More than Meets the Eye II

here are the movies i watched recently:i 've also added my scores which solely shows my first impression about them and noything more.

1-Awakenings---Penny Marshall 1990 5/10

2-Andrei Rublyov---Andrei Tarkovsky 1966 9/10

3-The Basketball Diaries---Scott Kalvert 1996 7/10

4-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest---Milos Forman 1975 9/10

5-The Nightmare Before Christmas---Tim Burton/Henry Selick 1994 7/10

6-Red-Beard(Akahige)---Akira Kurosawa 1965 7/10

7-The Class---Laurent Cantet 2008 8/10

8-The Broken Embrace---Pedro Almodovar 2009 6/10

9-The Burning Plain---Guilermo Arriaga 2008 8/10

10- 500 Days of Summer---Marc Webb 2009 8/10

11-The Killing Room---Jonathan Liebesman 2009 7/10

i'll write about some of them (specially # 10 and # 11)

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Godfather's Marlon Brando,Forrest Gump's Tom Hanks, Scent of A Woman's Al Pacino,The Piano Teacher Isabelle Huppert, The Dark Knight's Heath Ledger and now Jack Nicholson in Milos Forman's masterpiece :

i got the whole story this way: a kind of border line personality guy is sent to mental institution with a nurse not far from dogmatic manner, in charge

Randle McMurphy (Nicholson) shows his discomfort and tries to break the routines;but he's not well supported by other patients;as it's shown McMurphy's demands are far ahead of other patients thoughts.But after a while he finds other patients' assistance,confronting the wards staff specially cotquean head-nurse...

The squence McMurphy broadcasts Baseball across the TV showing a serial( pretending to watch World Series on TV) This is the saddest scene i have ever seen;a five star Nicholson could make it a memorable and everlasting picture;a mixture of innocence and waggery;how fantastic !

I don't get the concept of the movie;i can make some assumptions;Forman shows the role of elite and genious people demolished in the cast of democracy,or regular bureaucracy

Another angle shows the head nurse didnt really respect the votes as they reach the quorom for watching baseball she refuses to accept the vote.Isn't it a similar story we have with some democracies.(how about Afganistan elections as a recent example.)

It also shows McMurphy as a loser :in the end ; he's not the one who can escape,he's the one who gets caught and sink deeper,brainwashed by harsh treatment ; it seems they blurred his sight offreedom;

eventhough he finds ample oppurtunity to run away he misses them because of his inconssistent manner based on hedonism,and sometime due to his sense of compassion for other patients.He could really find his way out of sanitarium in the interview with psychiatrist but he finds kind of entertainment living there playing a superior role . He's not a must be admitted type at the begining.

I haven't watched any other Forman's film but as i read in IMDB he's got obssessed with this rebellious type personalities .

Final Words : Jack Nicholson realy deserved Oscar prize,also; credit to Sydney Lassick

I give it a 9/10

Movies added to my Archive

Unfortunately i've lost some of my prolific connections (to whom i referred for movies) guys used to be my friends and they have dazzling knowledge about their business.

The acessable options are really hard to deal with;they don't understand any thing but the green language! But that was the only way and i was in the real need.

so on wednesday after 2 days of checking the list (and i have to say their archive didnt cover many of my priorities) i selected these six movies and ordered them:

1-Awakenings---Penny Marshall 1990

2-Andrei Rublyov---Andrei Tarkovsky 1966

3-The Basketball Diaries---Scott Kalvert 1996

4-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest---Milos Forman 1975

5-The Nightmare Before Christmas---Tim Burton/Henry Selick 1994

6-Red-Beard(Akahige)---Akira Kurosawa 1965

>>>these movies still remain in my Thank-List:

1-The Invention of Lying---Ricky Gravis/Matthew Robinson 2009

2-The Panic in Needle Park---Jerry Scalzberg 1971

3-Code Unknown---Michael Haneke 2000

4-Process de Jeanne D'aRc---Robert Bresson 1962

5-The WAges of Fear(Le salaire de la peur)---Henry-Georges Clouzot 1953

6-Mother and Son(Mat i Syn)---Aleksandr Sokurov 1999