A gritty bastardization of the urban "luxuries", crafted in the style of a defiling noir-homage but without any of that romanticized vanity of the protagonists. Here, a counter-productive settling is slowly pushing Nikos into a cycle of treachery and slackery, the kind some of my co-citizens have gotten used to over the past decades. Another masterpiece by Economidis with Kallimani a revelation of an actress!

The best film of the ones I've watched made in 2011 along with Amnesty.

Yeah, that person below me clearly has no idea of what he's saying. So what, must we follow Kafka's, Endo's and whoever other established author's "significant" literary devices and / or content in order to adapt it they way they "see" it? One of Leaf's most dynamic and meticulously constructed pieces of fine art and an exemplary use of editing cut to progress the story-line.

It's solid entertainment, it doesn't pretend to be something else. Not that versatile as it tries to be at times, nor overreacting in its silent film references and with a fine score by Bource, Dujardin steals the show indeed and in the end, it's a mainstream film that has a little bit of everything for all audiences (that is...if "most" audiences were more accepting of silent and / or b/w films)

Quite possibly, one of the greastest actresses the world will never know of.

A flawed ending in an otherwise stellar film, perhaps the most eloquent and detailed de Oliveira film of the naughties.

Kinky Law, nevertheless...her luminous and partly elegant anatomy of contemporary role-play between men and women is superior to anything she made in the late 90's and 2000's. Early film career, aye...she sounds fresh, she feels vibrant and she caresses her characters as if drawing sketches under the breezy sky. Overreacting situations, sure, but Golden Lotus is a marvel to behold!

Far from it being a 5-star mini-series (the acclaim here on MUBI is ludicrous for Bergman's late periods), it's an intrepid nonetheless, almost-apocalyptic downfall of the Marriage Institute, in addition to a marvelously endearing but rather conventional approach on the "why" of the duo's distress and subsequent actions.

Alright, he may not be the sole greatest living American director but he atoned his Ali / Miami Vice sins with Public Enemies. I applaud his digital cinematography ambition too since he is one of the few who's getting it right over there in Tinseltown.

It's remarkable how this type of propaganda is rarely seen these days and it will be even rarer to witness such propaganda material (whatever that means) in later cinema years to come.

The remake better than the original??? Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! One of the funniest, no, wait...one of the most ridiculous comments about a film on this site!!!

It's not supposed to be a comedy. It's an in-your-face teen adventure which blends sarcasm, lycanthropy and sexual paranoia, a refreshing change of pace from all those gory serial-killer motives masked as "horror films" in the past decade. Perkins and Isabelle are truly remarkable as the unorthodox sisters.

Pro-cop propaganda which actually resembles the fascist aesthetics of a Lang bonanza or even De Palma's fixation for...blood, disregarding the fact it simultaneously criticizes the system it presents. It's good vs evil in the clearest of definitions yet it provides informative background for both sides of the coin in order to mingle the lines of which is good / evil and it's not assaulting to the viewer either.

Die, capitalism, die! The synopsis doesn't do justice to the truths this film possesses in its own field of meta-apocalypse, the one we're currently living. No wonder Sfikas isn't well-known since more and more have been publishing La Jetée x10 during the month instead of searching brilliant downfalls of civilization like this film is.

So this is the weirdest "I'm going to film in an architectural way by reminding myself that it's only a movie, thus I'm allowed to reject the rules of gravity and time-scape" experiment but Gehr is a smarter ventriloquist and just knows how to manipulate your mindset by inviting you to a horizontal-vertical-in-between-of-the-two liturgy of...spatial freedom!

Who doesn't love her???

La Commune comprises about 90% of what I've been discussing ever since I stepped foot on this site: the death of political systems and the renovation of education. Watkins outmatched himself...La Commune is the vicious, socio-economic circle of humanity.

Definitely not the funniest 30 minutes on film (27 to be exact) but comedy gold from the unspeakable duo of loafers!

Why make a fuss about its inexcusable and highly predictable screenplay? Beaumont may not have an eyeful for...anything (!) and yet, that doesn't stop Bessie Love from being simultaneously sassy and rigorous up until her breaking point where I can forgive it all, including the then unimaginable musical numbers for a more or less...early dramedy?

This was originally conceived as a second short film of the "Fun and Fancy Free" Disney feature. I have great admiration for that film because it captures a marvelous flavor of puberty's nostalgic bitterness and adventurous desire for all things unknown, plus...Jiminy Cricket! Unfortunately, this short as a stand-alone doesn't work as well as when inside that spectrum of fable as Fun and Fancy Free offered us.

That I didn't expect. A smartly-paced homage to the gangster genre (a bastardization of it nonetheless) and I'm glad to see the Peckinpah reference: the shootout in the landfill is as poetic as a shootout can be! The Three Musketeers of 2009 derived from To's and Ka-Fai's stone-cold imaginations.

The impossibility of progress. How mundane it is to simply walk to no avail. Time flies for this solitary couple of drifting souls...

So this is yet another fucked up guilty pleasure and judge all you want boys and girls!

A superb craftsman of allegorical-magical trances, a cinematic activist of homosexual identity, so why the hell is he largely forgotten? Christmas, U.S.A. and Sorrows are available through UbuWeb, Twice a Man is a nectar from wild reeds and I pledge anyone to release his Greek masterpiece Serenity (Galini) in a proper DVD alongside every single piece of his experimental work, particularly The Iliac Passion and Hagiographia.

Passive, mundane, random elements compose a symphony of...boredom. That's how anxiety beats principles in urban societies.

Stuck up? Mediocre to terrible films? Someone needs to re-check on what an actor and actress truly are AND many of her films from the 80's to early 2000's. Stop watching Hollywood failures people!

I have dozens of complaints concerning the rawness Koundouros effectively portrays, be it a physical one on behalf of the ravishing troops or a completely neutral one which resides in the quiet moments of the journalists or the land's impoverishment, an important protagonist in the course of the film. Iatropoulos exaggerates as time goes by but Vakousis keeps the tempo in reasonable proportions.

The epitome of a bad film and more importantly...a horrific, insulting remake.

A military propaganda of moronic proportions! The anachronism of the plot is mildly prophetic (what with all the Islamic "fears" in today's "civilized" world, imposed by the First World Kingdoms) but it turns into an unbelievably fascistic, anti-camp garbage! It's evidently one of the worst films I've ever watched and I was 12!!!

One of the American acting giants of the 20th century...