Tag Archives: American cinema

Uncertain Future (Film: Sound of My Voice, 2011)

Posted on November 23, 2012 by admin

There are many interesting scenes and ideas  in Sound a My Voice, the first film of director Zal Batmanglij. Co-written with Brit Marling, one of the two feminine stars of the film it tells the story of a young couple … Continue reading →

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A Fall on the Social Slope (Film: The House of Mirth – Terence Davies, Gillian Anderson, 2000)

Posted on November 22, 2012 by admin

The local cinematheque screened a few weeks ago the 2000 adaptation of Edit Wharton’s now classic novel The House of Mirth, whose first screen adaptation to screen dates back from 1918.     The House of Mirth is a combination … Continue reading →

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1984 + 1 (Film: Brazil – Terry Gilliam, 1985)

Posted on November 20, 2012 by admin

I got very late to seeing Brazil. 27 years later. It was released in 1985, one year after Orwell’s year, which was also the exact moment I left my own Orwellian universe, the one where I had lived the first … Continue reading →

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The Thrill is Gone (Film: The Muppets, 2011)

Posted on November 19, 2012 by admin

One of the songs in the first part of this comeback tentative of The Muppets is called ‘Can We Do It Again?’.  To some extent it resumes the story and the history of this film. The story because the film … Continue reading →

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Family Ties (Film: Tetro – Francis Ford Coppola, 2009)

Posted on October 26, 2012 by admin

The name of Francis Ford Coppola is always sufficient to make me want to see the movie. Having directed back in the 70s what are considered to be some of the best films in the history of cinema, Coppola seems … Continue reading →

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Chairman is another of His names (Film: The Adjustment Bureau – Matt Damon, 2011)

Posted on October 7, 2012 by admin

The Adjustment Bureau starts like an election year movie. As we are in 2012 this may be the right time for such films, but it quickly quits that path to go into a direction that I personally find even more … Continue reading →

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just a wild ride (Film: Kick-Ass – Nicholas Cage, 2010)

Posted on July 8, 2012 by admin

The heroes in ‘Kick-Ass’ are not made of special forms of matter and are not un-breakable. They try however to live to the ambitions of the super-heroes myth in a world which seems to believe in myths, and take the … Continue reading →

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A Comedy Homage to the Film Noir

Posted on May 31, 2012 by admin

I confess not to be a big fan of  Steve Martin, an actor whose comedies I find to be too often on the exaggeration side of the joke, playing all the time almost in the same register. Yet, Carl Reiner‘s … Continue reading →

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MIB are back … they actually never left us … so what?

Posted on May 27, 2012 by admin

Men In Black are back. 15 years after the first (and best) film in the series Hollywood tries to squeeze some more dollars from the same idea.Sequels are never easy to do. You need both to ensure continuity and bring … Continue reading →

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Film: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Nicholas Cage, 2010)

Posted on April 28, 2012 by admin

‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ is designed on a very clear and often used formula of the Disney family movie with special effects, and it holds no surprises – in any case neither too bad, nor too good ones. A murky magicians … Continue reading →

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