Tag Archives: American cinema

disturbing parable (Film: The Killing of a Sacred Deer – Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017)

Posted on November 21, 2017 by admin

The movies of Yorgos Lanthimos are hard to compare or include in a category. Maybe they should be declared a genre of their own. Dogtooth or The Lobster provided dystopian perspectives of family and love.  With ‘The Killing of a … Continue reading →

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the enemy is not what we believed (Film: The Beguiled – Nicole Kidman, 2017)

Posted on August 8, 2017 by admin

Director Sofia Coppola has built a name of herself clearly distinct from the one of her illustrious father by describing the world of women, their fears and tragedies, their anxieties and ambiguities, their relation with the world of men and … Continue reading →

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melodramatic immigration story (The Immigrant: Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix – 2013)

Posted on December 23, 2016 by admin

Director James Gray returns in his 2013 production of The Immigrant to one of his recurrent themes – the one that made him known in the first long feature film he made Little Odessa – immigration, and to his preferred … Continue reading →

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Woody Allen, edition 2016 (Film: Cafe Society – Woody Allen, 2016)

Posted on August 31, 2016 by admin

There are a few, very few things one can rely on happening every year, since the 1990s. First there is a Christmas – and yes, also a Passover – taking place each year. Then, there is the Woody Allen film … Continue reading →

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the magic of ‘seven’ does not fully work (Film: Seven Psychopaths – Martin McDonagh, 2012)

Posted on August 27, 2016 by admin

There is a magic about the number ‘seven’ in cinema among other places. Some say it started with Snow White, other will mention Kurosawa. Fact is that many successful films used this magic and succeeded, some of them succeeded great. … Continue reading →

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selling weapons is not nice kids business (Film: War Dogs – Todd Philips, 2016)

Posted on August 26, 2016 by admin

‘War Dogs‘ is the second movie ‘inspired by a true story’ that I have seen in the last 24 hours, and is actually the one that I liked better (the other one being ‘The Infiltrator’). Its film-making style (director Todd Phillips) … Continue reading →

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‘boring and watchable’ (Film: The Infiltrator – Brad Furman, 2016)

Posted on August 25, 2016 by admin

I could not avoid borrowing the qualifications used by a Web site from Toronto when writing about this film. It’s ‘boring and watchable’. An unusual combination indeed. And yet, this is exactly how I feel about ‘The Infiltrator’ directed by … Continue reading →

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weirdo! (Film: The Gift – Joel Edgerton, 2015)

Posted on October 24, 2015 by admin

Joel Edgerton is not a completely anonymous actor, but not a big star either. We know his face from a few supporting roles in a number of movies, but none of them really made it to the Academy Awards. This … Continue reading →

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the meaning of America (Film: ‘Killing Them Softly’ – Brad Pitt, 2012)

Posted on July 26, 2013 by admin

Here is one action movie that succeeds in a very original manner to say more about the America of today (or of a few years ago) than many other ‘serious’, ‘social’, ‘politically-engaged’ film. It does it so in a very … Continue reading →

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non-stop action, no questions asked (Film: Battle Los Angeles – Michelle Rodriguez, 2011)

Posted on February 28, 2013 by admin

Everything is clear from the first to the last of the shots (and there are many shots of all kinds) of Battle Los Angeles. The aliens are here (having arrived under disguise of a rain of meteorites) and they are … Continue reading →

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