Posted: 19.08.05 14:25. Post subject: Firecracker

Для тех, кто пшикает по инглишу:
Рецензия и фрагментарный перессказ сюжетной линии фильма здесь:

click here

 Posted: 19.08.05 16:03. Post subject: Re:

Недавно купился очень лихо.
На корпоративном серваке нашел фильм "Фейерверк". Вот, думаю, класс. Оперативно как.
Оказалось - японская фигня какая-то.

 Posted: 21.08.05 15:41. Post subject: Re:

Да, я эту японскую фигню видел в видео-магазине. Но прежде, чем покупать, поинтересовался, что за режиссёр. И, естественно, не купил.

 Posted: 22.08.05 07:55. Post subject: aletar

Кстати японский Фейерверк снял скорей всего Такеши Китано. Ну да там нет Пэттона, но почему сразу ацтой?;))

 Posted: 22.08.05 08:58. Post subject: Re:

aletar

Ты на каком форуме?

 Posted: 22.08.05 08:58. Post subject: Re:

Да, Такеши Китано. Стопудово.

 Posted: 22.08.05 09:21. Post subject: aletar

Ulik

Думаю, что на любом форуме на вопросы надо смотреть ширше;)

 Posted: 22.08.05 13:00. Post subject: Re:

С КИТАНО Ф. ОТЛИЧНЫЙ
посморите в имдб там восче этих Ф. как собак нерезаНЫХ.

 Posted: 25.08.05 13:12. Post subject: Re:

from beta.cv.org


Austin31 Says:

August 22nd, 2005 at 12:17 pm
I saw Firecracker the other night here in Chicago. Trying to be as unbiased as possible, I have to say it was very good. Patton plays two roles and excels in one and is good in the other. When he plays the drunken older brother he is truly brilliant, and as the the carnival owner he’s good. There are a few slightly disturbing scenes so I don’t know if it’s a date movie exactly but it’s certainly better than most musicians first performance.

Jorge Says:

August 24th, 2005 at 10:48 am
I went to the US Premiere in Tribeca Cinemas and it was great. The movie is very powerful

Travis Says:

August 24th, 2005 at 1:07 pm
Ebert gives his reviews on a four star basis. That’s an exceptional review.

 Posted: 29.08.05 14:39. Post subject: Re:

Кароче этэ один из самых крутых кинокритиков Штатов. И он оценил фильм очень положительно (в том числе и игру Паттона)

 Posted: 02.09.05 08:20. Post subject: Re:

Dikenga Films presents a film directed and edited by Steve Balderson, from a
screenplay by Steve and Clark Balderson and Pleasant Gehman. Running time:
112 minutes. No MPAA rating (intended for adults). Opening the Chicago
Underground Film Festival at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Music Box Theater,
3733 N. Southport.


'Firecracker" is a movie that was made outside the factory, beyond the
rules, in a far place named Wamego, Kan. We accustom ourselves to the weekly
multiplex extrusions, and then something like this slips in, fresh from the
wild. It's a black-and-white crime drama and a lurid color fantasy, a slice
of life crossed with grotesque sideshow performers; it contains cruel family
secrets, deadpan humor, horrifying mutilations and possibly a visit from the
Virgin Mary.
The movie is profoundly odd, which qualifies it to open the Chicago
Underground Film Festival on Thursday at the Music Box. Imagine "In Cold
Blood" crossed with "Freaks," with the look of Jodorowsky's "Santa Sangre."
It was written, directed and filmed by Steve Balderson in his home town of
Wamego, inspired by a murder that happened there 50 years ago. The movie is
so rooted in this small town that one of the locations is the house where
the murder took place. So rooted that Balderson got permission to shoot in
the house because his father's plumber lives there now.
The movie has one of the most immediately gripping opening scenes I can
remember. In everyday black and white, the sleepy town is alarmed as two
people, and then more, desperately run across lawns and down alleys. Mothers
snatch their children out of the way. The runners converge on a backyard
where digging is going on inside a tool shed. A woman sheriff looks on.
Another woman glances inside the shed, and retches.
The rest of the movie is prelude. We meet a sad, wounded family: The mother
Eleanor (Karen Black) prays the rosary and tries to keep peace between her
brutal older son David (Mike Patton) and her sensitive younger son Jimmy
(Jak Kendall). There is a father, so withdrawn he is hardly visible. David
calls the shots, struts like a torturer, torments Jimmy for playing the
piano: "Learn how to make a living, not sissy-boy piano recitals!"
It is the Fourth of July and the carnival is in town. Traveling carnivals
often serve in horror movies as repositories of the bizarre in the
wilderness of small-town boredom. Jimmy wants to go. David taunts him: "You
want to see the girlie show." Well, of course he does. In the world before
Playboy, the carnival girlie show was an erotic magnet; furtive men eyed the
parade of strippers and followed them into the tent's smutty embrace. There
was the same rumor every summer: "After the show, they do it with guys in
the field behind the tent." Maybe it was true. Nobody I knew ever had the
nerve to see.
The town is mostly in black and white, and the carnival is in saturated
color: bold, dripping reds and yellows and dark brown shadows. The focus of
attention is the "French singer" Sandra (also played by Black). She is the
captive, perhaps the slave, of the carnival owner Frank (also played by
Patton, the rock singer from Faith No More). She hides herself in furs,
feathers, hoods, scarves, and dresses that look shabby not because they have
been worn so much but because they have been removed so often.
Jimmy wants to play for her. Maybe join the carnival and tour as her
pianist. She remembers him from other summers, looking hungrily from the
audience. She also remembers his brother David, who got her pregnant last
summer. The cruel Frank ended her pregnancy, but it is David she tells: "I'm
not gonna let you hurt me again."

 Posted: 02.09.05 08:20. Post subject: Re:

These characters and their sexual needs and fears are seen against an
ominous background of sideshow people, played (as in "Freaks" by
themselves. The most striking is the Enigma, his skin entirely covered by an
intricate jigsaw of blue tattoos which is beautiful, ugly, erotic or not,
depending on your taste. There is also a giant, a lobster girl, and so on.
What happens between these people I will leave for you to discover. The plot
burrows more deeply, until the line between the black and white town and the
color carnival seems to blur, and everything seems caught up in the same
nightmare. The idea of having Black and Patton play dual roles is not a
stunt but part of the strategy; no, the mother and the whore, the brother
and the owner, are not "the same person," but are connected at a deeper
level, perhaps in Jimmy's mind, where they perform similar functions in
opposite worlds. Black is uncanny in the way she creates two characters who
are so opposite and convincing.
The film is visually jarring. Some shots by cinematographer Jonah Torreano
look like lab experiments with the psychology of color. A shot, for example,
of a woman in a red cape fleeing across a green field, the red so red, the
green so green, that the impact is aggressive. There are inexplicable
images, like bright blue bottles hanging from the stark branches of a tree
next to a woman gowned in white, that work because they shift the whole
movie away from reality into hallucination.
Then there are strange everyday details. There's a little girl put on a
leash in the backyard by her mother. She sets off firecrackers. There is a
sequence where a body is carried from a house to a shed while being
concealed behind a big white sheet on the clothesline; the line is on
rollers, so the sheet can be pulled along as a moving screen.
There is the Hitckcockian scene where the mother asks at the cleaners for an
"astringent" to remove the "shoe polish" on her carpet. A good enough story,
but she has foolishly ripped up some of the carpet and brought it along, and
anyone can see it's soaked with blood. And a scene where the color fades
from the frame as life fades from a body.
Movie critics are criticized for preferring novelty because we are jaded by
the ordinary. If only that were true of everybody, how much wasted time we
could recapture. I praise "Firecracker" because it is original and peculiar,
but also because it is haunted; there is an uneasy spirit living within this
film that stirs and regards us with cold, unblinking eyes. The calm of
small-town Kansas inspires the yearnings in those who do not fit there, who
are drawn to the carnival, which doesn't fit anywhere.

 Posted: 02.09.05 17:07. Post subject: Re:

говорила мама: сынок, учи английский язык...

 Posted: 02.09.05 21:54. Post subject: Re:

Donskoy

А меня даже били за невыученные уроки
Не помогло

 Posted: 03.09.05 12:36. Post subject: Re:

Так он тебе не очень понадобился, я гляжу ;)

 Posted: 03.09.05 19:43. Post subject: Re:

shoehanger

Пока нет, но хочется как Dzepo вот так легко пол книги закатать да ещё понять что накарябал

 Posted: 05.09.05 07:52. Post subject: Re:

дык времени нет всё переводить :)
вот и шлёпнул что в рассылке пришло...

это собственна и есть интервью того "крутого кинокритика Штатов" %)

 Posted: 05.09.05 13:05. Post subject: Re:

угу, ;) теперь у нас на этой странице и линк, и сам текст, для самых ленивых.

 Posted: 22.09.05 15:55. Post subject: Re:

это наверно только к Коффи относится, но вдруг кому ещё повезёт... %)

11-Oct // Boston // Kendall Square Cinema // One Kendall Square, Cambridge // 02139 // (617) 499-1996

20-Oct // Atlanta // Midtown Art Cinema // 931 Monroe Drive, Atlanta, GA 30308 // (678) 495-1424

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8-Dec // Seattle // Metro Cinemas // 4500 9th Avenue NE, Seattle, WA 98105 // (206) 781-5755

 Posted: 23.09.05 03:54. Post subject: Re:

отмечу в календаре. спасибо)

17-Nov // Austin // Dobie Theatre // 2025 Guadalupe Street in the Dobie Mall, Austin, TX 78705 // (512) 472-FILM

 Posted: 23.09.05 07:31. Post subject: Re:

Тогда, браза Коффи, ты просто обязан запиратить его для общественности на любительскую камеру из под полы.

 Posted: 23.09.05 07:34. Post subject: Re:

Кстати, как там у вас в Техасе? Ураганы не свирепствуют?

 Posted: 23.09.05 16:03. Post subject: Re:

вроде мимо пройдет. но все равно надо водкой закупиться)

 Posted: 23.09.05 20:29. Post subject: Re:

Охуительный способ борьбы с ураганами. Америкосы до этого не додумались бы. Короче, пока американцы эвакуируются, русские запасаются водкой.

 Posted: 23.09.05 22:09. Post subject: Re:

дык%) здесь в четверг, когда по прогнозам ураган должен был над остином промчаться, в продуктовый магазин не прорваться было. на парковке люди чуть ли не дрались за парковочные места... ща вроде как в стороне от нас пройдет все. но магазинные полки все равно пусты. надеюсь, что водку и огурцы оставили)

 Posted: 24.09.05 01:07. Post subject: Re:

caffeine

А нафига они затаривались? На пикничок или чисто чтоб ветром не унесло?

 Posted: 24.09.05 07:40. Post subject: Re:

caffeine пишет:

цитата

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дык%) здесь в четверг, когда по прогнозам ураган должен был над остином промчаться, в продуктовый магазин не прорваться было. на парковке люди чуть ли не дрались за парковочные места... ща вроде как в стороне от нас пройдет все. но магазинные полки все равно пусты. надеюсь, что водку и огурцы оставили)

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У нас, помнится, подобная херня в конце 80-х - начале 90-х и безо всяких ураганов была.

 Posted: 24.09.05 20:53. Post subject: Re:

 Posted: 24.09.05 22:59. Post subject: Re:

сфааушту пишет:

цитата

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UUlik
чтобы ветром не унесло.

amor
))

нувсё, вроде совсем пронесло. а всё равно я пьян_)

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Да, судя по нику, в какашку.

 Posted: 25.09.05 00:51. Post subject: Re:

caffeine

Ты что в месте с водкой в кураже и новую клаву приобрел?

 Posted: 25.09.05 18:51. Post subject: Re:

вот так вот люди ездят за границу зарабатывать себе на хату... %)))

 Posted: 20.12.05 08:18. Post subject: Re:

19 December, 2005
Dear Friends,
I was just notified that "Firecracker" made Roger Ebert's "Special Jury Awards" section of his pick of the year's best films.
I want to thank everyone who worked on the movie. I can't think of a better, more exciting way to celebrate the end of the year!
I'd also like to thank everyone who has supported us by taking the journey theatrically in the US. It's been one hell of a great year! Here's to many more!
Happy Holidays,
Best wishes,
Thank you!
Steve Balderson
www.dikenga.com
Roger Ebert's list:
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051218/COMMENTARY/512180302

 Posted: 20.12.05 11:30. Post subject: Re:

Special Jury Award. Маловато! Маловато будет!
Когда уже сами заценим?

 Posted: 21.01.06 15:33. Post subject: Re:

ух ты http://ipecac.com/news.php вот это да фирекрекер на dvd 23 мая и новый peeping tom 30 мая и FantômasMelvins Big Band в европе в апреле

 Posted: 21.01.06 18:41. Post subject: Re:

Natural root

Суперрр!!!

 Posted: 21.01.06 19:13. Post subject: Re:

ОП-ПАЧ-КИ!
Уже даты называть стали! Ну ещё пару-тройку раз перенесут, И УСЁ БУДЕТ!

 Posted: 21.01.06 20:23. Post subject: Re:

MaDlEn

без этого они никак не могут :))))

 Posted: 21.01.06 20:40. Post subject: Re:

Dzepo

В долгом ожидании есть какое-то мазахистическое удовольствие...

 Posted: 21.01.06 20:54. Post subject: Re:

мы в таком удовольствии постоянно :)) они действительно любители переносить даты релиза...

 Posted: 21.01.06 21:00. Post subject: Re:

кто желает... заказывайте... :)
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 Posted: 22.01.06 18:20. Post subject: Re:

А что это?Мне шесть штук.