Tag Archives: American movies

a film made 50 years too late (Film: Pompeii – Paul W.S. Anderson, 2014)

Posted on May 9, 2019 by admin

I saw ‘Pompeii‘ in the wrong place and at the wrong time. Movies that heavily advertise their 3D effects must be seen in cinemas equipped with this projection technology. I skipped the movie at its time in cinemas, and I … Continue reading →

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nothing new about Vincent (Film: At Eternity’s Gate – Willem Dafoe, 2018)

Posted on April 28, 2019 by admin

I believe that Vincent van Gogh would have been very pleased if he could get some royalties from the films that were made about him. The “damned” artist of the generation of post-impressionists, the unrecognized genius who did not sell … Continue reading →

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surrealistic film noir (Film: Lost Highway – David Lynch, 1997)

Posted on April 24, 2019 by admin

‘Lost Highway‘ belongs to a category of movies that confuses many viewers, thrills many others, generates endless discussions and triggers extreme reactions. Welcome to the universe of most of David Lynch‘s films, a universe in which cinematic story telling and … Continue reading →

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music, friendship and prejudice (Film: Green Book – Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, 2018)

Posted on February 19, 2019 by admin

‘Green Book‘ seems to have been designed according to a recipe for winning Academy Awards. The subject is historic but with reverberations in current politics and the approach is in tune with the mood at Hollywood. It addresses one of … Continue reading →

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drama of a fallen socialite (Film: Blue Jasmine – Woody Allen, 2013)

Posted on February 17, 2014 by admin

Some of the latest films of Woody Allen seem so much taken out of life that you have the feeling that Woody’s camera caught a point in time when the story started and left the story at another point in … Continue reading →

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a thriller in the swamps (Film: In the Electric Mist – Tommy Lee Jones, 2009)

Posted on August 3, 2013 by admin

Some films deserve a better fate. This is in my opinion the case with ‘In the Electric Mist’ which is totally unknown to most of the cinema fans because it seems to not having been released in cinema theaters in … Continue reading →

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chaotic (Film: Contagion – Steven Soderbergh, 2011)

Posted on July 26, 2013 by admin

Having seen a few weeks ago Side Effects I was reflecting that maybe Steven Soderbergh would not necessarily do a bad thing taking a break from directing. Well, I had not seen ‘Contagion’ yet, one of his previous movies. To … Continue reading →

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beyond the levees (Film: Beasts of the Southern Wild – Benh Zeitlin, 2012)

Posted on February 14, 2013 by admin

Beasts of the Southern Wild is a very different kind of movie. I am actually quite pleasantly surprised that it got four Awards nominations, but I do not believe that it holds serious chances of wining any because it’s too … Continue reading →

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Mayan Horror (The Ruins – Carter Smith, 2008)

Posted on September 10, 2012 by admin

I wonder if director Carter Smith and other folks involved in the making of The Ruins have seen Tarkovsky‘s Solaris. I like to believe that it’s mandatory stuff in any school of cinema but I cannot know. I am asking … Continue reading →

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