Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Tries to do too much in its already huge runtime, but there are lots of great moments. Viola Davis is having a fantastic time.
Josh Rivera a real standout in the cast. One to watch.
Did everyone else break into uncontrollable tears during the Turner/Hattie hug scene or just me?
Groundbreaking mix of POV cinematography and documentary footage, edited phenomenally to create a poetic dive into memory and history.
Incredible performances all round and a superb script.
There’s often a fine line between the stories an auteur chooses to put on screen and their own life. Tommaso is a perfect example, with writer/director Abel Ferrara setting his new film in his own Rome apartment, and casting his wife and three-year-old daughter in the supporting roles.
The lead is played by Willem Dafoe, on fantastic form as a New York filmmaker struggling to find a sense of identity and a new home in the city. So does Ferrara manage to turn his personal demons into a something compelling, or is this simply a vanity project from the former Hollywood hell-raiser?
Full review at: lwlies.com/festivals/tommaso-cannes-film-festival-look-review/
There aren’t enough expletives or adjectives to express quite how much you need to see Fury Road.
Its brutal war-torn world, built on the liquid viscera of blood, milk and oil, is a dystopia; but the future that Max (Hardy) and Furiosa (Theron) are fighting for feels gloriously utopian.
It’s not just the visuals – a fire and brimstone hellscape conjured by Miller and DoP John Seale – that feel shockingly new, but the film’s politics. Fury Road is righteously,…