Herbert Vesely was one of the promises for a new German cinema already in the 50's, but after the 60's his star was already dimmed. He made a small number of films in the 70's and 80's, all non too good. This biography of Egon Schiele, one of the most important Austrian artists, is an example of the pretensions and emptiness of a Vesely-film of later date.
The life of Schiele is presented here as a puzzle| well, Vesely thinks that Schiele's life was a puzzle: the core of the story is centered around the famous 1912 pornography trial and using this as base the film shows fragments of past and future. The problem is that it never becomes a unity and that the order of scenes and sequences seems to be at random: a cut-and-paste job that could have had any other result. Indeed, after seeing it twice I am almost convinced of it that a unsatisfactory linear thought-out film was changed into the puzzle in the editing room. Egon Schiele was an enigmatic man, but not a total puzzle, and this film does not bring him any closer.
The films also fails in conveying the eroticism and meaning of the Schiele's paintings: the camera watches and glides over the models without any understanding of Schiele's intentions, we only see beautiful naked bodies. If interested in Schiele, you better buy a book with his works in stead.。Showtime直接预订剧集《铁锈 Rust》,这部剧改编自Philipp Meyer的小说《American Rust》,并且电视台已找了Jeff Daniels担当主演﹑Dan Futterman负责改编剧本。
《铁锈》是部家庭剧,背景在宾夕法尼亚州西南部的锈带小镇(锈带指美国东北部的一个地区,来由是以前区盛产钢铁产业,但后来工厂关门,只余下生锈大门)里,主角是警长Del Harris(Jeff Daniels饰)。
剧中主角爱人的儿子被指控谋杀,Del被迫决定自己愿意做到甚么地步以保护他们。。