"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere."
A horrible and shallow quote by Anakin Skywalker. He should've seen this movie first before making that statement to truly understand the cinematic genius of Woman in the Dunes!
I love when a Foreign film throws you right into the mix and creates an engaging story from the start without an action spectacle, with its hypnotizing shots of the desert. Far ahead of its time, the…
Beethoven's Seventh symphony, neonazism, Shia Lebouf, Roman history, time stopping, random music video, megalomania and Swedish hot dogs. A glorious and spectacular mess.
Francis Ford Coppola begins his best film (The Godfather) with this quote: "I believe in America". More than 50 years later, he explores this question in a wholesome vision of the future. If Megalopolis is Coppola's last film, one thing can be said: He ends with a bang! For better or for worse. You won't forget this…
Wow! Absolute Cinema! This was a masterclass in suspense! A true classic about moral complexity with loads of social commentary. Very fascinating to see Toshiro Mifune, outside of his samurai clothing, delivering a restrained yet powerful performance as Gondo, a wealthy shoe executive who is thrown into a ransom plot. It doesn't hide what it wants to tell about the difference in wealth in Japan (even the title is a clue here), and the way the camera frames Gondo's modernist…
For a movie that tries to humanize robots, the film itself feels as mechanic and heartless as a real life robot.
I came out feeling nothing. I do admire the production design and vfx. Loved the rustic robots and how they functioned. There's a lot of personality to each and every one of them, and you can tell the vfx artists spent a lot of time and had fun creating all the jolts, movements and inner workings of each one…
During the aftermath of 22nd July of 2011, I mentioned to a AUF-member that someone will probably capitalize on the horrible event and make a feature length film about it. He promptly un-friended me on Facebook. While I know that the subject is hard, I know that based on movies like Elephant, Polytechnique and several others, someone would do exactly that with this tragedy. Sooner or later.
However, the way this movie turned out, does not feel like it's capitalizing…
I started playing the drums when I was 8 (before that was when I was a toddler, banging on pots and pans). Now I'm 24.
"Whiplash" just captured everything. The feel of sitting behind the kit, getting yelled at by an instructor, how desperate you sometime feel, how fixated you are. This one hit home base for me. Other than several drum fills that don't match what you see on screen, you get a flawless film. The editing, the performances, the direction. All of this makes up for the obvious mistakes. Everything is so tight, so correct, with the perfect precision that a drummer should have.
