Don't forget: October starts tomorrow and with it the festivities here at Cinema Styles. Check in early and until then be careful when traversing barbed wire - especially if there are scarecrows around!
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
MICHAEL CLAYTON
Date Released : 12 October 2007
Quality : DVDRip
Info : www.imdb.com/title/tt0465538
Lihat : Trailer
Starring : Michael O'Keefe, Tom Wilkinson
Genre : Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
MY DEAR ENAMY
Date Released : 25 September 2008
Quality : DVDRip
Info : imdb.com/title/tt1330205
Lihat : Trailer
Starring : Do-yeon Jeon, Jung-woo Ha
Genre : Romance
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Monday, September 28, 2009
CAFE ISOBE
Date Released : 2008
Quality : DVDRip
Info : imdb.com/title/tt1233481
Lihat : Trailer
Starring : Hiroyuki Miyasako, Riisa Naka
Genre : Comedy
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An Absence of Style? Elia Kazan at 100
I was perusing the pages of Wikipedia recently and came upon the birthday of Elia Kazan. He was born on September 7, 1909 making this past September 7th his 100th birthday. The 100s are always pretty big events in the blogosphere but I don't recall reading anything on Kazan on that day. Nothing odd about that, I don't get around the entire blogosphere so I'm sure there were posts written that I missed. It's just that even when I went to the sites that compile the links, such as Greencine Daily or David Hudson's The Auteurs, I still didn't find anything overwhelming. I do remember back in July of 2007 the legions of posts dedicated to Barbara Stanwyck when she turned 100 and every year there are birthday celebrations of the great figures of the cinema from Alfred Hitchcock to Bette Davis. But call out to the blogging world for a hundred year celebration of Kazan and you'll hear nothing but an echo in return.
Why?
We all know Elia Kazan ran afoul of the film community back when he decided to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee, a decision that seemed harmless to his career at the time (hell, one could even say it was helpful in that Oscars and glory followed with On the Waterfront) but a changing attitude towards the committee (dissolved in 1975) and the almost comically ironic fact that a committee investigating things "Un-American" and doing so by enlisting citizens to rat out each other's political preferences is more Soviet than American, decidedly placed Kazan on the wrong side of history. But as others much better at this than me have said, in the end, the guy had a family and wanted to protect his career. That doesn't make him the most courageous man on Earth but it's not a position any of us glass house dwellers are likely to be in anytime soon. But I don't think that's why he doesn't get the red carpet treatment on the movie blogs.
So what is it? Style, or the lack thereof. Kazan has no signature as a director, at least in none of the important cinephile categories of visual style, genre mastery or pacing/editing technique. Seeking out a connecting visual motif between Gentleman's Agreement, A Streetcar Named Desire or America, America is a task doomed to leave the seeker unsatisfied and empty-handed. Seeking out genre mastery will also prove futile: Ford had westerns, Hitchcock suspense, Spielberg adventure/sci-fi but Kazan? Nothing. Well, drama, but that's the standard genre around which all others are built which is to say, to state the obvious, Ford's westerns are dramas too. How about editing or pacing? Howard Hawks and Michael Curtiz come up spades in that area knowing how to race through set-ups and dialogue with ease allowing them to work in all genres, especially Hawks, and stamp their signature on each, but again, Kazan doesn't stand out here either.
No, in the end, Kazan's signature was the ease in which he worked with actors. Pick an Elia Kazan movie out of a hat and it probably has acting nominations and awards to its credit. From A Tree Grows in Brooklyn to On the Waterfront, Kazan movies are known for their performances. Both of those films received Oscars for acting and one of his films, A Streetcar Named Desire, damn near swept the field in 1951 winning all but Best Actor for Marlon Brando's seminal performance as Stanley Kowalski. But winning or being nominated for Oscars makes no difference because even in cases where there were no nominations, such as in the case of Andy Griffith's inexplicable snub for A Face in the Crowd (a film that received not one nomination - not one!) it is generally agreed that when one watches a Kazan movie, one will be treated to some great acting. And acting I have noticed (as Cinema Styles good friend Marilyn Ferdinand has noticed with dancing) isn't much discussed among cinephiles in general. To be sure, actors are discussed, from the aforementioned Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis to Spencer Tracy and Marlon Brando, but when a cinephile writes up a movie or a director's career they want a motif on which to hang their hat, a visual style, an editing technique. It might be accepted that Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw all do a great job in Jaws, but when a cinephile decides (s)he's going to analyze Jaws it's going to come down to Spielberg's cinematographic and editorial decisions more often than focusing on the performances. It is agreed, in other words, that while the performances are good what makes the movie good is Spielberg's decisions on how to show the shark, when to show the shark, how to create tension on the boat, and so forth. The performances are an added bonus.
But consistently eliciting great performances from actors is a talent underestimated in the film world and Elia Kazan did it better than most. Whether working with the stoic actor (Gregory Peck), the theatrical actor (James Dunn), the classical actor (Vivien Leigh), the entertainer/comedian turned actor (Andy Griffith), the new to the medium actor (Eva Marie Saint), the child actor (Peggy Ann Garner), the non-actor (Stathis Giallelis) or the reputation-precedes-him actor (Marlon Brando), Kazan knew how to draw a performance from all of them that was not only great but that didn't stand out in contrast to every other performance in the movie. He produced acting consistency in his movies. He standardized the acting in his movies by bringing the big actors down, the little actors up and the working actors to the fore. It's a cliche I can't stand but it's fitting: He made sure everyone was on the same page. In the end, the best way to describe his talents might be to call him an Ego-Wrangler. He could lasso vanity and insecurity in equal measure and haul them both in.
Elia Kazan died in 2003 and four years prior, in 1999, received an Oscar for a lifetime of achievement. Ten years later his 100th birthday didn't even show up on my radar and I'm sorry for that. I am an actor and know how difficult actors can be for directors. I also know how difficult a bad director can be for an actor. And I know that Elia Kazan's talent with actors is just as important to me as Hitchcock's talent with genre. So Happy Birthday Elia. Sorry it's so late.
SECRET SUNSHINE
Date Released : 17 May 2007
Quality : DVDRip -XviD
Info : imdb.com/title/tt0817225
Lihat : Trailer
Starring : Do-yeon Jeon, Kang-ho S
Genre : Comedy | Drama | Romance
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
OCEAN'S ELEVEN
Date Released : 5 December 2001
Quality : -
Info : imdb.com/title/tt0240772
Lihat : Trailer
Starring : Matt Damon, Brad Pitt
Genre : Comedy | Crime | Thriller
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Berhasilkah mereka merampok kasino tersebut???
Saturday, September 26, 2009
TRANSFORMERS 2: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN
Date Released : 24 June 2009
Quality : BDRip
Info : imdb.com/title/tt1055369
Lihat : Trailer
Starring : Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox
Genre : Action | Advanture | Scifi
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ACTION BOY
Date Released : 28 August 2008
Quality : -
Info : imdb.com/title/tt1441233
Lihat : Trailer
Starring : Sei-Jin Jeun, Jin-Suk K
Genre : Documentary
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DYING BREED
Date Released : 6 November 2008
Quality : DVDRip
Info : imdb.com/title/tt1064744
Run Time : 91 menit
Starring : Nathan Phillips, Leigh Whannell
Genre : Horror | Thriller
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Friday, September 25, 2009
OLD BOY
Date Released : 21 November 2003
Quality : DVDRip
Info : imdb.com/title/tt0364569
Lihat : Trailer
Starring : Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu
Genre : Drama | Mystery | Thriller
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FLAYING BOY
Date Released : 3 December 2004
Quality : -
Info : Good
Lihat : Trailer
Starring : Gye-sang Yun, Min-jung Kim
Genre : Drama
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
SCOOBY-DOO! THE MYSTERY BEGINS
Date Released : 13 September 2009
Quality : DVDRip
Info : imdb.com/title/tt1258157
Lihat : Trailer
Starring : Robbie Amell, Hayley Kiyoko, Kate Melton
Genre : Comedy
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...and then they realized he wasn't the director
Sorry for disappearing this week except at my photo blogs. All shall return to normal by Monday, no need for corporal punishment. And don't forget, October will soon be upon us and you know what that means don't you? That's right, a month-long celebration of industrial safety films! Oh yeah, and just to mix it up a bit I'll throw in some horror posts too. Thanks.
APOCALYPTO
Date Released : 8 December 2006
Quality : DVDRip
Info : imdb.com/title/tt047204
Lihat : Trailer
Starring : Rudy Youngblood, Dalia Hernández, Jonathan B
Genre : Action | Adventure | Drama
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THE ILLUSIONIST
Date Released : 3 March 2007
Quality : DVDRip
Info : imdb.com/title/tt0443543
Lihat : Trailer
Starring : Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel
Genre : Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
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ICE AGE 2 : THE MELTDOWN
Date Released : 29 March 2006
Quality : HDRip
Info : imdb.com/title/tt0438097
Lihat : Trailer
Starring : Ray Romano, John Leguizamo
Genre : Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
BRING IT ON
Date Released : 25 August 2000
Quality : DVDRip
Info : imdb.com/title/tt0204946
Lihat : Trailer
Starring : Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Bradford, Eliza Dushku
Genre : Comedy | Sport
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SUSAHNYA JADI PERAWAN
Date Released : 3 Januari 2008
Kualitas : VCDRip
Info : imdb.com/title/tt1190160
Lihat : Trailer
Pemain : Nova Eliza, Restu Sinaga, Julia Perez
Genre : Komedi, Drama
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
NEXT DAY AIR
Date Released : 8 May 2009
Quality : DVDRip
Info : imdb.com/title/tt109701
Lihat : Trailer
Starring : Donald Faison, Mike Epps
Genre : Action | Comedy | Crime
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BRAVEHEART
Date Released : 24 May 1995
Quality : DVDRip
Info : imdb.com/title/tt0112573
Lihat : Trailer
Starring : Mel Gibson, James Robinson, Sophie Marceau
Genre : Action | Biography | Drama | War
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ICE AGE: SUB ZERO HEROES
Date Released : 15 March 2002
Quality : HDRip
Info : imdb.com/title/tt0268380
Lihat : Trailer
Starring : Ray Romano, Jack Black
Genre : Animation | Family
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