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Jackie (2016)
The definitive masterpiece from Larraín
A sign of warmth. That is what Jackie seems to need after losing her loving and charming (after being brutally murdered) JFK. There's nothing compared to the mystic hug from God.
That said, Jackie trust on The Priest and relieve her sorrows in John Hurt's character. My favourite line is "I have lived a blessed life and yet every night when I climb into bed, turn off the lights, and stare into the dark, I wonder... is this all there is?". Then Natalie's raw portrait of a widow widow Jacqueline Kennedy answer to him: "You wonder?". And then, The Priest answer: "Every soul on this planet does. But then when morning comes, we all wake up and make a pot of coffee".
Larraín's pulse of direction and Levi's composition is an unifying union of.
The Boys (2019)
Authority takeoff, black humour, reasonable OMG... and so graphics
I read the superheroes stories when I was just a little child. But...what happens when the Uncle Ben words emerge from the print pages to make them real? Indeed superheroes are as human as us
So we can find a guy who cannot accept his body another who is superior to USA.
Color Out of Space (2019)
The resurrection of Nicolas Cage
When I watched the trailer of this movie I was thinking about "Mandy" (2018). Panos Cosmatos made of him (a legend in the 90s a reborn actor). Even in "Joe" (2013) delighted us with a great performance. The future of the actor is now a prolific path in the harvest for new Academy Awards recognitions. Not in vain the portray of the father in here open it as a range of possible reconfirmed, not only visually but his acting in a way of accomplished artist
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
Especially for Jean Cocteau fans
This is a Wes Anderson movie. With all it implies. The music. The characters. The action set pieces' direction. Yet he is an author. Dedicate in his work as a script writer. Both hands (fouth hand thanks to Baumbach) are unequivocally faithful to his universe.
L'effondrement (2019)
A Black Mirror produced by Canal +? Yes, it is
This TV serie gives us a reason to think. Really topical to talkabout nowadays when a global pandemic got to wipe out stocks of roll paper around the world. Still isolated at home I think we can easily identify us with the characters from the first episode. A second episode brings us the crazy world we live in when a family that runs a gas station have some troubles to supply everyone with oil (and here is an acid reflex spoof about police) and they try to coax the owner. Sincerely the best episode in the entire series is the one who follows a government highup ending in a personal crisis. The fourth episode follows a desperate family who needs a shelter to live in. At the end the mother take a wrong decision which consists in betray the people of the council. Being of them brutally killed in the food pantry. The next episode didn't feel so close. A group of Electric Power Plant are being evacuated. But the next episode far exceed the best shooting from underwater and
Scream 4 (2011)
Nothing to do with the originals
The reason why I write this is because I don't understand a reboot full of young fresh new faces. The original trilogy is a contemporary masterpiece. When the cliche of self parody goes right up to the end with a few non-sense and self-referential jokes. Let's pretend the MTV show never happened because if you are a fan of Carpenter's nineties work it can be hurt. So if you are part of that established fandom do yourself a favor and turn off the TV. Go and listen some Carpenter soundtracks mate!
Rear Window (1954)
Another classic from the Master
This utopic story sounds very familiar to all of us because COVID-19 forced us to stay Indoors but because we can identify some situations during the lockdown. After all Hitchcock knows how to keep the plot running into
The Beach Bum (2019)
Really really charging
Well. Here is another film from the most infamous American enfant terrible. But I think we've missed something on the road since that transgressive film "Spring Breakers". The character of Mcconaughey is The Master of Stupidity (kind of Joker kind of Lebowski). The film is overscripted with drug jokes. The supported actors are simply half-hearted. Keep away from rubbish movies like this is a difficult choice nowadays
More (1998)
A "must" for communist bigots
This Claymation short-story focus on the grayish, negative life of a guy - just like you and me - whose creativity is numb because of the 8 hours straight work which is alienating staff. Whereas three kids are playing and laughing in a roundabout full of vivid colors just the corner next door to the warehouse where the main action is unfolding. The guy stop working and someone yells at him.
He refuses back to work. At home he is struggling and finds out a way to earn money. He invent a new product which gives people hope. People conceives him a statue in the City Hall such a greatest inventor. He'll soon realize on the creativity (magic pocket inside) is gone. It despair him. So
Kaze no tani no Naushika (1984)
An ecologist fable for kids
From the moment you watch this movie you realize on how much love there is involves on it. I have to testify the first time I watched it I didn't care too much about the plot but felt in love with the princess. Like Star Wars movies, there are creatures from another worlds in here,
The Mandalorian (2019)
Spaguetti's return is now available
The Mandalorian is something big! The silence of the visage. The hieratic helmet. The performance of Pedro Pascal - because the acting is not only in the face but in the corporal gestures - is just brilliant! Also the voice is perfect! 50/50 of the acting from Pedro Pascal
Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (1986)
The beginning of something magic
Indeed. Ghibli is a magical world where everybody is as happy as they seem.
In this first studio film we saw people bleeding, squashing and shooting kids. For the love of God! So hard. This is not a film for kids.
Hot Rod (2007)
A new way of splitting up with SNL
Rod Kimble, the hero of "Hot Rod," is Evel Knievel on a moped. He leads a life resembling an episode of "Jackass." Not a day passes without him attempting a harebrained stunt, and failure doesn't discourage him, because he knows in his heart that he is destined to become world famous.
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
Chiriro Ogino and the Seven Deathly Sins
Lust:
Gluttony: when the fathers ate like there is no tomorrow
Greed:
Sloth:
Wrath:
Envy:
Pride: Yubaba's laughs when Chihiro had to wash Radish Spirit
Under the Skin (2013)
A little gem of visionary horror journey through the gaze of an alien
In the beginning there was no images, only rare sounds in English phonems. Based on Michael Faber's novel. Under the Skin follows up a disguised extraterrestrial shape (made up of sunlight/heat) in disguise as a human female. She drives around Scotland attempting to lure desolate men into her (don't-know-where-she-got-it-from) van. Once there, she seduce them and sends them into another dimension where they are nothing more than fresh meat and the skin will be reused again.
In this film the hunting situation persists in your memory and acting like a spiderweb in an oneiric space. However the editing and macro-shootings are much more open to an interpretation due to the suggestive images (like the ant) and the lack of interaction of Johansson's character with those motorbikers (superior species watching around it) in a time when the plot (or unplot) revokes the emotions which make us human beings. She as well will discover that feeling of being human in the most brilliant shooting on the beach (that sobbing children is a sparks that ignites emotional intelligence in her).
Despite her predatory nature, Johansson's character becomes an observer of mankind on the edge of wanting to imitate or even adapt to our environment as a kind of exchange student from another galaxy. All of this is revealed in subtle sequences and stunning visuals ranging from hidden digital cameras to capture true shots of the actress interacting with real people, to expensive scenes with computer-created effects.
Specially the soundtrack (created by Levi) adds a disturbing athmosphere to the world created in here (both, Glazer and Levi are 50/50 of the film) as if we were watching a National Geographic documentary about spiders from the point of view of an alien-spider. The lack of a dramatic line and routine events can be boring, but the film is more than a sci-fi story to tell anyone. It's an experience to be lived just in theaters. Not only because of the performance of Scarlett Johansson (whose glances fills the screening) but because of the prortrait in general. It is one of those cases in which it is loved or hated, but it cannot be dismissed lightly even if her 'message' or reflection is not understood.
A lot of questions round after watch it: Can a femme "alien" fatale (undress like a perfect woman 10) understand us better than ourselves? Our pursuit for sexual pleasure? Our needing for special attention? Our ability to connect with each another? How do she got the lipstick? How do she can drive?And also, why the alien chose Europe? Why United Kingdom? Why Glasgow? There is a formula. Indeed. There is no way out of skipping this sci-fi story out of your mind. It sticks into you like a cobweb.
Palm Springs (2020)
Very enjoyable and thinkable sci-fi
The first thing come to my mind when I watched this movie is that "Groundhog Day" (1993) time lopping where Bill Murray's character got stuck in. But in here there's a way of going further with the idea of being inmortal. Discovering the meaning of life through days gone by is a get off well technical goosebump, followed by a bunch of unnecessary time-travel resolutions we don't need to. Same as "Back In the Future" (1985) when Doc tries to explain what is going on a blackboard. Of course this is a reference. The last thing I have to say is the exploitation of Simons' character as a man who is tired of living his life but at least has to raised? two little childs cause of one Mai Thai left condom. The relationship between Nyles and Roy could be the same Alan Parrish and Van Pelt in "Jumanji" (1995). Just because we don't know what happened between the last two. It came randomly to my mind but I think it's another cinematic reference so filling more scenes with them. And you? How many did you find?
The positive "vibe" is somehow on the dialogue comes from Sarah when she asks Nyles: "Well, then what's the point of living?". Or Roy's best meta quote: "At least you have each other. Nothing worse than going through this s**t alone" referring to life itself. It's a comedy but it take it seriously to the frame
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
What a wonderful feeling. Indeed
If I had to recommend a musical director this is Stanley Donen. The director of films like "Funny Face" (1957), "Charade" (1963) or "Two for the Road" (1967). I loved that films as much as Audrey Hepburn's performances. When I first watched "Charade" in my early years in the university. I though: "isn't it a Hitchcockian movie?"
And yet, Donen borrowed some technical advices from the Master of Suspense. But this is not the movie I'm goin' to talk about. Right now the movie that concerns us is a masterpiece called "Singin' in the Rain" (1952). A movie with three hit songs ranked in 2004 AFI's 100 Songs 100 Years: the well-known "Singin' in the Rain" by Gene Kelly, "Make 'Em Laugh" by Donald O' Connor and "Good Morning" by the protagonist trio (Reynolds is the third one). But this isn't just the beginning.
"Singing' in the Rain" is a history travel though the 20s silent history of Hollywood. When "The Jazz Singer" (1927) marked a before and after on the next generation. The movie is a testimonial video file recorded with mastery with which Kelly has acclimatized his audience since "On the Town" (1949) as the first collaboration with Donen. Nothing further to say about. The camera movements and surreal pictures in some parts of the plot are transgressive for that period of time. People not used to watch Berkeley's musicals in the 30s must be surprised. And for those who don't like musical I e¡specially recommend this movie.
Positive vibes and sing along
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)
Eurovision is not just a Song Contest. Eurovision is about love, yes. But incoherence with American stars.
The main dilemma of this topic is the cast and the film production. There is a marketing decision to put in front Will Ferrel, Rachel McAdams and Pierce Brosman.
Amazing Grace (2018)
A special event broadcasted live
The people from L. A. were witnesses of a spiritual moment known to all. Pollack was focused on every little movement to capture the essence of "what's happening in here" literally as a religious congregation. Filmed in the Temple Missionary Baptist Church for two nights. We see a group, maybe a family. Another member from The Southern California Community Choir is getting into the music.
Funny moments such as James Cleveland aka the King of Gospel music
There is a lot of famous people involved in. A very young Mick Jagger freaking out and let him go by the moment, subtly immersed in his thoughts. Mr. Cleveland had to know how powerful and hypnotic can be the voice of Aretha. You Know Nothing. You can Expect Everything or Nothing. Be open and ready to enter a whole new place full of
Another scene reveals itself as a blessing moment of gospel when a woman runs across the aisle to hug the Queen of Soul. The biggest "must to see" of the sixties. Indeed a "must to watch"
Normal People (2020)
This is not another millennial TV show that hooked me once!
Firstly I have to say that I didn't know the existence of the novel of Sally Rooney -known as a Snapchat Salinger - when I come across with this delightful TV serial. The photograph perfectly hooked me like that sensation of looking at any oil paint. For me was the same feeling as staring in front of "The Lovers" (1928) alone in the middle of MoMA.
The essence of both, Marianne and Connell, is frozen in time. The performance of Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal is brilliant! A fabulous coming of age story! Unmissable!
You don't know how it feel until you click play. Ready to go you will never look back again because the plot will catch you so deeply that you can almost hardly breath. Period.
If you suffer from heart this TV show is not for you. You can die of so much love. On the other hand I'd say I just felt in love from the first minute. The way of shooting and the color palette completely define my liking. Of course, Abrahamson and MacDonald are a pair of master doing their jobs in achievement directing so, I disagree with that people who found this a boring show and I encourage those people to watch NORMAL PEOPLE again! Period
Because its about a whole generation and it will be taught in future masterclasses of sociology for sure. I can say it louder but no clearer. Period.
To say goodbye I'll recommend another TV show that is worth it just for millennials: "13 Reasons Why" (2017). Full Stop amig@s