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OTHER CRAP:
Catch the deluxe
version of Other Crap in real time, with all the bells and whistles,
here.
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Black Book
(2006)
Zwartboek (2006) stars the amazing Carice van Houten in the role of her
career as a Dutch Jew active in the WW2 resistance. The film opens many years
after the war. Van Houten is teaching school in an Israeli kibbutz when a
woman on a tour recognizes her from their time together in WW II Holland. Van
Houten then recollects the film's main story. It is an amazing yarn about how
she survived the Nazi occupation in very unusual ways, and the tale is
populated with characters that run contrary to WW II film stereotypes, but are
all based on real, historical figures. There is a nice Nazi, crooked
resistance fighters, rampant anti-Semitism among the Dutch who are helping the
Jews, and surprise after surprise to unravel.
In this work that was over 20 years from concept to fruition,
co-author/director Paul Verhoeven got it right. He not only produced a
masterpiece, but has gotten the credit he deserves for it, except from the
American academy. Zwartboek is currently rated 8.0 at IMDb with 15,919 votes,
and earned $4.4M in a US release, this for a Dutch language film with
subtitles running 145 minutes. It may well be the best film I have seen from
2006. If you haven't seen this, I strongly recommend it.
Carice van Houten
Halina Reijn
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Notes and collages
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The Ruins
2008
No slashers, no chain saw killers, no psychotics intent on torturing
their victims psychologically; The Ruins is just good ole' creepy-crawly
horror, and it's very entertaining.
Best friends Stacy (Laura Ramsey) and Amy (Jena Malone) are on vacation
in Mexico with their boyfriends when they meet another tourist, a German,
whose brother is on an archeological dig at a Mayan pyramid that is
unknown and not open to tourists. He offers his new friends a chance to
visit it. After enduring an 11-mile "taxi" ride into the wilderness (the
cab was a beat up pickup----they got to ride in the back), and trekking
through 2 miles of jungle, they find the Mayan pyramid. They also find
their friend's brother, but they find a few more things they most
certainly didn't expect.
This is exciting old-fashioned horror, and it will definitely make your
pulse race. I highly recommend it.
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101 Reykjavik
2000
A 30-year-old Icelandic man still lives with his mother and spends
his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net. Lola, his mother's
Spanish flamenco teacher (Victoria Abril), moves in with them for
Christmas. On New Year's Eve, while his mother is away, he ends up
having drunken sex with Lola and getting her pregnant. The man's mother
returns and breaks the news that she and Lola are lesbian lovers and
will raise the baby together. He tries and fails to commit suicide, but
eventually matures and gets a job, although he never does leave his
mother's house. He stays with the two women and their (his) baby boy.
Part 2 (conclusion)
Hanna Maria
Karlsdottir
Ingibjorg
Gunnarsdottir
Thrudur
Vilhjalmsdottir
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