Wednesday, February 22, 2006

One for Luca, gardener and biology boy.

Being There
Being There (1979)
Director: Hal Ashby.
Starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Dysart, Richard Basehart.
Duration: 130 minutes Country: USA.
Mini
Review:
Peter Sellers gives the performance of his career as Chance, a middle-aged gardener whose thoughts and behavior are totally shaped by television. When fate puts him in contact with business and political leaders, his innocence and silence are viewed as genius. Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas co-star; written by Jerzy Kosinski, from his story.

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

The Idiots (1998) Idiots, The
Director: Lars Von Trier.
Starring: Bodil Jorgensen, Jens Albinus, Louise Hassing.
Duration: 109 minutes Country: Denmark.
Mini
Review:
Concerns a group of people who live in a villa in a small Danish town who share one interest: idiocy. Civilised and intelligent they pretend otherwise, and embark on adventures to "get in touch with their inner idiot" with bizarre, hilarious and confronting consequences.
Special
Notes:
Subtitled. DVD Special Features include; Dogme Manifesto, Stills Gallery, Filmography, Theatrical Trailer, Widescreen Version (1.66:1), .Zone 4.

Title: Mother, The (2003) Mother, The

Director: Roger Michell.
Starring: Anne Reid, Daniel Craig, Steven Mackintosh, Cathryn Bradshaw, Oliver Ford Davies, Anna Wilson Jones, Peter Vaughan.
Duration: 112 minutes Country: England.
Mini
Review:
May (Anne Reid, terrific) is a conservative grandmother from the suburbs. When her husband dies on a family visit to London, she finds herself alone for the first time in decades. Initially May recedes into the background of her busy, metropolitan children's lives. Stuck in an unfamiliar city far from home, May fears that she has become another invisible old person whose life is more or less over. Until, that is, she falls for Darren (Daniel Craig), a man half her age. As May discovers a new independence and confidence, for the first time in her life she feels alive. Perceptive, no-holds-barred script by Hanif Kureishi ("My Beautiful Laundrette", "Intimacy").