The Film Apprentice

What a discovery, thanks to internet I discovered this great movie, that didn't get that much attention last year.

Flipped is the story of two eighth graders start to have feelings for each other despite being total opposites. The story is told in such a way that you get both their points of view from Juli (Madeline Carroll) and you flip to Bryce`s (Callan McAuliffe) point of view of things. And it is very very different how an eight grade boy sees reality compared with how an eight grade girl sees it.
The acting is incredible, specially in the case of Madeline Carroll. Also the music and the rhythm of the story is amazing, you will never want to take a break until the movie ends.
I don't want to go deeper on whats the story about, because I feel its better just watching the movie. Its short, 80 minutes, and it passes quickly.
But in conclusion, this movie feels like going back to school, with all those old happy memories.
If you have trouble finding the movie, try here. 
I really don't get why this movie didn't got the attention it deserved.
My rating: 8.5

First of all I'm going to start saying I'm sorry that I didn't post during the last week, but between Purim and 2 assignments I had to do, it was really difficult. I will try not to miss any more posts.
So because it was purim, lets start with a jewish themed video. Kosher face:

After the latest "hit" Friday by Rebeca Black, this week new hit is called "Its the weekend"
 Watch the last scene ever recorded of "Harry Potter"
The trailer of Morgan Spurlock's (super size me) new documentary, "the greatest movie ever sold"

Listen to this "One Man Disney Movie" Amazing!!

Watch the new Chanel Ad with Keira Knightley

Amazing trailer of the upcoming movie about war photographers, The Bang Bang Club
 Watch the best trailer so far this year, for the movie "the tree of life"
 The first trailer for the "Captain America" movie
 Something really funny now, the russian version of "How I met your mother"

To end for today (I think you have more than enough videos to watch) the first teaser trailer of Jim Carrey's next movie

This is our first cool stuff Thursday, here I will post the newest movie trailers, posters, funny videos and cool stuff in general, mainly related to movies with some exceptions. Also I want to thank you all for your visits, comments and helping me with this project.
First we are going to start with some trailers, for the upcoming comedy "Bridesmaids", the action film "Blitz" (starting Jason Statham)

Second, a mash-up of Disney princesses "sucker punch" style.

And last, the typical cute video everybody loves, in this case its a penguin taking a leap of faith. Purim sameaj and have a great weekend.

Today on my first alternative Tuesday I´m going to talk about the french movie Sarah´s Key (Elle s'appelait Sarah) based on the book by Tatiana De Rosnay. The film, directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, is about a   journalist's (Kristen Scott Thomas) present day investigation into the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (where the french army and police reunited all the Jews in Paris, to send them to the Nazi concentration camps), and a story of a young Jewish girl's (Mélusine Mayance) experiences during that same event.
I read 3 years ago the book and I have to say I loved it. The story involves a lot of mystery, drama and surprises and you cannot stop reading it. What the movie gets is that every time something happens, you believe the movie is going to end, and then something else happens, and after that something else. I seriously was expecting the movie to end, half an hour before it actually ended, and I had read the book and knew the ending!

For me, being a Jew and being educated about the holocaust since I was 8 years old, the movie touched my feelings and it gave me goosebumps in more than one occasion. 
Don´t expect an oscar movie, because its not, it is an European movie and it has budget limitations. The locations and historical scenes are not as good as in movies like "Schindler's List" or "The pianist" and the acting is not anything special neither.
Where this movie wins a lot is in the story, the argument. Its a moving story about the passion of a woman that wanted to give a name and a face to one of the millions of victims of the holocaust. She wanted to know her story, and she did everything to find it, although more than 60 years passed since the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup.
Dont watch this movie if: you are looking for action, comedy or to simply pass time.
Watch this movie if: you want mystery, suspense, passion, history and drama.
My Rating = 7.5

If anyone needs a link to download this movie, because it hasn't opened in a lot of countries, leave me your email and I will send it to you.

So this is what happened, im studying communication, and on a course called "cross media" our teacher asked us to write a blog (which I started already before) and if 1 month and a half we get 5000 visits we get automatically 100 on the course (out of 100).  So I need your help to visit my blog as much as possible and also spread the word through email contacts, facebook, twitter and other blog or social networks. I will be eternally grateful. But of course, in order to get that i have a plan to make this blog the best possible and offer you, my readers exactly what you want to read.
So my plan is the following:
Sundays: Popcorn Movies - I will review the newest movies out there, so if you have doubt on what movies to watch on the cinema or rent I will let you know what to expect from them.
Tuesdays: Alternative Day - I will review those movies that not much people know about and that I think deserve more attention and that you should definitivly should watch.
Thursdays: Cool stuff - I will bring you the latest trailers, short films, cool videos and interesting stuff that has been around the web for the last week.
Friday: Review of the week - I will bring you the most important film related news of the week.

I will put my best so you can all enjoy this blog, but please comment on this and the rest of post with any suggestions or ideas you have, also let me know if you like my reviews, post, videos, etc.
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Thanks and I hope you enjoy the blog!!

Last night Natalie Portman (Israeli born) won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her character Nina in Black Swan, directed by Darren Aronofsky. The movie is about Nina, a ballet dancer that wins the lead in "Swan Lake" doing perfectly the role of the White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan, thanks to the pressure of her mother (Barbara Hershey), who was a great young ballarina that never reached the top, her Artistic Director (Vincent Cassel) that pressures her constantly sexualy and Lily (Mila Kunis) a new dancer that impresses the Artistic Director for her role as Black Swan.

Natalie Portman

In terms of acting this movie deserves a 10, because all actors do a great job portraying difficult characters with different pressures and that depending on what point of view we take can look completely different.
The story has a lot of rhythm and is complicated to be bored, althought it may require some thinking to solve whats happening, it has such a good speed that you wont care, you will want to figure out whats going on and thats everything that will matter.
For me something that happens when im bored watching a movie is that I find my self constatnly looking at my watch. Well in Black Swan that didnt happen, and I think that a great sign of how entertaining the movie is.
In terms of Authenticity I think the movie portreys perfectly the pressure of the Ballet, and arts in general. Doing a great job showing from where it can come and how, from family, Directors or fellow dancers.
I would love to comment the end of the movie, because it can have 1000 different explanations, but I dont want to spoil it to anyone, so if you are interested in my opinion, leave me a comment and we can discuss it.
My rating for this movie is an 8. The things I didn't like is that sometimes you can get lost and you don't know how to interpret whats happening, so you take the risk of getting the whole story wrong.

Today I’m going to talk about "The Bourne Identity" by Doug Liman. The story is about a man who is picked up by a fishing boat and doesn’t remember anything about who he is, where he is or why he has bullets in his back. The man (Matt Damon) finds out his name, Jason Bourne, and some information about him in a bank account in Switzerland and with the help of Marie (Franka Potente) he tries to elude assassins and to recover from his amnesia remembering everything about himself. 
The main idea behind the movie is really interesting, a man that forgets everything but suddenly remembers that he knows how to speak a lot of languages; he knows martial arts, etc. Also the fact that they try to include a love story is interesting. What I didn’t like that much is that not much happens, in terms of the story, in the movie. Except in the first and last 15 minutes, Jason Bourne doesn’t find out much about whom he is or why they are trying to kill him.
We could describe the movie as a perfect "airplane movie" because you have a lot of action scenes, for example the chase with the mini cooper (Amazing!!) that make time pass quickly (something very important in a plane), but also if you take a small nap (occurs a lot in planes) when you wake up, you didn’t missed anything important in the movie. 
We also have to understand that after this movie, there were 2 sequels, so it’s in part normal that this movie in particular doesn’t solve all the doubts about the story. And to be an action movie, the action scenes have a lot of quality, including scenes with car chase, shootings in the snow, foot race, escapes, etc. If you are an action movie lover this is a movie you have to watch.
In conclusion, I liked this movie because it has good action, mystery and love. What I didn’t like is the fact that in terms of story, not much happens in the two hours of movie. 
Rating: 7.5

My first review will be about Mark Romanek´s Never Let Me Go (2010). The film, based on the book by Kazuo Ishiguro, talks about the life of three kids, Ruthy (Keira Knightley), Kathy (Carey Mulligan) and Tommy (Andrew Garfield), that grew in an English boarding school in the 70s. At first it seems like the movie may be an historical one, but in the first 10 minutes you discover that in that school the kids only live until their 30s because they are used exclusively to donate organs to other people, raising life expectancy until 100 years.
The concept of the story is interesting. Two types of humans, the ones that live 100 years and that ones that since they were born know that their destiny is to save people by donating their own organs and living a shorter life.

 Although the story is located in a science-fiction context, its really about love and about accepting your destiny. Is about trying to enjoy your life, no matter if its 100 years old or 30 years old. And that's precisely where, in my opinion, the movie fails. The speed of the movies is really slow, is like you are watching the characters (excellent acting of the 3 leads) do their life's and nothing really happens. The movie is divided in three parts, the first one is the kids growing in the boarding school, the second one is the teenagers enjoying life outside of school and the final part is the adults starting to fulfill their destiny, donating. You know that's whats going to happen since the beginning of the movie and there is no surprise at all, maybe excepting the end. I would have preferred if, for example, they tried to escape from the boarding school, or tried escaping their destiny. But it seems that wasn't the main point of the story, the main point was love and I think they didn't express it well enough.
At the end, I enjoyed the acting, I enjoyed the mix of watching a story happening in the 70s but with all this futuristic look of donors being raised and the only thing I really missed was a little bit more of action and suspense.
My rating for this movie is 6.5/10

This is the fourth blog I start, 3th personal one and 2nd in english. This time I promise I will keep updating it constantly. Why I know this one will be the one? because since the last blog I had, I started using Google Reader and reading 123 blogs daily (yes, thats a lot). Also because I need to practice my writing, specially on english; since after attending on sunday and monday the Screenwriter Summit 2011 in Tel Aviv (with Syd Field, John Truby, Linda Seger and Michael Hauge) I decided being a screenwriter is a serious option for my future. Im 19 so theres no hurry to decide what I have to do, but I really have a lot of creativity, a lot of ideas and I just need to learn how to write them down and this blog will help me a lot. Please if I commit any grammatical mistakes, correct me!! I need it.
Also I want to clarify that posts like this one, personal about my life, wont be usual on the blog. I will mainly write reviews about movies I have watched lately, new releases on cinema-dvd or old movies that I have watched (mainly recomendations from the book "1001 movies you have to watch before you die"). Tomorrow I will write my first review, about the movie "Never Let Me Go" directed by Mark Romanek and based on the book by Kazuo Ishiguro.