Terry Zwigoff the director and co-writer of Ghost World did an amazing job. The cinematography, cast, acting, story and music are of the highest quality, specially the music. Zwigoff as gossip has it is an intense man, he threaten Robert Crumb to commit suicide had he not starred a documentary about his life, and so [...]
It’s cancer. The illness this country faces is analogue only to cancer: sometimes, the medicine can be even worse than the illness itself. It’s terribly sad to think of politics and how I’d try to fix this country, not that I think I am qualified, rather I find the mental exercise, at times, interesting, but [...]
Mr. Nobody is incredibly ambitious. In a few words: Van Dormael, the director, attempts to pack the whole array of experiences that might occur in a person’s life, in other words, Van Dormael shots to the moon and at times it seems like he gets there, while at some other times you are not sure. [...]
“Alvy singer: I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That’s the two categories. The horrible are like, I don’t know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don’t know how they get through life. It’s amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should [...]
I just had the pleasure of watching two incredible films: The diving bell and the butterfly and Mar adentro, both films share a lot of similarity, at least from afar, but in reality they’re both about similar issues while having a different tone; Mar adentro (sea inside) and The diving bell and the butterfly are [...]
Love stories aren’t my first pick when it comes to films, they might be perhaps on the bottom of my list. The reason is simple: love stories are straightforward and rarely novel, but not every time. The painted veil and Little Children are both above average when it comes to love stories; Little Children, perhaps [...]
With a title like that is hard to make a connection, it seems as if it’s only three languages in isolation, and while that is true, it wasn’t why I settled on it as a title, instead, those are the languages of the last three films I have watched. I am quite open to watch [...]