Yogi's Movie Consumption Blog

The story of the inhabitants of a house of Cincinnati, the family of freed and a escaped slave women and the wounds the lives in slavery have left in them and those near to them. A great book, very well read by the author herself. Strong character, a strong story and although the audio book is definitively not short, I've never lost grip. I really liked the structure of the story, how memories slowly drift to the surface, to reveal the truth but nevertheless building up to the great mystic interpretation, that is just as possible, as the more historical approach. I wonder if there is a movie, where memories - safely stored away - break to the viewer and start to puzzle together the greater picture. Great concept.

A son comes back to his old Italian village to investigate the killing of his famous anti-fascist father, only to find that the stories around his death don't seem quite true. The concept of the story is certainly a nice one. The script, very psychedelic and loaded with way too many political references. The film was a big hit on RAI when they first aired it, but it's hard to watch and although one can guess at later accomplishments. Maybe I'm missing something here, but I doubt it, since the film is really slow. But if you're Italian and remember the late sixties well, you might find a treasure - forever lost to me, unfortunately.

A one man empire who wants to marry his criminal behavior to suburbian ideals becomes his one man crime chasing syndicate. This is a really recommendable film. Tarantino has lifted tons of stuff out of this one. There are some really amazing details, that make this film enormously entertaining. Loads of quirky ideas get followed through to the end. My favorites: the teeth, the hacking woman, the weird co-worker, Leigh's acting (fantastic), the incredible clothes, the muscle shirt gangsters, etc etc. Favorite quote: Officer Mosley: "Freeze, Police!" Junior (yelling back out of habit): "Freeze! Police!" Funny!

The evil scientist faces an existential crisis after the benevolent superhero decides to die - he might even have to turn good. Great things to watch out for: the "evil" sidekick. A fish in a robot costume. Brillantly animated, too bad he can talk. The rest of the film is pretty much what was to be expected, and loads of small hommages to other films (I guess, but have no idea). Not as brillantly animated as Entangled, but nice nevertheless.

Retells the fate of the historic expedition of Pizarro into the jungle of Peru in search of El Dorado. A certain intimacy is playing well of inside this small expedition group, where most of the cast doesn't say close to nothing. Obviously, Aguirre, the crazy shadow of the El Dorado's emperor gets most of the interesting action. A beautiful moment: When the wounded and humiliated leader of the expedition is taken away to be hanged, there is a moment of incredible beauty and sadness when his lover stares into the reflecting water in grief. I liked it a little more than the first time I saw it, and I could relate a little better to the documentary feeling it has. In the beginning there is something wrong with my suspension of disbelief. It feld like people running around in costumes in the jungle.

Definitively one of the most linear of Pamuk's stories. His constant shifting of perspective, and telling the story through those very different eyes constructs an invisible grid of relations, guilt and hope. A really amazing book. I should try and make a film. The characters are so universal, that this story could take anywhere. T. Dreyer would have loved this material (should re-watch some of his films!) - This would be so much fun to make a screenplay of! The german audiobook - read by a whole cast of actors - is very good and after a while you get so used to this personality switch every couple of chapters, that at least I already know I'm gonna miss it.

Experimental visual diary of a cameraman in the late twenties in Russia (Odessa?) The editing is extremely fascinating and loads of the camerawork still feels modern and "up-to-date". One can easily assume that this film must have had an enormous impact on future visual techniques. Interesting is the "in and out" from observing the cameraman at work and seeing the world with his eyes. The music which was provided with this copy was pretty good and put the pace even higher. Something I haven't seen lately, but I really like it was the difference in scales that he used sometimes in the half-masked shots. Would be nice to see something like that again.