Friction
Jun 20, 2010 Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Friction
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Mystery
High School, triangle, students, film in film
Director Cullen Hoback will actually turn a feature film about a married couple and a student who begins an affair with the Ehefau. But while the film is formed blur the boundaries between fiction and reality. What remains is a mixture of documentary and feature film. Title: Friction Country of production: USA Production year: 2009 Length: 89 (Min.)
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A map of the sounds of Tokyo
Jun 17, 2010 Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A map of the sounds of Tokyo
Genre: Drama
Contract killer, love relationship, Tokyo, suicide, Cannes 2009
When it comes to feelings, in extreme situations, it is the Spanish director Isabel Coixet on top form. After My Life Without Me and The Secret Life of Words / The Secret Life of Words is her with her new film again succeeded in creating a masterpiece – a sparkling gem, in which break the complex inner worlds of five people. A map of the sounds of Tokyo is the story of the fragile-beautiful Ryu (Rinko Kikuchi of the Japan-only episode of Babel). The young woman leads a double life – but none that would serve the cliche of the secret whore. Ryu worked at night at the fish market and take orders during the day as a professional killer. Why the silent loner lives so we do not know. The only certainty is that they will one day bring the Spanish wine merchant David (Sergi Lopez) to the track. The had a relationship with Midori, the young daughter of an influential CEOs. Midori suffering so in this love, that she kills herself and leaves a heartbroken father. The David is to blame for the death of his daughter and demands revenge. For the killer Ryu is the wine merchants also not a simple case. She discovers in him a kindred spirit with him and spends the night without firing the gun. Ideally she would now return the order. But their donors remain hard. So far set the framework for action, which, with its thriller bonds the film gives a solid framework, so to speak, the outer structure of a piece with his sentence consequences. It can now develop the different voices freely and tell their stories inside. The act of sensuality as well as of sadness, of love of life as well as by a longing for death. Each of the characters – are added or a sound engineer Ryu platonic friends, and the assistant to the CEOs, who was hopelessly in love with his daughter – controls at their own emotional world, each of which is marked by a different extreme life situation. Together they form an associative tapestry of sound. That A Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, a musical film is structured, it has only been out of the title. And of course, Isabel Coixet has been with the sounds and music, this time a great deal of trouble. The soundtrack plays in addition to the two protagonists of the third lead. They commented on and is counterpoint, is ahead of events and pauses to in most pensive songs express what remains unspoken. For, among many others what can be said of Coixet’s film, he is also a sensitive study of the silence. In this way remain so many riddles as necessary to tell the story not to a shallow love story or a gimmicky Gangster Story. Isabel Coixet solves the balancing act between too much mystery and too much food psychology elegant by leaving tell the story from the off – with the figure of the sound engineer. The is not an omniscient narrator, but is many issues with which the viewer sees also faced – without a quick answer to have. With its sophisticated color aesthetic homage to the city of Tokyo succeeds Isabel Coixet a remarkable balance between melancholy and pleasure. Especially if the lonely protagonists roam the city, brings back memories of Lost in Translation. The director is careful not intrusive but before quotations, but creates her very own picture of the lights of a city. The sparkle so beautiful that you want to stay smooth. (Peter Gutting)
Title: A Map of the Sounds of Tokyo Original Title: Map of the Sounds of Tokyo Country of production: , Spain Year of Production: 2009 ( #) Length: 109 (Min.) Distribution: Alamode Film Distribution
Shutter Iceland (DVD)
Jun 16, 2010 Criminal, Mystery, Thriller
Shutter Iceland (DVD)
Genre: Thriller, Mystery
Homicide, hospital, island, Psychiatry
Of course, living the Berlinale, especially this year for their 60th Jubilee by the big names, the deserving directors, whose films in the Berlinale Palast their premieres and world premieres to celebrate. At least in this respect was in the first days of something available. According to Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer Martin Scorsese’s new work today Shutter Iceland was on the program and saw the light of the attending celebrities for a proper media boost. And it was not just because the expectations of Shutter Iceland, at least in parts of the public and the press were somewhat high. With such a height it is no wonder then that many journalists were more a little disappointed with the new work of the director. What was not so much to the images rather than in a less-inspired story, which is like a patchwork of well-known pieces from film and literature. Leonardo DiCaprio plays in Iceland shutter the U.S. Marshall Edward Daniels, who together with his new partner, Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) in the early 1950s, the disappearance of a patient in a clinic for mentally disturbed most serious on the island Shutter Iceland to investigate. Unfortunately, not even the Most Stable Daniels mentally since he was a soldier in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp there and also have lost his wife in a fire. The disappearance of the patient appears particularly Daniels suspicious from the start and he speculates that the whole story being told to him by the senior physician Dr. Cawley (Ben Kingsley), something is wrong. However, it seems with him myself up some in Argentina, as he always is plagued by severe migraine attacks, nightmares and symptoms that can fuse the fiction and reality, the obscure events on the island and Daniels traumatic past experiences with each other. Until finally, the whole truth will come out. And which really is not what has Daniels expects … Actually it’s pretty clear that the story that followed Edward Daniels in the course of the film, something is strange and he himself is a prisoner of delusion and Fkition. This makes the film by his suspense and one would wish almost, instead of the actual resolution would have the template is moved further to the rather trashy side paths of the nested story, especially since Scorsese and Lehane dig vigorously in the find box of film history and Crime / Mystery Literature and Agatha Christie’s works plunder as well as films like Identity, The Sixth Sense or other “mindfuck movies” as well as age-old horror à la Frankenstein. The problem is that you can not help feeling, is all this to have already seen elsewhere – perhaps not always so brilliantly staged, but in itself consistent and round. This lack of narrative originality, which should lie mainly on the novel of Dennis Lehane tried to Scorsese by the rather pungent score, and other tricks to compensate for the voltage from the available clothing cinemas. More than pure formulaic and unwound a routine genre comes in beautiful packaging patchwork while but not out. (Joachim Kurz)
Title: Shutter Iceland (DVD) Country of production: USA Production year: 2009 Length: 132 (Min.) Published by: Concorde Home Entertainment format: 16:9 tone / language: Dolby Digital 5.1, German, English EAN: 4010324027801 Tools : film documentaries: “Behind the Shutters” – from novel to film, “Into the Lighthouse” – Historical development of psychiatry in the U.S.
What you do not see
Jun 8, 2010 Drama, Mystery, Thriller
What you do not see
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Coming-of-age, Mystery
Death, family secrets, family, vacation, grief, sexuality
The fact that the common family vacation is often used to reduce imbalances and tensions in a relaxed atmosphere, is now really nothing new. And that exactly these expectations, often literally collapse under the weight of the unspoken, yet no less intense frustration existing in itself, is almost as transparent and consistent. In midst of this explosive mixture situation Wolfgang Fischer made his feature film debut What you see is not settled, it was already seen at numerous festivals (including at the Hof Film Festival, at the Berlin and Rotterdam). The focus of the story is the 17-year-old Anton (Ludwig Trepte), which – probably not entirely voluntarily – with his mother, Lucia (Bibiana Beglau) and their new friend Paul (Andreas Patton) on vacation in the Brittany goes. After the suicide of his father some time ago to have silent allegations and the unprocessed mourning between mother and son accumulated and prevent the new relationship – this is all now in these late summer days when the coming of autumn can be felt already clear at last pleasure and harmony dissolve. is But the more the intended harmony of blended family claimed to be and operated, the more lonely and helpless Anton feels – until he met that remarkable young couple that has been quartered in the house next door. David (Frederick Lau) and Katja (Alice Dwyer) are so different from the equally spoiled as troubled boarding school pupil Anton and fascinated by the suicide of his father, still shaken boys with their aura of repressed sexuality, violence, danger, and the seductive scent of the forbidden. The two, whose connection to each other can never so quite fathom (they siblings, lovers, or both seem to do) all that embody what is invested in Anton indeed, from the way the light can not pave its own. Increasingly, both fascinated and disappointed by his mother and annoyed by her boyfriend Anton gets into a confusing maelstrom of events that end at the end of the summer in a surreal nightmare. It is above all the images with which Wolfgang Fischer’s debut feature film What do you not see captivate and fascinate understand. Thanks to his eyes and steering Martin Gschlacht sense for the bizarre scenes of the Breton coast, for the nested geometry of the cottage and for the already markedly weakening of late summer light the weaknesses of the screenplay is trapped, which is usually extremely trying to the stereotypes of Mystery, quiet thriller and coming-of-age drama lurches along. In general, for all aesthetic brilliance of the formulaic content of the greatest fault of the movie: Always keep the characters and their relationships to each other seen as a construct that is more interested in consistency than one’s own mind, to awaken his characters beyond their relevance to real life and their action to make them traceable. In particular, with the conclusion that almost everything is seen earlier in question or negated, would so many Zuchauer have his hands full. For instead of a alternative perspective to the viewer offer a number of – but all the sick at the same problem: Is it convincing and conclusive, none of the variants, so that one leaves the cinema rather unsatisfied. effect of all the joy of storytelling, the open ends of dares and may offer different levels of interpretation – in what you do not see the mainly fragmentary, stress and a little arbitrary. What is left at the end are left, especially the memories of visually quite stunning images and the three young actors Ludwig Trepte, Frederick Lau and Alice Dwyer, which can in this cinematic family up their more experienced colleagues look really old. (Joachim Kurz)
Title: What you do not see Country of production: Germany, Austria Year of Production: 2009 Length: 89 (Min.) (# )
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Death Note
May 18, 2010 Criminal, Mystery
Death Note
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Comic book movie, detective, death, murder, student, notebook
”Is written to the man, whose name in this notebook will die. The note to produce effects only if the writer introduces himself while recording the face of the victim. ” When the student Light Yagami these words in a black notebook found by him reads, he has no idea how much modify this object will be life. But the “Death Note” works and gives his new owner’s ability to rid the company of hardened criminals. The following series of murders, the Light under the pseudonym “Kira commits” arouses the attention of a master detective, who protect against Kira’s abilities just called “L” and his appearance secret holds. Between the two adversaries kindled a cat and mouse game. Title: Death Note Original Title: Desu Noto Country of production: , Japan Year of Production: 2006 Length: 126 (Min.) Distribution: I-ON New Media ISBN: 4260034632820
Possession
May 6, 2010 Horror, Movie Trailers, Mystery, Thriller
Possession
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Coma, brothers, friends, paranormal phenomena, multiple personality
The great days of mystery-horror films seems to have tilted the end. Have The Ring, The Curse and Drag Me To Hell even started in the cinema, genre films are now mostly just out on DVD. This may be due not only to the often streaky qualities of the films (which were called but far above the average). Films from the horror genre or just creepy corner pay off more in the home DVD player as in the movies. Possession, the latest film starring Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy, The Curse) is then also difficult to assign a genre. Atmospheric mystery which has not hurt and can be viewed with the girlfriend, is announced. Here we go … Ryan is a husband-loving, and sensitive artist, his brother Roman is the black sheep of the family, (about) life and artist asshole. No wonder that Ryan’s wife Jess (Gellar) is a little excited when the novel settles into her house. A sudden accident, involved in the Ryan and Roman are changed, suddenly everything: both are in a coma and Jess’s devastated. But just when all hope is gone, Roman wakes up from his coma! Jess is surprised and angry: Why? Why does not Ryan? But something is wrong with Roman. The fact is before suddenly being Ryan. Jess wants to know nothing of it, of course, also know as novel things that can only know Ryan. Jess can be slow, however, that you are closer. But as is so common: Just as it is beautiful right to the truth paves its way to the surface. (Need #) Possession is a quieter film that does not suggest how the cover is going in the direction of that Asian remakes of The Ring and The Curse. With many nuances and quiet without the hustle and bustle ideal world is spread out, so they can be destroyed with a bang. Then it goes quiet and melancholy. Only the slow uncertainty of the protagonist and the gloomy images indicate that something is wrong. The question remains as lead actress Sarah Michelle Gellar was so popular. The Buffy actress is pretty average little accents and has no charisma. But so be it, Possession is an experienced, well-made film with an original idea. This is at the present time quite a lot. (Renatus Töpke)
Title: Possession Country of production: USA Production year: 2007 Length: 80 (Min.) Published at: ( #) Ascot Elite Home Entertainment format: 16:9 tone / language: Dolby Digital 5.1, German, English EAN: 7613059901186 Extras: (# ) Deleted Scenes, Featurette, Interviews, At the rotary, trailers
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Black Death
Apr 30, 2010 Drama, Horror, Mystery
Black Death
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Medieval, knights, magic, Undead, Monk, Pest
England in the Middle Ages: The plague rages mercilessly and puts the people in fear and terror. The young monk Osmund given the task of the knight Ulrich and a group of mercenaries to lead to a remote village, whose Bewohhner to the epidemic seem to be resistant. The task of the group: make a Totenbeschörer identify the retrieves the dead to the living. Title: Black Death Country of production: Germany, United Kingdom Year of Production: 2010 Length: 101 (Min.)
Shutter Island
Apr 25, 2010 Criminal, Mystery, Thriller
Shutter Island
Genre: Thriller, Mystery
Murder, hospital, island, psychiatry, Berlinale 2010
The Island of the Damned
Of course, the Berlinale is alive, especially this year with her 60th Th anniversary of the big names, the deserving directors, whose films in the Berlinale Palast celebrate their premieres and world premieres. At least in this respect was given in the first few days. According to Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer today was Martin Scorsese’s new plant Shutter Island on the program and saw the light of the attending media celebrities for a proper lift. And it was not just because the expectations of shutter at least in parts of Island from the public and the press were somewhat high. With such a height, it is no wonder then that many more journalists were a little disappointed by the new work of the director. However, what is less in the images rather than lying on a little-inspired story, looks like a patchwork of well-known pieces from movies and literature.
Leonardo DiCaprio plays in Island shutter the U.S. Marshall Edward Daniels, who together with investigate his new partner, Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) in the early 1950s, the disappearance of a patient in a hospital for mentally most serious on the island of Island to shutter. Unfortunately, Daniels is not even the most stable mentally, since he was a soldier in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp there and also lost even his wife in a fire. The disappearance of the patient seems particularly suspect, and Daniel from the outset, he speculates that the whole story about him is from the senior physician, Dr. Cawley (Ben Kingsley), something is wrong. However, it seems with him up some in Argentina, because he is constantly plagued by severe migraine attacks, nightmares and visions, fiction and reality, the obscure events on the island and Daniels traumatic experiences from the past to merge. Until finally, the whole truth comes to light. And that really is not what is expected to …
Daniels
Actually, it very quickly became clear that the story that followed Edward Daniels during the course of the film, is something remarkable, and he himself a prisoner of delusion and Fkition is. This robs the film of its tension and one would almost wish for, rather than the actual resolution would have been the submission of further moves to the rather trashy side paths of the nested story, especially as Scorsese and Lehane heavily in the find box of film history and Crime / Mystery Literature digging and looting Agatha Christie’s works as well as films such as identity, The Sixth Sense, or other “mindfuck movies” as well as age-old horror à la Frankenstein.
The problem is that they will not shake the feeling that this have all seen before elsewhere – perhaps not always so brilliantly staged, but for a consistent and round. This lack of narrative originality, which should lie mainly on the literary production of Dennis Lehane, Scorsese tries to score and penetrating right through the offset from the other tricks of the voltage Klamottenkiste cinemas. More than pure, and a formulaic genre expertly reeled in a magnificent patchwork packaging comes out while not.
(Joachim Kurz)
Title: Shutter Island Country of production: USA Year of production: 2009 Length: 138 (Min) of material: ( #) Concorde Film Distribution
Trailer – Possession
Mar 12, 2010 Horror, Movie Trailers, Mystery, Thriller
Tags: Possession, Trailer
