Redemption Song - 050826

Redemption Song - movies, music & thoughts - 050826


21 Grams | Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story | The Brothers Grimm | Werner Herzog | Grizzly Man | Cold Play, Dire Straits, Dave Matthews Band, Crosby Stills Nash and Young

<<< please add your comments >>>

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@


MOVIES --


- TONIGHT -

21 Grams (2003)
The complex interconnected story of how the lives of a former drug addict and single mother, Christine (Naomi Watts), a terminally ill mathematics professor, Paul (Sean Penn), and a spiritual ex-convict, Jack (Benicio Del Toro), intersect after a car accident. Clea Duvall co-stars in this gritty drama that's ultimately about hope and redemption.
Starring: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melissa Leo, Clea DuVall, Danny Huston, Carly Nahon, Claire Pakis, Nick Nichols, John Rubinstein, Eddie Marsan
Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu


- LAST NIGHT [additional] -


Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)
Director Rob Cohen presents this biopic on the short life of martial arts icon Bruce Lee (played by Jason Scott Lee, of no relation), who overcame racism and adversity to triumph as an international film star. Lee's controversial death at 32 rocked legions of fans and his wife, Linda (played by Lauren Holly). Based on Linda's 1989 book The Bruce Lee Story, the film takes some artistic license but generally sticks to the facts.
Starring: Jason Scott Lee, Lauren Holly, More
Director: Rob Cohen

see also: Enter the Dragon


above quote[s] from netflix


- NOTES -


MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE BROTHERS GRIMM'
Two Guys Shouting and Magical Trees
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Despite a few early sparks of promise, Terry Gilliam's film sputters and coughs along like an unoiled machine, grinding gears and nerves in equal measure.
review at nyt




oh! and i just heard about this one - a new movie by Werner Herzog - can't wait!

- Grizzly Man -

-- Netflix --
Grizzly Man (2005)
Renowned nonfiction director Werner Herzog chronicles the tragic and untimely death of outdoorsman Timothy Treadwell, who devoted his life to studying grizzly bears living in the Alaskan wilderness -- only to have one of them maul him to death. Pieced together mainly from Treadwell's own video footage, this fascinating documentary goes deep into the wilderness of one man's mind to uncover how he spent his final days.
Starring: Amie Huguenard, Timothy Treadwell
Director: Werner Herzog

-- New York Times --
Grizzly Man
Starring: Timothy Treadwell, Amie Huguenard, Warren Queeney, Willy Fulton, Sam Egli
Directed by: Werner Herzog
REVIEW SUMMARY
One rainy afternoon in the Alaskan wilderness in 2003, a self-made man named Timothy Treadwell was mauled and eaten by a grizzly bear. It may be that the animal, a scrawny male about 28 years old and 1,000 pounds, was trying to fatten up in preparation for its winter's sleep. As it happens, Treadwell, who achieved minor celebrity as an expert on grizzlies, had pitched his tent in a feeding ground. The strange story of Timothy Treadwell, a Long Island native who came to see himself as some kind of ursine Dr. Dolittle, only to die at 46 from a bear attack, is the subject of this documentary from Werner Herzog. The director has a fondness for stories about men who journey into the heart of darkness, both without and within — men like the deranged 16th-century explorer in "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" and the early-20th-century esthete in "Fitzcarraldo" who hauls a steamboat up a mountain to bring Caruso to the Peruvian jungle. Treadwell's journey was no less bold or reckless than these earlier Herzogian tales and certainly no less enthralling. — Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

- - Links - -

netflix.com
movies.nytimes.com


@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@


MUSIC --


- Today's Playlist -

- - "easy listening" - -

Coldplay - "A Rush Of Blood To The Head"
google "Coldplay"http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Coldplay&btnG=Google+Search
coldplay.com

Dave Matthews Band - "Under the Table and Dreaming"
google "Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming"
dmband.com

Dire Straits - "Dire Straits"
google "Dire Straits"
Mark Knopfler website

Crosby Stills Nash & Young - "So Far"
google "Crosby Stills Nash & Young"
csny.net

...something for tomorrow? how about Korn and NIN?


@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@


THOUGHTS --


some people are just total idiots when you put them behind the wheels of a motor vehicle

all for now!


@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

PEACE! Strider

Home: fornits.com/renegade/
Blogs:
Strider's RENEGADE [activism]
striders-renegade.blogspot.com
Strider's REDEMPTION SONG [movies, music & thoughts]
striders-redemption-song.blogspot.com/ << this is where you are