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Merry Christmas... Happy New Year 1989
Luigi Comencini was already in his seventies when he directed this masterpiece. Being his penultimate film, his work would be finished with the following Marcelino (1991).
With Buon Natale…Buon Anno the 80s were also at its end. It was a very different time. The Italian cinema industry was very unlike the one that saw the eruption of Comencini e tutti quanti.
And yet, the director seemed to have kept his artistry until the end, the control of his set and…Translated from by -
The Running Man 1963
The problem with the last years of great filmmaker’s long careers - and Carol Reed had one - is that it survives less in the memory of viewers than the past that is long gone. It was not the best years of their lives and it’s neither ours. We think so and act accordingly.
That’s why it is a big surprise to stumble on The Running Man. Reed directed it in 1963, thirteen years before his disappearance and when he…Translated from by
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Poor Things 2023
The guy who used to be blamed for some of the oddities in film festivals reinvents himself as maker of hits. Poor things will be “huge” as they say. And yet… sometimes ridiculous, other times saved by its art direction, it has no misteries, it does not offer any bumps to an adventurous spectator. It is long gone the director of Alps.
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Oppenheimer 2023
I know the guy says the right things about cinema and movie theaters. I know he is a messianic figure in which some deposit all their hopes for the salvation of film as we knew
it. Some are even sure that this is not about the bomb but a secret message about a dying art. But … is this a film or a trailer for a tv series? To each his own Kubrick.Translated from by
