rubystevens
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| Movie: | goodfellas |
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| Actor: | james stewart, barbara stanwyck, robert mitchum, bette davis, cary grant, richard widmark, edward g. robinson, cagney and bogie of course... |
| Director: | scorsese, hitchcock, huston, wilder, sturges, lang, dassin, welles, tourneur, kurosawa, mizoguchi, buńuel, bresson... |
| Quote: | whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you... |
umm i love movies? gangster, noir and crime genre are my favorite but i will watch most anything. i like my comedy black and i'm fond of zombies and samurai. i won't add u if u don't rate films or if yr profile is on private :-O or for a variety of other reasons depending on my mood ;-)
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Stella's Recent Reviews
The Steel Helmet
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i didn't think a film like this was possible in 1950's john wayne america; an emotionally honest portrait of soldiers under fire made at the height of the korean war. i have new found respect for sam fuller. this is in the league of paths of glory and bridge on the river kwai. it's outstanding and a must-see for fans of war films. i'd never even heard of this but i'm really glad i watched it
The Baron of Arizona
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somewhat exaggerated account of the notorious conman who used forged spanish land grants and even an orphaned girl to try to gain control of a large part of arizona territory. pretty interesting tale of the wild and woolly days of the old west
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The Killer (Dip huet seung hung)
Unrated
the killer with a heart of gold? chow yun fat plays the nicest assassin ever but still manages to be almost as cool and every bit as hot as alain delon in le samourai. john woo's streak of sentimentality keeps this from being a really great film but it is a great bloody opera with stellar gun battles; very entertaining
Destiny (1921) (Der müde Tod)
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a wonderful gothic romance like something from grimm's fairy tales. in his autobiography buńuel wrote that this inspired him to make films. there's an homage to it in un chien andalou. it was one of alfred hitchcock's favorites and a big influence on the thief of baghdad (both versions) and murnau's faust among many, many others
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Out of the Past
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the quintessential noir, a style that's had a huge influence on everyone from scorsese and tarantino to the coen brothers and david lynch, not to mention french new wave. robert mitchum gives his most perfect lethargic and world-weary performance
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Freaks
by EmilioTod Browning made this film with all real actors with physical deformations, who worked for circus to have a relative normal life. And that is the great succcess of this film, to tell the story of these "monsters", with lots of humanity, as people with its own dreams, moments to get fun, ways to develop rutines despiste their diseases, codes, and, of course, anxious to revenge if they are offended. Because what you do to one of us, it´s done to all of us.
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L.627
by SancarB.T made 2 films in 1992. L627 and La guerre sans nom. I prefer telling second one due to not adding the relevant documentary by FLIXTER yet.
Nothing special just killing people. That is it. As u well know people love this kind of subjects. 1,5 million people were killed. Nothing more. Drink Perrier to celebrate that. We drink Coca-Cola after Iraq War. Also 1,5 million people died. What a coincidense.
Advising different drinks is showing a health matter between societies. You can see the difference. However, I am more concious about human life. More killing film is under my film list of ''Guerre d'Algérie 1954-1962''.
What a day just kill, killl, kill. A votre sante.Hey, you should really see this!
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Public Enemies
by A.First of all, no, Bale doesn't use his crazy Batman voice in this movie, thank goodness. Second, what the movie does have is bad cinematography. Also, I couldn't tell what was going on for the first part of the movie, it was all action, and then in the middle it turns around and becomes a drama. What got on my nerves the most was that there were a lot of actors who look similar, I thought Depp's character was shot, and then I saw him in the next scene! I didn't really want to see this movie in the first place, and I wouldn't recommend seeing it unless you're one of those die-hard Johnny Depp fans.
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Junk: Shiryō-gari
by El HombrePlot? A secret U.S. Army project inolving a high-tech cutting-edge experiment to re-animate dead Japanese people in an abandoned warehouse with a full working staff of two.
Filled with many clichés and a high concentration of inconsistencies, such as zombies who can be stopped with bullets...and then they can't be....and then they can be. I've also learned that you can heal an open wound that's spraying blood just by having girls pour Evian directly to the injury.
Well, at least the filmmakers got the title right.
Take it or leave it.
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964 Pinocchio (Screams of Blasphemy)
by El HombreInteresting work, not essentially horror, but horrific enough in statement and in execution to warrant a look. A forerunner of Spielberg and Kubrick's A.I. as well, in an odd sense. Explosions of blood and vomit from characters' orifices lead to a suitably fluid-spattered finale.
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Ichi-1
by El HombreThis movie is a decent prequel to Ichi: The Killer. This story explains a bit about how he became who he is. It stands pretty well on its own and was good about not leaving loose ends everywhere and not having parts that were unnecessary.
What it lacks in overall quality, it makes up for in campy violence and completely inappropriate humor. If you're a fan of Ichi the Killer, it's definitely worth checking out for the novelty of seeing Ichi and the onset of his first homicidal tendencies.
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He's like Sam Raimi with the spiderman flicks..he's a studio executives butt puppet.
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The Big Town
by Veronique"the big town" appears like a hommage to paul newman's 1961 "the hustler", an archetyped prodigal son tale people always enjoy to hear: a smug small-town boy with one special talent who hit big to the metropolitan city in his pursuit of fame and wealth, the essence of american dream, then he would bump into a lovely dame of maternal heart as well as the femme fatale who devours him alive with extreme sensuality. inevitably, he would sink into either booze or sex, or, both of them altogether. disillusioned, so he hits the road again to his home town with a broken heart. either he retracks to where he started or devastated by his presistant pursuit of dream. corny, right? but you just cannot quit it! whether it's the big-cocked dirk diggler in "boogie night", or billard master paul newman in "the hustler"...what counts is how the story is presented.
"the big town" is predicable in every scenario but it's rendered so elaborately that you accept it with adoration anyway, especially when the fresh-faced matt dillion, who was one of the promising supernovella who's got sex appeal, charisma and most of all, genius of his fluent naturalistic actings which resurrect the remants of james dean, marlon brando and paul newman in their days of rebellious outrage, and dillion had the edge to pull them off in pratically any material about troubled youth, such as his "rumble fish"...he simply looks so damned attractive with a cigarette burning in his mouth, throwing a dice recklessly as if he's gonna win, he's got "the cool" to swoon you.
it's a pleasant peep at the young, even more voluptuous diane lane as the femme fatale, and the sex scenes are surely a nice treat with elvis' "fever" in the background every time they mate. bruce dern as the obnoxious blind gambler boss and tommy lee jones as the tough-assed criminal, they're the villians alongside our prodigal charm-boy. every actor just fits into his/her part so seamlessly that makes this predictable story worth seeing. it's a compelling reminiscence of the hipster 50s with the best soundtrack of those songs which once hit the top notch of national sales. the process of viewing it is just one word to describe: smooth.
paul newman's hustler has received the ruminations of his tragic flaw: excessive ego as his fingers are smashed and his sweetheart commits suicide for humiliation that leads him into finding his true self, "hustler" is more of a think-piece to tell you the doctrine that everything you gain easy has a price to pay. but dillion's dice-thrower just slides across the path of easy dough in the poise without harsh retribution as you wish for him. so "the big town" is more of a crowd-pleasing feel-piece without grits in a well-groomed nostalgic aura so all you've got to do is to flow along with protagonist like a 109 mins of hashish fantasy.after viewing this, i've found elvis' "fever" is such a cool right song to play in lovemaking(jk)..ha..diane lan was even hotter with fuller bossom, rounder hips and a cuter face of slight baby fats..suddenly i think i almost forgot how cool and handsome matt dillion used to be in those 80s movies, considering the crappy pieces he's involved in recent years.
"the big town" is a nice tribute to the hipster 50s. the director ben dolt is in the television branch of re-made "twilight zone". so "the big town" may seem sort of melodramatic but in a nice way.
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Colonel (Mon colonel)
by Sancarhttp://www.variety.com/review/VE1117931553.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&p=0
Quite weak, but there is some hope for up-coming projects.Hey, you should really see this!
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The World's Fastest Indian
by DanielThis movie surprised me more than any other movie in recent years. It was wonderful, really touching, and funny in a very real way. Burt is eccentric and has a free spirit attitude, so it's hard to not like him. He makes many friends as he travels from New Zealand, then across the US to time his bike at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Some moments between Burt and the people he meets along the way are so incredibly sweet that you can't help but smile to yourself. I recommend to anyone who likes a great feel-good movie. Just wonderful!
Feel-good movies don't feel much good-er than this! Based on a true story
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