Showing posts with label absurdity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label absurdity. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Kelly's Heroes

1970 Brian G. Hutton film stars Clint Eastwood, Donald Southerland, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, and Donald Southerland.

Group of soldiers during World War Two deceide to forego their R & R and go behind the lines on their own to pull off a heist...stealing gold the Germans are guarding in an occupied town.

Combination of a standard war action film and comedy gets absurd at times...but that's what I like about it.

Look for Sutherland as a hippyish tank commander in a comic turn that adds an element of craziness to the whole escapade.

Long, but fun.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Brazil


1985 comedy from Terry Gilliam will facsinate and amaze with its creative imagining of a bleak future society filled with both hopelessness and absurdity.
Stars Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, and Jonathan Pryce as a clerk whose imagination takes him from his humdrum existence to a life as a superhero who saves the woman of his dreams. De Niro has a small role but is always great when playing it for laughs. Gilliam's incredible originality shines here.