FOR THE WEEKEND
Matt Reeves: Cloverfield
was not in my plans to see Cloverfield , but my son Gabriel learned what it was and, as a fan of Godzilla, I said wanted to see. I accepted, after all, "a monster like Godzilla in New York" did not sound so bad. The film surprised me positively: it is as The Blair Witch Project , but well done. Or does the Blair Witch had come early, and now trained by YouTube, it is easier to understand format Cloverfield: seventy minutes filmed by home camera, moving without stopping, you can not find the right angle for capture the monster, who rarely sees. There is a love story, but that is unimportant: the constant explosions and the movement of the camera make you not feel you're watching a movie but experiencing a virtual simulation in an amusement park. In the end, my son and I left with dizziness and headaches. A critic of La Vanguardia Cloverfield defined as "the first domestic disaster movie." Yes. Gabriel wanted to leave ten minutes before it ended: I was really scared. And neither really liked that this time, the monster wins.
COMPACT
Elvis Perkins: Ash Wednesday
The world may not need a singer again of good feelings and sadness everywhere. But how not to listen to Elvis Perkins? This is nothing less than the son of Anthony Perkins - Psycho-actor, died of AIDS in the early eighties, and Berry Berenson, photographer who died tragically (he was one of the passengers of the planes that hit the September 11 the Twin Towers.) With those parents, Perkins has many stories to tell: a past ideal for a novelist or a serial murderer. Perkins choose a middle road, and opens with Ash Wednesday , a compact that sounds as if the thirties had the world every year. No anger, only the look of someone who has seen and experienced much. The irresistible song is "While You Were Sleeping," "Emile's Vietnam In The Sky" and "Sleep Sandwich" are also memorable.
NOVEL
Nikolai Leskov: steel Flea (Impediment a)
The sentence is cruel, and had to belong to a character Nabokov: "Speaking of second-rate authors, what do you think of Leskov?" Walter Benjamin tried to rescue him, but we must accept that Nabokov was right for the great Russian literature Leskov is second row. After reading Flea steel, can be qualified by saying: what second row, first! This story, published in 1881, dwells on the best Russian oral tradition, but points to the twentieth century, even the twenty-first wounded nationalist pride before an English invention, a mechanical steel flea, an automaton - the Russians strive to find the craftsman capable of inventing a flea same but better. The end is not up to the above, but the waste of imagination that means competition between mechanical flea is enough to ensure that Leskov not be forgotten.
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