Uwe Boll's Auschwitz.

Uwe Boll is a German film director. He is currently making a holocaust film called Auschwitz, but everybody seems to hate him and so he is angry. His film was not financed because he knew the concept would be shot down instantly as it is horrifically shocking, and so he just added a few grand onto the budget of the film he was already receiving cash for. Clever! When Stanley Kubrick was making a holocaust film, he had to abandon it because it was unwatchable. Boll says that "I think my movie will be almost unwatchable for most people."
Vice called him up to let him vent his frustration about not being in the pool of Oscar-nominated directors, and also to figure out why the hell not: http://www.viceland.com/blogs/uk-film/2010/09/09/uwe-boll-rants-about-his-auschwitz-movie/. It seems that the reason is possibly due to his earlier movies that were based on video games (Alone In The Dark, House Of The Dead), as they appear in the imdb's bottom 100 films... oops.


Maybe you would like to watch the trailer for Auschwitz:

Queer As Film.

'Milk' and 'The Naked Civil Servant'/'An Englishman In New York' - some wonderfully acted films exposing the lives of two iconic homosexuals: Harvey Milk and Quentin Crisp. I introduce this subject because 'An Englishman In New York' was on television last night, and the distinction between fictional character and non-fictional person was quite invisible.

1. Harvey Milk: American politician, and the first member of Californian public office to be elected having openly declared his sexuality.
“If a bullet should go through my head let that bullet go through every closet door.”


[L-R: Sean Penn as Harvey Milk; the real Harvey Milk.]


2. Quentin Crisp: English writer and 1970s gay icon.
"Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne."


[L-R: John Hurt as Quentin Crisp; the real Quentin Crisp.]

Cracks.

Eva Green's new film, Cracks, allows her to once again to display spectacular acting and an enviable anatomy. Green is renowned for her beautiful appearance, so much so that she secured her breakthrough role of Bond girl Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale (2006). She debuted her sophisticated Parisian charm alongside Michael Pitt and Louis Garrel in Bernado Bertolluci's The Dreamers (2003), and now Green seems to have built up a strong filmography to display her many talents.

Director Jordan Scott presents his seductive full-length debut with careful technique, using luxurious costumes, well-selected actors and elegant settings to craft a specific atmosphere for the backdrop to such an intricate plot. As a self-confessed nerd with a love for the more disturbing of film directors (like Lars Von Trier and David Lynch), it's only fitting that Eva Green goes for roles involving complex and generally unstable characters. And here she goes again in 'Cracks', playing the character of Miss G, a young and free-spirited teacher in a conventional, austere 1930s British boarding school. Green handles Miss G's repressed insanity with delicacy and precision, progressively exposing elements of instability as the film develops. She's captivating and crazy and extremely versatile, which is enhanced further by the rather marvellous acting from Juno Temple and Maria Valverde. Miss G's glamorous charisma and independence both inspires and mesmerises the adolescent students, culminating into subtle implications of teenage lust and a longing for freedom.

New girl Fiamma (Valverde), a Spanish aristocrat of blessed visual quality, arrives at the school and thus upsets the social makeup according to moody rascal Di Radfield (Temple). Cracks begin to form in Miss G's long-established reputation as the pupils' idolised teacher and friend, until her yearning for adoration and admiration from 'her girls' manifests into a dangerous and uncontrollable hunger. Green's tantalising presence amongst the girls allows for engaging viewing as she slowly exposes her own personal desires, descending into a somewhat uncomfortable display of adult invasion into childhood innocence.
7.5/10 on imdb.com user ratings.

Rated: UK15/running time: 104 mins/language: English.