European Film Festival – Europe on Screen 2007

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1. colson on 13.10.2007 at 12:04 (Reply) (Comments won't nest below this level)

   Great, a major Festival on cinema. I am a lover of the silver screen.

   The last ten movies I went to watch over the last few months in what we call over here an “arthouse”, were: “La vie en rose”( Olivier Dahan, France), “Ellen ten Damme” (Rod Hodselmans, Nederland), “Still Life”( Jia Zhangke, China), “Venus” (Roger Michell, Great Britain), “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Guillermo del Toro, Espagne), “Adam’s Apples” (Anders Thomas Jensen, Denmark), “Cronica de una fuga”( Israel Adrian Caetano, Argentina), “Irina Palm” (Sam Garbarski, Great Britain), “Summer Palace” (Lou Ye, China) en “Iklimle” (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey). The common denominator is they were made, not for the box office, but for the sake of art and the artist.

   The quintessence of European cinema, as I see it, is quite unlike Hollywood. You will not find too much romantic comedy’s or action movies. The quality should be found instead in the quest of people trying to come to terms with the human condition.

   I’m not acquainted with any of the titles mentioned in the program ( so after all I’m revealed as a cultural barbarian), but I really hope the movies at the Festival are representative of the most important qualities of European cinema.

   By the way: are you in any way involved with the organization of the event?

2. Marisa Duma on 13.10.2007 at 17:31 (Reply) (Comments won't nest below this level)

   Excellent taste, colson.

   Nah, a friend requested this post.
   But there were days I’ve befriended with those who steal books from British Council library (yeah. they exist. not urban legend.) …I don’t steal, I just never return them.
   That makes me somewhat in debt with the European culture. :)

   PS: British Council gave their library up couple of years later, handed it over to Indonesia’s Ministry of Education and Culture. Somebody should make a movie about it, don’t you think?

3. colson on 13.10.2007 at 19:59 (Reply) (Comments won't nest below this level)

   Let’s give it a try.

   Do you start by writing the script? Something like some mosaic story lines of, say, seven very different men and women living in Jakarta, who at the start of the movie, in one way or another – cop, culprit, bystander, whatever- all have to do with a theft at the British Council Library and from there on go blundering away their lives, until they they really meet each other at the end ( of course in RI’s Ministry of Education and Culture).

   How about that?

4. SiMunGiL on 19.10.2007 at 03:47 (Reply) (Comments won't nest below this level)

   @Colson
   that sound like the movie CRASH :D

   @Icha,
   thanks for the post! YES!
   wanna have a date to watch ‘em? :)

5. Marisa Duma on 27.10.2007 at 13:35 (Reply) (Comments won't nest below this level)

   @ colson

   No, I don’t write movie scripts. I fear for my own imagination.
   But your idea sounds nice, sounds soooo Hollywood yeah?
   Cult action thrilling movie with a little twist of drama innit. Whoa.. :)

   Who gets to be the leading actor and actress?

   Btw sorry for replying your comment so late, been busy in a quite devastating state.

   @ SiMungil

   A date? In a cultural event!? Blah, c’mon Mei… you know things better than that. :lol:
   Date-able guys don’t watch this type of movies, dear. They watch Transformer.