films films films innit!!! city of god and eichman

HI de ho mothercrushers!!

A lots been cracking in the last like month or whatever!!

I caught oasis, kasabian and the enemy (and reverend and the makers) but they were gash.. i mean are!! generally, not a dig at them live more them generally!

Anyway im getting sidetracked, i wanted to tell y'all i just renewed a long expired blockbuster membership (dvd rental) And my gosh 5 dvds for 5 nights.. what a score! none of them new release obviously at that price.. anywhere between 6 months and flippin years old.. but the selection spans everything from blockbusters to world cinema ... so yesterday holding my membership card like the key to a treasure layden tomb i surveyed all that layed before me.. decided 5 for 5 was the way to go.. and picked out my magic 5

*eichman

*city of god

*capote

*the kite runner

and juno

I can only tell you about the 2 ive watched namely city of god and eichman.. had a lazy day today so i shovled them in one after the other like a film glutton.

CITY OF GOD

Is one of those films i should have seen years ago, but events conspired against me in a cruel way at the cinema and then upon its dvd release years ago.. then eventually lists you wrote with must see's etc get lost and you discover new directors, and new films are released sadly you kind forget about them, until somoene mentions it as a fave or in this case you discover it for rental cheap as an amputee sex worker.

I have no idea why im letting anyone know about city of god as im all too aware its had massive aclaim for like 8 years or sumething and i may well be the last film lover to see it... nut incase anyone else hasnt tho..

Its a masterpiece of story telling and cinematography set in a ghetto city nnot far from rio, telling the stories really of 2 generations of hoods (career criminals) through the eyes of a young boy uninvolved but still in danger in his out of control city , the extent of violence and apparent total lack of respect for life like the cinematography, is breathtaking... weigh up the story, the backdrop of a brazilian slum, the rise and fall of a couple of all be it small (city scale) crime empires, and the afore mentioned boys hunger to get out and become an unlikely famous photographer and youve about got the measure of it... if you havnt seen it you really should.

and

EICHMAN

As you may have guessed this is a film about adolf eichman, top ranking nazi and over seer of the final solution, a heavy subject for a tuesday evening, but handled with skill, the charactures (real people i know) are engaging, and that in some way stops you feeling like youve been through an ordeal by the films end. The film is set in israel in the mid 60's where Eichman stood trial for crimes against humanity and the jewish people and was eventualy hung. The film captures the period perfectly.. It is essentially in film form the interviews had between eichman and the man charged with getting a confesion from him, with flashbacks ( all be it long ones) to the horific events being discussed, along with the intense adversity faced by the interviewer and his young family from the israeli masses, for atemting to put a nazi on trial, rather than heading straight for execution.

An intense and compeling if at times harowing film, recounting a horific time in history, but done with sufficient skill in all departments that it doesnt feel like you are watching the history channel (though id like that too)