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I Am Love 2009 Movie 12: The Oscar-Nominated Costume Design of Antonella Cannarozzi



It is not uncommon for me to disagree with the "mainstream" views of movie critics. It certainly is a good idea to keep the "emperors new clothes" goggles on at all times. There are movies, there are great movies and then there are masterpieces. Whenever the term "masterpiece" easily flow from newspaper critics, it is time to be aware. Critics need to make a living and they also need to build a reputation of being able to spot the good from the bad. Now and again a movie come along, that seem to be specifically made for the purpose of being a critic favorite, in the fashion of "I can easily call this a masterpiece and get away with it". "I Am Love" is such a kind of movie.




I Am Love 2009 Movie 12




She starts a secret love affair with the young man and gets her desires fulfilled in his mountain love shack. And this is basically the story of the movie. The scenes tend to be drawn out beyond what the scene or the story can hold. The first half of the movie is basically there to establish the notion that she "suffers" from the "patriarchy" and its "unreasonable" demands on women to support the husbands in their important role as company leaders.


The cinematography is used to point out the differences in experience by keeping family and related very strictly ordered and cold, while the love shack in the mountain is organic, green and sandy colors and disorderly and everyday like. Obviously the female leads attraction goes in this direction, but the overall experience feels way too predictable and two dimensional. The story is not engaging at all and I kept waiting and waiting for this "masterpiece" to appear.


There is a very small side story about her daughter coming out of her lesbian closet and wanting her mothers accept. This she gives her (off course), but we dont get any real development of this bit, which would also, to me at least, be a vastly more interesting aspect of the story than the "love shack".


I Am Love is an extremely escalating film, rising with tension and secrets faster by the minute. Emma, who is Russian-born, displays and increasingly restrained desire for more in her life. While she functions successfully as a mother and near matriarch of a reputable Italian family, she experiences a real spark of wildfire upon meeting Antonio. In the pinnacle scene in which Emma realizes her feelings, she sits with her mother-in-law and soon to be daughter-in-law as they test the cooking abilities of Antonio. She prods at a delicate shrimp entrée, cutting through the meat and chewing it with an almost orgasmic sense of discovery. Guadagnino actually gives her a radiant glow as she sits, falling in love with Antonio through his culinary talent.


A strange week for the DVD and Blu-ray Release Report, as there are only five featured reviews for releases coming out this week. However, there are also eight featured reviews for releases that arrived late, plus another eight or so that came out this week where the screener is late. (There's a couple where I don't know if they will or will not arrive.) The Pick of the Week is one such release, How to Train Your Dragon on Blu-ray / DVD Combo, but be warned, that movie isn't released to the home market till Friday. More...Featured Blu-ray / DVD Review: I Am LoveOctober 10th, 2010


21st century cinema has provided some of the greatest scenes in film history. The following is a list of 25 of the best movie scenes of the century thus far. Please note that the discussion of these scenes may include spoilers.


Emma is introduced to Antonio, a chef for whom her son plans to open a restaurant with. Antonio cooks exquisite meals for Emma, and she soon falls in love with his cooking, and with Antonio himself. After a tragedy occurs during a family dinner, Emma professes her love for Antonio by telling her husband.


The coming-of-age drama, written by veteran filmmaker James Ivory and filmed by DP Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, is based on the 2007 novel of the same name by André Aciman. It is the final installment in Guadagnino's thematic Desire trilogy, following I Am Love (2009) and A Bigger Splash (2015), which were also captured on 35mm film.


A foodie film and a road movie rolled into one, Chef is the creation of actor Jon Favreau, who wrote, co-produced and directed the movie as well as playing the lead. After getting into a Twitter spat with a restaurant critic following a bad review, chef Carl Casper (Favreau) quits his day job at prestigious LA restaurant Gauloise, run by controlling traditionalist Riva (Dustin Hoffman).


Based on a 2010 novel of the same name by Richard C. Morais, The Hundred-Foot Journey tells the story of two competing restaurants in a tiny French village in the commune of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val. Produced by Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey, the movie revolves around the Kadam family, who leave their home in Mumbai and seek asylum in Europe, eventually settling in France.


May 7 "Crush: Five Stories About Love" (2009), 92 minutes, directed by Boris Khlebnikov, Ivan Vyrypaev, Petr Buslov, Aleksei German Jr., and Kirill Serebrennikov, 10 a.m., DLH; "Room and a Half" (2009), 115 minutes, directed by Andrei Khrzanovskii, 2 p.m., DLH; "Hipsters" (2009), 115 minutes, directed by Valerii Todorovskii, 7:30 p.m., MSR; and


Feb. 13-14 'Intimate Apparel' K-State Theater joins with Ebony Theater for a production of Lynn Nottage's critically acclaimed, "Intimate Apparel." The story, set in Manhattan in 1905, revolves around Esther who sews intimate apparel for a variety of clients. She hopes to one day open a beauty parlor. When she searches for a love of her own, she finds it long-distance with a stranger who compromises her dreams. 7:30 p.m., Nichols Theater. Call 532-6428 for ticket information.


Feb. 23'Change How You See,Not How You Look.' As part of the 2009 Season of Nonviolence, Woody Winfree, founder of the I Am Beautiful Project, will cut through the cultural barbed wire about super-thin bodies and six-pack abs. 7 p.m., Forum Hall, K-State Student Union.


Michael Wesch, K-State assistant professor of cultural anthropology and the Carnegie/CASE national professor of the year for research/doctoral universities, is one of the National Geographic Society's "Emerging Explorers" for 2009. The honor, which goes to only 10 people in the world each year, recognizes gifted individuals who have made a significant contribution to world knowledge while still early in their careers.


The movie's queen is Nora (Emmanuelle Devos, in one of the decade's great performances), a single mother juggling the kings in her life: her ten-year-old son, her dying father, a departed first love, a stolid fiancé, and a manic ex. That last one, Ismael, played by Mathieu Amalric, is the movie's other protagonist, the madcap counterpart to Nora's melodramatic diva. Eschewing glib exposition, Desplechin constructs a mercurial, even cubist, character study spilling over with blissed-out experimentalism. Elegant dissolves bump up against discordant cuts; hip-hop crashes into classical music; flashbacks fuse with dreams. Desplechin and his editor, Laurence Briaud, reduce the action to shards, breaking up images and scenes with different takes. That prismatic perspective bespeaks an impulse to embrace life unreservedly and from all angles.


Desplechin knows that the dichotomy is false, which is why he has won the devotion of many hardcore cinephiles. His movies and his outlook redeem our passion. They say what many of us feel to be true: that love of movies and love of life are one and the same.


Writing YA fiction was a goal from the very beginning for Morgan Matson. "I took a year off from college to work in the children's department at an amazing independent bookstore [Vroman's]," Matson recalls. "That was my introduction to YA. I loved it. I read everything I could. When I graduated I got a job as an editor, then saw that the New School had a Writing for Children's M.F.A. and knew right away it was what I wanted to do."


Jacqueline West took many roads before landing in the world of children's literature, but she always loved stories with talking animals and magical worlds. While growing up, she was captivated by the work of A.A. Milne, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, and Kenneth Grahame. She now finds herself in their company with the publication of her first novel, The Shadows (Dial).


Last night I screened My Cousin Vinny as the first installment of Penn State's Faculty Film Series. The purpose of the series is to bring together faculty and students to watch and discuss great movies about law. We had a wonderful discussion about the way the movie portrays lawyers--e.g. their clothes, their demeanor, their pronunciation ("the two yutes" vs. "the two youths").


And we have some great movies lined up in the coming weeks. We're showing 12 Angry Men, North Country, A Few Good Men ("You can't handle the truth!"), Anatomy of a Murder, and my favorite, Kramer vs. Kramer.


I showed "In the Name of the Father" to my fed. courts class last year for our habeas unit. I use movies that talk about shaping the law or creating new law, too. "Iron Jawed Angels" is the only fiction one. The rest are documentaries: "Freedom on my Mind" about freedom summer in Mississippi in 1964 and the attempt to seat the Mississippi Freedom Party at the Democratic National Convention; "Out of the Past" about the GLBT movement in the US; and "Ballot Measure 9" about the campaign to pass a ballot measure limiting GLBT rights like the one in Colorado that was struck down in Romer v. Evans.


Zak, I cannot believe that as much as we talk, we've never talked about this. I was charged with running Hofstra's Visions of the Law series last semester, which featured "To Kill A Mockingbird," "Let Him Have It," "Die Fledermaus," and, of course, "A Few Good Men." We basically asked faculty members what they might like to introduce and then based our schedule of movies on their responses. I was thinking of showing "Transamerican Love Story" and highlighting trans issues that we write about. 2ff7e9595c


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