Tag Archives: American cinema

runaway kids (film: Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson, 2012)

Posted on May 29, 2021 by admin

Welcome to Wes Anderson‘s universe for ‘Moonrise Kingdom‘, made in 2012, perhaps Anderson‘s most Andersonian film. It’s a bold combination of a movie for and about teenagers and a surreal fantasy, a nostalgic American story set in the mid-1960s – … Continue reading →

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another piece in the mosaic (film: Minari – Lee Isaac Chung, 2020)

Posted on April 17, 2021 by admin

‘Minari‘, the autobiographical film written and directed in 2020 by the American filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung, a son of Korean immigrants, has some beautiful moments and quite a lot of cinematic qualities. It is an immigrants story, one of the … Continue reading →

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deadly games (film: Nerve – Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman, 2016)

Posted on April 9, 2021 by admin

In 2016, when they made ‘Nerve‘,  Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman already had in their joint filmography the series 3 and 4 of the horror cycle ‘Paranormal Activity‘ as well as ‘Catfish‘, a successful documentary that deals with romantic relationships … Continue reading →

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the price of the life of a soldier (film: The Monuments Men – George Clooney, 2014)

Posted on April 8, 2021 by admin

The story in ‘The Monuments Men‘ directed by George Clooney and released on screens in 2014 is worth telling. In the last year of World War II, a small group of Allied soldiers, most of them experts in the arts, … Continue reading →

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a policewoman starts her career (film: Blue Steel – Kathryn Bigelow, 1990)

Posted on March 26, 2021 by admin

I decided to watch ‘Blue Steel‘ due to the presence of Jamie Lee Curtis in the cast and the fact that it is directed by Kathryn Bigelow. The film was released on screens in 1990, when Curtis was already a … Continue reading →

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simple and beautiful (film: Nomadland – Chloé Zhao, 2020)

Posted on March 25, 2021 by admin

The fact that director Chloé Zhao‘s ‘Nomadland‘ is nominated for some of the most important categories Academy Awards and that it is even considered the main favorite for the best film of 2020 may have influenced my experience of watching … Continue reading →

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a 1950s film noir still worth watching (film: Pickup on South Street – Samuel Fuller, 1953)

Posted on March 8, 2021 by admin

Made in 1953, director Samuel Fuller‘s ‘Pickup on South Street‘ is considered one of the best classic films of the ‘film noir’ genre. Built around a story (also written by Fuller) that is not among the most original or surprising, … Continue reading →

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Welles touches the Evil (film: Touch of Evil – Orson Welles, 1958)

Posted on January 25, 2021 by admin

In the history of movies ‘Touch of Evil‘, the 1958 film ‘noir’ by Orson Welles played perhaps a more important role in European and especially French cinema than in American cinema. It is a story of gangsters that takes place … Continue reading →

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on the roads of life (film: The Glorias – Julie Taymor, 2020)

Posted on January 18, 2021 by admin

It is impossible to judge a film like ‘The Glorias‘ (2020) by director Julie Taymor outside its political context. I think that neither the heroine of this biopic – journalist, editor and feminist activist Gloria Steinem – nor the film’s … Continue reading →

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the power of the mob (film: The Chase – Arthur Penn, 1966)

Posted on January 16, 2021 by admin

1966, the year Arthur Penn made ‘The Chase‘, belongs to the period in the second half of the 1960s that transformed American cinema. These are the years in which the French New Wave reached the shores of Hollywood, in which … Continue reading →

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