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Germany’s ‘Sir Vival’ pushes limits of 38extreme travel SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 2014 From left: Directors Alex De La Iglesia, Hector Babenco, Warwick Thornton, Guillermo Arriaga, Mira Nair, Amos Gitai, Bahman Ghobadi and Hideo Nakata pose during the photocall of the movie “Words with Gods” presented out of competition at the 71st Venice Film Festival yesterday at Venice Lido. — AFP/AP photos Venice Film Festival Bankruptcy, greed from Florida to Venice t’s suburban America, but it could be anywhere hit by the ‘Dizzy with corruption’ weeks i was dizzy with corruption. I never saw so many guns in trick which is picked up in the film. economic crisis: eviction drama “99 Homes” is a portrayal of Carver tries to reel Nash in by showing him how to rig and my life, it’s like the wild west with palm trees,” the bespectacled “Foreclosure courts are called ‘rocket dockets’ because it all Ibankruptcy, greed and despair as compelling as it is disturb- exploit the system to his own advantage, screwing the banks 39-year old Bahrani said. happens in 60 seconds flat. I couldn’t believe it, cases are just ing. The movie, premiering at the Venice film festival and a and stealing bailout money. The “99” from the title refers both to a corrupt housing deal thrown out,” he said. At the heart of the film-addressed with rare strong contender for the Golden Lion, stars Andrew Garfield “America doesn’t bail out losers. It’s a nation that was built in the film and the slogan used by demonstrators to decry the honesty for a commercial US film-are the governmental and (“The Social Network” and “Amazing Spiderman”) as Denis Nash, on bailing out winners,” he says. Director Ramin Bahrani told growing economic divide between 99 percent of Americans banking policies behind the housing bubble and crash. a father who falls behind on his mortgage payments. journalists in Venice it was “in many ways a ‘deal with the devil’ and the richest one percent despite the crisis. “From the post-war period, but from 1979 onwards in partic- Nash, who lives with his young son and mother, is desperate movie.” “It’s a global subject, the corruption in the film has The choice to set the movie in Orlando, near Disney World, ular, regulation in the States dramatically changed-a type of to save their home but gets evicted by pitiless real estate broker become systemic across the world... (and) the perpetrators are came naturally, Bahrani said, because while “Florida is golf carts, regulation which would only benefit the extremely wealthy... Rick Carver (Michael Shannon from “Revolutionary Road” and hand in hand with the government,” he added. retirees, magic kingdoms and castles,” is it also “where the hous- creating a crisis the tentacles of which reached all over the “Man of Steel”), and is forced to move into a rundown and dan- Bahrani, of “At Any Price” fame, said he researched the film in ing crisis began, before spreading globally.” world,” Bahrani said. gerous motel. It is the first in a series of emotionally wrenching Florida, attending foreclosure courts, visiting motels housing “And not one person went to jail. It’s a system rigged for scenes in which whole families-even the elderly-get turfed out middle class families and meeting “the richest and craziest ‘Change is coming’ those who win.” However, the socially-driven director said he of their homes without warning, with just two minutes to col- hedge fund managers you can dream of.” The foreclosure crisis has seen at least 10 million people hoped “this film will spread its tentacles out from Venice and lect their belongings under threat of arrest for trespassing. Quick-paced, with a glimpse at the soulless life of the evicted from over four million homes in the US since 2007, with mean something to the 99 percent that are tired of it all.” Unable to get work as a contractor, a humiliated Nash finds wealthy, “99 Homes” is a muscular flick with a gangster edge, Florida topping the chart. Bahrani was given an insight into the “Change is coming,” he said. — AFP himself forced to decide whether or not to accept work from the repugnant developments between evictor and evictee brutal world of the courts by whistle-blower Lynn Szymoniak, the reptilian Carver in a bid to recover his house, or take the playing out in an atmosphere of barely-restrained violence. who in 2012 unveiled a massive mortgage fraud scam by which moral high ground but see his family suffer. “I was with hoodlums and thieves and after about three banks were foreclosing on houses by using phony documents-a Actors Lukas Schwarz and Elias Schwarz pose with actress Susanne Wuest during Hector Babenco, Warwick Thornton, Guillermo Arriaga, Mira Nair From left, Directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala pose during the photocall of the the photocall of the movie “Ich Seh Ich Seh” (Goodnight Mommy) presented in directors Warwick Thornton, Hector Babenco, Guillermo Arriaga, and Mira Nair movie “Ich Seh Ich Seh” (Goodnight Mommy). the Orizzonti selection at the 71st Venice Film Festival. pose during the photo call for the movie ‘Words with the gods’ at the Venice Film Festival in Venice. ‘Guardians’ still marvelous Hip-hop moves as strong at weekend box office force for Michael Brown ontinuing to salvage the late summer box three weekends this year; “Lego” won four office, “Guardians of the Galaxy” is looking times. appers are making their voices heard in The largest hip-hop gesture for Brown, who Though hip-hop has been criticized for glorify- Clike the clear winner of the Labor Day The firepower for “Guardians” virtually song and on the ground in Ferguson, was an aspiring rapper, came Wednesday when ing sex and violence, its musicians have a history weekend. The Marvel-Disney tentpole grossed assures that it will cross the $300 million domes- RMissouri, in the wake of Michael Brown’s the Game released the song “Don’t Shoot,” in of standing up against perceived injustice, espe- $3.5 million on Friday-its 29th day of release-for tic mark in the next few weeks-a key milestone, shooting death, channeling hip-hop’s earlier roots which he’s joined by all-stars like Diddy, Rick Ross cially in the genre’s early years, with songs like a projected $19 million weekend at the US box given that 2014 would have otherwise been the when the genre worked as a voice for the and 2 Chainz, among others. Sales from the song “Fight the Power” and “The Message.” A more office. first year since 2000 to not have a $300 million oppressed and spoke out against injustice. will benefit the Mike Brown Memorial Fund on recent example came after Trayvon Martin’s death That matched Pierce Brosnan’s actioner “The grosser. “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” was “It’s really important to see hip-hop’s role of GoFundMe, which has raised nearly $300,000 in in 2012. November Man” in its third day for Relativity the top performer that year with $260 million. being some grown-ups and doing some really two weeks. Last week, T.I. released the song “New National and Universal’s found-footage thriller “As Above, “The November Man” is produced by stand-up, grown-up stuff,” Public Enemy’s Chuck “I wanted to do my part in bringing awareness Anthem,” which he wrote after the July 2013 So Below” with $3.2 million on its opening day. Brosnan’s Irish Dreamtime and Das Films in D, one of rap’s most powerful voices, said in a to it, so that at the end of the day that I can sleep acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of “November Man” was performing above association with the Solution Entertainment recent interview. “These people have actually well knowing that I used my voice correctly,” the 17-year-old Martin. He says he hopes to start a recent forecasts and was projected to gross Group, Palmstar Media Capital and Merced stood up ... and that has to be saluted.” Game said in an interview Thursday. dialogue between the community, city leaders around $15 million for the four-day weekend, Media Partners. Relativity paid The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer said he’s Other black entertainers have spoken out and police. followed by the fourth weekend of Paramount’s $3 million for the film, as part of its model for impressed with rappers such as J. Cole, who including Kerry Washington, Jesse Williams and “This is not to divide race, color, generation, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” at about $13 low-risk, moderately budgeted films and timed released a heartaching, tearful song called “Be Spike Lee, who attended Brown’s funeral on region. This is not to incite or encourage people to millon. the release to reach an older audience with Free” inspired by Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old Monday. At a concert last week where he per- go against to the police. This is to bring about “As Above” is likely to finish the frame at the some affection for Brosnan. “As Above, So who was shot to death by a Ferguson officer on formed Marvin Gaye’s seminal “What’s Going On?” change by way of creating awareness of the cur- upper end of projections with $11 million, edg- Below” is also a low-risk title with a budget of $5 Aug. 9. at the Hollywood Bowl, John Legend wore a shirt rent status in America in these inner city areas for ing out Fox’s third weekend of “Let’s Be Cops” at million.

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