Curious Eyes

Good intention number 1: This year I go to see all the Tiger Awards movies. The list of 2009:

À l’ouest de Pluton, Henri Bernadet, Myriam Verreault, Canada
Be Calm and Count to Seven, Ramtin Lavafipour, Iran

Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly, Edwin, Indonesië

Breathless, Yang Ik-June, Zuid-Korea
The Dark Harbour,
Naito Takatsugu, Japan
Dogging: A Love Story, Simon Ellis, Verenigd Koninkrijk
Floating in Memory, Peng Tao, China
The Hungry Ghosts, Michael Imperioli,
Verenigde Staten

No puedo vivir sin ti, Leon Dai, Taiwan

Schottentor, Caspar Pfaundler, Oostenrijk
Sois sage, Juliette Garcias, Frankrijk/Denemarken
The Strength of Water, Armagan Ballantyne,
Nieuw-Zeeland/Duitsland
Turistas, Alicia Scherson, Chili
Wrong Rosary, Mahmut Fazil Coskun, Turkije

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Yesterday i saw the Cameron Jamie with Melvins Trilogy “BB, Krankly Klaus and Spook House” in a really sold out – 917 people – Old  Luxor. It was the combination that did it. Without the movie i should never be thrilled by The Melvins , and without the music I was probably walked out after half an hour. But now i was fascinated from start to finish. And also the movies were weird. Ok, last year i attented for the first time a Halloween party, but that was a very decent one comparing what you could see in the movie: no freyed eyeballs, no guillotines, no beheaded, no hanging, no graveyeard, as all you could see in this movie. And this Austrian Klaus was really krankly..  

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I have seen till now 3 Tiger Award films and i am turned on about what i saw till now.

•  The King of Ping Pong,  a swedish adoscolent movie in the very, very North of the country, nothing is as it looks;
• Wonderful town, a love drama in South Thailand Tsunami area;
• Cordero de Dios (Lamb of Gods), about the country’s traumatic recent history in middleclass families;

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• Mio fratelli e figlio unico; again an italian movie about the struggle between brothers, right and left and the holy family? Yes, again a italian movie about the struggle between brothers, right and left and the holy family; from the screenwriters of Il Meglio Gioventu and with that movie i was even crying in the theater (and not one time );
• TBS, because of the cardboard screenplay;

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• Alexandra, a masterpiece of Alexandr Sukurov, very realistic about the madness of (Chechnian) war, without even one gunshot, with a classic role of Galina Vishnevskaya, operastar and the wife of the late cellist Rostropovich;
• Help me Eros, in the madness of Taipeh (Taiwan), when a bankrupt man freaks out completely in a world of sex and design, an I can assure you that the Animal’s Party in Taiwan does not have a member of parliament ;
• The Mourning Forest; I always liked forests, as i grown up in the (green) East of my country and this forest looks like the Mother of all Forests; also touching about the power of elderness;
• Bashing (2005), a terrifying story about mass hysteria, from Filmmaker in Focus Kobayashi Masahiro;
• Hemel boven Holland, based on the story of Mohammed B., who killed Theo van Gogh, a first appearance of dutch filmmaker Rolf van Eijk, with a beautiful – strange word in this context – play of leading actor Sabir Al Haft;

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Yesterday i booked my first 10 films. Not especially  my most favorites, but probably some public favorites and soon sold out. Between  them ” La graine et le mulet” , astonishly not showing in The Netherlands after the Rotterdam Film Festival.   (photo:International Film Festival Rotterdam) This film won  in Venice the FIPRESCI film critics award and should be a thrilling movie  ”about life, ambitions, frustrations, courage and indolence among North African migrant families in the south of France”. 

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Next wednesday International Film Festival Rotterdam 2008 starts. For me 10 days without Oracle, Sql and other IT stuff, seeiing 50 films or more.

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