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To describe this movie a synopsis probably wouldn't help at all,
especially since the film is way too open for interpretations for it to
work. But the story is that master filmmaker of the odd Guy Maddin and his
present collaborators Evan and Galen Johnson were commissioned to make an
hommage to San Francisco on film to close out the San Francisco
International Film Festival, and upon starting to compile material for
that movie (consisting entirely of movies and TV shows either shot in San
Francisco or at least representing the city) they came up with the idea to
base this stock footage extravaganza on Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo,
probably the most recognized San Francisco film of all times - but there's
only one shot of that movie in The Green Fog (allegedly, one
doesn't even spot it unless one knows Vertigo like the back of one's
hand), the rest is pretty much a hodge podge of films from all walks of
the quality spectrum and all decades from the late silent era up to the
1990s, including recognized classics like The Lady of Shanghai and The
Birds as well as TV favourites like The Streets of San
Francisco and Hotel, more contemporary flashy fare
like Basic Instinct and Final Analysis (in itself an hommage
to Vertigo), as well as several Chuck Norris starrers and oddities like Confessions
of an Opium Eater, with the added attraction that (apart from the
finale) almost all the dialogue is cut out of the snippets used, resulting
in often jerky and yet strangely fitting editing. The result of
this way of making a found footage movie is ... well, very odd, to say the
least, but Maddin and the Johnsons never forget to entertain at least that
part of the audience that's not just weirdened out by their approach and
throw many winks to film fans and just general people who want to have fun
into the thing. Basically, not for everyone probably, but weird fun for
those who are into the odd side of things - which goes with most of Guy
Maddin's films of course!
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
Out now from Amazon!!! |
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