My Name Is Joe [VHS]
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VHS Movie Reviews of My Name Is Joe [VHS]
Movie Review: IT'S A LONG WAY TO PARADISE
Summary: 4 Stars
British director Ken Loach's MY NAME IS JOE earned an award at the 1998 Cannes Film festival (Peter Mullan in the Best Actor category) and a few other prizes in European film festivals. After Carla's Song, it was the second time Ken Loach was working with script writer Paul Laverty. Like A Fond Kiss or Ladybird Ladybird [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ], MY NAME IS JOE belongs to the cycle of films Ken Loach dedicated to the present social situation of Great Britain.
MY NAME IS JOE deals with one of Ken Loach's favorite themes: if something must change socially or politically in a given situation, it's only by means of a collective action that things will evolve. Even if Joe Kavanagh manages, for a moment, to help juvenile delinquents around him, he won't be able to eradicate by himself the London underworld. Ken Loach's cinema is terribly pessimistic but, in its small way, it could multiply its seeds and wake in the audience the desire to live in a better world.
A VHS to throw into the garbage can as soon as the DVD is available.
Movie Review: Peter Mullan's Riveting portrayal of addiction in Bitter, Bonnie Scotland
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a rough film...no sugar coating...gritty and in reality as they come!.
Peter Mullan delivers a most riveting performance as Joe Kavanagh, a man ten months sober in AA, struggling in the welfare district of Glasgow, Scotland to survive and turn his life around. He coaches a welfare soccer team, goes to his 12-step meetings and does painting jobs on the sly in order to make ends meet. Life really takes a turn for the best when he meets social worker Sarah Downie (Louise Goodall).Their relationship is sweet and quite charming. How nice it would have been if the McGowen Boys did not rule the town and the drug trade.Joe is forced to make decisions that threaten his sobriety and his relationship with Sarah as he tries to protect his best friends from falling deeper into the world of addiction.No small wonder that Mullan took home the best actor award at Cannes in 1999 for this role. This is acting at it's most primal!
Director Ken Loach always takes on the grim realities of life in his films, and MY NAME IS JOE is not for the faint at heart.Loach exposes Scotland in it's poverty, crime and underworld drug trade through the eyes of a man who is in much need of his own recovery. Loach examines the difficulties that confront those trying to heal from substance abuse in a place where temptation and thugs exist around every corner to thwart the addict's recovery.Loach has one very interesting scene where tourists are seen taking their pictures with a bagpiper who " only knows three songs." Joe remarks "Ah, good ol' Bonnie Scotland!" showing the stark contrast in which outsiders see Scotland as opposed to the problems that it really has.
This film is RAW and has extremely coarse language throughout.There is alot of explosive emotion.This film, though ,is not without it's very tender side. Definitely adult content, MY NAME IS JOE is excellent for understanding the ups and downs of addiction and highlights absolutely some of the finest acting that you will ever see. In English, with subtitles provided in order to maneuver the thick Scottish accents!
A good companion film would be CLEAN AND SOBER.
Movie Review: incredible and moving
Summary: 5 Stars
wow, am i surprised to find this movie on here. no one knows about this movie (at least in america). it's set in scotland and i think it has subtitles even though the characters speak english, so you can understand what they're saying. this movie is totally amazing. i'll never forget it. it's probably the most real romance i've ever seen.. the guy is a charming, poor, recovering addict who falls in love with an ordinary, caring social worker. but there's a problem.. joe needs money, and he can get it from his ex-dealer. to get it, he'll have to do just one drug deal... but is it that simple? and how does it affect his romance with his new love? this movie is so touching and not the gushy romantic garbage you're likely to find at the theater. yes you might have to buy it on VHS instead of DVD, but buy it anyway. it might be a movie you'll never forget. Movie Review: Loach at his political best - and ignore the Houston review !
Summary: 5 Stars
Contrary to the right-wing crap espoused in the Houston, TX review, this work underscores the very raison d'etre of a Loach film - good, solid, honorable, decent working-class lives, brutalized by the horrors of international capitalism - the horrific choices they face each day, in pursuit of food, shelter, companionship and self-respect, and the oft tragic costs meted out to them, for these basic necessities of every-day life. If you come out of the theater having witnessed a Loach film, and still hold any fond thoughts for Reagan, Thatcher or Bush, you weren't watching the screen ! Excellent, hard-wrought movie ...again...and again...Movie Review: Powerful and powerfully moving
Summary: 5 Stars
Pain. Redemption. Addiction. Sacrifice. Recovery. Death. Money. Life. Sex. Love. Rage. Unemployment. Crime. Honor. This film has it all, one of the most powerful stories I've ever seen with "real" people, not stereotypical cutouts so beloved by lazy filmmakers and studio suits. The story chronicles the struggles of "Joe," a recovering alcoholic as he attempts to crawl back out of Hell and into honesty, hope, love, honor, daylight. It's not a pretty film in the sense of being "...and they all lived happily ever after," but hope shines the brighter for a darker setting. (The Scots brogue of the actors is so thick, subtitles are a necessity, not an affectation. Without them, I'd understand probably one word in 10. Maybe 20.) The film shines for never taking the easy way out, never going for that ... plastic "feel good" resolution, but never descending into "more angst-ridden-than-thou," either.