Posted on December 31st, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Love Is Not A Young Man’s Game
Can you feel her sadness
before she sheds her tears
Can you sense her doubts
before she shows her fears
Do you simply hold her
when that is all she needs
Do you hear her not just listen
wherever her heart leads
Do you know her body
as if it were your own
Can you calm thrill release her
with [...]
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Posted on December 30th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Eternity
Eternity seen as
endless time
leaves life’s mystery
untouched
A sentence with
no point
a story with
no end
a journey with
no arrival
a life with no
youth or age
knowledge with
no wisdom
beauty with
no rebirth
and love without
its deepest power
of loss
Death is part
of the grammar
of life
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Posted on December 25th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Australia – Baz Luhrman
A Christmas party game: invent the worst film titles you can imagine that would put you off going to see a film at all. Some suggestions: Hilarious, Genius, The Movie, Driver, Power and Glory. The only thing that could have made Pearl Harbour a worse film would have been to have called [...]
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Posted on December 23rd, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Gommora – Matteo Garrone
Thomas Hobbes, 16th Century English philosopher once described human life without government, state authority, as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” Garrone’s award-winning film occupies a Hobbesian world: neither his Direction nor Maurizio Braucchi’s screenplay, based upon Roberto Saviano’s whistle-blowing book Gomorra (2006), make any attempt at a coherent narrative in this [...]
Filed under: 4 stars, Action, Drama, Europe/World cinema, Gangster, General, Matteo Garrone, Philosophical, Political | No Comments »
Posted on December 20th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Lemon Tree – Eran Riklis
At the very heart of this quiet, dignified film is a performance by Israeli-Arab Hiam Abbass of such power and stillness that it not only draws us into the pain and mental anguish of poor Palestinian widow Salma Zidane, but also resonates with the ancient Israeli/Palestinian conflict for which Salma’s plight [...]
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Posted on December 14th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
The Day The Earth Stood Still – Scott Derrickson
Keanu Reeves is an Alien: it’s not often you get to write a sentence with three different meanings that is true whichever of them you apply. As a description of Keanu’s role in this re-make of the 50’s Sci-Fi classic it is factually true; as an ironic [...]
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Posted on December 10th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
The Inauguration of President-elect Obama – a world, not just American celebration.
The celebration of president elect Obama’s inauguration will be shared by the world. Its ethnic and racial symbolism touches all nations, all people. A black US President will mark though not an end, a key milestone on the civilising journey from slavery and oppression [...]
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Posted on December 8th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Idjagiedas (In The Hand Of The Night) – Mari Boine
This music has ancient roots. It strikes a deep chord within us, which resonates. Mari Boine is Sami, from northern Norway. A place we used to call Lapland. “Norway? Music? Get outta here”! Bear with me. Mari Boine has almost single-handedly resurrected indigenous Sami music with [...]
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Posted on December 6th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Winter
Rain-teared trees
carry lightly the loss
of their fallen leaves
naked wet-black
they guard the gate
of Winter
At their rooted feet
beneath the undug
grave-soiled earth
the hope of Spring
tomorrow’s ice-hard life
slumbers
Chill-wind fingers
tease and taunt
the mourner’s warmth
his blood life
ebbing back to save
his heart
Death-white ungloved hands
wipe the tears
seeping unremarked
from unseeing eyes
buried deep before him
is love
No blood-fleshed body here
no other life
unless the maggot’s mouth
can eat [...]
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Posted on December 5th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Landmines
As seeds of death are sown
The roots of hate are grown
And mothers cry
As children die
For a cause they’ve never known
The drops of bloody rain
Stain the soil with pain
And men of pride
Try to hide
Their everlasting shame
Heartbreak cries of shattered lives
Go unrecognised
As once again
The sins of men
Create unseeing eyes
We have no choice our leaders say
Someone has to [...]
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