While visiting in London, I watched Bleeder. I liked it a lot. Haven't seen any other Danish films, but this one is great. One of the other people commenting here said it was made on a low budget. I certainly wouldn't say it showed heavily. There's no real expensive shots (crowd scenes, explosions, etc), but everything is shot to scale and looks good. Especially the cinematography. This and the acting are perhaps the strongest elements of the film. I kept watching how they had framed each shot and how they would do those angles where one person is in the forground facing the camera with an expression on their face while the other person is off in the background waiting for the foreground person to turn back around. Great! I hope this movie gets distributed in the US.
Reviews
6 Reviews
Dark Days
(2000)
Awesome first-time documentary
14 March 2000
Dark Days is an amazing first-time documentary project. I saw this last night and was blown away. The guy shot a huge amount of film before developing anything. He was lucky he got the light metering right under such challenging conditions!!! He also never checked the audio until all the shooting was done (more than 50 hours)- another small bit of luck! Mark lived in the tunnels under New York City with homeless people for two years while filming this documentary. He lived homeless in every aspect, even dumpster diving for food.
As for the content of the film, it's an incredibly compassionate look into the lives of a few of the many homeless people who lived under New York City in abandoned railway tunnels for decades. Up until recent years, there was a community of multiple thousands of people living down there. Having read the book the Mole People, I'd say this movie is a more compelling and insightful examination of this story.
As for the content of the film, it's an incredibly compassionate look into the lives of a few of the many homeless people who lived under New York City in abandoned railway tunnels for decades. Up until recent years, there was a community of multiple thousands of people living down there. Having read the book the Mole People, I'd say this movie is a more compelling and insightful examination of this story.
American Pimp
(1999)
Same thing as Pimps Up Hos Down, but on film
14 March 2000
Saw this at SXSW this year. Pretty interesting, but unfortunately is territory already covered by HBO films with their piece titled 'Pimps Up Hos Down'. Well done, but not any more insightful than the HBO movie. Perhaps a little more coverage of the history and lots of old pimp scrapbook photos showing them with their cars, girls, and clothes. Definitely worth seeing if you missed PUHD.
The Independent
(2000)
Absolutely hilarious
14 March 2000
I saw this at SXSW this year. Absolutely hilarious. Jerry Stiller is possibly at his finest hour playing the lead role in this film. The writing is terrific as is the direction. Garafalo is good, but clearly Jerry Stiller is the laugh-machine here. This could be the Something About Mary of this year, but without as much gross humor (not that I don't like gross humor). Plenty of wacky cameos by: Andy Dick, Ben Stiller, the entire cast of the Ben Stiller Show, Ron Howard, Roger Corman, and Larry Hankin.
Six-String Samurai
(1998)
Harry Knowles has over-hyped this picture
7 December 1998
I saw this at SXSW in 1998 and thought, wow. Fun movie. Then Harry Knowles completely poured praise over this thing and I went and saw it again when it came to the Dobie Theater later the same year. You know what? It didn't live up to my memory or his hype. I had brought three friends to see it and felt like apologizing as soon as it was over. It's not a good movie.. The thing barely got made, and it shows.
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