A Beautiful Vampire Film & Wookie Cookies
A Beautiful Vampire Film
Being back in town, I’ve had the chance for some cinematic escapism. I belong to an organization called the IFP which serves as a conduit for aspiring individuals in the realm of film and video. They have many great resources and also promote a wide-range of work.
Following-up on an IFP email, I was awarded with tickets to the premier of a Swedish film entitled Let the Right One In. This is a vampire film, but one that melds together the most sensitive and haunting aspects you could ever wish for in a foreign film. In the words of famed director Guillermo del Toro, it is “as delicate, haunting and poetic a film as you’re ever bound to see.”
(Just to clear things up, this is not the new Hollywood movie called Twilight!)
It involves an emotional and longing boy, picked on at school with only himself to call friend. That is until he meets the girl who moves in next door. In times he discovers the fact she is a vampire but more important to him is her true friendship. Issues of trust, love, betrayal and revenge mix into an incredible film. It’s bittersweet, as you could imagine. Set against the Swedish winter, it connects with a Minnesotan pretty well! His parents are divorced and he goes to visit his dad on occassion. There is one part where his dad is pulling him on a snow machine of some sort and his look of youthful joy is so genuine that it just cuts right into you. The actors are spectacular!
I’d advise you to watch the trailer as it hints at every beautiful element contained in this film. No, it’s not for everyone. It tends for people searching for an emotionally authentic and touching foreign film or those hoping to venture into places they haven’t gone before. Thank you to the director Tomas Alfredson for making this film! Click HERE for the movie website.
The second film experience was humorously awful! My friend is the guilty one, as he had originally introduced me to the Star Wars Christmas Special. Imagine over 20 minutes of dialogue consisting of only Chewbacca’s family grunting and howling and Princess Leia singing, and you got it! It makes you laugh and laugh it is so bad. But, it just doesn’t end! It goes on and on and on!
In addition to the Star Wars stars, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamil and Carrie Fisher, it also includes Art Carney (of the Honeymooners), Harvey Cormann and Bea Arthur! The band Jefferson Airplane has a performance and it is full of late 70’s ‘futuristic’ technology. Bad, bad, bad! To make it even more fitting, I won the grand prize of the evening, ‘The Wookie Cookbook.’
Admittance was a contribution for Toys for Tots and it did get you out and about, but it is something you only need to see once! Now on to making Wookie Cookies!
Being back in town, I’ve had the chance for some cinematic escapism. I belong to an organization called the IFP which serves as a conduit for aspiring individuals in the realm of film and video. They have many great resources and also promote a wide-range of work. Following-up on an IFP email, I was awarded with tickets to the premier of a Swedish film entitled Let the Right One In. This is a vampire film, but one that melds together the most sensitive and haunting aspects you could ever wish for in a foreign film. In the words of famed director Guillermo del Toro, it is “as delicate, haunting and poetic a film as you’re ever bound to see.”
(Just to clear things up, this is not the new Hollywood movie called Twilight!)
It involves an emotional and longing boy, picked on at school with only himself to call friend. That is until he meets the girl who moves in next door. In times he discovers the fact she is a vampire but more important to him is her true friendship. Issues of trust, love, betrayal and revenge mix into an incredible film. It’s bittersweet, as you could imagine. Set against the Swedish winter, it connects with a Minnesotan pretty well! His parents are divorced and he goes to visit his dad on occassion. There is one part where his dad is pulling him on a snow machine of some sort and his look of youthful joy is so genuine that it just cuts right into you. The actors are spectacular!
I’d advise you to watch the trailer as it hints at every beautiful element contained in this film. No, it’s not for everyone. It tends for people searching for an emotionally authentic and touching foreign film or those hoping to venture into places they haven’t gone before. Thank you to the director Tomas Alfredson for making this film! Click HERE for the movie website.
The second film experience was humorously awful! My friend is the guilty one, as he had originally introduced me to the Star Wars Christmas Special. Imagine over 20 minutes of dialogue consisting of only Chewbacca’s family grunting and howling and Princess Leia singing, and you got it! It makes you laugh and laugh it is so bad. But, it just doesn’t end! It goes on and on and on!
In addition to the Star Wars stars, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamil and Carrie Fisher, it also includes Art Carney (of the Honeymooners), Harvey Cormann and Bea Arthur! The band Jefferson Airplane has a performance and it is full of late 70’s ‘futuristic’ technology. Bad, bad, bad! To make it even more fitting, I won the grand prize of the evening, ‘The Wookie Cookbook.’
Admittance was a contribution for Toys for Tots and it did get you out and about, but it is something you only need to see once! Now on to making Wookie Cookies!
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