupt and also beautiful . . . homosocially speaking of course.


Any Given Sunday

slows to a crawl before the big game?a monstrous anthology of clichés, including the gimpy old quarterback's last hurrah, the young buck's coming of age, the coach fighting for his career, and the injured vet playing on bad debts and cortisone. The fate of the Free World hangs in the balance, and Stone is back in the booth warning that "this is where the famous rubber meets the famous road."

Everything from the goal-line stand to the 10-second Hail Mary happens more or less on schedule?although I did see one of the "screening extras" used to pad the press preview clap with excitement four plays before the game ended. Don't you make the mistake of bolting before the credits end. There's a last-minute zinger?although I'm pretty sure that in the real-life NFL it would be considered tampering.

** The second coming of the late Andy Kaufman is an appropriately self-reflexive affair. As star Jim Carrey staged a lame mock-Kaufman disruption at the

Man on the Moon

junket, so the movie itself opens with a pastiche of Kaufman's 1978 television special,

Andy's Fun House

(currently showing at the

Museum of Television and Radio

), which serves to introduce his key tropes of childhood, TV, and failure.

Cutting from the child Andy, singing a kid's song for his sister, to grown-up Andy 20 years later, provoking an incredulous Improv audience with an equally sincere rendition of the same inane song,

Man on the Moon

poses the central Kaufman enigma. Was this guy the holy innocent of stand-up comedy? A real-life

Chauncey Gardner

mimicking everything he learned on television? A conscious practitioner of Zen slapstick? A mass-market performance artist? A postpolitical yippie? (And if he was just doing his thing, what was that? Borderline autism? Split personality? Arrested development?)

"I'm not a comedian. I don't do jokes," Kaufman tells his prospective agent (played by


Taxi


costar

Danny DeVito

) in

Man on the Moon

. "I don't even know what's funny." Basically, Kaufman confounded expectations with a deadpan refusal to break character and a fearless willingness to bomb. Even at his late-'70s height, Kaufman was pretty much a cult taste. He placed himself beyond the pale as an outrageously sexist wrestler-villain, taunting the crowds while offering $500 to any woman who could pin him.

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Mar
02
2010
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Ginger Snaps review

Bitten by a wild animal, Ginger begins to mutate into a obscene, frantic woman, with some cruel canine tendencies. Is it a virus? Is it a curse? Or the first to take action towards becoming a ferocious werewolf! Intelligent, inspired, and truly terrifying, this furnish-winning horror film makes you look at raging teenage hormones in a electrifying remodelled course!

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Feb
28
2010
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Saving Face (2005)

Wilhemina Stab (Michelle Krusiec) is a 28 year-archaic Chinese Unfledged Yorker who feels as though she lives in the stomach of a culture divide. She works as a prospering surgeon in a employ New York hospital, but gets caught up in the world of her tradition-proud family when she visits home each week. Wil’s mother Ma (Joan Chen) infuriates her by setting her up with all the eligible Chinese-American men at the weekly Friday ceaselessly Chinese promenade, but she isn’t interested in men. She has just begun a relationship with a beautiful dancer Vivian (Lynn Chen). Suddenly Ma has problems of her own. She is replete at 48, shunned by her own community and wants to move in with Wil. So while she is having a mysterious love relationship with Vivian, Wil tries to mark a husband for Ma - all to save face.

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Feb
27
2010
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Divided We Fall (2001)

Josef and Marie Cizek (Bolislav Polivka and Anna Siskova), a childless couple living in an
occupied Czechoslovakian town during Faction War II, secretly give shelter to David (Csongor
Kassai), a young man who has escaped from a concentration camp. One’s nearest fellow Horst
(Jaroslev Dusek), a Nazi conspirator who has amorous intentions toward Marie, suspects
something and wants them to take a boarder. Marie protests that they cannot, pretending
she is up the spout, despite the fact that Josef is uninfected. Now that she needs to become
pregnant the question remains as to who the initiate will be and whether David’s composure
can be kept a secret.

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Feb
24
2010
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Fat City is one of many highl…

Portliness City is inseparable of multitudinous approvingly underrated films from the 1970s, a rare masterpiece that, for some two together argue with, has all but faded into dimness. Eminent Mr Big John Huston has expertly crafted a film that will leave no viewer unaffected, even even if tons of its messages are generally open to decipherment. It is chow to watch a movie in this day and age that invokes so many conflicting thoughts without hitting the audience over the head with clear symbolism. A subtle powerhouse that appears simple on the surface, Portly City contains much more richness deeps than one initially might think.

As the film opens in the run-of-the-mill city of Stockton, California, we meet Billy Tully (Stacy Keach), hungover and disheveled in his dank and cluttered apartment. Through nothing but Keach’s movements and the Kris Kristofferson song Nick Me Make It Through the Twilight, we can intimately reprimand that Tully is a washout, a has-been who lost whatever dreams he once might have had through aging and alcoholism. After shaking mad his hangover, Tully heads down to the peculiar YMCA to spend his pent-up frustration. The gym is empty with the lockout of 18-year-old Ernie (Jeff Bridges), a spunky young kid with a charismatic seduce but a calm naivété. Before you can say ‘Jack Robinson’ a efficient boxer, Tully recognizes Ernie’s talent for the fun and encourages him to puzzle in touch with his old manager, Ruben (Nicholas Colasanto). Ernie is averse, informing Tully that he only boxes as a recreation, all Tully insists that Ernie has an inherent facility that could everyone age elevate him to greatness.

It is at this moment where an intangible parallelism between these two characters begins. Seldom is seen of their relationship after this nub, but their lives faintly connect finished with interlocking stories that might be subjected to some viewers wondering if they are not watching two separate films. John Huston has an innate talent fitted visualizing scenes guts the bandeau (the amateur fighters fire appropriately sluggish body blows and dance around one another in an almost laughably cumbersome fashion), but it is his understanding of humane behavior, the human psyche if you wish, that makes Fat Borough so undeniably compelling. Rather than a boxing fancy, what we are truly watching is an exploration of emotional themes that run through all of our lives. Hopes, dreams, love, harm, and mortality are all viewed fully the eyes of Tully and Ernie, two characters that could conceivably be seen as the same soul wandering completely separate stages of the journey thoroughly brio.

On one side of the spectrum is Tully, a down and out toper, divorced and unqualified to involve a job. He spends most of his often in sordid bars, drowning the sorrows of his yesteryear while yearning with a view the broad daylight when he can get out himself back into shape and become a prizefighter in two shakes of a lamb’s tail b together again. He attempts to find reassure through Oma (OscarĀ®-nominated Susan Tyrrell), a drunken floozy whose at most solicit to Tully is perhaps the in reality that she is more distress-unavoidable and chap-fallen than he is. Yet, Oma’s shattered life last analysis serves as nothing more than a reminder of the failures that Tully has endured.

On the other side of the spectrum is Ernie, the confused kid with his whole life to the fore of him. Ernie roams a similar path as Tully did in his lassie, marrying his pregnant girlfriend, Faye (Candy Clark), while attempting to scrounge satisfactorily money finished with lay boxing matches. He too is on the pike to heartache, all the same there is something holding Ernie back, a wee hint of honour that seems to be swaying him from inevitably arriving face down in the alcohol-sissy waist-age dejection that numbs Tully’s life. While Tully and Ernie share scrap screen time, their two spectrums eventually collide in a masterfully pensive denouement.

The realism of here has a way of tapping into the seed of each viewer’s feelings. The undeniable but abstruse idea of youth gone by uniquely struck a chord with me. One area in specific shows a drunken Tully lamenting relative to how he will give back 30 in just four days. As I sit here typing, I cannot help but think how closely this parallels my own life, as I am fair two weeks away from my own 30th birthday. Much like Tully, I be struck by depleted belch up the past few weeks thinking of my past and wondering what the tomorrow muscle hold. While my life is -off from that of Billy Tully, I, too, cannot help but contemplate over the “Ernie” years of my viability. Premised the chance, would I encourage or discourage Ernie from traveling the path I have traveled? While everyone commitment obviously not split this similar connection, the abundance of introspective themes in Fat City are those that anyone can relate to, no matter how young or how elderly.

A movie like this would not under any condition ponder on the light of broad daylight in the current Hollywood system. It works on the viewer’s emotions almost subconsciously, not ever pandering to those who insist that their entertainment be spoon-fed to them. Filled with great ambiguity, Obese City allows the audience to formulate varying opinions of its slow-witted subject matter. My thoughts are merely an elucidation of what may pick on an unambiguously different meaning for another viewer. How bite it is to see a glaze that truly works with the viewer’s emotions more than against them.

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Feb
22
2010
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Mike Figgis ’s film began as …

Mike Figgis’s film began as a brooding account of the affair between Mr Jones (Gere), an erratic depressive, and Libbie (Olin), his dedicated, love-struck psychiatrist. But Gere, it seems, resisting typecasting and attempting to give his part some depth, started panic bells ringing in Hollywood executive offices. With the result that post-production tampering reduced an apparently sombre film - about (among other matters) whether the psychiatrist has the healthy to deprive Jones of his sometimes dangerous ‘highs’ - to an essentially empty, over-hyped, feel-good flick picture show. In its present affirm, the film over veers unsteadily between overblown exaggeration and a portrait of a disturbed and pained people as a wacky guy who’s cheer to be with. Trifling wonder that the director has disowned the deliver version.

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Feb
20
2010
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APPROX. 86 MINS. - PROD. YEAR…

APPROX. 86 MINS. - PROD. YEAR: 1967 - MPA RATING: NR

"Star Trek" fans obsess over ten artificial films and more than 400 TV episodes. "James Bond" fans live vicariously through the sprightly spy via 19-profit movies and Ian Fleming´s novels. All those tykes growing up with Harry Mess about make comprise 7 wonderful books and 7 (hopefully as wonderful) silver curtain experiences to enjoy.

Every lifestyle and every epoch offers its own mega-series of richly elaborate, distinctly defined fictional worlds. Beginning in the early-1960s, the Japanese created the phenomena known as Zatoichi. Zatoichi the obtuse swordsman (played by Shintaro Katsu) is the well- of a 26-film series and roughly 100 TV episodes. Zatoichi wanders from town to borough as a masseuse. In spite of that, given his reputation as a skillful warrior, Zatoichi manages to arrive at confusing in a sort of situations that desire him to bust out a can of whoopass. :-)

The "Zatoichi" movies offer fairly straightforward stories with maybe a twist or two to recompense longtime followers. Most of the delights in watching these films be in print from the colorful characters that populate Zatoichi´s important life. In search illustration, in the first haziness, our blind hero deals with yakuza thugs who are actually not that different from modern-day punks with little to do but glad eye at women and work like drunken louts. There´s an amusing scene where Zatoichi plays dice with a sort of gamblers, and he manages to read advantage of them trying to take advantage of him! LOL.

In "Zatoichi Challenged", our reckless hero once again helps a puerile boy who needs to get back with his lone surviving parent. Yet, the boy´s pastor is forced to work against the local yakuza, so Zatoichi has to help both the son AND the dad. Post-haste again, Zatoichi takes to fighting hordes of enemies. In the procedure, we provoke to see more of his lighter side than same as he jokes and pranks his course to victory. This is one of the most funny and most charming entries in the "Zatoichi" canon.

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Feb
19
2010
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Pearl Harbor review

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