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ruben
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You may be feeling me too much writing at RFF after several months of quiet shooting. I must reveal that besides my renewed interest, I am grounded at home due to a small surgery that keeps me in. So I am having a lot of free fime for TV, and I would like to comment about a recent made movie that ligthened some spark in my mind: Appaloosa.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800308/
In the short pre TV always chastrating description of the film it was written (You judge how much these descriptions can be circumsitive -invented just now by me out of the word "circumcision") That it brought a cheap short resume blah, blah ... and played by Viggo Mortensen and Rene Zellweger.
They omitted the most important actor and director there: Ed Harris. Not to speak about the omission of Jeremy Irons. Ok here is just Israel, the country where people do not know to form a line up while waiting for a bus.
However, since I am always curious about performances by Rene Zellweger, I went to look the film, despite it was announced too it is a Western one.
Another spaghetti western ? Who in hell has the strength, not just to view, but to even make another Western. Is anything new after Kid & Cassidy, Charles Bronson, and Clint Eastwood and the Ugly too ?
So it was only my interest in Ms Zellweger sweetness that prompted me to indulge in another macho Western film. But What A Surprise I Got !!!!
True, it is not a crushing generetion landmark, but the silly story is portrayed so well, the athmosphere, the tension, the acting, the pernoalities build up - so good, that is seems not only Ed Harris has opened a new path as film director and actor of fine movies, like Clint Eastwood - but the main thing is that at some point you do find yourself you are seeing another Western, but with such a master touch that it becomes a real delight, and I will include it in the films I hope one day I will be able to see again in a real cinema, paying money for a second view.
Therefore, if in the cinema Art field, nothing is completely dead but always depends on how it is done, isn't this fact telling us something about traditional photographic genres, like Street Photography or/and The Human Condition, that our own tiredness lead us some times to feel they are passe and no one is giving a damn for them but only those involved in?
Don't worry in a few days I am supposed to be out, and less pressing here.
Cheers,
Ruben
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800308/
In the short pre TV always chastrating description of the film it was written (You judge how much these descriptions can be circumsitive -invented just now by me out of the word "circumcision") That it brought a cheap short resume blah, blah ... and played by Viggo Mortensen and Rene Zellweger.
They omitted the most important actor and director there: Ed Harris. Not to speak about the omission of Jeremy Irons. Ok here is just Israel, the country where people do not know to form a line up while waiting for a bus.
However, since I am always curious about performances by Rene Zellweger, I went to look the film, despite it was announced too it is a Western one.
Another spaghetti western ? Who in hell has the strength, not just to view, but to even make another Western. Is anything new after Kid & Cassidy, Charles Bronson, and Clint Eastwood and the Ugly too ?
So it was only my interest in Ms Zellweger sweetness that prompted me to indulge in another macho Western film. But What A Surprise I Got !!!!
True, it is not a crushing generetion landmark, but the silly story is portrayed so well, the athmosphere, the tension, the acting, the pernoalities build up - so good, that is seems not only Ed Harris has opened a new path as film director and actor of fine movies, like Clint Eastwood - but the main thing is that at some point you do find yourself you are seeing another Western, but with such a master touch that it becomes a real delight, and I will include it in the films I hope one day I will be able to see again in a real cinema, paying money for a second view.
Therefore, if in the cinema Art field, nothing is completely dead but always depends on how it is done, isn't this fact telling us something about traditional photographic genres, like Street Photography or/and The Human Condition, that our own tiredness lead us some times to feel they are passe and no one is giving a damn for them but only those involved in?
Don't worry in a few days I am supposed to be out, and less pressing here.
Cheers,
Ruben
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