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generation wars (Film: Choice of Arms/ Le choix des armes – Alain Corneau, 1981)

Posted on February 29, 2020 by admin

‘Choice of Arms‘ (the French title is ‘Le choix des armes‘) made in 1981 is a very typical film for the genre of film noir in the French cinema of the 70s and 80s. The master of the genre was … Continue reading →

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Guy Ritchie hits it right (Film: The Gentlemen – Guy Ritchie, 2019)

Posted on February 28, 2020 by admin

All the films directed by Guy Ritchie over the last decade that I have seen have been disappointments to me, so I was very close to skip seeing ‘The Gentlemen‘ in theaters, leaving it, maybe, for a later viewing. What … Continue reading →

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a study in vice (Film: The Gambler – Mark Wahlberg, 2014)

Posted on February 24, 2018 by admin

The vice of gambling inspired quite a number of literary and cinematographic works, starting maybe with Dostoevsky’s novel which shares the name with the films that inspired it until the almost masterpiece movie “House of Games” written and directed by … Continue reading →

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classic and timeless (film: Gloria – John Cassavetes, 1980)

Posted on January 25, 2018 by admin

Good movies are timeless. Or they feel so. Sometimes this is because their subject is universal and it does not really matter what epoch the action is set in. In some other cases the quality of the story and of … Continue reading →

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an American anti-hero (Film: Black Mass – Johnny Depp, 2015)

Posted on October 4, 2015 by admin

The season for screening films with ambitions for Academy Awards must have started. Black Mass is directed by Scott Cooper – a relative newcomer (this is only his third film) but a rising star among directors at Hollywood if we … Continue reading →

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