Paul Zoccolillo

Paul Zoccolillo

Avid cinephile and amateur film historian. What else is there to say?

*Reviews of films from 2006 to 2014 first appeared on Flixster.

Favorite films

  • Seven Samurai
  • The Godfather
  • Casablanca
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

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  • Wild at Heart

    ★★★½

  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

    ★★★★

  • The 400 Blows

    ★★★★★

  • Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

    ★★★★

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  • Wild at Heart

    Wild at Heart

    ★★★½

    lynch's overstuffed tribute-cum-parody of mid-century americana shifts gears too late to make a full impact, as he retreats into tiresome referentiality, from other films and his own, that stifles the quirky yet torrid love affair at the centre of it all

  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

    Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

    ★★★★

    an extended groove through a downbeat episode of cold war history unfurled in punchy, sometimes funny, and even chilling stylistic strategies that matches the revolutionary spirit of the times, remarkably edited and scored with truth to spare

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  • Voyage of Time: Life's Journey

    Voyage of Time: Life's Journey

    ★★★★

    a secular invocation of the poetic wonder of nature, malick's sensibilities are here at their most impressionistic, though most of the footage is strikingly evocative on its own, the sincerity of this work is what ultimately matters

  • Vincere

    Vincere

    ★★★★

    uniquely avant-garde in presentation, a portrait of historical upheaval that gravitates to the personal instead of the mechanistic, incredible use of editing creates an attachment to its period, operatic and profound

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