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Funny Games
A friend of mine recently suggested that I check out the 1997 Austria film, "Funny Games". The film has recently been readapted into an American version, which I do plan to see soon. (The fact that the film must be re-recorded for American viewers is a silly concept to me. I don't see what's the problem with simply adding subtitles. The fact that the American movie poster attempted to replicate the original Austrian characters as much as possible is ironic to me. At least they kept the same director.)
Funny Games was a beautifully designed movie. The acting was wonderful, the characters convincing, and the storyline terrifying. Interestingly enough, the movie turns out to be one big critique against horror films; acts of violence are not depicted (your imagination fills the blanks), the bad guys purposely attempt to follow the stereotypical structure of a scary movie, and the film is free of any heroes).
Via torrent.
We Don't Need No Education
My daughter steps into my music recording room. "Daddy is this my guitar?" she asks, as she picks up a miniature guitar. "Sure." "Watch me play it," she says as she picks it up and starts strumming it as if she's a rock star. "I don't want to go to schooool!" she starts screaming. "I don't want to go to schooool! I don't want to see the teacherrrrsss!"
Freaking adorable. Rock out.
Here's a video of her fiddling with the guitar:
Freaking adorable. Rock out.
Here's a video of her fiddling with the guitar:
Stella Levitt - Notes So High
For years I've owned a copy of a mysterious mix CD with no track listing. Interestingly enough, today I stumbled upon the follow youtube video which features one of the songs from the mix.
Boy, was I delighted. The mp3 is available here.
Boy, was I delighted. The mp3 is available here.
San Sebastian Videos
Some Latin Jazz near the totem. Towards the end you can see me and the posse goofing around.
Bomba exposition in one of Old San Juan's many plazas.
Plena protest from the teacher's union.
"Cronicas" on DVD
"Cronicas" on DVD
I always thought of John Leguizamo quite highly. Not only was his "House of Buggin'" TV show the Latino predecessor to the David Chapelle Show, but also his work with "Empire" was magnificent. 
His "Cronicas" - an Ecuadorian film - succeeded in impressing me even further.
Twenty minutes after watching the movie I still can't pin point whether or not I "liked" the storyline or not. All I know is that the scenes were so gritty and sensitive that I couldn't erase some of the images from my mind. The most delicate scene was that of the lynching in the beginning of the movie. The look of fear on the face of the victim as the angry crowd doused him in gasoline. The look of sheer terror when they picked him up off of the floor and set him on fire again but this time tied up so that he couldn't roll around.
The gritty walls. The school children playing in the mud. The wobbly wooden houses on stilts. The man who covered himself with his own shit so that nobody would try to kill him in prison. The shaky camera. Magnificent. Latin American media, prison, the parallels of a poverty-stricken Ecuadorian village and a Miami-ized Spanglish-speaking Latino (Leguizamo,) and the lack of law were a number of central themes.
Check it out. "That's fucked up," you'll be thinking as you try to go to sleep. Peep the English-language website here and download the torrent here.
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