Mehmete, reaguj!

[Father Jape]

Ja bih samo da se zahvalim clanovima ovog foruma sto su mi otkrili to blago koje je Stoya.
Ima li, braco, boljeg dokaza da Bog postoji, i da, kao sto ona ovjestala znacka u sobi moje babe veli, on cuva Srbe?

[crippled_avenger]

Da citiram jednog Mehovog prijatelja u čijem je životu heroin igrao važnu ulogu - "Zar nismo tu da bismo pomagali jedni druge..."

Inače, kad smo kod Power Musica, slažem se sa Mehom, da to u suštini nije bitno u današnjim okolnstima, nego, eto prosto dobro je da neko ima sve uslove i da posle ne može da se žali...

[Meho Krljic]

na šta misliš ne videh

ne znam, po mom mišljenju je tekst skroz korektan

Ma ni na šta konkretno, nego sam navikao na tvoje žestoke reakcije pa sam i sad očekivao...

[Meho Krljic]

Heh... prevrtljivci.

Activision Blizzard exits PC Gaming Alliance

By Tor Thorsen, GameSpot Posted Apr 14, 2009 3:11 pm PT

Publisher of world's most popular PC MMORPG abruptly leaves Windows-focused organization it helped cofound in February 2008; Capcom, Epic, Microsoft still on board.

With nearly 12 million subscribers worldwide, World of Warcraft is the planet's most popular PC massively multiplayer game. So popular, in fact, that its publisher's parent company, Activision Blizzard, no longer feels the need to be part of the PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA), the pro-Windows gaming organization it helped found just over a year ago.

Once a prominent part of the organization, the Blizzard Entertainment owner is now completely absent from the member's roster on the PC Gaming Alliance site. In response to inquires from GameSpot, PCGA reps confirmed the following statement from president Randy Stude "regarding the Activision situation."

"The PC Gaming Alliance is an industry consortium that relies on membership dues to perform its research," said Stude. "Membership turnover is a fact of life in any industry consortium, [and] particularly so in the current economy. Recently, a few members have decided they cannot justify the budget (membership and staff) required to maintain an active role in the PC Gaming Alliance at this time. However, we have also added several new members yielding a net gain for 2009."

As of press time, Activision Blizzard had not responded to requests for comment as to why it had left the PCGA, which was announced with great fanfare during the 2008 Game Developers Conference. Then, the body was touted as a nonprofit organization dedicated to "driving coordinated marketing and promotion of PC gaming...and creating forums for member companies to cooperate on solutions to challenges facing the PC gaming industry, such as hardware requirements and anti-piracy."

Remaining members of the PCGA include hardware manufacturers AMD, Antec, Dell, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Logitech, and Nvidia. Game publisher, Windows-maker, and Xbox 360 manufacturer Microsoft is also a member, as is PlayStation 3-maker Sony. Despite recent comments expressing skepticism about the PC market, Japanese developer-publisher Capcom remains part of the organization along with self-declared multiplatform developer and middleware-maker Epic Games. Sony DADC, developer of the controversial SecuROM DRM software, is also a member, as is game retailer and Game Informer publisher GameStop.

[crippled_avenger]

Još jedna potvrda da je Stoya sagitašica.

Jutros na Twitteru kaže:

stoya i may have a slightly unhealthy obsession with tesla.
about 8 hours ago from web

[Meho Krljic]

Ohoho... Takaši Šimicu pravi horor igru za Wii!!! Koliko se da utvrditi biće to nešto na tragu filma Ju On... A zvaće se 'Feel'.

[ridiculus]

Wii je postala platforma izbora za sve čudne i opskurne projekte. Čak je i Džejn Džensen nagovestila da razmišlja o pravljenju...avanture (a čega drugog?)
Adventure is NOT dead!!! Long live the adventure!

A što se tiče ActiBliza, nisam iznenađen. Jebiga, svi veliki izdavači su manje-više slični (za kontraprimer pročitati post do kraja). Nintendo cenim zato što ima određenu kontrolu kvaliteta - Mariov klub je još uvek najmisterioznija i najbolja QA ekipa na kugli zemaljskoj. Valve je tu negde, ali njihov doseg je ipak manji.

Baš sam gledao novu Forbes-ovu listu najvećih 2 000 kompanija (Global 2000). Nintendov profit u 2008. je bio oko 2,5 milijarde dolara, a tržišna vrednost oko 41 milijardu (ako se ne varam, 5. japanska kompanija po vrednosti). He, Petar Mur reče jednom da su u Majušnomsoftu razmišljali o kupovini Nintenda pre gotovo 10 godina (ili to, ili pokrenuti sopstveni biznis). Sada bi im trebalo preko 20 milijardi za tako nešto, u odnosu na milijardu-dve tada (nisam više siguran  koja je bila vrednost Nintenda početkom veka). Ipak mi Sega ostaje najdraža od većih izdavača - jedino oni su sposobni da izvrše finansijsko samoubistvo u ime kvaliteta i originalnosti.

Imam fotografiju vođa Seginih internih timova, iz 2001. Jebote, kakva ekipa!!! Ju Suzuki, Tošihiro Nagoši, Tecuja Mizugući, Juđi Naka, Šun Arai... Nisam nostalgičar, ali sumnjam da će se takva grupa ikad više okupiti. Šteta što je Segin upravni sektor bio dijametralno suprotan po talentu i sposobnostima.
Nego, nismo komentarisali kupovinu Eidosa od strane Square Enixa. Da li ćemo gledati Laru Croft u nekom FF-u (ili bar Kingdom Hearts-u)?

[Meho Krljic]

Ma, mislim da je SE kupio Eidos uglavnom iz publikacijsko/ distributivnih razloga, to jest da ne moraju više da se smaraju sa drugim kompanijama kada hoće da publikuju svoje naslove u Evropi. Dobro, spomenuli su kao da su im važni i neki IP-jevi koje Eidos trenutno poseduje, ali sumnjam da ćemo videti neki preterano značajan krosover... Mene više interesuje ovo šuškanje da Eidos radi Thief 4... Mislim, kao i od Deus Ex 3, ne očekujem od te igre mnogo.. ali opet, Thief ne može a da ne zagolica... Thief, Deus Ex i Hitman, tri franšize koje Eidos drži i koje su za moj novac vredne razmišljanja... Square-Enix bi nekako najverovatnije nešto uradio sa ovom poslednjom... videćemo.

[Meho Krljic]

Loše vesti idu u parovima. Pre dva dana sam saznao da moram da počnem da zauzdavam svoj ekstravagantni životni stil, u skladu sa aktuelnom finansijskom krizom & nemaštinom, a sada je i The Pirate Bay u prvostepenoj presudi proglašen krivim za kršenje autorskih prava. Video ovde. Još ne znamo kakve će to posledice imati na našu kolektivnu budućnost ali verovatno je da će biti osetne. Pravni presedani, čak i kad nisu stvarni presedani, su nezgodna stvar... Žalosno mi je...

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It ain't over 'til it's over. Čekamo žalbe.

[crippled_avenger]

New Int'l. Release
Fish Story
Fisshu sutori (Japan)
By RUSSELL EDWARDSRead other reviews about this film

Powered By A Fish Story Film Partners presentation of a Smoke & Dub production. (International sales: CJ Entertainment, Seoul.) Produced by Hitoshi Endo, Yasushi Utagawa. Directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura. Screenplay, Tamio Hayashi, based on a story by Kotaro Isaka.

With: Atsushi Ito, Kora Kengo, Mikako Tabe, Dakaku Hama, Mirai Moriyama, Kenjiro Ishimaru, Nao Omori.
 Music has charms to save planet Earth in "Fish Story," a playful Japanese sci-fi shaggy-dog story. Low-budgeter is set across multiple time periods, which, thanks to near-zero production values, look almost identical, but a strong concept, a rocking main tune and an amusing middle act are all solid bait. Pic tanked on March local release, perhaps indirectly due to the PR overload for big-budget punk-rock laffer "The Shonen Merikensack" though "Fish" is more upscale in its material. Pic could have remake potential for an ambitious producer.
Yarn begins in 2012, with an unnamed man (vet Kenjiro Ishimaru) riding in a wheelchair (equipped with a colostomy bag) through Tokyo's deserted, garbage-strewn streets. After noting a slowly approaching meteorite, the man enters a record store and chastises the proprietor (Nao Omori, "Vibrator") and his only customer for listening to trivial music as the world ends: The store manager is trying to turn his customer on to the forgotten band Gekirin, which pre-punked the Sex Pistols with a seminal song called "Fish Story."

Next sequence jumps back to 1982. Mild-mannered Masaru (Dakaku Hama) is driving around two boorish friends who are hoping to pick up girls. Their conversation turns to music, specifically the aforementioned cult song, which contains a strange silence that is allegedly cursed.

Leapfrogging between frames and tenuously connected events, the script has as its center the 1975 formation of Gekirin and its struggle with a conservative record company. But it's a 2007-set scene on a ferry boat that hilariously resonates: En route to the northern island of Hokkaido, a martial arts-adept waiter (Mirai Moriyama) rescues passengers from hijackers. The episode appears to be completely unconnected with the narrative, but, as it moves from wry and dry to laugh-out-loud funny, one almost doesn't mind.

The final reel puts the movie's events in chronological order and fills in missing details along the way, delightfully making sense of the whole thing.

The audacious script by Tamio Hayashi (who wrote helmer Yoshihiro Nakamura's previous film, "Route 225") revels in its literary, episodic nature and makes no concessions to conventional screenwriting wisdom. Nakamura's direction is functional, only sparingly adorned with stylish flourishes.

Performances are variable. Kora Kengo ("The Summer of Stickleback") impresses as Gekirin vocalist Goro, but Moriyama ("One Million Yen and the Nigamushi Woman") delivers the film's outstanding perf as the ferry waiter, who singlehandedly tackles armed terrorists without dropping a plate.

Musical purists will balk at the idea that Gekirin is made up of legendary musicians or even punks. Still, the oft-repeated title song makes for comfortable listening. Lensing is washed-out, in typical Japanese indie style.

More than one option(Film) Fish
(Tv) Fish
More than one option(Co) Sex Pistols
(Person) Sex Pistols
Camera (color), Takashi Komatsu; editor, Ohata Eisuke; music, Tsugihiko Sasaki; production designer, Tomoharu Nakamae; sound (DTS Stereo), Yasuo Takano. Reviewed at Hong Kong Filmart, March 25, 2009. Running time: 108 MIN.

[Father Jape]

Loše vesti idu u parovima. Pre dva dana sam saznao da moram da počnem da zauzdavam svoj ekstravagantni životni stil, u skladu sa aktuelnom finansijskom krizom & nemaštinom, a sada je i The Pirate Bay u prvostepenoj presudi proglašen krivim za kršenje autorskih prava. Video ovde. Još ne znamo kakve će to posledice imati na našu kolektivnu budućnost ali verovatno je da će biti osetne. Pravni presedani, čak i kad nisu stvarni presedani, su nezgodna stvar... Žalosno mi je...

Nije sve tako crno - clanstvo u Piratskoj stranci je naglo skocilo kao posledica, i sada je peta najveca stranka u Svedskoj ako se ne varam. Nimalo mali silver lajning za takav oblak, rekao bih.

[Meho Krljic]

Zapravo peta u populaciji ispod trideset godina. To je dosta bitna razlika. Imaš na Cutterovom topiku podforum niže detaljnije podatke.

[crippled_avenger]

Mehmete, jel te inspiriše ime  akcije "Očistimo Srbiju" koju je pokrenuo Ministar Dulić? Ako planiraš da postaneš maskirani superheroj, ja bih ti se rado pridružio kao gimpasti sajdkik...

[Meho Krljic]

Čitala mi žena šta si piso povodom toga na Fejsbuku. Možeš ti da budeš Panišer a ja tvoj nerdy sajdkik, ako hoćeš!!!

[crippled_avenger]

Mehmete, da se pohvalim, uprkos raznim teškoćama koje su uključivale akciju koju je morao da pređe Chaos AD i paniku sa nesačuvanim progresom, završio sam 24 THE GAME.

Što se same igre tiče, kapiram da je ona vama iskusnim gejmerima potpuno irelevantna, uostalom i na zaostaloj je konzoli. Međutim, mislim da nije potpuno loša, pa ću na ovom svetom mestu napisati neke laičke opservacije.

Kad je reč o aproprijacijama GTA, SCARFACE je mnogo bolji, međutim 24 nije bez svojih aduta.

Ono u čemu je 24 slab jeste pre svega fizika igra vezana za vožnju kolima. Meni vožnja inače ne ide naročito ali su me GTA i SCARFACE razmazili dočim ovde je fizika vožnje dosta proizvoljna ne samo na nivou upravljanja kolima već i na nivou toga šta se postiže kolikim pritiskanjem gasa i kočenjem, što samo po sebi ne bi bilo problem da nema dosta vozačkih misija.

Isto tako nema mogućnosti za drive by shooting, niti se iz kola može izaći u svakoj situaciji.

Što se pucanja tiče, nišanjenje je klasičan GTA ali su oružja zaista dobro i realistično urađena. Ne samo da se razlikuju po zvuku, nego se i suštinski razlikuju po opcijama vezanim za nišanjenje, preciznosti na različitim daljinama, i dobijaju se dodatni poeni sa headshots. Isto tako i razorna moć oružja varira.

Kad je reč o protivnicima, nisam nailazio na situacije u kojima igra nudi više od tri kombinacije protivnikovog kretanja, i u tom smislu, protivnik nije previše interaktivan i ne reaguje naročito. Međutim, kako priča odmiče, tako i protivnik sve više nosi pancire i koristi zaklon pa onda ta tromost ne smeta previše.

Što se scenografije tiče, ona je recimo odlična. Igra je dosta linearna tako da su ambijenti fino realizovani, protivnike je moguće ubijati kroz staklo što u mnogim shooterima ne može, ima nameštaja koji se lomi, eksplodira i demolira. Enterijeri su bolji od eksterijera.

Igra se u principu igra iz vizure Jack Bauera, ali ima nekih misija koje igraju i Michelle Dessler, Kim Bauer, Chase Edmunds i što je najvažnije Tony Almeida. Moram priznati da je Tony učesnik možda i najzanimljviijih misija, što mi je naročito drago.

Adut igre je svakako i scenario koji je radio scenarista serije Duppy Demetrius. Ima dosta odličnih clipova između, i twistova unutar akcija. Isto tako, dosta vizuelnog stila serije je integrisano sa muzikom Sean Calleryja, split screenovima, izoštravanjem objektiva, zumovima.

Ono što je novina to je da ima dosta nekih logičkih igara i naravno najluđi feature a to je mučenje zarobljenika što je trademark serije i predstavlja najdelikatniji non-shooter deo igre.

Meni je naročito prijalo to što su nivoi puni checkpointa i zaista ne samo da su checkpointi ohrabrujući za igranje nego se svaki checkpoint može i definitivno sačuvati. Meni je takođe prijalo i to što igra ide linearno i svaka akcija je story. Nema meandriranja. Doduše, pošto nisam uvek uspevao da budem preko 90%, ne znam da li bolji igrači mogu da otključaju dodatne nivoe, ali sumnjam.

Mislim da je ova igra u principu uspela da zarobi duh serije i da ga poveže sa svetom gejminga i da joj nađe ekvivalente u do sada poznatim formama igranja. Isto tako, mislim da je raznovrsnot aktivnosti u seriji, uprkos akcenta na shootingu, očuvana u igri. Problem je samo u tome što se na samim detaljima unutar igre nije radilo više već je realizacija nekih već savladanih na cash-in nivou. Ipak, mislim da se 24 svakako nalazi među osmišljenijim tie-in igrama.

[Meho Krljic]

Ne znam da li sam ti se ikad poverio da nisam u životu pogledao ni jednu jedinu epizodu serije 24?

[Meho Krljic]

Inače, čini mi se da mi je neko ovde pre neki dan tražio nastavke Staglianovog filma Fashionistas. Dok ovo kucam oni se skidaju, pa tako... kome treba (fizički ili u formi RS linkova) nek se javi.

[crippled_avenger]

Meni su potrebni fizički. Pa ti sad vidi...

[Meho Krljic]

Zadovoljiću te kako samo muškarac muškarca može da zadovolji (fizički).

[crippled_avenger]

An all star cast of British talent have signed on to "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll", Mat Whitecross' biopic of punk legend Ian Dury reports Variety.

Naomie Harris ("Pirates of the Caribbean"), Ray Winstone ("The Departed"), Olivia Williams ("The Sixth Sense"), Noel Clarke (TV's "Doctor Who"), Toby Jones ("Infamous"), MacKenzie Crook ("Pirates of the Caribbean") and Bill Milner ("Son of Rambow") will join "Lord of the Rings" star Andy Serkis who will play the polio-afflicted frontman in the film.

Arthur Darvill, James Jagger, Tom Hughes, Shakraj Soornack, Clifford Samuel and Joe Kennedy are also set to play Dury's band members the Blockheads.

Paul Viragh penned the script, Damian Jones is producing and shooting kicks off May 3rd in London.

[crippled_avenger]

Mehmete, šta kažeš na ovo, srpski SABOTAGE?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBeSK7YdO1o

[crippled_avenger]

Hits Daily Double via The Playlist report that negotiations are underway to bring in Brett Ratner as director of the proposed Milli Vanilli movie for Universal.

The project was announced two years ago and will follows the story of one producer and two lip-syncing male models who sold millions of records and won a Grammy before their scam was revealed.

Ratner and his "Rush Hour" scribe Jeff Nathanson would re-team on the project which is being produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Kim Marlowe.

[Meho Krljic]

Mehmete, šta kažeš na ovo, srpski SABOTAGE?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBeSK7YdO1o

     

Dovoljno je citirati komentare sa JuTjuba:

to je najbolja pjesma ikada..IKADA

Strahotna pesen xexe ))
pozz from Bulgaria

cooolish pjesma... ratata pucam v nebo, budala sebe sam trebu ))

super pesma extra je

[crippled_avenger]

In one of the worst kept surprises of this year's Sundance Film Festival, director Steven Soderbergh took the stage at the Eccles Center in Park City tonight for a special event. It was advertised as "An Evening with Steven Soderbergh," but we knew the score. He was there to show us a work in progress cut of his latest film The Girlfriend Experience. The film has already received a ton of buzz online thanks to the casting of famous porn star Sasha Grey in the lead role. Grey plays a high class call girl whose unique perspective on the world of prostitution as well as the current economic crisis are the focus of the film. Soderbergh also has folks talking about this project in relation to his previous work on Bubble. Like Bubble, much of the film's dialog is improvised and its entire cast, save for Grey in this case, has absolutely no experience on camera. It is an ambitious project, to say the least. But if I remember correctly, Bubble didn't work out so well.

And while it nearly impossible for me to write a full review of The Girlfriend Experience, as we were shown a very rough cut of the film, I will say that even in its current state it is leaps and bounds better than Bubble. This time around Soderbergh has captured some truly stunning visuals and has delivered a non-linear narrative that is both engaging and not overly complicated. Sasha Grey's performance is also a surprise. She does her best to bust up the stigma of being a porn star in a "real movie" by delivering in the film's most emotional moment. As for the rest of the film, it would appear that Grey is more expertly cast than in possession of some great acting talent. She gives her character a steely outer shell, then allows the shell to break away as more about her personal life is revealed.

As I mentioned above, we can't count this as an official review of The Girlfriend Experience, which should hit theaters in its finished form sometime later this year. What I will say is that I really enjoyed what I saw. It was sexy, compelling and visually interesting. More importantly, Steven Soderbergh continues to make strides in the right direction with this very experimental method of filmmaking. It has me excited to see where he's going to go with it next.

[Meho Krljic]

Soderberg postaje američka verzija Želimira Žilnika... u kombinaciji sa Mladenom Đorđevićem. Rispekt. Doduše, kako je započeo filmom koji je već naginjao na tu stranu, ovo i ne treba da iznenađuje.

Also, Sasha Grey, mmmm...

Mada poslednjih dana zatičem sebe kako često pomislim "Ako postoji savršena žena, ona mora da je Sunny Jay." Valjda me je osvojila njena jednostavnost.



(Nije bilo lako naći sliku na kojoj je obučena.)

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Sasha Grey's performance is also a surprise

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[DušMan]

HOLY SHIT!
Meho je izašao u jutrošnjem broju Amejzing Spajdermena.

[crippled_avenger]

http://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/viewtopic.php?p=184217#184217

[Ghoul]

poslednjih dana zatičem sebe kako često pomislim "Ako postoji savršena žena, ona mora da je Sunny Jay." Valjda me je osvojila njena jednostavnost.

jebote, meho, ova tvoja 'savršena žena' izgleda kao neki ne baš uspešno sex-changovani muškarac! poglej samo tu njušku!  

[Meho Krljic]

http://www.znaksagite.com/diskusije/viewtopic.php?p=184217#184217

Video, reagovo.

jebote, meho, ova tvoja 'savršena žena' izgleda kao neki ne baš uspešno sex-changovani muškarac! poglej samo tu njušku!

Ponovo se pokazuje da su najbolje žene za pravog muškarca - drugi muškarci. Meni je Sunny Jay predivna, ma kog pola originalno bila.

[Meho Krljic]

Uostalom meni je bitnije šta se da videti U ženi nego NA ženi, if ju keč maj drift (i, ne, ovo nije nikakva ginekološka ili gastroenterološka aluzija mada priznajem da su i te dimenzije bitne). Recimo, Dominique Saint Claire, u nju sam platonski zaljubljen praktično najveći deo života a siguran sam da na slikama koje ću sad okačiti tebi neće delovati impresivno:

[Ghoul]

Recimo, Dominique Saint Claire, u nju sam platonski zaljubljen praktično najveći deo života

znao sam da se pališ na svetice, ali ovo je previše!

[Meho Krljic]

Ušla je u moj život kad sam bio u osetljivoj dobi... i zauvek ostala u mom srcu. Kada bih danas mogao da je fizički pronađem voleo bih da joj objasnim koliko je uticala na moj razvoj.

[Ghoul]

mislim da je sudbina većine značajnih žena u životima velikih ljudi da nikada ne saznaju koliko su im zaista značile.

[crippled_avenger]

LONDON -- Ocean Films has acquired helmer Kore-eda Hirokazu's "Air Doll" ("Kuki ningyu") from Fortissimo Films for all rights in France.
Currently in post-production, "Air Doll" is based on Japanese graphic novel "The Pneumatic Figure of a Girl" about a life-size blow-up doll that develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.

Pic, which screens in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, stars Bae Doona, Arata, Itao Itsuji, Yo Kimiko and Odagiri Joe.

Deal was brokered between Fortissimo's Michael J. Werner and Ocean Films' Eric Heumann.

Fortissimo is handling worldwide sales on the pic.

[crippled_avenger]

Ako je do sad Kina imala opravdanja da ne napada Tajvan, sada ih više nema...

Taiwan enacts controversial "three strikes" copyright law
Stephen Cremin in Taipei
28 Apr 2009 12:00

 

Taiwan's legislature has passed an amendment to the Copyright Act to authorise a controversial "three strikes and you're out" policy for online intellectual property violations.

Under the new regulations, internet service providers (ISPs) may suspend the accounts of customers who have been accused of downloading copyrighted material more than twice.

In addition, ISPs will be responsible for alerting customers of infringement by e-mail after violations are brought to their attention by copyright holders.

ISPs themselves will be immune from prosecution as long as they did not initiate file transfers and were not aware of the copyright violations. Downloaders themselves will not be individually identified.

Although the music and film industries have been pushing for "three strikes and you're out" policies around the world, Taiwan is one of the first countries to pass such legislation.

The French parliament recently rejected similar proposals and the UK 's intellectual property minister David Lammy rejected such a policy at the weekend.

Taiwan has almost no visible signs of bootlegged videos on the street; the majority of copyright violations take place online. The courts have sent mixed signals. While Ezpeer.com was found not guilty of copyright infringement in 2005, later the same year executives of rival service Kuro received prison sentences in the world's first criminal conviction for operating an internet file-sharing service.

In January this year, the US Trade Representative (USTR) office in Washington removed Taiwan from the Special 301 Watch List of countries that do not sufficiently protect intellectual property rights

[Meho Krljic]

Trebalo bi da ih bombarduju iz orbite.

[crippled_avenger]

Tribeca
The Girlfriend Experience
By RONNIE SCHEIBRead other reviews about this film

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Adult film star Sasha Grey stars in 'The Girlfriend Experience.'

A Magnolia Pictures release and presentation, in association with 2929 Entertainment, of an Extension 765 production. Produced by Gregory Jacobs. Executive producers, Todd Wagner, Marc Cuban. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Screenplay, Brian Koppelman, David Levien.

With: Sasha Grey, Chris Santos, Philip Eytan, Glenn Kenny, Timothy Davis, David Levien, Marc Jacobsen.
 With characteristic eclecticism, Steven Soderbergh follows "Che," his sweeping four-hour epic about a revolutionary hero, with "The Girlfriend Experience," a small-scale, digitally shot 77-minute chamber piece about a high-priced prostitute. Despite the pic's erotic subject matter and star (vet porn diva Sasha Grey), nothing could be less sensationalistic -- or moralistic -- than this fascinating study of free enterprise in free fall. While it may disappoint thrill-seekers, "Girlfriend" should still delight Soderbergh fans and niche auds. Sundance-sneaked (in rough cut) and officially preeming at Tribeca before a May 22 opening, this arthouse gem finds the helmer in top, and truly topical, form.
Pic follows upscale call girl Chelsea (Grey, in an interestingly opaque perf) and her trainer boyfriend Chris (Chris Santos) over five chronologically scrambled days in the weeks before the 2008 election. Set in the trendy, low-lit haunts of New York's high rollers (the venues looking far sleeker and more anonymous than in the bright pastels of "Sex and the City" and other glossy Gotham fantasies), the pic presents a society in which every interaction reps a form of commodity exchange.

Everything is a brand: Chelsea advertises herself on her website, while her apparel designers figure more prominently than her johns in her journal (read in voiceover). Everybody has a get-rich scheme: Chris tries to shop himself around at various gyms and hawks a line of sports clothes on the side, while Chelsea yearns to own a boutique and quizzes her clients about recession-proof investments.

Soderbergh's complex, never-gimmicky shuffling of time subtly fragments the narrative to reveal the characters' untoward depths of self-delusion. Sometimes the irony proves less subtle, as in Chelsea's back-room encounter with the Erotic Connoisseur, a super-sleazy porn reviewer (portrayed convincingly by former Premiere critic Glenn Kenny) who mercilessly disses her charms in cyberspace, the narration of his review counterpointed by street muscians' rousing rendition of "Everyone's a Critic."

Like Godard, Soderbergh views prostitution as the ultimate paradigm for capitalism. But where Godard saw the hooker as a tragic or exploited victim ("My Life to Live," "Two or Three Things I Know About Her"), Soderbergh suggests there are no victims, only failed traders, in the post-Reagan era of DIY capitalism. Subverting the helmer's own megabuck "Ocean's" franchise, "Girlfriend" exposes the downside to those films' shiny, expensive stars and money-snatching thrills ("Ocean's Thirteen" was penned by "Girlfriend" scripters Brian Koppelman and David Levien).

Furthermore, in contrast to "Bubble," Soderbergh's earlier HD experiment with an other-end-of-the-telescope dissection of lower-class specimens, the helmer here wields total control of the pic's uniquely detached, seriocomic tone. The nervous hype of a group of hedge-fund managers, who insist on treating Chris to a private-jet weekend in Vegas, seems organically connected to the handheld camera swinging wildly from one partygoer to the next.

Chelsea, meanwhile, is a creature of cool surfaces and static interiors, ensconced in tony galleries, pricey restaurants and luxurious hotel rooms as she delivers the full "girlfriend experience" -- complete with thoughtful inquiries about clients' wives and kiddies, informed appreciation of "Man on Wire" and commiseration over the nose-diving economy.

Tech credits mesh faultlessly, as Soderbergh lensed and edited under his usual pseudonyms. Score by Morcheeba's Ross Godfrey hits all the rightly stressful notes.

More than one option(Person) Gregory Jacobs
Art Director, Assistant Director, Associate Producer
(Person) Gregory Jacobs
ADR Editor, Dialogue Editor, Sound Editor
(Person) Gregory Jacobs
Driver, Office Assistant, Production Assistant
(Person) Gregory Jacobs
SongMore than one option(Person) Todd Wagner
Executive Producer
(Person) Todd Wagner
Associate Producer, Executive Producer, Line Producer
(Person) Todd Wagner
ActorMore than one option(Person) Timothy Davis
Actor, Property Master Assistant
(Person) Timothy Davis
More than one option(Tv) Sex and the City
(Film) Sex and the City
Camera (color, HD), Peter Andrews; editor, Mary Ann Bernard; music, Ross Godfrey; art director, Carlos Moore; costume designer, Christopher Peterson; supervising sound editor, Larry Blake; casting, Carmen Cuba. Reviewed at Deluxe, New York, April 13, 2009. (In Tribeca Film Festival -- Spotlight.) Running time: 77 MIN.

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Naked Ambition: An R Rated Look at an X Rated Industry
(Documentary)
By ANDREW BARKERRead other reviews about this film

Powered By A Lantern Lane Entertainment release and production, in association with KHG Documentary Prod. Produced by Charles Holland. Executive producer, Michael Grecco. Directed by Michael Grecco. Written by Charles Holland.

With: Sunny Lane, Joanna Angel, Peter North, Jesse Jane, Jenna Jameson, Matt McMullen.
 A photographer's trip to the AVN Awards occasions a skin-deep portrait of the adult-film world in "Naked Ambition: An R Rated Look at an X Rated Industry," Michael Grecco's account of creating his identically titled book of porn-star portraits. In contrast with Grecco's evocative photos, his film is scattered and platitudinous, skimming the surface of his subjects and betraying his high-art aspirations with a shallow E! aesthetic. Reliable interest in the subject matter should land the film, which opens theatrically May 1, a home on an adventurous cabler, though such a contentious substratum of American culture deserves more thoughtful treatment.
Director Grecco, typically a photojournalist and celebrity portraitist, is introduced setting up shop in a Las Vegas hotel room at the start of the 2007 AVN convention, an annual three-day affair leading up to a televised awards show the film repeatedly invokes as the "Oscars of porn." Inviting up a plethora of porn stars from the convention floor below, Grecco sets about shooting portraits for his coffee-table book, in which he aims to photograph the people, poses and paraphernalia of the industry, all shot in a non-pornographic context.

Unremarked in the docu is the fact that this has been done before, and done well, by Vanity Fair photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, whose Gore Vidal-assisted 2004 book of porn star portraits, "Thinking XXX," and subsequent HBO documentary both bear conspicuous resemblance to Grecco's projects. Lack of conceptual originality aside, his photogs are unique and sometimes genuinely striking, though they gain little from being over-explained as they are here. Grecco does attempt to inject some suspense into the film, mostly contrived, through his quest to procure elusive crossover star Jenna Jameson and Hustler publisher Larry Flynt to sit for portraits, without which, he feels, the series would be incomplete.

Far more interesting than the photographer's struggle to complete his book are his subjects themselves, which run the gamut from charming, well-adjusted  "alt-porn" actress Joanna Angel to sex-doll designer Matt McMullen, who appears to have only recently emerged from a lengthy residence underneath a rock.

Receiving the most screen time is starlet Sunny Lane, a former figure skater and porn newcomer whose discomfiting combination of chipper perkiness and latent sadness seem to suggest a far darker, more complicated story than the film has the patience to pursue.

While it admirably avoids either schoolboyish titters or schoolmarmish prudery, the docu's cheery neutrality comes at the expense of any point of view at all. Which is particularly unfortunate, as such a huge confluence of such deeply strange people -- from cartoonishly lascivious performers to creepy fans and monomaniacal sex-toy artisans -- would seem to invite the kind of serious psychological and anthropological scrutiny Grecco, with his tourist-like enthusiasm, is insufficiently equipped to provide.

Tech contributions are solid, and the relatively brief docu moves along briskly.

Camera (color), Peter Blaha, Kevin Gonzales, Ken Kobre; editor, Jeremy Troy; music, Josef Peters, Jens Funke; music supervisor, Nic Harcourt; associate producer, Troy; line producers, Catherine Eng, Laurie Goldfarb. Reviewed at Laemmle Sunset 5, Los Angeles, April 21, 2009. MPAA Rating: R. Running time: 81 MIN.

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Stih dana za Mehmeta:

I used to be commander in chief of my pimp ship

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Producers John Wells and Don Murphy have optioned the rights to indie comic "The Forgotten" says The Hollywood Reporter.

The comic centers on a man who, no matter what he does or whom he meets, is forgotten five minutes later. While it gives him great power and leeway as far as investigations and problem-solving, it leaves him incredibly alone.

When the son of a long-lost friend is charged wrongly with murder, he uses his powers to get to the bottom of a conspiracy.

The pair along with Claire Polstein and Susan Montford are producing.

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Hm, zanimljivo, nisam čitao taj strip niti sam znao za njega a već oko godinu dana razmišljam o priči sa tom premisom...

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A Wink and a Smile
(Documentary)
By RONNIE SCHEIBRead other reviews about this film

Powered By A First Run Features release of a Golden Echo Films production. Produced by Jack Timmons, Deirdre Allen Timmons. Directed by Deirdre Allen Timmons.

With: Miss Indigo Blue, the Shanghai Pearl, Tamara the Trapeze Lady, the Swedish Housewife, Waxie Moon, Vienna le Rouge, Lily Verlaine, Kitten la Ru, Inga Ingenue, Ernie von Schmaltz, Ultra.
 Highly entertaining docu "A Wink and a Smile" provides an eye-opening lesson in the theory and practice of stripping -- as taught by fan dancer extraordinaire Miss Indigo Blue, headmistress of Seattle's Academy of Burlesque, and illustrated onstage by the city's foremost ecdysiasts, from Inga Ingenue to Ernie von Schmaltz. Alternating between 10 students' behind-the-scenes preparations and a wide range of polished professional acts, complete with critical commentary, helmer Deirdre Allen Timmons never loses sight of burlesque's fundamental playfulness, despite oft-repeated claims of feminine empowerment. "Wink," which opens May 1 at Gotham's Quad Cinema, is an old-fashioned postmodern hoot.
The students interviewed -- who include a tattooed taxidermist, an opera singer and a self-confessed virgin -- praise burlesque's inclusiveness and validation of all body types. Aspiring strippers see their six-week course as a way to overcome everything from bulimia to complacency. Meanwhile, onstage, performance artists of all stripes strut their stuff: Indigo's assistant/fellow artiste, the Shanghai Pearl, flaunts her Asian otherness, period-perfect Vienna Le Rouge elegantly twirls a parasol while coyly unlacing her corset and male ("boylesque") performer Waxie Moon, in handlebar mustache and full bridal regalia, shyly undresses for his wedding night.


More than one option(Co) Echo Films
(Person) Echo Films
Camera (color, HD), Peter Waweru, Marie Joelle Rizk; editors, Deirdre Allen Timmons, Peter Waweru. Reviewed on DVD, New York, April 24, 2009. Running time: 90 MIN.

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Pa ti sad vidi!!!!!!!!!!

[Meho Krljic]

BTW, odgledah juče Wolverinea i iznenađen sam da je to sasvim gledljiv film koji mi je prijao daleko više nego što sam se nadao. Opširnije na UPPS-u u Četvrtak.

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Pazi, ja još nisam gledao ali siguran sam da će biti pristojan film. gavin Hood je ipak ozbiljan čovek ma koliki da je tezgaroš a pčekivanja su mi besramno umanjena...

[Meho Krljic]

Pa, jeste, baš je onako zanatski pristojno odrađeno, plus nema onog za superherojske filmove tako tipičnog odlaska u preterivanje sa kojekakvim supermoćima ili gedžetima koje narušavaju balans, iako ovde gledamo ljude koji kad se potuku sruše celu zgradu. Naravno , 90% toga nema veze sa kanonom ali to mi nije ni malo smetalo jer je konzistentno u okviru filma i ima logiku koja nije ezoterična i nategnuta. Jedino mi se ne dopada šta je napravljeno od Dedpula, ali ajde, nije strašno.

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