Saturday, May 29, 2010

Movies: New-&- Comings: A list I scarfed from Mubi, the movie auteurs s+t

Here's a valuable list I scarfed for your viewing pleasure and/or displeasure (I often experience both at the same time regarding most movies .... yes, I'm a movie ... er, a cinema, whore). To view the longer list, click up the Film tab at Mubi webs+t. Make sure you click further for the expanded view with the important details. Here's the top of the scarfed (expanded) list:

INCEPTION
United States 2010
DIR Christopher Nolan
Currently 4.6/5 Stars.
In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a single idea within one’s mind can be the most dangerous weapon or the most valuable asset.

YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER
United States 2010
DIR Woody Allen
Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
Written and directed by Woody Allen. A little romance, some sex, some treachery, and apart from that, a few laughs. The lives of a group of people, whose passions, ambitions and anxieties force them all into assorted troubles that run the gamut from ludicrous to dangerous.

CERTIFIED COPY
France 2010
DIR Abbas Kiarostami
Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
This is the story of a meeting between one man (William Shimell) and one woman (Juliette Binoche), in a small Italian village in Southern Tuscany.

FILM SOCIALISM
France 2010
DIR Jean-Luc Godard
Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
A symphony in three movements. Things such as: The Mediterranean, a cruise ship. Numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday…

BIUTIFUL
Mexico 2010
DIR Alejandro González Iñárritu
Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
Biutiful is the story of Uxbal (Javier Bardem). Uxbal’s story is simple: just one of the complex realities that we all live in today.
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OUTRAGE
Japan 2010
DIR Takeshi Kitano
Currently 3.1/5
In a ruthless battle for power, several yakuza clans vie for the favor of their head family in the Japanese underworld.

A PROPHET
France 2009
DIR Jacques Audiard
Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena cannot read nor write. Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more fragile than the other convicts.

SOMEWHERE
United States 2010
DIR Sofia Coppola
Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
A hard-living Hollywood actor re-examines his life after his 11-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.

ENTER THE VOID
France 2009
DIR Gaspar Noé
Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
Oscar and his sister Linda are recent arrivals in Tokyo. He’s a small time drug dealer, and she works as a nightclub stripper. One night, Oscar is caught up in a police bust and shot. As he lies dying, his spirit, faithful to the promise he made his sister—refuses to abandon the world of the living.

Requiescat in pace
May 29,2k10 article teaser with pix
DENNIS HOPPER, 1936 - 2010
by David Hudson

"Dennis Hopper, the maverick director and costar of the landmark 1969 counterculture film classic Easy Rider whose drug- and alcohol-fueled reputation as a Hollywood bad boy preceded his return to sobriety and a career resurgence in the films Hoosiers and Blue Velvet, died Saturday," reports Dennis McLellan in the Los Angeles Times. "He was 74. A longtime resident of Venice who also was known as a photographer, artist and collector of modern art, Hopper died at his home of complications from prostate cancer, said Alex Hitz, a friend of the family."

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