Sunday, June 28, 2009

Neco z Alenky (1988)

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Alice (Czech: Něco z Alenky) is a Czech surrealist fantasy film by Jan Švankmajer. It retells Lewis Carroll's first 'Alice' book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in Švankmajer's unique style. The film combines live action with stop motion animation. Alice is played by Kristýna Kohoutová, and the English dubbed version features the voice of Camilla Power. The movie is considered a cult movie.

This retelling of the "Alice" story is continually ambiguous about whether or not Alice is in her real world, or when exactly she crosses over to the "Wonderland". Early in the film, Alice appears to be in her bedroom, when a stuffed rabbit display comes to life and breaks out of its cage. Alice follows it up a large, rocky hill and into the drawer of a writing desk. This leads to a cavern where soon after spying the White Rabbit eating sawdust from a bowl with a spoon, she trips and falls through a bucket and seemingly down an elevator. "Wonderland" itself is a strange mix of a household-like areas with very little concern for logical space or size. Its inhabitants tend to be strange mixtures of rubbish and dead animals, such as a bed with bird legs, or a stuffed lizard with glass eyes.

Some characters from the original Alice's Adventures in Wonderland appear in similar, but Švankmajerian, forms. Such as a wind-up toy rabbit for the March Hare, or a sock with glass eyes for the Caterpillar. Similarly, several sequences from the original story, such as Alice's growing and shrinking via the consumption of unusual food and drink, or the scene in which a crying baby changes into a pig, are portrayed in original forms. For example, when Alice shrinks, she is transformed into a doll which looks fairly similar to her regular self.

The movie also contains a number of original sequences not related to the original novel. In one such sequence, Alice is trapped inside a doll-like shell, after being made to walk into a bowl of milk while in her shrunken form, and is locked in a food closet. The Queen's character is also changed somewhat, in that her execution sentences are carried out, by the White Rabbit with a pair of scissors.

When the movie ends, it is ambiguous whether everything that happened to Alice was indeed real, or if she is still dreaming. She wakes in her room, but then finds that the white rabbit is still missing from his cage, and finds a secret compartment where he keeps his scissors. She ponders whether or not she will cut his head off.
Alice trapped inside a dollhouse after growing too large to escape.

The visuals are often described as grotesque, perverse, or disturbing, but overall not repulsive. Prominent is the stuffed white rabbit, whose chest is constantly leaking so that he has to keep eating sawdust, and various animated skulls and slabs of raw meat products. As mentioned previously, many of the animated characters are made of surprising household objects. There are a number of visual puns. Scissors and knives are also recurring themes. It should also be noted that all dialogue is narrarated in third person by a large mouth.

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Get Carter OST - Roy Budd


Digitally remastered reissue & the worldwide CD debut of thejazzy soundtrack by noted British film composer Roy Budd to this 1971 British gangster movie starring Michael Caine as ablood-thirsty mob boss out for vengeance after his brother is murdered. 24 tracks, including instrumental versions of 'Getting Nowhere In A Hurry' & 'Hallucinations' added as bonus tracks. The disc comes in a standard jewel case, which comes in a full color slipcase sleeve with an 11' x 15' fullcolor, fold-out replica of a promotional movie poster for the film.

01. Intro
02. Dialogue
03. Main Theme - Carter Takes A Train
04. Dialogue
05. Looking For Someone
06. Dialogue - The Race Track
07. Something On My Mind
08. Dialogue
09. Getting Nowhere In A Hurry
10. Dialogue
11. The Girl In The Car
12. Dialogue
13. Love Is A Four Letter Word
14. Dialogue
15. Livin' Should Be This Way
16. Dialogue
17. Manhunt
18. Dialogue
19. Goodbye Eric!
20. Goodbye Carter!
21. Hallucinations
22. Plaything
23. How About You
24. Getting Nowhere In A Hurry - I

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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

The Devils (1971)


This plot is for the non-censored version of the film. Some scenes described below are omitted from other versions.

The Devils is a film directed by Ken Russell starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, and based on the 1952 book The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley and the 1960 play The Devils by John Whiting, also based on Huxley's book. Derek Jarman was responsible for the film's production design. It tells the story of Urbain Grandier, a 17th century French priest executed for witchcraft.

The film's combination of religious themes and imagery combined with violent and sexual content was a test for the British Board of Film Censors that at the time was being pressured by socially conservative interest groups.

In order to earn an "X" certificate, Russell made minor cuts to the more explicit nudity (mainly in the cathedral sequences) and removed some violent detail (notably the crushing of Grandier's legs). However, the biggest cuts were made by the studio itself, prior to submission to the BBFC, removing two scenes in their entirety, notably a two-and-a-half-minute sequence of crazed naked nuns sexually assaulting a statue of Christ and about of half of a latter scene with Sister Jeanne masturbating with the charred tibia of Grandier after self-administering an enema. However, even in its released form, the film was considerably stronger in detail than most films released prior to that point.

Its fate in the United States was even more stringent, with a further set of cuts made to even more of the nudity with some key scenes (including Sister Jeanne's crazed visions, exorcism and the climactic burning) shorn of the more explicit detail.


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Monday, June 15, 2009

Eine Stadt sucht einen Moerder

M (1931)




M is a German drama-thriller directed by Fritz Lang and written by Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou. It was Lang's first sound film, although he had directed over a dozen films previously. The film has become a classic which Lang himself considered his finest work. The roots of noir go back to German Expressionism, and there’s no movie that’s more German, Expressionist, or noir than Fritz Lang’s masterful — and finally restored — M (1931). While this story of the pursuit of a child-killer lacks one of the crucial elements of the genre, the femme fatale, the other components of noir are here in force. There’s the dark cityscape, an unstable environment in which children play in the street singing chants about "black bogeymen" and murderers. There’s the paranoid pathology of the individual in the person of the twisted Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre), who courts and kills his young victims for reasons he can’t express or fathom, and a frenzied mob that brings its own brand of justice against him. Many of the classic noirs of the 1940s and later owe a debt to M’s obsessive attention to the details of the manhunt, with the most minute aspects of police procedure rendered. Most important, though, is the sense of doom that colors the film, a fatalism Lang renders through chiaroscuro lighting effects and enormous high-angle shots that suggest a malevolent spiritual presence hovering above the city and guiding its denizens to their doom.



M is supposedly based on the real-life case of serial killer Peter Kürten, the 'Vampire of Düsseldorf', whose crimes took place in the 1920s, not long before the film was made and released, although Lang fervently denied that he drew from this case.

Lorre's character whistles the tune "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite No. 1. However, Peter Lorre himself could not whistle – it is actually Director Fritz Lang who is heard. The film was one of the first to use a leitmotif, associating "In the Hall of the Mountain King" with the Lorre character. Late in the film, the mere sound of the song lets the audience know that he must be nearby, off-screen. This association of a musical theme with a particular character or situation, a technique borrowed from opera, is now a film staple.

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Sunday, June 14, 2009

Rumble Fish OST - Stewart Copeland



01. Don't Box Me In
02. Tulsa Tango Listen
03. Our Mother Is Alive
04. Party At Someone Else's Place
05. Biff Gets Stomped By Rusty James
06. Brothers On Wheels
07. West Tulsa Story
08. Tulsa Rags
09. Father On The Stairs
10. Hostile Bridge To Benny's
11. Your Mother Is Not Crazy
12. Personal Midget/Cain's Ballroom
13. Motorboy's Fate

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