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- DirectorOlivier AssayasStarsVirginie LedoyenCyprien FouquetLászló SzabóWhen the girl of a rebelious teenage couple finds out she is being sent away, they both believe escaping the rigid order suffocating them is the only way to be free. But is it?10/10 - seen first time in a night when I was around 18, completely stunned, falled in love with Virginie Ledoyen, such a great movie, intense, with no compromises... Olivier Assayas has never reached again such a level in his carrer (imho).
- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsPaolo BonacelliGiorgio CataldiUberto Paolo QuintavalleIn World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.10/10 - seen at least 3 times, simply one of the greatest Italian film of all times... always a doubt will remain about the final editing but what excites me most is the explict and frank way of the mise-en-scène that shows what fascist violence is, that type of inner violence that poisons our society. A little hope at the end cannot cancel the grotesque and the flith that the main sadist characters evoke. After reading Sade (was after the second view of the film I think) I must say that is not so extreme as that could appear if the literary source is ignored.
- DirectorJean-Pierre JeunetStarsAudrey TautouMathieu KassovitzRufusDespite being caught in her imaginative world, Amelie, a young waitress, decides to help people find happiness. Her quest to spread joy leads her on a journey where she finds true love.1/10 - really hateful film, incredibly successful and created a long tail of others films copying its style, its colors, its atmosphere. Just hateful. But it belongs just to that era, which is over.
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodPatrick L. ReyesCesar De LeónA ninety-year-old horticulturist and Korean War veteran turns drug mule for a Mexican cartel.8/10 - Clint Eastwood is just amazing, I would like to be like him at his age. Since probably I won't, I just admire him on the screen. His character is not a saint, but is true, alive, and still able to love and put life before work and money. A huge example and subversive nowadays.
- DirectorGaspar NoéStarsSofia BoutellaRomain GuillermicSouheila YacoubFrench dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.9/10 - I ignore what Gaspar Noe did before this but this is enough to keep ignoring the rest, because I have never seen something like that before. Of course has to be seen in a movie theater, if not it has no sense. It gave me nausea, bad thoughts, bad feelings, excited me, provoked me... many various emotions so hard to find in a movie. Really kicked me in the balls and made my spin. Just amazing stuff. Someone said it is just void aesthetic exercise, a performance with nothing inside... Well, I did not perceive it like that, if Noe meant that he cheated on me in a sumptous way.
- DirectorDario ArgentoStarsJessica HarperStefania CasiniFlavio BucciAn American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.9/10 - Dario Argento as his best probably, more loved outside Italy and the reason I think is due to the lack of continuity and linearity in the plot... We Italians are obsessed by meaning, and we are searching for it even in a mysterious horror film, which seduces us waving like a nightmare among visions and cruel murders... and that musical score by Goblin... I suggest to listen to the soundtrack in your ear while you walk in a snowy, dark, cold winter day and suddenly you will find life full of meaning and exciting.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsTomas MilianHenry SilvaLaura BelliA small-time homicidal maniac kidnaps a young heiress, prompting a cop to pursue him before he can kill the girl once the hefty ransom is paid.9/10 - For the one who think that 'poliziottesco' is a bad word meaning bullshit films... for 98% of them this is true, but not for this movie that reveals the tragic face of Tomas Milian, before er monnezza and coupling with Bombolo. To watch as a grindhouse night with the following 'Roma a mano armata'.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsMaurizio MerliArthur KennedyGiampiero AlbertiniA tough, rule-bending cop pursues a maniacal, trigger-happy hunchback, a one-handed bank robber and their cronies in an effort to bring Rome's most powerful crime lord to justice.8/10 - To follow the vision of 'Milano odia...', still directed by Umberto Lenzi starring Milian as the wicked and obscene 'Il gobbo'. "A La Pira Galeazzo, siccome nun c'ho 'na lira t'attacchi ar cazzo!"
- DirectorGordon Parks Jr.StarsRon O'NealCarl LeeSheila FrazierThe daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.7/10 - Blaxploitation is reference for trying to understand what New York City and USA was in the 70's, what black culture is... Politically incorrect when it was just movies, which means it is expression of a vision, of a culture, with no compromises and with no fears of offending someone. - ' You're gonna work for me until I tell you to quit.' - 'You don't own me pig. And no motherfucker tells me when I can split.' - 'Who the f*ck do you think you're talking to?' - 'I'm talking to you, you redneck faggot.'
- DirectorMathieu KassovitzStarsVincent CasselHubert KoundéSaïd Taghmaoui24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.8/10 - This film showed to us all what banlieues are, who lives there, what the generation black blanc beur before the 1998 world cup, before burnt cars, before terrorism... But dreams frustrations and fears are common to the many of us who were growing in suburbs, that what it made an iconic film. My favourite character is Hubert... Just saying. After 7th Jan 2015, on many walls of Faubourg st Denis the film poster was posted: instead of La haine it said L'amour.
- DirectorAbdellatif KechicheStarsOsman ElkharrazSara ForestierSabrina OuazaniKrimo a 15 years old shy boy falls in love for Lídia who is his classmate.To be able to assume his love for her he decides to take a part in the play that was to be one of his friends.9/10 - Just love this film, maybe my Kechiche favourite one. The reasons is that the voices and the stories of these teenagers flow and float like a impetuous river in high banks which are - again - banlieues. Seems a cliche but it is not. Dam is still far to reach, theatre and first love helps to overlook them for some moments, but reality invades and devastes us all. Nothing new, maybe, but this film stays in your mind, in your eyes, in your soul.
- DirectorCesc GayStarsFernando RamalloJordi VilchesMarieta OrozcoA Spanish coming of age story focusing on the antics of two 17 year olds, who have a posh beach house almost all to themselves one summer. This is also a summer of sexual awakenings.9/10 - Always mentioned as a gay themed film, it is much more and would deserve to exit from that ghetto where it is confined. I try to explain why: rarely you will find a film with such a powerful and complete description of what summer, Spain, freedom, teenage, sex are. The example for all filmmakers who would like to film reality and life as it is, especially Italian ones... But are there any out there?
- DirectorFrédéric JardinStarsTomer SisleySerge RiaboukineJulien BoisselierA cop with a connection to the criminal underworld finds his secret life exposed when he and his partner are caught stealing cocaine from a powerful drug dealer, a move that puts his son's life in jeopardy.8/10 - Seen by chance in Rome in 2012, this film simply amazed me. I remember the high speed rythm and the adrenaline put into me... I exited the theatre and I was so excited. That happens really rarely to me.
- DirectorQuentin DupieuxStarsAlain ChabatJonathan LambertÉlodie BouchezA wanna-be director is given 48 hours by a producer to find the best groan of pain, worthy of an Oscar, as the only condition to back his film.9/10 - The masterpiece of Quentin Dupieux so far, and also the closing of the first part of his moviemaker career. He mocks everyone here, and especially himself, and he is very conscient about it. He is the only possible Quentin today, but he came back with Au Poste! when it seemed it would have quit filmmaking and kinda disappointed me... I mean, good start then kind of lack of inspiration maybe... The mechanisms became clear and not surprising anymore... Well, but I am talking about Realité here, which was really great. If you want to be surprised and do not care about narrative continuity and you are amazed by surrealism, this film is for you. Of course, watch Bunuel, Ferreri and all the rest, but Dupieux is pretty good and one of the most polyhedric and convincing artists of today.
- DirectorQuentin DupieuxStarsBenoît PoelvoordeGrégoire LudigMarc FraizeLouis just found the corpse of a man in front of his apartment building. Taken in for custody by Captain Buron, he finds himself on the wrong end of a surreal interrogation. But how can you prove you are innocent when the cops are crazy?5/10 - This disappointed me quite a lot, because I love Q. Dupieux as an artist and especially as a filmmaker. Not all his stuff is great but I really had quite high expectations about this film which follows 'Realité' after four years. The first 15 minutes are incredibly funny, I laughed a lot, and also someone in the audience did the same, but then he fell asleep (I heard him snoring). In the middle, the film does not know exactly where to go, and Dupieux solves it in a surrealistic and interesting way (surprising indeed), which, however, is not enough to save it. For 2019 a new film will be released, and I am really really curious and full of hope about it.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroHarvey KeitelDavid ProvalIn New York City's Little Italy, a devoutly Catholic mobster must reconcile his desire for power, his feelings for his epileptic lover, and his devotion to his troublesome friend.10/10 - This one, Taxi Driver, A clockwork orange and L'Eau Froide are the films of my life. Or at least of a decade, the most important to me for the enthusiasm and for the discoveries... Mean Streets is the white version of a blaxsploitation film, I dare to say. It is violent, uncompromised, dark, full of energy, thrilling, alive... That was what Scorsese saw during his youth in Little Italy, the characters, the little gangsters where it was not cool to pretend to be it, you took your real risks, you paid with life. We see many films with this environment, today, especially in Italy, but none has 1% of the power of Mean Streets. I love also the italian-american slang used by DeNiro and the others. Not to forget the unique Harvey Keitel, the tiger, Scorsese shooting, the black dancer (did Marty watch Milano Calibro 9? Sure he did), swastika on the table, Time is on my side and Jumpin' Jack Flash... Just great.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsGriffin DunneRosanna ArquetteVerna BloomAn ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho he met that evening at a coffee shop.8/10 - The first time I saw it I just thought it was the greatest thing Scorsese did after Mean Streets and Taxi Driver. Recently seen again for the third time, not so sure, but I was tired. However, for the 75% of its length is still a 9/10 movie, it drags you in a urban Kafkian nightmare where you would not wake up from. When NYC was still a dangerous place where losing oneself in.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroCathy MoriartyJoe PesciThe life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.8/10 - This film hits more my brain than my stomach, therefore I consider it less important to me than other Scorsese's films. This does not mean that I do not understand its greatness and importance, where I especially see in the Joe Pesci interpretation, in the boxing scenes (the editing from Thelma Schoonmaker is simply outstanding, makes you cry), in the scene where Jake/DeNiro bursto into Joey/Pesci's home and beats him up.
- DirectorRoger AvaryStarsEric StoltzJulie DelpyMartin RaymondThe cab driver sets American Zed up with Zoe in his Paris hotel. Despite FFR1000 charged, she's an art student with day jobs e.g. bank. Safecracker Zed meets his junkie friend after 11 years to rob a bank.
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsPam GrierSamuel L. JacksonRobert ForsterA flight attendant with a criminal past gets nabbed by the ATF for smuggling. Under pressure to become an informant against the illegal arms dealer she works for, she must find a way to secure her future without getting killed.9/10 - This is a great film by QT, before he was QT. Actually, 'nobody' watched this at that time, and the Miramax Company went bankrupt (then was re-born as the Weinstein Company). His careers seemed to be at the dead point after this one, and he had just won Palme d'or in Cannes three years before. Verbose, full of characters, stories waive together, and the eyes of Robert Forster and Pam Grier watching in the rear-view window are impossible to forget. Great casting and high level of irony, Tarantino will not reach this level again.
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsJohn TravoltaUma ThurmanSamuel L. JacksonThe lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.8/10 - Hard to add more stuff about this film, I kinda watched in real time and it was already legendary (I think the first time it was in 1997 on TV at late night). The funniest and greatest episode for me is the one with Bruce Willis. Of course, Samuel L. Jackson and Chris Walken are unforgettable, as well. I feel old speaking about this film, but for many of my 'generation' (such a hateful word!) it is the beginning of the cinema history (before, nothing)... Well, it is not like that, but Lynch and Tarantino changed and lead it for a couple of decades.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsIsabella RosselliniKyle MacLachlanDennis HopperThe discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.8/10 - Contemporary noir and postmodern started here? Maybe, but who cares now, in 2019? Not me, so I keep on thinking this is simply a great movie. Purist Lynch fans prefer Eraserhead of course, but it is not a car challenge, therefore I am not here to say which one wins. They are both disturbing in their own ways. Here, also, Lynch gives a big detour to his career, which seemed fucked up after Dune. How? He becomes less extreme and radical, and starts to mix thriller, strange and scary characters and soap opera in a middle-class small-town context. That reminds you something? If not, go and watch Twin Peaks now, you infidel!
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsBill PullmanPatricia ArquetteJohn RoseliusAnonymous videotapes presage a musician's murder conviction, and a gangster's girlfriend leads a mechanic astray.6/10 - Seems to be an alternative outtake of Blue Velvet, and as any other alternative outtakes it does not reach the same level as the original one. It is dark and disturbing, still, but it works not that much. What is works the most is the soundtrack, which is really amazing. It is also can be seen as a demo tape of Mulholland Drive, especially for the double character played by the same actess (well, he used this idea already in Twin Peaks, in M.D he will double the double characters).
- DirectorKevin SmithStarsBrian O'HalloranJeff AndersonMarilyn GhigliottiA day in the lives of two convenience clerks named Dante and Randal as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the store roof.9/10 - Cannot be compared at all with Clerks II and any other films made by Kevin Smith. This is just fresh and great comedy, with unforgettable characters from a black and white anonymous New Jersey: Randal and Jay and Silent Bob are on top, of course. Clips of inventive genius and creativity made with nothing (Smith sold his comic book collection to collect the money for it), it seems to come from another planet, a real miracle. 'Sballo sballo sballo, bordello bordello bordello, farsi di coca riempirsi di birra' (giusto glorificare per una volta il doppiaggio italiano, qui davvero riuscito); 'we want tits and ass!'.
- DirectorKevin SmithStarsJason MewesKevin SmithAmy NobleThe comic "Bluntman and Chronic" is based on real-life stoners Jay and Silent Bob, so when they get no profit from a big-screen adaptation, they set out to wreck the movie.