Boa tarde queridos, como foi o final de semana? Enxeram a cara neah suas alcolatras!

Sobre o meu final de semana eu infelizmente vou manter a discrição, falar sobre a minha vida é boring e vulgar uma vez que ela se resume em alcolismo e prostituição (mãe, é tudo brink ok). Mas vou falar da minha sexta feira 13 pelo menos.

 Depois de séculos des que eu terminei o meu ensino médio eu resolvi ir ao noitão HSBC nesta sexta feira 13, totalmente desinformado como sempre e esperando filmes de terror quando na verdade era especial amor dos 3 filmes que passaram 1 pelo menos era absurdamente engraçado! No Brasil o nome do filme foi traduzido como “À moda da casa” mas o nome original é “Fuera de carta”, odeio não costumo gostar de filmes com o tema “amor” por que eu sou uma alcolatra amargurada mas este eu tenho que recomendar por que é mara!

Aqui esta o trailler:

O segundo filme que assisti era “aceitavel”, mas não lembro o nome logo pode considera-lo como “whatever”. Ja o terceiro foi um ahaza quarterão do cinema frances para pseudo cults experientes, o maravilhoso “Perfume de Yvonne”! Ahazô geral, nocateou a sala inteira, uma sinfonia de roncos e pessoas dormindo no chão…

 A cena das pessoas dormindo e babando umas nas outras foi tão familiar que me lembrei de um noitão de sexta feira 13 que ficará para sempre no meu coração, de quando eu ainda era uma pequena garotinha…

 Foi um combo de filmes de terror maravilhosos, mas o destaque da noite definitivamente foi “O fastasma do rock”, título original “Phantom of the paradise”. Esta na minha lista de filmes trash favoritos que ficarão 4ever in my heart.

trailler:

É isso ai pessual, boa semana para todos e coragem para aguentar esse final de semestre! Beijos!

Arthur R. N.

Phantom of the Paradise is a 1974 musical film written and directed by Brian De Palma. The story is a loosely adapted mixture of The Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Faust and also briefly references Frankenstein and The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. Initially, it had box office failure and was panned by some critics, but it was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe and has since acquired a cult following.

Tagline:  The music made him do it!

Trivia:

• The character Philbin, who is the chief henchman of the villain Swan, borrows his last name from Mary Philbin, star of The Phantom of the Opera (1925).
• The “Death Records” secretary’s card index includes files on Alice Cooper, David Geffen, Bette Midler, Peter Fonda, Dick Clark and Kris Kristofferson.
• On Phoenix’s mirror after the concert in which she becomes a star is a magazine ad with the headline “I’m a Harper’s Freak”. Phoenix was played by ‘Jessica Harper (I)’.
• At the airport when Beef is introduced, the “Death Records” logo on the lectern was superimposed over the original logo for “Swan Song” records to avoid conflict with Led Zeppelin’s record label, which had sued. Although the film’s producers were certain they would win due to the fact that the phrase was common long before, they decided to make the change in order to get the film finished quickly rather than go through a prolonged court fight.
• The Death Records logo is optically printed over the originally planned “Swan Song” label at several points in the film
• Cameo: [Rod Serling] introductory voiceover.
• Phantom was a box office flop the year it came out. The only place in North America where the film had lasting power was in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada where it stayed on the screens for months.
• Sissy Spacek is credited as “set dresser” for this film. As she was already an established actor when this film was made, one can assume that she took the job to assist her boyfriend, Jack Fisk, who was the film’s production designer.
• William Finley came up with the bird motif of the Phantom costume, a collaboration with costume designer Rosanna Norton.
• According to William Finley, the record press in which his Winslow character was disfigured was a real pressing plant (it was an injection-molding press at an Ideal Toy Co. plant). He was worried about whether the machine would be safe, and the crew assured that it was. The press was fitted with foam pads (which resemble the casting molds in the press), and there were chocks put in the center to stop it from closing completely. Unfortunately, the machine was powerful enough to crush the chocks that it gradually kept closing. It was Finley’s speed and timing that saved him from truly being hurt, as he got his head out just in time. Incidentally, his scream in the scene was real.
• Gerrit Graham has talked about the infamous “musical chairs” casting, where William Finley almost wound up with no part to play. The studio considered casting Paul Williams as Winslow, Graham as Swan and Peter Boyle as Beef. Williams turned down the role of Winslow not only because he didn’t feel physically fit or menacing for the role, but he didn’t want to use the role of Winslow as a message against the recording industry. Somehow, Boyle was unavailable, Graham took the Beef role, and Finley ultimately took the Winslow role. In fact, director Brian De Palma actually wrote the part with his colleague Finley in mind. William Finley said in a recent interview that Jon Voight was at one time considered for the role of Swan.
• The character of Winslow Leach (the Phantom) was named after director Brian De Palma’s mentor, Wilford Leach.
• The single-edit, “time bomb in the car trunk” sequence is an homage to Orson Welles’ famous opening for Touch of Evil (1958).
• Gerrit Graham’s singing voice was dubbed by Ray Kennedy.
• When Swan (Paul Williams) is adjusting Winslow’s voice, the singer is not William Finley but Paul Williams. This makes it a little in-joke when Swan announces that the voice is “perfect”.
• The “electronic room” in which Winslow composes his cantata (and where Swan restores his voice) is in fact the real-life recording studio, The Record Plant. Also, the walls covered with knobs are in reality a huge, custom-built Moog electronic synthesizer. Dubbed TONTO, this instrument was featured on several albums by the pioneering electronica duo T.O.N.T.O.’s Expanding Head Band, and it still exists to this day.
• During Beef’s introductory scene at the airport, on of the gathered reporters is named “Mr Pizer”. This is probably a reference to the film’s director of photography, Larry Pizer.
• In addition to Leroux’s “Phantom of the Opera” and Goethe’s (et al) “Faust”, the film also references Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”, Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, and Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” for a total of at least five citations of classical horror stories.
• Gerrit Graham was so sick the day that the “Life at Last” scene was filmed that he could hardly walk.
• Director Brian De Palma originally considered the popular group Sha-Na-Na for the roles of the Juicy Fruits, but the group was not only very big at the time, but he found them too difficult to work with.
• Jessica Harper beat out Linda Ronstadt for the part of Phoenix.
• Much of the movie deals with birds: The names Phoenix and Swan, the Phantom’s bird-like costume, Phoenix’s dress after her first appearance, her feather jacket, Swan’s bird vest, Beef’s bird tail during his number. Even the logo for Death Records is a bird.
• According to Danny Peary in the book Cult Movies 2, originally this film would have had the title “The Phantom” but King Features Syndicate, producers of the Phantom comic strip, demanded that this film have a longer title.
• This film homages the 1943 remake of the Phantom of the Opera, not the original novel; the 1943 film had the Phantom as a man disfigured by acid (similar to the 1939 origin of the Tonny Quinn, the Black Bat and the 1942 origin of Two-Face). In Leroux’s novel, the Phantom lived with his deformity from birth.

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For a new novel, I am researching a certain type of movie that I can only describe as 1970s Rock n’ Roll Space Operas (often with amusement parks, haunted houses, and costumed heroes)
Here’s the list I have so far, but if you can think of others please list them in the comment box:

• Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Phantom of the Paradise
• KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park
• Ziggy Stardust (concert film)
• Flash Gordon

El otro día mientras navegaba en internet, no me acuerdo qué ideas asocié y me acordé de una canción. Era la canción “Somebody super like you” de la película el fantasma del paraiso (Phantom of the paradise) que me gustaba muchisimo cuando era chico.

Cuando encontré el mp3 del tema y me puse a escucharlo me dí cuenta que debía ser uno de los primeros temas “pesados” que debo haber escuchado en mi vida, y me acuerdo que me daba un poco de miedo, pero me gustaba escucharlo igual (algo parecido me pasaba con Another Brick in The Wall). Para ser un tema de 1974 era bastante groso, los que quieran pueden escucharlo aca.

Después de haberlo escuchado, bajé la película  y  ví el maquillaje que tenía el personaje que cantaba el tema en cuestión, por eso se me ocurrió hacer la foto tributo de la que supongo es una de las tantas razones por las que hoy en día me gusta el Metal…

Nota aparte: cada día estoy más pro con el maquillaje (no sé si es bueno o preocupante)

PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974)
Though it’s a Brian DePalma film, Phantom of the Paradise really owes everything to Paul Williams who wrote all of the uniquely catchy music. Williams plays “Swan,” the slick, smooth and very short record producer who steals a rock cantata based on Faust from Winslow (William Finley). He wants Winslow’s music to open his new music venue, The Paradise, but has no use for the songwriter so Swan has him framed and sent to prison (Sing Sing – natch.) where his teeth are extracted (?!). He breaks out, is maimed by a record press, becomes the titular antihero and seeks revenge on Swan by attempting to sabotage the opening of The Paradise. But unrequited love finds him in the form of Jessica Harper (Susperia), as a beautiful(?) young singer named Phoenix. Winslow inks a deal –in blood–with Swan (who’s already made his own deal with the devil), to finish his Faust rock opera with Phoenix as its intended star. When Swan breaks his promise  and casts a screeching glam rocker named Beef (Garrit Graham – who is hilarious) in the lead role, Winslow goes off the deep end and does what he must to ensure Pheonix’s starring role, but only after she’s already served up her soul to Swan who plans to sculpt her into his next big thing. Williams’ songwriting style perfectly serves the story and without it, PotP might have been just another early-70s misfire for DePalma. In fact, PotP was considered a huge failure upon release, but time has been kind to it and a well-deserved cult following finally sprung up and still holds strong today organizing cast reunions and fan conventions from time to time. Though it precedes The Rocky Horror Picture Show by a year, Rocky owes much to Phantom, which is equally memorable and more artfully made. It’s only dumb luck (and probably its overt sexuality) that made RHPS the runaway cult king it is, while Phantom rests comfortably in comparative obscurity, with an infinitely smaller fan base. (Though probably a coincidence, there are some scenes in Rocky Horror that seem to replicate moments from Phantom and I’m surprised I can find no reference online to the fact that both films feature a 50s doo-wop-style requiem for a dead rocker named “Eddie!”). Williams would go on to write music for The Muppet Movie, the kiddie gangster cult musical, Bugsy Malone, not to mention many of the Carpenters most beloved singles — but PotP is undoubtedly his best showcase and it changed the way I perceive the diminutive actor/singer/composer. (For most of my childhood I knew him best as Little Enos from the Smokey and the Bandit movies.) Harper has a singing voice that’s plenty distinctive and she’s up to the musical challenge but she’s just not a compelling enough leading lady. She suffered similarly in the RHPS psuedo-sequel, Shock Treatment in which she inherits the role of Janet from Susan Sarandon. Though they all have their faults PotP, RHPS and ST would make a pretty killer musical triple-bill. And as much as I love Rocky, PotP is easily the most ambitious and successful at telling a story. One can only imagine what kind of cult phenom Phantom might have been if Tim Curry had had the opportunity to belt out a few of Williams’ numbers.) Despite his spotty resume DePalma’s film fetishism works well here and references to movies like The Manchurian Candidate, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Psycho are easy to spot. The split-screen gimmick he’d use to great effect in Carrie the following year gets a trial spin here and Sissy Spacek, who had just auditioned and won the role of Carrie while PotP was in production was on set with DePalma so much that she ends up with a set-dressing credit. The very Twilight Zone-esque opening narration is read by none other than Rod Serling himself! A remake (*sigh*) is currently in development.
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Watch the original trailer for Phantom of the Paradise:

See also:
Brian DePalma’s Blow Out

1. The Royal Tennenbaums
2. Ghost World
3. Gia
4. Amilie
5. Betty Blue
6. Au Hasard Balthazar
7. fight club
8. breakfast at tiffany’s
9. The New Adventures of Pipi Longstocking
10. Milo and Otis
11. Poor Little Rich Girl
12. Trash
13. Flesh
14. Sex in The City
15. Sid and Nancy
16. Science of Sleep
17. Gummo
18. Bottle Rocket
19. Life Aquatic
20. Chasing Amy
21. Clerks
22. Factory Girl
23. Pie in the Sky, Brigid Berlin Story
24. The Dark Crystle
25. The Labrinth
26. Charade
27. Hallmark version of Merlin
28. Hallmark version of Alice in Wonder land
29. Blue Velvet
30. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
31. Caio Manhattan
32. Heavenly Creatures
33. Picnic at Hanging Rock
34. Spun
35. Trainspotting
36. Requiem for a dream
37. Fear and loating in Las Vegas
38. Where the Buffalo Roam
39. Nowhere
40. The living End
41. The Doom Generation
42. American Splendor
43. SLC Punk
44. Rock and Roll High School
45. Clockwork Orange
46. Dr. Strangelove
47. The Shining (Kubrick)
48. Lolita (Kubrick)
49. Pulp Fiction
50. Resevoir Dogs
51. Four Rooms
52. Hell Ride
53. One flew over the cuckoos nest
54. Garden State
55. Night of the Living Dead
56. Benny and Joon
57. Buffalo 66
58. Crumb
59. Empire Records
60. Eraser Head
61. Fur
62. Harold and Maude
63. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
64. House of 1,000 Corpses
65. I heart Huckabees
66. Kids
67. Lawn dogs
68. May
69. Naked Lunch
70. Natural Born Killers
71. Love and a 45
72. The Never Ending Story
73. Party Monster
74. Phantom of the Paradise
75. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
76. Rosemary’s Baby
77. Rules of Attraction
78. Running with Scissors
79. Rushmore
80. A Scanner Darkly
81. Welcome to the Doll House
82. Bully
83. But I’m a Cheerleader
84. The Slums of Beverly Hills
85. Dogville
86. Moholland Drive
87. The Nomi Song
88. Reality Bites
89. The Heathers
90. Secretary
91. American Beauty
92. Beetlejuice
93. Joes Apartment
94. Children Of Men
95. Freaks
96. Hustle and Flow
97. Jules and Jim
98. Nosferatu
99. Shindler’s List
100. Pee Wee’s Big Adventure

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At night at the bar does not always provide teachings, but last night, I learned two things:

1. Sometimes, to get the girl, a guy’s gotta wear a zip-up fleece and corduroy khakis.  I’m not a zip-up fleece and corduroy khaki kinda guy, so I would never get the pointy shoe and $100 blue jeans girl – not that I would want to.  Introduce me to the girl in Target jeans and Keds anytime.
2. Is this not possibly one of the greatest movies of all time?!  I just ordered it on DVD, so I’ll be sure to let you know.  Brian DePalma made this in 1974, a year before Sisters and two before Carrie.  It played on a background TV out of earshot, behind the couple from Hell Hell Bean.  I’m still not sure which display was more frightening.

*check out #18 on this list

After a spell of unemployment (and a surplus of “down-time”) it’s supremely satisfying to work for 8 hours. I didn’t even want a lunch break! Whoa! Also, this is the first non-coffee shop job I’ve ever had where there’s a steady supply of FREE COFFEE. Like, a big pot that’s Always Full. Or at least half-full–it’s very optimistic!

MINDBLIGOOWWWWWWWWWWWWwwwwwwww

A perk sure to retain it’s wonderfulness far beyond that of The Eight Hour Day.

Also on the to-do list for the week:

*I should thank Stephan for the recommendation of this lost gem…

Les Voyeurs #63 – Ces Films dont le Livre est le Héros
émission diffusée le jeudi 12 février 2009 à 18h
rediffusée le samedi 14 février 2009 à 10h

Actualité

- Vidéoprojection de Phantom of the Paradise de Brian de Palma à la Médiathèque d’Alès, jeudi 19 février à 14h (entrée libre).
- Edition d’un magnifique ouvrage sur ce qu’aurait pu être le Napoléon de Stanley Kubrick (disponible le 2/07/09 aux éditions Taschen France)
- Actu des Arcades :
- 9 = nouvelle BA d’un film d’animation 3D réalisé par Shane Acker, d’aprés son court-métrage datant de 2005. Film produit par Tim Burton. Sortie prévue 9-09-2009 aux USA. Pas encore de date pour la France. BA visible ici = 9 sur Apple Trailers.

Dossier : Ces Films dont le Livre est le Héros

Coeur d’encre de Iain Softley (2009)

Les livres symboles de liberté

Fahrenheit 451 de François Truffaut (1966)
Le nom de la rose de Jean Jacques Annaud (1986)
Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise de dai Sijie (2002)

Le Journal Intime

Le Journal de Bridget Jones de Sharon Maguire (2001)
Into the wild de Sean Penn (2008 )
Carnets de Voyage de Walter Salles (2004)
Twin Peaks de Marc Frost et David Lynch (~1990)
L’Etrange histoire de Benjamin Button de David Fincher (2009)
The Notebook de Nick Cassavettes (2004)
Journal Intime de Nani Moretti (1994)

Le livre magique

L’effet papillon d’Eric Bress et J. Mackey Gruber (2004)
L’histoire sans fin de Wolfgang Petersen (1984)
Les Chroniques de Spiderwick de Mark Waters (2008 )

Le Necronomicon

Necronomicon de Christophe Gans, Shusuke Kaneko & Brian Yuzna (1993)
Evil Dead , Evil Dead 2 – Dead by Dawn et Evil Dead III – Army of Darkness de Sam Raimi (1981/1987/1992)

Chronique : Carte Postale Sétoise

Ténèbres de Dario Argento (1983)

La BO de la semaine

Quantum Leap – Prologue (2:20) composée par Velton Ray Bucnh et Mike Post.
Extrait de la série TV Code Quantum crée par Donald P. Bellisario (1989 à 1993).

Musique
Book of moses interprétée par Tom Waits

Extraits sonores
Coeur d’encre
Fahrenheit 451
Le journal de Bridget Jones
L’effet papillon
Evil Dead III

Présentation : Cédric Cance, Erik Antolin, Julie Ezmiro
Technique : Jérémie Adrian

Les Voyeurs #62 – Ces chiens du grand écran
émission diffusée le jeudi 5 février 2009 à 18h
rediffusée le samedi 7 février 2009 à 10h

Actualité

- Les BA du Superbowl : les dernières BA exclusives diffusées lors de la finale du tournoi de football américain. Pour les voir c’est par là : Apple Superbowl Teasers.
- Actu des Arcades : Trois Singes de Nuri Bilge Ceylan ; Louise Michel de Gustave Kervern et Benoit Delépine ; Che 2ème partie – Guerrilla de Steven Soderbergh ; L’Etrange histoire de Benjamin Button de David Fincher.
- Little Ashes de Paul Morrison : Salvadore Dali interprété par Robert Pattinson, le beau gosse de Twilight.
- Sailor & Lula de David Lynch : diffusion sur Arte vendredi 06 février à 00h40.

Dossier : Ces chiens du grand écran

A l’occasion de la sortie au cinéma d’Un homme et son chien (14 janvier), de Volt (4 février), de Palace pour Chien (18 février) et du Chihuahua de Beverly Hills (25 mars), les Voyeurs ont sortis les laisses et ont fait un peu de dressage.

Les chiens chez Disney

Pluto (1930) et Dingo (1932)
Pataud dans Cendrillon (1950)
Nana dans Peter Pan (1953)
La Belle et le Clochard (1955)
Pongo, Perdita et leurs 99 chiots dans Les 101 dalmatiens (1961)
Napoléon et Lafayette dans Les Aristochats (1970)
Toby dans Basil, détective privé (1986)
Roublard et son gang dans Oliver et compagnie (1988 )
Max dans La petite sirène (1990)
Croc Blanc, Benji la malice, L’Enfer Blanc, L’Incroyable Voyage et 4 bassets pour un danois.
Rouky dans Rox et Rouky (1981)
Zero dans L’Etrange Noël de Monsieur Jack d’Henry Selick & Tim Burton (1994)
Sparky dans Frankenweenie de Tim Burton (1984)

Le chien star

Didier d’Alain Chabat (1997)

Les enragés

The Thing par John Carpenter (1982 )
Cujo de Lewis Teague (1983)
Max, le meilleur ami de l’homme de John Lafia (1994)
Baxter de Jérôme Boivin (1989)

La BO de la semaine

Special to Me (2:47) composée par Paul Williams.
Extrait du film Phantom of the Paradise réalisé par Brian De Palma (1975)

Chronique :
Une Tranche de Geek V – Phantom of the Geek

Musique
I wanna be your dog interprétée par Iggy Pop & The Stooges (1969)

Extraits sonores
Volt de Chris Williams et Byron Howard
La Belle et le Clochard
Didier d’Alain Chabat
The Thing de John Carpenter

Présentation : Erik Antolin, Julie Ezmiro, Cédric Cance
Technique : Jérémie Adrian

Une tranche de Geek V
- Phantom of the Geek -

Imitation à la bouche de la Toccata en D mineur de Bach…

Alors toi aussi tu as suivi mes conseils de la dernière fois et tu as fais ton Coming Geek Out ? C’est très bien. Mais aujourd’hui tu en supporte les conséquences : ta famille, tes amis, tes collègues de travail… tous te regardent différemment aujourd’hui ? Ils arrêtent de parler lorsque tu arrives ? Ils chuchotent quand ils te sentent dans les parages ? Ils prennent leurs distances ?

Bienvenue dans le monde réel jeune geek en herbe. C’est un monde froid et cruel qui ne peut comprendre pourquoi tu déjeunes encore dans un bol Spiderman et encore moins pourquoi tu oses sortir en public le torse bombé avec un tee-shirt Superman. Ton mode de vie et ton apparence sont devenus des sujets de moqueries ou même d’exclusion ? Pas de panique c’est normal ! Tu es maintenant officiellement victime de discrimination. Ne cherche pas à faire machine arrière, il est trop tard. On ne revient pas sur un Coming Geek Out !

Quelles solutions te reste-t-il ? Fuir ? Te cacher ? Pourquoi pas ! Et peut-être qu’en trainant dans les toits et les double murs d’un opéra tu auras la chance de rencontrer celle qui saura voir au-delà du bol Spiderman et du tee-shirt Superman. Mais si cela t’arrive attention ! Il faut savoir lui déclarer ta flamme avec délicatesse. Et pour cela choisi un chant, un chant d’amour. Ai confiance, tu es un geek, tu en connais surement. Réfléchis. Tu peux commencer soft avec ça :

The road was long but I ran it, Janet
There’s a fire in my heart but you fan it, Janet
If there’s one fool for you then I am it, Janet
Now I’ve one thing to say and that’s…
Damnit, Janet, I love you…

Mais là tu prends le risque qu’elle ne s’appelle pas Janet. Tu peux tenter de remplacer Janet par Babet, Juliet, Harriet, Antoinette, mais ça l’fait moins.
Donc solution n°2, tu te rabats sur quelque chose d’à la fois plus romantique mais aussi de plus intemporel, toujours en puisant dans ta culture geekographique :

I swore I’d sell my soul
For one love who would stand by me
And give me back the gift of laughter
One love who would stand by me
And after making love we’d…
…
Dream a bit of style
We’d dream a bunch of friends
Dream each others smile
And dream it never ends

Bref. Tu as compris. Dans tout les cas il faut charmer la belle tout en évitant d’être lourd ou trop direct quand à tes espérances de concrétisation charnelle avec elle, tu pourrais la faire fuir. A moins qu’elle ne soit spéciale. Dans ce cas, n’ai pas peur. Solution n°3 : change de tee-shirt. Ou même mieux, enlève-le. Et vas-y franco, comme Iggy Pop avant toi !

So messed up I want you here
In my room I want you here
Now were gonna be face-to-face
And Ill lay right down in my favorite place
And now I wanna be your dog
Now I wanna be your dog
Now I wanna be your dog
C’mon

When four teenage outcasts become experts in the ancient arts of witchcraft they seek revenge on those who slighted them in the past. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 08/22/2006 Starring: Robin Tunney Neve Campbell Run time: 101 minutes Rating: R Director: Andrew Fleming

If Buffy the Vampire Slayer represents the lighter side of high school as a macabre experience, here’s a movie that asks the burning question, “What happens when angst-ridden teenagers develop supernatural powers?” More to the point, how do four outcast teenaged witches handle their ability to cast wicked spells on the taunting classmates who’ve nicknamed them “The Bitches of Eastwick”? The answer, of course, is “don’t get mad, get even.” That’s about all there is to this terminally silly movie, which makes up for its ludicrous plot by letting its young female cast have a field day as they indulge their dark fantasies. Fairuza Balk is enjoyable as the most wicked of the witches, and is therefore the focus of the film’s most dazzling special effects. But it’s Neve Campbell from television’s Party of Five who made this film a modest box-office hit, just before she became her generation’s fright-movie favorite in Scream and its popular sequel. –Jeff Shannon

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• Practical Magic
• Hocus Pocus
• Jawbreaker
• The Witches of Eastwick (Keepcase)
• Interview with the Vampire

A&M’s original 1974 soundtrack. Contains 10 tracks, ‘Goodbye, Eddie, Goodbye’, ‘Faust’ and ‘The Hell Of It’.

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• Phantom of the Paradise
• Bugsy Malone
• Paul Williams
• Shock Treatment: The Original Sound Track
• Songs for the Family of Man: A Collection 1969-1979

I’ve been really sick for the past several days, and, as a result, I’ve been cooped up and swimming in an ocean of kleenex. Instead of watching hours of awful television, I rustled through the old movies in my Netflix and here at the house.

Since I feel pretty useless, I decided to at least review what I’ve seen:

Catch 22

I’d read some of the Joseph Heller novel, but it lost me… just like the movie did. I wasn’t able to follow it. It could be the cold medicine or it could be just me not being good at following movies, but the whole thing seemed like a non-linear jumble. I’m sure that’s what war is like. Still, interesting to watch.

Spaceballs

Everyone is always so surprised when I say I haven’t seen Spaceballs, and now I have. They don’t have to be surprised anymore. For all the build-up, I thought it sucked. In fact, that’s like every Mel Brooks movie I’ve ever seen. Young Frankenstein and the rest. Really, it seems like a lot of people think it’s funny, but I think it’s dumb.

Phantom of the Paradise

Kind of a combination of Faust and Phantom of the Opera, Phantom of the Paradise was really impressive and cool. It came out before glam rock and Rocky Horror, so it was a terrible bomb at the box office, but I think it’s definitely better than the rest of the movies I watched in my sick stint.

Alice’s Restaurant

I’m in the middle of this one right now. It’s got Arlo Guthrie and the rest of his hippie pals goofing around. It’s really just a bunch of unfocused silliness, and it’s not bad for that. It’s got some of the happiness and some of the troubles with the long hair hippie movement, and I bet it’s going to end with everyone kind of falling apart.

They spend a lot of time on where to dump a bunch of garbage on the side of the road, which seems pretty unenvironmental. Maybe they didn’t think about that environmental stuff until much later.

Do you know any words that when you hear them, they cause you to roll your eyeballs?

One of mine is: organic   ….   as in “organic food“.

I know what people mean when they say it, but how can one word have 2 definitions that contradict each other?

1. derived from a living organism.

2. food grown without pesticides or chemical fertilizer.

It doesn’t make sense to me.

Either almost everything I eat is organic, or almost nothing I eat is organic.

It can’t be both, but it is!

Either I am organic, or I am not organic.

It’s an oxymoron.

It’s like saying: sport

1. an active pastime, recreation, or game having a set form and rules.

2. an active pastime, recreation, or game having no set form or rules.

This word with 2 opposing definitions bothers me.

note: black pudding, blood sausage, liver, and kidney are probably the original organic foods.

double note: I wonder which definition organic chemists like?

triple note: Are organs at hockey arenas and churches “vital organs“?

quadruple note: Is organ music: 1) made with an organ?   2) made by an organism?  3) made by people not on drugs?

quintuple note: wasn’t phantom of the paradise a strange movie?

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Bon alors comme cette semaine, il n’est rien arrivé de particulier… Pas de concert, pas de sortie ultra notable… Pas grand chose en fait^^ Et bien je vais vous faire un p’tit topo sur ce film assez méconnu : “Phantom Of The Paradise”

J’ai découvert ce film au détour d’une séance de zapping sur Arte il y a de cela quelques années, j’ai donc loupé le début mais je suis tombée amoureuse du reste…

C’est un film musical, un peu comme le “Rocky Horror Picture Show”, oui je dois faire une fixette là-dessus^^ Mais je trouve celui-ci comme emprunt d’un esprit beaucoup plus psychédélique. Le réalisateur du film est Brian DePalma, il a aussi réalisé “Soeurs de Sang”, “Carrie au bal du Diable”, l’incontournable “Scarface”, ‘les Incorruptibles”, “Mission : impossible” et plus récemment “Le Dalhia Noir”.

L’histoire est un mélange de plusieurs références bien connues, la première étant bien sûr celle du “Fantôme de l’Opéra” ( roman de Gaston Leroux adapté de nombreuses fois à l’écran)… Le film s’inspire également de “Faust”, ce conte allemand (pour ma part, je n’ai lu que la version de Goethe).

Il s’agit donc de l’histoire d’un compositeur d’opéra-rock qui va se faire souffler ses compositions par sa maison de disque. Il organisera ensuite sa veangeance ! Sur fond de belle, ou pas, histoire d’amour…

L’histoire n’est pas très complexe mais l’intérêt de ce film, c’est d’abord la musique (grande fana de musique, je les trouve géniales^^), certaines d’entre elles sont inspirées par Janis Joplin ou les Doors (des artistes que j’apprécie énormément) et le côté visuel, j’aime beaucoup les décors et certaines couleurs utilisées là.

Ce film est malheureusement trop méconnu à mon goût. Mais bon, j’essaie d’y remédier en en parlant un maximum autour de moi

Allez un petit extrait pour vous donner envie je l’espère. Vous pourrez constater l’influence des Doors dans la chanson que chante le personnage…

Et là , un des morceaux : Hell Of It

Sinon, juste un petit avertissement, il y a quelques images qui peuvent choquer certaines personnes dans ce film… Un peu de sang quoi^^ alors si ça vous gêne, le regardez pas…

Voilà, un petit article un peu constructif pour une fois

Les Voyeurs #24
Brian De Palma

Émission diffusée le vendredi 22 février 2008 à 16h.

Rediffusée le samedi 23 février 2008 à 16h.

Actualité

Peur du noir d’Étienne Robial (actuellement en salle, notamment au Sémaphore)
La fin d’Opération Frisson meilleure émission de cinéma au monde sur Ciné Frisson
La fin du HD DVD (épisode 2)

Dossier : Brian De Palma

Quelques films abordés au cours de l’émission :

Actualité

Redacted (2007)
Outrages (1988)

Les Débuts

Greetings (1968)
Dionysos in ‘69 (1969)
Hi ! Mom (1970)
Sisters (1973)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Carrie (1977)

Mauvais garçons et femmes étouffées

Scarface (1983)
Les Incorruptibles (1987)
L’Impasse (1993)
Carrie (1977)
Pulsions (1980)
Blow Out (1981)

Brian De Palma et le fantastique

Carrie (1977)
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Body Double (1984)

Bande Originale de la Semaine :

Autopsie d’un meurtre d’Otto Preminger
Musique composée par Duke Elligton (extrait: Happy Anatomy)

Les Séries de Maïlis :

Entourage crée par Mark Wahlberg

Extraits

Phantom of the Paradise – Hi ! Mom – Pulsions

Musique

Goodbye Eddie, Goodbye par les Juicy Fruits
Composé par Paul Williams, extrait de la b.o. de Phantom of the Paradise