creeppio!

Creep: dopo averla data a tutte le creature della superficie, Franka Potente scende nel sottosuolo alla ricerca di nuove porno-avventure.
Questo almeno è il film che ho visto Nella Mia Testa^®; peccato che quello che passava sullo schermo fosse molto meno interessante.

La nostra eroina resta bloccata nella metropolitana londinese, dove un bel ragazzone pallido si diverte come può, accoppando conducenti, barboni, addetti alla sicurezza e pseudo-ex-neo-fidanzati-stupratori.

Triplo Yawn. Ritmo soporifero e mostro (scusate, il politicamente corretto impone di chiamarlo "persona non rispondente al comune canone estetico") efferato sì, ma per nulla originale. Per giunta, neanche una tetta; il sindacato degli horror di serie Z dovrebbe protestare...
Quasi decente, come splatter, la parte in cui il bestio si improvvisa allegro chirurgo.
Negli extra il regista cerca di giustificarsi dicendo che lui voleva aggiungere i perché ed i percome questo tizio sia diventato così, ma poi si è ricordato di essere del tutto privo di talento e allora ha lasciato perdere. Saggio.

Lezione imparata: la vita del mostro delle fogne è dura (topi, merda, sangue, torture e omicidi), ma non priva di soddisfazioni (topi, merda, sangue, torture e omicidi).

Voto: 4. Trashometro^® 5/10:

Potente, Franka

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Data di nascita: 22 July 1974
Altezza: 5' 8½" (1.74 m)

Ultimi lavori:

• Che (2006) .... Tamara Bunke [attrice]
• Elementarteilchen (2006) .... Annabelle [attrice]
• The Bourne Supremacy (2004) .... Marie [attrice]
• Creep (2004) .... Kate [attrice]
• The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (2004) .... Trixie Boudain [attrice]
• Anatomie 2 (2003) .... Paula Henning [attrice]
• Blueprint (2003) .... Iris Sellin/Siri Sellin [attrice]
• I Love Your Work (2003) .... Mia [attrice]
• The Bourne Identity (2002) .... Marie Helena Kreutz [attrice]
• La Mer (2002) .... [attrice]

Biografia:
Franka Potente was born on 22 July 1974 in the German town of Dülmen. After her graduation in 1994, she went to the Otto-Falckenberg-Schule, a drama school in Munich, but soon broke off to study at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York. After a notable debut in Nach Fünf im Urwald (1995), the role of the heroine in Lola rennt (1998), directed by her then longtime companion Tom Tykwer was her national breakthrough. After some other successful movies in Germany, she starred in several Hollywood productions, most prominently The Bourne Identity (2002) and The Bourne Supremacy (2004) and lived one year in Los Angeles. After her return to Berlin, she continues working with German and international directors.

Trivia random: Knows how to fence.

Creep (2004)

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Regista: Christopher Smith
Scrittore: Christopher Smith
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Valutazione: 5.4/10 (2468 voti)
Durata: 85 min
Paese: UK, Germany
Lingua: English

Cast:

• Franka Potente .... Kate
• Vas Blackwood .... George
• Ken Campbell .... Arthur
• Jeremy Sheffield .... Guy
• Paul Rattray .... Jimmy
• Kelly Scott .... Mandy
• Sean Harris .... Craig
• Kathryn Gilfeather .... Girl
• Grant Ibbs .... Man
• Joe Anderson .... Male model

Trama:


Trivia random: Advertising posters showing a bloody hand sliding down a London Underground train window were banned from the Underground as being in bad taste, even though scenes had been filmed with permission in disused stations on the Underground. Producer Julie Baines found this "highly amusing" and "a bit ludicrous", noting that the film is "not based on real events - if it is, we are all in trouble." The ban was later removed, although not in time for the film's British opening.

Smith, Christopher (VIII)

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Ultimi lavori:

• Severance (2006) .... [scrittore]
• Creep (2004) .... (written by) [scrittore]
• The Day Grandad Went Blind (1998) .... [scrittore]
• The 10000th Day (1997) .... [scrittore]

revenge of the drunken master. Molto drunken.

Sante budella di una vacca sacra! Ce n'era di quel po', di gente drunken, quando han fatto 'sto film!

Citando senza decoro Drunken Master con Jackie Chan, il sempre eccelso Godfrey Ho si dedica anima, corpo, e funzioni corporali assortite alla realizzazione di cotanto capolavoro del non-sense: Revenge of the Drunken Master!
Per farlo, si circonda di grandi professionisti, a partire dall'inguardabile (per tutta una serie di motivi) Johnny Chan che - nonostante il teaser del DVD - non farà mai altri film in vita sua. Grazie al cielo.

Allooora, vediamo di mettere ordine nel marasma: c'è questo tizio che di mestiere fa l'apprendista maestro drunken (sì, la tecnica dell'ubriaco - sempre una buona scusa per una sbronza).
Non pago di ciò, si dedica all'arte dell'agopuntura: con il suo bel pungiglione può far ridere anche i più disperati. Una sapienza da utilizzare con cautela: è infatti possibile far letteralmente morire dal ridere la gente, ed in effetti l'inetto apprendista rende SEMO un tizio di una qualche importanza. Credo.
Contro di lui un potente signore (amico e/o parente del neo-SEMO) ed un'orda di mercenari, che gli accoppano pure il maestro (as usual...)
Si mette dunque in cammino alla ricerca di un nuovo maestro, e pure io ne cercherei un altro: se quello vecchio si è fatto impallinare come un tordo un motivo ci sarà...

Nel suo peregrinare incontrerà uno dei tizi sulle sue tracce, che per svago si è dato allo stupro su una Bella Micicho Qualunque^® la quale - "culture differenti" o plateale misoginia? - si innamora del proprio violentatore. Ossignur, sempre peggio...
Sospetto che scelga tal campione di rettitudine come proprio maestro (benché il Piano A dello spensierato stupratore pare ancora essere l'omicidio dell'apprendista drunken-master), o quanto meno alla fine i due combattono uniti il mega-cattivo sulla cui natura il mondo si interroga.

L'empio figuro combatte usando dei piatti da batterista che tornano indietro legati a dei foulard. Arma non proprio letale, oltretutto facilmente cavalcabile (eh già!) dai nostri eroi, che si rendono protagonisti di una delle scene più trash dell'universo conosciuto, quando il Signor Stupraminchia^® infila il suo bel ditino unto nell'ombelico dell'altro, per un non meglio precisato scambio di energia: le facce che fanno, sono da antologia.

La Cina medievale era un luogo pittoresco assai, va detto.

Non chiedetemi altri dettagli: questo film delirante non l'ho visto, l'ho percepito.

Voto: 2. Ebbro. Solo per gente avvezza al genere (all'alcolismo, intendo! ) Trashometro^® 10/10:
Tags: arti marziali, azione, commedia, Godfrey Ho, drunken master, tecnica drunken, ninja, samurai, inseguimento, morte, agopuntura, ridere, deficiente, maestro, omicidio, stupro, amore, mercenari, combattimento, piatti, manica di imbecilli, Cina, medioevo, ago, imboscata, vendetta, insegnamento, trash.

Johnny Chan

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La ricerca ha prodotto più di un risultato.

1. Chan, Johnny (I)
2. Chan, Johnny (III)
3. Chan, Johnny (IV)
4. Chan, Jon C.
5. Chan, Johnny (II)
6. Zhang, Wei-Qiang
7. Chang, Johnny (II)
8. Chang, Johnny (I)
9. Buchan, Johnny
10. Marchand, Johnny
11. Han, John H.
12. Chen, Johnny (I)
13. Ciarcia, John 'Cha Cha'
14. Cha, Johnny Cha
15. Cann, John (I)
16. Chen, Johnny (III)
17. Jr., Johnny Chao
18. Chen, Johnny (II)
19. Candon, Johnny
20. Challah, Johnny

Revenge of the Drunken Master (1984)

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Regista: Godfrey Ho
Scrittore: Danny Au
Genere: Action, Action
Valutazione: 4.7/10 (44 voti)
Paese: Hong Kong
Lingua: Cantonese

Cast:

• Johnny Chan
• Eagle Han
• Bruce Cheung
• Wang Sao
• Yuen Si-Fu
• Bob Chau
• Ling Chia .... (as Judy Lee)
• Ken Tong .... (as Kenneth Ting)
• Gary Lim .... (as Gary Kim)
• Frank Tam

Trama:
Accidentally discovering the operations of the Blood Ninja gangsters, a mischievous young man masters the skills of the Drunk Fist and proceeds to fight against them. But the gangsters join forces, vowing to kill him before the young master destroys them all.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Chan, Jackie

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Nome di battesimo: Chan, Kong-sang
Data di nascita: 7 April 1954
Altezza: 5' 8½" (1.74 m)
Coniuge: Feng-Jiao Lin::(1 December 1982 - present) 1 child

Ultimi lavori:

• The Shinjuku Incident (2009) .... (producer) [produttore]
• The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) .... Lu Yan [attore]
• Kung Fu Panda (2008) .... Master Monkey (voice) [attore]
• Wushu (2008) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
• Yat kor ho ba ba (2008) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Rush Hour 3 (2007) .... Chief Inspector Lee [attore]
• Bo bui gai wak (2006) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
• Changhen ge (2005) .... (chief producer) [produttore]
• Jing mo gaa ting (2005) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
• San wa (2005) .... (executive producer) [produttore]

Biografia:
Apprenticed to the China Drama Academy (or "opera school") by his parents at the age of 6, Jackie Chan was rigorously trained in music, dance, and traditional martial arts. A visiting filmmaker offered Chan his first (tiny) role as a stunt player. Chan took the part, and soon left the Opera to pursue the world of film. Fellow Opera students Biao Yuen and Sammo Hung Kam-Bo would also have careers in film, and the three would star in several films together in the following years. Chan's talent and enthusiasm soon saw him taking larger and more important roles, graduating first to stunt coordinator, and then to director. Following the death of martial arts legend Bruce Lee, the search was on for an actor who could inspire audiences to the same degree; every young martial artist was given a chance. Chan decided that rather than emulating Lee (and thus living forever in his shadow), he would develop his own style of filmmaking. His directorial debut Shi di chu ma (1980) was a milestone in martial arts films, being one of the first to effectively combine comedy with action. This set the tone for many of his future films, which combined slapstick humor with high-energy martial arts action. A self-confessed fan of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, Chan performs all his own stunts, quite often at his own peril. His later films include outtakes of his on-set injuries run under the closing credits. He is understandably number one on the insurance blacklist.

Trivia random: Received his name "Jackie" from fellow workers on a construction site in Canberra, Australia who couldn't pronounce his real name.
Citazione random: "I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan".
Salario massimo: $15,000,000 + 15% gross, per Rush Hour 3 (2007)

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Jui kuen (1978)

Drunken Master

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Regista: Woo-ping Yuen
Scrittore: Hsiao Lung, See-Yuen Ng
Genere: Comedy, Action, Comedy
Valutazione: 7.6/10 (4113 voti)
Durata: 111 min
Paese: Hong Kong
Lingua: Cantonese

Cast:

• Jackie Chan .... Wong Fei-Hung (as Jacky Chan)
• Siu Tien Yuen .... Su Hua Chi / Sam Seed
• Jang Lee Hwang .... Thunderleg
• Ching Chiang
• Ging Man Fung .... Mr. Li
• Hsia Hsu .... King of Bamboo
• Chiao Lin
• Linda Lin .... Fei-hung's aunt
• Ying Li
• Chen Tien Loong .... Bully

Trama:
Two young students of a drunken master fight against an evil kung fu master and gang. Evil kung fu master had previously lost to the students' master. The movie is a set up for the incredibly long fight scene at the end of the movie.

Trivia random: For many of the more athletic sequences, the 66-year-old Siu Tien Yuen was doubled by his sons, Cheung-Yan Yuen and director Woo-ping Yuen.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Ho, Godfrey

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Nome di battesimo: Ho, Chi Kueng
Data di nascita: 1948

Ultimi lavori:

• Manhattan Chase (2000) .... [regista]
• The First Assignment (1995) .... (as Wallace Chan) [regista]
• Mr. X (1995) .... Godfather Ho [attore]
• Cui hua kuang mo (1994) .... (producer) (as Godfrey Hall) [produttore]
• Hei tai yang 731 si wang lie che (1994) .... [regista]
• Hong tian mi ling (1994) .... [regista]
• Catman in Boxer's Blow (1993) .... (as Alton Cheung) [regista]
• Ngam saat bing tyun (1993) .... (as Godfrey Hall) [regista]
• Hei tai yang 731 xu ji zhi sha ren gong chang (1992) .... [regista]
• Kickboxer Against the Odds (1992) .... [regista]

Trivia random: He is considered a master of B-movie Hong Kong actioners. However, a number of his movies are Z-grade movies made with a "cut-and-paste" technique. He would shoot footage for one movie, often using Caucasian actors for exportation, then edit the scenes into several other movies, mixing them with footage from old, unfinished or unreleased Asian movies (using Thai as well as Chinese or Filipino footage), then trying to make the story somewhat coherent through dubbing and voice-overs. He would then have four or five movies (of rock-bottom quality, of course) while having spent the budget of one.
Citazione random: "I used to be a movie maker. Now I am teaching people to make movies. It really makes me glad when my students are happily showing me their works. Only if you've been through the whole process, can you understand how satisfactory and delightful it is."

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

[tripla/1] turkish. star. wars.

Il potente guerriero turco s'accanisce contro un "diversamente bello".

Il robot turco sevizia il bambino che tutti noi vorremmo essere (verosimilmente curdo).

Il Mago (turco). Cosa aggiungere?

Sento il bisogno di COSTITUIRMI.
Sono certo che la visione di Dünyayi kurtaran adam (anche The Man Who Saves the World o - più esplicito - Turkish Star Wars) costituisca reato di per sé...

Agli inizi dei beneamati anni ottanta, pare che in Turchia molti film occidentali avessero problemi di distribuzione; tra questi, la saga di George Lucas (probabilmente perché non vi veniva data la giusta rilevanza al ruolo di Atatürk-padre-della-patria nel salvataggio della galassia ).
Approfittando delle libertine leggi sul diritto d'autore, sembra fosse quindi costume darsi allo sciacallaggio del girato originale, per poi montarvi sopra/sotto/di-fianco una storia più consona al raffinatissimo gusto locale.

Una voce narrante (turca) in pieno marasma ci informa che la galassia è diventata un posto ben strano, con la ggente che però non è ggente e fanno un tutt'uno (no dai, non chiedetemi di spiegarlo, non l'ho mica capito...), ormai schiavizzata dal Mago che ha raggiunto l'immortalità - e di conseguenza la noia eterna. Solo la Terra ancora gli resiste - pur non sapendo di farlo, pare.
"E come?" direte voi... presto detto: con cervello - non in senso di "astuzia", qui se ne fa proprio una questione letterale - e forza di volontà!
Il che se vogliamo è ben strano, perché la Terra è stata distrutta più e più volte, oltre ad essere stata sconvolta da guerre nucleari. Oh sì, ma si è sempre trasformata in una nube cosmica per poi - I suppose - riformarsi.
Per chiarimenti su questi aspetti, rivolgetevi con fiducia al Mago.
Ad ogni modo: i due più forti guerrieri turchi (che altro dire...) partono alla volta della galassia (turca) alla ricerca dell'ignoto malvagio (turco).
Sarà lui a trovare loro, attirandoli sul suo pianeta (turco?), dove incontreranno l'Alec Guinness turco - il Vecchio (Saggio) che li istruisce sui perché e sui percome della galassia e gli suggerirà come sconfiggere il bruttone.
Come da regolamento, non prima di aver combattuto ondate su ondate di mostri di peluche (tra cui il Gabibbo turco), robot che sembrano tostapane con il cancro ed altri stronzi assoriti (spettacolari gli zombie turchi e gli scheletri turchi su cavalli turchi).

Non c'è recensione che possa rendergli onore: È MEGLIO DI QUALUNQUE COSA ABBIATE MAI VISTO.

A dir poco straniante vedere l'eroe turco con un casco da motociclista (turco) fingere d'essere ai comandi di un caccia spaziale (turco), mentre sullo sfondo vengono proiettate le immagini dei primi tre Star Wars (sorvoliamo poi sul fatto che se diam retta alle immagini, sembra di capire che i buoni siano in realtà quelli sui caccia imperiali...)
La trama (scritta dall'aitante Çetin Inanç, che è anche il protagonista) è puro genio: oltre ad essere l'apice del non-sense e del tutto scollegata a quella originale, non manca di dispensare vere perle di saggezza, quali grandi elucubrazioni sulle religioni sufficienti a farsi dichiarar guerra pure dal Dalai Lama. Spettacolari i colpi di scena, con amicizia ed ammore messi a dura prova (come la salute mentale degli spettatori).
Immensi i dialoghi: sornioni come pochi, i nostri eroi non mancano di dispensare battute e sguardi languidi a tutte le belle (sort of) fanciulle (turche) che incrociano.

Da non perdere: tutto! Il montaggio delle scene di Guerre Stellari; l'abuso costante delle musiche di Indiana Jones; i nemici indegni pure dei Power Rangers; la spada di legno ed il cervello di plastilina; il mega-computer-facciuto (turco); l'abbigliamento del Mago e di chiunque altro; l'allenamento degli eroi che spaccano pietre a manate; la scena nel bar di Guerre Stellari, qui ricreata in salsa turca per l'occasione.
Cose imparate: dobbiamo la salvezza della galassia ai due più potenti guerrieri turchi. Non sono sicuro ci meritassimo tanto...

Grido al capolavoro assoluto: trash al di là del concepibile, degnamente diretto da uno dei più noti registi di film erotici e d'azione turchi.
Mi dicono che l'ET turco ed il Rambo turco siano ancora meglio; fatico a crederci.

Voto: 1. Trashometro^® 10/10:
Tags: turco, guerre stellari, star wars, rip-off, stupro, plagio, furto, montaggio, millennium falcon, pupazzi, mago, saggio, vecchio, donna, bambino, figlia, violenza, combattimento, lancia, pistola, laser, fuga, battaglia, rapimento, tortura, cervello, galassia, malvagità, immortalità, Terra, conquista, guerra nucleare, distruzione, fantascienza, fantasy, azione, avventura, trash turco, trash.

George Lucas

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La ricerca ha prodotto più di un risultato.

1. Lucas, Trevor
2. De Cordova, Daniel
3. Lucas, Georges (I)
4. Kosta, Georges-Lucas
5. Lucas, Georges (II)
6. Papageorge, Lucas
7. George, Loucas (I)
8. Loucas, George
9. De Luca, George
10. George, Loucas (II)
11. Lucas, Georgs
12. Lumas, George
13. Casillas, George L.
14. Luces, Georges
15. Mulcaster, G.H.
16. Licastro, Georges
17. Delukas, George
18. Luis, George (I)
19. Duca, George

Guinness, Alec

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Nome di battesimo: de Cuffe, Alec Guinness
Data di nascita: 2 April 1914
Data di morte: 5 August 2000
Altezza: 5' 10" (1.78 m)
Coniuge: Merula Salaman::(20 June 1938 - 5 August 2000) (his death) 1 child

Ultimi lavori:

• Eskimo Day (1996) (TV) .... James [attore]
• Mute Witness (1994) .... The Reaper (as Mystery Guest Star) [attore]
• A Foreign Field (1993) .... Amos [attore]
• Tales from Hollywood (1992) (TV) .... Heinrich Mann [attore]
• Kafka (1991) .... The Chief Clerk [attore]
• A Handful of Dust (1988) .... Mr. Todd [attore]
• Little Dorrit (1988) .... William Dorrit [attore]
• Edwin (1984) (TV) .... Sir Fennimore Truscott [attore]
• A Passage to India (1984) .... Professor Godbole [attore]
• Lovesick (1983) .... Sigmund Freud [attore]

Biografia:
While working in advertising, he studied at the Fay Compton Studio of Dramatic Art, debuting on stage in 1934 and played classic theater with the Old Vic from 1936. In 1941, he entered the Royal navy as a seaman and was commissioned the next year. Beyond an extra part in Evensong (1934), his film career began after World War II with his portrayal of Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946). A string of films, mostly comedies, showed off his ability to look different in every role, eight of them, including a woman, in one movie alone, Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). His best known recent work was as the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars (1977) trilogy. He earned a best actor Oscar and Golden Globe in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and an Honorary Academy Award (1980) for "advancing the art of screen acting through a host of memorable and distinguished performances". Academy nominations have included The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) (actor); The Horse's Mouth (1958) (screenplay); Star Wars (1977) (supporting) and Little Dorrit (1988) (supporting). He was knighted in 1959 for his accomplishments in theater and film.

Trivia random: Played The Fool to Laurence Olivier's first Lear under the direction of Tyrone Guthrie in 1938 when he was 24 and Olivier was 31. Olivier was generally considered less-than-successful in the part due to his youth and relative lack of maturity in classical parts (though his contemporaneous "Henry V" was a smash and hinted at his future greatness as an interpreter of William Shakespeare). Guinness, however, received raves for his acting. Both actors went on to knighthoods and Best Actor Oscars in their long and distinguished careers.
Citazione random: [His diary entry after viewing Star Wars (1977) for the first time]: It's a pretty staggering film as spectacle and technically brilliant. Exciting, very noisy and warm-hearted. The battle scenes at the end go on for five minutes too long, I feel, and some of the dialogue is excruciating and much of it is lost in noise, but it remains a vivid experience. The only really disappointing performance was Anthony Daniels as the robot, fidgety and over-elaborately spoken. Not that any of the cast can stand up to the mechanical things around them.
Salario massimo: $150,000 + 2% of profits, per Star Wars (1977)

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Inanç, Çetin

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Data di nascita: 12 September 1941

Ultimi lavori:

• "Karaoglan" (2002) .... [regista]
• "Merhamet" (1993) .... [regista]
• Kaplanlar (1985) .... [regista]
• Aç kartallar (1984) .... (writer) [scrittore]
• Deli fisek (1984) .... [regista]
• Dev kani (1984) .... [regista]
• Ölüm savasçisi (1984) .... (writer) [scrittore]
• En büyük yumruk (1983) .... (writer) [scrittore]
• Erkekce (1983) .... [regista]
• Idamlik (1983) .... [regista]

Biografia:
He was born in Ankara in 1941. He studied Turkish Law. He made his first movie in 1967. In 1971 he made a movie called Ceko (Turkish western). It was a hit in Anatolia. He made a lot of Turkish erotic movies as "Ah ne adem dilli badem". After erotic movies he decided to make action movies. He made a lot of low budget movies as "Vahsi Kan, The man who saves the world". He tried also to make a social movie called "Bizim Mahalle". But it was a not a succes for him. He is still one of the best turkish cult movie director. After the end of his cinema carier he directed tv productions as "Cilgin Bedis" in Turkey. He is still directing tv productions in Turkey. He is famous because of his unforgettable Turkish cult movie called "The man who saves the world" with Cuney Arkin. His movies are still available at Turkish videstores in Germany, but not anymore in Turkey (it was never available in Turkey, because his movies released in small cinemas).

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Dünyayi kurtaran adam (1982)

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Regista: Çetin Inanç
Scrittore: Cüneyt Arkin
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Action
Valutazione: 5.6/10 (2700 voti)
Durata: 91 min
Paese: Turkey
Lingua: Turkish

Cast:

• Cüneyt Arkin .... Murat
• Aytekin Akkaya .... Ali
• Füsun Uçar .... Bilgin'in Kizi (as Füsün Uçar)
• Hüseyin Peyda .... Bilgin
• Necla Fide .... Kraliçe
• Mehmet Ugur .... Yaratik
• Kadir Kök .... Yaratik
• Aydin Haberdar .... Yaratik
• Yadigar Ejder .... Yaratik
• Hikmet Tasdemir .... Sihirbaz

Trivia random: Star Wars (1977) footage was not all that was "borrowed" from Western movies for this film. Popular movie soundtracks were also used, such as Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) (used throughout the film), Moonraker (1979), Flash Gordon (1980), Planet of the Apes (1968), and The Black Hole (1979).
Citazione random: Ali: It doesn't seem it will finish, they are still coming, let's go over them.::Murat: That's what suit us, we must go beyond the space speed, be ready to welcome arrivers.::Ali: These are too ugly, it would be better if some girls come with mini skirts.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

B.T.K. Killer

Viviamo in un'epoca davvero buia, per il cinema e l'arte in generale: pensate che un tizio qualunque non può neppure prendere un grassone pacioccoso e fargli gridare "IO - SONO - SESSUALMENTE - DISTURBATO!!!" mentre fa smorfie da antologia e tenta di violentare+uccidere una donna, senza beccarsi un indecoroso 1.5 su IMDb.
Non capisco. Davvero...

Vagamente ispirato alla storia di un vero serial killer (alcune delle cui vittime, se si sono davvero comportate come qui rappresentato, sono state in realtà uccise da banale selezione naturale...), B.T.K. Killer si candida al titolo di film più involontariamente divertente di tutti i tempi.

Sposato con un vecchio bidone (e si lamenta pure di non vederla mai nuda: ma baciati i gomiti!), il nostro buon serial killer è davvero un insospettabile: di giorno tutore dell'ordine - in un ruolo non dissimile dall'ausiliario del traffico, ma con poteri illimitati - e capo della comunità locale di una qualche sotto-marca religiosa, di notte svela la sua vera natura di puttaniere, stupratore, bondage-atore ed assassino.
Ah, qual perfido connubio tra ordine e caos! E che compaesani fessi: chiunque avesse uno screzio con lui, moriva nel giro di 12 ore! Ma fare due più due, no?!
Inutile dire che la cosa accadeva con frequenza allarmante, data la sua abitudine di comminare sanzioni per ogni microscopica violazione di un qualche regolamento comunale che lui ovviamente conosce a memoria (si suppone non ci fosse "non asssassinare gente", tra le ordinanze locali).
Eccolo quindi alle prese con signore con cani troppo rumorosi, auto parcheggiate male nel proprio dannatissimo vialetto o con l'erba del prato troppo alta (giuro: non sto scherzando): di giorno ricevono il verbale, di notte vengono stuprate, legate, torturate ed uccise.
Severo, ma giusto: è un lavoraccio, ma qualcuno deve pur farlo.
Non si creda però che sia un killer impietoso: più di una volta ha anche dato alle vittime la possibilità di salvarsi, salvo che queste hanno sempre fatto di tutto per farsi accoppare. Immagino sia una questione di principio.
Nel mentre, il potente esercito di due uomini dell'FBI, segue innovative strade per braccare il sospetto: soggiornare in casa sua a mangiare biscotti e bere thè.

Stu-u-u-pi-do. Questo film è stu-u-u-pi-do fino al midollo: fatto con due lire e la convinzione d'essere grandi artisti, il risulto è a dir poco ridicolo, con un overacting costante ad impreziosire una sceneggiatura inverosimile e dei dialoghi da antologia.

Non dico che piacerà a tutti gli amanti del trash, e pare che gli americani non riescano proprio a digerirlo (vedere i thread su IMDb, con un numero impressionante di persone che hanno smesso di guardarlo dopo 15/20 minuti), però ha davvero i suoi bei momenti.
E poi, se siete sopravvissuti a Murder Set Pieces, questo non farà neanche lontanamente altrettanto male. Non fosse altro perché dura appena 82 minuti.

Voto: 1. Stu-u-u-pi-do!
Trashometro^® 9/10:
Tags: biografia, crimine, thriller, grassona, campeggio, multa, sanzione, infrazione, comunità, serial killer, assassino, pazzo, tutore dell'ordine, completo imbecille, cane, donne, stupro, violenza, bondage, masochismo, sadismo, tortura, morte, omicidio, film che si crede d'essere, trash.

B.T.K. Killer (2005) (V)

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Regista: Ulli Lommel
Scrittore: Ulli Lommel
Genere: Biography, Thriller, Biography
Valutazione: 1.5/10 (969 voti)
Durata: 82 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English

Cast:

• Gerard Griesbaum .... Dennis L. Rader (1974)
• Eric Gerleman .... Dennis L. Rader (2004) (as Eric B. Gerlemen)
• Danielle Petty .... Laci Peterson (as Ivy Elfstrom)
• Nola Roeper .... Paula Rader (2004)
• Michael Barbour .... Jack
• Crystal Nelson .... Paula Rader (1974)
• Victoria Ullmann .... Miss Hatch
• Erin Young .... Nancy
• Emelle .... Dolores
• Shyla Fernandes .... Vicki

Trivia random: Loosely based upon the true story of Dennis Rader, who would bind, torture and kill his victims.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Lommel, Ulli

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Nome di battesimo: Lommel, Ulli Manfred
Data di nascita: 21 December 1944
Altezza: 5' 11¾" (1.82 m)
Coniuge: Cookie Lommel::(1988 - 2004) (divorced), Suzanna Love::(1979 - 1987) (divorced), Katrin Schaake::(? - ?)

Ultimi lavori:

• Absolute Evil (2009) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Melancholie der Engel (2009) .... Katze als Engel [attore]
• Nightstalker (2009) (V) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Baseline Killer (2008) (V) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Dungeon Girl (2008) (V) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Killer Nurse (2008) (V) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Son of Sam (2008) (V) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Borderline Cult (2007) (V) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
• Curse of the Zodiac (2007) (V) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Mummy Maniac (2007) (V) .... (producer) (uncredited) [produttore]

Biografia:
The son of German comic performer Ludwig Manfred Lommel, Ulli Lommel began his career in show business as a child. His older sister, Ruth Lommel, appeared in a number of films in the 1940s and '50s. After appearing in several features, Ulli Lommel met Rainer Werner Fassbinder and joined his acting/production entourage. While working with Fassbinder, Lommel turned to directing as well as performing. His output has ranged from brilliantly accomplished drama with traces of exploitation elements, to out-and-out B-movies with a few distinctive artistic flourishes. At one time romantically involved with Anna Karina, he has been married to actresses Suzanna Love and Katrin Schaake.

Trivia random: His masterpiece Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe (1973) was listed as one of the Top 1000 films to change your life on the book "Time Out 1000 Films to Change Your Life".

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Gerleman, Eric

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Ultimi lavori:

• B.T.K. Killer (2005) (V) .... Dennis L. Rader (2004) (as Eric B. Gerlemen) [attore]
• Lords of Dogtown (2005) .... Restaurant Manager (uncredited) [attore]
• Zodiac Killer (2005) .... Citizen A [attore]
• New Alcatraz (2001) .... Gulfstream Pilot [attore]
• The Coroner (1999) .... Fliesman [attore]

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

300!

In clamoroso ritardo sull'universo mondo, ho infine visto 300.

Il dio-re Serse marcia con la più grande armata che il mondo abbia mai visto verso la conquista della Grecia, unica flebile speranza di libertà e democrazia in un mondo di schiavi.
Il re spartano Leonida, intenzionato a muovere l'esercito, viene ostacolato dai corrotti sacerdoti efori; partirà dunque con appena 300 dei suoi migliori guerrieri verso le Termopili dove, assieme a poche migliaia di ateniesi, sbarrerà la strada all'esercito persiano.
Una missione senza speranza, eppure necessaria per dare tempo al resto della Grecia (già improbabile vincitrice degli europei di calcio, è bene ricordarlo ) di prepararsi e - soprattutto - per fornire agli uomini liberi un simbolo ed una ispirazione.

Zack Snyder dirige degnamente un esercizio muscolare e testosteronico, ma che in fondo riesce a mantenere anche il significato storico ed etico di quella battaglia.
Azzeccato l'uso del metal per alcune musiche, si eccede un po' nell'uso di mostri di ogni sorta: più che i persiani, sembra stiano combattendo le orde di Mordor...
Tutto sommato inutile - benché non dannoso - tutto ciò che è stato aggiunto rispetto all'eccezionale fumetto di Frank Miller: la parte sul consiglio spartano è davvero superflua.

A livello di impatto visivo, il fumetto è una spanna sopra: forse un regista d'altro calibro avrebbe saputo riprodurre meglio alcune scene chiave, ma nel complesso il film è potente quanto basta.
Ho invece trovato agghiaccianti quasi tutte le voci italiane - non so come fossero quelle originali.

Il fumetto prima ed il film poi hanno dato seguito ad una spettacolare ondata di masturbazione pseudo-politica con Bush e l'America identificate tanto in Leonida (difensori della democrazia attaccata dalle forze del male e blah blah blah) tanto in Serse (i brutti cattivoni che mandano il loro enorme esercito in guerre di conquista e blah blah blah).
Già questo - ed il fatto che girala come ti pare questa è una rappresentazione (romanzata a piacere) di un fatto storico di quasi 2500 anni fa - dovrebbe essere sufficiente a chiunque per mandare i sostenitori di una tesi o dell'altra a farsi delle vigorose pugnette (inquadrandole in un contesto di lotta di classe o di guerra al terrorismo, se ritenuto necessario all'eccitamento )


Voto: 8 (10 al fumetto)
Tags: azione, guerra, avventura, drammatico, storico, Grecia, Sparta, Atene, Persia, Leonida, Serse, Termopili, battaglia, passo, stretto, libertà, democrazia, lancia, spada, combattimento, corpo a corpo, dio, re, sottomissione, tributo, schiavitù, flotta, naufragio, atrocità, decapitazione, mutilazione, morte, messaggero, efori, sacerdote, senato, consiglio, 480 a.c., tradimento, deformità, corruzione, oracolo, re, regina.

300 (2007)

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La ricerca ha prodotto più di un risultato.

1. 300 (2006)
2. 300 Spartans, The (1962)
3. Heart Like a Wheel (1983)
4. 300 mil do nieba (1989)
5. United 300 (2007)
6. Last Stand of the 300 (2007) (TV)
7. Vado... l'ammazzo e torno (1967)
8. 300: March to Glory (2007) (VG)
9. "300 millones" (1977)
10. "Kav 300" (1997) (mini)
11. Steel Cowboy (1978) (TV)
12. 300,000 héroes (1976)
13. 300.000 pengö az utcán (1937)
14. 300 Premiership Goals (1998) (V)
15. Anguilla da trecento milioni, Un' (1971)
16. Canterbury No. 2 - nuove storie d'amore del '300 (1973)
17. "Gewissen in Aufruhr" (1961) (mini)
18. Mädchen mit Beziehungen (1950)
19. Racconti di Viterbury - Le più allegre storie del '300, I (1973)
20. Roberto Carlos a 300 Quilômetros Por Hora (1971)

Miller, Frank (II)

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Data di nascita: 27 January 1957
Altezza: 6' 1½" (1.87 m)
Coniuge: Lynn Varley::(? - ?)

Ultimi lavori:

• Sin City 2 (2009) .... (producer) [produttore]
• The Spirit (2009) .... (screenplay) [scrittore]
• Sin City 3 (2008) .... (graphic novels) [scrittore]
• 300 (2006) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
• Elektra (2005) .... (comic book characters) [scrittore]
• Sin City (2005) .... (graphic novels) [scrittore]
• Rats: A Sin City Yarn (2004) .... (graphic novel) [scrittore]
• Daredevil (2003) .... Man with Pen in Head [attore]
• "Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot" (1999) .... (unknown episodes) [scrittore]
• RoboCop vs. the Terminator (1994) (VG) .... (comic book series) [scrittore]

Biografia:
Frank Miller was a big comics writer/artist in the 70s and 80s. He wrote and penciled the Marvel series "Daredevil" for a long time. Friend Klaus Janson inked. He also wrote two spinoffs about the character Electra and did a miniseries about the "X-Men" character Wolverine. His hit miniseries "Ronin" was published by DC in the mid-eighties. His greatest success came with DC's character Batman. In 1980, he wrote the acclaimed "Batman" story "Wanted - Santa Claus - Dead or Alive!" for DC Comics. In 1986, his most notable comic-book work, the groundbreaking "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns," an alternate history story about Batman in a grim future, was published by DC. Miller wrote and penciled, In 1988, he wrote the acclaimed "Batman: Year One," about Batman's first year on the job, for DC. In 1996, he wrote "Spawn versus Batman," a one-shot issue published by DC and Image Comics. Miller also co-created the Robocop character. He wrote the major motion pictures _Robocop 2 (1990)_ and RoboCop 3 (1993) and did the "Robocop" comic series for a little while.

Trivia random: Created the comic book character Elektra who has gone on to appear in the movies 'Daredevil (2003)' and 'Elektra (2005)', played by Jennifer Garner.
Citazione random: "I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman."

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Snyder, Zack

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Data di nascita: 1 March 1966
Altezza: 5' 7" (1.70 m)
Coniuge: Deborah Snyder::(25 September 2004 - present), Denise Snyder::(? - ?) (divorced) 4 children

Ultimi lavori:

• Watchmen (2009) .... [regista]
• 300 (2006) .... (screenplay) [scrittore]
• Dawn of the Dead (2004) .... [regista]
• The Lost Tape: Andy's Terrifying Last Days Revealed (2004) (V) .... [regista]
• Morrissey: ¡Oye Esteban! (2000) (V) .... (video "Tomorrow") [regista]
• Playground (1990) (V) .... [regista]

Trivia random: Attended Art Center College of Design at Pasadena, California.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

american gangster

Dopo un po' di lavori medi se non mediocri, temevo che Ridley Scott fosse sulla via della senilità.
Invece, torna con un film potente e ben diretto come American Gangster.

Storia (più o meno vera) di un gangster newyorkese di colore, che con tanto sano spirito imprenditoriale riesce ad arrivare ai vertici narcotraffico, territorio storicamente in mano a latini ed italo-americani. A combatterlo, solo uno sparuto gruppo di poliziotti onesti, circondati da colleghi corrotti.

Oltre due ore e mezza con un buon ritmo, in cui si parla tanto e si spara altrettanto. Pregevole la regia - pur senza momenti davvero memorabili - gran parte del peso del film poggia sulle spalle degli interpreti, in particolare dell'eccezionale Denzel Washington e di un buon Russell Crowe (pur non amandolo affatto, con quelle due sole espressioni che si ritrova: "cane bastonato" e "cane bastonato che però adesso gli girano").

Ogni tanto, un film sui gangster ci sta sempre bene.

Voto: 8.
Tags: crimine, thriller, drammatico, anni '70, New York, droga, narcotraffico, eroina, Saigon, Vietnam, mafia, poliziotto, corruzione, spacciatore, omicidio, sparatoria, siringa, ago, inseguimento, soldi, organizzazione.

Scott, Ridley

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Data di nascita: 30 November 1937
Altezza: 5' 7½" (1.71 m)
Coniuge: Sandy Watson::(24 May 1979 - 12 January 1989) (divorced) 1 child, Felicity Heywood::(March 1964 - 15 December 1975) (divorced) 2 children

Ultimi lavori:

• Blood Meridian (2009) .... [regista]
• Emma's War (2009) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Nottingham (2009) .... (attached) [regista]
• Tell-Tale (2009) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Tripoli (2009) .... (development executive) [misc]
• "The Andromeda Strain" (2008) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
• Body of Lies (2008) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Churchill at War (2008) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
• Factor X (2008) .... (producer) [produttore]
• American Gangster (2007) .... (producer) [produttore]

Trivia random: Has made over 2000 commercials.
Citazione random: Audiences are less intrigued, honestly, by battle. They're more intrigued by human relations. If you're making a film about the trappings of the period, and you're forgetting that human relationships are the most engaging part of the storytelling process, then you're in trouble.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

American Gangster (2007)

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Regista: Ridley Scott
Scrittore: Steven Zaillian, Mark Jacobson
Genere: Crime, Drama, Crime
Valutazione: 8.2/10 (43976 voti) [#161 nella top250]
Durata: 157 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English

Cast:

• Denzel Washington .... Frank Lucas
• Russell Crowe .... Det. Richie Roberts
• Chiwetel Ejiofor .... Huey Lucas
• Josh Brolin .... Detective Trupo
• Lymari Nadal .... Eva
• Ted Levine .... Det. Lou Toback
• Roger Guenveur Smith .... Nate
• John Hawkes .... Det. Freddie Spearman
• RZA .... Moses Jones
• Yul Vazquez .... Alphonse Abruzzo

Trama:
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his position. It is also the story of a dedicated and honest policeman, Richie Roberts, who heads up a joint narcotics task force with the Federal government. Based on a true story.

Trivia random: Director Ridley Scott had read the first draft of Steven Zaillian's screenplay before filming Kingdom of Heaven (2005) and instantly became interested in directing it. While filming his next feature, A Good Year (2006), Scott and Russell Crowe extensively discussed the project, which ultimately led to them signing on.
Citazione random: Nephew: I don't wanna play baseball no more.::Huey Lucas: [enters back patio] Frank, we got a problem.::Frank Lucas: [looks at his brother then looks back at his nephew] Well, what do you want?::Nephew: I want what you got Uncle Frank.::Nephew: I wanna be you.

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Washington, Denzel

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Nome di battesimo: Jr., Denzel Hayes Washington
Data di nascita: 28 December 1954
Altezza: 6' 0½" (1.84 m)
Coniuge: Pauletta Washington::(25 June 1983 - present) 4 children

Ultimi lavori:

• The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009) .... [attore]
• American Gangster (2007) .... Frank Lucas [attore]
• The Great Debaters (2007) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Deja Vu (2006) .... Agent Doug Carlin - ATF [attore]
• Inside Man (2006) .... Detective Keith Frazier [attore]
• Man on Fire (2004) .... Creasy [attore]
• The Manchurian Candidate (2004) .... Ben Marco [attore]
• Out of Time (2003/I) .... Matthias Lee Whitlock [attore]
• Antwone Fisher (2002) .... (producer) [produttore]
• John Q (2002) .... John Quincy Archibald [attore]

Biografia:
Tall, strikingly handsome leading man of films and television in the 1980s and 1990s, Denzel Washington was born in 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He was the middle child of the 3 children of a Pentecostal minister father and a beautician mother. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at Fordham University intent on a career in journalism. However, he caught the acting bug while appearing in student drama productions and upon graduation he moved to San Francisco and enrolled at the American Conservatory Theater. He left A.C.T. after only 1 year to seek work as an actor. With his acting versatility and powerful sexual presence, he had no difficulty finding work in numerous television productions. He made his first big screen appearance in Carbon Copy (1981) with George Segal. Through the 1980s he worked in both movies and television and was chosen for the plum role of Dr. Chandler in NBC's hit medical series "St. Elsewhere" (1982), a role that he would play for 6 years. In 1989 he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Tripp, the runaway slave in Edward Zwick's powerful historical masterpiece Glory (1989). Through the 1990s Denzel co-starred in such big budget productions as The Pelican Brief (1993); Philadelphia (1993); Crimson Tide (1995); The Preacher's Wife (1996); and Courage Under Fire (1996) - a role for which he was paid $10 million. He lives quietly in Los Angeles with his wife Pauletta and their 4 children. Cerebral and meticulous in his film work, he made his debut as a director in 2002 with Antwone Fisher (2002).

Trivia random: Is the second of three children.
Citazione random: (In 1998) "Acting's like someone asking you for years to write the characters, but they write the book."
Salario massimo: $20,000,000, per Out of Time (2003/I)

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Crowe, Russell

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Nome di battesimo: Crowe, Russell Ira
Data di nascita: 7 April 1964
Altezza: 5' 11" (1.80 m)
Coniuge: Danielle Spencer::(7 April 2003 - present) 2 children

Ultimi lavori:

• Nottingham (2009) .... Sir Robert Tornham [attore]
• Body of Lies (2008) .... Ed Hoffman [attore]
• State of Play (2008) .... Cal McAffrey [attore]
• Tenderness (2008) .... Detective Cristofuoro [attore]
• 3:10 to Yuma (2007) .... Ben Wade [attore]
• American Gangster (2007) .... Det. Richie Roberts [attore]
• A Good Year (2006) .... Max Skinner [attore]
• Cinderella Man (2005) .... Jim Braddock [attore]
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) .... Capt. Jack Aubrey [attore]
• 60 Odd Hours in Italy (2002) .... [regista]

Biografia:
Born in New Zealand, Russell has made his home in Australia since he was a small child. The son of movie set caterers, Russell got the acting bug early in life. Beginning as a child star on a local Australian TV show, Russell's first big break came with two films ... the first, Romper Stomper (1992), gained him a name throughout the film community in Australia and the neighboring countries. The second, The Sum of Us (1994), helped put him on the American map, so to speak. Sharon Stone heard of him from Romper Stomper (1992) and wanted him for her film, The Quick and the Dead (1995). But filming on The Sum of Us (1994) had already begun. Sharon is reported to have held up shooting until she had her gunslinger-Crowe, for her film. With The Quick and the Dead (1995) under his belt as his first American film, the second was offered to him soon after. Virtuosity (1995), starring Denzel Washington, put Russell in the body of a Virtual Serial Killer, Sid6.7 ... a role unlike any he had played so far. Virtuosity (1995), a Sci-Fi extravaganza, was a fun film and, again, opened the door to even more American offers. L.A. Confidential (1997), Russell's third American film, brought him the US fame and attention that his fans have felt he deserved all along. Missing the Oscar nod this time around, he didn't seem deterred and signed to do his first film with The Walt Disney Company, Mystery, Alaska (1999). He has recently achieved even more success and awards for his performances in Gladiator (2000) and A Beautiful Mind (2001).

Trivia random: Son-in-law of actor Don Spencer.
Citazione random: Dani was three weeks early last time, she gave birth just a few days after she was chased down the street by four photographers. Nobody cares, particularly the photographers, nobody cares to focus on what that is. She was just walking down the street with her girlfriend and they rushed her - four of them all surrounded her. So she panicked and slipped and all this sort of stuff. If I'd been there that would have been a really serious situation. I tell you right now, they will be tarred and feathered if they hassle my pregnant wife again.
Salario massimo: $20,000,000, per Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

profumo

Nella Parigi del diciottesimo secolo nasce - in condizioni a dir poco sfortunate - Jean-Baptiste Grenouille; ciò che lo contraddistingue dagli altri uomini è uno sviluppatissimo senso dell'olfatto che gli consente di percepire e riconoscere qualsiasi odore, anche a grande distanza.
Col tempo imparerà a mettere a frutto questo talento, creando profumi; la sua ossessione lo spingerà però alla ricerca del profumo definitivo, da produrre con l'utilizzo di materie prime non esattamente lecite (giovani donne uccise all'uopo, per la precisione).

Tom Tykwer (già regista di quel videoclip agli steroidi che è Lola Corre - che non era neanche male, ma resta un videoclip agli steroidi) dirige con un certo successo una storia giudicata impossibile da presentare al cinema persino da Stanley Kubrick.
Le due ore e venti scivolano via abbastanza bene, pur lasciando in certi momenti un po' interdetti; d'altra parte i film non odorano - benché alcuni puzzino parecchio - e non si possono certo pretendere miracoli in questo campo, visto anche che per scelta si è deciso di non rappresentare (quasi) mai visivamente gli odori.

Cose imparate: nel 1700 la Francia puzzava parecchio.

Voto: 7--.
Tags: thriller, drammatico, Francia, Parigi, odori, profumi, puzza, naso, olfatto, profumeria, omicidio, grasso, bollitura, pena di morte, nudo, ragazze, essenza, oli essenziali, capelli, morte, serial killer, orfanotrofio, 1700.

Lola rennt (1998)

Lola corre

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Regista: Tom Tykwer
Scrittore: Tom Tykwer
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Valutazione: 8.1/10 (50225 voti) [#172 nella top250]
Durata: 81 min
Paese: Germany
Lingua: German

Cast:

• Franka Potente .... Lola
• Moritz Bleibtreu .... Manni
• Herbert Knaup .... Vater
• Nina Petri .... Jutta Hansen
• Armin Rohde .... Herr Schuster
• Joachim Król .... Norbert von Au
• Ludger Pistor .... Herr Meier
• Suzanne von Borsody .... Frau Jäger
• Sebastian Schipper .... Mike
• Julia Lindig .... Doris

Trama:
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manny. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. Lola has 20 min to raise this amount and meet Manny. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.

Trivia random: Hans Paetsch, who speaks the narration at the beginning, is Germany's most popular fairy tale narrator. His characteristic voice is easily recognized by anyone who grew up with fairy tale records in Germany.
Citazione random: Herr Schuster: The ball is round, a game lasts 90 minutes, everything else is pure theory. Off we go!

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Tykwer, Tom

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Data di nascita: 23 May 1965
Altezza: 6' 2" (1.88 m)

Ultimi lavori:

• The International (2009) .... [regista]
• Das Herz ist ein dunkler Wald (2007) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Ein Freund von mir (2006) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Paris, je t'aime (2006) .... (segment "Faubourg Saint-Denis") [scrittore]
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) .... (screenplay) [scrittore]
• Ich Dich auch (2005) .... (co-producer) [produttore]
• Underexposure (2005) .... (co-producer) [produttore]
• Lautlos (2004) .... (producer) [produttore]
• True (2004) .... [scrittore]
• Heaven (2002) .... [regista]

Trivia random: Tom and Stefan Arndt founded the Production Company "X-Filme Creative Pool".

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Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.

Kubrick, Stanley

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Data di nascita: 26 July 1928
Data di morte: 7 March 1999
Altezza: 5' 8½" (1.74 m)
Coniuge: Christiane Kubrick::(14 April 1958 - 7 March 1999) (his death) 3 children, Ruth Sobotka::(1954 - 1957) (divorced), Toba Kubrick::(28 May 1948 - 1951) (divorced)

Ultimi lavori:

• Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) .... (concept) (uncredited) [misc]
• The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove (2000) (V) .... (subject) [misc]
• Inside the Making of 'Dr. Strangelove' (2000) (V) .... (subject) [misc]
• Eyes Wide Shut (1999) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Stanley and Us (1999) .... (subject) [misc]
• Full Metal Jacket (1987) .... (producer) [produttore]
• The Shining (1980) .... (producer) [produttore]
• Barry Lyndon (1975) .... (producer) [produttore]
• A Clockwork Orange (1971) .... (producer) [produttore]
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) .... (producer) [produttore]

Biografia:
Stanley Kubrick was born in New York, and was considered intelligent despite poor grades at school. Hoping that a change of scenery would produce better academic performance, Kubrick's father Jack (a physician) sent him in 1940 to Pasadena, California, to stay with his uncle Martin Perveler. Returning to the Bronx in 1941 for his last year of grammar school, there seemed to be little change in his attitude or his results. Hoping to find something to interest his son, Jack introduced Stanley to chess, with the desired result. Kubrick took to the game passionately, and quickly became a skilled player. Chess would become an important device for Kubrick in later years, often as tool for for dealing with recalcitrant actors, but also as an artistic motif in his films.Jack Kubrick's decision to give his son a camera for his thirteenth birthday would be an even wiser move: Kubrick became an avid photographer, and would often make trips around New York taking photographs which he would develop in a friend's darkroom. After selling an unsolicited photograph to Look Magazine, Kubrick began to associate with their staff photographers, and at the age of seventeen was offered a job as an apprentice photographer.In the next few years, Kubrick had regular assignments for "Look", and would become a voracious movie-goer. Together with friend Alexander Singer, Kubrick planned a move into film, and in 1950 sank his savings into making the documentary Day of the Fight (1951). This was followed by several short commissioned documentaries (Flying Padre (1951), and _Seafarers, The (1952)_ ), but by attracting investors and hustling chess games in Central Park, Kubrick was able to make Fear and Desire (1953) in California.Filming this movie was not a happy experience; Kubrick's marriage to high school sweetheart Toba Metz did not survive the shooting. Despite mixed reviews for the film itself, Kubrick received good notices for his obvious directorial talents. Kubrick's next two films Killer's Kiss (1955) and The Killing (1956) brought him to the attention of Hollywood, and in 1957 directed Kirk Douglas in Paths of Glory (1957). Douglas later called upon Kubrick to take over the production of Spartacus (1960), by some accounts hoping that Kubrick would be daunted by the scale of the project and would thus be accommodating. This was not the case, however: Kubrick took charge of the project, imposing his ideas and standards on the film. Many crewmembers were upset by his style: cinematographer Russell Metty complained to producers that Kubrick was taking over his job. Kubrick's response was to tell him to sit there and do nothing. Metty complied, and ironically was awarded the Academy Award for his cinematography.Kubrick's next project was to direct Marlon Brando in One-Eyed Jacks (1961), but negotiations broke down and Brando himself ended up directing the film himself. Disenchanted with Hollywood and after another failed marriage, Kubrick moved permanently to England, from where he would make all of his subsequent films. Despite having obtained a pilot's license, Kubrick is rumored to be afraid of flying.Kubrick's first UK film was Lolita (1962), which was carefully constructed and guided so as to not offend the censorship boards which at the time had the power to severely damage the commercial success of a film. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) was a big risk for Kubrick; before this, "nuclear" was not considered a subject for comedy. Originally written as a drama, Kubrick decided that too many of the ideas he had written were just too funny to be taken seriously. The film's critical and commercial success allowed Kubrick the financial and artistic freedom to work on any project he desired. Around this time, Kubrick's focus diversified and he would always have several projects in various stages of development: "Blue Moon" (a story about Hollywood's first pornographic feature film), "Napoleon" (an epic historical biography, abandoned after studio losses on similar projects), "Wartime Lies" (based on the novel by Louis Begley), and "Rhapsody" (a psycho-sexual thriller).The next film he completed was a collaboration with sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is hailed by many as the best ever made; an instant cult favorite, it has set the standard and tone for many science fiction films that followed. Kubrick followed this with A Clockwork Orange (1971), which rivaled Lolita (1962) for the controversy it generated - this time not for only for its portrayal of sex, but also of violence. Barry Lyndon (1975) would prove a turning point in both his professional and private lives. His unrelenting demands of commitment and perfection of cast and crew had by now become legendary. Actors would be required to perform dozens of takes with no breaks. Filming a story in Ireland involving military, Kubrick received reports that the IRA had declared him a possible target. Production was promptly moved out of the country, and Kubrick's desire for privacy and security have resulted in him being considered a recluse ever since.Having turned down directing a sequel to The Exorcist (1973), Kubrick made his own horror film: The Shining (1980). Again, rumors circulated of demands made upon actors and crew. Stephen King (whose novel the film was based upon) reportedly didn't like Kubrick's adaptation (indeed, he would later write his own screenplay which was filmed as "The Shining" (1997) (mini).)Kubrick's subsequent work has been well spaced: it was seven years before Full Metal Jacket (1987) was released. By this time, Kubrick was married with children and had extensively remodeled his house. Seen by one critic as the dark side to the humanist story of Platoon (1986), Full Metal Jacket (1987) continued Kubrick's legacy of solid critical acclaim, and profit at the box office.In the 1990s, Kubrick began an on-again/off-again collaboration with Brian Aldiss on a new science fiction film called "Artificial Intelligence (AI)", but progress was very slow, and was backgrounded until special effects technology was up to the standard the Kubrick wanted.Kubrick returned to his in-development projects, but encountered a number of problems: "Napoleon" was completely dead, and "Wartime Lies" (now called "The Aryan Papers") was abandoned when Steven Spielberg announced he would direct Schindler's List (1993), which covered much of the same material.While pre-production work on "AI" crawled along, Kubrick combined "Rhapsody" and "Blue Movie" and officially announced his next project as Eyes Wide Shut (1999), starring the then-married Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. After two years of production under unprecedented security and privacy, the film was released to a typically polarized critical and public reception; Kubrick claimed it was his best film to date.Special effects technology had matured rapidly in the meantime, and Kubrick immediately begain active work on Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001), but tragically suffered a fatal heart attack in his sleep on March 7th, 1999.After Kubrick's death, Spielberg revealed that the two of them were friends that frequently communicated discretely about the art of filmmaking; both had a large degree of mutual respect for each other's work. "AI" was frequently discussed; Kubrick even suggested that Spielberg should direct it as it was more his type of project. Based on this relationship, Spielberg took over as the film's director and completed the last Kubrick project.How much of Kubrick's vision remains in the finished project -- and what he would think of the film as eventually released -- will be the final great unanswerable mysteries in the life of this talented and private filmmaker.

Trivia random: He considered Elia Kazan the best American director of all time.
Citazione random: "Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all."

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