hm, zanimljivo da ni ovaj velikan nema svoj topik, a tek tu i tamo smo nešto malo pominjali njegove masterpisove, usput, rasute po raznim topicima.
to je šteta, on je ozbiljan igrač.
da podsetim,
HAPPINESS:
4+
FILM JE ČISTA GENIJALNOST!
Najsrećniji trenutak u celom filmu je bilo kad sam, nakon sat vremena UŽIVANJA u njemu otkrio da traje 2 sata i 20 minuta! A i to je malo! Mogao bih da gledam 6 sati ovoga, u cugu!
Ovo je NACRNJA, najsurovija komedija koju sam ikada video – toliko surova (emocionalno, ne splateroidno) da se mnogi neće složiti s mojom žanrovskom odrednicom (a čak ni ja se ne slažem sasvim: ovo je bliže TRAGI-KOMEDIJI od svega na filmu što mi je poznato). Više neprijatnih i ponižavajućih trenutaka nego u 2 filma Bena Stilera. A poenta čak i nije u 'gegovima'.
Takva suptilnost, takav smisao za detalje, tako nehumano dobra gluma, takvi dijalozi, takve situacije, takva morbidnost, takav edginess, takva pronicljivost, takvo seciranje likova, takva humanost u svemu tome... PREDIVNO! SAVRŠENO!
Ghoul says: 4+
STORYTELLING = ***(*)
Predivno crna komedija koja to nije (ili jeste? Solondz je, u svakom slučaju, meni humorističkiji od bilo čega što je u poslednje vreme pokušalo da mi se proda kao 'humor' i 'komedija').
Uživanje u svakoj bogovetnoj sekundi, u svakom od desetina likova, u svakoj od stotina genijalnih replika, u tako bogovski genijalnom pronicljivom zapažanju...
PALINDROMES T. Solondz
*** 3
o WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE se izgleda nisam ovde izjašnjavao, ali to je takođe JAK RAD.
a povod svemu ovome - SOLONDZ IMA NOVI FILM, i to ne makar koji, nego svojevrsni SIKVEL ZA SVOJ NAJBOLJI FILM, HAPPINESS!!!
jupi!
a i rivju na to podstiče:
Life During Wartime
By TODD MCCARTHY
A Werc Werk Works production. (International sales: Fortissimo Films, Amsterdam.) Produced by Christine Kunewa Walker, Derrick Tseng. Executive producers, Elizabeth Redleaf, Mike S. Ryan. Co-producers, Ken Bailey, Andrew Peterson. Directed, written by Todd Solondz.
Joy Jordan - Shirley Henderson
Bill Maplewood - Ciaran Hinds
Trish Maplewood - Allison Janney
Harvey Weiner - Michael Lerner
Billy Maplewood - Chris Marquette
Mark Weiner - Rich Pecci
Jacqueline - Charlotte Rampling
Andy - Paul Reubens
Helen Jordan - Ally Sheedy
Timmy Maplewood - Dylan Riley Snyder
Mona Jordan - Renee Taylor
Allen - Michael Kenneth Williams
Wanda - Gaby Hoffman
In revisiting his darkly comic 1998 ensembler "Happiness," Todd Solondz may have made his best film with "Life During Wartime." The distinctive, boundary-pushing writer-director has had the eccentric inspiration to resurrect the same central characters a decade later, but using entirely different actors. Winning result, which reels off one riveting scene after another, stands as both a unique sort-of sequel and a film that requires no prior reference points; it's entirely satisfying either way, though even richer if you recall the antecedent. The resolutely niche filmmaker has never had a real breakout success and the confrontational nature of his latest won't change that fact, but his loyal following will be buoyed by this strong effort.
A rare collection of sexual quagmires and perversions lay at the heart of "Happiness," and a most impressive aspect of the new film is how it so piercingly examines the residue and continuing ramifications of those dilemmas a decade later. Best remembered, no doubt, is the pedophile father, Dylan Baker's Bill Maplewood, a shrink and father of three kids who can't keep his mind or hands off young boys.
At the story's core, however, are the Jordan sisters, Joy, Trish and Helen. Intense opening scenes have Joy (Shirley Henderson, Moaning Myrtle in the "Harry Potter" films) dubiously listening as Allen (Michael Kenneth Williams, "The Wire") urgently insists he's overcome drugs and his overall waywardness ... well, almost. Trish (Allison Janney), now living in Florida, is amazed to find herself responding emotionally and sexually -- presumably for the first time since Bill was carted off -- to a portly, aging but irresistibly nice recent divorced gent, Harvey (Michael Lerner), a secondary character from Solondz's first film, "Welcome to the Dollhouse."
But remembrances of traumas past pose barriers to present happiness. Joy, not inclined to give Allen the benefit of the doubt -- "Once a perv, always a perv," she opines to her mother, Mona (Renee Taylor) -- receives visitations from the ghost of her former suitor, Andy (Paul Reubens), who committed suicide over her and tries to get her to reconsider her opinion of him.
But the most compelling character this time around is Timmy (Dylan Riley Snyder), Trish's second son, who's about to have his bar mitzvah and become, according to Jewish tradition, a man. In this light, he's horrified to learn that his father Bill is not dead, as his mother had told him, but has just been released from prison. Tormented by his schoolmates, he questions Trish tearfully about exactly what pederasts do to boys and whether the behavior is inherited. "I don't want to be a faggot!" he shrieks, while also unable to deal with his mother's deceit.
Quiet and alone, Bill (Ciaran Hinds) is irresistibly drawn to making some sort of contact with his sons, the other being college student Billy (Chris Marquette). At a hotel along the way, he has an extraordinary sexual encounter with a lonely, chillingly blunt woman (Charlotte Rampling), which alone is worth the price of admission; the writing here and the performances by both actors are spellbinding.
Joy's visit to Los Angeles to see her now ragingly successful if impossibly overwrought TV-writer sister Helen (Ally Sheedy) perhaps puts too fine a point on one of the central themes of both "Happiness" and "Life During Wartime," which concerns who people are vs. who they pretend to be. But the interlude is fully justified by a moment in which one character threatens to attack another with an Emmy statuette.
Solondz doesn't shrink from the implications of everything he sets up, as the climactic scenes fully carry through on the emotional provocations of the most intractable problems. Nearly all the resolutions are terribly sad, leaving scars that the filmmaker might care to re-examine in another 10 years' time with still another cast, and yet mostly preordained by the nature of the characters and the ways they've chosen to behave.
Formally, the film is deep-dish pleasure. Vet cinematographer Ed Lachman (using the Red camera system for the first time, and whose past work is saluted in a prominently visible poster for "I'm Not There") enables Solondz to raise his visual game to a new level; the richly colored compositions are as bold as the dialogue. The fact that the production was largely filmed in Puerto Rico will likely amaze even native Floridians, so seamless is the match. Music track selections are surprising and opportune.
The actors come off superbly. Always so good with sassy, somewhat jaundiced characters, Janney shines as a still-attractive middle-aged woman almost too eager to embrace a new beginning, while Lerner, a fine character actor not often given such dimensional roles, matches her with a wonderful performance. Henderson does neurotic very well indeed and flourishes in her across-the-mortal-divide exchanges with the fine Reubens.
But most heart-wrenching of all is young, freckle-faced Snyder, playing a still prepubescent kid forced to cope with the messiest of adult problems and faced with potential psychological issues he can't possibly digest.
For the record, in "Happiness," Joy was played by Jane Adams, Helen by Lara Flynn Boyle, Trish by Cynthia Stevenson, Mona by Louise Lasser, Allen by Philip Seymour Hoffman, Andy by Jon Lovitz and Billy by Rufus Reed.
Camera (Technicolor, HD), Ed Lachman; editor, Kevin Messman; music supervisor, Doug Bernheim; production designer, Roshelle Berliner; art director, Matteo De Cosmo; set decorator, Bonita Huffman; costume designer, Catherine George; sound (Dolby Digital), Heriberto Rosas; supervising sound editor, Eric Offin; associate producer, Mark Steele; assistant director, Stuart Williams; casting, Gayle Keller. Reviewed at Dolby screening room, Burbank, Aug. 31, 2009. (In Venice Film Festival -- competing; Toronto Film Festival -- Special Presentations; Telluride, New York film festivals.) Running time: 98 MIN.
Zaboravio si rani - Fear, Anxiety & Depression.
Quote from: Shozo Hirono on 07-09-2009, 17:38:14
Zaboravio si rani - Fear, Anxiety & Depression.
nisam zaboravio, no ga još nisam odgledo.
na prelistavanje mi baš i nije delovao kao MUST - više ko neki dosadni vudi alen - al pogledaću, kad odlučim...
Gledo sam samo Storytelling i to uopšte nije loše. Radoznao sam da vidim ostale radove, pogotovo taj Happiness, koji je nešto hvaljen.
Ništa od ovoga nisam gledala. :oops:
Ali nameravam...ovaj HAPPINESS zvuči užasno dobro. :D
Hvala Ghoule ! xremyb
Quote from: Ghoul on 07-09-2009, 16:05:03
HAPPINESS:
4+
FILM JE ČISTA GENIJALNOST!
Najsrećniji trenutak u celom filmu je bilo kad sam, nakon sat vremena UŽIVANJA u njemu otkrio da traje 2 sata i 20 minuta! A i to je malo! Mogao bih da gledam 6 sati ovoga, u cugu!
Ovo je NACRNJA, najsurovija komedija koju sam ikada video – toliko surova (emocionalno, ne splateroidno) da se mnogi neće složiti s mojom žanrovskom odrednicom (a čak ni ja se ne slažem sasvim: ovo je bliže TRAGI-KOMEDIJI od svega na filmu što mi je poznato). Više neprijatnih i ponižavajućih trenutaka nego u 2 filma Bena Stilera. A poenta čak i nije u 'gegovima'.
Takva suptilnost, takav smisao za detalje, tako nehumano dobra gluma, takvi dijalozi, takve situacije, takva morbidnost, takav edginess, takva pronicljivost, takvo seciranje likova, takva humanost u svemu tome... PREDIVNO! SAVRŠENO!
Ghoul says: 4+
Odgledala sam HAPPINESS...potpisujem.... sve, osim ocene....stvarno si strog kritičar, Ghoule. Po meni je i čista petica malo za ovakav film..BLOODY HILARIOUS !!!
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Tebi je baš dosadno u životu, a?
Nije, osim kada me smaraju takvi kao ti.....Harvestere, učini mi uslugu i odjebi... xtwak
Buhuhu, sirota mala viljica nam se rasplakala... Brže Ghoule, daj nekoliko riječi utjehe, inače će sva bijesna da napusti forum, što bi bio nenadoknadiv gubitak za isti!
harv, ne rasplinjavaj mi topik svojim plinovima: ako nemaš ništa pametno da kažeš, a ti nemoj.
Topici postoje da bi se rasplinjavali. Svijet bi u suprotnom bio vrlo dosadno mjesto. Sjetimo se samo kako si ti upropastio moj topik o ljubičastoj boji u pričama dr Zorana Živkovića.
opet ga je uhvatila cochino faza.
ništa strašno, proći će ga.
valjda.
E ala si ga objasnila, svaka ti čast! :roll: Još jedan neizmjerno kreativan doprinos topiku o Toddu Solondzu.
Ma nije Acacia Harvester -cochino, nego pacov....a tako se i ponaša...
Btw, super ti je novi avatar. :)
On topic: prijatelj mi je rekao da je pre deset godina (1999, za vreme bombardovanja) HAPPINESS bio prikazivan više puta na B92...Pošto ne gledam tv, nemam pojma dal me zeza ili ne. Gledao neko ?
Ni manje ni više nego pacov? Pa jel to lijepo tako?
priznaj da si samo želela da ga nazoveš pacovom!
ovo OT pitanje je potpuno nepotrebno i providno. :mrgreen:
Harvester@:Pa avatar ti je pacov.... :)
Acacia@: ma stvarno me zanima da li je HAPPINESS prikazivan na teveu...jesi ga ti gledala ?
QuoteHarvester@:Pa avatar ti je pacov....
:P
Taj "pacov" je moja zamorčica!!! I uopšte ne liči na pacova, čak nema ni rep! :cry:
Quote from: vilja on 12-09-2009, 02:51:26
Acacia@: ma stvarno me zanima da li je HAPPINESS prikazivan na teveu...jesi ga ti gledala ?
da, gledala sam ga dva puta do sad, i ponovo ću,
da obnovim gradivo pred sequel.
nije mi jasno kako do sada nisi čula za njega.
zar Ghoul da ti otvara oči?!... :?
Quote from: vilja on 12-09-2009, 02:28:34
On topic: prijatelj mi je rekao da je pre deset godina (1999, za vreme bombardovanja) HAPPINESS bio prikazivan više puta na B92...Pošto ne gledam tv, nemam pojma dal me zeza ili ne. Gledao neko ?
Postojala li je televizija B92 tad uopšte? Meni se sve čini da su oni krenuli da emituju televizijski program petog oktobra.
Quote from: acaciA on 12-09-2009, 03:50:54
Quote from: vilja on 12-09-2009, 02:51:26
Acacia@: ma stvarno me zanima da li je HAPPINESS prikazivan na teveu...jesi ga ti gledala ?
da, gledala sam ga dva puta do sad, i ponovo ću,
da obnovim gradivo pred sequel.
nije mi jasno kako do sada nisi čula za njega.
zar Ghoul da ti otvara oči?!... :?
Eto, desilo se da do sad nisam čula za HAPPINESS....shoot me. :lol:
Ali sam, zahvaljujući ovom Gholovom topiku, ispravila taj ooogroman propust... xremyb
Quote from: acaciA on 12-09-2009, 03:50:54zar Ghoul da ti otvara oči?!... :?
stalno to radim: to mi poso.
Quote from: Dry-Na-Nord on 12-09-2009, 04:10:00
Quote from: vilja on 12-09-2009, 02:28:34
On topic: prijatelj mi je rekao da je pre deset godina (1999, za vreme bombardovanja) HAPPINESS bio prikazivan više puta na B92...Pošto ne gledam tv, nemam pojma dal me zeza ili ne. Gledao neko ?
Postojala li je televizija B92 tad uopšte? Meni se sve čini da su oni krenuli da emituju televizijski program petog oktobra.
Poshto je bio distribuiran od strane Frst Prodakshna, kao i svi njihovi filmovi bio je pushtan ad nauseum na Studiju B, i to onako oko jedan-dva popodne, taman malo Happiness-a za uz ruchak. Tako ga je valjda i 99% ljudi videlo.
A secam se da je, nekada davno, u drugo vreme, Happiness bio ne samo u bioskopima, vec i na repertoaru Takvuda (gde sam ga i gledao).
A ovaj nastavak verovatno ni do festivala kod nas nece stici, kao shto nisu ni Palindromi, njegov mozhda i najmocniji film.
Hvala DNN, to sam u stvari htela da znam...Sad, možda mi je prijatelj i reko da je to gledao na Studiju B ali sam ja nešto pobrkala...očigledno.. :lol:
Le Samourai@: thanks too ( ko mi kriv kad ne gledam tv ) :)
Quote from: Ghoul on 12-09-2009, 04:21:11
Quote from: acaciA on 12-09-2009, 03:50:54zar Ghoul da ti otvara oči?!... :?
stalno to radim: to mi poso.
Kuku. Moramo vilju pod hitno nekako da oslobodimo tvog pogubnog uticaja.
dobro si me podsjetio. iako sam nekako imao u prikrajku da nabavim Solondza, uvijek bi izmigoljilo i našlo se svašta drugo...
da, pogledao sam samo Happiness, dvaput čini mi se. a sad je već prošlo ohoho, pa osim uopćenog stava "izvrsno je", ne mogu nešto jače dodati.
ovako mi se čini da je Short Cuts nijansu jači. možda bi bilo dobro odgledati trojstvo Short Cuts-Happiness-Magnolia, pa razmotriti tko tu odnosi prevagu, ako itko. sva tri filma su vrh...
solondz dobio nagradu u veneciji za scenario:
- OSELLA for Best Screenplay to Todd Solondz for the film LIFE DURING WARTIME.
:-|
Happiness (3/10) Movie CLIP - Park Massacre (1998) HD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnSF6a8YE0U#ws)
Happiness (7/10) Movie CLIP - Prank Call (1998) HD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-3oeveop4o#ws)
Quote from: Ghoul on 13-09-2009, 21:28:45
solondz dobio nagradu u veneciji za scenario:
- OSELLA for Best Screenplay to Todd Solondz for the film LIFE DURING WARTIME.
Јел то случајно или намјерно дијели назив са једном од најбољих пјесама свих времена?
Talking Heads - Life During Wartime (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzORu1dqEE0#)
E sad skrajnuti, nije njegov opus bas za svakoga. Tim pre sto je hiperintelektualan i hiperneurotican u jednom zanru koji se time ne moze pohvaliti. Vudi Alen je drugi predstavnik.
Solondz je tu dje jeste, juzno od mejnstrima i to je sasvim ok.
Happiness je cudo od filma, a pogledala jos Palindromes, Dollhouse i Dark Horse.