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Bra? in central Dalmatia, opened in 2002 and offering a wide range of treatments and massages.All rooms and apartments in this charming building are spacious and m...
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Advantages: Brilliantly acted stripping bare of hedonistic Hollywood Disadvantages: Some may find its documentary style not to their taste
When people speak of films being powerful they are speaking of films like IvansXTC. British director Bernard Rose, best known for the lushly effective horror Candyman and Immortal Beloved, moved to Hollywood and clearly did not have a good time. IvansXTC feels like guerrilla filmmaking. Shot on digital video it has a grainy, sometimes shaky feel, like Lar von Trier and co.'s Dogme films.
Based loosely on Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilych', the film concerns itself with Danny Huston's shallow, coke-snorting, goodtime Hollywood agent Ivan Beckman, and his coming to terms with discovering he has cancer. Surrounding him are those he cannot confide in and ultimately are using him just as much as he is using them, whether Peter Weller's gun totting, right wing, whoring star that he poaches from another agency or his girlfriend, Lisa ...
No_name 28.01.2007
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Advantages: A Tarkovsky Film Disadvantages: (For Some) Requires an element of thought - not a fast-car-chase action film!
Also known as: "Ivanovo Detstvo", "The Story of Ivan", "The Youngest Spy", "My Name is Ivan"
bbfc rating: PG
Running Time: 91 mins.
Price (Video): approx. £5
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: Nikolai Burlaev (Ivan), Yevgheny Zharikov (Lt. Galtsev.), Valentin Zubkhov (Capt. Kholin) and Valentina Malyavina (Masha)
Cinematography: Vadim Usov
Language: Russian with English subtitles
A pretty bad childhood is in store for young Ivan - his family having been killed by the Nazis during the war on the Eastern front, he joins the Partisans/Russian Army as a scout; his small size and unthreatening appearance making him ideal to cross and recross enemy lines undetected. The title has its share of irony - no childhood is present in a way we understand. This film is the story of Ivan's desperate struggle to avenge the deaths of his ...
Advantages: wide selection, fast delivery Disadvantages: naughty with the opoints
I discovered bol.com through ipoints. Bol sells a very wide choice of music, movies, games and books. It really does have something for everyone.
The site is well designed. It is in various shades of blue on a white background, making it easy on the eye. You can read it without squinting, and it doesn't give you a headache with lurid bright colours or flashing/spinning text/images (my personal pet-hate).
Navigation is simple. Click on the tab for music, books, dvds or games, and you're then taken to sub-sections. From here you can go through different genres, authors, artists etc.
The search facility is fast and accurate. You only need to know a couple of words in a title, or one name of the author in books, for example.
Prices on books are excellent. I've bought many at up to 50% off rrp. CDs are more expensive ...
sandrabarber 22.05.2001
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Hotel Ivan is a magnificent four-storey spa hotel in the centre of Bol on the island of Bra in central Dalmatia, opened in 2002 and offering a wide range of treatments and massages.All rooms and apartments in this charming building are spacious and modernly equipped. The apartments also have a small kitchen and a balcony. You can enjoy excellent Mediterranean cuisine and grilled dishes on the hotel terrace close to pool. The first of its kind in the centre of Bol on the island Brac, the building dates back to 1656 and was once used as the first lodging house in Bol. It was meticulously restored with an original vault still visible above the hotel entrance.
