Forrest Whitaker + syncope

I was looking for some info about a movie I watched some time ago. It's stared by Forrest Whitaker and an actor I always forget his name, the one from The Fly (Jeff Goldblum). The name of this great film is Lush Life (1994) and if you like jazz music you gotta see it!

Now, when I was finding out the name of this film, 'cause I couldn't remember its name either, I read about a film I haven't seen but I already knew about its existence. Forrest Whitaker stars as the magnanimous Charlie Parker!!! Right! I'm talking about Clint Eastwood's Bird and it won the best actor award and also got a Golden Globe nomination. What I didn't know about this film is that it was made in 1988!! I checked the year three times 'cause I thought it is so much recent.

Anyway... I added this to my to-watch-list.

Now, there is something new. Forrest will star Louis Armstrong in a film that couldn't have been entitled any different: What a wonderful world. The real interesting thing is he's also directing. We'll see.

By the way, if you like trip hop there's a great CD by Bowery Electric called Lush Life... John Coltrane also has a record called like that, but I haven't heard it.

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

This is another great movie starring Mr. Whitaker... this is really good story and a great performance. All assassins live beyond the law... only one follows the code: "Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai". This one is an independent film or something like that, and must-see.

Here's da' torrent! Download!

The Last King of Scotland

I recently saw "The Last King of Scotland". This is the best movie I've seen starring Forrest Whitaker.

In the early 1970s, Nicholas Garrigan, a young semi-idealistic Scottish doctor, comes to Uganda to assist in a rural hospital. Once there, he soon meets up with the new President, Idi Amin, who promises a golden age for the African nation. Garrigan hits it off immediately with the rabid Scotland fan, who soon offers him a senior position in the national health department and becomes one of Amin's closest advisers. However as the years pass, Garrigan cannot help but notice Amin's increasingly erratic behavior that grows beyond a legitimate fear of assassination into a murderous insanity that is driving Uganda into bloody ruin. (taken from imdb.com)

Here I post a link to a torrent in case you want to download it!