Saturday, January 8, 2022
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.
Not really a faithful adaptation of Truman Capote's novella, the plot is quite messy and the male lead a bland miscast; nevertheless, this movie became an instant classic thanks to a lively and witty direction and the irresistibly charming Audrey Hepburn.
On re-watching: Despite all
its flaws this is a movie I come back to every soften mainly for Audrey
and quite a few memorable scenes.
Halliwell*: "Impossibly cleaned up and asexual version of a light novel
which tried to be the American I am a Camera (qv). Wild parties, amusing
scenes and good cameos, but the pace is slow, the atmosphere is
unconvincingly clean and luxurious, and the sentimentality kills it."
Maltin***1/2: "Charming film...Dated trappings don't detract from high comedy and winning romance."
Friday, January 7, 2022
Thursday, January 6, 2022
Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily (2013)
The historic but disastrous concert held by Frank Zappa at the La Favorita stadium in Palermo on July 14, 1982 and the journey of the Zappa family to discover the artist's Sicilian origins.
Although this documentary is made within the Italian director's quite personal view of a specific (but not insignificant) moment in Zappa's life, it is extremely well-made, very thorough and manages to present revelatory insight and some very moving scenes.
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
El ángel exterminador (1982)
The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.
This true Buñuel masterpiece is made under his unmistakably flawless direction and presents his favourite theme of exposing and ridiculing the bourgeois mindset and way of life - with surrealist means, of course.
Halliwell***: "Fascinating surrealist fantasia on themes elaborated with even more panache in The Discreet Charme of the Bourgeouisie. Nevertheless, one of its director's key films."
Maltin***1/2: "Wry assault on bourgeois manners by master surrealist Buñuel."
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
Monday, January 3, 2022
Sunday, January 2, 2022
The Movies I Watched in December
Among the Living 1941 6
The Big Night 1951 6
Black Christmas 1974 6
Bringing Up Baby 1938 10
The Come On 1956 6
Dangerous Mission 1954 5
The Devil at 4 O'Clock 1961 6
Don't Look Up 2021 7
The Fallen Sparrow 1943 6
Games of Thrones, Season 1 2011 6
HealtH 1980 6
The Holiday 2006 6
House by the River 1950 7
House of Dracula 1945 5
In a Lonely Place 1950 8
It's a Wonderful Life 1946 10
Johnny Eager 1941 6
The Last Duel 2021 6
Light Sleeper 1992 7
Lvx Æterna 2019 6
Out of the Past 1947 10
Pickup Alley 1957 6
Q 1982 6
Rise of the Black Bat 2012 2
Street of Chance 1942 6
The Unforgivable 2021 7
Vampyres 1974 6
Written on the Wind 1956 7
Vox Lux 2018 6
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