Francesco
27Nov11
gliele volevo dare ieri sera, le mie due ore, ma al mio cinema l'avevano già declassato all'ultimo spettacolo nella saletta sfigata, e non era il caso...
Navy Seals may lose an eye or a coupla legs in action, but they only die when they WANT to. Stunning action sequences, no character development at all - hell, one might as well say no characters, full stop. As far as recruitment videos go, it probably can't get any cooler. But it takes more to make an exciting movie.
Un incrocio miracoloso fra biografia e film a episodi, un omaggio affezionato al fumettaro Yoshihiro Tatsumi. Qualcuno lamenterà un'animazione semplicissima, ma i fumetti sono fumetti e fumetti dovrebbero restare, anche quando, come qui, si muovono sullo schermo. Bellissimo.
"Furbo" per me non è mai un insulto e questo è un film furbo. Non so quanto sia rimasto, titoli di coda a parte, della storia vera cui si ispira: ma è una bella favola raccontata in un modo che ti fa uscire contento. Che Cluzet fosse bravo si sapeva ma Omar Sy (che pure di film ne ha già fatti un bel po') è una scoperta
Immaginate uno "Stand by me" neorealista. Un gruppo di bambini meravigliosi, il desiderio di un miracolo, la scoperta che i miracoli, quelli possibili, li facciamo noi. Ok, colpa mia che fin qui non ho visto nulla di Kore-Eda. Un filo lunghetto ma bellissimo.
A guilty pleasure is supposed to be a pleasure, which this film never is in spite of the above photo. I had missed this piece of fluff when I was a teenager - I caught up with it yesterday and sadly found out I was much wiser then about how I spent my time than I am now
Non bad at all - but somewhat thin on plotting and character development. If this did not showcase an American star film, we'd probably dismiss it as a pretentious experiment in genre lacking rythm and guts. Great opening sequence.
A pleasant little film on the downside of early fame, it's got more to it than one would expect - with a quirky tone that never feels contrived, believable main characters and a coupla genuinely touching moments. Underrated and well worth rediscovering
A wonderfully crafted nothing that fails in making anyone sympathetic with its freakish protagonist. As strongly as Close wanted to play this character on screen, it will be a sad footnote to her career if she does in fact get an Oscar for her robotic performance. 2 hours that play like 10 once one realizes the story can go nowhere. Greatly, greatly overrated
At first, a terminally slow and deliberate talky film - but once you manage to let it in, it pays off big time. Not to be seen on TV, if at all possible - you need a place where you can't just doze off
A generous, awe-inducing unaccomplishment that MUST be seen in 3D. Scorsese's omnipotent mise-en-scene makes up to his inability to find the right tone to tell the story in an involving way. Just sit back and enjoy the film as a wonderful pop-up history book on how movie magic was born
Having a great actress is not enough when she's left alone to carry the movie. Streep's performance is jaw-dropping but even that can't work miracles on a leaden, indecisive script
Relentlessly silly, but I did have some kind of fun: cut-out characters, but the invaders sport cool FX and most visuals are adequate. Didn't have to feel guilty to get some pleasure, but I did walk in with very low expectations
Uhm, con tutto l'affetto possibile, pensavo meglio. Mostro goffo, vicenda risibile e non basta la curiosa struttura a flashback per salvarla. E anche le somiglianze con "Alien" mi sembrano sopravvalutate
Mah. Inseguito per anni, anche se senza troppa ansia. Trovato finalmente grazie a un amico pirata. Roba noiosetta, d'autore che forse non si è ancora reso conto di non avere ali abbastanza forti.
Un album di meravigliose fotografie, una storia splendida devastata da un trattamento deliberatamente intellettualistico. Colmo una grave lacuna ma esco dalla sala soffocando qualche vaffanculo a chi ha detto ai cineasti che il cinema era una forma d'arte. Che lo sia è indubbio, ma si starebbe stati tanto meglio senza spargere tanto la voce.
I wouldn't have picked this if I had to choose, and I would have been wrong: this is a lovely, inventive, funny, moving and constantly involving family story. A feel-good movie that never feels formulaic or artificial in spite of using all tricks of the trade and then some more. An ensemble piece overall, but Vedat Erincin is an outstanding protagonist.
A better than average Rape&Revenge movie, but ultimately not much subtler than I Spit on Your Grave: it's effective in creating in viewers the required urge for retaliation and then in fulfilling it in a satisfactory way. But as well-crafted as the film is, we still are very much in exploitation country and it would be alarming if anybody perceived Descent as anything else than that
Somewhat stylish, but whatever interest it excites at first wears off very quickly: an indecisive mess trying to be both a satire of the era and a drama, and not succeeding on either goal and even failing to have any exploitation value.
Per capire la differenza fra i film-gimmick che vivono di rendita su una sola idea e il cinema: un omaggio al muto che va ben oltre l'omaggio e sa coinvolgere, divertire e commuovere senza mai pretendere la tua complicità, rivaleggiando in leggerezza con i veri classici. Se appena appena appena il cinema vi piaciucchia, questo è il vostro regalo di Natale
L'idea per uno splendido mediometraggio è spalmata con qualche affanno su un lungo la cui confezione impeccabile fa perdonare un citazionismo culturale vagamente ricattatorio. Capito il giochino, non basta riconoscere un nuovo idolo per andare in solluchero come non cessa di fare il protagonista e il "messaggio" snocciolato arriva a essere troppo esplicito persino per chi da Allen sa di doverselo aspettare
Ho un debole per Bogdanovich e lo ammetto. Qui racconta una faccenda poco chiara di cui furono protagonisti W.R. Hearst, la Davies, Chaplin, Thomas Ince e la tremenda Louella Parsons: "Cat's Meow" non è un capolavoro imperdibile, questo no: ma ricostruisce l'atmosfera degli anni Venti in modo convincente e senza dare quell'impressione da museo delle cere che a volte rischiano i film su personaggi troppo noti.
Dopo un decennio di catastrofici, Emmerich prova a cambiare marcia puntando a una rispettabilità da Oscar. Stavolta critici e incassi gli han detto no, ma "Anonymous" lo conferma un signor regista: grandiosità, attori ben usati e lo spettacolo sinceramente camp di chi si prende sul serio. Sarebbe bastata una pesante tassa sulla narrazione anticronologica per farne un gran film, ma anche così merita le vostre due ore
Di Francesco Bruni ho cordialmente detestato "Momenti di trascurabile felicità", libricino pieno di nientini ben temperati. Però "Scialla" mi è piaciuto, che ci volete fare. Parte irritante, col solito Bentivoglio sciatto-fallito, infila luoghi comuni, invenzioni improbabili e frasi fatte - però poi alla fine ti strappa qualcosa di più di un sorriso medio. Furbetto? Sicuro, ma i difetti gravi per me sono altri.
Elena, hai ragione. Mi hanno tanato l'errore anche nel rimbalzo di questo post su Facebook. Non l'ho corretto perché mi sembrerebbe sleale coprire le tracce delle mie gaffe sfruttando la mutevolezza del mezzo elettronico. :)
Cameron Diaz still does look sexy but this movie is a boring, obvious and depressing mess. It might give people a reason to re-evaluate the Farrelly bros' lesser efforts, though
Super-cool movie has plenty of memorable set pieces and ideas but eventually does leave a Drive-ish aftertaste: that'll be a happy day when plot and character development actually live up to hip style
Guess I have to finally watch "Gangsters" now. As the final installment of Marchal's police trilogy, this one haves way more loose ends than "36 Quai des Orfevres", which proved somewhat disappointing. But I can't rule out a second viewing, with different expectations, might improve the judgment. Overall, though, this is one of those movies you keep wishing they were better than they actually are.
Neat recreation of the Mercury theater's heydays, it's slightly overlong but it does deliver to a point. As good as Christian McKay is, though, I must note his Welles seemed to lack the bigger-than-life quality of originale. A good film, not an unforgettable one.
Goldenlioned masterpiece? I beg to differ. As fascinating as Sokurov's perpetual motion of chaos can be, "Faust" is a meandering mess, studded with extravaganzas (the opening scene's flying mirror, the moon-monkey) that makes one regret having not spent the evening watching Murnau's wonderful original, or even Herzog's "Nosferatu". Intermittent use of distorting lenses is meaningless and unforgivable. Yikes.
i am usually rather cautious to overinterpret and see symbolism where there is none, but perhaps the floating mirror was a metaphor for the movie as it is -- a mirror to us, of us. and the monkey could be seen in the same vein -- if i remember correctly, its gestures seemed like it was communicating something to the viewer. it looked like a human trying to communicate.
Sort of a cross between "The Wicker Man" and "Pet Sematary", this is less an in-your-face horror than an emotional piece. It does get a bit cheesy along the way, plot-wise, but it does provide an unusually realistic atmosphere that somehow allow it to overcome its genre-related shortcomings
Stillman's first feature in 13 years is fun, as wittily and entertainingly dialogued as his previous efforts, but way more off-beat and darkly screwballish. Sort of an intellectual version of Michael Lehmann's cult "Heathers", it also centers on a bunch of co-eds named after flowers. Lots of fun.
I'm glad it's good. It got a rave review in variety as well. It just goes to show that you shouldn't judge a film by its trailer or, in this case, by its promo clips.
Indeed - but that should be said for any movie. Both clips and trailers are meant to sell a film to the widest possible audience, and they tend to downplay whatever peculiarities the film does have. I would not go as far as raving but I did like it - and, most importantly, so did the festival audience I saw it with