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(The only other role of substance goes to none other than Mariela Pera, unforgettable as the prostitute in "Pixote."
It's like a somewhat more palatable, less brilliant version of Victor Babenenco's Pixote (which is also set in Brazil & deals with the country's abandoned youth).
But the whole story is known by her friend Irene ( Marilia Pera , who played the prostitute who adopts the street kid in " Pixote ").
"Central Station" isn't particularly edgy - not like the graphic, landmark portrait of Brazilian street youths, "Pixote" (as perhaps an homage to that 1981 masterpiece, Salles casts Marilia Pe^ra, the prostitute in that film, in the small role as Dora's roommate).
Over the past three years there have been no less than four narrative films about the beat generation, starting with “Howl” in September 2010.
It seems that filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman had faced a similar challenge with 2010’s Howl, the creatively daring interpretation of the life and works of Beat artist Allen Ginsberg (played by James Franco).
While other adaptations of seminal Beat works, such as Howl (Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, 2010) and Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg, 1991) have incorporated biographical detail with the hallucinogenic imagery and experimental approach from the original texts, On the Road is a much more straightforward adaptation.
These memories are prompted, of course, by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's film version of "Howl", which opened here last year, and the Brazilian Walter Salles 's bold, faithful adaptation of On the Road, some five years or more in preparation.
There are also brief black and white dramatic recreations of moments from Ginsberg's life prior to writing the poem, featuring Todd Rotondi and Jason Potter as "On the Road" writer Jack Kerouac and his legendary friend and inspiration, Neal Cassady.
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006)
Directed by Cao Hamburger
influenced I'm Still Here (2024)
Themes
Brazilian cinema is no stranger to films about the régime, from Camilo Galli Tavares’s The Day That Lasted 21 Years to Cao Hamburger’s The Year My Parents Went on Vacation.
There’s a hint, too, of the protective melancholia of Hideo Nakata’s spine-tingling Dark Water, from which Kent’s multilayered fable borrows both its heartrending theme and ultimate resolution; a strange and terrifying world, seen through the eyes of a mother whom Kent, in an interview, tellingly described as “drowning”.
More reminiscent of "The Others" (Nicole Kidman) than, even, Nakata's The Ring, he departs from the usual setting for such intrigues of the mind by a haunted apartment complex on Roosevelt Island in the East River off Manahattan.
Touchstone would be wise to position “Dark Water” as a movie more akin to “The Others” than “The Ring,” if it hopes to find the audience the movie deserves.
Despite an unsatisfactory ending, Dark Water emerges as a must-see for viewers who enjoyed such memorable ghost stories as The Sixth Sense , The Shining and The Others .
The Day That Lasted 21 Years (2012)
Directed by Camilo Tavares
influenced I'm Still Here (2024)
Themes
Brazilian cinema is no stranger to films about the régime, from Camilo Galli Tavares’s The Day That Lasted 21 Years to Cao Hamburger’s The Year My Parents Went on Vacation.
Kill Your Darlings (2013)
Directed by John Krokidas
influenced by On the Road (2012), The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
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"Kill Your Darlings" is not as kitschy as 2010's " Howl " (with James Franco as Ginsberg) or as dull as director Walter Salles' Kerouac adaptation, " On the Road ," but it's a muddled and silly enterprise that wastes a wonderful central performance by skinny, bespectacled Daniel Radcliffe as the young Ginsberg, whose virginity, bookishness, Jewishness, relative poverty and closeted homosexuality mark him as an outsider even after he is accepted to an exclusive Ivy League school.
Unlike the lusty recent adaptation of “On The Road,” “Kill Your Darlings” has somewhat loftier goals.
But despite its unsure moments, “Kill Your Darlings” has considerable advantages over both Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s “Howl” and Walter Salles’ ambitious, hit-and-miss adaptation of Kerouac’s iconic “On the Road,” which featured Sam Riley and Kristen Stewart.
"Kill Your Darlings" is a microcosm of Allen Ginsburg's college beginnings, and indeed covers the period in Jack Kerouac's life prior to him writing his most famous piece, "On The Road".
In the tradition of such before-they-were-famous portraits as The Motorcycle Diaries, Darlings confines its focus solely to the group's pre-formative years, ending just before they emerge as real artists (i.e. when they actually start to get interesting).
Foreign audiences don’t often get to see this part of the country, which featured in such Brazilian breakouts as “Barren Lives” and “Central Station” but has otherwise been ignored in favor of the country’s more modern metropolises.
In its most commercially successful latterday variant, from Walter Salles’s Central Station through Fernando Meirelles’s City of God to José Padilha’s Elite Squad, that mode has tended to highlight urban deprivation and disadvantaged outsiderhood, and in the latter two cases, spectacular violence, often in a favela setting.
Like Vladimir Nabokov ’s Lolita — the other supreme American road novel of the ’50s — the Kerouac book was a controversial best-seller that Hollywood deemed unfilmable.
Rather than a truly introspective look at a child searching for a parent like “Central Station” (1998) or “The Kid with a Bike” (2011), Gabriela’s journey is an excuse to get her kidnapped so that Rambo can race across the border.
On the other hand, the film is impossibly gorgeous, as shot by Eric Gautier, who has made a career out of gorgeous movies that are kind of bad in all other ways (his last project to make much impact in this country was the pancake-flat Che biopic The Motorcycle Diaries ).
The "getting of wisdom" allows for an ample variety of landscapes, and, if Penn's eye for beauty is mostly trite (cathedral lighting ladled on tree trunks, golden sunsets seen out of a boxcar), a good deal of imagery is splashing-the-lens visceral, caught by the splendid cinematographer Eric Gautier with the offhand glow he lent The Motorcycle Diaries .
Cinematographer Eric Gautier (The Motorcycle Diaries, Clean, Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train) favors long lenses here, the kind that can isolate one subject twixt foreground and background and then, dramatically changing their plane of focus, seek out another.
Enhanced by the storytelling of Jon Krakauer and now Sean Penn, the countercultural tale of Into the Wild has some of the same poetry to it as On the Road or The Motorcycle Diaries.
The camerawork is skillfully designed and executed by cinematographer Eric Gautier ( "The Motorcycle Diaries" who takes advantage of the beauty and off beat off-the-beaten-path nature of the locales.
Gallons of blood come into play (much blood and other fluids are vomited by various possessed characters throughout, and at one point the tower block’s lift fills with blood (which cascaded from the lift in The Shining , Stanley Kubrick, 1980, while torrential rain filled the lift in Dark Water , Hideo Nakata, 2002, threatening to drown those inside) allowing for various women to become drenched in the stuff and look like they’ve wandered in from the finale of Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976).
What I mean to say is that I liked CODA well enough, but we can all agree that the delightful indie won its Best Picture for progressive nutritiousness more than it did for cinematic arts and sciences.
A cross between 2004's " The Motorcycle Diaries ," 2005's " The War of the Worlds ," and 2009's " District 9 " with plenty of 1934's "It Happened One Night" thrown in, "Monsters" is, collectively, like no other feature film in memory.
Suppose there was another international feature to have the ubiquitous touch carried by Parasite only a few years ago.
An On the Road for and about millennials.
Andrea Arnold’s new film, American Honey, throbs with raw teenage hormones and sheer chutzpah in a 21st-century version of On the Road.
Parts "Death of a Salesman," "On the Road," and "Bonnie and Clyde" — with a pinch of "Glengarry Glen Ross" thrown in — this film feels completely of the moment and also classic.
And if I weren’t so ride or die for The Substance, I’d be rooting for a Fernanda Torres win for Best Actress.
In fact, the only real homework movie on the Oscar list is Wicked, which is akin to doing said homework on a desk made of knives, with an anthrax-coated pen, in a house that’s currently on fire.
Deze hit galmde nog lang na in de popcultuur — zoals Jack Kerouacs On the road volgens William S. Burroughs een miljard Levi’s en een miljoen espressomachines verkocht, zo verkocht Top Gun Ray-Bans en bomberjacks.
Letters to Juliet is directed by Gary Winick with a screenplay by Jose Rivera (Academy Award nominee for The Motorcycle Diaries ) and Tim Sullivan.
Bachelor No. 1 is the handsome and vivacious Gael Garcia Bernal, charismatic star of "Y Tu Mama También" and "The Motorcycle Diaries."
Her Sophie is an independent, kind, admirable heroine, and so the disappointment that comes from director Gary Winick's and screenwriters Jose Rivera's (2004's " The Motorcycle Diaries ") and Tim Sullivan's (2006's " Flushed Away ") treatment of her is that they assume she must instantly need a man to be happy.
Screenwriters Jose Rivera ( "The Motorcycle Diaries" ) and Tim Sullivan don't help things by piling on more saccharine than substance and some truly groan inducing lines that severely test this appealing cast's appeal.