jueves, noviembre 16, 2006

HOY --de latir, mi corazon se ha parado



hoy se estrena, x fin, justo con Scorsese, lo que quizas es la mejor pelicula del año. La más intensa, rara, arbitraria, jugada ty triste. Una cinta donde todo se centr en el personaje principal. De battre mon coeur s’est arreté se llama en frances, aqui llego como El latido de mi corazón, en ingles terminó como The Beat My Heart Skipped y en españa le colocaron un nombre que, de solo leerlo, te dan ganas de llorar: DE LATIR, MI CORAZON SE HA PARDO



el director es Jacques Audiard, la cinta es un remake de Fingers de James Toback con Harvey Keitel joven, y nada-- curioso el cine francés: como una industria tan anquilosada puede, de vez en cdo, quizas por eso mismo, lanzar joyas como esta. Me hubiera encantado q la cinta la hubiera dirigido Olivier Assayas xq es media Assayas. Romain Duris, que antes era una suerte de galan, crea un personaje a la altura de Travis Bickle



la cinta se estrena hoy en Santiago, en pocos cines, con mucha competencia. VEANLA.



No se cuantas puta estrellas de colocaran pero si se trata de estrellas, esta tiene CINCO y te deja estrellado, triste y con una angustia que te dura un par de días.
enco: Romaní Duris (Tom)


jueves, noviembre 09, 2006

SCRAMBLED BEER---- Malta en ingles



MALTA CON HUEVO--- coming soon
en ingles, se llamará (o se llama, a partir de hoy) SCRAMBLED BEER, es decir, CERVEZA REVUELTA

Malta con huevo (2007) (post-production)
... aka Scrambled Beer (International: English title)


Also Known As:
Scrambled Beer (International: English title)
Runtime: Chile:88 min
Country: Chile
Language: Spanish
Color: Color

lunes, noviembre 06, 2006

NADIE SABE NADA---las lecciones de BORAT



El cine es una industria, sin dudas. Entre otras cosas xq cuesta dinero hacer las peliculas y mas dinero distribuirlas, publicitarlas, etc. Pero tb es un arte (nada nuevo ahi). O sea, se tiene q fusionar, por decirlo de una manera torpe, la intuición con la planilla Excel. Esta hermandad es delicada. Cada vez más se insiste en que se puede predecir lo que pasará con una película o, peor aún, que hay fórmulas para "defender" o "proteger" una pelicula. No creo. Si existiera una fórmula, todo el mundo la usaría. Tampoco se puede "crear" un éxito.

El caso de BORAT es fascinante y la película será recordada x años por decenas de motivos, partiendo por lo inteligente y cómica que es, hasta la ineptitud de la FOX para manejar la joya q nunca entendio tenía en sus manos. Basicamente, por ser tan "rara" (BORAT es una comedia cruda para adultos, q tiene algo de documental y mucho de sátira, sin actores conocidos, etc) decidieron "festivalearla", partiendo por Toronto hasta pasando por Varsovia (donde la vi). BORAT mató. Salas llenas, histeria colectiva, risas imparables y, de yapa, estupenda crítica hasta de los críticos más duros.

Fox entonces, confiada, optó por abrirla en 2 mil salas americanas. Hasta q algunos "expertos" comenzaron a dudar. No podía ser que BORAT pudiera ser un éxito pues no se parece a nada, no hay estadísticas q la apoyan. Fox se asustó y para estar más seguro, comenzó a hacer encuestas y focus groups. Resultado? La America profunda, la vota x Bush, no sabían de la existencia de Borat y aquellos a que se la mostaron, les parecio cómica pero rara. En resumen, FOX se asustó y optó por no estrenarla en 2 mil salas sino en 800 en caso q todo fuera un fracaso. Quizas BORAT era solo algo para "gente q va a festivales".

Pues la semana pasada se estrenó y fue número uno. Los 12 millones que esperaba Fox sumaron 26. Pero lo más impresionante es q hizo esa cifra en 837 salas, lo q da un promedio de US$31.500 x sala. La cinta q los expertos pensaron iba a matar, una franqucia ligada a Santa Claus, sumó 20 millones,pero en 3458 salas, o sea, el tarado de Tim Allen hizo 5700 dólares x sala (casi 5 veces menos). Fox ahora "decidió" ampliar la cantidad de salas donde se está exhibiendo BORAT.

Moraleja? A veces es bueno dejarse llevar x los instinctos y no todo es focus groups o encuestas.


'Borat' Make Benefit for Box Office

Theater owners and 20th Century Fox discovered over the weekend that Santa Claus doesn't come from the North Pole but from Kazakhstan, that he doesn't wear a beard but a mustache, and that his name is not really Tim Allen but Sacha Baron Cohen. Cohen's Borat rang up an estimated $26.1 million at the box office despite playing in just 837 theaters -- that's $31,500 in each theater. By contrast Allen's The Santa Clause 3, which finished in second place, took in $20 million on 3,458 screens -- or $5,780 per screen. Most analysts -- and tracking surveys -- had predicted that the Disney film would be the big winner at the box office. Some industry observers questioned the wisdom of Fox's decision to cut back on the number of theaters showing Borat following poor tracking surveys. In an interview with today's (Monday) Los Angeles Times, Borat producer Jay Roach commented, "It's amazing that tracking is so important to the industry when it's frequently way off." The movie faces weak competition next week when it is scheduled to expand. Meanwhile, the animated Flushed Away performed better than expected, placing third with about $19.1 million and giving Aardman Animation its biggest opening ever.



For 'Borat,' a glorious open
The mock doc packs its few venues, besting 'Santa Clause 3' and possibly setting a trend.

By Josh Friedman, Times Staff Writer
November 6, 2006

Americans turned out in force to see "Borat," the long-awaited mock documentary starring Sacha Baron Cohen as a boorish Kazakh journalist who offends everyone in sight while touring the U.S. seeking cultural enlightenment and Pamela Anderson.

As the wacky Borat himself might say: Why not? They like!

The movie topped the weekend box office with record-setting ticket sales of $26.4 million in the U.S. and Canada at only 837 theaters, according to estimates Sunday from 20th Century Fox.

"Borat" broke the box-office record for a movie opening at fewer than 1,000 locations. It bested Michael Moore's documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11," which opened at $23.9 million in 2004.

"It was like a rock concert atmosphere — pandemonium," said "Borat" producer Jay Roach, who attended three sold-out shows in Hollywood and West L.A. on Friday night.

"During the naked wrestling scene, people were thrashing around and laughing so hard they couldn't breathe," he said.

Walt Disney Co.'s "The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause," which most prerelease consumer surveys had indicated would finish first, came in at No. 2 with an estimated gross of $20 million.

The huge haul for "Borat" was especially surprising given Fox's recent decision to sharply scale back the release in response to surveys showing limited awareness of the film.

The R-rated movie, whose full title is "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan," averaged $31,511 per theater.

So-called tracking surveys had pointed to an opening in the $15-million range. But they failed to capture the intensity of the "Borat" phenomenon stoked by enthusiastic screening audiences and a carefully scripted publicity campaign that started in the spring, Roach said.

"It's amazing that tracking is so important to the industry when it's frequently way off," Roach said.

"The 'Borat' virus has been out there spreading, but not among the people who answer the surveys," he added.

Since May, Cohen has been appearing only in character as Borat Sagdiyev, and entertainment journalists have obligingly played along with the gag.

During the Cannes Film Festival, they photographed him at the beach in what would become his trademark green thong bikini alongside two models. This fall they followed him from the Kazakh Embassy in Washington to the White House gates, where he tried to invite "Premier George Walter Bush" to a screening.

Though analysts have questioned the relevance of movie critics in today's marketplace, rave reviews clearly gave "Borat" a big boost. The movie has an unusually high 96% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, a website that summarizes critics' opinions.

"Having the acknowledgment of critics helped audiences see the value of taking a chance on something that's so different from what they are used to being fed," said Hutch Parker, Fox's production president.

sábado, noviembre 04, 2006

You Tube--- la pelicula

todo cambia muy rapido...

ademas de los chiste y los videos-tonteras, You Tube crece en forma exponencial.
Ahora, ademas de premieres de cortos y clips y video-arte directo en la red, están empezando a fusionar la literatura (o la industria de los libros, en rigor) con You Tube.

Editoriales y escritores buscan maneras de ilustrar sus libros para promocionarlos.
el comienzo de algo nuevo... "adaptaciones" para la red. Un articulo del LA Times



YouTube video sets stage for novel

A film version of the opening chapter of Michael Connelly's 'Echo Park' is posted on the website to whet readers' appetites.

By Dawn C. Chmielewski
Times Staff Writer

November 4, 2006

Books have long been made into movies. Now, they're heading straight to YouTube.

Author Michael Connelly adapted the first chapter of his new murder mystery, "Echo Park," into a 10-minute film for YouTube and other online video sites in an attempt to attract readers.

Michael Connelly's Echo Park



Harry Bosch, Connelly's dark protagonist who is a detective in the Los Angeles Police Department, made his brooding debut online before "Echo Park" reached bookstores last month. The video, shot for about $10,000, ends with the tagline: "Read what happens next in 'Echo Park.' "

"I do believe this was a tool in getting people excited," said Connelly, a former reporter at The Times. "It was on the Internet, it was on YouTube, before the book was out. It sharpened excitement. So when the book came out, they were ready to buy it. I do know statistically that the first week of sales for 'Echo Park' was the best first week of sales I've had."

Book publishers face the same challenge bedeviling all media: how to compete for attention in an ever-growing entertainment market that includes TV, cable, online social networks, downloadable music and video, podcasts and video games.

The average time Americans spend reading has declined from 117 hours a year in 1999 to about 105 in 2006. Meanwhile, about 172,000 books were published last year — more than 19 new titles published for every hour of every day of every week.

"The author and the publisher realizes there isn't just clutter in the marketplace, there is massive clutter in terms of competing with other books," said Albert N. Greco, senior researcher at the Institute for Publishing Research in New Jersey. "Then, you compete with newspapers and magazines and video games and cable and satellite and music and doing nothing."

Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux was among the first to try YouTube as a way to bring literature to the masses.

In August, it released a video book trailer to coincide with the release of "The Mystery Guest," a memoir from French writer Gregoire Bouillier. Others were soon to follow.

Little, Brown and Co. produced a movie-slick trailer for "Echo Park" as part of an extended promotional campaign that mixes traditional book readings and television appearances with less conventional approaches, like podcasts and downloadable audio clips.

"The philosophy is just to create a movie-releases type of excitement for it," said Anthony Goff, an associate at Little, Brown's audio and digital media group.

Connelly wanted to do more.

He developed a script with Terrill Lee Lankford, a screenwriter whose credits include "Storm Trooper" and "Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers."

They selected a location with special significance — the apartment building where Robert Altman shot the classic film "The Long Goodbye," from the book of the same title by author and screenwriter Raymond Chandler, creator of hard-boiled Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe.

Lankford hired actors Tim Abell, who appeared most recently in "Soldier of God," and Bill Bolender, whose television and movie credits include "The Shawshank Redemption."

Lankford and Connelly hope the online video does more than spur book sales. They hope it will persuade Hollywood studios to bring Bosch to the big screen.

"We're not saying this is studio-level quality, but that piece is about mood, it's about atmospherics. That's what Harry Bosch is about," Lankford said. "It was kind of a steppingstone to say Harry Bosch could exist. We could make a movie of this."

Blue Neon Night: Michael Connelly's Los Angeles

viernes, noviembre 03, 2006

El último clavo del ataud --un adelanto frik de MALTA CON HUEVO

miércoles, noviembre 01, 2006

Dexter---mejor amigo nuevo

solo puedo decir... maestro
gran personaje, gran idea, grandes guiones, notable dirección (sobre todo el piloto) y una sorprendente capacidad para captar algo que está en el aire
cómo sino se explica? cómo se logra que el público televisivo (o aquellos q la bajan x la red) logren conectar con un héroe que es un asesino en serie

una vez mas, la TV está bombardeando el cine
Dexter, la pelicula, se hubiera quedado corta y, sin duda, hubiera tenido que pintar todo con brocha gorda
pero aqui, con tiempo, el personaje de Dexter se va volviendo entrañable



La serie se basó en este libro. Acaba de editarse el segundo y, quizas motivado por la serie, Lindsay lanzará uno nuevo. Si la voz del libro se parece a la voz en off de la serie, entonces puede ser una buena novela pulp. En español tiene un nombre evocador: El pasajero de la muerte

Esto lo escribio el NYT--- en gral, la crítica ha sido en extremo elogiosa con la serie
y me alegro que no hayan tropezado con la tontera q es sobre temas gore o poco constructivos

So He's a Serial Killer? A Guy Needs a Hobby

By SEAN MITCHELL (NYT)

TELEVISION and movies have offered all manner of thrillers about serial killers stalking innocent prey, but ''Dexter'' is a crime drama in which a stalker is the hero. The title character, played by Michael C. Hall (''Six Feet Under''), would appear to be an oxymoron: a sympathetic sociopath.




Sin duda, esa es la gracia. Quince años después de American Psycho, esta serie no es condenada a quemarse en la hoguera sino, más, bien conecta y descubre el asesino en serie (o las compulsiones en serie) q todos tenemos

los creditos de la serie son una clase de abstracción. Ojalá llegue pronto a nuestras pantallas chicas, pero mientras tanto,
ya todos saben como acceder a lo que se está dando en otras partes. No sé si eso es bueno pero es no más.