#françois ernie

[kwebtv]

Wild Palms  -  ABC  -  May 16 - 20, 1993

Miniseries / Drama / Science Fiction (5 episodes)

Running Time:  285 minutes

Stars:

James Belushi as Harry Wyckoff

Dana Delany as Grace Wyckoff

Ben Savage as Coty Wyckoff

Robert Loggia as Senator Tony Kreutzer

Angie Dickinson as Josie Ito

David Warner as Eli Levitt

Kim Cattrall as Paige Katz

Ernie Hudson as Tommy Laszlo

Nick Mancuso as Tully Woiwode

Bebe Neuwirth as Tabba Schwartzkopf

Aaron Michael Metchik as Peter

Brad Dourif as Chickie Levitt

Charles Hallahan as Gavin Whitehope

Robert Morse as Chap Starfall

Beata Pozniak as Tambor

Bob Gunton as Dr. Tobias Schenkl

Rondi Reed as Eileen Whitehope

Charles Rocket as Stitch Walken

Eugene Lee as Lt. Bob Grindrod

François Chau as Hiro

Monica Mikala as Deirdre Wyckoff

[adamwatchesmovies]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze (1991)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

To a certain extent, children who are fans of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be happy to see ANY rendition of their favorite characters but a part of their subconscious will realize Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze is an inferior sequel. It’s less violent and more kid-friendly, which means uppity parents will be pleased. Well, being pleased is a stretch. The quality of the writing ensures no one will be satisfied.

In New York City, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Leonardo (voiced by Brian Tochi), Donatello (voiced by Adam Carl), Michelangelo (voiced by Robbie Rist), and Raphael (voiced by Laurie Faso) - are searching for a new home with the help of news reporter April O’Neil (Paige Turco this time) while their sensei, Master Splinter (Kevin Clash), begs them to remain hidden. When The Shredder (played by François Chau, voiced by David McCharen) returns, he forces Professor Jordan Perry (David Warner) to use the same ooze that created the turtles on a pair of ferocious animals: the first members of his mutant army.

Right away, it’s a disappointment to see April O’Neil recast and the absence of Elias Koteas as Casey Jones - the character doesn't even get mentioned. Also frustrating is the new kid sidekick who hangs out with the turtles: a pizza delivery boy and martial arts expert named Keno (Ernie Reyes Jr.). Our heroes already have a human friend. Why do they need another?

The most striking difference from the first picture is the overall tone of The Secret of the Ooze. The first movie might not have been fantastic - the four adolescent reptiles were basically interchangeable, the villains bland, there’s a long stretch in the middle where they retreat to a cabin in the countryside that’s as dull as a normal turtle practicing karate - but at least it had ambition. The movie wanted to be awesome. It wanted you to take the action and the premise seriously. It knew kids watching wanted the movie to be what they imagined it would be: a “grown-up” version of what they saw on TV. Director Michael Pressman doesn't even try. The jokes are so bad, so juvenile you'll want to crawl inside your shell and die of embarrassment. The gags make the villains complete non-threats, which robs the plot of any tension. TMNT II is a perfect example of the conservation of ninjutsu rule: the more ninjas on-screen, the less effective they are.

The most baffling aspect of this film is the titular "secret". There comes a point when our heroes get their hands on a canister of the green liquid (whose technical name is apparently “ooze”) and are crushed when they learn their inception was an accident. Well of course it was! You were raised in a sewer! By a rat! You spend your time hiding in the shadows! Did you think you were anything BUT a mistake of creation?!

Oh right. The animal monsters that supposedly pose a threat. They don’t. In another example of bad writing, the creatures - Tokka and Rahzar (not Beebop and Rocksteady, which means another disappointment for the fans) - are initially rejected by The Shredder. He doesn’t think they’re intelligent enough because he expected them to emerge not only super-strong and ferocious but also with genius-level intelligence despite being alive for less than a day. Oh, and then we get ANOTHER explanation for their stupidity: seems Professor Perry tampered with the mutagen to ensure they would be intellectual nincompoops. Because one reason wasn’t enough?

To throw some compliments in its direction, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II once again features impressive costumes/special effects and decent fight choreography considering the restrictions the performers were under. It has the occasional funny gag and if you wanted a less violent movie, you got it. Will this outweigh the horror of an impromptu rap number by Vanilla Ice? I’ll let you decide.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze is a major letdown. It also fails to give fans of the characters what they want and suffers from a major lack of ambition. This plot is so basic you’ll be bored. Well, when you’re not groaning at the deluge of corny gags. (January 1, 2021)

[alexlacquemanne]

Décembre MMXXII

Films

Détective privé (Harper) (1966) de Jack Smight avec Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner, Julie Harris, Shelley Winters et Pamela Tiffin

Le Grand Sommeil (The Big Sleep) (1946) de Howard Hawks avec Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone et Peggy Knudsen

Rebecca (1940) d'Alfred Hitchcock avec Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce et Reginald Denny

Le Baron de l'écluse (1960) de Jean Delannoy avec Jean Gabin, Micheline Presle, Jacques Castelot, Aimée Mortimer, Jean Constantin, Blanchette Brunoy et Jean Desailly

La Femme d'à côté (1981) de François Truffaut avec Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin, Michèle Baumgartner : Arlette Coudray et Véronique Silver

De la part des copains (Cold Sweat) (1970) de Terence Young avec Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, James Mason, Jill Ireland, Jean Topart et Michel Constantin

Un Américain à Paris (An American in Paris) (1951) de Vincente Minnelli avec Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary et Nina Foch

L'Odyssée de l'African Queen (The African Queen) (1951) de John Huston avec Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull et Theodore Bikel

L'Arnaqueur (The Hustler) (1961) de Robert Rossen avec Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, Jackie Gleason et George C. Scott et Myron McCormick

L'Express du colonel Von Ryan (Von Ryan's Express) (1965) de Mark Robson avec Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà, Brad Dexter, Sergio Fantoni et Edward Mulhare

L'Adorable Voisine (Bell, Book and Candle) (1958) de Richard Quine avec James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold et Elsa Lanchester

Hannibal (Annibale) (1959) de Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia et Edgar G. Ulmer avec Victor Mature, Rita Gam, Mario Girotti et Carlo Pedersoli, Gabriele Ferzetti et Milly Vitale

Cléopâtre (Cleopatra) (1963) de Joseph L. Mankiewicz avec Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall, Pamela Brown, George Cole et Martin Landau

Astérix et Cléopâtre (1968) de René Goscinny et Albert Uderzo avec Roger Carel, Jacques Morel, Micheline Dax, Lucien Raimbourg, Pierre Tornade et Bernard Lavalette

Les Trois Mousquetaires (The Three Musketeers) (1973) de Richard Lester avec Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York, Frank Finlay, Christopher Lee, Geraldine Chaplin, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Faye Dunaway et Charlton Heston

On l'appelait Milady (The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge) (1974) de Richard Lester avec Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York, Raquel Welch, Christopher Lee et Faye Dunaway

Salomon et la Reine de Saba (Solomon and Sheba) (1959) de King Vidor avec Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, George Sanders, Marisa Pavan, Finlay Currie et David Farrar

Avatar : La Voie de l'eau (Avatar: The Way of Water) (2022) de James Cameron avec Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Britain Dalton, Chloe Coleman et Stephen Lang

Fantômas (1964) d'André Hunebelle avec Jean Marais, Raymond Pellegrin, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot, Jacques Dynam, Robert Dalban et Marie-Hélène Arnaud

Fantômas se déchaîne (1965) d'André Hunebelle avec Louis de Funès, Jean Marais, Mylène Demongeot, Jacques Dynam et Robert Dalban

Derrick contre Superman (Eine grosse Fünf) (1992) de Michel Hazanavicius et Dominique Mézerette avec Patrick Burgel et Évelyne Grandjean

La Classe américaine : Le Grand Détournement (1993) de Michel Hazanavicius et Dominique Mézerette avec Christine Delaroche, Evelyne Grandjean, Marc Cassot, Patrick Guillemin, Raymond Loyer et Jean-Claude Montalban

Séries

Inspecteur Barnaby Saison 7, 21, 22, 20, 10

Les Femmes de paille - Le monstre du lac - Epouvantables épouvantails - Les Lions de Causton - La Randonnée de la mort - La monnaie de leur pièce - Le couperet de la justice - Les Sorcières d'Angel's Rise

Friends Saison 1, 2, 3

Celui qui déménage - Celui qui est perdu - Celui qui a un rôle - Celui avec George - Celui qui lave plus blanc - Celui qui est verni - Celui qui a du jus - Celui qui hallucine - Celui qui parle au ventre de sa femme - Celui qui singeait - Celui qui était comme les autres - Celui qui aimait les lasagnes - Celui qui fait des descentes dans les douches - Celui qui avait un cœur d'artichaut - Celui qui pète les plombs - Celui qui devient papa : 1re partie - Celui qui devient papa : 2e partie - Celui qui gagnait au poker - Celui qui a perdu son singe - Celui qui a un dentiste carié - Celui qui avait un singe - Celui qui rêve par procuration - Celui qui a failli rater l'accouchement - Celui qui fait craquer Rachel - Celui qui a une nouvelle fiancée - Celui qui détestait le lait maternel - Celui qui est mort dans l'appart du dessous - Celui qui avait viré de bord - Celui qui se faisait passer pour Bob - Celui qui a oublié un bébé dans le bus - Celui qui tombe des nues - Celui qui a été très maladroit - Celui qui cassait les radiateurs - Celui qui se dédouble - Celui qui n'apprécie pas certains mariages - Celui qui retrouve son singe : 1re partie - Celui qui retrouve son singe : 2e partie - Celui qui a failli aller au bal de promo - Celui qui a fait on ne sait quoi avec Rachel - Celui qui vit sa vie - Celui qui remplace celui qui part - Celui qui disparaît de la série - Celui qui ne voulait pas partir - Celui qui se met à parler - Celui qui affronte les voyous - Celui qui faisait le lien - Celui qui attrape la varicelle - Celui qui embrassait mal - Celui qui rêvait de la princesse Leia - Celui qui a du mal à se préparer - Celui qui avait la technique du câlin - Celui qui ne supportait pas les poupées - Celui qui bricolait - Celui qui se souvient - Celui qui était prof et élève - Celui qui avait pris un coup sur la tête - Celui pour qui le foot c'est pas le pied - Celui qui fait démissionner Rachel - Celui qui ne s'y retrouvait plus - Celui qui était très jaloux - Celui qui persiste et signe - Celui que les prothèses ne gênaient pas - Celui qui vivait mal la rupture - Celui qui a survécu au lendemain

Alexandra Ehle Saison 3

Sans visage

Coffre à Catch

#92 : Kane tombe dans un traquenard ! - #93 : The Brothers of Destruction à la ECW ! - #94 : Edge, Kofi, Shelton : Catch Attack représent !" - #95 : Tac Tac c'est l'anniversaire d'Ichtou ! (feat. David Jouan)

The Rookie Saison 4

Dénouement - Toc toc toc - Les trois quêtes - Tir à vue - Témoins à abattre - Un meurtre pour de vrai - Négociation - Traîtres - Simone - Enervo

The Crown Saison 5

Comme un déjà vu - Le système - Mou Mou - Annus horribilis - Des précautions salutaires - La Maison Ipatiev - No woman's land - Une vraie poudrière - Couple numéro 31 - Déclassement

Columbo Saison 4, 3

Inculpé de meurtre - Play Back - Candidat au crime

Affaires Sensibles

Leonarda, l'adolescente qui a défié le président

Meurtres au paradis

Le fantôme de Noël

Spectacles

Bénabar : tournée des indociles (2022) au Cirque d'Amiens

Alain Souchon au Dôme de Paris (2022)

The Glenn Miller Orchestra Live at the Avalon Theatre (2021)

L'orchestre fait son cinéma au Zénith de Pau (2013)

Livres

La vengeance du Chat de Phillipe Geluck

Nota Bene, Tome 5 : La Mythologie Grecque de Benjamin Brillaud, Mathieu Mariolle, Phil Castaza et Joël Odone

Détective Conan, Tome 3 de Gôshô Aoyama

Mémoires d'un gros mytho de François Rollin et Stéphane Trapier

OSS 117 : Gâchis à Karachi de Jean Bruce

Tatiana K. Tome 3 : Le stygmate de Longinus de François Corteggiani et Emanuele Barison

Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours de Jules Verne

Kaamelott Tome 9 : Les renforts maléfiques de Alexandre Astier et Steven Dupré

The Clash en BD de Jean-Philippe Gonot et Gaëts

Le Voyage du Père Noël des Editions Korrigan

Astérix Tome24 : Astérix chez les Belges de René Goscinny et Albert Uderzo

Lucky Luke Tome 56 : Le ranch maudit de Morris, Claude Guylouis et Michel Janvier

[nofatclips]

Badroom by Stuck in the Sound - Directed by Sarah-Lou Lemaître

[pablolf]

The freezeframes are basically all Truffaut. [The style] comes from the first two or three minutes of Jules and Jim. The Truffaut and Godard techniques from the early Sixties that have stayed in my mind — what I loved about them was that narrative was not that important: “Listen, this is what we’re going to do right now and I’ll he right back. Oh, that guy, by the way, he got killed. We’ll see you later.” Ernie Kovacs was that way in the Fifties in TV. I learned a lot from watching him destroy beautifully the form of what you were used to thinking was the television comedy show. He would stop and talk to the camera and do strange things; it was totally surreal. Maybe if I were of a different generation I would say Keaton. But I didn’t grow up with Keaton, I grew up with early TV. [Smith: Or if you’re my generation it would be Pee Wee’s Playhouse.] Yeah, again, breaking up a narrative—just opens up a refrigerator, there’s a whole show inside, and closes the door. That’s great. I love Pee Wee Herman. I tape the show. We had them sent to Morocco when we were doing Last Temptation; on Sundays we’d watch it on PAL system. Yeah. [Laughs] [Smith: GoodFellas uses time deletions during many scenes: you see someone standing by the door, then they’re suddenly in the chair, then —] It’s the way things go. They’ve got to move fast. I was interested in breaking up all the traditional ways of shooting the picture. A guy comes in, sits down, exposition is given. So the hell with the exposition — do it on the voiceover, if need be at all. And then just jump the scene together. Not by chance. The shots are designed so that I know where the cut’s going to be. The action is pulled out of the middle of the scene, but I know where I’m going to cut it so that it makes an interesting cut. And I always loved those jump cuts in the early French films, in Bertolucci’s Before the Revolution. Compressing time. I get very bored shooting scenes that are traditional scenes. In this film, actually the style gave me the sense of going on a ride, some sort of crazed amusement-park ride, going through the Underworld, in a way. Take a look at this, and you pan over real fast and, you know, it kind of lends itself to the impression of it not being perfect — which is really what I wanted. That scene near the end, Ed McDonald talking to [the Hills] —I like that, [it’s as if the movie] kind of stops, it gets cold and they’re in this terrifying office. He’s wearing a terrifying tie —it’s the law and you’re stuck. And they’re on the couch and he’s in a chair and that’s the end of the road. That’s scary.

Martin Scorsese on ‘Goodfellas’

[90smovies]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II The Secret of the Ooze

[rave-lord-nito]

What do you think all of these people have in common?

From top left to bottom right:

François Joseph Lefebvre (Napoleonic era French military commander)

Ernie Kovacs (American comedian and actor)

Enzo Ferrari (Italian racing driver and entrpeneur)

Dame Maggie Smith (English actress)

Nikolai Kuznetsov (Soviet Admiral)

Kowalski (Penguin)

The answer? Their names All their surnames have the meaning of “Smith”

From Latin “Fabbrio” ( from “Faber”: craftsman/smith) and “Ferrio” (From “Ferro”, Iron) comes French “Lefebvre” and Italian “Ferrari” (Plural of “Ferraro”)

Fron Proto-Slavic *kovàti (to forge) comes Polish “Kowal” (Blacksmith, becoming “Kowalski”), Russian “Kuznets/Кузнец” (”Blacksmith”, becoming Kuznetsov) and, via borrowing, Hungarian “Kovács” (”Blacksmith)

Many of these names such as Smith, Kowalski, Kuznetsov and Kovacs, are extremely common surnames (Smith being the most common in the US and UK, Kowalski the second most common in Poland, Kuznetsov the third most common in Russia and Kovàcs the second msot common in Hungary).

The reason so many people have a surname relating to smithing dates back to a time when people didn’t have official surnames, and were often distinguished from others of the same first name by which profession they had. Smith being a very common proffesion, names with its meaning stuck around and are very common up to the modern day.

Other proffesion names in English include Cooper (Barrelmaker), Baker, Thatcher (Someone who made thatch house roofs), Cook, Fisher, Carpenter and Hunt.

[votava-records]

Face to Face · Jasper Van't Hof · Ernie Watts · Bo Stief · Aldo Romano

Jasper van 't Hof (born 30 June 1947)[1] is a Dutch jazz pianist and keyboard player.

Van 't Hof was born in Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands, and began studying piano at the age of five. He played in jazz bands at school, and by the age of 19 was playing at jazz festivals with drummer Pierre Courbois. In 1969, he became a member of Courbois' early European jazz rock band Association P.C. with German guitarist Toto Blanke. As part of Piano Conclave he played with pianists George Gruntz, Joachim Kühn, Wolfgang Dauner, and Keith Jarrett.

In 1974, he founded Pork Pie and teamed up with Philip Catherine (guitar), Charlie Mariano (saxophone), Aldo Romano (drums), and Jean-François Jenny Clark (bass guitar). He joined the band Eyeball with saxophonist Bob Malach and violinist Zbigniew Seifert. He had two bands: Face to Face with Danish bassist Bo Stief and saxophonist Ernie Watts and Pili Pili featuring African singer Angelique Kidjo. He played keyboards with Archie Shepp, although he is best known for his solo piano playing.

[useless-switzerlandfacts]

Month of Swiss Art

As I have announced before, I will be doing a “month of Swiss art”, presumably in October. 

Gotik

Kathedrale von Lausanne

Manesse-Liederhandschrift

Konrad Witz

Renaissance

Antonio da Ponte 

Carlo Maderno

Renaissance 1

Hans Holbein der Jüngere

Hans Ardüser dem Jüngeren

Niklaus Manuel

Barock

Carlo Maderno

Giovanni Serodine

Jean-Étienne Liotard

Barock 2

Fam. Orelli 

Joseph Heintz 

Anna Maria Barbara Abesch 

Romantik

Johann Jakob Bodmer

Johann Heinrich Füssli

Marquard Wocher

Symbolismus

Arnold Böcklin 

Ferdinand Hodler

Realismus

Albert Anker

Ernst Stückelberg

Rudolf Koller

(Neo) Klassizismus

Felix Maria Diogg

Leopold Robert

Impressionismus

François-Louis David Bocion

Alexandre Perrier

Frank Buchser

Post Impressionismus

Giovanni Giacometti

Cuno Amiet

René Auberjonois

Kubismus

Paul Klee

Alice Bally

Expressionismus

Johannes Itten

Fritz Baumann

Dadaismus

Sophie Taeuber Arp

Surrealismus

Meret Oppenheim

Max von Moos

Nouveau Realisme

Daniel Spoerri

Jean Tingueley

Pop art

Emilienne Farny

hugo Schumacher

Sylvie Fleury

Happening/Video art/performance art

Pippilotti Rist (Video art)

John Armleder (Performance art, fluxus)

Photorealism/Hyperrealism

Franz Gertsch

Andy Denzler

Installations

Thomas Hirschhorn

Urs Fischer

Christoph Büchel

Markus Ratz

Illustration

Annie Vallotton

Alois Cargiet

XXX

H. R. Giger

Design

Max Bill

Hans Erni

Landart

Kari Joller

Jean-Yves Piffard

Architecture

Le Corbusier

Herzog de Meuron

Mario Botta

Typefaces

Ernst Keller

Max Mieder

Josef Müller-Brockmann

Photography

Urs Lüthi

Karlheinz Weinberger

Annemarie Schwarzenbach

XXX 

Alberto Giacometti

Varlin

XXX

Luciano Castelli

Comics

Zep (Philippe Chappuis)

Robert Lips

Felix Schaad

Yes, I know, there aren’t a lot of women on this list. It is sadly super difficult to both make a list with well known artist and to make it diverse. I am open to suggestions for more artists and more categories. It is obviously difficult in some cases to exactly define the “category” an artist is in, especially when it comes to modern art, as many artists made different works during their lifetime. Categories marked with an “XXX” are there as a filler and aren’t relevant. The order of these is also up to debate, they are roughly chronological in the beginning but not anymore in the end.

---- This is the final list, I won’t make any changes anymore, except moving the different artists into other categories if I see it fit ----

[filmgnistan]

100. Suspiria (1977, Dario Argento) 99. Yeelen (1987, Souleymane Cissé) 98. Strike (1925, Sergei Eisenstein) 97. The Man Who Sleeps (1974, Bernard Queysanne) 96. A Field in England (2013, Ben Wheatley) 95. Platform (2000, Jia Zhangke) 94. Seven (1995, David Fincher) 93. Death by Hanging (1968, Nagisa Oshima) 92. The Wicker Man (1973, Robin Hardy) 91. Begotten (1991, E. Elias Merhige) 90. Encounters of the Spooky Kind (1980, Sammo Hung) 89. F for Fake (1973, Orson Welles) 88. Possession (1981, Andrzej Zulawski) 87. M (1931, Fritz Lang) 86. The Dante Quartet (1987, Stan Brakhage) 85. A Colt Is My Passport (1967, Takashi Nomura) 84. Stroszek (1977, Werner Herzog) 83. Kill Bill Vol. I & II (2003 / 2004, Quentin Tarantino) 82. Heroic Purgatory (1970, Yoshishige Yoshida) 81. The Hole (1998, Tsai Ming-liang) 80. The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971, Sergio Martino) 79. The 'Burbs (1989, Joe Dante) 78. Le Samouraï (1967, Jean-Pierre Melville) 77. Riki Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991, Lam Nai-choi) 76. Burst City (1982, Sogo Ishii) 75. A Woman Under the Influence (1974, John Cassavetes) 74. The Shout (1978, Jerzy Skolimowski) 73. Go, Go Second Time Virgin (1969, Kōji Wakamatsu) 72. Deadbeat at Dawn (1988, Jim van Bebber) 71. Phase IV (1974, Saul Bass) 70. Spring in a Small Town (1948, Fei Mu) 69. Hausu (1977, Nobuhiko Ôbayashi) 68. Walkabout (1971, Nicolas Roeg) 67. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965, Russ Meyer) 66. Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974, Shūji Terayama) 65. Point Break (1991, Kathryn Bigelow) 64. Side/Walk/Shuttle (1991, Ernie Gehr) 63. The Thing (1982, John Carpenter) 62. Wake in Fright (1971, Ted Kotcheff) 61. The Seasons (1974, Artavazd Peleshian) 60. Noisy Requiem (1988, Yoshihiko Matsui) 59. Maborosi (1995, Hirokazu Koreeda) 58. Femmes de Sade (1976, Alex de Renzy) 57. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper) 56. Daisies (1966, Vera Chytilová) 55. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman) 54. Viy (1967, Konstantin Yershov & Georgi Kropachyov) 53. Black Narcissus (1947, Powell & Pressburger) 52. Broadway Danny Rose (1984, Woody Allen) 51. Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese) 50. My Winnipeg (2007, Guy Maddin) 49. Come and See (1985, Elem Klimov) 48. Persona (1966, Ingmar Bergman) 47. A Scene at the Sea (1991, Takeshi Kitano) 46. The Mirror (1997, Jafar Panahi) 45. Inland Empire (2006, David Lynch) 44. Eden and After (1970, Alain Robbe-Grillet) 43. Only Yesterday (1991, Isao Takahata) 42. Blow Out (1981, Brian De Palma) 41. Funeral Parade of Roses (1969, Toshio Matsumoto) 40. Cannibal Holocaust (1980, Ruggero Deodato) 39. Le Pont du Nord (1981, Jacques Rivette) 38. She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps (1985, Philippe Garrel) 37. The 400 Blows (1959, François Truffaut) 36. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick) 35. Unfaithful Wife: Shameful Torture (1992, Hisayau Sato) 34. Playtime (1967, Jacques Tati) 33. Palms (1993, Artur Aristakisyan) 32. Akira (1988, Katsuhiro Otomo) 31. City Lights (1931, Charlie Chaplin) 30. Upstream Color (2013, Shane Carruth) 29. Singapore Sling (1990, Nikos Nikolaidis) 28. Few of Us (1996, Šarūnas Bartas) 27. A Summer at Grandpa's (1984, Hou Hsiao-Hsien) 26. Crumb (1994, Terry Zwigoff) 25. Late Spring (1949, Yasujiro Ozu) 24. Man with a Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov) 23. Lemonade Joe (1964, Oldřich Lipský) 22. Woman in the Dunes (1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara) 21. Out 1, noli me tangere (1971, Jacques Rivette) 20. Zerkalo (1975, Andrei Tarkovsky) 19. Taste of Cherry (1997, Abbas Kiarostami) 18. Hard Boiled (1992, John Woo) 17. Before Sunset (2004, Richard Linklater) 16. This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (1967, Jose Mojica Marins) 15. The Beyond (1981, Lucio Fulci) 14. Drunken Master II (1994, Lau Kar-leung)  13. It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012, Don Hertzfeldt) 12. Evil Dead II (1987, Sam Raimi) 11. Baraka (1992, Ron Fricke) 10. Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004, Lav Diaz) 09. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989, Shinya Tsukamoto) 08. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer) 07. Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-wai) 06. El Topo (1970, Alejandro Jodorowsky) 05. Soy Cuba (1964, Mikhail Kalatozov) 04. Fight Club (1999, David Fincher) 03. Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa) 02. Ere Erera Baleibu Icik Subua Aruaren (1970, Jose Antonio Sistiaga) 01. Sátántangó (1994, Bela Tarr)

Länk

[whileiamdying]

Written and directed by Clement Desnos Produced by les Monstres Co-produced by Upton Park Publishing Character designer - Clement Desnos Lead background artist - Paul Regnier Color background artist / Color script - Celine Lorthiois Editing - Clement Desnos, Philippe Valette Layoutman - Julien Daubas Animators - Stephane Martzolf, Paul Nivet Lead FX - Guillaume Degroote FX animators - Aurelien Ressencourt, Stephane Martzolf Post production operator - Philippe Valette Sound designer - Felix Davin Character colorist - Elisa Levy Assistant (layout / animation) - Arthur Sevestre Producers - Nicolas Mongin, Helene Orjebin With the support of CNC - Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée (c) 2018 LES MONSTRES Stuck in the Sound is : José R. FONTAO - Lead vocal / Guitar Arno Bordas - Bass Emmanuel Barichasse - Guitar Romain Della Valle - Guitar François Ernie - Drums Published by Upton Park Publishing https://ift.tt/UKpn6Z https://twitter.com/stuckinthesound https://ift.tt/2nacA1Z

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)

It's not that I have no love for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but I didn’t grow up with them. My knowledge of the characters comes from the seasons I watched as an adult on DVD or through pop-culture osmosis. I saw the first film. It wasn't my thing but I understand why children enjoyed it. I came into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze with low expectations and I was pleasantly surprised. It’s not a great picture. Even for Turtles fans, some of it will disappoint, but I enjoyed it more than I didn’t.

Following the defeat of their enemy the Shredder (François Chau), Leonardo (voiced by Brian Tochi), Donatello (Adam Carl), Michaelangelo (Robbie Rist), and Raphael (Laurie Faso), along with their master Splinter (Kevin Clash), are living in reporter April O’Neil’s apartment. When April (Page Turco) interviews Professor Jordan Perry (David Warner) of Techno Global Research Industries, she discovers samples of the chemical compound that created the turtles. When the Shredder returns and steals the last remaining canister of "Ooze", he uses it to create new, powerful minions to help him destroy the Turtles.

This will seem odd, but one of the things I like about this film is how annoying and juvenile the Turtles are. This film gets it. Teenagers are more than pizza gorgers. They’re annoying, they think they’re so funny and can’t imagine that what they're now discovering is old news to every single adult. As a kid, you look up to them. As a grown-up, you’re slightly embarrassed at their juvenile antics. You smile, reminiscing how dopey you must’ve sounded at that age. I don’t know if the intention of The Secret of the Ooze”was to create a story that would morph as the audience grew up, but it’s amusing to me, that had I seen this picture when I was 8 years old I’d feel so differently about it than I do now.

The Turtles ally themselves with a karate-savvy pizza delivery boy named Keno (Ernie Reyes, Jr.) He’s fun. The man’s charismatic, pretty good at performing considering he’s opposite a bunch of guys in suits and I love the idea of a pizza delivery guy befriending the Mutants. Speaking of suits, the special effects are well done. The costumes allow the stuntmen to perform their comedic routines as well as deliver convincing (well, convincing enough) punches and kicks to their opponents without making the picture too violent. The mutants Shredder adds to his arsenal have memorable designs, and there are some decent laughs too.

I don't know how TMNT die-hards will react to this picture. For one thing, it’s less adult, with no cursing and significantly less use of the Turtles’ signature weapons. I suspect people who want their childhood heroes to be taken as more than silly cartoons characters will be disappointed at the light, often goofy tone. The picture drops fan-favorite Casey Jones entirely and instead of having obvious additions to the picture, like Bebop and Rocksteady, the heroes fight brand new mutants. These choices are sure to let them down.

As someone who isn’t indoctrinated in the TMNT fandom, I say this is a decent sequel - I might even like it more than the first. If you grew up with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze you'll find that it mostly retains its entertainment value. (On DVD, July 17, 2016)

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Written and directed by Clement Desnos Produced by les Monstres Co-produced by Upton Park Publishing Character designer - Clement Desnos Lead background artist - Paul Regnier Color background artist / Color script - Celine Lorthiois Editing - Clement Desnos, Philippe Valette Layoutman - Julien Daubas Animators - Stephane Martzolf, Paul Nivet Lead FX - Guillaume Degroote FX animators - Aurelien Ressencourt, Stephane Martzolf Post production operator - Philippe Valette Sound designer - Felix Davin Character colorist - Elisa Levy Assistant (layout / animation) - Arthur Sevestre Producers - Nicolas Mongin, Helene Orjebin With the support of CNC - Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée (c) 2018 LES MONSTRES Stuck in the Sound is : José R. FONTAO - Lead vocal / Guitar Arno Bordas - Bass Emmanuel Barichasse - Guitar Romain Della Valle - Guitar François Ernie - Drums Published by Upton Park Publishing http://bit.ly/2rm9REx https://twitter.com/stuckinthesound http://bit.ly/2FUaoYi

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Written and directed by Clement Desnos Produced by les Monstres Co-produced by Upton Park Publishing

Character designer - Clement Desnos Lead background artist - Paul Regnier Color background artist / Color script - Celine Lorthiois Editing - Clement Desnos, Philippe Valette Layoutman - Julien Daubas Animators - Stephane Martzolf, Paul Nivet Lead FX - Guillaume Degroote FX animators - Aurelien Ressencourt, Stephane Martzolf Post production operator - Philippe Valette Sound designer - Felix Davin Character colorist - Elisa Levy Assistant (layout / animation) - Arthur Sevestre

Producers - Nicolas Mongin, Helene Orjebin

With the support of CNC - Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée

(c) 2018 LES MONSTRES

Stuck in the Sound is : José R. FONTAO - Lead vocal / Guitar Arno Bordas - Bass Emmanuel Barichasse - Guitar Romain Della Valle - Guitar François Ernie - Drums Published by Upton Park Publishing

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Written and directed by Clement Desnos Produced by les Monstres Co-produced by Upton Park Publishing Character designer - Clement Desnos Lead background artist - Paul Regnier Color background artist / Color script - Celine Lorthiois Editing - Clement Desnos, Philippe Valette Layoutman - Julien Daubas Animators - Stephane Martzolf, Paul Nivet Lead FX - Guillaume Degroote FX animators - Aurelien Ressencourt, Stephane Martzolf Post production operator - Philippe Valette Sound designer - Felix Davin Character colorist - Elisa Levy Assistant (layout / animation) - Arthur Sevestre Producers - Nicolas Mongin, Helene Orjebin With the support of CNC - Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée (c) 2018 LES MONSTRES Stuck in the Sound is : José R. FONTAO - Lead vocal / Guitar Arno Bordas - Bass Emmanuel Barichasse - Guitar Romain Della Valle - Guitar François Ernie - Drums Published by Upton Park Publishing https://ift.tt/UKpn6Z https://twitter.com/stuckinthesound https://ift.tt/2nacA1Z

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II The Secret of the Ooze