CÁMARA ALTERNATIVA
Septiembre 18 - 24
Joy Division
Joy Division
Dir. Grant Gee
Jon Savage.
EE.UU., Reino Unido / USA, UK, 2006| 100 min.
***
Synopsis
In 1976, four young Englishmen from post-industrial Manchester in decline, attended a concert by the Sex Pistols and decided to form a band: Joy Division. Thirty years later, their powerful and sophisticated sound is more influential than ever. The film introduces the still living band members and reveals the legacy that Joy Division has left in their path.
Comment by: Cámara Alternativa
This is a complete audiovisual experience with descriptive photography and nearly perfect composition. His first speech and how much the young Corbijn had to bring to the film. With impressive nominations, great awards, and the critics at their feet, don't miss this great piece of contemporary cinema.
CINE ESTRENOS
Cómo Perder a tus Amigos
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Dir Robert Weide
Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Megan Fox, Danny Huston, Jeff Bridges
Reino Unido / UK, 2008 | 110 min
***
Synopsis
Sydney Young is a prominent journalist who suffers a decline in his career after joining the prestigious Sharps magazine in New York. Young runs through Manhattan with his bad manners and vulgar pranks that cause monumental mishaps hilarious consequences, until finally wins the heart of his true love.
Comment by David Stratton
Weide bypasses the impulse to push the film at the usual breakneck comedy movie pace, allowing the conflicts to build slowly and with more thought than the film's premise might otherwise suggest. British funny man Simon Pegg continues his downwards spiral with this lame, "'Devil Wears Prada"-styled "comedy."
Voy a Explotar
Dir. Gerardo Naranjo
Daniel Giménez Cacho, Rebecca Jones, Juan Pablo de Santiago, María Deschamps, Martha Claudia
México, 2008 | 103 min
***
Synopsis
Roman and Maru are two troubled teens, who begin an impossible rebellion against the adult world. Roman, a teenager with violent fantasies after being expelled from its eighth school cannot seem to earn the attention of his father. Roman's life changes when he meets Maru, a lonely and confused girl who is in conflict with everything and everyone. Their new life together leads them to discover an intense intimacy that unites them and confuses them.
Comment by Cámara Alternativa
Naranjo's movies, judging by this one and his previous one, Drama/Mex, which I saw a the London Film Festival, are full of sympathy for rebellions kids in his native Mexico and have an omnipresent sense of danger and the unexpected
La Huérfana
Orphan
Dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman, Karel Roden, Jimmy Bennett.
EE.UU., Canadá, 2009 | 123 min
***
Synopsis
Kate Coleman (Vera Farmiga) is a young mother devastated by the recent loss of her baby. Along with her husband John (Peter Sarsgaard), she decides to cheer up her home by adopting a 9 year-old girl. However, the girl is not as innocent as she seems.
Comment by Simon Weaving
One of the good things about ORPHAN, which is directed by Jaume Collet-Sera, is that it takes itself quite seriously and manages to bring a surprising level of originality to the potentially familiar material.
Tinker Bell y el Tesoro Perdido
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
Dir. Klay Hall
VOCES: Mae Whitman, Jesse McCartney, Lucy Liu.
EE.UU. / USA, 2009 | 81 min
***
Synopsis
Opening autumn, Tinker Bell is charged with the creation of a scepter to hold a magical blue stone that will help rejuvenate a Pixie Dust Tree. But Tinker Bell accidentally put this process in peril, and to solve it, she must travel north of Never Land in search of a great treasure.
Comment by Cintia Alviti
Tinker Bell and the lost treasure is an enjoyable story with an ideal length to keep the attention, with a strong message about friendship, sympathetic characters and scenes on the nature fairies to work on that will make more than one child to believe that this happens actually.
Suegra al Ataque
Smother
Dir. Vince Di Meglio
Diane Keaton, Liv Tyler, Dax Shepard, Ken Howard, Mike White
EE.UU. / USA, 2008 | 92min
**
Synopsis
When Noah Cooper, a 29 year-old physiotherapist, is fired from his job and thinks his day cannot get worse. But when he gets home, he discovers that any situation can go from bad to worse when he learns that Marilyn, his overprotective mother, has invaded his home along with her five dogs. Noah is overwhelmed dealing with the pressures of finding another job, and by his wife who desperately wants a baby, and worst of all, a mother who never ceases to smother him.
Comment by Scott Farley
The film was an "OK", but I expected more because of the actors. Yes, Diane Keaton was great, as always, but even though, she didn't touch me so that I could enjoy her acting all the time. I can't comment about Dax Shepard, this is the first time I saw him in a movie, but I guess he was OK. Liv Tyler, come on! She could put a little more effort. But after all she was OK too.
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