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Manhattan is (again) destroyed (film: A Quiet Place: Day One – Michael Sarnoski, 2024)

Posted on September 3, 2024 by admin

A morning with beautiful weather in New York. The metropolis begins another day of diverse, dynamic, noisy life. Suddenly, an extraordinary event happens, an event that will change everyone’s lives. No, it’s not about a movie about 9/11. ‘A Quite … Continue reading →

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Poirot haunted (film: A Haunting in Venice – Kenneth Branagh, 2023)

Posted on September 2, 2024 by admin

Kenneth Branagh continues his series of adaptations of Agatha Christie’s novels and seems to feel quite comfortable in the skin of Hercule Poirot and in the position of director of the films that bring him to the big screen. The … Continue reading →

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a ‘feel-good’ of the Coens (film: Raising Arizona – Coen brothers, 1987)

Posted on August 28, 2024 by admin

The 1987 ‘Raising Arizona‘ is the second feature film written and directed by the Coen brothers. The first film, ‘Blood Simple’ had impressed but also disturbed many of the viewers with the combination of strange or banal characters doing extreme … Continue reading →

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frozen passions (film: Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Bille August, 1997)

Posted on August 27, 2024 by admin

Director Bille August‘s ‘Smilla’s Sense of Snow‘ (1997) should have had every reason to be a standout film. The script brings a successful novel by Peter Høeg to the big screen. The story belongs to a cinematographic genre – techno-thriller … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Ann Biderman, Bille August, Danish cinema, Gabriel Byrne, inspired by a novel, Julia Ormond, Peter Høeg, Scandinavian thriller, Smilla's Sense of Snow, techno-thriller | Leave a comment

the lost generations (film: All Quiet on the Western Front – Lewis Milestone, 1930)

Posted on August 26, 2024 by admin

Lewis Milestone (born Leib Milstein in Chișinău in 1895) is one of those immigrant filmmakers who laid the foundations of the American film industry and whose biographies await screenwriters to turn them into memorable films. ‘All Quiet on the Western … Continue reading →

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for a piece of metal (film: Cross of Iron – Sam Peckinpah, 1977)

Posted on August 24, 2024 by admin

Any good war movie can only be an anti-war movie. This axiom is also confirmed by ‘Cross of Iron‘, the 1977 film by Sam Peckinpah, the only war film by the American director who was a master of western films … Continue reading →

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the improbable heroes (film: La vie de château – Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 1966)

Posted on August 23, 2024 by admin

8 feature films in 50 years. This is the entire filmography of Jean-Paul Rappeneau between 1966 and 2015. And yet, the French director and screenwriter managed with these 8 films to make a name for himself and occupy a visible … Continue reading →

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love and crime in a small French town (film: La chambre bleue – Mathieu Amalric, 2014)

Posted on August 21, 2024 by admin

Mathieu Amalric is one of my favorite actors and his presence on the credits of a movie is reason enough to want to see him. From time to time he is also behind the camera as a film director. This … Continue reading →

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too dark to be true? (film: Civil War – Alex Garland, 2024)

Posted on August 20, 2024 by admin

Dystopias on screens seem to impress less lately, and this is probably also due to the fact that our lives and the events around us contain more and more elements of dystopia. ‘Civil War‘, the film written and directed by … Continue reading →

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‘The Master’ of our times (film: Master i Margarita / The Master and Margarita – Michael Lockshin, 2023)

Posted on August 19, 2024 by admin

Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel ‘The Master and Margarita’ was written between 1928 and 1940, but the writer never saw it published. The first – censored – version of the book appeared in the USSR in 1966. I guess this is the … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged August Diehl, Denis Lischenko, Evgeniy Tsyganov, film based on a novel, historical fantasy, international movies production, Master i Margarita, Maxim Zhukov, Michael Lockshin, Russian cinema, The Master and Margarita, Yulia Snigir | Leave a comment