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Showing posts with label Entertainmentoz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Entertainmentoz. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Brokeback Mountain



Today I saw this great movie
First of all it is not a film for everyone…some will like it…other will not like it at all
It is about passion…anger…rage…pain…loneliness…loss and the truth of human relations
I do not know why I remembered the story of Romeo & Juliet while I was watching…maybe because of the forbidden love and the very sad end…
Every scene is like a magical detailed portrait you will never forget…every single shot has a deep meaning…every single move of the actors are planed to make the effect of this movie work…and every word in the dialogue is so intelligently written that you will enjoy watching the movie again and again
The acting was amazing by Jack Gyllenhaal and Michelle Williams but the star is Heath Ledger who made the best performance of his life.
It is a cultural phenomenal film that shows how real love can be tough and very painful in this world.

Nominated for 8 Oscars 2006

Best Picture
Best Actor (Heath Ledger)
Best Supporting Actor (Jake Gyllenhaal)
Best Supporting Actress (Michelle Williams)
Best Cinematography

Won Oscar for Best Director (Ang Lee)
Won Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay (Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana)
Won Oscar for Best Original Score (Gustavo Santaolalla)

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Hany Academy


He is one of the best of them…hany …the last Egyptian in star academy…he is a hard worker…has an acceptable voice…enlightened and talented…behaves decently with the other girls in the academy with no hugs and kisses ( and we know why )…has a very nice personality and a good heart…but I fear that he will go out of the academy…why…because we do not have time for him…we have our tough life…and to call for him costs money and we barely have money…and what will I get if he won…nothing…he will maybe be famous …make an album or something …maybe be a movie star …and that’s it…but in the first star academy we have done everything to make this loser named Mohamed Atteya to win the competition…and what a nice model
for the Egyptian community he became…

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Believing in ones self


Have you ever listened to a song and had the feeling that someone wrote it specially for you…that is what happened to me when I read the lyrics of the song"I believe in you" from the album Ancora…and ironically I liked this song so much before I knew its message…and because I listen to it every day I decided to know its words…and it was as if my soul is talking to me…summarizing the whole truth of my life in a song and giving me the motivation to accept life and to look for the bright side of it…people who know me will immediately say that it is a clear mirror of my life

Lonely
The path you have chosen
A restless road
No turning back
One day you
Will find your light again
Don't you know
Don't let go
Be strong
Follow you heart
Let your love lead through the darkness
Back to a place you once knew
I believe, I believe, I believe
In you
Follow your dreams
Be yourself, an angel of kindness
There's nothing that you cannot do
I believe, I believe, I believe
In you.

Monday, March 06, 2006

And the Oscar 2006 goes to...:-(

The Oscar night was fabulous…yesterday it was a long day for me…I watched it from 1 am to 6:30 am (due to time zone difference)…and it was worth to watch as the surprise of the Oscar show was at its end…ok…and I went late to college this morning.
Lets talk first about the stars…in my opinion the most beautiful dress was for the actress Rachel Weisz…

although she was pregnant in her 7th month but she looked so beautiful in her black simple dress and with light make up…Salma Hayek looked sexy in her blue dress…and Keira Knightley could have had the most beautiful dress of the night…unfortunately her jewelry looked artificial and cheap…and the worst dress was of Naomi Watts.











Sexy Frida










hmmm...not bad













What the hell is this Naomi...was you drunk yesterday...my grandmother have better things...she can give you one if you want...pssst...tell me...where have you found it...aha...i see...in the garbage...ok




Jon Stewart in his first host at the Oscar was for me a disappointment…as he was trying to make the audience laugh…at the beginning I had the feeling that he was a little bit nervous…but then he tried to overact to make the evening funny...but at least he was not horrible as Chris Rock in the last Oscar.
George Clooney was the star of the night…he was funny…confident and stole the attention from Stewart.


Ok…there were 2 surprises in this Oscar...see my predicitons...hmmm…actually one…because when I heard Will Smith presenting the movie ( Paradise Now ) in the foreign film category and saying that it was from the Palestinian Territory…and not Palestine…I knew it will lose…and I was right …Tsotsi won…but Hany Abu Asaad has done something I do not find any meaning for it...as if he wanted to be on the camera and to feel he has won in this category…when they announced the winner and he jumped from his seat…went to the actual winner – while he was on his way to the stage-and hugged him with happiness and joy.

And here comes the big big big surprise of this 78th Annual Academy Awards…it was when Jack Nicholson came up on stage and opened the envelope…then there was a 5 seconds of silence…and then I saw the big surprise on his face…his eyebrow went up…and then he said : and the Oscar goes to………………oh…….hm….CRASH….and all members of the film jumped from their seats yelling and shouting …as they deeply believed that it will go to Borkeback Mountain…well …we all know the reason why it did not :-(


everyone on this planet was sure that you will win...why were your hands shaking?

nice smile...nice performance...but too long speech



bravo...I hope you will not name your baby "oscar"






cool clooney







Hard luck Ang...but please...leave the Tshong Tshang language away...we do not understand




And here are the winners

Best Film Crash
Best Foreign Film Tsotsi
Best Documentary Film March of the Penguins
Best Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)
Best Actress Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line)
Best supporting Actor George Clooney (Syriana)
Best supporting Actress Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener)
Best original screenplay Crash
Best adapted screenplay Brokeback Mountain
Best editing Crash
Best director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)
Best score Brokeback Mountain
Best song It is hard out here in a pimp (Hustle and Flow)
Best animated film Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Best animated short The Moon and the Sun
Best life action short Six Shooter
Best documentary short A Note of Triumph
Best make up The Chronicles of Narnia: The Linon, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Best costume design Memoirs of a Geisha
Best art direction Memoirs of a Geisha
Best cinematography Memoirs of a Geisha
Best sound mixing King Kong
Best sound editing King Kong
Best visual affects King Kong

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Oscar Predictions 2006

The final countdown…4 days left for the Oscars…and what an event…every year I try to see the nominated movies before the Oscar show to try to predict who is going to win …but this year is different….because only one movie of the five nominated movies was released in Egypt…and the other movies will probably not be shown in theatre because of its shocking content…so here is my predictions for 10 important categories :

Best picture Brokeback Mountain





















Best foreign film Paradise Now





















Best Documentary March of the Penguins






















Best actor Philip Seymour Hoffman for (Capote)






















Best supporting actor George Clooney for (Syriana)






















Best actress Reese Witherspoon for (Walk the Line)…but Felicity Hoffman may have a chance for (Transamerica)





















Best supporting actress Amy Adams for (Junebug)…but Rachil Weisz many also have a chance in (The Constant Gardener)

















Best original screenplay Paul Haggis for (Crash)

















Best adapted screenplay Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana for (Brokeback Mountain)
















Best director Ang Lee for (Brokeback Mountain)

Friday, February 24, 2006

Ancora


These guys are just amazing…their voices…their presentation…their new interpretation of old lovely songs we all know…it is the group “ Il Divo “ … I just heard their songs from the album “Ancora“… and to be honest with you…before that I was not really into classical pop opera songs…but after I heard their excellent voices…I was touched…I was touched from deep inside…and in the song “ I believe in you “ where they sing together with Celine Dion ...I cried … I remembered things in my life…happy things and sad things… my old friends…old places…memories

Saturday, February 18, 2006

Crash


Yesterday I went to see the movie "Crash" in Nile City Cinema after I was disappointed the day before when I went with a friend of mine to Bandar Cinema in Maadi and we found out that they stopped showing it because-as they say-no one wants to see it…although I checked out in the newspaper before going there to be sure that it is shown in that particular cinema…but as we say…we are in Egypt and everything happens…so I went to Cilantro CafĂ© instead.

"Crash" a touchy melancholic movie that leaves you without answers until the end.
I liked the character of Matt Dillon who plays an L.A cop... from the beginning you get to know that he is very bad cop but at the end you find out that he is a normal person like you and me who sometimes makes mistakes but has a good soul.
Sandra Bullock who is always sad and angry in her life-although she has everything- finds out that the last person she thought to be her friend…is her housecleaner.
Ryan Phillippe who is a good-heart cop ruins his life in the end because of a mistake of misunderstanding.

Don Cheadle, Brendan Fraser and Jennifer Esposito...every star in this movie really make a top notch performances...and the first time director Paul Haggies-who is the writer of the last year Oscar winning film “Million Dollar Baby " - achieves what most experienced filmmakers have only dreamed of.

I will never forget the scene where the old man shots the 5 years old girl with the gun in his hand while she was hugging her father…and her father screams so loudly with an amazing sound effect and a fast zoom out…you can only hold your breath.

I can not tell the story of the film...you have to see it yourself...to see how life is so complicated in the multiplicity of storylines and the theme of the complex nature of human being and how we judge everyone according to unjustified manners.