My Favorite Movies

Amazing film.I believe I should stop reviewing here because the visual poetry of Corneau is captivating and the gregarious silence is the ideal depiction of the behavior,the conception of music as art.A supreme representation of the era and Guillaume Depardieu in a depressing role make this another modern masterpiece.

Startling,exuberant drama by a cerebral filmmaker.The cinematography works perfectly in order to describe the futile struggles of a person,hypothetically a diminishing figure of his own self-fragmentation.Confused?It's probably a testament on the future of European post-WWII environment,para-psychology is surrounding the picture and a truly innovative film is born from Zulawski's "possession".

Soaring neorealism,the Visconti type only it's more vivid,bright and romantic than the Italian haughtiness.Horn is majestic and my love Lambeti is like a red,red rose "that's newly sprung in June"...the definition of a classic.

The ideal inheritor of De Sica's Bicycle Thief,erupts as a serious contender against composing deals,circumstantial notions and a willing contradiction of ideas.Xiaoshuai is a very underrated Chinese modern trespasser of independent film-making and he sure knows to catch our breath with the flamboyance of his people and characteristics of their self.The finale is amidst the top of 00's.

Classic western,Stewart appears as a new iconic symbol moving to the group of the many heroic western film figures,what about Anthony Mann?The stellar thing with this guy is he adores grand occasions.Epic form.And that is a novelty for the Far West genre.

Anarchy/submission,terrorism/truce,post-structuralism in the making,masterpiece in other words.Godard is aware that '68 will be a turning point in France and worldwide....red to the bone?Can we really say that Chinoise represents a limited part of the audience?Lavishing cinematography and jaw-dropping truths.No matter the side you have in politics,this is a MUST!

Fuckin' brilliant!Never before had I encountered such originality in the middle 80's from U.S. horror,my expectations were far below zero.Gordon might have stolen the Psycho theme but he incorporated all the psychological effects from where Day of the Dead stopped.Lovecraft would have been proud...

The division bell is ringing too fast for the weak and meek.Reds,Whites,colors are futile.It's the physical and mental torture that fastens your seat.Whatever occurred in historical manners,this vice-versa irony is entrancing and utterly disturbing,since cruelty isn't measured in uniforms and consequences.

Have we seen it before?It's possible.All of a sudden,this burst of outlandish situations is what makes little Stella a diverse character on-screen,like she has jumped from an Andersen fairytale engulfed with the most satirical elements from Nouvelle Vague.Barbara is fierce and romantic in her acting,in that her inexperience transforms to a lullaby of anarchy.

Kurosawa coordinates the best adaptation of Macbeth on-screen and Mifune is orgiastic in the lead role.What more can you ask when you're watching two legends dancing to the cinematic rhythm?

One might raise the hand and question the authenticity of the director's responsibility for executing a precise account of horrifying events,or the sympathy he showed towards Hideo Nakaizumi's role of the Japanese private or maybe giving Gao Yuanyuan her most mature performance to date.Maybe nothing will happen at all and the film will exhume under the roaring blockbusters.Whatever the result will be,Lu Chuan's crescendo is here to stay.
Jancso's The Red and the White in pre-WWII Nanking.

Bergman is allegorical.A criticism isn't fully viewed without literally scratching the edges on most of his films.Certainly is symbolic,by all means ruthless in its message and yet a captivating experience.Lindblom is ethereal.

A crucial turning point of the film is the mystical arousal of the "waitress" thanks to one of the sleeping brothers,embracing a lost caress against the general...boredom of the protagonists.Yes,ladies,gents,boredom is the main concept and how passiveness affects our intellectuality and nobility.I will never comprehend the disillusion of a father prancing with his sons and a woman in a rich villa eating and....sleeping!!!Is the mother's death a metaphor to female absence and organization?
Profane elements of La Grande Bouffe leave their mark,so are Bunuel's films.A brilliant re-read of surrealism.

Holy cow,what a true work of art.Stiff,relentless in its grueling painting of the lives controlled by a ruthless leader.Tyranny as a weapon against free speech,not just freedom as a whole.Crime and punishment is how it goes.Where heaven and hell commit a tormenting piano sonata.

The U.S. landscape was changing before we enter the 50's.Thus,Raoul Walsh captures our essence in this amazing gangster film,Cagney sweeping us,the crowd,forming a shrouding cloud of filth and Oedipal symbols.Brilliant film.

Sometimes,you don't need none but the amateur's heart.Olmi's glorifying tenderness qualifies his ability to show reality as a glass of water:he embodies Nature as the God of agricultural loneliness(and poverty).Goddess to be precise...

Expressive and staggeringly touching.The process of film-making and the various interactions by the members/crew,job and personal issues altogether.A brilliant finale,worthwhile as one of 90's magnificent finales.

A revision of Shakespeare's dubious play.A blast indeed.Branagh crams disastrous options,backfires a bloody fury to the hypocricy of the court and throne,ultimately creating one of 1989's most aspiring films and an equal challenger to Olivier's first great read.

Illustrious portrait of a heroic Russian figure demented by a dutiful force in a spiritual defense.The film may display images of pious behavior but haste not,this is an epic drama and the people are who matter most,not ideologies.Magnificent score by Prokofiev.

Cinema on the run.Fucking gorgeous.The ingenious thought that generates the brain is "do we actually care of what Art truly is...and if so,how can we expand our knowledge more?".Cortese is adorable...

When Jigoku came out,it was like a thunderstruck for a new wave of J-Horror diamonds to appear in the 60's,something which as an unofficial movement,has stood the test of time till today.Nakagawa might not be the most smart film-maker but by all means,he absolutely knows how to give us creepy realism!The inferno parts are not the only highlight,one must see it as a tragedy of errors in spite of the "thriller" hype.And Numata is such a bad-ass evil dude!

Mesmerizing.Perhaps the ultimate Disney film,the most irresistible classical/visual combination and a critical achievement not even Disney himself could imagine.

The real devil inside of us all.A must-watch for everyone who truly appreciates erotica and swaying emotions in a tale of mischief and explicitness.A sensual fellatio scene,a tempting desire right next to the classroom.Eva/lover and Detmers becomes like a de Sade heroine trapped in a hallucinated world like Alice.Bovary/mistress,all those symbolic processes affect father and son and give Bellocchio worldwide grandeur!

More romantic than Dr. Zhivago,equally moving to the likes of an Alexander Nevsky or closer to the political turmoil of Traveling Players,a film which has nothing to be jealous of the epic boldness of a Lawrence of Arabia type of feast!
Criminally underrated,Aleksander Ford's storytelling focuses on the landscapes' pain rather the character's felicities and the astounding dialog is a bonus,based on the Sienkiewicz novel.Forgive me for saying this but the Grunwald massacre pumped me up!

I am enraged.Furious of what's wrong with governments.How to let know Rosetta otherwise,despite being a fictional character she's a manipulative object of the political system subdued by North America/Europe,deliberately powerful for the ongoing "machine" producing puppets to serve the invisible king?For that and only complex reason,Rosetta won't escape her little canteen.

A thrilling exultation.Serene insight and captivating sequences,traditional detail whereas Antonutti's pious expiation derives from those fleshes and wounds his people suffer.Alexander,not the great rather the generous is an insurgent.Rebellions and justice "leagues",their leader a man holding a particular silence on all events.Greece as a gloomy,monarchic,terrifying location in the early 20th century shown through Angelopoulos' lens.A master's lens.

Insightful might,Scorsese had guts and establishes his mark in his last great film so far with every bit of ink this word contains.Patience and ferocious looks,Daniel Day-Lewis grapples the screen,the authenticity of the era is more than luxurious and passionate,the substance of the book's material is simply perfect.Unlike many costume dramas of recent years,this just smacks their face!

Undoubtedly,it's one of the top 10 films of 2000.Justification knows no boundaries and female,psychological suffering is excellently displayed on this film.Real drama,nothing fake to cover the truth.Panahi eluding his road to "sacrilegious perdition" contrary to the customs of Iran,we can say with certainty it's a universal journey.A journey disastrous through the looking glass of a handful of women.

Gritty,inhumane.A prophetic movie on the consequences of change,identification.Hudson in a thrilling role,Frankenheimer is a trustful choice,the makings of a classic being re-evaluated.

The blooming interactions of couples,romantic,idealistic,majestic.Fragmentary affairs,juxtapositions in lifelong particles.The question is,do we really accept those 6 degrees of separation or the carousel will embrace us all.

Felicity of the tormenting oceans....where is thy swaying motion?

A modernized version of Electra by a prolific Hungarian director.There's light and daze and even pagan music to surround an event of pluming vibrations.Narrow cuts on the montage,this is a truly underrated "small" film,which will not please many.

Fragrant stimulation.A top notch film of 2004,a great film production,a charming gem of reflecting views and the magic of cinema inside out.Where the truth lies,the darkness' consequence dies.

Perfection like a Rembrandt or a Modigliani painting.There's no exaggeration,an overlooked by some masterpiece,impaling the modern society in half like the samurai's lonely aptitude.Disgrace is the formula of the weak.The loyalty however is what makes us sally and oppose abstract rulers.

Dripping with moist bravado and sexual insight,a provocative illusion by Techine on the sharp edge of his career and beginning of creative roll.Binoche blasts the screen in a classic performance,commercial failure but critical applaud,post-modern theater/cinema interaction and one of the seminal films about sexual frustration and need.

The complacent portrait of Lopez dwells in the silence and state of fine art retaining the elaborate "auteur" detail which makes Erice's study of conversation,nature,intoxicating feeling such a beloved textbook on time's benefits.Perhaps the simple stuff and as naive as it sounds,just watch those two old men reiterating the past,their affections and the still images of youth.

"Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter
Sermons and soda water the day after"

Grapple your options,ladies,gents,the genuine film making of Ruiz objects any little thoughts,admiration you might have had once concerning bio-pics of well-known artists.There is no art without human challenge,thus there is no "real" adventure without a guidance!
No fundamental plot,nonetheless,a canvas of surreal hypothesis.Unlike anything you've seen before...

p.s.: Byron's verses I used in the beginning are the absolute possession of the "artist" inside the film.

Incorporating violence and police mystery,this engaging drama often fabricates you in the web of agony or twists your head in extreme passiveness.Either conclusions,the finale will leave you a sweet/sour taste of why this had to occur?We don't care about the guilty one,we care about the reason.Steiger and Poiter drive away the whatsoever wee bit flaws and thanks to Jewison's controlling direction,it remains a detective story in absolute detail.

One-shot and that's it....the course of the rich and wealthy empire of pre-communist Russia unfolds before us,nostalgic sequences towards the cultural landscape of the era,the museum as the pole of connection between distant seasons and timelines.And our host commenting and mingling with the people around him.Aspiring.

Vive l' adrenaline.What a ride,Ramis despite his minor acting abilities directs a fabulous slapstick delirium,Chase is numero uno in this picture (along with the unpredictable Randy Quaid) and I recommend one of the first delights of worthwhile toilet-humor.Sounds American Pies copied this?

Black and white films used to prevent us several times from actually noticing the underlying notes.The incredible fact is..Terra Trema must be one of the openly,politically charged emeralds of film-making.The fishermen are nothing more but pawns of the system,the all-seeing machine.

My soul is Veronique and Weronika is my missing puzzle.No matter the sex you are,in the mood for love is the appropriate expression.This film grasps your sensitivity and personally woos me to make love to a woman.

I love the sickness of this movie in accordance to one deliciously made,let's say burger.Craving for abundance isn't similar with desire for equilibrium,vanity soon comes and she's definitely uninvited...

Hasta la victoria siempre and the flags' division!Or so to speak,Lena Nyman baring her flesh and soul (literally) in front of propaganda's nihilism.For Sjoman,Sweden isn't the land of plenty,but Yellow is not a political manifesto.Classifying it as a libertarian proxy would be more suitable,lest there is some sort of moral decency.Oh sorry conservatives,sexuality does matter and it's glued to the hypocrites who refuse it.
Now go watch some dull Ken Parks and rebuke this true artistic creation.

Unique experience,transparent penetration to the painter's workshop....Rivette on top of the worldwide mindfuck coalition.

Persepolis refuses to adopt the Toy Story and U.S. virtuoso styles of animation technique.So Satrapi is a renovator of comic book agenda,affirmative?A revolutionary road of her own...

A cute,magical and somehow intriguing musical but for kids mostly,Mary Poppins isn't the modern nanny we once thought yet it manages to offer that certain innocence.

Yes,it does look like a student's film but it's a dream/nightmare for every studio you will come upon.It's bawdy,stupendous one-liners,joint with an anarchic beauty.Too bad mr Smith never gave us another option to admire his subsequent work.One of 94's greatest.

This is the turning point for all Cronenberg fans.The man knows he's experimenting,so let him be!Dadaist to the bone based on the famous novel,it's a shame he didn't move on this erotical/weird way like he did with Naked Lunch,instead...plunging us in boring "independent" flicks like Eastern Promises.

A breathtaking experimental felicity.Elaborate thought-provoking images and a marvelous Segda on the first role,allusions to plenty of historical events,1989,what a year..

Extraordinary.The true essence of anti-war film and a far away journey of 2 immature at first and throughout the film skeptic creatures prolonging a grueling battling experience and the final outcome.Weir is a captain.Steering a prosperous wheel brimmed with philosophy in addition to liturgy.Frisky business for these governments,neither it's a major conflict or a simple quarrel.Bravo Peter.

The retro western,where it all began and Leone got influenced.Gritty,dirty and romantic in a sensuous turn on.Cooper proves to be a macho,sensible character and Zinnemann's magnum opus is as untouched as when it was first projected.And the beat goes on...

An exceptional black comedy from top to bottom.The premise is what made Coens remake this masterpiece,but the plot is destined to remain legendary in British soil.Mackendrick twists our minds with those idiotic burglars (except their boss played by Guinness in style) and the term "madness" is a blast.

Precise,irritating,clumsy and astoundingly gorgeous.A short length homo-erotic feature at the beginning,a magnitude in the face of Alice Brady,Godfrey is the epitome of spoiled aristocracy in a U.S. film.Courageous La Cava blasts the dialogue and luxury with a tight direction.Just amazing.

Flamboyant project by a modernist of the Chinese avant-garde.Epic in scale and thrilling in craving proportions,I present you the end of youth,the ostentatuous pop art and the remnants.Yes,it can happen in the best of families.

The price of liberty is measured in elastic purposes.Evdokia's price is her damnation of being an amorous woman and a lover of concequences.Damianos fills our heart's content with a powerful love story.And affects the naturalistic landscape of our country,aside the European downfall.

Revolution has begun,in the form of a manga sci-fi brilliance.The cover of it mentions Matrix wouldn't have existed without Akira.No comments...

Plausible facts on this one.Aggressive till it bleeds.I saw this film on a cine-club somewhere in Athens.All 5 of us who attended were shocked at the boldness of that period,no,wait: the undercover "beauty" of it.McCarthy was approaching and if Polonsky was given better chances,he'd do miracles with noir stories like this.The edge of small-time con-men as an alternative title.

Glorious,improvisatory and the impeccable Belmondo in a surreal state of adjustment.Nothing is oblivious according to the chaotic screenplay and there lies the whole charm of it.

Effeminate and the most feminist of all films,none can forget features like Baise-Moi but requires second re-read.While on one hand the glamorous city jolts of tender females,next step proves to be a mere complication of idiosyncrasy.Snaporaz (a fabulous early reference in 8 1/2) is a bargainer and the lesson he'll learn whether it's permanent or not is for the inner female to be unleashed through his curiosity because taming it would be mental (and chauvinistic) torture.

Aggressive,iconic,mesmerizing in every frame.Bunuel's depiction of the grim social life of a bunch of street smarts and other lost souls is hallucinating.A staggering finale for a maleficent future prediction.

If I could pile up a list with the most touching love moments,the caressing events of Bambi and his friends to "conquer" their desires would be on my top 100 period!I rest my case...

Hara is the sheer benevolence of the film.You do await the breaking point just like the novel's mystical eccentricities.Kurosawa guides the dramatic community to far beyond limits and stretching a bleak,ominous,malevolent environment.A perfect cinematography and I will give it 6 stars after I grab the 5-hour edition I'm still searching for.....

The only time I can sympathize with a criminal who...kills for a reason!Chaplin is a true innovator of ludicrous sarcasm and...bitter,social commentary.

A Passage to the Galaxies.The Indian paths as well,Lean guides us in perfection,what a courageous work of art.A grand finale by a great director,Judy Davis compels the screen,same is Victor Banerjee and the score by Maurice Jarre..

Flaming aggression.2 magical words for the English countryside isn't the same as the quiet pacifier struggles to keep in peace with his privacy.If rural life becomes a menace,then what's to prevent domestic disturbance?Self-justice?I say then aye,I'll support it to the bone.

Introspective epic,culminating pictures,aspect supported by the marks of the great Leslie Cheung (and of Li Gong's stealing-the-show performances), the political backdrop along with the luxurious art direction.

Chilling factors,vigorous delinquents.Hooray for honor's sake and let's make wealth out of industrialist poverty.Viva commonwealth,the richest benefactor of us all.And a natural abuse of future prospects.

Part III of A Trilogy of History by Theo Angelopoulos:

Wanna know what was Angelopoulos' intention with this film?Well,don't expect a straightforward reply!
According to the post-civil war feelings and terminal partition by the Papandreou democracy,the factual Rules of the Game and "America's" be-friendship are valid,but who yelled for any "foreign" aid?Maybe the film does circulate in a vicious historical trap,and here's how Theo achieves his scope,in a "we shouldn't care of any of the WWII results,we might as well have died by our own comrades a few years later" quota and alas,that small company,from past to future,looks as if hope was finalized by the regimes,the revolutions,the duplicate,governmental allusions...

Versatile and improvisatory,Chaplin is hilarious as Hitler's "alter ego" producing a dazzling amount of jokes and superiority in his craft,I can even over-scale the melodramatic monologue in the finale.The appointment with the other dictator is anthology.

What more can you ask when you have an all-star cast of Berger,Mangano,Howard,Schneider,a cohesive prestige of "wealthy pendants" and a brilliant piece of biographical composition.A legendary figure to dedicate this probably,aha...who cares if that individual is a combination of Napoleon,T.E. Lawrence and Caligula?

Lone Star is extremely underrated.Located in Sayles' favorite dimension,a rural county near the border of Mexico-U.S.A.,the film provides us a feisty anatomy of the multiple characters and their well-hidden secrets.Sly and amazingly precise,mistakes of the past are haunting each of our protagonists,with Cooper and Elizabeth Pena giving excellent performances,it's more terrifying than just a simple tale of misconception of events.

Exuberant romance and chivalry.These were the glorious days of real Hollywood,glamorous still but somehow,the most amazing adventures were made at that time.Sharp,abundant,Flynn and de Havilland are superb.

Equivocal film,absolute must to every..unorthodox lover and killer lines by Allen in his greatest period mid 70's to 80's.The short-length appearances by Paul Simon and Shelley Duvall are memorable as well.

It's a long film and stylistically redemptive.Fonda is a splendid western evil character and Cardinale escapes her busty temperament as the farmer's wife,and the rest of those wretched souls tantalize the scenery with each provocative attachment.Leone challenged his scope and not even his final opus didn't succeed to overcome this film and one of his 2 great works.

A movie icon of teen inconsistency and boldness,Lucas doesn't preach,he openly welcomes diversity and his nostalgia shows no trace of melodramatics.The soundtrack is the main attraction,and I'm not exaggerating!Candy Clark of course...

The dense "shadows" of Forman's enchanting halls,corridors,opera-houses....are what make this seemingly outrageous and quite theatrical motion picture an excursion to the depths of artistic madness.Then again,madness is ambivalent...

Jaw-dropping.A spectacle serving the purposes of...loony insanity!In other words,slapstick at its best.The Zuckers/Abrahams..trio had their enormous success,a thank you isn't enough,it takes guts to put Nielsen up front and create a seminal comedy,out of the best ever.

Forget the clumsy 1950 version (the outstanding Jose Ferrer is there but the rest is trash) and follow a re-newed Cyrano,anxious,pragmatist but totally imaginative,as Rappeneau cares not only for his main trio,thus leading us in a theatrical bravado of events and modernizing the classic tale in a charming,ironic way.

A meticulously rejuvenating film,not so much for the tutoring progress (a bear in need for instance),the guidance of this project keeps a succumbing passion of emotions,marvelous cuddles,a child's movie outside Hollywood's brainwashing fishy smell...

I yearn for one thing only: to revive Virginia Woolf for 2 hours and let her enjoy her creation on-screen.

For what it's worth,ghost stories are at their best when the monumental hour of illusion takes place in the minds of the victims.Not exactly a feminist work of art but the eeriness of the girls and the trembling musical notes assist Weir to film in a surprisingly warm scenery his treatise on questionable events,the mythology behind them and how nature is arguably both a friend and a foe to the living creatures.

Extravagant,undeniably witty,all these members are included today as innovators of comedy,eat shit Hollywood.Satirical classic.An Arthurian epic!

Better than the fan-loved Spartacus and Shining,equally sublime such as a 2001 and a Clockwork Orange,a grandiose work of art,ironic in its righteousness and devilishly tempting like its protagonist.Top marks for sure,I've heard it surpasses Thackeray's novel.

Gorgeously shot,plenty of irony and numbness whilst our protagonist loiters in a community of weird individuals.Spectacular I say!For Kaurismaki,this is the ultimate view on his philosophy regards to isolation,edging towards a deep melancholy of the heart.The keys of happiness are what Kant used to seek and the beloved director from the north charismatically perceives to grab them.

Slapstick comedy of the intellectual man.So it looks like.Ingenious spoof on horror films,a big leap for the always hilarious Brooks who erupts the jokes as if he's dictating a screenplay during the film's course.Frankenstein is nothing but a materialistic impressionist. I wonder what Shelley would say of this?

It's a comedy film,right?Well,not really,unless you can point out that conference rooms and Seller's character alterations and satirical quotes are comedic.So it's a satire...and my slice of eccentricity in it.

Extremely poetic,disturbing to the sense of tripping controversies,aye,we do realize censorship committees the judgmental issue of age difference and there is passion between....almost all in this film.It remains a gem of spiritual liberty though and you better get some immorality lesson.

The Matrix continued the Blade Runner chapter.1982 and here we are,Ridley Scott left us a precious epitome of sci-fi action versus iconoclastic poetry combined with irresistible noir elements.An opera of his own.

Wonderful and a bewildering thunderbolt to the senses.What separates Cidade from other 2003 releases is the narrative theme: apparently,Meirelles thought it would be useful to rip off Los Olvidados....this outcome however becomes a superb exploration of the Brazilian slums!!

Inarritu's wild reeds and the sometimes exasperating frames don't remove the whispers and superb craftsmanship of the consequences of a random accident.The before and after and out of the blue,it becomes clear this conscience which surrounds the crumbling lives of the protagonists is but their intimate distortions.

Boom!And there he is,the worst director of all times(?),in the flesh by a master Grimm descendant.Of course he's the worst of his era,we do have a lot more ridiculous directors nowadays,yet it's amazing to see Depp portraying a caricature persona in the making!Hey,there's Orson Welles to top it off,in the acting flesh of D'Onofrio that is.

Alright,so it's Pythonic humor,correct?WE cannot deny the importance and abstractness of Wanda.It's unbelievable on how many trashy comedies we're being bombed everyday,but no,Wanda is unsatisfying,cynical humor,mal-functioned screenplay.Oh really?That's why Superbad gets a better rating,how flinching.An 80's w(a)nder,cape comedy at its best.

Maybe I'm overtly drawn by its sensuality.I confess,it really is so natural and free-spirited like many condemned that movie's emotion.I just can't stop praising it though for the gradual magnetism despite the fact March isn't the ideal "lover".

Original,transparent and unmatched with today's standards of thriller films.A classic and a lesson on how to avoid fake and jumpy cries,instead...adding an eerie point of view and a superb leading lady.

Breathtaking,chilling,a trip to hell's avenue and Coppola's unbelievable passion pushed him to his limits and here's his undeniable work of art.Vietnam War as a philosophical madness.

Ultimate Mann theoretical destructiveness,a character study like nothing else in the 90's' U.S. stardom,reminds you of those classic Hollywood chases like Bullitt and French Connection in addition to the neat action sequences.The two men are cultivating a predictable but eventually terminating duel.Interchanging diverse events with an amount of characters on an Altman directing style,Mann taking us on a hellish trip with a tensing editing and an almighty score by Goldenthal.

Dennis Hopper's SOLE legendary film,a hippie manifesto or the misfits' blues.Breathtaking,culminating road trip experience.Soundtrack is seminal,mother nature never so vengeful.

A gloriously made film.It's deliciously subjective and ravishingly demented.Ecstatically shown!Well,I guess those word combinations dashing all the way remind me those weird metrical dance moves,especially the parade of death near the end.

Illuminating.The culminating movie balanced between facts and protest,dark and brooding melancholy all over.Be prepared for this ride isn't your classic Mann.It's surpassing.

Remarkable,breathtaking and a perfect chill towards female nobility.Yes,a shaking stir will come from her mouth and Hunter is a poem herself.Campion delivers her magnum opus and I keep my silence until I hear encores once more.

Accurate portrait,honest biopic,a legend on-screen.Claudel the artist by the chameleon Adjani.

Raw and indecisive community of youths in a small town.What's better to proclaim the new revolution even under the skirts and "bad habits".The tension of humid reactions by the ones who reject novelties.And a Bogdanovich feature like none whatsoever.1971 as the marking point of enfants sauvage.

An elegy of a passionate,disproportionate nonetheless relationship,it's not that a divine creature could have controlled the subsequent actions of Bess,Von Trier IS the maestro who doesn't takes sides for all that matters.he preferably speaks through an alarm clock,the one which vitalizes our inner strength and where religion is (arguably) the "foreigner".

A mayhem-finale summarizes the death of boredom for Brooks,thus giving us one of the most stylistic comedies of all time.

Fantastic,Lawrence's best adaptation out of the many prolific novels he wrote.The couples proceed in a distasteful arrogance to bonds and statuesque expressions,so Russell follows their unorthodox methods of communication and brings a fresh air before the dawn of 70's.

The true masterpiece by Fosse,I can't forget his delightful musicals,regardless of the stout behavior at times like Cabaret,the man had his perfect share on stage.And look at him,he's involved with a comedian.But what a genius brain.Self-destructive and obnoxious for some.None whatsoever biography can be accurate yet,is it too much to say it's one of the most well-crafted and lust-for-life bio-pics ever made?

Reality bites.A comedic grand slam!!!!Supposed we're all jerks?Won't insanity help us exhale our most surreal passions?And...southern comfort?Navin sure did.

For sake of comparison to the Black Book and only,Soldier of Orange is one of the primary illusions of the WWII aristocratic prosperity,a feast of irony and nostalgia amongst the company of friends in the beginning,dementia and agony in the end.Krabbe's performance crushes Pianists and juvenile Readers.Placed in 1977 greatest films.

Aggressive,a flaming piece of an unpredictable explosion,this is the remarkable entrance to the 80's and Scorsese is once again ahead of its time.Brilliant cast,influential cinematography and a head-on insight on a boxer's trifles...it's a pity the Academy was (and is) so conservative in her choices.

Fun times.Otherwise,be serious!Women rule and that film is a grasping experience of gigantic proportions.Maura is unstoppable and the more the scenario moves on,the better the delirious situations become.

Powerful direction,the emotional breakdown this woman suffers is visible but not a compelling fact so that we may sympathize her.She and he.The two mutual characteristics in which Cassavetes usually brings forth in his philosophy.Now I understand Godfather II is legendary but why this movie was was left with zero Oscars?

Forget religion,no political and social comments are surrogates nor messages.Friedkin's work of art is a haunting image of one or more inclinations of evil.Goodness plays its part as well.And that's the terrifying approach...

Ultra-violence Alex suggests us.We as spectators enter in his world..a tormenting world,a furious and agonizing massacre,sadistic and mental as well.By the end however,you'll be wondering who's to take the blame?

This is pure poetry,subtle and a magnitude compared to amateur attempts of recreating the vast social thoughts of each soldier in battle and private situation.It's a mesmerizing divinity entranced by the sheer landscapes and natural affiliation with human diginity.Nature won't hesitate to counterattack and then no enemies or allies will crush her.Neither true,honorable soldiers nor revisionist commanders.Malick as an innovator of slow-paced moving sight and John Toll's cinematography hits motion picture oil.

Revolution in screenwriting and character development,a phrase pretty trendy for our current cinematic affairs.Hasty reactions but a passive Spade.Which was Hammett's point,a pioneering investigator in the land of ruthless bargainers..by bargaining himself!

Realism,frivolous beauty and a caressing miracle in the routine of a Swedish small town,where the context of lesbianism is treated in utmost subtlety and openness.Moodysson is aware of his raw themes (remember Lilja 4-Ever) and I should cry out art-house cinema forever!

Up until recently,a number of films dedicated to the lives and times of exceptional painters,fine artists in a broader scope started emerging out of nowhere.Ladies,gents,I present you the unanimous masterpiece of them all,forget Pollocks and Fridas,Sung-up,a humongous legend in the Joseon dynasty in Korea,a fabulous poetic journey by the hands of an elderly Im Kwon-taek and yet profoundly young,Min-sik proves he is an Actor.

Extremely sadistic and as a fellow film-buff said "a lot of people will either love or hate this film".Charming,for the two opposite sides actually apply to what Funny Games intented from the beggining.Get our utmost attention and make us discuss a very controversial subject,that of violence and unneccessary anarchy.

The premise of Kill Bill (oh you Tarantino copycat...),brilliantly extracting influences from Hitchcock,probably through their conversation monsieur Francois arranged in an interview style,the Bride is Moreau in her most sexual display and provocative grandeur.Beauty is subjective,revenge is a personal cause,under the surface injustice wears any color possible,detective stories are of course enchanting.The tricks of Truffaut's majesty.

It surpasses the book and not only that,the freedom and liberality of this picture is breathtaking to the core,rising the sensual adrenaline where it needs to be risen.The other half is an introspective of social dualities.Bonham Carter,Maggie Smith,Sands,Elliott,too many performers,the best from Ivory-Merchant collaborations.

There are wonderfully underlying moments of liberation in this film.Whoever gives the remark of "why movies with deep meanings exist",the comment must have a primary base,otherwise...it's obvious why this film managed to surpass time itself.Movies like Titanic and Patton will never achieve the bizarre gratitude and the millions of thoughts,talks,imaginations in the universe of Italian magical realism."Being Federico Fellini."I dare anyone to create a film like this in the 21st century.

Without a doubt,a magnitude of a horror film.King Kong and Dracula exemplified the monster myth and illustrated a diminishing picture of the evil entity threatening humanity's face.It might not scare as it used to but style is sometimes over substance and Browning knew what to show and HOW to show it.

I may not be religious but just as with Dies Irae,Rublev comes like a shocking rocket in its stillness and illuminates the cinematic horizon.Provoking and a tremendous onslaught to the social turmoils against it,a film with skepticism and serenity.

Bleak and ominous,Great Expectations grips you from your seat and travels you into the plunging world of Dickens' living majesty.This is no fun ride,mind you.Lean the mastermind.

Cinema of shadows and silences and wits and stares.Antonioni reveals the most unbearable feelings of a "loving" couple and smashes the counter-culture of the upper-class.Mastroianni and Moreau are sizzling,but what of the true meaning behind all this?Reuinion through loneliness?Too easy...

Stupendous work from Wajda.Impressive and too much of art class,nevertheless the finale and the discussion scene with the "crucifixion" statue will haunt you.

Art drenched in mythological symbols,yes?Most certainly,and poesie is included on the humanitarian cycle.Suleiman inherits the Tati syndrome and with a few Keaton persona strife,the facial expression reflects the round-up of his marvelous essence.Divine Intervention is a groundbreaking achievement,Kaurismaki must be jealous not for the political satire but for the deadpan environment!!!

Excellent musical carnival of souls.Gatlif pretty much adores the subject of ethnicity and identity,so the combination gets out of hand for the delirium's purpose and average occasions emphasize on the meaning of craziness.Prickling on foot?I don't think this will happen here,a fiesta for the living and wild endeavors.

This will divide lots of viewers and still,a great amount of population will rise to the fact of political mendacity.Which is correct,no doubt about this.I really want to know however if all of the "audience" praising Scarface (De Palma's mediocrity) and Forest Gump (Zemeckis' sobbing flick) can realize the racist message in those films and not just in Birth of a Nation e.g. Puerto Ricans and low I.Q. people.Strange feeling,isn't it?Condemn the quality of a movie first and then we discuss the f***** political context!

An achievement of sizzling moments,irrational behavior and savoring...for real the flesh and blood of two human carnivores.The transparent symbolism is obvious.Man will never survive without a guide be it an obnoxious yet incredibly smart art model or the Oedipal complex and the ones who see will unwillingly shout their despair in the form of sexual madness.

A genius film,a unique exploration of the femme fatale,Hitchcock's puzzling noir drama shines like his cinematographic lush and colors.Novak is a goddess.

Redemption for Griffith came with an astonishing work of art.The Birth of an Empire it should be alternatively nicknamed,the second title of Love's persistence is the dark sheet of pessimism,4 eras of desperation and at the same time,visionary trembling.Directorial zeal or a capitalist engrossment?You decide...

It's like researching for an enormous pile of encyclopedic matters and you conclude on stabilizing weirdness as a norm.And to think paparazzi was made up as a word thanks to this film...

Wholly entertaining and far more accurate than the first part,Raimi is aware we need a punch in the stomach..just for laughs and horrors.

Sexual,provoking,masochistic,
luscious,breathtaking,like biting the most delicious fruit and realizing temptation worthed the undeniable stir of your body.Bertolucci uses psychological symbols,eroticism is the main course and bohemianism = life.

I fell in love with the idea of female satisfaction and hedonism rather Galiena herself.Alluring and a little kid's dream is what's it all about,correct?Partially,the universal dream is what matters...where it needs just a small hairdressing space to be fulfilled.

A humongous effort,this 4-hour epic,unsettling,long dialogue is one of the finest pieces of post-nouvelle vague in the history of world cinema.I hate the main character.And it's ironic because it's somehow flamboyant....the way he rejects the emotional state of the women in his life.Life as a big joke or as a wee bit of adventure simultaneously.One of cinema's most thrilling triplets.

The heat exhausts even the brave.Spiritual breakdown however unleashes frigid consequences underneath the surface.Silence will come as a noisy inflammation.Thulin is groundbreaking and Lindblom revealing!!!

Sadness and solitude.Can't spread any optimistic message if one erases the finale which is a huge diversion from most Angelopoulos' films.The little girl is a blast as with the visual silence of a film like that.

France as a ship slavery of restrained emotions entangled with a heavy carriage of lone obsessions.France as the antidote which cures the unbalanced reasons,human beings as unwilling engines loitering around with no cause or even future.Jacob is the deus ex machina by mistake of near-death stories,a symbol of constitutional upgrade and a severe hope in times of barren dissolution.The third part of a grand auteur trilogy.

Freaking tantra.Ah yes,the herbs of amour and the joint of the sexes,mystical environments,Medem is a resident of mysterious communications.Ana-Otto,the train of one element.That of surreal expiation.

Handel's choral masterpiece as the background for the most blaspheme Last Supper.Bunuel as the puppeteer of all.Utterly symbolic,a mockery to pious segregation-diligence.

To say this the easy way...Mouchette contains one of the greatest endings in the history of 7th Art.My oh my,and just for the theme of it,it goes on the 1967 best list.