Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

as you know, last days we were passing through a freezing little age, so we particularly get some winter southern boredoom (not the one I´m used to) that make you see at least one film per day (with family, friends or alone). That´s the list until now:

1) Syriana: as usually I didn´t understood all the corporate-mafia-dialogue. But I could follow the other stories: the pakistani boy than joins the shia, the no corrupted emir?. (I didn´t see when someone got off Cloone´s nails).

2) Don´t come knocking: a Wender´s film. I loved the music and the Marlboro landscape. Howard Spence is Sam Shepard?

3) Yesterday: beautiful music and photograpy in a sad story. A zulu woman discover that she has AIDS. It remainded me what told me about it a cousin of mine that works for médicos del mundo.. It was delicious to listen to zulu women to talk in the film when they wanted to be kind!! so musical!!.

4) Mr. Lazarescus´s night: an old man and the health system... in Romania, of course!. It seems the romanian says hello in italian and have names in latin!.

5) El perfume: based in Patrik Suskind novel (I have to say that I have the novel but that I read only the depiction of Paris market odours..!). The film started in a Dickens-Swift-Grass-arab nights tone until the principal caracter leaves D. Hoffman´s place. Then it is a little boring and disgusting mix of Jack the Ripper with something like alchemy. With a happy end.

(more later)

an eclectic mix of films, arcadia... interesting.

any favorita among these?

hard to say!. Between these five I liked more Don´t look back, Yesterday and Mr. Lazarescus´s night for different reasons.

On tuesday I wanted to rent USA against John Lennon but they give ¨Joyeux Noel¨instead. It´s about World War I. World War I and II films makes me sad or angry, I wouldn´t choose one of that kind to see now. But I saw the unexpected film, and I liked it!! (I took some notes about it, just like in the old cinemas, when people talked during the films, comment it them and shouted at them, but I haven´t them here, I post them later!). When I gave back the film, they said sorry... and gave me Lennon and Yoko free, jaja!!!.