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Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:20:50 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - By definition, the moving picture (the "movie") is associated with actions and sounds. So, why make a movie where the protagonist is totally paralyzed and mute? "Why not?" said the American visual artist Julian Schnabel, who proceeded to bring...

Hotel Carter, New York, NY: "You Wanted in Time Square & Less,"

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:03:06 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - My wife and I went to New York City on short notice last week. Since we are Big Apple novices, I went to the Web to hunt for a hotel relatively convenient to the places we were visiting. After all, how hard could it really be to find a strategically...

Elegant Dishwasher In and Out

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:43:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - I just finished remodeling my kitchen from top to bottom four months ago: new cabinets, new floor, new everything, and ... new appliances. I approached the remodeling as I did all of my past projects, when I was working as a researcher in nuclear...

The Lives of Others: Stasi wants "to know everything."

Sun, 4 Mar 2007 13:13:09 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - Even a broken clock will indicate the right time twice a day, and this time Hollywood got it right, anointing writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's extraordinary feature directorial debut, The Lives of Others (Das Leben der...

"If he were dead, I'd know it."

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:44:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - A Very Long Engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles/2004) is Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s screen adaptation of Sebastien Japrisot's novel by the same name. Jeunet had read this magnificent novel, awarded the prestigious French...

The Suspended Step of the Stork (Meteoro vima tou pelargou, To): “If I take one more step, I’m “elsewhere,”… or I die.”

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:19:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - “How does one leaves? Why? To where?” Theodoros Angelopoulos’ The Suspended Step of the Stork(1991) is the first part of a trilogy consisting of Ulysses’ Gaze (1995) and Eternity and a Day (1998)...

An Affair of Love: It was an act of love...

Wed, 6 Sep 2006 17:24:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - Frédéric Fonteyne’s Une Liaison Pornographique (US title, An Affair of Love) is an unusual love story, insofar as it unfolds “in reverse.” Every Thursday, at the same hotel, at the same café, “He” and...

The "Blue Moon White" Wonder

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:17:18 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - You cannot stop progress in my house! I recently acquired a brand new Kenmore canister vacuum cleaner (Sp. Aspiradora), mfr. model #25615, also known as a “Kenmore Progressive Canister Vacuum with Telescopic Wand, Blue Moon White.” This...

“You make music, Monsieur, you are not a musician“

Mon, 7 Aug 2006 23:42:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - “All the mornings of the world dawn but once.” Alain Corneau’s 1991 All the Mornings of the World (Fr. Tous les matins du monde) is undoubtedly the most beautiful and meaningful film ever made about music and...

Bored , and boring

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:13:58 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - "Be careful what you wish for; you just might get it." Benoit Jacquot’s film, Adolphe (2002), is the adaptation of Benjamin Constant’s 19th Century French classic, a novella reputed not to be adaptable to the screen...

A Question of Hemoglobin.

Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:15:11 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - Among the 674 films (so far) that have vampires as subject matter, Tony Scott’s The Hunger (1983) distinguishes itself with its romantic, mythic, and erotic atmosphere, and of course the torrid sex scene (at least for the time) involving...

We'll make another one

Mon, 22 May 2006 11:40:54 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - At the 2005 Cannes Festival, the Dardenne brothers received the Palme d'Or for l'Enfant, their second in six years (the first for Rosetta, in 1999). The film opens with eighteen-year-old Sonia (Déborah François),...

The Camera as a Spy

Mon, 22 May 2006 11:27:45 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - CACHÉ My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too...

The Room

Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:36:49 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - “You dream of one thing but you get quite another.” [Writer, Stalker]. A “stalker” is a person who guides people through “The Zone,” a place outside an unidentified city that exists as the result of an...

We will meet where we agreed...

Sun, 6 Nov 2005 18:50:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - Mother and Son (1997) is a love story, not of the "Romeo and Juliette" or "Tristan and Isolde" type, but rather regarding the profound emotional ties that exist between a mother and her son. The film calls for amazing optical effects and...

The Other Face of Bali

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:10:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - I first visited Indonesia in 1984 and fell in love with Bali. I have since returned each year to the "Island of the Gods" from where I have been exploring the rest of the Indonesian Archipelago, and since 1991, I share my time equally between Bali and...

The Carnations of Wrath

Fri, 7 Oct 2005 22:24:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - The film Jean de Florette (1986) and the one which followed it, Manon des Sources (1986), are the screen rendition of Marcel Pagnol's exquisite novel, L'eau des Collines (The Water from the Hills, 1963). It is the story...

Trilogia I: To Livadi pou dakryzei (Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow): An Hellenic Odyssey

Fri, 5 Aug 2005 12:38:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - "…you reached out and touched the wet grass, and when you raised your hand, a few drops rolled down and fell on the earth… like tears." The applause had barely subsided in Cannes following the awarding of Angelopoulos' Eternity...

When God created the World, the first thing he made were journeys

Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:16:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - "And if the soul is about to know itself, it must gaze into the soul." [Plato, Alcybiades, 133B] In Ulysses' Gaze (To Vlemma Tou Odyssea, 1995), a Greek-American filmmaker, not named in the film, and only referred to...

All the World's a Stage

Mon, 27 Jun 2005 22:12:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. [Jaques, Shakespeare, As you like it, Act ii. Sc. 7.] Greek film director Theo Angelopoulos is one of the most influential and widely respected...

That any god is evil I do not believe

Mon, 23 May 2005 13:19:54 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - "That any god is evil I do not believe." [Iphigenia. Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris] Approximately 2,500 years ago, the Athenian tragedians -- Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides -- said it all in the most eloquent and poetic terms...

The Best of Ingmar Bergman

Wed, 11 May 2005 23:15:56 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - Ingmar Bergman's marriage in 1959 to concert pianist Kabi Larete can be credited with broadening Bergman's horizons and expanding his knowledge in the field of music. Larete was a personal friend of both Stravinsky and Bartok, and she exposed Bergman...

Certainty Achieved

Sun, 8 May 2005 16:07:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - Through a Glass Darkly, originally titled The Wallpaper, is the first part in a film trilogy, the start to a new direction taken by Ingmar Bergman: "chamber films," so named for their analogy to chamber music. The film was slated to be...

You don't always get what you paid for

Fri, 6 May 2005 13:44:55 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - My faithful and reliable Advent 420s, which I purchased in 1962, finally gave up the ghost. It had served me well in all the offices I had occupied throughout the years. Now I needed a replacement for my present office. You will remember that The...

God's Silence -- the Negative Print

Thu, 5 May 2005 23:03:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author danielpar - When Bergman started shooting The Silence, he explained that it was the final installment of his film trilogy, which started with T
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