My Favorite Movies

It combines the humour that would come from a Wilder movie, with the funny plot of Jewishes trying to look like Nazis but asking for kosher food, and accused by their own partners of being Nazis, but after the discussion they all pray together. In this fake deportation train, even comunism starts to appear, but political and sentimental questions get crossed. Very funny, funny film, with a clever sense of humour, and some unforgettable touchs of lyrism (town´s fool is magnificient). A little jewel for our eyes.

Tod 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.

Was it possible to make a speech against death penalty under a dictatorship, and even, make it as a comedy? García Berlanga and Azcona, probably the best couple in Spanish cinema ever, got it. The story is about a person who inherits the charge of executioner from his father-in-law, although he doesn´t want it, just to feed the family, and because they swear him he´s not going to kill anyone. However, he gets more involved each time by reasons he does not control. A very funny comedy, with great moments (the one in the lake reflects the surrealism the dictatorship had itself), but that also gives you the opportunity to think about death penalty, and the forgotten and unforgiven role of the executioner.

Should be watched at schools -OBLIGATORY

Memorable Robert Mitchum; also scenes in the river.

Great! Incredible! Enormous Campanella! He takes a lawyers-thriller (Darín remembered to Al Pacino in his best times) and to a I-can-not-breathe-while-looking-it he adds wonderful touchs of poetry, tenderness and incisive humour. Although the rhytm is slow, you never get bored, as the script is incredible. Amazing sensation!

Really funny. Unforgettable, tender Ustinov.

Impossible to say anything, just laugh, laugh, laugh... As an annecdote, it was forbidden in Norway, fact what was used as an advertisement in Sweden.

Matt Dillon master scene, as well as the final one, are unforgettable.

Incredible, incredible, incredible end. Everything what was unsolved in 2001 is now revealed, and it has sense!

(This comment was before watching it): A film against consumism and generating rubish, and conservatives say it is communist? It is clear that when you put a message, people with interests accuse you of strange things to discredit you. It is said it is poetic and dark. I would like to check it by myself.
(After watching it): I want to be like Wall-E, a mixture of Woody Allen, Chaplin and Short Circuit... If I have children, I´ll put them the names of Wall-E and EVA.

I have seen it again, and I have got amazed again by this wonderful story. Not only a thrilling testimony about the WWI, based on a consistent book; not only Jean Pierre Jeunet doing it perfectly again, with those yellow and brown filters, and his marvelous secondary characters and little details that were so brightful also en Amelie; not only Jodie Foster making such a delightful role; even more (now I realize) the two more on-fashion actresses of France, acting together, with also a great work from Ulliel. In summary, a film you must not loose by any circumstance.

Great Pesci. Great character. Great story. And of course, excellent photography.

Incredible, incredible end.

As Del Toro says, is a film about the value of disobeying...

Although the behaviour of the characters is completely fool (and makes you loose your nerves), it is a really touching story. Three main points: Anthony Quinn, Nino Rota´s wonderful music, and the incredible acting of the even, even more lovely Giulietta Massina...

Lovely, lovely Giulietta Massina

Good revision of the myth, taking it to the origins. EXCELLENT ACTORS.

"You owe me twenty minutes".

For me, the real film that shows that you can make a good historical movie again. Tell us the story of Hypathia, the last great scientific of antiquity, a woman that defended that philosophy and knowledge were something important, model for feminists and scientifics. Takes us to Alexandria in the time of Romans, shows as the famous Lighthouse and the Library, and talks mainly about religious intolerance. A movie against fanatism, then and ever, in which we can find lots of things in common with our present time. Very intelligent movie, and a song directed to stars.

Penélope Cruz makes a very good play; away for that, very funny script, and impacing end. Good comedy but with really serious moments.

I think I will never forget the moment Ernesto crosses the river.

I am going to make a spoiler: don´t you think the film itself is a metaphor of India? Not only because, although nobody wanted to distribute it, they got 8 Oscars and worldwide acknowledgement. Just look at the central topic of the film: the main character -as India- has crossed through many difficulties that now are useful to him to answer the questions and triumph.

I expected a lot from a combination of a Graham Greene´s story and Fritz Lang´s direction. And at the beginning, it seems magnificient, with the extraordinary atmosphere from the German director, and the curtains of mistery that appear after each step, away from a very good work with scenography and cinematography. However, the film looses that great impact as time goes by, and becomes a more much conventional spies story. As a Flixter pal said, it had all the ingredients to be the best film noir story ever, but it was only close. A new revision of this story, increasing the film noir tone, getting deeper in the psychological aspects of the characters, increasing the number of twists and overcoming the war stereotypes, will be necessary to make a perfect story from this classic, which, anyway, is deserved to be seen.

Catwoman by Michelle Pfeiffer, one of the best female villains in history of cinema. Very gothic and dark.

What I liked about this film was 1) the excellent actors for musketeers, 2) the change in the relations among them: De Artagnan as an enemy, Porthos comic and suicide, Aramis adquiring a critic role that we never suspected in the most superficial of the four...

It is not a film that makes you feel fear: it is a film about fear...

In some aspects, it´s an anti-film. Conceived as a sofa-discussion, in some momentos the reactions of characters -actors do good, but you can see they are not enormous ones- are more academical than real. However, it´s a strong script, everything is well justified, intelligently thought, and the films deserves to be watched.

Reminds "The conversation" of Coppola, and the old films of spies and controverted moral decisions. A good example of how a good movie can be done just with good intentions and guionists, but has also good actors. A pity that the principal actor died recently.

Wonderful interpretations of both the father and the son. Good way to represent the anguish of those who are always about to loose everything they have. Should be watched at schools.

Excellent acting from Langella. Also, good way to focus the story as a false documental, talking the pulse to all the characters. You really feel the pressure under the project, mainly in the fight that Frost has with his own past and with other people. Very good work.

En un cine donde suelen abundar los romances descafeinados de adolescentes, sorprende esta preciosa y original historia de amor entre dos personas mayores. China Zorilla está fabulosa, insuperable, hipnotizadora, con un verbo tan fluido como el de Ozores en sus mejores tiempos. Y Manuel Alexandre, tan majestuoso como siempre. Recomendada.

The most anti-militarist belic film I have ever seen (impossible to believe, aparently, when you see the first 10-15 min). I have never seen a more irritating heroe than the one interpreted by Alec Guinness (reminding me, sometimes, a mixture of a tragic Peter Sellers and a "How to be british" book). The bad point (apart from the long duration): all the enemies are fool -but it was very common in the films of that time.

It was my first lawyers film, and it impacted me. Fabulous Nicholson as a presuntuous, iron-made militar. "I have breakfast all morning in front of a thousand people that want to kill me" (not exact, I saw it in Spanish). Also a good thinking about human life value and dignity.

One of my favourites when I was a child. If I had children, I would recommend them to watch it.

This is the one I like most from Cantinflas films, but it doesn´t mean the others are worse.

The verses of Edmon Rostand are incredible. Not just a love story (as many people, including myself, believed), but the story of a man who follows his way of life in spite of all troubles that it implies. It is not broadly known that Cyrano was a real person, and that lots of things that are told in the play about him are true (including some of his writings and ideas).

Pretty loyal adaptation. Of course, it couldn´t reach the deepness of the original, and of course, it couldn´t employ the good qualities of the comic fomat, but, come on!, it´s an adaptation, the idea was to take the general idea of the good story and explore the possibilities of cinema, not trying to get the good features of comic format, but to substitute them by the good points of cinema (for example, music!, that is really well-chosen). As you can presume, the main problems come from trying to tell a so-long story in just a reduced film (the extended version will probably be much better), so I understand that people that haven´t read comic don´t understand some parts, or think things go much quicker than they should -mainly, it is difficult to understand characters´ motivations, and you can see the "mark" of the scissors applied in some parts of the film. The changes from the original argument are mainly showing some parts that we lost in the comic (interesting change of point of view), other way to organize some facts, and principally the end, maybe more logical and self-conclusive, but without some of the strong implications that the original one had. So, finally, it is a good film to see, maybe make you think more questions than answers, but that is the point, the film is a way you decide to read the comic, that is a masterpiece in literature. Although I must say, you enjoy much from the film if you have previously read the graphic novel, so, start with it.

The film was not excellent, but has a good message, good ambientations, good actors, and it is imprescindible for the ones that got fascinated by the character when we were young.

Powerful speech of Marc Anthony.

Wonderful, wonderful idea! Just see it, it is only 30 min long, and the end, it is incredible

Was it possible to make a speech against death penalty under a dictatorship, and even, make it as a comedy? García Berlanga and Azcona, probably the best couple in Spanish cinema ever, got it. The story is about a person who inherits the charge of executioner from his father-in-law, although he doesn´t want it, just to feed the family, and because they swear him he´s not going to kill anyone. However, he gets more involved each time by reasons he does not control. A very funny comedy, with great moments (the one in the lake reflects the surrealism the dictatorship had itself), but that also gives you the opportunity to think about death penalty, and the forgotten and unforgiven role of the executioner.