#Hjejle

[billdecker]

✨ a film for every year of my life ✨ | High Fidelity (2000) dir. Stephen Frears

The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don't wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules. Anyway, I've started to make a tape, in my head, for Laura. Full of stuff she likes. Full of stuff that make her happy. For the first time I can sort of see how that is done.

#high fidelity #high fidelity 2000 #john cusack #jack black #iben hjejle #todd louiso #lisa bonet #2000s #00sedit #2000sedit #moviegifs #filmgifs #movie edit #y2k #i made a thing #mine: films #bdyearfilms

[haveyouseenthisromcom]

#movies #polls #high fidelity #john cusack #iben hjejle #stephen frears #adaptations #ended #result: unseen

[picspammer]

#high fidelity #stephen frears #rob gordon #john cusack #laura high fidelity #iben hjejle #nick hornby

[ghoulfool]

Någon tönt / Gustav III:s äktenskap

#this took way too long.. #my hyperfixated brain made me do it #my edit #gustav iii:s äktenskap #någon tönt #swedish things #18th century #Iben Hjejle #jonas karlsson #gustav iii #period drama

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

#high fidelity #john cusack #jack black #lisa bonet #joelle carter #joan cusack #sara gilbert #iben hjejle #todd louiso #lili taylor #natasha gregson wagner #catherine zeta-jones #stephen frears #2000

[ulrichgebert]

High Fidelity, ein nostalgisches Liebeskomödchen aus der Zeit, als es noch Schallplattenläden gab, und Mixtapes!, bekommt Platz 1 auf der Liste mit Filmen über Leute, die ständig Listen erstellen.

#High Fidelity #John Cusack #Jack Black #Todd Louiso #Tim Robbins #Iben Hjejle #Lisa Bonet #Catherine Zeta-Jones #Lili Taylor #Joan Cusack #Sara Gilbert #Bruce Springsteen #Film gesehen #Stephen Frears #Nick Hornby

[mannytoodope]

#Rob Gordon #John Cusak #Laura #Iben Hjejle #High Fidelity

[cinemacentral666]

The Boss of It All (2006)

Movie #1,093 • Ranking Lars von Trier #9

LVT does… comedy? For someone so indelibly tied to the worlds of human pain if not inescapable and bludgeoning nihilism, this might seem like a strange departure. And that's entirely the idea. As he mentions in one of narration interludes where von Trier zooms out and speaks directly to the audience in voiceover: The point of comedy — in his mind — is to reveal the comedy. It exists for the sake of existing. The film actually ends with an apology for having made it, as if it so say it's all been a gigantic waste of time. There's nothing of substance to be milked from this genre. This is all, naturally, part of the rouse. And while this one takes some time to get its footing and grab hold of said captive audience, it seriously comes together in the end.

It's such a departure for a director who once killed a donkey on set and has filmed unsimulated sex in more than one production. The workplace comedy? This is seriously uncharted territory. It's skewering the idea of white collar business in addition to "office life" but there are other layers to this, as well. It's about the artifice of film and the great lie that is ACTING.

The editing and framing in this is really weird. It's completely strained and choppy. I know it's intentional — LVT actually "invented" a process called "Automavision" specifically for The Boss of It all (check out this mini-doc explaining it) — but it's still off-putting and takes time to get used to. He never used this technique again.

As for the film, the comedy, itself: it's a genius setup. The joke is one-note on the surface but there's a lot of fun to be had with this concept:

The owner of an IT company, Ravn, wishes to sell it. But, for years, he has pretended that the real boss lives in America and communicates with the staff only by e-mail. That way, all the unpopular decisions can be attributed to the absentee manager, while all the popular ones to him directly. But now, the prospective buyer insists on meeting the big boss in person. In a panic, the owner hires a failed, over-intellectualizing actor to portray this imaginary boss, and the actor proceeds to improvise all his lines, to the consternation of both the buyer and the company staff, who finally get to meet their ghostly boss.

In addition to inserting his own voice, there are several additional meta elements (one character negatively refers to the dogma movement at one point). It's meta in the best ways possible: never making a show of it and never taking itself so seriously. And yet the film still has some serious and fascinating things to say, mostly about the creative process. Just as the cinematic method employed to actually shoot and edit the picture, it ends up being about how actors assert a level of control over the end product that the director can never quite control. It's about how language and writing can only go so far ("the idea is God"). The idea of language (writing) in legal contracts expands on this theme. The difference between writing for art and for the law is just another stand-in for how the idea mutates given the context.

It all works because LVT is a genius writer (he's developed so much in this area over the years). Take the small, seemingly insignificant character played by the American actor and longtime von Trier collaborator, Jean-Marc Barr. His entire personality is that he doesn't quite understand the Danish language. It's a microcosm for anyone who feels confused about the plot, or — more to the point — the motivations of a film/filmmaker. It also seems to echo the naivety of his Europa character in a way. His face, not understanding what's going on, in the background of scenes is delightful.

This ending is perfect. Von Trier manages to perfectly execute the idea in a way that somehow expands upon and embraces his previous style (and self-hating ethos). I didn't know what to expect from this outlier (his only narrative film that doesn't fall into a conceptual trilogy) and so I had no expectations. But I walked away inspired. This might be one of, if not his most underrated film.

SCORE: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I’ll be counting down all of Lars Von Trier’s movies right here at @cinemacentral666 every Thursday through September 2023

#lars von trier director #9 #2006 #🇩🇰 #comedy #jens albinus #peter gantzler #friðrik þór friðriksson #benedikt erlingsson #iben hjejle #henrik prip #mia lyhne #casper christensen #louise mieritz #jean-marc barr #sofie gråbøl

[abirdie]

Misleading movie posters, an occasional series...

This movie (also known as Dreaming of Julia and as Cuban Blood) was filmed in 2000, before Amores perros had been released. Gael has a small part (it's significant in terms of the plot of the film, but he's really really really not on screen much and has very few lines).

It was released in the US in 2003, with a poster focusing on Andhy Méndez (that little kid with the bicycle right down near the bottom of this poster) who's the actual central character of the film, but giving Gael third billing behind Harvey Keitel and Iben Hjejle. That's kind of misleading already, but then...

...it got a Mexican release in 2006 and this is the poster they used. There are going to have been a lot of disappointed people in audiences. If you stare at the poster for a while you've already seen more of him than you're going to see in the film.

(Oh, and also it isn't at all the kind of film you'd assume it was from the poster. It's actually a sort of bittersweet elegaic remembrance of childhood under the Batista regime on the eve of the Cuban Revolution.)

#gael garcía bernal #dreaming of julia #cuba libre #cuban blood #gael garcia bernal #movie posters #wtf

[rock-and-romanticism]

High Fidelity, Then and Now

High Fidelity then starred John Cusack as an immature, self-absorbed record store owner who, because of a recent, painful breakup with his girlfriend Laura (perf. Iben Hjejle), went on a tour of self-discovery through conversations with all of his ex girlfriends. He handles his breakup, which is the opening scene of the film, with the grace and maturity of a five year old who just broke his…

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#Film #Film and Music #High Fidelity #John Cusack #Music #Record Stores #Records #WPLongform #Zoe Kravitz

[mitchipedia]

The secret history of Napoleon Bonaparte: Watching “The Emperor’s New Clothes” (2002) starring Ian Holm

We saw “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” an idiosyncratic and charming historical romantic-comedy that starred Ian Holm and came out in 2002.

Napoleon, in exile on the island of St. Helena after his defeat at Waterloo, executes a scheme to escape and be replaced on the island by a double, a common seaman who looks exactly like Napoleon, whose name is Eugene Lenormand. Napoleon will settle in Paris incognito, and the false Napoleon will reveal his true identity, as will the true Napoleon. France will rally and the empire will be restored.

But the plan goes wrong, and Napoleon needs to survive in Paris as Lenormand.

Fortunately for Napoleon, he’s taken in by a pretty widow.

But Napoleon never loses hope, and never stops planning to resume his rightful place as emperor.

Meawhile, he and the widow fall in love. She thinks he’s just Lenormand, a commoner like her, maybe someone who once did prison time.

Holm plays both Napoleon and the sailor Lenormand. He gives two great performances. As Napoleon, Holm is commanding, striding about erect with his hands clasped behind him. And he’s also sad and brave as he adjusts to life without the trappings and luxury of power.

In an early scene, Napoleon, disguised as Lenornmand, commands his ship’s captain to change course immediately and head for France. Holm’s performance is appropriately imperious, and you can easily imagine that underlings would be terrified to receive a command like that from the emperor. But now Napoleon is living the life of a common deckhand, and the ship’s captain just laughs at him.

Later, Napoleon marshals the same charisma to inspire rather than intimidate, and succeeds in rallying a band of struggling street vendors to sell fresh fruit.

Meanwhile, on St. Helena, the false Napoleon is enjoying his captivity. It’s a prison, but it’s posh and luxurious, with fine food, beautiful art and clothing, and servants to tend to Lenormand’s needs. In character as Lenormand, Holm is boorish, gluttonous, drunk and loud. His scenes are played for low comedy.

Iben Hjejle plays the widow, whom everybody calls “Pumpkin.” She’s a Danish actor, probably best known to American audiences for appearing as John Cusack’s girlfriend in “High Fidelity.” Pumpkin is your basic romantic-comedy woman’s role; she’s an auxiliary to the man. Her job is to look beautiful and adore Napoleon (whom she knows as Lenormand). Hjeile does the job. I’d like to see her in a real role sometime.

The magic of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” is that it commits to the bit. It takes its premise seriously.

As Roger Ebert noted in a 2002 review, you can easily imagine the movie going in a broad, Monty Python direction, but instead, “The Emperor’s New Clothes” is “a surprisingly sweet and gentle comedy.”

The dialogue and acting are first-rate, and the costumes and settings are up to the standards of any historical drama.

I was intrigued by “The Emperor’s New Clothes” because of a mention the movie got on the Age of Napoleon podcast, an extremely detailed history of the life and world of Napoleon, which has been running for seven years and isn’t anywhere near done. I’ve been listening to the podcast for several years.

The host, Everett Rummage, said he thought “The Emperor’s New Clothes” was the only movie that he ever saw that truly captured Napoleon’s character. This was before the current Ridley Scott movie came out.

Having now seen “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” I can absolutely see Rummage’s point. Granted, pretty much everything I know about Napoleon comes from Rummage’s podcast. But we know that Napoleon started as a minor nobleman in Corsica, went to French military school and quickly soared through the ranks during the Revolution. Napoleon was arrogant, but he also had a common touch. He was a democrat with a small “d,” unimpressed by aristocracy and valuing talent, character, and loyalty over inherited titles. He slept on the ground with his men in battle, gave them personal attention, and they loved him. We see all these qualities in “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” When the fictional Napoleon is required to scrub decks, sleep in a barn and rub elbows with street vendors, well, we can imagine that Napoleon had experience with that kind of thing.

In reality, Napoleon was a genius. He was an enlightened ruler who swept aside the old order and instituted more egalitarian forms of government that are influential to this day. He nurtured science, scholarship and the arts.

And Napoleon was also a bloodthirsty murderer, tyrant and monster who bathed Europe in blood and re-instituted a regime of brutal slavery that Haiti still has not recovered from more than two centuries later.

We only see the good side of Napoleon in “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” His evil is dealt with in a single line of dialogue. Which is as it should be in this particular movie.

The movie is loosely based on a novel by Simon Ley, “The Death of Napoleon.” Writer Peter Hicks compares the two. Hicks says the book is “a sustained elegy on the wisdom of recognising the important things in life, such as love, happiness, modest success,” which are far more important than the “chimaeras of power and military glory.” The movie has the same theme. As Ebert says, Napoleon gradually realizes that “the best of all worlds may involve selling melons and embracing Pumpkin.”

In an afterword to a 2006 edition of the book, Leys said the movie “was both sad and funny: sad, because Napoleon was interpreted to perfection by an actor (Ian Holm) whose performance made me dream of what could have been achieved had the producer and director bothered to read the book."

Based on Hicks’s description, I think I would prefer the movie and I am not tempted to read the book.

P.S. Hugh Bonneville, who stars “Downton Abbey” as Robert Crawley, plays a supporting role in “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” I didn’t recognize him.

#movies #napoleon #history #romcom

[yekuana]

🎬💧🎞️ The Rain (Serie de TV) (2018) Sinopsis Serie de TV (2018-2020). 3 temporadas. 20 episodios. Seis años después de que un agresivo virus propagado por la lluvia acabara con casi todos los habitantes de Escandinavia, dos hermanos salen de la comodidad de su bunker para regresar a una civilización que seguramente ya no exista. Pronto se unirán a un grupo de jóvenes supervivientes que también intentan descubrir si hay señales de vida en una Escandinavia abandonada. Liberados de su pasado y de unas reglas de la sociedad, cada uno de los miembros del grupo tendrá la libertad de ser quienes quieran ser. Todos deberán enfrentarse al hecho de que, hasta en un mundo posapocalíptico, el amor y los celos todavía existen, así como todos los dilemas que pensaban que habían dejado atrás con la desaparición del mundo como lo conocían. (FILMAFFINITY) Género #SerieDeTV #CienciaFicción #Thriller #Drama #FuturoPostapocalíptico #Pandemias Dirección Jannik Tai Mosholt (Creador) Esben Toft Jacobsen (Creador) Christian Potalivo (Creador) Natasha Arthy Kenneth Kainz Reparto Alba August Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen Jessica Dinnage Mikkel Boe Følsgaard Lukas Løkken Sonny Lindberg Angela Bundalovic Lars Simonsen Iben Hjejle Johannes Kuhnke Inge Lise Goltermann Anders Mossling Anna Bjelkerud Año / País: 2018 / 🇩🇰 Dinamarca (en Asteroide B612) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiseoPFuHyu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#seriedetv #cienciaficción #thriller #drama #futuropostapocalíptico #pandemias

[birthdayimagewish]

Celebreting Happy Birthday Images Wishes Iben hjejle. Birthdays are special occasions that allow us to pause and appreciate the people who brighten our lives.

#birthday #happyanniversary #happy #suprisebirthday #birthdaybash

[moviefreakph]

High Fidelity (2000, US)

Starring: John Cusack, Jack Black, Iben Hjejle, Catherine Zeta-Jones

Director: Stephen Frears

#stephen frears

[almanach2023]

Aujourd'hui, mercredi 22 mars, nous fêtons Sainte Léa.

SAINT DU JOUR

. Léa . De l'hebreu lah, "fatigue" et du latin lea, "lionne" . Sainte-Léa (+384) Dame noble romaine, elle rejoint après la mort de son mari la communauté Sainte Marcelle et passe sa vie au service des religieuses. Nous connaissons sa vie par Saint-Jérôme. . Douces, gaies et généreuses, les Léa sont capables de la plus grande violence et du plus farouche égoïsme dès qu'il s'agit de défendre leur bonheur ou celui des leurs. Cela ne saurait les empêcher d'être de charmants personnages de précieuse compagnie. . Prénoms dérivés : Lila, Leïla, Léah, Lia, Liahi... Nous fêtons également les : Benvenista - Benveniste - Benvenuto - Bienvenu - Deogratias - Éliane - Léa - Leïla - Lélia - Léliane - Leyla - Wandelin Toutes les infos sur les Saints du jour https://tinyurl.com/wkzm328

FETE DU JOUR

Quels sont les fêtes à souhaiter aujourd'hui ? [ Bonne fête ] . Léa Fazer, scénariste, réalisatrice, actrice et metteur en scène de théâtre suisse . Léa Seydoux, actrice française . Léa Drucker, actrice française . Lea Massari, actrice italienne

Ils nous ont quittés un 22 mars :

22 mars 2009 : Jade Cerisa Lorraine Goody, ancienne participante de deux séries de la version britannique de l'émission Big Brother. (5 juin 1981) 22 mars 2008 : Israel "Cachao" López, 89 ans, bassiste et compositeur cubain, considéré comme l' « inventeur » du mambo (14 septembre 1918) 22 mars 2007 : Jacques Courtin Clarins, entrepreneur et médecin français (22 mars 2007) 22 mars 2005 : Kenzo Tange, architecte et urbaniste japonais (4 septembre 1913)

Ils sont nés le 22 mars :

22 mars 1987 : Alice David, actrice française 22 mars 1976 : Reese Witherspoon, née Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon, actrice, productrice et femme d'affaires américaine 22 mars 1971 : Iben Hjejle, actrice danoise 22 mars 1955 : Lena Olin, née Lena Maria Jonna Olin, actrice suédoise 22 mars 1949 : Fanny Ardant, née Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant, actrice, réalisatrice, scénariste et metteuse en scène française 22 mars 1943 : George Benson, guitariste, chanteur, et compositeur de jazz 22 mars 1941 : Bruno Ganz, acteur suisse de cinéma et de théâtre (16 février 2019)

Toutes les naissances du jour https://tinyurl.com/msmk5e22

Fêtes, Célébrations, événements du jour 22 mars : Journée mondiale de l’eau (141 EX/22; A/RES/47/193) (UNESCO) 22 mars : Journée mondiale des doulas (JM)

CITATION DU JOUR

Citation du jour : La vie ressemble à un conte ; ce qui importe, ce n'est pas sa longueur, mais sa valeur. Sénèque

Citation du jour : Le mensonge tue la confiance et surtout, il te prive d'amis sur qui compter vraiment. Et pire que ça le mensonge t'empêche de te voir tel que tu es réellement. Masashi Kishimoto

Toutes les citations du jour https://tinyurl.com/payaj4pz

Petite histoire... digne d'un caramel...

P'tite #blague du #mercredi Tu sais pourquoi 70% des femmes sont insatisfaites ? J'peux pas être partout à la fois !

P'tite #blague du #mercredi Un gars du chantier va chez le médecin pour avoir le résultat de ses analyses. Le docteur dit : Alors voyons, vous avez des cailloux dans les reins, du sable dans les urines Arrêtez docteur ! Au train où ça va, si j'éjacule, je vais faire du béton.

Petit clin d'oeil sur le jardin : C'est peut-être le moment...

De poursuivre les rempotages de plantes d'intérieur. De semer poireau et petit pois. De semer le tabac d'ornement au chaud.

Nous sommes le 81ème jour de l'année il reste 284 jours avant le 31 décembre. Semaine 12.

Beau mercredi à tous.

Source : https://www.almanach-jour.com/almanach/index.php

#ephemeride #ephemerides #almanach #french citation #citations #citation du jour #citation #bonnefete #fetedujour #fete #saint #saints #saintdujour #saint jour #catholic #calendrier #agenda #mars #date naissance

[lunesalsol]

#2000 #usa #stephen frears #john cusack #todd louiso #commerce #record store #music #five #comedy #drama #nick hornby #remember