Archive for August 2012
The Awakening
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Set in London in 1921, Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall), author of the popular book “Seeing Through Ghosts,” has devoted her career to exposing claims of the supernatural as nothing but hoaxes. Haunted by the recent death of her fiancé, she is approached by Robert Mallory (Dominic West) to investigate the recent death of a student at the all-boys boarding school where he teaches. When students at the school report sightings of the young boy’s ghost, she decides to take on the case.
There are some nicely creepy moments, full of intriguing dead ends and plausible accounts. there were some very well done spine tingling moments and scares but then the plot became rather silly and lacking in credibility and the acting was good throughout.
The Awakening’s greatest strength is that it centres on an extremely confident female character, who seems remarkably liberated and independent for the time. Music makes you to be afraid of many facts during the development story, the old graveyard and ruined church used for the story’s setting and the feeling of doomed young love is pretty much a winner whatever way you look at it. Elena is really great!
“Beloved” comes with many deep and true spiritual messages
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Beloved is a dense, complex, hard story that will first touch and then break your heart. Catherine Deneuve and Chiara Mastroianni play mother and daughter (as they are in real life) in a French soap opera of love. In the freewheeling Paris of the ‘60s, young Madeleine (Ludivine Sagnier)—who has gone from selling shoes to sleeping with men for money—falls for a handsome Czech doctor, Jaromil (Rasha Bukvic), who she soon marries and joins in Prague. A baby daughter is born, but Jaromil’s infidelities and the arrival of Russian tanks in Prague lead Madeleine back to France—though the love between them still burns. Thirty years later in London, we follow Madeleine’s daughter, Vera (Chiara Mastroianni), who has fallen in love with a musician (American actor Paul Schneider) who is incapable of devoting himself to her, while her ex (Honoré regular Louis Garrel) still pines for her. Meanwhile in Paris, a re-married Madeleine (Catherine Deneuve) has rekindled her love affair with Jaromil (director Milos Forman, in a rare acting role). Frequent Honoré collaborator Alex Beaupain (LOVE SONGS, DANS PARIS) composed the emotional, César-nominated score for this light-hearted but ultimately moving exploration of the changing nature of relationships. This was the latest film from French writer-director Christophe Honoré (LOVE SONGS, DANS PARIS).
Bill Gates thinks one of the answers to improving health is in the bathroom
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A year ago, his foundation issued a challenge to universities to create a new toilet, launching a worldwide effort to improve sanitation. This week the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that The Institute of Technology won for its work on a self-contained, sun-powered system that recycles water and breaks down human waste into storable energy.
Bob Marley is back in a soul’s journey
By Jenny Alvarez
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Bob Marley’s universal appeal, impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. Marley is the definitive life story of the musician, revolutionary, and legend, from his early days to his rise to international superstardom. Even it has drug content, thematic elements and some violent images you can enjoy this documentary launched in DVD-blu-ray in August 7th
This movie describes life story of Bob Marley from the point of view of many different people who shared his life as well as wonderful film footage of Jamaica and old videos of Bob Marley that most people have never seen and of course it was set to the beautiful soundtrack of his life, his music of peace and struggle, love and war, happiness and sorrow. Even is a little bit long movie, his music and his faith is showed in great detail from many people close to him, including his wife, children, producers and fellow musicians, all lending their voice to unfold Bob’s story. The films compelling portrayal of Marley is told much more through the narrative drama of his life and less through a straight interpretation or celebration of his music. It’s about illuminating Marley’s roots and the trials he faced in his tragically short life. Two thumbs up for this awesome movie!
Mel Stuart, an award-winning documentarian died
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Mel Stuart died Thursday night of cancer at his home in Los Angeles. Stuart was born in New York City in 1928 (he was 83) and his documentaries include “The Making of the President 1960,” for which he won an Emmy, as well as subsequent explorations of the 1964 and 1968 campaigns. Other programs were “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” and the Oscar-nominated “Four Days in November.” “He just finished a documentary about inner city school children in Los Angeles learning to read and recite Shakespeare. He was working literally up until the end,” Madeline Stuart (daughter) said.
Riahanna and Chris Brown are together again?
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The two met up two nights in a row but waited until the early hours of the morning. According to a member of the crew who said Rihanna couldn’t wait to see her “boyfriend”. The two split up three years ago, but spent time together in St. Tropez on the first night.
“Both of their yachts are huge and moored next to each other, out at sea, where they wouldn’t be spotted,” a closed source revealed.
An arrest warrant has been issued for Cuba Gooding Jr.
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New Orleans police say an arrest warrant has been issued for actor Cuba Gooding Jr. after an incident at a Bourbon Street bar. The bartender told officers that Gooding pushed her after she asked him to calm down, and again after she told him he needed to leave and police had been called. Gooding Jr., who became a household name after his Oscar-winning performance in Jerry Maguire, is in New Orleans filming the new Lee Daniels movie “The Butler”, starring Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey and Jane Fonda, among others.
