The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong (2011):
Saturday, 12 March 2011
Friday, 11 March 2011
Love - Forever Changes
Today, Love's critical reputation exceeds the limited success they experienced during their time, their 1967 album Forever Changes being held in particularly high regard. The band's influence extends beyond the realm of 1960s psychedelia to such punk and post-punk bands as Television Personalities and The Jesus and Mary Chain.
-Wikipedia
Love - Forever Changes (1967):
-Wikipedia
Love - Forever Changes (1967):
Sunday, 6 March 2011
Rocco e i suoi fratelli / The Daytrippers / Copie conforme
Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960) ★★★★★
The word "operatic" is often overused, but no other would apply to Rocco and His Brothers. It is a combination that should not work, but does, between operatic melodrama and seamy social realism, which at no point in its 177-minute running time seem to clash, although they should. We buy the whole overwrought package, the quiet truth, the flamboyant excess, even the undercurrent of homoeroticism that Visconti never quite reconciles. The excitement of the film is that so much is happening, in so many different ways, all struggling to find a fusion. Rocco and His Brothers can be seen quite clearly, at this point, as an enormous influence on great American gangster films. Aspects of "The Godfather" immediately come into mind.
-Robert Egbert
The narrator on the trailer is referring to the events that took place while shooting the film. The film was seized and Visconti asked to delete the scenes showing Nadia's rape and murder.
The Daytrippers (1996) ★★★
This deliberately claustrophobic film could easily be described as an anti-road movie. Mottola squeezes his five main characters into one car, sets them on the Long Island expressway and then charts the emotional disintegration of this particular nuclear family.
-TotalFilm
Copie conforme (2010) ★★
In its very strangeness, and unworldliness, and utter unreality, Certified Copy has a species of charm. It is an intensely composed and choreographed film in its way, unmistakably an example of Kiarostami's compositional technique, though not a successful example. It may go down as the strangest "meet-cute" in the history of cinema.
-Peter Bradshaw
The word "operatic" is often overused, but no other would apply to Rocco and His Brothers. It is a combination that should not work, but does, between operatic melodrama and seamy social realism, which at no point in its 177-minute running time seem to clash, although they should. We buy the whole overwrought package, the quiet truth, the flamboyant excess, even the undercurrent of homoeroticism that Visconti never quite reconciles. The excitement of the film is that so much is happening, in so many different ways, all struggling to find a fusion. Rocco and His Brothers can be seen quite clearly, at this point, as an enormous influence on great American gangster films. Aspects of "The Godfather" immediately come into mind.
-Robert Egbert
The narrator on the trailer is referring to the events that took place while shooting the film. The film was seized and Visconti asked to delete the scenes showing Nadia's rape and murder.
The Daytrippers (1996) ★★★
This deliberately claustrophobic film could easily be described as an anti-road movie. Mottola squeezes his five main characters into one car, sets them on the Long Island expressway and then charts the emotional disintegration of this particular nuclear family.
-TotalFilm
Copie conforme (2010) ★★
In its very strangeness, and unworldliness, and utter unreality, Certified Copy has a species of charm. It is an intensely composed and choreographed film in its way, unmistakably an example of Kiarostami's compositional technique, though not a successful example. It may go down as the strangest "meet-cute" in the history of cinema.
-Peter Bradshaw
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