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DVD Review Of Ulysses’ Gaze

Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos’s 1995 film Ulysses’ Gaze ( To Vlemma Tou Odyssea ) is the first of that director’s four films that I have seen that is not unequivocally a great work of art. Yes, there are arguments that can be made in favor of that claim, but at 173 minutes in length, especially, it takes the most out of a viewer, especially considering that it’s the least poetic of his films I’ve seen (which include Landscape In The Mist , Eternity And A Day , and Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow ). This does not mean it is a bad film, nor that it lacks Angelopoulos’s trademark visual poesy; it has that. But, there are some missing narrative elements, some poorly scripted moments, and a too slow dramatic movement, especially in the latter third of the film, which takes place in the city of Sarajevo. The basic tale is that a nameless exiled Greek-American filmmaker, played by Harvey Keitel (and referred to as ‘A’ in the DVD credits, and in many reviews, although nowhere in the fil

CCC auteurs directory

CCC figureheads by age (in 2008) : Raya MARTIN (born 1984/first film:2005/last film:2008) = 23 years old / 2 CCC [ links ] Albert SERRA (born 1975/1st:2006/last:2008) = 32 yold / 2 CCC [ links ] Lisandro ALONSO (born 1975/1st:2001/last:2008) = 32 yold / 3 CCC [ links ] Carlos REYGADAS (born 1971/1st:1999/last:2007) = 36 yold / 3 CCC [links] JIA Zhang-ke (born 1970/1st:1995/last:2008) = 37 yold / 4? CCC [ links ] Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL (born 16 July 1970/1st:1993/last:2007) = 37 yold / 11 CCC [ Links ] KAWASE Naomi ( born 30 May 1969 / 1st :1992/last:2008 ) = 38 yold / 3 CCC WANG Bing (born 1966/1st:2003/last:2010) = 41 yold / 2 CCC Sharunas BARTAS ( born 16 August 1964 /1st:1986/last:2005 ) = 43 yold / 5? CCC [ links ] Semih KAPLANOGLU (born 1963/1st: 2001/last:2010) = 44 yold / 3 CCC [ links ] KORE-EDA Hirokazu ( born 1962 / 1st :1991/last:2008 ) = 45 yold / 3 CCC Pedro COSTA ( born 3 March 1959 / 1st :1984/last:2007 ) =

Sleepy Movie

"Fans of Sofia Coppola's breathy slice of whimsy Lost in Translation will be disappointed to learn the film has been voted the most boring film of all time. Respondents to a survey by bed manufacturers Silentnight chose Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as the second and third films most likely to send them to sleep." The Guardian Unlimited