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.
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