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نوامبر 27, 2007

Hitman (2007. film

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Hitman 2007

Director: Xavier Gens
Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper, Ulrich Thomsen
Rating: NR

 

Review Summary

An international assassin known only as Agent 47 (Timothy Olyphant) carries out high-profile hits for a mysterious organization known only as «The Agency» in this adaptation of the popular Eidos Interactive video-game series. ~ Jason Buchanan

Movie Details

Title: Hitman
Running Time: 93 Minutes
Country: France/US
Genre: Action/Adventure, Suspense/Thriller

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نوامبر 21, 2007

Beowulf. بیولف 2007

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Beowulf 2007

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, John Malkovich, Robin Wright Penn, Brendan Gleeson
Rating: PG13

Movie Details

Title: Beowulf
Running Time: 113 Minutes
Country: US
Genre: Animation, Action/Adventure

You don’t need to wait for Angelina Jolie to rise from the vaporous depths naked and dripping liquid gold to know that this “Beowulf” isn’t your high school teacher’s Old English epic poem. You don’t even have to wait for the flying spears and airborne bodies that — if you watch the movie in one of the hundreds of theaters equipped with 3-D projection — will look as if they’re hurtling directly at your head. You could poke your eye out with one of those things! Which is precisely what I thought when I first saw Ms. Jolie’s jutting breasts too.

Ms. Jolie plays the bad girl in “Beowulf,” a wicked demon, the mother of all monsters — here, Grendel, played by Crispin Glover — who can switch from hag to fab in the wink of a serpentine eye. If you don’t remember this evil babe from the poem, it’s because she’s almost entirely the invention of the screenwriters Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman and the director Robert Zemeckis, who together have plumped her up in words, deeds and curves. These creative interventions aren’t especially surprising given the source material and the nature of big-studio adaptations. There’s plenty of action in “Beowulf,” but even its more vigorous bloodletting pales next to its rich language, exotic setting and mythic grandeur.

At the heart of this take on the epic are the bookended battles fought by the Geat warrior Beowulf (Ray Winstone), the first against Grendel (and his mother), the second against a dragon. Beowulf visits the Danish kingdom, where he eyeballs the queen (Robin Wright Penn) and promises to fight Grendel for the king (Anthony Hopkins). In between intimations of court intrigue, the rest of the characters do what they almost always do in movies set in Ancient Times, namely grunt, shout and eat with their mouths open. Eventually Grendel crashes the party, and Beowulf leads the charge, bouncing off beast and walls completely naked, his genitals hidden by convenient obstructions. Somehow this trick was a lot funnier in “Borat” and “The Simpsons Movie.”

For the poet Seamus Heaney, whose gorgeous translation of the poem became an unexpected best seller after it was published in 1999, Grendel “comes alive in the reader’s imagination as a kind of dog-breath in the dark.” The reader’s imagination, of course, has long been one of the banes of cinema. Any filmmaker who takes a stab at literary adaptation has to compete with those moving pictures already flickering in our heads, the ones we create when we read a book. The solution for many filmmakers is to try to top the reader’s imagination or distract it or overwhelm it, usually by throwing everything they can think of at the screen, including lots of big: big noise, sets, moves, effects, stars and, yup, even big breasts.

Mr. Zemeckis throws a lot of stuff at us in “Beowulf” besides Ms. Jolie, including spears, swords, pools of gore, dribbles of mucous and images with extremely forced perspectives, which direct your vision toward the center of the frame, goosing the 3-D effect. Mostly he throws technology at us. The main characters in the movie were created through performance capture, a system that allows filmmakers to map an actor’s expressions and gestures onto a computer-generated model, which is then further tweaked. (Eye movements are captured separately.) Neither wholly animation nor live action, it is a sophisticated visual technique, and true believers see it as the future of movies, though really the most interesting thing about it is that it’s not intrinsically interesting.

To be honest, I don’t yet see the point of performance capture, particularly given how ugly it renders realistic-looking human forms. Although the human faces and especially the eyes in “Beowulf” look somewhat less creepy than they did in “The Polar Express,” Mr. Zemeckis’s first experiment with performance capture, they still have neither the spark of true life nor that of an artist’s unfettered imagination. The face of Mr. Hopkins’s king resembles the actor’s in broad outline, in the shape and curve of his physiognomy. But it has none of the minute trembling and shuddering that define and enliven — actually animate — the discrete spaces separating the nose, eyes and mouth. You see the cladding but not the soul.

The character designs for the nonhuman forms work far better. Grendel isn’t remotely scary, but he looks pleasingly disgusting, like a stringy, chewed-up cadaver with snake scales and a suggestion of Mr. Glover’s own beak. Grendel soars through the air pretty much the way Mr. Zemeckis’s busy camera does: Both are full of zip. They’re certainly fun to watch as they Ping-Pong across the frame, though neither goes anywhere meaningful. By contrast, the human characters move with a perceptible drag effect, as if underwater, with none of the kinetic vibrancy of real bodily locomotion. That makes the 3-D effects all the more important, because the only time the movie pops is when something or someone seems to be flying at you.

Yet the 3-D is necessary to the film only in so far as it keeps your eyes engaged when your mind starts to wander. Stripped of much of the original poem’s language, its cadences, deep history and context, this film version of “Beowulf” doesn’t offer much beyond 3-D oohs and ahs, sword clanging and a nicely conceived dragon, which probably explains why Mr. Zemeckis and his collaborators have tried to sex it up with Ms. Jolie, among other comic-book flourishes. The same no doubt accounts for why Mr. Winstone, an actor of substantial stomach girth who is every inch a sexy beast in his own right, has been transformed into a generic-looking gym rat complete with six-pack. Somewhere in B-movie heaven Steve Reeves is smiling.

 

 

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نوامبر 14, 2007

Lions for Lambs | شیرها برای بره ها | 2007

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 Lions for Lambs | شیرها برای بره ها | 2007

 


Director: Robert Redford

Cast: Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise ,Michael Peña, Derek Luke

Movie Details

Title: Lions for Lambs
Running Time: 88 Minutes
Country: US
Genre: Drama

Hearts and Minds: Senator Meets Reporter, Selling a New, Improved War

Career Politicians, the Fourth Estate and Disaffected Youth all earn a stern knuckle rapping in “Lions for Lambs,” Robert Redford’s big-screen lecture about civic responsibility and its absence in the Age of Iraq. Those who remain shocked, shocked that elected officials, certain journalists and cosseted college students sat idly by, huffing Hummer fumes and nodding out on 24/7 infotainment (all Britney, all the time), while the administration led the charge, first into Afghanistan and then into Iraq, may find much to embrace here. Everyone else will continue to nod out or resume banging their heads against the wall in bloody frustration.

I suppose there’s something commendable about Mr. Redford fighting the good fight, or at least one civilized version of it. Movie critics often flog directors for not engaging with urgent contemporary matters, like the current wars, but when they do engage, as several have tried to this year (“In the Valley of Elah,” “Rendition”), we complain that they’re not saying much of anything. Consider “Lions for Lambs” exhibit R in this open case: It names the wars, presents a handful of fictionalized main players from politicians to soldiers, and drops words like “the people” and “Al Qaeda” and “propaganda.” It flashes photographs of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice, if without overtly naming names.

What else do we learn from “Lions for Lambs”? That America is no longer only the land of the free, home of the brave, but also of the opportunistic and the compromised. Among the most conniving, or most true-believing of these new Americans are politicians like Jasper Irving (Tom Cruise), a Republican senator with his eye on the White House. Among the most compromised among us, or the most exhausted, or timorous — or something — are journalists like Janine Roth (Meryl Streep), whom Irving has summoned to his office so he can pitch her a shiny new war plan. Mistakes were made, he says, but that was then, this is now. From their framed photographs, President Bush, Mr. Cheney and Ms. Rice silently keep watch.

Nothing if not on party message, the senator has taken aim at Iran, which, he tells Roth, is allowing Iraqi terrorists to cross its borders on their way to Afghanistan, where they will fight alongside Al Qaeda. As Roth leans forward, you can almost see the thought bubble above her: Howzthatagain? But Roth is also vain; she’s a journalist, after all, and rubbing shoulders, and who knows what else, with movers and shakers has blunted her senses, clouded her vision. Power is an aphrodisiac, as well as addictive. And power begets power, as Mr. Redford reminds us when he shows Roth looking at a Time magazine cover story she wrote about Irving. She helped make the senator and he did much the same for her in turn.

It’s fun to watch this acting odd couple spar even in such a visually inert context. Mr. Cruise pours on his characteristic intensity and lights up the board with alternating flashes of charm, sincerity, gravity, indignation and outrage. Every mood feels phony, a total put-on, which works well for a character delivering a self-conscious, constructed performance. As his audience of one, Ms. Streep’s journalist must do a lot of listening, which the actress does with one of her vibrant, entertaining, gestural performances. Every twitch, blink, shrug, head bob and seat shift speaks softly at first and then with increasing volume, giving physical form to the inner voice we actually hear only later. Mr. Redford’s camera pays her close, appreciative heed, as do we.

Alas, there’s more — namely two other story threads, the dreariest of which involves yet another two speakers locked in one claustrophobic space: a history professor, Dr. Stephen Malley (Mr. Redford), who has summoned an apathetic student, Todd Hayes (Andrew Garfield), into his office for a metaphoric spanking. One of those bright young things who puts the “i” in Generation iPod, Todd has been dodging Malley’s class, opting to turn off and tune out even while agreeing to drop in for morning coffee. It’s not nearly as much fun to watch these two, largely because the screenwriter, Matthew Michael Carnahan, has stacked the deck so much in Malley’s favor you know the end of the conversation as soon as it gets going.

It’s a long conversation, more soporific than Socratic, and brimming with parental chiding, generational conflict and invocations of Vietnam. You see, back in the day, Malley fought in that war after being drafted. He didn’t want to fight, didn’t agree with its aims, but he did nonetheless, which leads to another story fragment and two more of his students: a Latino, Ernest Rodriguez (Michael Peña), and an African-American, Arian Finch (Derek Luke). After absorbing Malley’s lessons about responsibility, Ernest and Arian joined the army. These lion cubs don’t believe the current wars are righteous, but they believe they can effect change from the inside, which is how they land in an Afghan misadventure more unbelievable, both in thematic and visual terms, than Senator Irving’s military strategy.

In truth Ernest and Arian are less lions than sacrificial lambs that exist solely so the film can wave the flag (and race and poverty) along with index fingers. Malley regrets but respects the students’ decision to enlist, which echoes the prevailing wisdom that you should support the troops even if you don’t support the wars. The problem isn’t whether this assertion is true; the problem is the film reflexively embraces it, much as it does every single other cliché, without inquiry, challenge or a single ounce of real risk. It tells us everything most of us know already, including the fact that politicians lie, journalists fail and youth flounders. Mostly it tells us that Mr. Redford feels really bad about the state of things. Welcome to the club.

“Lions for Lambs” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Some bloody combat scenes, gun violence and tough language.

LIONS FOR LAMBS

Opens today nationwide.

Directed by Robert Redford; written by Matthew Michael Carnahan; director of photography, Philippe Rousselot; edited by Joe Hutshing; music by Mark Isham; production designer, Jan Roelfs; produced by Mr. Redford, Mr. Carnahan, Andrew Hauptman and Tracy Falco; released by United Artists/Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Running time: 90 minutes.

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نوامبر 12, 2007

American Gangster|گنگستر آمریکایی| 2007

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American Gangster|گنگستر آمریکایی| 2007

Director: Ridley Scott

Cast: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor

Movie Details

Title: American Gangster
Running Time: 157 Minutes
Country: US
Genre: Drama

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Greatness hovers just outside “American Gangster,” knocking, angling to be let in. Based in rough outline on the flashy rise and fall of a powerful 1970s New York drug lord, Frank Lucas, the film has been built for importance, with a brand-name director, Ridley Scott, and two major stars, Denzel Washington as Lucas, and Russell Crowe as Richie Roberts, the New Jersey cop who brings him down. It’s a seductive package, crammed with all the on-screen and off-screen talent that big-studio money can buy, and filled with old soul and remixed funk that evoke the city back in the day, when heroin turned poor streets white and sometimes red

This being an American story, as its title announces and Steven Zaillian’s screenplay occasionally trumpets, there’s plenty of blue in the mix too, worn by some of New York’s very un-finest. Mr. Lucas was among the city’s most notorious underworld hustlers, but one of the film’s points (at times you could call it a message) is that he was just doing what everyone with ambition, flair and old-fashioned American entrepreneurial spirit was doing, including cops: getting a piece of the action. His piece just happened to be bigger than most, stretching across Harlem and snaking into other neighborhoods, into alleys and apartments where someone with ready cash and a hungry vein was always aching to get high.

 

You see a few of those veins, popping, all but jumping in anticipation of another hit. Sometimes the needle slides into a clean arm, though every so often the camera comes uncomfortably close as a spike jabs into a suppurating wound. You could call these images metaphoric, something about the oozing, bleeding body of the exploited underclass, but mostly they’re just graphic evidence of the damage done. Despite the intermittent nod to someone nodding out and even dying, this isn’t about the suffering of addicts or of those forced to watch their neighborhoods perish alongside them. It’s about good guys and bad, a classic story of white hats and black squaring off at the corral at 116th Street and Eighth Avenue.

 

Mr. Crowe, his jaw thrust forward as aggressively as his pelvis, wears the white hat, while the silky, smooth-moving, smooth-talking Mr. Washington wears the black. They’re irresistible, though neither possesses the movie because each occupies a separate if parallel story line. Mr. Washington has the more developed and dynamic role, which he inhabits easily, whether flashing his wolfish grin or draining the affect from Lucas’s face to show the soulless operator beneath the swagger and suit. Lucas’s rival, Nicky Barnes (Cuba Gooding Jr. in a sharp, small turn), wore the pimp threads and fedoras the size of manhole covers (he also read Machiavelli). Lucas dressed like the businessman he believed himself to be and was.

 

Formally, the plot takes the shape of a simple braid, with Lucas’s and Roberts’s stories serving as individual narrative strands that become more and more tightly plaited. Complicating this simple, at times overly mechanical back-and-forth design is a third player with a smaller strand, a corrupt New York detective, Trupo (Josh Brolin in a knockout performance), who shakes down Lucas and other larcenous types. The baddest bad man in town, a thug’s thug, Trupo wears his power as confidently as the long black leather coat he whips on for battle. He hassles Lucas, who hates him in turn, and openly indulges his contempt for Roberts because the other cop is honest, which means he’s a threat to Trupo and his kind.

 

It’s hard not to fall for these men pumping like pistons across the screen, which is as much part of the movie’s allure as its problem. Mr. Scott doesn’t escape the contradiction that bedevils almost every Hollywood movie about gangsters, which cry shame, shame, as they parade their stars, crank the soul and showcase the foxy ladies, the swank digs and rides. Mr. Washington obviously enjoys sinking into villainy, but he never finds the lower depths. There’s little of the frightening menace the actor brought to “Training Day,” where you see the pleasure his character derives from his sadism. Even when Lucas goes ballistic, beating a man to pulp, the film tosses in a laugh about the proper way to clean a bloodied rug.

 

Seriousness has always been one of Mr. Scott’s strengths as a director, but when his material has skewed too light, too frivolous, the gravity and purpose etched into each one of his meticulous, beautiful images have also helped sink films. He couldn’t make an ironic gesture if he wanted to, or toss off an idea or a shot. Everything counts, even if it shouldn’t. (Such was the case with his and Mr. Crowe’s last collaboration, their 2006 Provençal folly, “A Good Year,” a soufflé made with lead.) Mr. Scott makes the case for his and his new film’s seriousness in its opener, which shows Lucas tossing a match at a man who has been doused with gasoline and then pumping bullets into the burning, screaming figure.

 

This is the match that ignites the story of a criminal overlord who, without mercy or remorse, takes down one human being after another, many of whom, like the addicts he supplied, were as helpless as that burning man. By rights this match should also ignite a tragedy, and you can almost feel Mr. Scott trying to coax the material away from its generic trappings toward something rarefied, something like Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 definitive American story, “The Godfather.” He comes closest to that goal with the suggestion that the lethal pursuit of the American dream is not restricted to one or two families — the Corleones, say, or the Sopranos — but located in a network of warring tribes that help to obscure the larger war of all against all.

 

The America in this film isn’t a melting or even a boiling pot; it’s a bitter object lesson about the logic of market-driven radical individualism, wherein a self-styled Horatio Alger type, thwarted by racial prejudice and born into poverty in North Carolina, grows up to become a powerful captain of the illegal-drug industry. Lucas pulls himself up by his bootstraps, a gun tucked into his belt, and becomes a folk hero (and a pop culture idol) who doles out free turkeys to the very community he helps enslave with narcotics, fear and despair. He gathers his relatives around to help him, modeling himself after the Mafia families with whom he does business. He builds a gang, but only so it can serve his personal desires.

 

The bottom line of what a Frank Lucas does — to people, to neighborhoods — doesn’t make for entertainment. And so, despite Mr. Scott’s talent for trouble and shadows (the cinematographer Harris Savides bleeds all the bright color from this world), he soon loosens his grip on Lucas. He lingers over the garish surfaces and violence, and the exotic locales where Lucas found a steady supply of pure heroin. He quotes “Super Fly,” fires up Bobby Womack, samples Richard M. Nixon and tosses in a pinch of black power rhetoric to mask the rot. He distracts and entertains until the divide between his seriousness of purpose and the false glamour that wafts around American gangsters, and invariably trivializes their brutality, becomes too wide to breach.

 

Like many moviemakers (and watchers), Mr. Scott loves his bad guy too much. And by turning Lucas into a figure who seduces instead of repels, an object of directorial fetishism and a token of black resistance, however hollow, he encourages us to submit as well. Part of this is structural and economic: blood and nihilism are always better sells than misery and hopelessness. Yet there’s also a historical dimension, because when Lucas strolls down a fast-emptying Harlem street after putting a bullet into another man’s head and the camera pulls back for the long view, you are transported into the realm of myth. Once, another gunman, or the director, might have taken direct aim at Lucas. But the world belongs to gangsters now, not cowboys.

New York Times

 

دهه 1960، آمريکا. پذيرفتنش براي هر کسي مشکل بود که فرانک لوکاس-راننده و مباشر سر بزير و ساکت يکي از تبهکاران هارلم- تبديل به بزرگ ترين فروشنده مواد مخدر آمريکا شود. اما زماني که رئيس بر اثر سکته قلبي فوت کرد، تصميم گرفت تا امپراطوري خود را بنا کند. از اين رو همه دلالان مواد مخدر را دور زد و به ويتنام رفت. جايي که مي توانست با کمک دوستي ارتشي، از افراد کومين تانگ هروئين خالص و ارزان خريداري کند. با کمک همين دوست و با استفاده از هواپيماهاي ارتشي مواد را به آمريکا حمل و توزيع کرد. در مدت زماني کوتاه با فروش ارزان مواد خالص تر توانست بازار فروش هروئين را قبضه کند، ولي کمتر کسي از وجود وي خبر داشت. هوشمندي لوکاس باعث شد تا چهره يک مرد خانواده مودب را تا لحظه دستگيري حفظ کند. براي اين کار و حمايت از خودش مبالغ هنگفتي به بزرگان مافيا داد، اما دست تقدير پليسي فساد ناپذير به نام ريچي رابرتز را سر راه وي قرار داد. ريچي رابرتز که در پي ماموريتي مبلغ يک ميليون دلار را کشف و به اداره تسليم کرده بود. با وجود شهرت نيک ريچي، همسرش تقاضاي طلاق کرد و از سوي همکاران نزديکش نيز طرد شد. چون مي توانست بدون اين که روح کسي خبردار شود، اين پول ها را تصاحب کند. ولي ريچي که از سوي مافوق هايش مسئول يافتن روساي باند فروشنده مواد مخدر شده بود، دست از دنبال کردن سر نخ هايش برنداشت. او يقين داشت که مافيا در اين کار دست دارد، اما زماني که دريافت سياه پوستي خوش ظاهر و دور از هر نوع سوءظن همه سر نخ ها را در دست دارد، شگفت زده شد.

در ابتداي دهه 1970، وقتي ارتش آمريکا تصميم به خروج از ويتنام گرفت، لوکاس براي انتقال بزرگ ترين و آخرين محموله مواد به آنجا رفت. ولي ريچي که از طريق خبرچين هايش باخبر شده بود، در آمريکا انتظار بازگشت وي و رسيدن محموله را مي کشيد که درون تابوت هاي سربازان کشته شده جاسازي شده بود. سرانجام ريچي توانست لوکاس را دستگير کند. دادگاه وي را به 70 سال زندان محکوم کرد، ولي همکاري لوکاس با ريچي براي دستگيري بيش از 100 تبهکار بزرگ باعث شد تا چند سال بعد از زندان آزاد شود.

 

كارگردان: رایدلی اسکات
نویسنده: استیون زیلیان بر مبنای مقاله‌ای از مارک یاکوبسون
بازیگران: دنزل واشنگتن، راسل کرو، کوبا گودینگ جونیور، جاش برولین، تد لواین
رنگ: رنگی
ژانر: : تریلر :: درام :: جنایی :
درجه فیلم: R
کشور: ایالات متحده
استودیو: یونیورسال پیکچرز
افتتاحیه: 2 نوامبر 2007
فروش کل: 126
مدت زمان فیلم: 157
امتياز منتقدان از 100: 76
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در آمریکای دهه 70، یک بازرس برای متلاشی کردن امپراطوری مواد مخدر، فرانک لوکاس، که سلطان هرویین در منهتن است و در تابوت‌های سربازان کشته شده در جنگ ویتنام مواد را جاسازی می‌کند به سختی تلاش می‌کند.

حاشيه هاي فيلم: – هزینه تولید فیلم چیزی در حدود 100 میلیون دلار بوده است. – ابتدا قرار بود این فیلم در سال 2004 به کارگردانی آنتوان فوکوآ و با بازی دنزل واشنگتن و بنیسیو دل‌تورو و دانیا رامیرز ساخته شود اما به خاطر نگرانی‌های استودیو درباره بازگشت سرمایه یک ماه پیش از فیلمبرداری متوقف شد. یکی از مشکلات استودیو استخدام نقش‌های مکملی مثل جان سی رایلی و ری لیوتا بود که توسط کارگردان فیلم انجام شده بود و هزینه‌بر بودند. – تری جورج (فیمنامه‌نویس به نام پدر و هتل رواندا) استخدام شد تا فیلمنامه را بازنویسی کند و بودجه آن را به 50 میلیون دلار تقلیل دهد اما حاصل کارش کنار گذاشته شد و استیون زیلیان برای نوشتن نسخه تازه آن استخدام شد. – ریچی رابرتز و فرانک لوکاس واقعی که فیلم براساس ماجراهای واقعی آن‌ها ساخته شده به عنوان مشاور سر صحنه با رایدلی اسکات همکاری می‌کردند. – زمانی هم که قرار بود تری جونز فیلم را بسازد انتخاب‌هایش برای دو نقش اصلی دان چیدل و یواکین فونیکس بودند. – راسل کرو برای این‌که صدایش به ریچی رابرتز اصلی شبیه‌تر شود نوارهای صحبت‌های او را گرفت و رویشان کار کرد. – زمانی که پروژه برای اولین بار متوقف شد دنزل واشنگتن و بنیسیو دل تورو طبق قراردادهایشان که می‌گفت چه فیلم ساخته شود یا نه آن‌ها دستمزدشان را می‌گیرند به ترتیب معادل 20 و 5 میلیون دلار بی کم و کاست دریافت کردند. زمانی که فیلم برای بار دوم به جریان افتاد واشنگتن دوباره 20 میلیون دلار گرفت و در حقیقت جمعا دستمزدش برای این فیلم 40 میلیون دلار بوده است! – دنزل واشنگتن برای نزدیکی به فرانک لوکاس واقعی مدتی را با وی گذراند و پس از پایان فیلمبرداری برایش یک رولزرویس خرید. – در زمان فیلمبرداری در تایلند رایدلی اسکات سیاهی‌لشگرهای زیادی را به خدمت گرفت که بسیاری از آن‌ها برای فرانک لوکاس واقعی در دوره جنگ ویتنام قاچاق می‌کردند. – رایدلی اسکات اولین بار نسخه ابتدایی فیلمنامه زیلیان را پیش از فیلمبرداری «قلمرو بهشت» (2005) خوانده بود و ب آن علاقمند شده بود. او در حین فیلمبرداری «یک سال خوب» (2006) درباره این فیلمنامه با راسل کرو صحبت کرد و این قضیه به همکاری این دو در این فیلم کشید. – ابتدا برایان گازار تهیه‌کننده و رایدلی اسکات کارگردان براد پیت و راسل کرو را برای بازی در نقش ریچی رابرتز نامزد کرده‌ بودند که در نهایت نقش به کرو رسید. – جیمز گاندولفینی یکی از نقش‌های فرعی فیلم را رد کرد.
نظر منتقدان:

• لو لومنيك از نيويورك پست: دنزل واشينگتن در نقش فرانك لوكاس، خيره‌كننده است و درواقع بهترين بازي كارنامه خود را ارايه داده است.
• راجر ابرت از شيكاگو سان‌تايمز: يك داستان جذاب و سرگرم‌كننده،‌ خيلي خوب و روان روايت شده و راسل كرو در اين ميان سهم عمده‌اي دارد.
• كنت توران از لس‌آنجلس تايمز: فيلمي فوق‌العاده خوش‌ساخت و كاملا رضايت‌بخش.
• پيتر تراورس از رولينگ استون: اين فيلم را«صورت زخميِ سياه» يا «پدرخواندهِ هارلم» بناميد يا يك فيلم جهنميِ مهيج. (هارلم محلۀ سياه‌پوستان در شهر نيويورك است.)
• كلوديا پيگ از يواس‌اي تودي: اين فيلم كه براساس داستاني واقعي است، پيچش‌هاي داستاني غافلگير‌كننده‌اي دارد و يك‌راست به پايان سرد و هولناكش ختم مي‌شود. ترديدي نيست كه گنگستر آمريكايي بهترين درامِ جنايي گنگستري امسال است.
• تاد مك‌كارتي از ورايتي: فيلم گاهي جذاب و هيجان‌انگيز است ولي نمي‌توان اين موضوع را انكار كرد كه سرگرم‌كننده و رضايت‌بخش است. موفقيت تجاري بزرگ فيلم نيز قابل پيش‌بيني است. اما گنگستر آمريكايي فيلمي فوق‌العاده و عالي نيست.

ویژه:

فیلم تازه رایدلی اسکات بسیار مورد استتقبال منتقدین و تماشاگران قرار گرفته است. اکثر منتقدین بازی‌های دو بازیگر اصلی را بسیار ستوده‌اند و فیلم را جزو شانس‌های مسلم جوایز اسکار می‌دانند.

 

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نوامبر 4, 2007

Ratatouille 2007

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عنوان: Ratatouille
زمان : 110 Minutes
کشور سازنده: US
سبک: Animation, Comedy

کارگردان: Brad Bird

هنرپیشگان: Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, Lou RomanoBrian Dennehy, Peter Sohn

درجه بندی : G (Suitable for Children

خلاصه داستان :

The moral of “Ratatouille” is delivered by a critic: a gaunt, unsmiling fellow named Anton Ego who composes his acidic notices in a coffin-shaped room and who speaks in the parched baritone of Peter O’Toole. “Not everyone can be a great artist,” Mr. Ego muses. “But a great artist can come from anywhere.” Quite so. Written and directed by Brad Bird and displaying the usual meticulousness associated with the Pixar brand, “Ratatouille” is a nearly flawless piece of popular art, as well as one of the most persuasive portraits of an artist ever committed to film. It provides the kind of deep, transporting pleasure, at once simple and sophisticated, that movies at their best have always promised. Its sensibility, implicit in Mr. Ego’s aphorism, is both exuberantly democratic and unabashedly elitist, defending good taste and aesthetic accomplishment not as snobbish entitlements but as universal ideals. Like “The Incredibles,” Mr. Bird’s earlier film for Pixar, “Ratatouille” celebrates the passionate, sometimes aggressive pursuit of excellence, an impulse it also exemplifies. — A. O. Scott, The New York Times

 

 رمي، موشي است که به همراه ديگر موش ها در زير شيرواني خانه اي در حومه پاريس زندگي مي کند. او داراي شامه اي بسيار قوي است و بر خلاف ديگر موش ها علاقه چنداني به خوردن زباله ها ندارد. چون رمي بعد از ديدن برنامه تلويزيوني گوستو، معروف ترين سر آشپز پاريسي و خواندن کتاب او به لذت آشپزي و غذاي سالم پي برده است. تا اين که شب در پي حادثه اي صاحب خانه به وجود موش ها پي برده و قصد جان آنها را مي کند. رمي و ديگران پگا به فرار مي گذارند. اما در ميانه راه رمي از بقيه جدا افتاده و زماني که از گنداب رو خارج مي شود، خود را در برابر رستوران معروف ترين سر آشپز پاريس –که به تازگي فوت کرده- مي بيند. ورود رمي به آشپزخانه با آمدن جوانکي که نامه اي از گوستو دارد، همزمان مي شود. او به کار نياز دارد، اما سر رشته چنداني از آشپزي ندارد. از طرف ديگر رمي به هر قيمتي شده مي خواهد آشپزي کند. تا اين که حادثه اي اين دو را سر راه هم قرار مي دهد. اين دو با هم متحد مي شوند تا شغلي در آشپزخانه گوستو داشته باشند، اما اسکينر-سر آشپز فعلي- که تصور مي کند گوستو وارثي از خود به جاي نگذاشته، نقشه هايي در سر دارد تا ميراث وي را تصاحب کند. اما فقط اين خطر نيست که آينده آشپز جوان و رمي و طبعاً رستوران گوستو را تهديد مي کند. خطر بزرگ شخصي به نام آنتون اگو-منتقد غذا و نويسنده راهنماي رستوران ها- است که تصميم گرفته با ندادن امتياز لازم به کار رستوران گوستو براي ابد خاتمه دهد…

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نوامبر 3, 2007

30 روز از شب [30Days of Night : 2007]

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30Days of Night

کارگردان: David Slade
هنرپیشه گان: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston, Ben Foster, Mark Boone, Jr.
درجه بندی : R for strong horror violence and language

خلاصه داستان :

Adapted by the director David Slade from Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith’s graphic novel about vampires taking over an Alaska town, “30 Days of Night” is a series of gory set pieces that seems to have been edited with a meat ax. A major early transition is so clumsy that you may assume that the projectionist accidentally skipped a reel. No such luck: it’s a style thing. After an intriguingly subdued opening section — which introduces the inhabitants of a town above the Arctic Circle that’s shrouded in darkness for one month a year — the movie crosscuts between the schemes of a predictably effete, nasty vampire horde (Eurotrash nightclub-crawler outfits, subtitled dialogue) and the besieged citizenry’s attempts to hide and fight. Mr. Slade’s cast is solid. But the performers have little to do besides spill and drink blood in this tedious, inconsequential B picture. — Matt Zoller Seitz, The New York Times

Title: 30 Days of Night
Running Time: 113 Minutes
Country: US
Genre: Horror, Suspense/Thriller

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* Children of the Night
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اره 4 [Saw IV 2007]

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Saw4

عنوان: Saw IV
زمان نمایش: 92 Minutes
کشور سازنده : US

سبک : Horror, Suspense/Thriller

کارگردان : Darren Lynn Bousman
هنرپیشه گان: Tobin Bell,
درجه بندی : R (for sequences of grisly bloody violence and torture throughout, and for language)

خلاصه داستان :

Over the course of two sequels, the “Saw” franchise took a novel, if distasteful, idea and basically tortured it to death. While the clever, low-budget execution of the original’s Darwinian premise — kill or be killed — commands a queasy respect, its creators, James Wan and Leigh Whannell, should have rejoiced in their unexpected success and moved on.

The marketplace, however, had other plans, spawning a host of imitators and now “Saw IV,” bloody proof that Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) may be dead, but his well of corporeal abuses has yet to run dry. Opening with an unwarranted shot of Jigsaw’s genitals — laid out, like the rest of him, on a mortuary slab — the movie wastes no time plunging us into his autopsy.

“He’s seen better days,” mutters a technician, and I would have to agree.

Unfortunately, death is only a minor obstacle to Jigsaw, whose flayed stomach coughs up his trademark tape-recorded guide to dank dungeons and moldy motel rooms filled with elaborately trussed victims. Appearing frequently in flashback — as, Lord help us, an expectant father — Mr. Bell is more visible in this episode, mask-free and enjoying the opportunity to flex his thespian muscles.

Less enthusiastic, however, is the “Gilmore Girls” alumnus Scott Patterson, who, as the onetime proprietor of Luke’s Diner and now a hapless F.B.I. profiler, can only be wondering why his eatery ever had to close.

“Saw IV” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Imagine every conceivable form of torture, then add the inconceivable

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