tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83076783122173900202024-03-05T10:57:20.328-08:00Last Seat on the RightDiscussion of movies remembered, watched and re-watched.Michał Oleszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521760881710382872noreply@blogger.comBlogger187125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307678312217390020.post-24860419050559225892017-11-22T11:04:00.002-08:002017-11-22T11:04:42.697-08:00Wonder Wheel (2017, Allen)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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If nothing else, Woody Allen's WONDER WHEEL serves a a living testament to Kate Winslet's bravery. As Ginny, a hard-working, adulterous 39-year-old waitress in 1950s Coney Island, she's being fed some of the worst lines Allen ever penned (the competition has become fierce in that department lately): all faux-Williams and faux-O'Neill high-strung banter that by now doesn't sound merely dated; it sounds exhumed.</div>
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And yet, miraculously, she makes her character come to life; she s<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">hines through all the retrograde crap Allen piles on her -- she even manages to act as if Vittorio Storaro weren't emptying his oldest bag of tricks upon her head all the time, bathing her in alterating hues of blue and yellow as if he just stepped off the set of ONE FROM THE HEART and had some leftover filters to spare.</span></div>
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Freshness hasn't been Allen's forte at least since SEPTEMBER (1987), in which he first conjured up his fake-leather world of chamber drama, drained of humor and fueled solely by dregs of great modernist playwrights Woody refused to honor by not imitating the shit out of them. WONDER WHEEL moves past SEPTEMBER -- and well past Autumn in general: this is a wintry movie, frozen in a grimace at once irritating and (strangely) endearing. The movie serves as the final proof that Allen hasn't been leaving his own head much for years now: Winslet's last big scene is a sad parody of a grand Blanche Du Bois moment, with the actress fluttering about in a once-glamorous gown, rattling her cheap jewelery around (with a flower in her hair, for God's sake) and speaking lines like: "Forgiveness... What a cold place our world would be without it". (Side note: someone should cast Winslet as SUNSET BLVD.-era Gloria Swanson, asap.)</div>
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Besides the disastrous turn by Justin Timberlake (playing a stereotype of a 'young and hungry artist' so dated, he doesn't get a single believable line), it has to be said that most of the cast here is terrific, with Jim Belushi doing a fantastic work in a role of Ginny's husband (that resembles Danny Aiello's turn in PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO, only deepened). Juno Temple is a sexy, odd kitten with real thoughtfulness to her sad face. And of course there's Ginny's depressive, pyromaniac teenage son, who spends most of the movie burning stuff up in a misdirected rage that's the only genuinely curious element of the plot. I think he's an Allen's stand-in; the eternal loner and born melancholic who can't help but torture himself and gaze into the fire that consumes his own life.</div>
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The movie is terrible; Winslet and Belushi are great; and Woody could use a talk to someone besides Woody. I bet the spirits of Williams and O'Neill have been hollering at him to shut up for a while now.</div>
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Michał Oleszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521760881710382872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307678312217390020.post-43320267823196098002017-03-05T23:56:00.000-08:002017-03-05T23:56:11.407-08:00Little Men (2016, Sachs)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Finally caught up with Ira Sachs' LITTLE MEN, one of the finest films of 2016. A quiet study of a budding friendship and a cautionary tale of real estate market tugging away at the very essence of urban community, it's perhaps most fascinating as a double portrait of a father and a son: the former letting go of ambition and the latter just forming his grasp upon it. It's understated; it's not big game hunting when it comes to emotion -- and yet it leaves you transformed the way a movie like Irvin Kershner's LOVING (1970) did back in the day.</div>
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Michał Oleszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521760881710382872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307678312217390020.post-89582939120424194722016-02-17T23:31:00.002-08:002016-02-17T23:31:19.225-08:00Andrzej Żuławski (1940-2016)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/andrzej-uawski-1940-2016" target="_blank">My obituary of Andrzej Żuławski</a>. RIP.</div>
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All of my Cannes 2015 coverage is now available in a single link at RogerEbert.com; you can find it <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/cannes/micha-cannes-2015" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
Michał Oleszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521760881710382872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307678312217390020.post-50327171175968083552015-03-16T23:23:00.002-07:002015-03-16T23:23:27.176-07:00Piotr Szulkin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was a pleasure to write about the little-known Polish director Piotr Szulkin for RogerEbert.com, on the occasion of his mini-retrospective I programmed for Polish Filmmakers NYC. You can read the piece <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/far-flung-correspondents/piotr-szulkins-homespun-apocalypse" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The question is so basic as to be ridiculed, yet baffling enough to make your jaw drop to the floor. Which is not that surprising, given that defining one’s affection is usually the hardest thing to do without looking like a fool. What do we love about movies? For it is surely love that makes theaters fill up and tablet screens flicker every second of every day in every corner in the world. And it must be love that makes thousands upon thousands of adults of every background admit to that sinister-sounding condition called cinephilia. What do movies have that other arts don’t – and what is the nature of our fascination with them, which seems to thrive despite the tectonic changes within the medium itself?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">That question lies smack at the center of the book “What I Love About Movies”, edited by David Jenkins and “presented” by “Little White Lies”, a UK-based periodical that is known to many cinephiles for its excellent critical prose, fastidious graphic design and gloss-free paper that makes one feel like one is leafing through a picture-book of one’s childhood. Issues of “Little White Lies” are objects you want to keep – nothing in their look encourages disposing of a copy once you’re done reading it – and so it is most appropriate and welcome that the team behind “LWL” mounted this new project, which introduces their work in a form that will quite possibly widen its audience significantly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The book is structured around the replies given during interviews “Little White Lies” conducted over the years, each of which has been capped with the titular inquiry. The answers belong to 50 high-profile directors and actors, with the almost complete absence of any other film professions (or professions unrelated to film, for that matter). Unlike massive compilations by Studs Terkel, whose classic “Hard Times” or “Working” were based on accumulation of wide variety of testimonies, “What I Love About Movies” is focused on the driving passions of highly successful people who bring us the work we admire – as well as on examination of their careers and sensibilities. Each of the answers is accompanied by artwork depicting the interviewee (commissioned to 50 different designers, one per chapter), plus a capsule essay that serves as a bite-size critical profile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The very shape and design of the book encourages random skipping rather than linear reading, since we’re naturally drawn first to the answers given by people we admire most. However, it’s one of the surprising pleasures of “What I Love About Movies” that the most interesting answers often come from folks you’d least expect to give them. It is also rather fitting that the coffee-table format makes you peruse the book at your home rather than on the bus or your subway train. Dedicated to Philip Seymour Hoffman, the volume has an air both celebratory and autumnal: it is a celebration of an art form that is almost extinct in its original incarnation (35mm projection in a movie theater), launched by means of a printed medium that itself becomes more and more obsolete. This beautiful book on the art of film feels so great to hold and browse through exactly because it’s a labor of love designed for fellow lovers. Note that the question <b>whether</b> one really loves movies is never once raised.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Despite the stellar cast of interviewees, including Quentin Tarantino, Francis Ford Coppola, Kelly Reinhardt, Wes Anderson and Ryan Gosling, the true stars of the book are the authors of the capsule essays, with two leads being David Jenkins (as the most prolific) and Vadim Rizov (as the most astute). Part of the accomplishment of “What I Love About Movies” is that it serves as a reminder of just what has happened in the hectic universe of world filmmaking in the past 20 years or so: the two decades that passed all too quickly, with much too much activity going on for anyone to have a complete, all-encompassing view of the entire picture. Film culture has changed so much and the plethora of extraordinary work from around the globe reaches us through so many channels (amplified by the 24/7 social media frenzy of raves, pans and feuds), it really seems like time flies much quicker than it used to in the pre-digital era. Personally, I always find it baffling to think that as many years have passed between the opening of <i>The Godfather, Part II</i> (1974) and <i>Pulp Fiction</i> (1994) as between <i>Pulp Fiction</i> and <i>Inherent Vice</i> (2014). Somehow, the two identical gaps do not seem to fit in size.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The book’s opening response comes from Francis Ford Coppola, and it is appropriately grand: the maker of <i>Apocalypse Now</i> (1979) states simply that “the human race was waiting for cinema” (p. 21). Darren Aronofsky concurs, pointing to the close-up as “an overlooked great invention of the 20<sup>th</sup> century” (p. 161), while Viggo Mortensen lives up to his taciturn, if potent, screen persona by offering the single briefest response in the volume: “The places you will go” (p. 101). There’s no denying that there is no great revelation awaiting in the wings of the 50 answers we get (rather predictably, the word “transported” gets the biggest mileage), but it is the very difficulty with defining the central passion of their lives that is most telling in those filmmakers’ responses. Accompanied by lucid, often brilliant reading of their works by the “LWL” writers (the four-member team also incuses Adam Woodward and Sophie Monks Kaufman), the responses enter into exciting friction with the critical writing – as well as with the artwork, which is never less than lively (it is “LWL” tradition that every piece is credited both to the person responsible for the “words” and the one providing the “pictures”).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the introduction, on p. 15, David Jenkins admits to shedding tears every time he watches Jacques Tati’s <i>Play Time</i> (1967): by no means a sad film, but one that moves him by means of sheer power and meticulous, grand complexity of its vision that verges on a folly. I think unexpected tears are as good a starting point to trance one’s love of movies as any. Personally, I never fail to well up at the bike ride in the sky in <i>E.T.</i> (1982), and the moment when the bike posse first rises in the air is as exhilarating as it is heartbreaking for me. The knowledge that I am looking at sheer magic brought about by force of friendship, paired with cold conviction that this thing could never, ever happen the way I am seeing it, has a devastating quality for me - and yet it still ends up in uplift. How is that possible? I really don’t know. The cover of the British edition of “What I Love About Movies” looks like a ticket stub, while the American one has Jude Law’s head capped with an unspooling reel of film, rendered with <i>noir</i>-ish glee by Mario Zucca. Maybe that’s the answer. Maybe movies are uncoiling our brains, making us surrender, even making fools of us from time to time – and yet they also provide us with our smarts, explain the world for us and enrich our understanding of it in the process. What we love about movies…? My answer remains: go figure.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">[The book is now out on Amazon; you can purchase it <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/What-I-Love-About-Movies/dp/057131208X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1424072747&sr=8-1&keywords=what+i+love+about+movies" target="_blank">here (UK)</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/What-Love-About-Movies-Illustrated/dp/1623160626/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1424072659&sr=8-1&keywords=what+i+love+about+movies" target="_blank">here (US)</a>]</span></div>
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Michał Oleszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521760881710382872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307678312217390020.post-75492239614306595222015-02-02T06:37:00.004-08:002015-02-02T06:37:51.498-08:00The Bridges of Madison County (1995, Eastwood)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was happy to contribute to Sam Mac's ongoing "Kicking the Canon" project with <a href="https://medium.com/kicking-the-canon/the-bridges-of-madison-county-clint-eastwood-1995-warner-bros-7863c4dd308d" target="_blank">this short piece</a> on <i>The Bridges of Madison County</i>, one of my favorite Clint Eastwood movies.</span></div>
Michał Oleszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521760881710382872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307678312217390020.post-80270614526047149392015-01-29T06:55:00.001-08:002015-01-29T06:55:12.285-08:00My FIPRESCI Report from Palm Springs IFF<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">My FIPRESCI jury report on Palm Springs IFF is now available <a href="http://www.fipresci.org/festival-reports/2015/palm-springs/this-side-of-paradise" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
Michał Oleszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521760881710382872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307678312217390020.post-79791995491184183762015-01-09T06:46:00.001-08:002015-01-09T06:46:12.811-08:00Something, Anything (2014, Harrill)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">My new review up at RogerEbert.com is of Paul Harrill's beautiful first feature, <i>Something, Anything</i>. You can read it <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/something-anything-2015" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
Michał Oleszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521760881710382872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307678312217390020.post-86668218006686858342014-12-05T05:09:00.002-08:002014-12-05T05:09:33.040-08:00Discussion of "Ida" at Columbia University [VIDEO]<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was honoored to moderate this discussion of Paweł Pawlikowski's <i>Ida </i>at Columbia University. It featured Matt Zoller Seitz, Sheila O'Malley and Stuart Liebman. You can watch the video <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/video-ida-panel-discussion-at-columbia-university" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></div>
Michał Oleszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521760881710382872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307678312217390020.post-78209932504611132622014-12-05T05:06:00.001-08:002014-12-05T05:06:05.475-08:00Walerain Borowczyk Box Set<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My review of "Boro: Camera Obscura", which I consider to be the DVD/Blu-ray release of the year, is now <a href="http://moviemezzanine.com/planet-boro-boro-camera-obscura/" target="_blank">up at MovieMezzanine</a>.</span></div>
Michał Oleszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521760881710382872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307678312217390020.post-43917325691029746152014-06-03T22:10:00.001-07:002014-06-03T22:12:03.494-07:00Cannes 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Michał Oleszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521760881710382872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307678312217390020.post-26624863782667818862014-04-30T22:38:00.002-07:002014-04-30T22:38:35.366-07:00My Favorite Roger: The Passion of the Christ<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I pick "My Favorite Roger" and discuss his review of <i>The Passion of the Christ</i> (2004); you can read my thoughts <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/chazs-blog/my-favorite-roger-micha-oleszczyk" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
Michał Oleszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521760881710382872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307678312217390020.post-40702051177180921952014-04-06T20:59:00.002-07:002014-04-06T20:59:18.996-07:00One Year Since Roger's Passing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">On the first anniversary of Roger Ebert's passing away, I had the honor of taking part in <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/still-present-memories-of-roger-ebert-a-year-after-his-passing" target="_blank">this commemorative effort</a> at RogerEbert.com</span></span></div>
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Michał Oleszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521760881710382872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307678312217390020.post-22639862568423693542014-04-03T03:21:00.003-07:002014-04-03T03:21:26.731-07:00Cartagena de Indias 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was my honor and privilege to serve as a member of the FIPRESCI jury at the festival in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), together with Carlos Heredero from Spain and Hiroaki Saito from Japan. My illustrious colleagues' reports are to be found <a href="http://www.fipresci.org/festivals/archive/2014/cartagena/cfheredero.htm" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.fipresci.org/festivals/archive/2014/cartagena/hsaito.htm" target="_blank">here</a>; my own is <a href="http://www.fipresci.org/festivals/archive/2014/cartagena/moleszczyk.htm" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></div>
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Michał Oleszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521760881710382872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307678312217390020.post-91431029877864407132014-02-06T00:10:00.004-08:002014-02-06T00:10:49.075-08:00The Long Day Closes (1992, Davies)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">On the occasion of the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Long-Closes-Criterion-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B00GBT637S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1391673886&sr=8-1&keywords=long+day+closes" target="_blank">Criterion Collection Blu-ray/DVD edition</a> of <i>The Long Day Closes</i>, RogerEbert.com has just published an excerpt from my upcoming book on Terence Davies, scheduled for publication by <a href="http://www.miniverpress.com/" target="_blank">Miniver Press</a> in 2015. You can read it<a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/terence-davies-the-long-day-closes" target="_blank"> here</a>.</span></span></div>
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Michał Oleszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521760881710382872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307678312217390020.post-84887087427288905022014-01-26T22:47:00.000-08:002014-01-26T22:47:04.660-08:00Life Itself (2014, James)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">My piece on <i>Life Itself</i>, Steve James' beautiful documentary on Roger Ebert, is now up at RogerEbert.com. You can read it <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/far-flung-correspondents/life-unspooled-on-watching-life-itself-in-the-middle-of-polish-winter" target="_blank">here</a></span></div>
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Michał Oleszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521760881710382872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307678312217390020.post-20782776494406811572014-01-24T23:56:00.000-08:002014-01-24T23:56:08.945-08:00Stranger by the Lake (2013, Guiraudie)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">My four-star review of Alain Guiraudie's superb <i>Stranger by the Lake</i> is now up at RogerEbert.com. You can read it <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/stranger-by-the-lake-2014" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></div>
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succeeds in presenting everyday American life as a historical and
sociological marvel to be stunned by: invisible to the natives, but
immediately apparent to newcomers (especially ones who, like Marina, had
experienced the shriveled grayness of the communist world – or any
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">(Read the full version of my Movie Mezzanine piece on<i> To the Wonder</i> <a href="http://moviemezzanine.com/for-your-reconsideration-to-the-wonder/" target="_blank">here)</a></span></div>
Michał Oleszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521760881710382872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307678312217390020.post-29622936097420756862014-01-01T10:17:00.001-08:002014-01-01T10:39:03.437-08:00Staircase (1969, Donen)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As is known to every cinephile, Rex Harrison and Richard
Burton did a bad, bad thing together in 1963 (it was called <i>Cleopatra</i>), so I guess it wasn’t exactly a surprise
to discover them six years later as an estranged, bickering gay couple in
Stanley Donen’s <i>Staircase</i>. With no
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9zfYur_EGQ" target="_blank">Liz rolling out of carpets</a>, they decided to jointly out-camp Roddy McDowall in
this trailblazing two-hander, adapted by Charles Dyer from his own play. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">That a movie like this even exists is something of a
wonder, given the time it was made at, as well as bearing in mind the stature of its stars. It was
only five years since Rex won his Oscar for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhninL_G3Fg" target="_blank">reciting lyrics to music</a> in <i>My Fair Lady</i> (1964) – and mere two after
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpBPavEDQCk" target="_blank">he shot the breeze</a> with animals in <i>Doctor
Dolittle</i> (1967). Burton was fresh off not only from his wordy boxing
with Liz Taylor in <i>Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Wolf?</i> (1966), but also from the deranged re-match of <i>Boom!</i> (1968). Both of those were mere sparring sessions compared to
the non-stop stream of vitriol that Dyer milked from his premise in <i>Staircase</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;">George Lucas must have watched <i>Staircase</i>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"So that's what you had beneath those robes in <i>Cleopatra</i>, eh...?"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The movie portrays a troubled, long-time relationship
of Harry (Burton) and Charlie (Harrison): an aging London couple owning a
hairdressing salon and spending their days fighting. Harry’s bedridden
mother stays under the same roof, with her son taking tender care of her
(despite occasional maternal inquiries about the lost cause of „meeting a nice girl”).
The couple is forever at odds, except when they’re silent and work as a unit:
one of the early scenes shows their mutual shave-and-haircut, with every movement and gesture perfected by years of daily routine.
(Donen even manages to sneak in an incredibly dirty visual joke into the scene,
boldly suggesting anal sex in a movie otherwise too timid to allow its
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the announced arrival of Charlie’s estranged daughter (the result of his early
jab at heterosexuality) and a lawsuit against him, involving alleged
„indecency” of publicly acting up in drag. Charlie is flamboyant, hammy and
outspoken (as I said, he’s played by Rex Harrison), but <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF8ypuUnD2o" target="_blank">he abhors the upcoming inquiry</a>, fearing humiliating questions and demeaning medical examination. Harry
tries to be supportive of his partner, but Charlie isn’t good with either
giving or receiving tenderness: he’s addicted to preemptive strikes as a result
of a lifetime of dodging insults. He’s bitchy by default, which puts
Harry forever on the defense – the latter is being called everything from from „my Communist
buttercup” to „Lady Godiva’s tit”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> <i><span style="font-size: small;">"You have a pimple on top! It looks like Lady Godiva's tit!"</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[The actual line!] </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The men are also completely different in the way they
look. In contrast to the unassuming Harry, who spends most of the movie in an
elaborate head bandage (covering the bald scalp he despises), Charie is a much
flashier dresser. Prone to wearing lilac pants, pink shitrs and silk pajamas (as
well as to doing his manicure with a pink file the size of a ruler), Harrison’s
character takes pride in his gaudy jewlery, as well as in his full
head of hair – the sign of virility and youthfulness that the dessicated Harry
no longer possesses. The entire movie is built on the love/hate that founds Harry and Charlie's relationship: Donen wants to show us the mutual interdependecy of
two men who seem constantly on the verge of killing one another.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">...and way too much <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031725/reference" target="_blank">Lubitsch</a>! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Gay domesticity is so rarely portrayed in cinema, I
really wished <i>Staircase</i> to be better
than it turned out to be. There’s no doubt it is, in many respects, a pioneering work: with the
single exception of the much less candid <i>Rope</i>
(1948), I can’t think of another pre-Stonewall movie that would present a gay household in
such matter-of-fact way. Still, the script too often becomes insufferable
in its fixation on double entendres and stereotypical flaming banter that quickly
becomes almost rigid in its relentless bitchiness. (In hindsight, Harold
Pinter’s <i>Butley</i> (1974) seems to me influenced by <i>Staircase</i> in its use of
florid rhetoric as armor built to sustain the constant assault of homophobia.)
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> <i><span style="font-size: small;">"You were singing... You really were..."</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">[<u><b>Not</b></u> the actual line!]</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Staircase </i>belongs squarely in the much-criticized genre of sad-to-be-gay
movies presenting the lives of their characters in terms of gloom, failure and inevitable
misery. Just like <i>Boys in the Band</i>
(1970) and, in part, <i>Lianna</i> (1983),
Donen’s movie is far from celebratory in its portrayal of gay life: the very
last scene suggests that Harry and Charlie are a pair of crippled individuals
who need each other's compassion in order simply to fuction – but cannot possibly attain happiness
and fulfillment in the world that surrounds them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Love and marriage.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Unlike many, I don’t find such a notion offensive or
miserabilist. A movie doesn’t have to end on a note of triumph to bring its
viewers a glimpse of hope. In films like <i>Boys
in the Band</i> and <i>Staircase</i>, it’s
the mere fact of gay visibility that matters. The characters may be scarred,
but they try to live their lives and, more importantly, <b>they are up there on the screen</b>. I once heard <i>Boys in the Band</i> being described as a „whining orgy”, but I firmly
believe that every oppressed group has a damn right to a heartfelt moan –
especially when it only starts fighting for dignity and rights it boldly defines
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The world has changed tremendously since 1969 and there’s no
doubt that modern-day Harry and Charlie would have been living very different
lives (should they be lucky enough to be born in a place that recognizes gay
rights). Harry’s longing for a child wouldn’t seem outlandish, and the movie
could be closer in tone to Donen’s <i>Two
for a Road</i> (1967), in which the sexual orientation of the characters wasn’t
an issue (only their emotions were). Still, all change has its stages. <i>Staircase</i> largly fails as drama
and feels sloppy as moviemaking (the editing is especially jarring), but it does count as a step forward in a struggle for a world
in which the images you see below cease to be a joke (or an outrage) to become commonplace instead.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3. <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/everybody-in-our-family-2012" target="_blank">EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY (Jude)</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">4. <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/far-flung-correspondents/my-brother-my-love" target="_blank">THE UNSPEAKABLE ACT (Dan Sallitt)</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">5. THIS IS THE END (Goldberg)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">6. <a href="http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2012/11/thessaloniki-international-film-festival-2012-a-hijacking/" target="_blank">A HIJACKING (Lindholm)</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">8. <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-we-and-the-i-2013" target="_blank">THE WE AND THE I (Gondry)</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">11. <a href="http://moviemezzanine.com/for-your-reconsideration-to-the-wonder/" target="_blank">TO THE WONDER (Malick)</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">12. TURBO (Soren)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">13. IMAGINE (Jakimowski)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">14. CAPTAIN PHILIPS (Greengrass)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">15. 12 YEARS A SLAVE (McQueen)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the past two months I have published a couple of pieces at Roger Ebert.com, which I finally link to below.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My answers to <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/meet-the-writers-michal-oleszczyk" target="_blank">the Movie Love Questionnaire</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My account of <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/translating-for-my-mother" target="_blank">translating movies for my Mother</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My piece on Frank Capra's <i>It Happened One Night</i>, which first appeared <a href="http://moviemezzanine.com/looking-back-it-happened-one-night/" target="_blank">at MovieMezzanine</a>, and was then re-published by the good folks <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/far-flung-correspondents/looking-back-at-it-happened-one-night" target="_blank">at RogerEbert.com</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A piece on <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/kieslowski-at-tribeca" target="_blank">Krzysztof Kieślowski's documentaries</a>, written on the occasion of a Polish Filmmakers NYC film series I co-programmed. It was called <a href="http://polishfilmmakersnyc.com/content/different-ages-different-voices-polish-women-film" target="_blank">"Different Ages, Different Voices: Polish Women in Film"</a> and it took place between 21 and 24 November at Museum of Modern Art and Tribeca Film Center.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I also contributed to this <a href="http://www.filmlinc.com/blog/entry/an-ode-to-brick-and-mortar-blockbuster-video" target="_blank">VHS-nostalgia survey</a> by Erik Luers at the Film Society of Lincoln Center blog.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Enjoy!</span></span><br />
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Michał Oleszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521760881710382872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307678312217390020.post-53590944812046298802013-05-28T02:51:00.002-07:002013-05-28T02:51:16.732-07:00My Cannes Coverage<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This year, I had the honor of covering Cannes Film Festival for RogerEbert.com, together with Barbara Scharres and Ben Kenigsberg. Below you will find my collected coverage.<br />
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<i><a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/cannes/to-heli-with-gatsby" target="_blank">Heli / The Great Gatsby</a></i><br />
<i><a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/cannes/breaking-and-entering-cannes-day-two" target="_blank">The Bling Ring / Young and Beautiful</a></i><br />
<a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/cannes/cruisin-together-cannes-day-three" target="_blank"><i>Stranger by the Lake / A Story of Children and Film</i></a><br />
<a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/cannes/its-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-cannes" target="_blank">A piece on how it is to partake in Cannes madness</a><br />
<a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/cannes/cannes-classics-tip-of-fedora-to-you" target="_blank">Restoration of Billy Wilder's <i>Fedora</i></a><br />
<i><a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/cannes/cannes-sha-na-na-at-woodstock-moment-a-castle-in-italy" target="_blank">A Castle in Italy</a></i><br />
<a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/cannes/love-and-money-with-james-toback" target="_blank">Interview with James Toback </a><br />
<a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/cannes/everythings-coming-up-rose" target="_blank"><i>Max Rose</i>, starring Jerry Lewis</a><br />
<a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/cannes/cannes-piano-man" target="_blank"><i>Behind the Candelabra</i></a><br />
<a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/cannes/fur-ever-polanski" target="_blank"><i>Venus in Furs</i></a><br />
<a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/cannes/coming-to-america-a-conversation-with-james-gray" target="_blank">A conversation with James Gray on his brilliant <i>The Immigrant</i></a><br />
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All Cannes pieces by Barbara, Ben and me are to be found <a href="http://www.rogerebert.com/cannes" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Michał Oleszczykhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11521760881710382872noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307678312217390020.post-69819979804224981502013-05-06T06:41:00.003-07:002013-05-06T06:41:30.475-07:00Da (1988, Clark)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My first piece for Summer of '88 series at The House Next Door is on Matt Clark's <i>Da</i>. You can read it<a href="http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2013/06/summer-of-88-da" target="_blank"> here</a>.</span></span></div>
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