Does a lie becomes the truth if told often enough?by Carmen Ferreiro In the spring of 1940, 20,000 people, 12,000 of them Polish officers, were executed under direct orders from Stalin and buried in common graves in the Katyn forest. The Germans found the graves in 1943, as they advanced into Russia. They exhumed and identified the bodies, and released the names of the dead to the Polish population attributing the massacre to [...]
I am pretty old-fashioned when it comes to movies.For me the most important thing in a movie is the story. No amount of special effects can compensate for a weak plot or cardboard characters. That is why I am no fan of Star Wars, or Titanic. That is why Avatar didn't do it for me. Avatar, the little movie directed by James Cameron of Titanic fame, is visually stunning. The representation of the [...]
I almost killed a girl last evening in my way to the movies. She ran in front of my car from the sidewalk and would have been her fault had I hit her. Luckily I braked hard and the car stopped and she reached the other side unharmed. It was an eerie reminder of how quick a normal day can take a turn for disaster.Strangely enough, Terribly Happy, the movie I watched later, [...]
I am Love is not a movie to be seen to pass the time, but a work of art, to be taken in and digested at leisure as you would a Picasso painting or a Shakespeare play.If you believe there are movies and there are films, then you'd agree with me that I Am Love is the quintessential example of what a film should be.I Am Love (which sounds sexier if you say [...]
Based on Diana Wynne Jones's novel of the same title, Howl's Castle is a visually stunning movie by Hayao Miyazaki, the director of My Friend Totoro, Kiki Delivery Service and the Academy Award Winner Spirited Away, among others. Both in the book and in the movie, Sophie, a 17 year old milliner, is turned into a 90 year old woman by the wicked witch of the Waste. The girl has no idea why. [...]
Lisbeth Salander is back in full form in the second installment of the Millennium trilogy by the late Stieg Larson.As the movie starts Lisbeth is in a Caribbean island enjoying the money she procured for herself in a not very orthodox way. But as soon as she comes to Sweden and, following a visit to his legal guardian (the 'sadistic pig' we met in The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo), she is framed [...]
With looks reminiscent of Johnny Depp in Edward Scissorhands and a dark intensity that screams of a troubled past, Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace), the girl of the title, goes about her business of hacking into computers as she investigates her subject Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist).Mikael, a journalist for a liberal magazine, has been falsely accused and sentenced to prison for libel. As he awaits the beginning of his sentence, he is hired by [...]
