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Moribunny
Celluloid Junkie - 2665 Films Ranked
Member Since: Apr 3, 2006
Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
Age: 34
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Bio: I'm a poet and composer of music and small-time journalist. I'm partial to realism, horror, old Italian cinema, and the strange and unusual. Favorite filmmakers include: Emir Kusturica, Nicolas Roeg, Sidney Lumet, Sam Peckinpah, R.W. Fassbinder, Lina Wertmüller, Werner Herzog, Luchino Visconti, C.T. Dreyer, Dino Risi, Mario Monicelli, Jacques Rozier, Claude Chabrol, Satyajit Ray, Terry Gilliam, Michelangelo Antonioni, Sergei Parajanov, Woody Allen, John Cassavetes, Aki Kaurismäki, Alan Clarke, Douglas Sirk, Abbas Kiarostami, Costa-Gavras, Ernst Lubitsch, early works of Fellini, Polanski, Weir and Scorsese.
Featured Reviews
20 Keoma (1976) - Mar 01, 2007
Mini-Review: Franco Nero is made over to look a bit like Charlie Manson as Keoma, your dime-a-dozen "fastest gun in the west" but with a hippie hairdo. He pisses off a big-shot bad-guy named Caldwell, and his own three asshole brothers (one of whom is a Donald Sutherland lookalike) who work for Caldwell, but against all odds he perpetually kicks their butts. There's a King-Learish element at work. The soundtrack is ridiculous. Contrary to many spaghetti westerns, there is no humor.
40 Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) - Jan 01, 2009
Mini-Review: Most of this is incessant and inane chatter, which made it difficult to stay focused. Adorable cat makes repeated appearances, but racist characterization of an Asian person cranks that karma down again.
15 Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) - Aug 27, 2011
Mini-Review: I suppose the most glaring of the film's errors is its confusion of intelligence with knowledge. The genetically modified apes simply seem to know everything without ever having learned anything, but they otherwise behave with apish non-sentience. Not much else in the film makes sense, either. So, compared to the writers, I can see how even an ordinary chimp would seem hyper-intelligent. Sit one at a typewriter and I'm sure he'll come up with a better script.
5 Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008) - Mar 09, 2010
Mini-Review: The very existence of someone like Ben Stein is proof that "intelligent design" could not have been invested in this world, but there is at least a trace of cunning in the lies told here (after all, this is a guy who once wrote speeches for Nixon). Religious dogma knows that it has been beaten by science, so with no hope of competing against it, it now masquerades as its reviled enemy. But Stein was not "expelled" for trying to pass a creation myth for scientific theory. He simply flunked.
60 Rebel Without a Cause (1955) - Mar 08, 2011
Mini-Review: JD's crowning acting achievement is nicer than most Hollywood melodramas of its day, but the greatness of a Douglas Sirk eludes it because it lays on the psychology too thick. By saying "they called me a chicken. You know daddy, chicken?" James is just naggingly explicating previous subtext, and with gun-totting cops after them it's not the best time to "reveal" to his girl that the younger kid considers them family. Erasing a select third of the script's lines would have really elevated this.
63 Princes et princesses (2000) - Dec 02, 2009
Mini-Review: An interesting rehash of Lotte Reiniger's The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926). While her film used silhouette animation to tell interconnected Arabian Nights tales, Ocelot uses the technique to tell standalone fairytales pilfered from a more eclectic assortment of sources (within a frame plot). All stories have rather crude morals. On one hand the absence of P.C. is refreshing, but on the other hand I was increasingly disenchanted with the motif of a guy romancing a mass-killing "princess".
40 Breaking the Waves (1996) - Oct 19, 2009
Mini-Review: Intriguing at first, but very soon one gets the message and for the rest of the 2:30 hours all that is left for Trier is to flog his sacrificial lamb with ever increasing fervor, to predictably, almost ritualistically martyrize Bess by escalating her "sacrifices". Breaking the Waves is a familiar Christian sermon praising deaf and blind devotion as a virtue. Bess' self-destruction, meant to appease an unworthy spouse, is unrewarded in her life but gets her sainted by the camera.
35 Raid on Entebbe (1976) - Dec 26, 2009
Mini-Review: It's a bad movie, glaringly unrealistic and unresearched. It was made to capitalize on what was, at the time, American delight in and fascination with the very risky but luckily successful Israeli operation to rescue hostages from the clutches of Palestinian terrorists aided by Idi Amin. It interested me as an Israeli for historical reasons, but apart from a very nice impression of Amin by Yaphet Kotto, I doubt that modern international viewers would find much value in this.
85 The Wicker Man (1973) - Aug 13, 2007
Mini-Review: A unique and unforgettable film. It boggles the mind that today people are watching crappy remakes of classics such as this... is it that painful to get a hold of a good 30 year-old movie instead of going out and seeing a bad new remake?
53 Peeping Tom (1960) - Jun 02, 2007
Mini-Review: Rather clever, and yet not particularly good. The person I watched it with called it 'too psychological' and she has a point. Considered as an allegory it's pretty simple-minded, so I give it no extra points for that. It's interesting to look back at the young Karlheinz Bohm from the perspective gained by watching his later, more important work with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
 
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