This could've been a great podcast episode, but it's a rather flimsy film.
Valcharenghi's speech is poignant and stimulating, but the film lacks in creativity - especially in the directing and editing departments.
This could've been a great podcast episode, but it's a rather flimsy film.
Valcharenghi's speech is poignant and stimulating, but the film lacks in creativity - especially in the directing and editing departments.
Western into Comedy into Survival Thriller into Moral Drama into Christmas Fable. All blended together by that masterful directing hand.
For this year's Epiphany my three Wise Men are named Wayne, Armendáriz and Carey Jr. - they made me want a western-themed presepe next to the christmas tree so bad.
E tu mi vieni a dire, quasi gridando,
che non c'è più salvezza, sta sprofondando il mondo.
Ma io ti voglio dire che non è mai finita,
che tutto quel che accade fa parte della vita.
I could've cried a bit during the finale 🥲
Nice film that successfully breaks "from within" the trite standards of TV docs.
This is achieved placing each interviewee in the place that most represents their personal/professional/creative life and, most importantly, filming them through a…
My pal Mario going so hard with that cinematography he almost convinced me it was some Dracula flick directed by Orson Welles.
(Also: shutout to his father Eugenio for those practical effects, Barbara's regenerating eyes send a chill down your spine even today).
Rewatch this, it's so fun you almost don't notice those awful acting perfomances!! (Almost, yeah...)
I know that Bogart's persona, the cynical and irreverent tough guy, is an unrealistic (and toxic) embodiement of ideal masculinity.
But hey, to me his toughness is pure male fantasty mainly because he can lit Lauren Bacall's cigarette, look her in the eyes and still be able to think!!! Countering her quips so fast!!!
I was melting each time she was onscreen - the guy was not human, trust me.
Now I understand why I've always found it so difficult to recall the plot of this film.
A masterclass of genre screenwriting, a narrative abyss that makes the audience dizzy - stunning them with a frantic flow of events, mysteries, revelations, lies, plot twists...
Absurdly fast paced, The Maltese Falcon challenges narrative conventions without disrupting them, and somehow anticipates by far a whole generation of modern mind-game movies.
This is all conceived to describe a cynical, cold and ruthless world. A world where justice doesn't mean goodness, where love can't grow and thrive, where people exploit each other without hesitation. A cruel world, a noir world.
"Go watch it with your party", damn that marketing tagline was right, it's so fun when you can spot all the 1 rolls with other players.
He was always alone, always by himself. Never anyone to share the game. He lived in another world. He was that kind of guy."
In my opinion, there are some script problems lying around; some characters deserved more depth/screen time and the main humanistic theme of the movie basically echoes back to the beautiful Grand Finale of the TV Show.
But hey, the rest is so good. Melancholic existentialism mixed with the usual powder keg of Sci-Fi/Neo-Noir/Western/Hong-Kong Action Movie.
In other words: Cowboy Bebop good.