Dec
29
2009
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The Conqueror (1956)

“No one comes out of this train
wreck holding their head up.”

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Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

One of the dullest actioners ever. A miscast John Wayne is cast as
Mongol warrior Genghis Khan, but makes for one of the most unlikely looking
and sounding easterners. The big-budget ($6 million) epic historical film
is an artistic  embarrassment and also a box office flop. Not only
is the directing terrible, the acting by everyone wooden, and the dialogue
stilted, but it’s overlong and difficult to watch without either laughing
at in derision or tuning it out. No one comes out of this train wreck holding
their head up. It’s a bad film that’s really that bad. It tells about the
early days of the 12th-century Genghis Khan; it’s played as a solemn CinemaScope
costume pic, but Wayne can’t help playing the eastern warrior as a gunfighting
cowboy which is not the way to play his character. This ruins any attempt
to make it even semi-plausible, aside from the fact that its history is
so loosely interpreted that it’s rendered meaningless. Wayne is forced
to say lines such as this one to Hayward: “You’re beautiful in your wrath.”

Billionaire producer Howard Hughes insisted on shooting in Utah’s
Escalante Desert. The desert area had been used for atom bomb tests. Coincidentally
all the following died from cancer in due time: Dick Powell, John Wayne,
Susan Hayworth, Pedro Armendáriz, and Agnes Moorehead. Supposedly
of the 220 people who worked on the film, more than 90 later came down
with cancer. Which makes you scratch your head and look back in wonder
why the effort for such a lousy film. Hughes must have remembered this
about the ill effects of radiation, because in his recluse days in Las
Vegas he did all he could to stop atom bomb testing in Nevada. According
to the book Citizen Hughes by Michael Drosnin, Hughes bribed Nixon to eventually
move the tests to Alaska. Hughes after selling RKO bought back the rights
to both The Conqueror and the slightly better Jet Pilot for $12 million,
and didn’t allow any prints to reach the public. During his recluse days,
the mentally unbalanced Hughes watched these films in the nude over and
over again. I think if I was forced to watch The Conqueror for an extended
period of time, I too would begin to lose whatever marbles I had and throw
away my clothes.

The plot has Temujin (John Wayne), a ferocious Mongol warrior, abduct
the beautiful Tartar princess Bortai (Susan Hayward), who might be the
only Tartar redhead in history, from her soon-to-husband Targutai. In captivity
the treacherous Bortai, whose father defeated Temujin’s father in battle,
schemes to get Temujin into mistrusting his blood brother Jamuga (Pedro
Armendáriz). Later she falls in love with the stud warrior and all
becomes square again.

Temujin’s mother Hunlun is played by Agnes Moorehead while Thomas
Gomez plays Wang Khan, whose emperor title Temujin will inherit after vanquishing
his enemies in the Gobi Desert. 

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Dec
27
2009
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A Knight’s Tale (2001)

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Dec
25
2009
0

Writer Horton Foote specializ…

Writer Horton Foote specializes in slice-of-life stories chronicling the daily struggles of sincere Southern folk. Most are straightforward, uncomplicated tales that not in any degree dominated by a definite creation or annihilate. They often start in the middle and end there, too, leaving plenty of dangling threads on account of readers and viewers to contemplate. Plots don’t seem to matter much to Foote; for him, it’s the characters that be confident of, and the 88-year-old author has crafted a significant gallery once more the surely of his long dash. (Carrie Watts in The Trip to Bountiful and Mac Sledge in Row-boat Mercies are it may be his two most illustrious creations.) All speak a simple language, and watching them interact, evolve, and struggle with daily problems is almost forever a rewarding acquaintance.

In Cosset, the Come down Must Fall, Foote employs his patented style conclusively again, this time in an adaptation of his stake, The Traveling Lady. Scheming, scattered, and unobtrusively moving, this low-key and often overlooked stage play possesses a lovely flow and nature that keeps one riveted throughout, in spite of its careful pacing and minimal plot. Mr Big Robert Mulligan strikes just the right tone, and not at any time tries to over-report the story. Yet he brings Foote’s pages to life, and, exactly like he did with To Kill A Mockingbird (which Foote also adapted), masterfully blurs the lines between cinema and literature.

We in the first place dispose of Georgette Thomas (Lee Remick) and her attractive little daughter Margaret Rose (Kimberly Block) as they travel on a bus toward the fatigued town of Columbus, Texas. Notified that her mate Henry (Steve McQueen), who was convicted of killing a man in a barroom battle royal a few years earlier, has received parole, Georgette plans to rekindle their relationship and inject him to the daughter he has not under any condition seen. The family reunion is understandably stilted and awkward, but Henry and Georgette try to forge a life together.

Georgette, however, must fight through despite her husband’s affection. Music is Henry’s first and strongest betrothed, and he finds himself torn between his aching desire to work for a career as a rockabilly singer/songwriter and his burgeoning domestic responsibilities. Georgette fully supports Henry’s conjure up, but convincing the crotchety, officious Miss Kate, Henry’s corrupt adoptive mother, is an impossible task. Miss Kate made Henry promise to enroll in unendingly school and learn a trade as a condition of his parole, but Henry contrariwise feels alive when he’s performing and can’t hold back the allure of the podium.

The wounds Blunder Kate inflicted on the young Henry have never fully healed, and his hatred and fear of the biting antique woman often clouds his judgment. A violent temper and penchant for liquor also conspire to sabotage Henry’s precious, but oh-so-tenuous unfledged sustenance. Georgette tries her most to be a steadying influence, and Henry’s childhood playmate Slim (Don Murray), now the town’s deputy sheriff, does what he can to keep his friend on the straight and narrow, but both have trouble controlling Henry’s inconstant tendencies and soothing his girlhood scars.

Life in a soporific, judgmental Southern borough is well-played out territory for Mulligan and Foote, and their experience shows. Infrequent details escape their gaze as they meticulously depict the wind-swept environment and uptight attitudes of rural Texas. Mulligan weaves an close spell and rarely breaks it, allowing viewers to manipulate an affinity with Georgette and Henry that lasts wholly the fog. But parallel to the characters it depicts, Coddle, the Rain Must Fall stumbles at times. Hurried details and unreliable motivations occasionally cloud the functioning, and McQueen—who performs three songs, including the communicable title tune—can’t lip-synch to save his soul. Yet the literate screenplay, sensitive direction, and impeccable performances make it suggestible to forgive any faults.

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Remick and McQueen act with such natural and heartbreaking grace it’s out of the question not to identify on some stage straight with their characters. Both contribute mesmerizing portrayals brimming with realism and truth. Remick underplays to perfection, and exhibits a serenity and purity of spirit that adds to more radiance to her standard beauty. She fills her tender, marvelously shaded discharge with unfathomable emotion and deceptive strength, and her light opinion in the face of biggish turmoil and uncertainty is inspirational.

McQueen, however, is the real surprise. His eyes and stance brilliantly convey Henry’s inner conflicts and neuroses, while his dormant intensity adds wrenching layers to Henry’s yearning for avidity, unrealistic dreams, and divided loyalties. This is a different Steve McQueen—gentle, vulnerable, tortured, but silent tough and manly—and his admirable fit in only makes people wish he pursued similar roles more often. Here, he flexes some affecting dramatic muscle, and, together with Remick, molds Spoil, the Rain Must Befriend into a memorable and moving film.

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Dec
22
2009
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Temptress Moon (1996)

A lush, lyrical fable back the modernization of China, TEMPTRESS MOON is the story of Zhongliang (Leslie Cheung), a Shanghai hoodlum raised on the royal sylvan position of the powerful, opium-addled Pang family. As a small fry, Zhongliang, promised the life of a swat, becomes instead a servant for his sister and her cure-addicted husband and a comrade for Ruyi (Gong Li), the female legatee to the Discomfort family. A permanent outsider, Zhongliang escapes the painful decadence of the Malaise household and becomes a smooth-talking mobster, seducing women in the jazz-saturated clubs of 1920s Shanghai, but he is phony to face his past when hired to seduce and abduct Ruyi in a criminal go to gain control as surplus the intermittently vulnerable Pang estate. What begins as a customary seduction becomes more knotty when Zhongliang finds himself unable to escape his true feelings payment Ruyi and crippling memories of his burning childhood. Cinematographer Christopher Doyle revels in the eclectic visual spectacle of a tradition-bound China cracking and hatching its version of the jazz age. Li and Cheung metamorphose into in inspired performances, their palpable onscreen chemistry igniting director Chen Kaige’s magnificently detailed reliable epic.

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Dec
21
2009
0

Scrapbook review

A serial daisy decides to keep a scrapbook of his numerous killings. This misshapen book not only includes Polaroids of his victims, but also bits of clothing, and various other remnants. Worst of all, there is a section in the scrapbook containing written entries by all his victims–which they were forced to do–on their thoughts and all-embracing misery and distress under the control of this madman. Clara is the serial killer’s latest quest. She endures being beaten, raped, hurting for deprived of, and locked up. She too, is coerced into writing in his album when she realizes her certainty for survival. Her plan is to write out an shot at communication with the killer in a non-threatening manipulative politeness via her portfolio entries.

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Dec
18
2009
0

High Noon (1952)

On his juncture day, after he has given up his Marshall’s
badge to start a different life, lawman Compel Kane learns that a
vengeful ban seeking payment is returning on the noon rear.

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Dec
13
2009
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Enlisted in a top secret bombi…

Enlisted in a covering secret bombing mission alongside the élite of the Navy’s air women, fiery-headed flyboy Topper Harley (Sheen) forced to word go persuade the beautiful wretched psychiatrist (Golino) that his disposition quirks won’t jeopardize the employee. In the anyway in the reality, he earns her love, his comrades’ element, and a one-speed ticket to Disneyland. This Kentucky Fried movie dogs Meridian Gun sort canned chortling dogging a feeble pun. There’s nothing as subtle as roast here. Instead, Abrahams and co-scribbler Pat Proft keep the narrative framework out of harm’s way while taking gut shots at whatever takes their pine for, from Nine 1/2 Weeks to Dances with Wolves. These spoofs are funny up to a point, but Abrahams can’t convene much conviction for the job; too much, a unmitigated allusion does all the achieve, while wackier gags are stretched beyond breaking point. It capacity be funnier.

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Dec
11
2009
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The Last King of Scotland review

Edward Douglas

Rating:
9 out of 10

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Cast:

Forest Whitaker as Idi Ami

James McAvoy as Nicholas Garrigan

Kerry Washington as Kay Amin
Simon McBurney as Nigel Stone
Gillian Anderson as Sara Zach

Adam Kotz as Dr. Merrit

David Oyelowo as Dr. Junju

Abby Mukiibi as Masanga

Stephen Rwangyezi as Jonah Wasswa

Directed by Kevin Macdonald


Outline:

With a masterfully skewed twist on "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," this historical biopic is notable not only for Forest Whitaker's wonderful portrayal of Idi Amin, but also for the twinkling writing and an impressive gig by James McAvoy.

Book:

Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy), a young Scottish doctor, travels to Uganda to work in the free clinic. Instead, he winds up becoming the personal physician, escort and confidante to the country's new president Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker), watching as the pressures of power threaten to destroy his already insubstantial inner man.


Analysis:

With more and more movies being made in and not far from Africa, it was merely in good time before someone asseverative to make a movie hither Uganda's infamous overlord Idi Amin. Eliminate it to the Brits to determine a equivalent to to tell Amin's joke in a way that defies the normal historical biopic like "Caravanserai Rwanda," as documentary filmmaker like Kevin Macdonald ("Touching the Void") takes inspiration from the fictionalized account in Giles Foden's novel to foretell an unforgettable stirring tale.

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After getting his PhD, Scotsman Nicholas Garrigan escapes his condescending physician primogenitor to work at a uninhibited clinic in Uganda. Shortly after arriving, he starts hearing give the country's charismatic advanced leader Idi Amin, who is winning the people onto by telling them what they privation to perceive. After a chance encounter, Nicholas reluctantly agrees to take a job as Amin's deprecating physician, a trade with uncountable fringe benefits as Nicholas becomes the president's close friend and confidante.

So begins everybody of the most unconventional African biopics in recent homage, as it takes a look at this fascinating historical figure through the eyes of a fictional character. It's not exactly a new idea, but the fact that Nicholas Garrigan isn't a real person may detract from the reliable accuracy that Kevin Macdonald tries to introduce to capturing the Amin of documented single. It's at worst slightly bothersome when you mark of it that opportunity, because it's an witty exclusive and mist nonetheless.

Knowing that you're watching a movie about what many think to be single of the most ruthless dictators in recent memory, you'd expect it to be a tenebrous and violent pic, almost to the point of sensationalism. In lieu of, there's a certain degree of light playfulness to the fall down we're introduced to Nicholas, charming the first specific woman he meets into bed and then flirting with his boss' wife (Gillian Anderson) shortly after. Amin himself shows up as a showman in soldier's garb, and we quickly see Amin's youthful exuberance and enthusiasm, especially when it comes to all things Scottish.
Without thought the on the move the movie lightens things up by showing Amin in his leisure hours, carousing with women and staging towering Scottish-themed parades for himself, the movie doesn't have as a vista the horrors inherent with his obtain. Nicholas at the end of the day finds himself being dragged into affairs of stage being asked by a British envoy to stifle an discrimination on the leader they get dressed in into power, but Nicholas' own ethics has him questioning the leader's tactics and wondering if he made the exactly career sentence. Any attempts to get thoroughly of the spot are met by resistance from his "defeat friend," and in due course, Nicholas is having an affair with one of Amin's dissociated wives, played by Kerry Washington. By then, we already cognizant of what a creature Amin has become, and things come to a climactic wit in the middle of a Palestinian hijacking at Entebbe Airport, as Amin negotiates the make available of the passengers in hopes of becoming a actor to his people again.

Needless to say, this movie would never obtain worked without an actor of Whitaker's caliber portraying Idi Amin. Whitaker perfectly nails the despot's speech patterns, his stride and his swagger, but most of all, he can revolution heated gears quick enough to realize this complex individual's way of thinking, being kind-hearted and undisciplined one minute, paranoid and ill-natured the next. Amin was such a great performer himself, markedly when confronted by the bustle, which is probably why a lot of the torture and murders of his regime went unseen for so long. Seeing this other side of the Homo sapiens is quite hypnotizing.

Overlooking James McAvoy and his equally solid acting as Nicholas will quite be the biggest tragedy of the upcoming awards seasonable, because however you requisite to look at it, this silver screen is really to his character–living in Uganda and working for Idi Amin is only anecdote small enter in of Nicholas' obsession. The silver screen just wouldn't have been the verbatim at the same time if Whitaker didn't bear McAvoy to wager off his performance, and the giant scenes between the two actors shows the emotional inscrutability of their relationship. It's pretty subtle, but our reactions to the declining situation in this unknown land are dictated by Nicholas' own feelings, though McAvoy makes it note as if Nicholas' emotions are mirroring our own.

Having already mastered the art of the recreation with "Touching the Void," Macdonald does an equally impressive job recreating the villages and cities of Uganda, as fountain as the look of the times. There's a destined charm to the film's low-fi look, using handheld cameras and muted colors presumably as an intentional respect to the movie of the '70s. When Nicholas' realizes how deep he's gotten into this situation, it's like a scene straight gone from of "Apocalypse Now," and you make happen how masterfully Kevin Macdonald has blended reality with cinematic storytelling to bear you break to another metre and occupation, much like he did with his earlier documentaries.


The Bottom Up for:

Anyone interested in the sentience and crimes of Idi Amin but not up fitting for a dreary and impetuous African drama may be surprised how Forest Whitaker's wonderfully rounded portrayal of the bandleader makes this a diverting experience, at least until Amin's crazy and homicidal ways build their superior. Either way, it just wouldn't be the still and all without James McAvoy providing our eyes and ears, and director Kevin Macdonald has really made his mark as a filmmaker with his first fully startling countenance glaze.

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Dec
09
2009
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Jodie Foster has essentially …

Jodie Maintain has essentially remade "Death Wish" with her latest endeavor THE BRAVE EVERYBODY

THE SPLENDID ONE

KEY SCENES TO LOOK FOR:

1. THE CANT SILOHUETTE SHOTS IN THE HALLWAY

2. THE BANTER BETWEEN THE DETECTIVES AT THE OFFENCE SCENES

Decades ago, Charles Bronson began a career of tough-guy fight movies with "Decease Wish". It was the story of a simple control pushed to the advantage of tempered power by a inhumane shtick against his bloodline, compounded with the law's inability to serve justice. The film is a archetypal, but not many of today's period know Charlie Bronson. Enter Jodie Bring up, who has essentially remade "Death Wish" with her latest endeavor THE BRAVE UNDIVIDED.

Rear plays Erica Bain, a local talk certify radio host. She is madly in love with David Kimani, played by Naveen Andrews, from the TV series "Lost". When the four is brutally attacked in Central Parking-lot, in fact in the same tunnel Bronson makes one of his notable vigilante kills, and the police seem powerless, she takes matters into her own hands with a 9mm automatic. It's interesting to note while any man’s actor reprising this role would hold been enchanted as just another macho gun-swinging decay of time, when Take care of does it, it's remarkable. She's a the missis, so her exacting of objectivity, or revenge, is somehow accepted and sober cheered whereas male counterparts are criticized. I find this an enchanting commentary on society's changing roles. Also along for the ride are Terrence Howard as Sean Mercer, the detective determined to find the vigilante and Mary Steenburgen as Carol, Erica's boss at the radio station.

There are a few interesting visuals in THE INTREPID ONE. Foster lights up and enjoys a cigarette after each bonanza, fostering the stereotype of smoking after intimacy and gunplay being an extension of the sex act; a theme that was played to exaggerated camp in "Shoot 'em Up". Foster's looks change cranny of the motion picture also. She looks quite feminine in the opening reels, but once she becomes burgh sheriff, the tip off a exaggerate up artists do their crush to make her look equal to a man. And, even so this comment may seem a two shakes of a lamb’s tail picayune, for a popular radio diva, Foster is clueless how to run a mic nicely during an discussion.

The membrane is sharpshooter wholly, thanks to an artistic eye by Manager of Photography Philippe Rousselot. The occasional flashbacks are done tastefully. Composer Dario Marianelli has scored an engrossing soundtrack (what would you expect, he's Italian). The only industrial mar comes at the hands of Editor Tony Lawson. THE BRAVE ONE is in need of better pacing. While the start and conclusion move nicely, just past mid-point, the blur bogs a bit.

With Joel Silvery as creator, you foresee action and you are not disappointed. With Cultivate you expect class, and once again, viewers get what they expect. So much of THE BRAVE ONE was familiar to me, firstly having re-watched "Death Wish" a few weeks ago. Perhaps if there weren't so multitudinous similarities, THE BRAVE ONE would compel ought to received a higher rating.

THE RATING IN PLACE OF THE UNFEARING ONE = B

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Dec
06
2009
0

Just My Luck (2006)

SNOOZING VIEWER

Just My Luck: Comedy. Starring Lindsay Lohan and Chris Pine. Directed by
Donald Petrie. (PG-13. 103 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.)



The jolt in “Just My Luck” comes early. Lindsay Lohan walks out of a
building in Manhattan and hails a taxi, and the camera switches to a close-up,
her first in the movie. It’s alarming. Two years ago, Lohan was a 17-year-old
kid who looked like a 17-year-old kid. But here she has the tight, valiant
smile of a faded ingenue, like Marilyn on the beach, like someone trying to
cheer her way past a haunted memory.

The nice thing about being 19 and not 40 is that it’s possible to bounce
back. But as it stands, Lohan looks like someone who hasn’t had six straight
hours of sleep since “Mean Girls,” and that puts her in an odd place in “Just
My Luck,” an awful comedy in which she stars as a public relations executive.
Interacting with her normal-looking co-stars Bree Turner and Samaire Armstrong,
who play her best friends, Lohan doesn’t seem like someone from their world.
It’s the palpable difference between Earth and Hollywood.

The screenplay, by I. Marlene King and Amy B. Harris, borrows from Craig
Lucas’ “Prelude to a Kiss,” but not enough to be either liable or coherent.
Lohan plays Ashley, a young PR agent whose luck has been noticed by her
friends. If she forgets her umbrella, it stops raining the minute she steps
outside. Meanwhile, poor Jake (Chris Pine), on the other side of town, has only
bad luck. Everything he touches turns to disaster.

So one day the two meet at a party, get close and kiss — and in that
second, their luck switches. Her life and career immediately start going down
the toilet, and he gets his band a major recording contract. Within days, he
has a huge apartment and goes from looking like a loser to looking like a
young, handsome success.

That’s the scenario. Here are the problems: Ashley is not a bad person, so
we don’t enjoy watching her suffer. Nor is Lohan a particularly gifted physical
comic, so it’s not fun watching her taking pratfalls or trying to keep the suds
from overflowing the washing machine (yes, that old gag). At the same time,
Ashley is not so nice that we want her to kiss Jake and take away his luck.
He’s a great guy. People depend on him, and he’s doing good things. Besides, he
has only been lucky for a few days, while she has been lucky all her life.

Such a zero-sum game is not exactly appetizing in a comedy. The picture
gives us two protagonists and sets up a situation in which only one of them can
have a decent life. Then, having devised this sour souffle, the screenwriters
find no adjustment to make it palatable. The resolution is flip, at best.

The screenwriters can’t joke their way out of this bind. Director Donald
Petrie and the actors can’t charm their way out, either, though Pine (Jake)
really is charming and, here and there, Lohan shows signs that she might really
be an actress. Maybe a good one. But to say the least, “Just My Luck” is not a
flattering showcase.

– Advisory: This film contains some mild sex talk.

E-mail Mick LaSalle at mlasalle@sfchronicle.com.

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