Chicago – The legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami (“Certified Copy”) passed away in 2016, but he left one more meditation on cinema and illusion, in the artistic “24 Frames.” Yes, it refers to the number of still photos that make up a second of film, but in this case it is also Kiarostami’s observations of stillness in motion.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
The 24 short films that make up the collection – each four and a half minutes long – supposedly takes a single frame of imagery and imagines the minutes before, after or around the moment. Kiarostami began this experimentation with notable paintings, as he begins the film with a motion aspect of a Pieter Bruegel masterwork. In the rest of the film, the next 23 “frames,” he used his own photography, and breathed life into those still portraits. This includes such zen notions of nature being observed through windows, or errant animals in places where they shouldn’t be.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
The 24 short films that make up the collection – each four and a half minutes long – supposedly takes a single frame of imagery and imagines the minutes before, after or around the moment. Kiarostami began this experimentation with notable paintings, as he begins the film with a motion aspect of a Pieter Bruegel masterwork. In the rest of the film, the next 23 “frames,” he used his own photography, and breathed life into those still portraits. This includes such zen notions of nature being observed through windows, or errant animals in places where they shouldn’t be.
- 2/11/2018
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Jabberwocky
Blu-ray
Criterion
1977/ 1:85 / 105 Min. / Street Date November 21, 2017
Starring Michael Palin, Harry H. Corbett, John Le Mesurier
Cinematography by Terry Bedford
Written by Charles Alverson, Terry Gilliam
Music by Hector Berlioz, Modest Mussorgsky
Edited by Michael Bradsell
Produced by Sanford Lieberson
Directed by Terry Gilliam
The prospect of Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky directed by Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam promised a brave new world of sophisticated nonsense; The Mad Hatter meets the Ministry of Silly Walks.
Equally appetizing was the thought of illustrator John Tenniel’s hideous creature brought to life by Gilliam, the Python’s premiere visual satirist. But Gilliam, working in a chaotic British climate that saw Harold Wilson being upstaged by the Sex Pistols, had other ideas, exemplified by the film’s title sequence which rolls by over some of Pieter Bruegel’s most unnerving canvasses.
The Dutch artist was no Pollyanna (his most famous painting was...
Blu-ray
Criterion
1977/ 1:85 / 105 Min. / Street Date November 21, 2017
Starring Michael Palin, Harry H. Corbett, John Le Mesurier
Cinematography by Terry Bedford
Written by Charles Alverson, Terry Gilliam
Music by Hector Berlioz, Modest Mussorgsky
Edited by Michael Bradsell
Produced by Sanford Lieberson
Directed by Terry Gilliam
The prospect of Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky directed by Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam promised a brave new world of sophisticated nonsense; The Mad Hatter meets the Ministry of Silly Walks.
Equally appetizing was the thought of illustrator John Tenniel’s hideous creature brought to life by Gilliam, the Python’s premiere visual satirist. But Gilliam, working in a chaotic British climate that saw Harold Wilson being upstaged by the Sex Pistols, had other ideas, exemplified by the film’s title sequence which rolls by over some of Pieter Bruegel’s most unnerving canvasses.
The Dutch artist was no Pollyanna (his most famous painting was...
- 1/9/2018
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
During its brief theatrical release in Los Angeles and New York in May, Full Moon Entertainment's ''The Pit & the Pendulum'' will benefit from director Stuart Gordon's ''Re-Animator'' reputation. But that reputation will not be enhanced by this pitiful film.
The film goes to video in June, where even the dreariest horror film stands a chance.
Little of Edgar Allan Poe's tale, one of the singular most terrifying accounts of mental torture ever composed, remains in Dennis Paoli's unimaginative script.
Paoli's story concerns grand inquisitor Torquemada's (Lance Henriksen) erotic obsession with a young woman Rona De Ricci), whom he has imprisoned, and the valiant efforts of her husband (Jonathan Fuller) to spring her from the dungeons.
The story line serves merely to show off the machinery of pain in Torquemada's chamber of horrors. Humor -- if that's the right word -- stems from the interpolation of mundane and anachronistic phrases -- ''OK, so I'm late for work'' -- into this medieval exotica.
Gordon lets Henriksen mug his way through a cliche-ridden portrayal of villainy. Fuller is rather bland as the damsel's rescuer, whose fighting skills belong more to a martial arts movie.
Though fetching, De Ricci is allowed to do little more than run through the usual catalog of terrified expressions. Frances Bay's elderly witch, unfortunately, sounds at times like the late Ruth Gordon.
Oliver Reed turns up for what appears to be two days' work for a sequence lifted from another Poe tale, ''The Cask of Amontillado.''
The effects and stunts are fine, as is the conventional though atmos-
The effects and stunts are fine, as is the conventional though atmos-pheric set.
The film's use of Pieter Bruegel's ''The Triumph of Death'' in the opening credits suggests a mingling of morbidity and perverse sexuality that the film strives to achieve but doesn't.
THE PIT & THE PENDULUM
JGM Entertainment
Director Stuart Gordon
Producer Albert Band
Executive producer Charles Band
WriterDennis Paoli
Adapted from story by Edgar Allan Poe
Director of photography Adolfo Bartoli
Art director Giovanni Natalucci
Music Richard Band
Editor Andy Horvitch
Costume designer Michela Gisotti
Color/Stereo
Cast:
Torquemada Lance Henriksen
Maria Rona De Ricci
Antonio Jonathan Fuller
Esmeralda Frances Bay
Gomez Stephen Lee
Cardinal Oliver Reed
Dr. Heusos William J. Norris
Mandoza Mark Margolis
Running time -- 97 minutes
MPAA rating: R
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
The film goes to video in June, where even the dreariest horror film stands a chance.
Little of Edgar Allan Poe's tale, one of the singular most terrifying accounts of mental torture ever composed, remains in Dennis Paoli's unimaginative script.
Paoli's story concerns grand inquisitor Torquemada's (Lance Henriksen) erotic obsession with a young woman Rona De Ricci), whom he has imprisoned, and the valiant efforts of her husband (Jonathan Fuller) to spring her from the dungeons.
The story line serves merely to show off the machinery of pain in Torquemada's chamber of horrors. Humor -- if that's the right word -- stems from the interpolation of mundane and anachronistic phrases -- ''OK, so I'm late for work'' -- into this medieval exotica.
Gordon lets Henriksen mug his way through a cliche-ridden portrayal of villainy. Fuller is rather bland as the damsel's rescuer, whose fighting skills belong more to a martial arts movie.
Though fetching, De Ricci is allowed to do little more than run through the usual catalog of terrified expressions. Frances Bay's elderly witch, unfortunately, sounds at times like the late Ruth Gordon.
Oliver Reed turns up for what appears to be two days' work for a sequence lifted from another Poe tale, ''The Cask of Amontillado.''
The effects and stunts are fine, as is the conventional though atmos-
The effects and stunts are fine, as is the conventional though atmos-pheric set.
The film's use of Pieter Bruegel's ''The Triumph of Death'' in the opening credits suggests a mingling of morbidity and perverse sexuality that the film strives to achieve but doesn't.
THE PIT & THE PENDULUM
JGM Entertainment
Director Stuart Gordon
Producer Albert Band
Executive producer Charles Band
WriterDennis Paoli
Adapted from story by Edgar Allan Poe
Director of photography Adolfo Bartoli
Art director Giovanni Natalucci
Music Richard Band
Editor Andy Horvitch
Costume designer Michela Gisotti
Color/Stereo
Cast:
Torquemada Lance Henriksen
Maria Rona De Ricci
Antonio Jonathan Fuller
Esmeralda Frances Bay
Gomez Stephen Lee
Cardinal Oliver Reed
Dr. Heusos William J. Norris
Mandoza Mark Margolis
Running time -- 97 minutes
MPAA rating: R
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
- 5/31/1991
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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