Screening 10/1/11: Sweeney Todd vs. Mr CINEMaD

15.1.11 update
s_dany posted:


Discussing with Elias Fragoulis about Tim Burton after the screening

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Εναλλακτικός τίτλος του video:
"Ο Ηλίας Φραγκούλης, ο Tim Burton και ο... θάνατος!" :-D
Ήμουν τόσο απορροφημένος στην κουβέντα που μόνο αυτό το πολύ μικρό βιντεάκι τράβηξα, στο σημείο που ο Ηλίας μας λέει για τη δεύτερη συνάντηση που είχε με τον αγαπημένο [του και μας] σκηνοθέτη.
Είπαμε και άλλα πιο ευχάριστα πράγματα πάντως! :-D

Για το λόγου το αληθές ακολουθεί και η σχετική photo μετά το τέλος του event :-P

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Αυτά είναι τα μόνα ντοκουμέντα από μια υπέροχη βραδιά [όποιος δεν ήταν εκεί, έχασε! :-P]. Υπέροχη κυρίως επειδή ο Mr CINEMaD μίλησε (όπως πάντα!) με προσωπικό τόνο και με πολύ πάθος.
We THANK him! :-)

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11.1.11 update
s_dany posted:


Ο Άκης Καπράνος τα λέει όλα για τον "Sweeney Todd".
Broken Road: Sweeny Todd: The demon barber of Fleet Street
..."Κάθε τι φωτεινό μέσα του έχει πεθάνει, χρόνια τώρα, μαζί με τον ίδιο. Ιδανικός πρωταγωνιστής για τον Τιμ Μπάρτον που πριν μας απογοητεύσει μεγαλειωδώς (με την Αλίκη του), επέστρεψε για λίγο στο πικρό μα ανθρώπινο (γι αυτό και τρομακτικό στη μεγαλοπρέπεια του) έρεβος που σκίασε τα αριστουργήματα του. Ανάμεσα στα οποία οφείλει να ενταχθεί και ο Sweeny Todd"...
..."Γιατί στο μιούζικαλ αυτό, όπου το gore και η φρίκη συμπορεύονται με το δράμα και την (χαμένη) ανθρωπιά, ο Τιμ Μπάρτον στήνει ένα Λονδρέζικο σκηνικό απόλυτης σήψης, πάνω στην οποία αντανακλάται η σκληρότητα των κατοίκων του"...

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7.1.11 update
s_dany posted:

Official site

Όπως είχαμε ενημερώσει από το facebook της Ομάδας, η προβολή δεν έγινε στις 20/12 λόγω της απεργίας των ΜΜΜ, αλλά μεταφέρθηκε για αυτή τη Δευτέρα 10/1/11. Και μπορεί το ξυράφι του Sweeney Todd να μη φτάνει μέχρι τα αθηναϊκά ΜΜΜ που έχουν πάλι στάση εργασίας 11:00-16:00, η προβολή όμως θα γίνει κανονικά, αφού είναι προγραμματισμένη για τις 19:00.

RSVP and invite your friends:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=117449941660545

Και έχει και New Year's bonus! Μετά την προβολή θα ακολουθήσει συζήτηση για τον αγαπημένο μας Tim Burton και τις ταινίες του, παρέα με τον επαγγελματία θεατή - "κριτικό κινημ/φου" που αγαπούν να μισούν οι εταιρείες διανομής, τον τύπο που με την εκπομπή του στο MAD αναστατώνει τα βράδια της Πέμπτης σου [και τη μάνα σου που δεν καταλαβαίνει τί στο Χριστό λέει :-D], αυτόν που μας βοήθησε πέρσι από τα deck να σώσουμε τον Ferris [και μπορεί να βοηθήσει κι εσένα να τερματίσεις σε Trash(mar)athon και να μάθεις να πετάς Metalla-γαρύφαλλα ;-DDD].
Επιτέλους στην ΑΣΟΕΕ, ο Mr CINEMaD himself: Ηλίας Φραγκούλης!

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29.12.10
s_dany posted:

Never Forget. Never Forgive.

Η Κινηματογραφική Ομάδα

του Οικονομικού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών (ΑΣΟΕΕ)
σας προσκαλεί στην προβολή της ταινίας
"Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"
(2007, Tim Burton, "Sweeney Todd: Ο Φονικός Κουρέας της Οδού Φλιτ")
τη Δευτέρα 20/12/10 στις 19:00
στο αμφιθέατρο Β (Πατησίων 76, κεντρικό κτίριο).
Είσοδος ελεύθερη.


AUEB Film Club
invites you to the screening of:
"Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"
(2007, Tim_Burton)
on Monday 20/12/10 at 19:00
in classroom B (76, Patission Str., central building).
Free entrance.

Trailer #1




Trailer #2: λίγο [ως αρκετά :-D] misleading, αφού βλέποντας το η ταινία σου φαίνεται περισσότερο thriller παρά musical!




The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: fan-made video

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Best of IMDb trivia
[with some edits, highlights and links by me]

British playwright Christopher Bond wrote a 1973 play titled "Sweeney Todd" which was the first to give Todd a motive other than pure greed. Bond made Todd a wrongfully imprisoned barber who returned to London after fifteen years in Australia to find that the judge responsible for his imprisonment raped his young wife and caused her suicide.

Bond's play was adapted in 1979 by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler into the Broadway musical which the film is based. The Broadway production starring Angela Lansbury [as Mrs. Lovett] and Len Cariou [as Sweeney Todd] opened at the Uris Theater on February 6, 1979, ran for 557 performances and won the 1979 Tony Awards for the Best Musical, Book, Score and Actor in a Musical (for Len Cariou).

This film had been in development for over 25 years. At that point in time hundreds of actors were either considered or attached to the project, to play the role of Sweeney Todd. The list of actors include William Hurt, Michael Douglas, Harrison Ford, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Richard Dreyfuss, Gene Hackman, Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson, Steve Martin, Tim Curry, Kevin Kline, Warren Beatty and many more.

Composer Stephen Sondheim, notoriously protective of his stage works, long resisted offers to film this story. When Tim Burton expressed interest, however, Sondheim relented when pleased with Burton's vision for the project and on the condition that the composer would maintain casting approval. Burton would only agree to direct with Johnny Depp in the lead, and though Sondheim feared Depp's vocals would be too "rock oriented," the composer approved the actor after a vocal audition. To approve the casting of Helena Bonham Carter, and to combat any rumor of nepotism (as Carter and Burton were romantically involved), the actress sent Sondheim no less than twelve audition tapes of her singing. Very impressed with her vocals, Sondheim immediately approved the actress.


Before the role of Sweeney Todd, Johnny Depp had never publicly sung in his life (he was only lip syncing in the musical "Cry-Baby" (1990)). The first song he recorded for the movie was 'My Friends', which, in his opinion, was one of the hardest songs Sweeney sings in the movie. This is the sixth Johnny Depp -Tim Burton collaboration. They previously made "Edward Scissorhands" (1990), "Ed Wood" (1994), "Sleepy Hollow" (1999), "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (2005), and "Corpse Bride" (2005) together.

For his audition, Sacha Baron Cohen sang the entire score of "Fiddler on the Roof" (1971) for director Tim Burton.

The film's conductor, Paul Gemignani, was musical director and conductor for the original Broadway production of "Sweeney Todd" in 1979. Several songs from the Broadway musical were excised from the film.

"Sweeney Todd" and "Ed Wood" (1994) are the only two films in Tim Burton's directing career with music not composed by Danny Elfman.

When filming began, there was to be an inclusion of the spirits of Sweeney Todd's victims (including Anthony Head and Christopher Lee), who would sing "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd", its reprises and the "Epilogue". These songs were recorded, but eventually cut since director Tim Burton felt that the songs were too theatrical for the film. Lee's appearance was completely cut from the film, but Head still has an uncredited one-line cameo (after the competition, Head's character asks Todd if he has a business of his own).


Tim Burton insisted that the film be bloody, as he felt stage versions of the play which cut back on the bloodshed robbed it of its power. For him, "everything is so internal with Sweeney that [the blood] is like his emotional release. It's more about catharsis than it is a literal thing."

In some of the scenes where Sweeney opens his razor very quickly, it is a mechanical razor. There is a button Johnny Depp would press to have the razor open, which he hides with his finger. Depp personally requested the prop department design this razor for him, as he had difficulty handling the real razors.


Director Trademark: [Tim Burton] [Black and white stripes] Sweeney's bathing suit and Mrs Lovett's long socks.

The address on Mrs. Lovett's shop - Number 186 - is a reference to the London legend of Sweeney Todd, which placed his barber shop at this very address.

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