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Last Days
2005
Blake is a rock star. Brilliant but beset by demons, he is slowly buckling under the weight of fame. Rarely emerging from the faded elegance of his mansion, he has cut himself off from the hangers-on, the parasites and users who once taunted his every waking moment. Hiding even from his friends, refusing help, Blake descends .. Read more
| Starring | Michael Pitt, Lukas Haas, Asia Argento, Scott Green |
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| Director | Gus Van Sant |
| Genres | Drama |
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Last Days
Blake is a rock star. Brilliant but beset by demons, he is slowly buckling under the weight of fame. Rarely emerging from the faded elegance of his mansion, he has cut himself off from the hangers-on, the parasites and users who once taunted his every waking moment. Hiding even from his friends, refusing help, Blake descends ever deeper into inner turnoil until eventually he realises he has only one way out... Inspired by the last days and final hours of the iconic Kurt Cobain, Gus Van Sant's tells the mesmerising story of a soul in transition.
| Starring | Michael Pitt, Lukas Haas, Asia Argento, Scott Green, Nicole Vicius |
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| Director | Gus Van Sant |
| Studio | OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 37 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 02 Jan 2006 Production year: 2005 |
| Format | DVD |
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Michel de Nostradamus's prediction about the world ending in July 1999 has proved to be wide of the mark. But with warnings about global warning continuing to go unheeded, there's an eerie prescience about Toshio Masuda's catastrophic vision. With giant slugs turning the seas red, vegetation mutating and monsters roaming the desolate wilderness, this can either be viewed as a dire portent of biospheric and civil meltdown or as a camp classic. A vaguely similar scenario informs Nostradamus: Fearful Prediction (1995), which was sponsored by a religious cult and was, unusually for a Japanese film, directed by a woman, Yumiko Awaya.
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A brilliant film. Captivating and thrilling.
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33 out of 36 people found this review helpful
what a disappointment
What a heap of cr*p!
This movie left me waiting for the poor guy to die just to be put out of my own misery.
It does not take a lot of brain power to imagine what someone wandering around in a stupor looks like. But Gus van Sant uses 89 painful minutes to illustrate this simple idea. And nothing else. I’m all for arty movies that embrace long, quiet scenes of hedgerow (ahem)… if there is something to back it up, some point. This movie has nothing.
There is almost no dialogue and what little there is mostly unintelligible. You learn nothing about the characters or the music and are left feeling cheated and bored.
Kurt Cobain deserves a better portrayal of his last days, even if they were this banal. Damn, a potted plant deserves better and would be more entertaining. -
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
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***** WARNING WARNING WARNING DO NOT WATCH/RENT THIS FILM, YOU WILL HATE YOURSELF FOREVER *****
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Silk
- 08 Nov 2007
It's possible to make a film about very little… the veteran French filmmaker Eric Rohmer has fashioned a wonderful career out of examining romantic ardors that are rarely consummated, and sometimes barely articulated. Still, it's a delicate art, and when it doesn't come off the results can be excruciating. Sadly, Silk is a case in point. French Canadian director Francois Girard is a talented chap - his Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould was a wonderfully spry, innovative alternative to a Read more
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