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"The Wind Rises," animator retires
By GalaTView Staff
Oscar-winning Japanese animator and film director Hayao Miyazaki is retiring. His latest project, “The Wind Rises,” which has been playing in Japanese theaters since late July, will be his last feature film.
Ben Affleck will be a remarkable Batman
Ben Affleck is a good actor for his new role in Batman so this shouldn’t be too surprising. Hopefully they thought outside of the box with this casting choice. According to the news says that Affleck’s Batman will be “an entirely new incarnation of the character.” Amy Adams, Laurence Fishburne and Diane Lane will be returning to reprise their roles in the film as well, which is slated to open worldwide on July 17, 2015.
Cantinflas is alive!
Galatview : Staff
In honor of Cantinflas birthday on August 12, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is debuting with famous titles featuring the legendary comic through their Sony Pictures Choice Collection.
In case you’re unfamiliar, the Sony Pictures Choice Collection is a manufacture-on-demand service featuring never-before-released on DVD titles from more than 75 years of the Columbia Pictures film library.
The Cantinflas titles are:
Barrendero (1982)
Don Napo (Cantinflas, Around the World in Eighty Days) is a city maintenance worker, sweeping up dirt while dancing, singing and flirting with the maids in the neighborhood. One day, Don Napo comes across an abandoned baby in his garbage; the next day, a valuable painting appears in his trashcan. A series of wild events leads Don Napo to face crooked criminals, and he’ll need the help of all of his friends to take them down and save the day!
Conserje En Condominio (1974)
Úrsulo (Cantinflas, Around the World in Eighty Days) is a fast-talking wisecracker who finagles his way into a job as the manager of an upscale apartment building where each tenant is crazier than the last! Dealing with psychics, quarreling couples and young hipsters causing trouble throughout the building, Úrsulo handles everything with wisdom, creativity and humor. While dealing with many issues in the building, he meets Clodomira (Raquel Olmedo, Los Indolentes), a maid for one of the rich women in the building, and they find themselves falling for each other.
Don Quijote Cabalga de Nuevo (1973)
Loosely based on the legendary novel by Miguel de Cervantes, this film follows the adventures of Don Quijote (Fernando Fernán Gómez, All About My Mother) and his faithful sidekick, Sancho Panza (Cantinflas, Around the World in Eighty Days). Don Quijote goes from village to village with Sancho, often on a misguided quest to honor the knight’s confused sense of chivalry, thus leading them into hilarious situations and getting the duo into constant trouble.
ABOUT CANTINFLAS:
Mario Moreno, aka “Cantinflas” created a simple, universal character whose roundabout phrases and meaningless speeches confounded those around him, but delighted Spanish-speaking audiences for decades. “Cantinflas,” whom the legendary comedian Charlie Chaplin dubbed “the funniest man in the world,” began his career in the 1930s in the “carpas” (tent shows) in Mexico City. After early attempts to find his comedic voice, he embraced his own heritage as a lowly slum dweller and audiences enthusiastically endorsed this comic persona. With his tiny mustache tipping the corner of his mouth, a cockeyed cap over dark, disheveled hair, dirty vest and a rope for a belt, Cantinflas became the idol of the masses by satirizing the police and politicians.
As a pioneer in the Mexican film industry, he helped usher in its golden era. His foray into American cinema landed him a Golden Globe as Best Actor for his role in Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), but his comedic presence shined brightest in his Spanish language films. People everywhere identified with the struggles of this winsome ragamuffin, and when he died in 1993, thousands endured a violent downpour in order to touch his casket as it lay in state. His funeral was a national event, lasting three days and attended by the presidents of Mexico, Peru, and El Salvador, and the United States Senate held a moment of silence for him.
'Avengers 2' will surprise to everybody
Galatview Staff
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Tony Stark was just like the comics, a self centered weapons manufacturer who loves his scotch. His intellect was not watered down in the movies either as you can see how smart he is by technology he creates so for Avengers: Age of Ultron, Joss Whedon reveals in this week’s cover story that he’s stripping back some of Ultron’s abilities and will find a way to humanize him more.
Austenland is full of satire, love and comedy
By GalaTView Staff
“AUSTENLAND” is a romantic comedy about 30-something, single Jane Hayes (Keri Russell), a seemingly normal young woman with a secret: her obsession with all things Jane Austen. But when she decides to spend her life savings on a trip to an English resort catering to Austen–crazed women, Jane’s fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency–era gentleman suddenly become more real than she ever could have imagined. Based on the novel by Shannon Hale (who also co-wrote the script), the film was written and directed by Jerusha Hess (writer, “Napoleon Dynamite”) and produced by Stephenie Meyer’s Fickle Fish Films.
The beginning of the film makes great play of the American fascination with British culture and manners. Jane finds herself in romantic entanglements with two men (the easygoing stableboy and the rude Darcy-like figure).
Even there’s not much sense, and dubious sensibility, in looking for true love at a fantasy camp for fiction fans, the main lesson was any person should not believe in fantasies, but love is the only hope to continue our lives forever.
“Austenland” will release the film on August 16, 2013 in New York and Los Angeles and nationally throughout late August / early September.
Fans can't wait to see this film "The Expendables 3"
By GalaTView Staff
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Stallone really pulled in the A-listers this time. Old A-listers, but still A-listers such as Harrison Ford will be stepping in for Bruce Willis in “The Expendables 3” comes word as to who will be playing the film’s antagonist: none other than Mel Gibson or Antonio Banderas.
Red 2 is a modestly entertaining action
Photos and articule by: Alfonso De Elias
In Red 2, the high-octane action-comedy sequel to the worldwide sleeper hit, retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing, next-generation lethal device that can change the balance of world power. To succeed, they’ll need to survive an army of relentless assassins, ruthless terrorists and power-crazed government officials, all eager to get their hands on the technologically advanced super weapon. The mission takes Frank and his motley crew to Paris, London and Moscow. Outgunned and outmanned, they have only their cunning wits, their old-school skills and each other to rely on as they try to save the world-and stay alive in the process. This movie is harmless enough and the first one was a lot of fun and I expect the Red 2 to be as well. Bruce Willis has amazing facial expressions! Watching him being surprised or irritated is just great! Two thumbs up for this new movie
Stop supporting captivity of large aquatic mammals with Blackfish
By : Alfonso De Elias
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Gabriela Cowperthwaite comes with BLACKFISH. Many of us have experienced the excitement and awe of watching 8,000-pound orcas, or “killer whales,” soar out of the water and fly through the air at sea parks, as if in perfect harmony with their trainers. However at this point may have destroyed the ability of some of the cetaceans to thrive in wild. Yet, in our contemporary lore this mighty black-and-white mammal is like a two-faced Janus—beloved as a majestic, friendly giant yet infamous for its capacity to kill viciously. BLACKFISH unravels the complexities of this dichotomy, employing the story of notorious performing whale Tilikum, who—unlike any orca in the wild—has taken the lives of several people while in captivity. So what exactly went wrong? Shocking, never-before-seen footage and riveting interviews with trainers and experts manifest the orca’s extraordinary nature, the species’ cruel treatment in captivity over the last four decades, and the growing disillusionment of workers who were misled and endangered by the highly profitable sea-park industry. This emotionally wrenching, tautly structured story challenges us to consider our relationship to nature and reveals how little we humans have learned from these highly intelligent and enormously sentient fellow mammals. Even if the injuries they inflict on one another when kept in close proximity It’s not all about the trainers, the footage was there to be seen and conservation and rehabilitation is great for this animals but not for some ex trainers who defend the right of a good documentary that is only trying to prove the point that orcas and marine mammals belong in the wild and not a tank doing tricks for food. Two thumbs up for this film which makes us think about life in captivity of killer whales as they are separated from their biological mothers.
Are you excited for a new trip?
By Jenny Alvarez and Alfonso De Elias
Photos by Alfonso De Elias
Pedro Almodóvar is back with his new film ‘I’m So Excited’ starring, in order of appearance, Antonio de la Torre, Hugo Silva, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Laya Martí, Javier Cámara, Carlos Areces, Raul Arevalo, José María Yazpik, Guillermo Toledo, José Luis Torrijo, Lola Dueñas, Cecilia Roth, Blanca Suárez.
In the new comedy by Pedro Almodóvar, a very mixed group of travelers are in a life-threatening situation on board a plane flying to Mexico City.
A technical failure has endangered the lives of the people on board Peninsula Flight 2549. The pilots are striving, along with their colleagues in the Control Center, to find a solution. The flight attendants and the chief steward are atypical, baroque characters who, in the face of danger, try to forget their own personal problems and devote themselves body and soul to the task of making the flight as enjoyable as possible for the passengers, while they wait for a solution. Life in the clouds is as complicated as it is at ground level, and for the same reasons, which could be summarized in two: sex and death.
In press conference Pedro Almodovar said: “This is absolutely a master piece because it has special characters and a wonderful actress and 1963 look was very important to this production. Espana del destape in which everything was freedom.”
“I was very happy because it was intense in many scenes were unique where happiness was extreme with all passengers. Then they decided to change some flirting with some passengers especially for the title of this movie. Light comedy is very important with quality and homosexuality was important for the comedy lack of loneliness and to take care of each other.”
This is the typical comedy that recaptures all types of audience with a high humor from 1970’s influence and based on the modern society from Spain in these days. It is a movie full of magic moments despite the common laughs at certain point; most people were dead silent watching while I was laughing with clever humor whereas this just serves up some repetitive well trod clichés. This is one of the reasons that Pedro Almodovar’s films are always controversial.
Another suffering for Angelina
By GalaTView Staff
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Angelina Jolie’s aunt, Debbie Martin, has lost her battle with breast cancer. So preventative double mastectomy before she dies. I’ll bet knowing that her niece won’t die the same way was a comfort to her in her most difficult days. Our prays are for Angelina’ s family.
