KUARASH

25 May 2012

For falling of the train of ghousts

The outstanding film of the new wave cinema of north europian film making tradition is the rainforce of the typological real/symbolic category.in the direction of the work the casting and edit of the film is very similar to the traditon of modern realism in the french new cinema.i am calling the french gang "the new cinema" because the whole cinematographic tricks are new .the whole absurd culture is renovated under the shelter of french understanding of worlds new wave arts;the intuition of being a looser (as the latest comment in yahoo! thaught)is just an american problem.moreover the main terms of the leading actors character is truly eastern and understandable.awsome...the story of the film is based on a dream.the dream is not far-going but it is so grasping,the whole idea is based on the unconsiuos life of a dreamer,who is going through sleep walking.the primary facts of the time in the story is rulled by the other facts of the film but zombie is overall dreaming and the finnish cinema's history is trying to remember the confidence and unity of these dreams.

25 May 2012

Zombie and the Ghost Train

One of the best movies of the 90's. well developed characters, minimal plot EXCELLENT highly recommended!

23 May 2012

Fails to create that Kaurimaki-mood

Mika, the better known of the Kaurimakis, has been the most profilic movie director ever to emerge from Finland. Individual, his movies have always got some international acknowledgement. Sadly, Zombie and the Ghost Train reveals Kaurismaki's lack of inspiration and pushes the quality of Finnish film making even on a lower level. Actors, however melancholic, also express the influence of the directors boredom. This might be the one for early sunday morning after a night of heavy drinking.

leonard-toad

22 May 2012

a little aimless but good - may contain minor spoiler but not too bad

This is my favourite movie by Kaurismäki.. It always seems to beforgotten but I can't understand why? Maybe because it doesn't followany formula.. Yes the comedy disappears pretty fast but that isn'tnecessarily bad. I like it very much and who wouldn't want to play inHarri and the mulefukkers? I would ditch my current band immediately!zombie himself seems more goth rock-oriented although he is aHendrix-fan. I think it is hard for a young sad person to NOT identifywith the main character although middle-aged parents might have aharder time. The Finnish army is known in Scandinavia for being thehardest for the reluctant conscripts. I like the difference ofsettings; from winter in Finland to sunny Istanbul. - an excellentroad-movie..

leifcs

20 May 2012

Odd, black comedy from Kaursmaki -par for the course, then.

"Zombie and the Ghost train" starts off as a comedy, but as usual for theolder Kaursmaki's sensibilities, it takes on a darker aspect pretty quickly.Annti purposefully gets himself thrown out of the army, then startswandering around aimlessly, searching for something. Wonderful stuff, thoughthere's not too much happening; there's the inevitable terseness ofconversation and heavy drinking. Funny and sad in equal measures, it's astudy in fatalistic decline and powerlessness and the ending is ratherheartbreaking.

Tami

20 May 2012

I prefer Akis movies

When musicians are in the movies, the movies often fail. I think Aki (Mika's brother) Kaurismaki's "Leningrad Cowboys" movies are ones of the rare successful musician movies. So, I watched this moive for curiousity, because some core members of Leningrad Cowboys and my favorite actor Matti Pellonpaa are in it. Actually this was the first Mika's movie for me. After seeing this movie, I thought that Aki's movies show the actors better. Even though the same actors are in their movies, they look more attractive in Aki's movies. In Zombie and the Ghost Train, the concept is good, and also the casting is not bad (Silu Seppala himself looks extremely unhealthy as Zombie), but still something is missing.