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Immortal is filmed in a mixture of styles taking elements of Sky captain and the world of tomorrow (excessive use of Green screen), the Animatrix (the first & best story animated reasonably well) & that 3D cartoon about football in the Sun newspaper (the breasts). Having seen and not enjoyed ... Read review
New York 2095. In a strange pyramid floating in the sky the gods of ancient Egypt are ... more
judging Horus. In the city a young women with blue hair and tears is arrested but she has a secret power even to herself... Based on Enki Bilal's own series of c...
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In the year 2095, a giant extraterrestrial pyramid appears over New York. Inside, the ... more
ancient Egyptian god Horus is told he has just seven days on Earth before his destruction. Seven days to revisit the world he helped create, and mate with the beautif...
Gary Oldman Jeroen Krabbe Isabella Rossellini and Valeria Golino star in Immortal ... more
Beloved a mesmerizing mystery based on the tumultuous real life of Ludwig van Beethoven. Oldman gives a tour de force performance as the passionate volatile genius who inspired love and hatred in equal measure. Whether seducing regal followers or criticizing the ruling class Beethoven made many enemies. But he also had one true love - the unnamed "Immortal Beloved" mentioned in an enigmatic letter discovered upon his death. The thrilling search for the identity of this mystery woman leads us into Beethoven's dark past his hidden passions and ultimately into the unparalleled genius of his music.
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Led by Griffith the Band of the Hawk has become the most powerful military force in the ... more
Kingdom of Midland. Bu tit is the fate of those who succeed to attract the ire of those who do not. Griffith walks freely among the king's court while the ministers and nobles hatch their betraying schemes. On the battlefield the hawks and superior tactics. mobility and striking power. However some soldiers are beyond the rules of war and the limits of human comprehension. A monster guards the path guts and Griffith must travel known as the Zodd theI Immortal. He has stalked the battlefields for nearly 300 years. His appetite for blood and murder is unquenchable. Contains episodes 6-9
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Production Year: 2000 - Drama - Director: Giuseppe Tornatore - Original Language: Italian - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico, Matilde Piana
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Advantages: only 102 minutes long Disadvantages: muddled storyline
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Immortal is filmed in a mixture of styles taking elements of Sky captain and the world of tomorrow (excessive use of Green screen), the Animatrix (the first & best story animated reasonably well) & that 3D cartoon about football in the Sun newspaper (the breasts). Having seen and not enjoyed Sky captain I would have avoided this film had I known it was created in the same manner. Don't get me wrong, some of the background settings ... ...Blade runner feel to it that can only be recreated on a small budget by using these methods but the mixture of real actors & cartoon characters did make me feel as if I was watching 2 different films most of the way through.
Oh, and the dialogue, to give you an idea of how bad it was I will give you a quote from the first 5 minutes of the film. There's a pyramid floating above NY, 2 police helicopters are passing it as Horus pops his ... more
Plot Summary
It's the future, 2095, and a mysterious pyramid is floating above New York. Ancient Egyptian God Horus is given 7 days to spend on Earth before his immortality is taken away from him by Anubis. Horus spends his time trying to locate a blue skinned woman with memory loss so he can breed with her and continue to live in another form. To do this he leaves a trail of bodies in his wake as he searches for a suitable vessel to inhabit, finally settling on the rebel Nikopol who has recently escaped from detention.
THE STORY
Erm ………. other than the outline above, I couldnt really follow what was happening
Opinion
I picked this film up from a recommendation on the internet movie rental site I use. It was billed as an intriguing Sci-fi mystery with a good twist at the end - well, that taught me to trust just one source when choosing a film.
Immortal is filmed in a mixture of styles taking elements of Sky captain and the world of tomorrow (excessive use of Green screen), the Animatrix (the first & best story animated reasonably well) & that 3D cartoon about football in the Sun newspaper (the breasts). Having seen and not enjoyed Sky captain I would have avoided this film had I known it was created in the same manner. Don't get me wrong, some of the background settings looked amazing in both films. Immortal has a Brazil / Blade runner feel to it that can only be recreated on a small budget by using these methods but the mixture of real actors & cartoon characters did make me feel as if I was watching 2 different films most of the way through.
Oh, and the dialogue, to give you an idea of how bad it was I will give you a quote from the first 5 minutes of the film. There's a pyramid floating above NY, 2 police helicopters are passing it as Horus pops his head through the wall -
policeman #1 "what's that? " policeman #2 "looks like a naked man with a birds head".
Pretty bad huh? Half way though the film there was an attempt to show that the authorities were a little bit concerned about the pyramid floating above the city when the Senator had a conversation with his secretary/helper/PA? about how it was all his fault and now Nikopol was on the loose he would be discovered for experimenting with mutants. Confused? This plotline popped up only briefly & left me wondering if I was following any of the story at all. Maybe I was suffering the same memory loss the blue girl was?
Its difficult to choose a favourite moment from the film as there are so many hilarious shockingly bad moments but heres my top 3
3) The baddie the senator sends after Nikopol is a lobster like hammerheaded shark that arrives in the apartment via the plug hole ( see the sh#t monster in Kevin Smiths Dogma)
2) At first glance the flying cars look as f they move in the same way as the cars in Blade Runner but they are in fact rollercoaster cars, gripping onto rails suspended in the skyline
1) Instead of playing chess, as Greek Gods would, the Egyptian Gods chose to play Monopoly
So if you want a Lifeforce, Aon Flux, 5th element, Brazil, Battle of the planets, Stargate film featuring all their worst aspects - this is the film for you.
3 pieces of Toblerone out of 10
Characters - as much as they are characters
Blue girl Jill has none of the charisma that endeared you to milla jovovich in the 5th element nor half the mystique of the blue vampire woman in Lifeforce (or the looks). Nothing is in anyway explained about why her memory has gone or who the mysterious bandage headed man supplying her with blue pills is. In fact the whole film rambles on but managed to hold my attention for so long because I expected some sort of explanation at the end (thanks previous reviewer, you owe me 102 minutes!!!)
Ramplings Elma really bears no relevance to the plot, after a little tinkering trying to understand Jill at the beginning of the film she plods through the script almost screaming for the film to be over. There was no breakthrough in any of the tests she did & Jill never trusted her enough to impart any information or explanation even to her, never mind us. She definitely shone through as the most experienced person on set but it wasn't enough of a script to really enable her to use her talents
Nikopol is probably one of the more straightforward characters in the film, an escaped terrorist whose body is inhabited by the spirit of Horus. He has to do the bidding of the God as he has had his damaged leg replaced by a piece of steel train track (lasered into place by Horus so he cant move without being possessed first)
John - the mysterious bandaged headed man who feeds Jill with blue pills. Jill continually claims to love John but with little or no memory for most of the film I struggle to see why or how she can love him (certainly not his looks as his head is covered for the entire duration of the film)
Director - Enki Bilal Written by - Enki Bilal, Based on La Foire aux Immortels & La Femme Piege Rated - 15 (some nudity, cartoon shootings) Sound - DTS/ Dolby digital Runtime - 102 minutes ( 1 hour 42 minutes ) Sci-Fi drama/ mild action / Cartoon
Cast
Jill Bioskop - Linda Hardy (le Souffleur) Alcide Nikopol - Thomas Kretschmann (King Kong) Elma Turner - Charlotte Rampling (Georgy Girl) John - Frédéric Pierrot Horus - Thomas M. Pollard Froebe - Yann Collette Jonas - Derrick Brenner
DVD Extras
Scene selection Trailer & 2 Teasers Stills gallery Making of the film documentary Making of CGI documentary
Scene selection - Expected, even on the most basic version of any film Trailer - Maybe I wouldn't have watched it if I had seen this first!!! Stills gallery - The point of this is???? Answers on a postcard please. Use freeze frame if you want to look at something - this is the age of DVD after all Making of the film - Around 30 minutes long, follows a very basic film documentary formula - work your way round the crew not giving anyone enough time to really tell you anything.(Director,make-up, CGI, stunts, story etc etc ) Making of the CGI - Around 10 minutes in length, shows the techniques used to create the aliens & Egyptian Gods. 3 years of work went into the development, a real gamble for such a low budget film. Lots of green screen work & rotoscopy. Not of much interest if you have seen any Matrix 'making of' documentaries.
Advantages: Fantastic quality live show. Disadvantages: Could feature more insight.
especially touching as the dedication to Bono's daughter, Jordan, whose birthday also falls on May 10th, is left in. The translation of "Yahweh" onto DVD format is by far the most pleasant surprise on the entire DVD. While the song was beautiful in the live setting on film, it is by far the most moving song in the entire set. The show ends with a great rendition of "40" that I'm sure all U2 fans will agree is great to finally have immortalized on DVD.
On the whole, ?Vertigo 2005//U2 Live From Chicago? is a visually captivating and faithful DVD to U2 fans and collectors who enjoy watching the art of performance?especially a band like U2?who, to quote Bono at a recent California show?is ?just getting started.? And all these years later, we?re still along for the ride. ...
Advantages: It'll make you laugh until you cry Disadvantages: none
This film is about four Highschool friends who make a pact to lose their virginites by Prom night.It then follows them around while they try everything in their power to achieve this aim. The jokes are piled on thick and fast and it had me in stiches and still does when I watch it again. Many of the jokes and lines used in the film are classic and have become immortal and will be uttered in the decades to come and be seen as classics. The film is simply brilliant and the DVD gives much more than the original film, it has directors commentary and deleted scenes and this adds to the films quality. The famous 'Apple pie scene' was originally longer and was seen as too crude by censors and cut for the movie version, on DVD you can view the whole scene. ...
My copy of the film adaptation by Sally Potter of the classic novel of the immortal Orlando by Virginia Woolf came free as a DVD video with the Sunday Telegraph. The DVD comes with little else than the film. The film was produced by a number of organisations with the participation of the British Screen and supported by The European Script Fund. Music was composed by David Motion & Sally Porter (The soundtrack is available on Varese Sarabande Compact Discs. This English language film in colour has a run time of 90 minutes. Released about 1997. The film has a PG rating (Parental Guidance advised).
***CAST***
Tilda Swinton.................Orlando
Quentin crisp..................Queen E1izabeth 1
Jimmy Somerville..........Falsetto/Angel
***THE STORY***
"Orlando" is a curiously ravishing series of essays built around the title ...
JeffreyB 18.11.2006
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