| Movie | Rating | Review | Date | Your Rating | Match | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Up - PG | so sweet, charming, adult, funny (point!!!) and sad. I'll keep in my mind for ever the first clip, about four minutes of speechless beatiful lovestory... | August 15, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Aruitemo Aruitemo (Still Walking) - Unrated | A real portrait on the family as a whole, the little disasters that happen to be our life in common and the real necessity of them to be faced in order to reorder our world, and the consequences of not doing so. | June 30, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Touch of Evil - PG-13 |
touch of evil
it is not only its marvelous fist sequence, it is the way it is shot, the use of the light (and the shadows), the modern concept of the narration. the visual confusion it introducts in the whole history of cinema. it is the discussion over the limits that means can have to achieve a fair goal. the power of sorrow and pain. the sacrifice, the principles, also. when you try to do the appropriate thing, how complicated it is, how much beauty can be hidden behind fear and loath. i dare say it is a true master piece. |
May 12, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Deception - R | Deception allows certain confusion for a Spaniard (as me) because in Spanish ?decepción? means disappointment; probably that?s why here it?s called ?the list?. Anyway, it would have been a disappointing film if I had expected anything about it. It?s empty, really. Don?t waste your time, because we have seen it a thousand times before. In any case, I must recognize two positive things: the three main characters (my beloved Michelle Williams, Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor) are strangely desirable, and Madrid ?yes, my city appears for about ten minutes- looks more beautiful than I have ever seen it on a screen. So, congratulations for the art director, but there?s nothing more to see or say. | April 27, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Gran Torino - R |
GRAN TORINO
Clint Eastwood last master piece reminds us the way in which good and brave men behave, fronting the duties in live. An old husky man living in the very outskirts of a decrepit city and of a rotten family starts to change when he realizes that everything hadn?t changed so much, although it may seem so. A good man, indeed, tries to change what has been broken ?to say, buildings and social relationships- and in that spiraling path reshapes the world around, changes his voice, his heart and his eyes, repairs the harm, reopens his very own life to a major good, to a better world. Trying to do the right thing, everything changes, and, then, you see that the endless pain that may lie underneath every proper option is not a bad thing if you are doing your best, if you are choosing the best for everybody, although there are some pains that have no end. |
April 26, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Long Day's Journey Into Night - Unrated | December 20, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Sin Destino - Unrated | December 18, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| The Philadelphia Story - Unrated | November 12, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Shadowlands - PG |
classic film, outwardly innocent but charged with so many truths not to reckon it as one of the greatest and more harmful ways of thinking about your life...
hopkins and winger are just great here, the way she smiles... it's such a touching film, but maybe the fact that i feel so linked to it has something to do with it: it was a present from someone extremely important for me, and it shows pretty well all the mistakes i've made in my life. if you see it, you'll understand what i mean when i say the child chose not to stay, and he made a mistake. i chose it, too... and i?m afraid now i?m realizing how wrong i was... the man chooses to stay, because this sorrow is part of that happiness. sad to see, but brilliant, the story of c.s. lewis (yes, the one of narnia chronicles) may allow the viewer to feel the pain of losing the one you love (including my favourite quote: 'i don't want to lose you, joy; i don't want to be lost'), but also to understand the bigger suffering of not allowing yourself to love anyone, anymore. accepting the consequences of the truth is such a serious and harsh matter, but it is worthy... |
November 12, 2008 | N/A | |||
| WALL-E - G | September 26, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| A Certain Kind of Death - Unrated | August 13, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints - R | July 12, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| House of Sand and Fog - R | June 16, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Hard Candy - R |
i'll give it a five star rate.i know that almost all my friends think that it's a clever and unexpected film, but i needed to re-think about it... loved the way of subverting the traditional little riding red hood tale: maybe the wolf wasn't as bad as the little girl, maybe you should beware of her, maybe she is just strong enough to do the right things...
i loved the fact that ellen page's role is really mad, her smile, the way she looks, sometimes vulnerable, sometimes rude (she appears as a defiant little boy in some scenes). i loved the face of patrick wilson (that hungry beauty eyes and the desperate flavor of despair in his desirable mouth). nevertheless, although i found the message interesting, i really expected a better development of the script: somehow, scenes were a little bad connected, the evolution of the happenings was strangely designed, like if the writer was a little lost sometimes... anyway, the film makes you think about limits of love and obsession, about vengeance and justice, and, at least, that's a very interesting point... |
May 16, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Pinocchio - Walt Disney - G | sometimes... it escared me. | May 10, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Iron Man - PG-13 | April 28, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Plácido - Unrated |
a terrifying, cruel portrait about all that hipocresy and egoism that live in each of us, through a long, freezing night around the development of a charity program in a little city in the spain's dictatorial sixties.
there is no silence, no peace, nor justice in those rooms filled up of people pretending, talking loud and fast, looking after their very own interest... but alone, mean and so empty |
April 23, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Belle Epoque (The Age of Beauty) - R | April 22, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| Barefoot in the Park - G |
beautiful movie: robert redford is funny here, feeling out of place, with a lovely wife... a thousand kilometers from his way of thinking. jane fonda is crazy, vital, entertaining, so carpe diem, while redford is a lawyer focused on his career, rational, calm and sensible, and they start living in a fifth floor... without elevator. everything seems to go in the wrong way (no tube, no space, no furniture), but suddenly a strange man appears in their lives, the perfect company for her... and maybe the man who is going to conquer her mom, too...
after a chain of events that reveal the differences in the way of seeing the world of the two protagonists, will deal yielding (barefooted walk included) that they are made one for the other. |
April 22, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Summer Clouds (Nubes de Verano) - Unrated |
the recent spanish cinema tries to resolve its inner problems (lack of projection abroad, financial problems, drop of number of viewers...) developing its action in two main ways: the first one is macro-productions, trying to be a b-side of hollywood; the second one is little works, based on actors and scripts... summer clouds is included in that tendeny. although it's not its best representation, it's somehow interesting, capable of touching the viewer's soul.
a little story of a stablished couple in their summr hollidays on northern spanish coast is involved in a perverse game played by two of the local people, interested in conquering them. the game of seduction and hidding is well developed, and tricky for the viewers... we don't know the end... till the end. beautiful places, clever games, great acting of henríquez (the husband). in summer, lazy days, suddenly grey clouds appear, far away in the sky; in a certain moment, there is a crack breaking any solid construction; after, the recover becomes impossible. maybe... |
April 21, 2008 | N/A | |||
| My Blueberry Nights - PG-13 |
mmm it's hard to say it, but it was a little deceiving for me. i mean, compared to a regular flick, it's obviously so much better. it's really beautiful, and the scene of norah jones and jude law kissing is tremendously beautiful... but compared to other movies from kar wai, it has a little smell of minor opus...
i missed tony leung, but it has amazing performances: norah jones surprises everybody, becoming a great actress, not only a great singer (she sings too, in the soundtrack); jude law is convincing in his role, so desirable and vulnerable (and as hot as ever); and rachel weisz is just great... and the lately omnipresent natalie portman is just fine (maybe i'm bored about her ha). the main stories are great, touching... maybe i missed a better connection between them, but are beautiful... and the use of light and music is as good as wong kar wai knows how to do (particularly, the use of neon lights: just precious). i loved the final words, and the self-knowledge travel taken, and its signification... it's a wong kar wai film so it has to be great just with that data... simply, it's not as kar wai as it could had been, but it leaves a good flavor of mouth, in any case: cute, not perfect. |
April 15, 2008 | N/A | |||
| 30 Days of Night - R | ok, please... if it was supposed to be scary, IT IS NOT AT ALL. josh harnett is a cute guy, we all know it, but that doesn't imply to be a good actor, even a regular actor. his faces, pretending to be the pure reflection of fear and tension, are just cold masks. and the plot... although i have to say that the original idea is interesting (30 days of darkness in a forgotten northern place) -and probably it was well developed on the original graphic novel-, its development is empty, holow, and with thousand of errors (i.e. my darling josh is asthmatic the first half of the movie; later he recovers miraculously). also, i have to rescue from these comments the poster and the teeth of the vampires, they are original, with a certain subcultural charm... maybe the landscape and general views of it. but nothing more, i'm afraid, deserves a watch... sorry, josh but i have to say that: choose bela lugosi; don't loose your precious time with that movie... | April 15, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Is It College Yet? (Daria: Is It College Yet?) - Unrated | April 11, 2008 | N/A | ||||
| La Vida secreta de las palabras (The Secret Life of Words) - Unrated |
Josef: I thought um, you and I, maybe we could go away somewhere. Together. One of these days. Today. Right now. Come with me.
Hanna: No, I don't think that's going to be possible. Josef: Why not? Hanna: Um, because I think that if we go away to someplace together, I'm afraid that, ah, one day, maybe not today, maybe, maybe not tomorrow either, but one day suddenly, I may begin to cry and cry so very much that nothing or nobody can stop me and the tears will fill the room and I won't be able to breath and I will pull you down with me and we'll both drown. Josef: I'll learn how to swim, Hanna. I swear, I'll learn how to swim. |
April 10, 2008 | N/A | |||
| Bangkok Love Story - Unrated | April 8, 2008 | N/A |
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