Tag Archives: Hollywood movies

53 years of love (film: Love in the Time of Cholera – Mike Newell, 2007)

Posted on November 20, 2025 by admin

Comparisons between books and the films inspired by those books seem to me to be completely useless exercises. Literature and Film are two arts that work with completely different materials, their creative processes have nothing in common and literature lovers … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Fernanda Montenegro, Gabriel García Márquez, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Hollywood movies, inspired by a novel, Javier Bardem, Love in the Time of Cholera, Mike Newell, Ronald Harwood, South-American literature | Leave a comment

duel of psychics (film: Solace – Alfonso Poyart, 2015)

Posted on October 24, 2025 by admin

I decided to watch ‘Solace‘ for Anthony Hopkins. If Hopkins was in a movie where he reads the phone book, I would still choose to watch it. Since ‘Solace‘ was promoted as belonging to a genre I like – psychological … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Abbie Cornish, action thriller, Alfonso Poyart, Anthony Hopkins, Hollywood movies, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, original script, psychological thriller, Solace | Leave a comment

finding the true love on the road to the altar (film: It Happened One Night – Frank Capra, 1934)

Posted on October 22, 2025 by admin

Three movies have managed to win all five ‘major’ Academy Awards in the history of cinema – best picture, director, actor and actress in leading roles, screenplay. Frank Capra‘s ‘It Happened One Night‘ was the first of them, in 1934. … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, film inspired by a short story, Frank Capra, Hollywood movies, It Happened One Night, romantic comedy, screwball comedy, social comedy | Leave a comment

a swapper angel (film: Good Fortune – Aziz Ansari, 2025)

Posted on October 21, 2025 by admin

The genre of angel movies is not very prolific, but it includes some memorable creations. The same can be said about the genre of identity swapping films. Actor, stand-up comedian and television creator Aziz Ansari chose to combine the two … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged author cinema, Aziz Ansari, comedy, fantasy movies, Hollywood movies, Keanu Reeves, movies about angels, original script, Seth Rogen, swapping identities | Leave a comment

the lone fighter on the Capitol Hill (film: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington – Frank Capra, 1939)

Posted on October 14, 2025 by admin

In 1939, when he made ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington‘, Frank Capra already had won three Academy Awards for best director. He would be nominated for the fourth time for directing this film, but he did not win. Not because … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Claude Rains, Frank Capra, Harry Carey, Hollywood movies, inspire by a short story, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, political comedy, political satire | Leave a comment

the first adventure on screen of the invisible man (film: The Invisible Man – James Whale, 1933)

Posted on October 13, 2025 by admin

I don’t know how many adaptations for the big and small screens there are of H.G. Wells’ novel ‘The Invisible Man’. IMDB lists 60, but this list also includes ‘spin-offs’, that is, films with invisible heroes (or invisible heroines!) that … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Claude Rains, Hollywood movies, horror movies, inspired by a novel, James Whale, sci-fi horror, The Invisible Man | Leave a comment

a star has fallen (film: The Barefoot Contessa – Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1955)

Posted on October 7, 2025 by admin

When he wrote and directed ‘The Barefoot Contessa’ (1954), Joseph L. Mankiewicz was coming off the huge success of one of his previous films – ‘All About Eve’ (1950). That film depicted the twilight of a Broadway star’s career, and … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Ava Gardner, Hollywood movies, Humphrey Bogart, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, movies about movies, original script, The Barefoot Contessa | Leave a comment

the Beauty and the Militant (film: The Way We Were – Sydney Pollack, 1973)

Posted on October 4, 2025 by admin

The most appropriate way to honor the memory of a filmmaker or actor who is no longer with us is to see or re-watch their films. ‘The Way We Were‘ from 1973 is one of the films that consolidated Robert … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged American cinema, Barbra Streisand, based on a book, Hollywood movies, James Woods, political cinema, relationship drama, Robert Redford, romantic drama, Sydney Pollack | Leave a comment

a polarized world (film: One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025)

Posted on September 26, 2025 by admin

‘One Battle After Another‘ is the first serious candidate for the next Academy Awards. I couldn’t have expected anything else from Paul Thomas Anderson, a film maker who has already demonstrated his talent for bringing complex stories to the screen … Continue reading →

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growing up on the road (film: Almost Famous – Cameron Crowe, 2000)

Posted on September 24, 2025 by admin

‘Almost Famous‘ is a phenomenon movie. The screenwriter and director is Cameron Crowe, who between 1996 and 2001 wrote and directed several splendid feature movies (for this one he won an Academy Award for best original screenplay) and then practically … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Almost Famous, American cinema, author cinema, Billy Crudup, coming of age, Frances McDormand, Hollywood movies, Kate Hudson, movies about music, original script, Patrick Fugit, Philip Seymour Hoffman, road movies | Leave a comment