running scared
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Cast & Credits Joey Gazelle: Paul WalkerOleg Yugorsky: Cameron Bright Teresa Gazelle: Vera Farmiga Detective Rydell: Chazz Palminteri Tommy "Tombs" Perello: Johnny Messner Sal "Gummy Bear" Franzone: Michael Cudlitz Nicky Gazelle: Alex Neuberger Mila Yugorsky: Ivana Milicevic New Line Cinema presents a film written and directed by Wayne Kramer. Running time: 122 minutes. Rated R (for pervasive strong brutal violence and language, sexuality and drug content). movie trailer Click to view trailer »
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the text below is a complete copy of ebert's. i cannot say enough about this fabulous film but to recommend it!
Speaking of movies that go over the top, "Running Scared" goes so far over the top, it circumnavigates the top and doubles back on itself; it's the Mobius Strip of over-the-topness. I am in awe. It throws in everything but the kitchen sink. Then it throws in the kitchen sink, too, and the combo washer-dryer in the laundry room, while the hero and his wife are having sex on top of it.
I never tire of quoting the French director Truffaut, who said that he was interested only in movies that were about the agony of making cinema or the ecstasy of making cinema. "Running Scared" eliminates the middle man. It's not even about making cinema. It's just about the agony and the ecstasy.
The movie stars Paul Walker. You won't catch him acting in "Running Scared." The movie never slows down enough. He simply behaves, at an alarming velocity. After an opening flash-forward that features a car crash, the movie flashes back to a drug deal that goes bad. All the crooked cops and drug dealers in the room are killed, except for Joey Gazelle (Walker) and a guy who tells him to take all of the guns and lose them. Actually, maybe some other guys survived, too. This is the kind of movie where the next scene starts before the body count.
Gazelle hides the guns in his basement. His son Nicky (Alex Neuberger) is best friends with Oleg (Cameron Bright), the Russian kid who lives next door. Oleg's father Anzor (Karel Roden) grew up in Russia watching John Wayne’s "The Cowboys" over and over again, maybe 1000 times. But Anzor only had a 10-minute version of the film. So profoundly did it affect him that he had an image of the Duke tattooed on his back. When he came to America and saw the whole movie, he found out Wayne gets shot. This was so traumatic that he turned bitter, beat his wife and terrorized his son, who steals a gun from the Gazelle's basement and shoots his father, wounding him right about where the sheriff's badge would be.
This is very bad because that is the same gun that killed a cop in the shootout. So Joey Gazelle has to race all over town trying to find the gun and collect the slugs that came out of it (this process involves both impersonating a doctor and chewing gum, although not at the same time). Meanwhile Oleg runs away, so Joey and Nicky have to find him to get the gun back.
You understand I am giving only the bare bones of the plot. I barely have time to explain why Oleg, who has asthma, is befriended by a hooker (Idalis DeLeon) who gets him a fresh inhaler at gunpoint. And how Oleg is kidnapped by perverts who are so evil they have a body bag in their closet, and how Nicky's mother Teresa (Vera Farmiga) comes to the rescue, extremely decisively.
Meanwhile, Joey is attacked with an acetylene torch by a mechanic who mistakenly sets himself on fire; Joey delays extinguishing him while screaming, "Where is my gun?" Oh, and there's the scene in the hockey rink where a crime boss has his hockey stars slam pucks at the hero's teeth. Just in case that scene might somehow lack interest, it is shot in black light, so everything glows like a purple necktie at a stag party. Yes, there is extreme material here. The opening sex scene is startling in its exploration of the Midlands. It is certainly a big surprise how the John Wayne tattoo gets shot. The perverts are so creepy, they belong in a Satanic sitcom. All of this is done using strong characterizations, crisp action and clear dialogue; this isn't one of those berserk action movies that looks like the script was thrown into a fan and the shreds were filmed at random.
Wayne Kramer, the filmmaker, writes and directs with heedless bliss. He's best known for "The Cooler" (2003), that splendid Las Vegas movie about how a casino hired William H. Macy to stand next to lucky gamblers, so their luck would turn bad. Kramer is such an overachiever that he actually succeeded in getting "The Cooler" an NC-17 rating for a sex scene starring, yes, William H. Macy. Some would say it starred Maria Bello, but that would be missing the point. The scene had to be trimmed for an R rating, leading to a bitter complaint from the 52-year-old Macy: "I have been working out for 30 years, staying in shape in the dream that someday I would get to play a sex scene. Finally I get one, and they cut it." The Macy specialty they cut out of "The Cooler" ends up in this movie on top of the washer-dryer, in a thrilling combination of sex and the spin cycle.
One of the pleasures of the movie is how supporting characters are given big scenes all for themselves. Karel Roden has a Tarantinian soliloquy on his childhood obsession with the Duke. Vera Farmiga decisively escapes the cliche of the Thriller Hero's Wife, becomes the Hero's Thrilling Wife, and makes the neatest kills of the movie. Cameron Bright, who played the child containing the reincarnated husband of Nicole Kidman in "Birth," seems to be a child containing the reincarnated Philip Seymour Hoffman in this one. Chazz Palminteri is such an evil cop that the planes of his face seem to have shifted into a sinister new configuration; I saw him in January at Sundance, where he was pleasant and smiling, and here he looks like a Batman villain who tried to shave with Roto-Rooter.
If you stand way back from "Running Scared," the plot has certain flaws. For example, close attention to the ending will reveal that Joey Gazelle spent the whole movie risking his life and the lives of his son, his wife, and the neighbor kid in a desperate quest for a gun that he didn't really need to find. Don't be depressed if you miss this detail; Joey Gazelle misses it, too. Doesn't matter. The gun is only the McGuffin. If you don't know what a McGuffin is, the good news is, you don't need to know.
Ladies in Lavender
after long i made up my mind to write again here!
last night i saw a comfortable easy movie i really liked, Ladies in Lavender, the simplicity and sincerity of Charles Dance's film stuck it into my mind as the experience a pure romantic strange inspiration. i said romantic for the love of Judi Dench for a young man and strange for this is about an lod woman risking the last chance on love! i need to confess that the latter made it both humerous and emotional to me. I can never pass the big names such as Judi Bench and Maggie Smith easily since both ladies are goddesses of the motion picture.
let me tell you about the synopsis. according to wikepedia,
Rising German talent and award-winning Daniel Bruhl ("Goodbye Lenin!") plays Andrea. A gifted young Jewish violinist from Krakow, Andrea is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a fierce storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome and mysterious stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the presence of the musically talented young man disrupts the peaceful lives of Ursula and Janet and the community in which they live.
i do recommend the film for all sweet sense it gave me. i liked particularly the simple scenes in which the young man, Andrew, was being himself and playful, knowing a little english,kidding with the ladies while ursula was growing a hidden crush toward him.
the incentive
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Peyman Abadi |
Speaking to Fars, Peyman Abadi further said that he is in Iran for over six months and teaches stunt in the country. “I want to present and develop the principles, rules and culture of stunt in the country,“ he noted.
Abadi added that members of the team, who are all Iranians except two, are so well-prepared that they can undertake extraordinary feats.
He said that he wants to show how significant the stunt is.
Commenting on the Iranian cinema, Abadi also said that the country’s cinema industry is more in need of incentive than actor/actress.
He described the Iranian cinema industry as being on the decline rather than on the rise.
This is while everywhere in the world, action films play a great role in the growth of cinema, he pointed out.
“Iranian cinema has good directors and actors/actresses,“ he said, adding in other countries, the director can hardly move the audience to tears whereas Iranian actors can do this easily. “However, until when do we want to make films on familial problems and society,“ he wondered.
Stunt can serve as an outlet for releasing youth’s energy, Abadi said, noting the Iranian cinema is duty-bound to show through action films how the accidents occur so as to prevent the youth from going after strange moves."
the suicide
parts of the hallucination of mine here on this weblog are removed due to some ...i'm not even sure,to some security reasons!
into my veins
Twisting in the staircase
Walking in the park
Laughing with the pals
Watching a film
Typing a letter
Smiling to a girl
Looking at a bird
Talking to a friend
Feeling passion
Leafing a paper
Driving to work
Playing football
Breathing the seconds
All running to my veins
So smart is the girl who
Knows how Swallow a gentleman
And I am her
Running into my veins
Feeling a true love
Running into my veins
Carry on
Carry on
Running into my veins
setareh
داوینچی شخصی
A Personal Leonardo da Vinci
I wish I could tear the sky
I wish you were mine
I wish I could melt the sun
I wish you were mine
I wish I could beat the rock
I wish you were mine
I wish I could steal the eagle’s wings
I wish you were mine
I wish I was a mare
I wish you were mine
You don’t listen to me
This is a blank conversation
I belong to a fool generation
You read and digest
I read and suppress
You look at man
Like a Leonardo da Vinci
Perplexing
Easy to understand that I am only a human
But you are a da Vinci
I wish I could open my arms apart and hide the earth
You are a Leonardo da Vinci
You ought to see it through my body
I wish you could see me
I look at the match, feel bored
You read every leap like a da Vinci
Making secrets, wonders, wows, feel pored
Life is so cold and dark in this controlled world
I have to run to you, sure you are hot like the sun
Sooner or later I will
Oh, god, I will
The day you get up and see the sky is torn
The day you see sun is melt and light and color flood your bed
The day you see rocks are beaten
Diamonds are shinning at your feet
The day you see my face in waving body of every single grass
The day I suffer no more
The day I am a mare
A winged horse maybe
That day you are mine
My personal Leonardo da Vinci
It’s not too far
My magic Leonardo da Vinci
It’s not too far
setareh
حادثه
يك مرد در انتهاي كوچه ايستاده سرفه مي كند
شیشه شكسته اي از دهانش بيرون مي افتد
شيشه روي زمين مي شكند
باز هم مي شكند
تا هزار بار باز هم مي شكند
روي زمین پر از ماهي مي شود
فاحشه ها از آئينه ها مي گذرند و تو و بيرون مي روند
با چادرهاي سیاه روسری های قرمز
ماهي ها از دیوارها با لا مي روند
درختان را مي چسبند
خود را به آجرها مي كشند
آجرها زنده مي شوند
آدم هاي خاك گرفته يكي پس از ديگري پيدا مي شوند
پنجره هاي مؤنث همه بسته مي شوند
مبادا كه آبستن شوند
ماهي ها زمین را مي خورند
با آسفالت
با ماشین ها
با آدم هايش...
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