Once Upon a Time in the West

Today I saw C’era Una Volta il West for the first time. This brilliant movie of director Sergio Leone (The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in America…) is, without doubt, the best western movie I've seen this far and perhaps even the best movie I've ever seen. The film takes over 2.5 hours and Leone is known for his slow storytelling, long silences and few dialogues, so I was really surprised after seeing it. Beautiful panoramas, extreme close-ups, music by Ennio Morricone, great cast... STOP WASTING TIME READING MY BLOG AND GO SEE THIS FILM IMMEDIATELY!!!

Fire Department visit

Very cool clip

Check this clip, who ever came up with the idea? Amazingly it's all filmed in one shot: respect :-D

OK Go - Here It Goes Again

Mosselfeest 2006

Finally, on the 25th of November, after again a whole year, the Mosselfeest is back :-). Every year it's a big succes and it's getting better every year. So if you want to eat some good mollusks for a reasonable price, and with that support our Scouting group, feel free/obliged to come.

Prices, info and reservations

Book review: 'Close-Up' by Cousins M.

A couple of months ago a friend of mine bought this book, and after he telling me about it, I bought it too. Today, finally, I finshed reading it and I don't regret I ever bought the book. For everyone who is interested in the history of film(making) this book is very adviceable.

The book describes the history of film in 3 chronological areas: the silent movies, soundmovies and the digital movies. It doesn't only describes the history of Western movies, but it deals about the whole world history of movies. In my case, that means tha when Cousins was telling about let's say Iranian movies in the late thirties, I really didn't know or even heard of any of the films he was telling about, but he does it in such a way, that it never became boring, or, like Sean Connery said: "M. Cousins is incapable of writing anything about cinema history without making it fascinating."

Marc Cousins is a filmhistorian, producer, director and he gives readings all over the world. As head of the Edinburgh International Film Festival in the 90's he has contacts with lots of famous filmdirectors and actors. In addition, he regularly writes articles for BBC, the Times and many other papers and magazines.

The book I read is a dutch translation, the original title is 'The Story of Film' (ISBN: 1560256125).

Stanley Kubrick Exhibition

Yesterday, me and some friends went to the Stanley Kubrick Exhibition in Ghent. The exhibition's overall concept is marked by the interplay between originals and spatial presentations. Accessible rooms that evoke the atmosphere of Kubrick's films are integrated into the sequence of the exhibition. The installations operate with 3D-objects, film stills, sound, light and music.
The themes of the exhibition are directed by the central subjects of Kubrick's work. His intensive pre-occupation with architecture, design and contemporary art form a keynote in the sections on '2001: A Space Odyssey' and 'A Clockwork Orange'.
Stanley Kubrick's unrealised projects, Napoleon and Aryan Papers, are documented in detail for the first time. Materials from the estate show the considerable development status of Kubrick's project on the life of the French emperor and his adaptation of the novel Wartime Lies by Louis Begley.

I'd say, all go and see this exhibition, even if you don't know any of his films (in that case, you better get/borrow them immediately). You still have time till 7th of January to watch it in Ghent, after that, the exhibition will move to other cities all over Europe.

Movies seen in October

1. Day of the Woman (1978) 6.5/10
2. Father Ted season 2 (1996) 8.5/10
3. Miami Vice (2006) 8/10
4. The Last Samurai (2003) 6.5/10
5. Out Cold (2001) 7.5/10
6. Father Ted season 3 (1998) 8.5/10
7. Vixen! (1968) 7/10
8. Brazil (1985) 8.5/10
9. Lady in the Water (2006) 6.5/10
10. Ong-Bak (2003) 7.5/10
11. Trois Couleurs: Bleu (1993) 7.5/10
12. The Kid (1921) 8/10
13. De Nacht van de Wansmaak - The Final Chapter 9/10
14. World Trace Center (2006) 7/10
15. Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (1971) 7.5/10
16. The Wicker Man (1973) 7.5/10
17. Hans Teeuwen - Dat Dan Weer Wel (2002) 9/10
18. Eurotrip (2004) 5.5/10
19. The Descent (2005) 7/10
20. Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1975) 7/10
21. De Nacht van de Wansmaak - The Very Best Of (2003) 8.5/10
22. Modern Times (1936) 9/10

As you all can see I watched 20 movies this month. Probably now you're thinkin "That much?" but in fact October is, till now, the month I watched less movies than any other month. The best movie I watched this month is 'Modern Times' from director Charles Chaplin (also known from 'The Great Dictator', The Gold Rush', 'The Kid' and many more). Titles in bold are movies I saw in cinema.

Here you can see all the movies I saw this year.