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Review: The Skin I Live In

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I’ve recently been in the mood to watch some foreign films. So I asked my friend, Michelle, to send me a list of recommended films because I know she’s cultured like that. And so I have been participating in a private foreign film festival, with fellow eager beaver, Noluthando.

Then I got to Spanish film, La Piel Que Habito (The Skin I Live In). IMDB describes it as:

A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

I somehow feel that this description doesn’t even begin to describe what the story is really about. It’s somewhat of a second storyline that becomes non-existent thirty minutes into the movie

There’s a twist that I cannot reveal because I really need for you to watch this film.

It was a confusing and a little bit of a disturbing film.

Disturbing because a deranged “tiger” (who is really a human on the run from the law) who licks TV screens and has scars on his face that could haunt you in your sleep.

Confusing because the story jumps through time, and so much happens. Well, maybe because I didn’t really focus (because it all seemed to make perfect sense when I watched it the second time).

Any way, here is a trailer. Hopefully, it will convince you if I haven’t already. Although it’s a really bad trailer lol

UPDATE: I have no yet seen this films but I intend to soon soon. In the mean time, The Bioscope is showing a Mystery Hitchcock film. Any of his movies will do. He was a genius.

My Vimeo Week: Day 4 & 5 with a bonus.

Hitchcock. Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren, enough said.

The Day He Arrives. Absolutely beautiful trailer but tells me nothing about the movie. I don’t mind.

Robot & Frank. Delightful story of friendship, with a twist.

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My Vimeo Week:

I’ll be posting videos I’ve seen on Vimeo for the next week, starting today. Absolutely breathtaking shots, stories and documentaries.

Day 1:

Well, this is an odd short. The ‘victim’ looks like Alan Shore.

OMG this is hilarious. Such a cool concept. So simple yet so effective. We have some really really smart and creative people out there.

Uhm, is he really a good friend? “Nah, I’m not really feeling it anymore.”

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It’s the weekend baby. I think the movies will finally see me again since I saw Skyfall (which was great, by the way)

Oz, The Powerful and Great comes out in theatres today. It’s 3D. I’m stoked. It looks beautiful and it has a book.

Also there’s no actor that I don’t like in it.

I would love to see a sequel with Dorothy. It’s about time The Wizard of Oz got updated. That “The Wiz” 1978 disaster with Diana Ross and Michael Jackson just won’t suffice (However, the film did get four academy Award nominations and the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical was, apparently, great.)

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, please direct your attention to the trailer below.

I may write a review of this movie. That’s if I’m not lazy. Have a good weekend, ya’ll.

Book are movies. Movies are books | Oscars | Penguin

Oscars are coming on the 24th of February, so why not feast yourselves in these titles. Decide for yourself if the movies stayed true and judge who really deserves the Academy Award for Best Picture 2013. 

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Book release date: 1 February 2013

Movie release date: 1 February 2013

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THE GREAT GATSBY LOOKS AMAZINGLY CAST!!!!

I can’t wait for this movie. If you don’t know already, I’ve been gushing over the book over the last week, maybe two. Bummed that they pushed the release date, now I have longer to wait.

Why should a financial engineer be paid four times to 100 times more than a real engineer? A real engineer build bridges. A financial engineer build dreams. And, you know, when those dreams turn out to be nightmares, other people pay for it.
Andrew Sheng. Inside Job. 2010
I&#8217;ve been in a Nancy Meyers fever/mood for the past week. So I watched Something&#8217;s Gotta Give on MNet Stars, It&#8217;s Complicated on MNet Movies and finally The Holiday on my laptop. Love them, so I got to noticing a mistake. A Nancy Meyers fail, if I may say. The Holiday. Cameron Diaz does an internet search for a country in which she can stay for the Christmas holiday. A host of countries show up on the HomeExhange site with their subsequent flags next to them. The Holiday. Made in 2006. SA was free in 1994. Yet the flag next to SA is the old, Apartheid flag. REALLY?

I’ve been in a Nancy Meyers fever/mood for the past week. So I watched Something’s Gotta Give on MNet Stars, It’s Complicated on MNet Movies and finally The Holiday on my laptop. Love them, so I got to noticing a mistake. A Nancy Meyers fail, if I may say.

The Holiday. Cameron Diaz does an internet search for a country in which she can stay for the Christmas holiday. A host of countries show up on the HomeExhange site with their subsequent flags next to them.

The Holiday. Made in 2006. SA was free in 1994. Yet the flag next to SA is the old, Apartheid flag. REALLY?

Pearl and I at the Dark Knight Rises premiere. Brilliant film. My predictions were on the money.

Pearl and I at the Dark Knight Rises premiere. Brilliant film. My predictions were on the money.

Aah yes, Hollywood can&#8217;t even take a moment to breathe. Stanley Tucci has been tipped to play the role of Apple innovator Steve Jobs. Sony Picture is set to acquire the movie rights of the yet to be released biography by Walter Isaacson. In the words, Chuck Bass (Gossip Girl Season 5): &#8221;People like [Steve] don&#8217;t write biographies, we get written about.&#8221; Here’s a look at top picks by bloggers and critics.

Aah yes, Hollywood can’t even take a moment to breathe. Stanley Tucci has been tipped to play the role of Apple innovator Steve Jobs. Sony Picture is set to acquire the movie rights of the yet to be released biography by Walter Isaacson.

In the words, Chuck Bass (Gossip Girl Season 5): ”People like [Steve] don’t write biographies, we get written about.”

Here’s a look at top picks by bloggers and critics.

I Don’t Understand | Transformers 3D

I am told that Transformers: Dark of the Moon is a terrible film yet those same people who say that tell me that I should watch it, if only for the 3D effects that make it the box office hit it has become.

That what I did with Avatar, I almost slept in the movie theatre. Special effects is definitely not enough to make me want to see a movie, well except for The Matrix (only the first one) and it’s CGI. But 3D wasn’t a new concept, but just a new-ish concept in film.

Off topic. Concerning CGI and stunts.

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This is where a *side eye* is approporiate. First it&#8217;s penguins, then this. We&#8217;ve all known Jim Carrey to be somewhat of a quirky being. Hitting the funny bone with movies like The Mask and Ace Ventura. Then in 1998, showed a more sensitive and serious side with one of his best perfomances in The Truman Show. He tried to get serious again with the psychological thriller Number 23 in the 2000s, but failed to gain critical acclaim or even affect the box office. So as it goes in the 2000s, he came back with box office hit, Bruce Almighty, and we thought, YES, Jim Carrey is back. The problem with Jim Carrey is that he&#8217;s not maturing, growing as an actor. He&#8217;s still giving us the same humour of the 90s that doesn&#8217;t seem to work with his usual fans. We&#8217;ve grown up, he hasn&#8217;t so the interest in him lacks. And this penguin film just isn&#8217;t gonna get us back. It&#8217;s still the same ol&#8217; Jim. He needs another Truman Show movie or work with the Coen Brothers. Now that would be something fresh and adult and dark. today: Matt Lauer rides Jim Carrey like a pony Giddy up indeed.

This is where a *side eye* is approporiate. First it’s penguins, then this. We’ve all known Jim Carrey to be somewhat of a quirky being. Hitting the funny bone with movies like The Mask and Ace Ventura. Then in 1998, showed a more sensitive and serious side with one of his best perfomances in The Truman Show.

He tried to get serious again with the psychological thriller Number 23 in the 2000s, but failed to gain critical acclaim or even affect the box office.

So as it goes in the 2000s, he came back with box office hit, Bruce Almighty, and we thought, YES, Jim Carrey is back.

The problem with Jim Carrey is that he’s not maturing, growing as an actor. He’s still giving us the same humour of the 90s that doesn’t seem to work with his usual fans. We’ve grown up, he hasn’t so the interest in him lacks. And this penguin film just isn’t gonna get us back. It’s still the same ol’ Jim.

He needs another Truman Show movie or work with the Coen Brothers. Now that would be something fresh and adult and dark.

today:

Matt Lauer rides Jim Carrey like a pony

Giddy up indeed.

Film / Angelina Jolie / The Tourist

I have a friend who has a somewhat stalkerish obsession with Angelina Jolie. I’m pretty sure it has to do with her extraordinary lips and her large family than her acting ability.

Angelina may have done justice to her psychopathic Girl, Interrupted character, Lisa Rowe, but of late (maybe every movie after her Oscar winning performance «< Big generalisation. She also has deep films such as changeling, A Mighty Heart, etc), she winded down to become the female action star. The typical CIA or FBI agent, trying to clear her name (Salt) or trying to complete her assignment of whacking someone (Mr and Mrs Smith).

Perhaps you can tell that I’m not much of a fan of Angelina Jolie. But from what I’ve seen on the synopsis and the trailer of her new film, The Tourist, it is another one of those movies, described above, except, this time she seems to be the “bad guy” spy. (Note: Spy is the common factor, here)

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