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Monday, January 8
Children of Men
Kids Я dUst
Trailer
If 'anything about a future dystopian society' tops my mos flavorite genres for book readin than the same muss be true for cinema. I means, how else could one rationally explain my placing of The Island in my top twelve list of last year?!!???!? Don't get me wrong, there are plenty o future duds, remember V For Vendetta... didn't think so, but when a director gets it right, boy (and/or girl) does he (and/or she) get it right. And I am gleefully happy to report that Children of Men is the bestestestest of said genre since 12 Monkeys caputered a captive audience back in the '95. Would you expect anything less from Alfonso Cuarón, the director who made the only thumbcredible Harry Potter flick and made me want to have a foursome with the cast of Y Tu Mamá También?
Dat's right folks, this flick, about our world 20 years from now where women can no longer pop out babies, isn't only a blue ribbon winner of its genre, but of filmdom in general. There's so much goodness goings on that there'll be something for everyone to enjoy, I gar-on-tee. It's purty hard not to come out with anything less than specialtacular when your cast consists of some of today's breast of the breast like Clive Owen, Julianne Moore (try not to get too attached to her character), Chiwetel Ejiofor, Peter Mullan, Danny Huston, newcomer Claire-Hope Ashitey, and Michael Caine, who hands in probably the 2nd finest stoner performance in modern movies (can you guess who's #1? well, I can tell you that Tom Cruise's toking in Eyes Wide Shut is the opposite of #1). Fab cast aside, what truly stands out in this franztastic feature is Cuarón's use of eggsisting locations. It's so much easier to buy into a future when real places are used than when it's all shot on set and all CGI-rendered out on an Apple (it's one of the main reasons why 28 Days Later be da illest horror joint in the past decade). From frame one, I knew Children of Men was going to be something very special, and I hope you feel the same way
Unsatisfied with this?: Netflix Michael Winterbottom's ghastly underseen near-future tale Code 46 [trailer] which also was shot a ton at eggsisting locations
Possible Porno Name: Children On Men
Apt MPupil3: Franco Battiato's cover of the Rolling Stone's 'Ruby Tuesday' [d] which sounds like it belongs in a Wes Anderson flick, but probably wouldn't work as well as it did in CoM. The rest of the sdtrk is purty killah, so czech that shaz out!
A Saucerful of Secrets: yes, that floating pig in the sky is a direct ref to Pink Floyd's album cover for Animals. By the gay, that flamous Battersea Power Station is in the process of being redeveloped
John Grisham's Jizzum (aka Verdict): Breast In Show
until next thyme the balcony is clothed...
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