Until the End of the World [VHS]
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VHS Movie Reviews of Until the End of the World [VHS]
Movie Review: Hard to Get Until the End of the Movie
Summary: 1 Stars
This futuristic, post-apocalyptic thriller/ comedy/ romance tries to deliver some clever ideas about the power of dreams, memory and its manipulation and control. One should always praise a film that dares to raise thought-provoking questions, yet in this case I can`t help but give it one star. Despite the gripping premise, this movie is too long, unfocused, slow and disjointed to deserve a higher rating. Director Wim Wenders has an interesting concept, still he seems uncomfortable with the material here and the result is a failed attempt. The plot is contrived at best, the characters` motivations and attitudes don`t make much sense and the story truly is a test to one`s patiente and good-will. Ok, so the soundtrack is alright and the directing is competent, but that`s it. Maybe a remake could give a better life to this concept, since this effort is pretentious, incredibly boring and seems unfinishable. It just drags endlessly.One to skip.
Movie Review: music rights must be the problem...
Summary: 5 Stars
That has to be the reason this wonderful wonderful film has not been released on DVD. The soundtrack is mesmerizing, haunting, and still one of my favorite albums of all time. But it must be almost impossible to get the rights to use all that music...U2, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Elvis Costello etc.
As for the film itself, I am in love with it. Sweeping, cinematic, epic, unconventional, dead romantic, chilling. It's a long long film, but I wish it were longer. Even Solveig's stiff acting style grew on me by the middle of the movie, and by the end of it I *was* Clare. This is the LAST VHS TAPE I am still holding onto, since all my other favorites have come out on DVD...and its starting to look a little worn :( PLEEEEASE RELEASE THIS TITLE ON DVD!!!!!!!
Movie Review: #1 of my top 5
Summary: 5 Stars
This is movie covers it all and I've loved from the first time I watched it. On rainy Sunday afternoons I always take this movie out. Now that I'm totally DVD, no more VCR to use, I need the DVD. Please release it! Thank you!Movie Review: Dreamscapes
Summary: 3 Stars
I can understand why some would want to see the full 5 hour version, for in this 2 and a half hour cut, you get the feeling that there's a whole story in the background that we should have been clued in on. Such is the need for a narrator I presume. Although I'm sure the uncut version would slow things down a bit and we would lose some of those logic-defying jump cuts that make this shorter cut so unintentionally unusual.A present culture's vision of the future says more about it's present than it does about it's future. But this film takes it one step further by looking 10 years into the future and making it look like the 10 years previous. For even though it was set in the year 2000, it was made in 1991 and everybody in it looks like they were at a New Year's Eve party in 1982.
The premise of the film is interesting, Wim Wenders has often talked about the sociological aspects of his art-form and the West's fascination with images. Who wouldn't be curious to see their own dreams up on screen? This idea is taken to it's predictable extreme in the Max Von Sydow character who wishes to see the only remaining images that the eye cannot. For the Aboriginies who work with him, this is one step too far. In our eyes the cinematic stereotype of the megalomaniac mad scientist is for them just another over-inquisitive Westerner working to take all the mystery and wonder out of life. This abuse of images becomes a disease for the remaining dream specimens, a disease which is notably cured by reading.
Movie Review: Videos i'm waiting for on DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
If you saw this film in the theater you can appreciate why the VHS will never do it justice....i believe it should be the sample DVD for selling HD and Plasma and LCD TVs. The soundtrack is fantastic, the cinematography is tasty and expansive, acting is within the directors control, and is effective in the storytelling. Along with Bertolucci's Luna which should be moved to digital asap, i love this movie and think it hold joys and secrets and imaginings for this and future generations. What's up with that, Wim?Years back when i bought my first components stereo system from Meyer-Emco, they chose a CD of Orff's Carmina Burana to show off the system i got. "Until the End of the World" should be on the top of every film lovers list and merchants of audio/video would clean up with it as a demo for then new generation of TV.