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May 31, 2007
New stuff
PAPRIKA finally opens in theaters this week, and I hope everyone goes to check it out. Among other venues, it'll be playing at the new Landmark Westside Pavilion megaplex opening tomorrow.
I reviewed the film a month or so ago...This week, I have an interview with the director up.
Plus a review of another cool indie: PIERREPOINT - THE LAST HANGMAN. Here's a sample:
Morbid Goths and reserved Anglophiles can at last find some common ground, as both groups are likely to be fascinated by Adrian Shergold’s Pierrepoint—The Last Hangman. Much like Vera Drake, directed by Shergold’s mentor Mike Leigh, it’s the story of an average, modest-looking, middle-class Brit who just happens to deal a little death on the side.“It’s just in me. I always knew it would come out someday,” says Albert Pierrepoint (Timothy Spall) of his vocation as an executioner, one inherited from his father. Right off the bat, we learn the tricks of the trade as he does—how to greet the condemned in a manner that gets them quickly turned around and disoriented (or rather, since this is England, “disorientated”), confusing them enough that they can be swiftly walked into the gallows room before they can get a bead on what’s happening. The first time Pierrepoint participates as a hangman’s assistant, he manages to be completely businesslike and routine, while his mentor shows signs of falling apart. It isn’t long before the trainee becomes the expert.
read the whole thing
Posted by LYT at May 31, 2007 3:32 PM [Message Board]