My BD collection

Third part, biggest budget, same gods (Raimi and Campbell). Cinematography by Bill Pope.

The top of my very few beloved films about vampires. Coppola's homage to vampire movie subgenre (practically to the history of cinema itself) with many juicy references. Nevermind wooden (as usual) performance of Reeves, or Ryder - Oldman is the man (as usual). A love story with the music composed by our Wojciech Kilar, straight out of Katowice!

Never mind whether it's a remake or second part (according to Raimi himself it is second part. In my opinion it's like with El Mariachi and Desperado case). All trilogy is metal, but this one seems to be the illest.

Cronenberg at his best, and life performace of a bug-eyed Jeff (add my boyish love Geena). The remake isn't sharing the usual fate of other redundant make-overs (such as the latest superfailure, The Day The Earth Stood Still), hell no. Sci-fi variation of the beauty and the beast with delightful FX makes it proper body horror (the scene when Brundle opens cupboard in which he stores his johnson has been haunting me since forever. The title alone was translated as 'Flyman'. Scary monsters, super creeps). Along with Altered States one of my all time-favourites of this kind.

It took me years to understand my teachers' ostracism towards this movie. I still like it though. Tarantino (the writer) may be right stating some time ago that Oliver Stone has the sensibility of a tank, the director is known for the lack of any subtleties in his films - let's call it licentia poetica... Still, comic book-like Mickey (Harrelson) and Mallory (fantastic Lewis) are one of the most memorable pairs in the history of cinema.

I announce the return of the Coens to form in great style (by 'form' I mean Blood Simple, Fargo or Burton Fink). I've never heard of Javier Bardem but the guy is electrifying - after that role (a very pragmatic hitman with "no sense of humour") he shouldn't be complaining about lack of interesting offers (hopefully without being trapped in this peculiar type of role). My personal Oscar goes to Roger Deakins (director of photography, brothers' regular collaborator) for cinematography of a very high class. (Adapted) script is logic and neat with the ending unusual but in Coens manners (playing with auditorium expectations). Fans of Coens' work should be absolutely satisfied.

Not so often three hours film doesn't feel like three hours film. And it takes some actor (Day-Lewis) to get viewer's attention for all that time. After Boogie Nights, best work of Anderson.

This is not John Carpenter movie, it's Rob Bottin's (the guy responsible for makeup and special effects). FX team used it all: puppets, animatronics, mattes (and plentiful of red Jell-O) - you name it. Too bad post animated monster (in the final showdown) had been cut off. The plots seems to be irrelevant here, however the ending is just right.

Less dopey than "Total Recall" and much more violent and gritty. Even as Verhoeven's, the movie is quite actual with hard times in the background (unemployment, shut down factories, social unrest) especially with the city of Detroit (the only place in the States where the level of crime hasn't decreased since recession). Oh, I still want ED-209 replica on my shelf.