jesusonair
Joined Jan 2003
Hi there.
Name’s Sergei. I’m a was-student, graduated 4 years ago, studied Japanese (and hating it all the way ).
If these names mean something to you, we’re on the same wavelength, wherever and whoever you are:
Books
Castaneda, Poe, Lovecraft, Zelazny, Gaiman, Kundera, Nietzsche. + Ancient Greek stuff - mythology, tragedies, comedies.
Music
Nirvana, Deftones, Staind, At The Drive-In, Sparta, The Beautiful Mistake, Explosions In The Sky, Sade, Love Spirals Downwards, Massive Attack, Everything But The Girl, Portishead, John Digweed, Sasha.
Sport
Snowboard, skate, mountain bike, baseball, soccer.
Damn, what wavelength, we’re talking movies here, right?
Ok.
My big three: David Lynch, David Fincher, Takeshi Kitano.
Other honorables: Sergei Eisenstein, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godar, Andrei Tarkovsky, David Kronenberg, Oliver Stone, Terry Gilliam, Michael Mann, Alex Proyas, Ridley Scott.
Actresses/actors
Junior league:
Naomi Watts, Jennifer Conelly, Winona Ryder, Paz Vega, Robin Wright-Penn, Sean Penn, Jude Law (degrading), Brad Pitt (too), Ethan Hawke, Cristian Bale, Edward Norton, Keanu Reeves.
Senior league:
Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Jack Nickolson, Jane Fonda, Faye Dunaway.
Underrated people: William Hurt,
Jason Patric, Gary Oldman, Ray Liotta, Brad Dourif, Donald Pleasence, Ernest Borgnine, Lance Henriksen.
Jean Seberg, Jennifer Syme - R.I.P.
Favorites:
Mulholland Drive
Lynch’s best film. Outstanding, haunting soundtrack by Angelo Badalamenti, brilliant acting, especially by Naomi Watts, and, damn, I just love her. For me, the movie began only with her first appearance – when I saw Betty going down the escalator at the airport, her bright blue eyes, I just forgot where I was, was it a movie theater or another planet or just a dream, an illusion... And it felt like I was drowning in her eyes. And it felt beautiful......
Fight Club
This is one of the most influential things i’ve seen in my 22 year-long life. Sorry, Chuck, but the book just don’t have it. Fincher does. Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonam-Carter deliver the goods.
Tyler Dyrden is one hell of a psychopath. But he’s very right on most of his points.
-You are not the clothes you wear. Not the contents of your wallet.
(hey, and don’t forget i am not my stupid bio : ).
-This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time.
Do you like it? What do you live for? What can you do with your life? What can you do with this money, TV, «fame», glamor, consumerism-obsessed world?
Mischief. Mayhem. Soap.
Donnie Darko
An amazing gem of a movie by Richard Kelly. Especially amazing for a firstling. Cool soundtrack. Original and striking plot. Talking Giant Rabbit. Timetravel.
This darkoened story left me crying at the end and wondering and thinking and remembering it ever after.
Thumbs up to Jake Gyllenhaal. You rocked the house!
Gattaca
Everything’s just so right about this one. Ethan Hawke, Jude Law, retro-future, suits, cars, style.
The last night before the flight, Law asks: «What is Titan like this time of the year?»
Launched in 1997 (the year «Gattaca» came out), in the winter of 2005 the space probe «Cassini» reached the Jupiter’s mysterious moon.
No place too far, no stars you can’t reach. If you have the wish and the will to do it – just go. In spite of everything.
Memento
This indie by Chris Nolan is a must-see. It made me watch and listen and think. And i liked all of that.
Hana-bi (Fireworks)
Takeshi Kitano is a unique character. A screenwriter, a director, an actor. And in all that – a class by himself. And his paintings in Hana-bi are simply beautiful.
Violent, tender, incendiary, zen-calm, comic, dead-serious, playful, thoughtful, restless, meditative. And always sincere. This is Kitano. This is what his movies are like. Like nothing else.
Don’t tell me you haven’t seen them.
House of Sand and Fog
Working hard for an American dream? Ever wondered it might be made of sand and fog?
Wind will blow it away and waves shall reap your dream castle... And yet, it still stands there, uncrushed, sand-made, fog-cloaked...
Remarkable performance by Jennifer Connely and Ben Kingsly. Superb movie by Vadim Perelman.
Lucia y el sexo (Lucia and sex)
One of the best movies shot on the digital camera. Paz Vega – her passionate and sincere acting adds up to the charm of this movie. Some say it’s a Spanish «Mulholland Drive». Well, not quite true, but...
Deadman
Jim Jarmusch. Johnny Depp. Neil Young. Lance Henriksen. Iggy Pop. William Blake.
Everyone’s at their best. Needless to say any more.
Heat
There it is, Heat. The duel, hte storyline, the spectacular, glorious ending, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro and "God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters".
Craving to watch:
THX 1138
Paris, Texas
Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds
Lorenzo's Oil
Jacob's Ladder
The Chase (1966)
The Electric Horseman (1979)
Primer
Other movies that I find inspirational and worth watching:
Stalker
Andrei Rublev
Vozvrashenie ("The Return")
Point Break
The reason i didn't include this one into my top 10 is just because it defies any list. I love surfing and parachute jumping (tho i actually never surfed myself:). Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves did a fantastic job. As well as Kathryne Bigelow, of course. Great film, baby!!! Thanx for that!
And, yeah, in trivia, they say that Reeves, who learned to surf for his role still surfs as a hobby to this day. Right on, man!
Oldboy
He’s nobody, just an ordinary man. He gets drunk and awakes in a locked up hotel room. And spends 15 years in this room. Same food, same four walls everyday. Who did that? And why?
Vengeance.
Thinking about Tarantino’s «Kill Bill»? Think again. Looks like a «Monte-Cristo» of our days. And looks crazyfine!
Blood. Fierce Violence. Drive. Love. Horrible truth in the end. The movie’s a masterpiece. Bravo!
Dr. Strangelove
Se7en
The Game
The Beach
The Usual Suspects
Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead
Mad Dog Time
Things I Never Told You.
We Don't Live Here Anymore
Dark City
Solaris (2002)
8½ (1963)
Le Notti di Cabiria (Nights of Cabiria) (1957)
À Bout De Souffle (Breathless) (1960)
Histoires extraordinaires (Tales of Mystery and Imagination)(1968)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
The Natural
Chinatown
Dead Zone
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
Romeo Is Bleeding
Blue Velvet
Lost Highway
Brazil
Barton Fink
The Man Who Wasn't There
Thirteenth Floor
Affliction
Amazing performances, fine score, moody atmosphere, good story. Worth every second of it.
Blade Runner
Best sci-fi movie ever.
eXistenZ
Reality Bites
Ethan Hawke and Winona Ryder and Ben Stiller. Guess who’s the director? Ben Stiller again. And the movie is not a comedy, not at all.
Loved
Robin Wright-Penn is breathtaking here. William Hurt also delivered a good performance. Fine soundtrack.
Narc
A brilliant movie with kick-ass acting by the duo of Jason Patric and Ray Liotta. Everybody else – director and writer Joe Carnahan, cameraman, other actors – damn it was all just so good.
“Both Ray Liotta and Jason Patric participated in the film for nearly no money. In fact, at one point during production the cast and crew's paychecks weren't coming through due to legal and budgetary issues, so Liotta and Patric worked for free because they liked writer/director Joe Carnahan and didn't want to see his career ruined by the shutting down of his movie”.
Check out the rest of the trivia: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272207/trivia
Peace everybody.
Name’s Sergei. I’m a was-student, graduated 4 years ago, studied Japanese (and hating it all the way ).
If these names mean something to you, we’re on the same wavelength, wherever and whoever you are:
Books
Castaneda, Poe, Lovecraft, Zelazny, Gaiman, Kundera, Nietzsche. + Ancient Greek stuff - mythology, tragedies, comedies.
Music
Nirvana, Deftones, Staind, At The Drive-In, Sparta, The Beautiful Mistake, Explosions In The Sky, Sade, Love Spirals Downwards, Massive Attack, Everything But The Girl, Portishead, John Digweed, Sasha.
Sport
Snowboard, skate, mountain bike, baseball, soccer.
Damn, what wavelength, we’re talking movies here, right?
Ok.
My big three: David Lynch, David Fincher, Takeshi Kitano.
Other honorables: Sergei Eisenstein, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godar, Andrei Tarkovsky, David Kronenberg, Oliver Stone, Terry Gilliam, Michael Mann, Alex Proyas, Ridley Scott.
Actresses/actors
Junior league:
Naomi Watts, Jennifer Conelly, Winona Ryder, Paz Vega, Robin Wright-Penn, Sean Penn, Jude Law (degrading), Brad Pitt (too), Ethan Hawke, Cristian Bale, Edward Norton, Keanu Reeves.
Senior league:
Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Jack Nickolson, Jane Fonda, Faye Dunaway.
Underrated people: William Hurt,
Jason Patric, Gary Oldman, Ray Liotta, Brad Dourif, Donald Pleasence, Ernest Borgnine, Lance Henriksen.
Jean Seberg, Jennifer Syme - R.I.P.
Favorites:
Mulholland Drive
Lynch’s best film. Outstanding, haunting soundtrack by Angelo Badalamenti, brilliant acting, especially by Naomi Watts, and, damn, I just love her. For me, the movie began only with her first appearance – when I saw Betty going down the escalator at the airport, her bright blue eyes, I just forgot where I was, was it a movie theater or another planet or just a dream, an illusion... And it felt like I was drowning in her eyes. And it felt beautiful......
Fight Club
This is one of the most influential things i’ve seen in my 22 year-long life. Sorry, Chuck, but the book just don’t have it. Fincher does. Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonam-Carter deliver the goods.
Tyler Dyrden is one hell of a psychopath. But he’s very right on most of his points.
-You are not the clothes you wear. Not the contents of your wallet.
(hey, and don’t forget i am not my stupid bio : ).
-This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time.
Do you like it? What do you live for? What can you do with your life? What can you do with this money, TV, «fame», glamor, consumerism-obsessed world?
Mischief. Mayhem. Soap.
Donnie Darko
An amazing gem of a movie by Richard Kelly. Especially amazing for a firstling. Cool soundtrack. Original and striking plot. Talking Giant Rabbit. Timetravel.
This darkoened story left me crying at the end and wondering and thinking and remembering it ever after.
Thumbs up to Jake Gyllenhaal. You rocked the house!
Gattaca
Everything’s just so right about this one. Ethan Hawke, Jude Law, retro-future, suits, cars, style.
The last night before the flight, Law asks: «What is Titan like this time of the year?»
Launched in 1997 (the year «Gattaca» came out), in the winter of 2005 the space probe «Cassini» reached the Jupiter’s mysterious moon.
No place too far, no stars you can’t reach. If you have the wish and the will to do it – just go. In spite of everything.
Memento
This indie by Chris Nolan is a must-see. It made me watch and listen and think. And i liked all of that.
Hana-bi (Fireworks)
Takeshi Kitano is a unique character. A screenwriter, a director, an actor. And in all that – a class by himself. And his paintings in Hana-bi are simply beautiful.
Violent, tender, incendiary, zen-calm, comic, dead-serious, playful, thoughtful, restless, meditative. And always sincere. This is Kitano. This is what his movies are like. Like nothing else.
Don’t tell me you haven’t seen them.
House of Sand and Fog
Working hard for an American dream? Ever wondered it might be made of sand and fog?
Wind will blow it away and waves shall reap your dream castle... And yet, it still stands there, uncrushed, sand-made, fog-cloaked...
Remarkable performance by Jennifer Connely and Ben Kingsly. Superb movie by Vadim Perelman.
Lucia y el sexo (Lucia and sex)
One of the best movies shot on the digital camera. Paz Vega – her passionate and sincere acting adds up to the charm of this movie. Some say it’s a Spanish «Mulholland Drive». Well, not quite true, but...
Deadman
Jim Jarmusch. Johnny Depp. Neil Young. Lance Henriksen. Iggy Pop. William Blake.
Everyone’s at their best. Needless to say any more.
Heat
There it is, Heat. The duel, hte storyline, the spectacular, glorious ending, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro and "God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters".
Craving to watch:
THX 1138
Paris, Texas
Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds
Lorenzo's Oil
Jacob's Ladder
The Chase (1966)
The Electric Horseman (1979)
Primer
Other movies that I find inspirational and worth watching:
Stalker
Andrei Rublev
Vozvrashenie ("The Return")
Point Break
The reason i didn't include this one into my top 10 is just because it defies any list. I love surfing and parachute jumping (tho i actually never surfed myself:). Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves did a fantastic job. As well as Kathryne Bigelow, of course. Great film, baby!!! Thanx for that!
And, yeah, in trivia, they say that Reeves, who learned to surf for his role still surfs as a hobby to this day. Right on, man!
Oldboy
He’s nobody, just an ordinary man. He gets drunk and awakes in a locked up hotel room. And spends 15 years in this room. Same food, same four walls everyday. Who did that? And why?
Vengeance.
Thinking about Tarantino’s «Kill Bill»? Think again. Looks like a «Monte-Cristo» of our days. And looks crazyfine!
Blood. Fierce Violence. Drive. Love. Horrible truth in the end. The movie’s a masterpiece. Bravo!
Dr. Strangelove
Se7en
The Game
The Beach
The Usual Suspects
Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead
Mad Dog Time
Things I Never Told You.
We Don't Live Here Anymore
Dark City
Solaris (2002)
8½ (1963)
Le Notti di Cabiria (Nights of Cabiria) (1957)
À Bout De Souffle (Breathless) (1960)
Histoires extraordinaires (Tales of Mystery and Imagination)(1968)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
The Natural
Chinatown
Dead Zone
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
Romeo Is Bleeding
Blue Velvet
Lost Highway
Brazil
Barton Fink
The Man Who Wasn't There
Thirteenth Floor
Affliction
Amazing performances, fine score, moody atmosphere, good story. Worth every second of it.
Blade Runner
Best sci-fi movie ever.
eXistenZ
Reality Bites
Ethan Hawke and Winona Ryder and Ben Stiller. Guess who’s the director? Ben Stiller again. And the movie is not a comedy, not at all.
Loved
Robin Wright-Penn is breathtaking here. William Hurt also delivered a good performance. Fine soundtrack.
Narc
A brilliant movie with kick-ass acting by the duo of Jason Patric and Ray Liotta. Everybody else – director and writer Joe Carnahan, cameraman, other actors – damn it was all just so good.
“Both Ray Liotta and Jason Patric participated in the film for nearly no money. In fact, at one point during production the cast and crew's paychecks weren't coming through due to legal and budgetary issues, so Liotta and Patric worked for free because they liked writer/director Joe Carnahan and didn't want to see his career ruined by the shutting down of his movie”.
Check out the rest of the trivia: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272207/trivia
Peace everybody.
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jesusonair's rating
4.7
9Jan 26, 2003
There are things you never can tell why you like them. Why you let this CD hypnotize you,make you listen to it, why you're taken away with that movie. You can't describe it, can't put it into words. It's the air, the atmosphere, the charm of it that takes over you. I felt that in "Loved". And i loved this movie.
And I'd like to thank Robin Wright Penn for acting so heavenly she made me forget to breathe and watch Loved like something that i experience in flesh-with my senses,with my mind,with my heart. And - William Hurt - he's got a flair, he's so unbelievably talented-he never lets you down.
And I'd like to thank Robin Wright Penn for acting so heavenly she made me forget to breathe and watch Loved like something that i experience in flesh-with my senses,with my mind,with my heart. And - William Hurt - he's got a flair, he's so unbelievably talented-he never lets you down.